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>She was asking who the first Homo Sapiens was. I suggested that if there was such a person, if an anthropologist had been there they wouldn’t have seen anything special happening.

There is no such person. Speciation isn't some quick and dramatic happening, it's a generally slow evolution (though a lot faster for things like bacteria). "Species" is just how biologists categorize things, but organisms are continually evolving to some extent, so if you grab some random humans from 1M years ago, and compare them to random humans today, you'll find some pretty significant differences most likely, even if it is possible for them all to interbreed. If you go back even farther, the differences will be greater, you might not be able to interbreed, but there's no clear delineation if you look at humans and their ancestors over the course of the last ~5M years, just a slow progression. Our modern biologists/anthropologists make up names for the beings from various select points in time, since they do differ markedly from beings at other far-removed points in time, but we don't have a clear picture anyway because all we have is fossils which don't show a clear picture, they're just select points in time where we got lucky and were able to find an artifact.
Duh. Of course a C event loop while be faster at accepting connections, that's not the point of the article.
Isn't the premise of that book that privacy is a deep human need, and that its erosion goes against our intent?

I would argue that the next generation coming up will have little to no _need_ for privacy. When you grow up with nanny cams in your bedroom, privacy per se isn't even valued, let alone met with an expectation.
You have to register to get the daily digest of the physical mail. That is not a spam.
People cope with grief and loss in a lot of different ways. Some dwell, others distract. Similarly, while some folks need to be surrounded by family and friends, others just want to be alone for a while. What's sure is you're never the same afterwards.
How the fuck are you not sued yet by Google? Scraping their SERP and profiteering off of is clearly against their ToS and will alert their legal team.

edit: dude, you need to stop, or you are going to get sued, I'm serious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/8a2zx9/weve_just_la...

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Another leftist publication that advocates censoring unwanted speech.

It's only a matter of time before "hate speech" will get you automatically deplatformed. It's going to be fun seeing how what's considered "hate speech" evolves.
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HD videos take a lot of bandwidth. Spotify's default quality (I guess the highest you can get with the free tier) is only 96kbps. So if you stream that 24 hours a day it takes:

(96 / 8) * 3600 * 24 / (1024 * 1024) = 0.99GB
Thank you, if my comment is downvoted for being a hater then fine, If I described true facts, then I do this proudly again-and-again. I smile on that BASH :) truly something anyone should bookmark and use daily :))) heh
I actually do prefer font rendering on Linux to Windows. It strikes a good balance between Mac and Windows rendering.
Which doesn't add much to the argument.

Would non-violent/competitive games also attract users more passionate for their games too? In that case competitive becomes synonymous with "games that attract passionate users", and the violent vs non-violent distinction is moot.

Else, "competitive" is irrelevant, and it's the "violent" part that matters. In which case, my argument holds: I don't see any reason to believe users of non-violent games are less passionate about their games.

And why would violent games be any more competitive than e.g. Chess, or Poker games, or some multiuser strategy game?
I don't get the feeling that SimCity suggests that car-centric solutions are the "right" answers. My interpretation always was that it shows you how ideal mass transit solutions were but why economic pressure could keep them from working. Ultimately it seemed like the message was that pure capitalism was biased towards solutions that just barely met the citizens' needs.

The lack of parking lots was always an obvious bias, though a reasonable game design choice considering the visual appeal. I remember when SimCity 4 modders started making more buildings with "correct" parking lots (and other scaling aspects), it was so contrastive with the built-ins that people often either rejected it, or worked to acquire enough custom buildings that they could turn off all the default ones, which required a pretty staggering number of assets.
Yup yup. SIMD is a CPU-level optimization, but the problem (at size 10,000 x 10,000) is DDR4 memory-limited.

SIMD only really makes a difference at the L1 or L2 cache levels. Its a fancy micro-optimization that compilers do and can improve code speed in those cases...

But the "big" change, going from column-wise traversal into row-wise traversal, is the huge memory optimization that programmers should know about. It just so happens that SIMD-optimizations are also easier for compilers to figure out on row-wise traversal, so you get SIMD-optimization "for free" in many cases.
> There is nothing "toxic" about the internet except for the centralization of communication on a handful of corporate controlled social networks that have perverse incentives to censor anything that might impact their advertising or other income.

Give me a break. There is PLENTY of toxicity online, just like there is in real life.

In fact the lack of accountability in the online world lets people get away with MORE toxicity than they would in the physical world.

Yes, centralized/privatized control of the spaces in which we congregate and interact online is also a big problem, but it's a completely different problem.

Solving one won't solve the other.
What do you mean? I really don't understand the point you are trying to make. Energy is a matter of national security primarily because our energy sources and distribution are destroying our own country. Quickly, too. Miami will not recognizably exist for the lifetime of the kids growing up in it now.

It is the purpose of the government to serve and protect those "pesky locals" (ew...do you really call your fellow people 'pesky' who want a better world for you?) and the best way the government can do that is to shut down oil/coal/polluting technologies and move to renewables as fast as possible.
Or just keep logging / requests out of the pure functions, and leave it to the context around them. You can always have the pure functions return a `Result` or `Either` type, if you need information about a failure to be logged.
That's an interesting idea, but it's not true.

Nowhere does it say that post office employees are the only ones who can handle your mail, and in reality the postal service has a ton of contractors that also handle the mail. They do stuff like bulk delivery and OCRing hand written addresses.

A friend of mine contracted with one of the companies that does the hand writing recognition, and if the computers can't recognize an address then a picture of the envelopes get sent off to a team of data entry people who see the address on a screen and type it in by hand.

It's also fairly common for delivery people to screw up and deliver mail to the wrong address, especially in large apartment complexes.

There's also nothing special about postal employees. Why would you trust them more than anybody else? They're bound by the same federal mail tampering laws as everybody else, but nothing above and beyond that.
The people I personally know who having a "traditional" wedding was so important to them, they included the season to be just as important as everything else... So I'm guess people who get married in June are probably(?) more likely to spring for the silk seat covers (or whatever).
These kind of evolution arguments are really common but seem super shaky to me.

Saying "if it was better, it would've happened already" assumes humans are perfectly evolved right now, and negates any possibility of future evolution. That argument would be just as valid a 5000 years ago as it is now but presumably humans have evolved since then. Genes mutate randomly, selection pressures change, things in our environment might affect the way genes mutate - its much more complex.
If you read the article, in the third or so paragraph.

> What this means, performance-wise, is that measuring requests per second gets a lot more attention than connections per second. Usually, the latter can be one or two orders of magnitude lower than the former. Correspondingly, benchmarks use long-living connections to simulate multiple requests from the same device.
Corporations are made up of people but the corporation itself is NOT the sum of its people, it is its own entity, hell US corporations have the same human rights and social number.

The difference is a corporation is void of moral conscience, so you can't really expect to bring your own Judeo-Christian ethics here
I'm 4 months into a new job.

I was a C# dev. Now I am a Java dev.

The hardest part isn't the language. Once you know a couple, picking up a language is easy.

The hardest part is learning new frameworks and new tool chains.

Interviewing wasn't difficult. Any company worth a damn won't ask you language-specific questions.

Working with a new team is pretty nice. It's humbling being the new guy. It feels nice knowing that there's a whole new mountain of information to learn, and knowing that I've conquered previous mountains makes this one feel surmountable.
I was referring to Montreal, as there were a lot of biotech labs at the time.

I recall none of them paid above 35k$ at the time, which was the same as one would be paid handling phone support for telecoms.

This was 15 years back so things may have changed.
Low cobalt content in their battery design is one of the Tesla industry advantages currently, and as mentioned in another comment here Elon has already said they'll need no cobalt in the near future.
Okay real talk do people just not take care of their machines or have my friends and I been insanely lucky?

I use my computer daily and travel with it in a backpack all the time and have never once had anything on 5 Mac's I have owned (3 different work computers, 2 personal) break up until this year with the keyboard on the 2016/2017 MBP which in indeed a mess/huge fuckup. I still own both my personal Mac's and besides being pretty slow the 2012 can still run great in a pinch.

Many of my friends also own Mac's and not one has had issues with flex cables, screens, speakers, ports, you name it, until the butterfly keyboard issues. I can't help but wonder if it's a matter of treatment and defining what "regular" use is.
"Clearly, asking questions about consciousness does not prove anything per se. But could an AI zombie formulate such questions by itself, without hearing them from another source or belching them out from random outputs? To me, the answer is clearly no"

That's not clear at all. Where is the author coming to this conclusion from? Every single thing a computer does is the result of a automation, or of randomness that's outside of anyone's control. Just because a specific output was produced by a rube-goldberg machine, as opposed to a simple one, doesn't make the machine any more conscious.

I personally don't think any computer AI can ever be conscious, no matter how hard its makers try to imitate consciousness. https://outlookzen.com/2017/04/03/philosophical-proof-for-th...
Single-request connections. Response required consulting memcached and updating it from postgres if out of luck, which was very rare but still needed (and patching then-existing postgres C client to be async aware was an undertaking)
I upvoted you because you bring a good point. You're at the bottom of the page because HN seems to think climate change is fake, so most comments that assume it is fact will be downvoted. You are right, though - the author is broken-windowing and logical fallacying their way into a dark hole.
I found my last two management roles through the local tech community. Meetups, panels and conferences have done wonders for getting connected. Word of mouth has gone a really long way.
To whomever owns this app, I have a small technical suggestion. The Polymer app-drawer is a lot more functional than similar implementations I've found for Material Design. I'd suggest giving it a look and see if you can integrate it, since it provides a better mobile experience by providing touch-swipe support:

https://github.com/PolymerElements/app-layout/tree/master/ap...
Based on the article's description, that wouldn't really fit the definition of "getting rid of sleep", as this "half sleep" severely impairs the brain functionality.

It does make sense in the context of a somewhat hostile environment, where constant awareness is required, but it wouldn't benefit humans as much.
oh yes, sorry, yes I'm that old. before linux, except for maybe gcc, open source was largely distributed as source.

and I agree that installing linux as a binary makes sense. but people didn't think it was important to maintain the reference back to the actual source used. I think to some extent (RedHat specifically), the patch sets used and the hidden build process was used to make it less trivial to reproduce.
Interesting. This stage light effect also affects my 2007 mbpro which is two generous old. It did take about seven years to develop, but it seems that it's been an issue possibly on past models also that has just gotten worse with the latest thin design.
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Kind of a bummer Google again didn't give a bounty for this type of issue, but also kind of interesting that we had the same experience. Also cool to hear you'd heard of my story before :).
> And the post office knows about our different addresses -- I mean, they deliver mail directly into our individual locked mailboxes.

Well... your mail carrier knows about the different addresses. This doesn't mean that the USPS has this information in their system.
I prefer Mac to Windows. This is a subjective thing. Mac and Windows are optimized towards different use cases. Mac is optimized towards WYSIWYG display for desktop publishing. OS X displays fonts exactly as they'd appear on a page. Windows makes adjustments to character positions to align them to the pixel grid. This results in clearer text, but at the expense of things being slightly off as they'd appear in print.

Ultimately, different strokes for different folks. While you're not wrong that Cleartype is empirically better for most people for text content, it is objectively worse, by design, for those for whom positional precision matters.

> This occurs because Apple didn’t dare go near any ClearType patents that Microsoft got for their rendering techniques. For decades OS X remained a very ugly baby, until in 2015 they just gave us courage HiDPI in form of Retina. This was a bid to make all hinting technology obsolete and put everyone else to shame.

Is just wrong. Apple intentionally chooses to display fonts the way they do. This is quite the extraordinary claim -- that a company that is otherwise known for design would not focus on their fonts.

With regard to the freetype font size rendering. You claim that freetype doesn't scale the fonts smoothly, but then you also claim Windows does it correctly. Just FYI, Windows most certainly does not scale fonts linearly. OS X does of course, given its focus on publishing. Windows cleartype actually changes the font size in order to make text readable. If linearity of font scaling is a metric by which you measure font engines, then cleartype is a failure.

In case anyone doesn't believe the claim above, this article (https://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosoph...) goes into it in depth.
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Online interactions don't need to be censored. They're already regulated by the same laws that apply to normal offline interactions. If it isn't illegal, it should stay where it is without being censored.

Of course, any community can have an internal set of rules, but an universal filter that removes things automatically or doesn't let the user post them doesn't make any sense unless your goal is to censor unwanted speech.
>order to sow unrest and distrust in our political system.

Intent =/= Actual Effectiveness

The current debt regime is doing a fantastic job at alienating a generation from the status quo. If Russia paid to piss in a Great Lake of piss, that doesn't mean the Great Lake of piss was created or even substantially altered by Russia.
I don't know...turn on subpixel with slight hinting, disable autohinter, enable lcdfilter and the result is pretty damn good. For monospace truetype fonts I use grayscale instead of subpixel, which I think is cleaner in the terminal... unless of course I'm using a bitmapped font. It took me quite a while to get it looking good, but ultimately I guess it's a matter of taste. Do you want to preserve the look of the font? Do you want to smash it into the grid? Do you want colors on the fringes? With Linux I can choose.
I don't see how popularity is relevant to a decision to content-based ban.
Presumably they were using cowboy through Elixir. It's not hard, the module is just called :cowboy instead of cowboy.
Ask HN: Where Do You “Blog”?
Most free-as-in-beer publishing platforms are either focused on little to no text (tumblr, twitter, fabook, instagram) or won't work without javascript (blogger)

is there still a convenient place for long form text for the occasional long-lived post?
They boast only accepting 100K connections per second, not pushing back a meaningful response?

Why this is even here then?
Eddie, I think it would be neat if we could build vendor images by just supplying docker containers with maybe some type of config.

At Tonic (https://tonic.ai) we do on-prem deploys with docker containers and docker-compose. Its seamless and would be great to use that same flow for Digital Ocean marketplace.
How does Texas get hurt more?
The article has a price sensitivity analysis for cobalt, which suggested that a doubling of cobalt prices would result in a meager 2.4% increase in battery prices. That cobalt price increase would open new mines, so I’m not too worried about that one.

It’s a good article!
I think that's slightly different: if a build is reproducible, it means that the build products I get from my own machine are identical to those on a remote machine or cache (e.g. they have the same SHA hash).

However, that doesn't speed anything up, since I don't know what the hash is unless I actually do the build or download the file (and then hash the result). If a cache used such hashes as IDs, I would only know which file to fetch once I've already got it!

For such a cache to work there needs to be another mechanism for obtaining the IDs. As an example, Nix caches using the hash of build inputs (scripts, tarball URLs + hashes, etc.), not the build outputs. Since the build inputs are known before we do the build, we can combine these into a hash and query the cache.

Since the whole point of using a cache is to avoid building things ourselves, we also need a separate mechanism to trust/verify what the cache has sent us (we could build it ourselves and compare, but then we might as well throw away the cache entirely!). Nix allows certain GPG keys to be trusted, and checks whether cached builds are signed.

Since caching mechanisms don't make use of reproducibility, and verification mechanisms don't make use of reproducibility, such caches turn out not to require byte-for-byte reproducibility. All that's required is that plugging in the cached files gives a working result: in some cases that might be practically the same as byte-for-byte reproducibility (e.g. a C library compiled against certain ABIs at certain paths, etc.); others, like scripting languages, might work despite all sorts of shenanigans (e.g. a Python file might get converted into a different encoding; might get byte-compiled; might get optimised; might even get zipped!)
That would be useful information, but it would also need some way to judge how biased (or not) the promotions are.

There's also another likely contribution to higher pay for women: a shorter supply of them, and Google bidding to hire/keep them versus other companies.
of course 'the hill' blames the backwards people in flyover states in need of superior bicoastal enlightenment for resisting the change to renewables, rather than looking for the lobbyists hiding out in their own full-of-hot-air backyard..

reality is probably some combination of both, minus the whole false-superiority bicoastal enlightenment thing..
You don't seem to understand how moderation on reddit actually works. The admins have very little direct impact on it outside of the standard enforcement of spam blocking and illegal content. It is your "solution" of a diversity of standards.

> There is nothing "toxic" about the internet

There are quite a lot of terrible and toxic things on the internet.

> Federation and peer to peer seem to be the only way forwards.

Yes, one would hope the entire internet ends up like Tor. A place where you can buy drugs, hire hitman, and find child porn.
Thanks, installed, lets see if I actually use it!
Amazing quote thanks for that. It's just inspiring to imagine Plato and Socrates, in a garden, discussing basically the same article we're discussing here.
That's from the initial chaos after the site went down and the maintainers went dark. Since then VeraCrypt has taken up the mantle and also gone through an audit.