skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm over-projecting due to reading it in modern times, but the version of "Gilgamesh" seems to be from after the end of Uruk and more bleak than other ancient works.

It begins and ends (while Gilgamesh is talking to the boatman) extolling the and power and seeming eternal of both Uruk and Gilgamesh,

"Climb Uruk's wall and walk back and forth!
Survey its foundations, examine the brickwork!...

"Who is there can rival his kingly standing,
and say like Gilgamesh, 'It is I am the king'?"

But despite his and the city's stature death eventually comes to both.

"The darkest day of mortal man has caught up with you,
the solitary place of mortal man has caught up with you,
the flood-wave that cannot be breasted has caught up with you,
the battle that cannot be fled has caught up with you,
the combat that cannot be matched has caught up with you,
the fight that shows no pity has caught up with you!"

To me it reads like trivializing the power and majesty of both Gilgamesh and Uruk and all mankind's achievements in the face of death.
> I'm not convinced.

It doesn't matter if you are or not. The majority of people influencing city council and other legislative bodies believe it.
Spam isn't really a problem for email lists you have to sign up for unless you have a really large number of subscribers. Spammers need zillions of addresses to make it worth their while to do anything.

It isn't a problem at all for closed lists...
I can confirm that Amazon is a stressful place so far as tech jobs go, and I saw a lot of the abusive bullshit people are talking about in this thread.

BUT I can also say that it rolled right off my back and had little effect on my friends who are still there after 5+ years

The key is to have enough savings that you don't feel like you're trapped there, IMO. And to have some real world perspective. If you've ever experienced real deal poverty then you'll laugh off anything a toxic management chain can throw at you.

I'd definitely recommend leaving Amazon ASAP in any case though, unless you're some sort of hardcore ladder-climbing business shark. I got super screwed by a lack of bonuses and raises despite being a "top performer", and it sounds like that's the norm rather than the exception.
The TIOBE and Redmonk pages both show Python in 3rd.

Fun video but I think it would have been more reasonable if they'd bucketed languages into popularity bands. Claiming to know "popularity" of languages to two decimal places for the last 50 years is non-credible.

[0] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
[1] https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/07/18/language-rankings-6-1...
All the Haskell version is doing is counting through bytes with the high bit set. If you look at the exciting function in the wc sources they link to it is doing way more work.
Did Oerlikon CEO receive Merit Cross of the German Eagle with Star?
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=26634
Make fewer people
I agree with you. It might be helpful to share the point with those who might not immediately get it.
The book doesn't simply say that practicing something for 10,000 hours will make you a master. The point is that people who are masters at something (or known as brilliant or experts in their field) didn't just magically get to that point by having a particular talent. They got there by having a particular talent, being born into particular circumstances, AND THEN putting in a ton of work (hence the 10,000 hour reference).

Bill Gates wasn't born a great programmer and businessman. He was born smart and into a situation where he had access to a computer and then he worked his butt off to learn. Similarly, great athletes are both talented and work like crazy to hone their craft.

The point I took from the book is that hard work and many, many hours of study and/or practice is essential in order to get to the top of a field. Doing the hard work will not automatically get you to the top since at some point lack of talent or lack of resources may get in the way. But, you need to do the hard work in order to give yourself a chance to make it to the top.
I’m noticing this whenever browsing a website that has a curated list of links from 8+ years ago. Take Metacritic, for example. Try clicking any of the links for a game review on a system from 2 or 3 generations ago. I once tried this for a random, not-so-exotic game and like 80% of the links were dead.
Everything does happen for a reason but we don't always know it or like it. Your cat died so other things will start to exist from its atomes/molecules.

Anyway, sorry for that...
Interesting and WTF for sure. Must have rubbed some people the wrong way...

Reading it can be frightening for overachievers and people whose world view and beliefs (the upper class who need servants) requires we have people working for them otherwise their materialist and GDP/economy driven world views might cease to exist...
> Feedback for an action

ULtrasonic haptic feedback maybe?
Quite a few years ago I recall watching a presentation by a leader of a child advocacy organization that was dealing with the various governments in the EU and providing technical guidance to them. They were very close at the time to moving forward with a plan to require video card manufacturers to build things into their firmware to check every single image before it is displayed on screen against a database of known illegal imagery. The crux of the talk from the advocate was that they, child advocacy organizations, spend an awful lot of time and resources fighting against these sorts of high-profile attacks against imagery because it is known to not actually help kids in abusive situations. I keep expecting that sort of policy to re-appear. As technical people, we know that the technical aspects of such a proposal are insane and impractical, but that often doesn't constrain policymakers.
I see what you mean. Good point. Cheers.
I recall speaking with someone who became addicted to porn at a young age. It destroyed his life, his relationships and he became severely depressed. Furthermore, the porn industry has one of the highest rates of suicide.

Perhaps the vast majority of people don't have a good idea precisely because they have watched porn from a young age. I know that's the case with the young adults of my generation (26 years).

So to answer your question => Yes; not watching porn is much healthier than watching.
It was never, ever true. Information on the web rots away at an amazing rate. For example, one of the first big tech stories covered on the web was the Microsoft-Netscape browser war and the resulting MSFT anti-trust trial. Have fun hunting down the original reporting. Well over 90% of it is gone.
Transgenic mosquito project doesn't work as planned
To us, that was a disaster yes. I suppose we measure or weigh things differently? Or perhaps we haven't had those monstrosities you mention so we have no local reference.
Also, I think that for the top three you have to account for the influx of the young, who may have just established a household and not got around to children. That was the case for four households I can think of on my block since 2009.
Librem 5 Aspen Batch – Photo and Video Gallery
> How much circuitry would we save by leaving out the predictor? Enough to allow a measurable speedup in the CPU clock speed?

Considering the complex predictors on current PCs, we would save quite a lot of circuitry. But that circuitry is there because it is the most effective place to increase the CPU speed, if you used it for something else, speed would go down, not up (but power consumption would improve).

Also, actual clock speed isn't really relevant and has a complex relation to CPU speed. That circuitry isn't affecting clock speed, so it wouldn't change.
It will just join the graveyard of gimmicky vr/ar motion controllers.

Leap motion, Kinect, etc. Those can track precise skeletal gestures too.

I think the differentiation here is low power always on and attached to the phone with high field of view.
The site doesn't say what band they are using, but their research articles contain a lot in the 60GHz range, which is certainly high enough resolution to capture images, particularly if you use synthetic aperture techniques (you can already do inertial movement sensing on a phone to aid with this).
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-colombia/amazo... not yet completed
There's no reason you couldn't type `noun.` and get autocomplete to `verb(noun)`
Stumbleapod: Stumbleupon for Podcasts
Innovation usually takes a much longer timeline than just launching something and killing it with a year or two when it’s not sufficiently Google scale.

The world would have a lot less great products if this is how it was always done.

This is why startups continue to be the primary innovation source. They are willing to go through the hard grind to find product/market fit over multiple years.

Most of the products purchased by the big guys are at least 5-7yrs old (WhatsApp, YouTube, Waze, Looker, etc). There are some rare exceptions like Instagram and Android which were both 2yrs old at acquisition.
This matches my experience as well (as a former full-time JavaScript dev), but in most cases, where JavaScript devs don't care about performance, you don't even need to understand how the machine works to speed things up. 90% of the time, the algorithmic complexity isn't thought at all and there are plenty of quadratic (or worse) behaviors everywhere.
Sound is OK for a feedback of success. What we also need is visible affordances -- signals of what can be done, when, where, and how. Also, what I hate the most with these gestures is fearing that I'll get it close but not quite, and something else (or nothing) will happen. With a button, you can feel it and immediately make micro-adjustments while pressing to ensure success. This can possibly be done with sound, but I haven't seen it done well, yet...
The parent comment was a joke:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BBC
No backwards compatibility could be IPv6's biggest mistake. Now everyone is forced to maintain 2 IP addresses.
Not necessarily a bad thing for individuals, but definitely a bad thing for Internet users as a collective. Some Yahoo Groups are still active and has irreplaceable, valuable information that dates back to 2000.
I know it’s one data point but I never developed muscle memory for remotes the same way as, let’s say, Emacs. I always stumble and press the wrong keys. More importantly the interface on the TV is convoluted. I don’t want next channel - I usually want to go to a specific channel. With, say, Apple TV it means scrolling through a bunch of apps - much faster. Or YouTube tv via chrome cast - scrolling through the guide on the touch screen.
To play devil's advocate, I'm sure Google's intent is to prevent garbage apps from spamming or tricking users into paying money and the resulting PR backlash from having an app store full of shady apps.

As evidence of this, Google does allow donations if the publisher is a 501(c)(3) (see https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/75724?hl=en).
>> Just let the in-app purchase unlock some cosmetics in the app like games do.

> Open source developers shouldn't be forced to lock away additional functionality in their apps

I don't think functionality was what was suggested. Literally cosmetics. A nice banner that says thanks for supporting the project would likely be sufficient.

Edit: Although I agree it shouldn't be required. As a workaround it doesn't seem too bad though.
Jesus Christ; firstly no, it's not a benefit whatsoever to be able to force someone to do something. Secondly, a boss who has to force people to do things rather than provide convincing reasons to do them is a terrible boss, and should be fired by his/her boss immediately.

The "very essence" of being a boss is knocking out obstacles for the people under you. That is what a boss actually does, not tell people what to do. Sure, a boss translates vague prioritization from above to meaningful and actionable items for his/her team to work through, but the only "power" a boss has is the ability to absorb shit so the people under him/her don't have to.

The boss also has a boss, who has a boss, and so on and so on, up to the CEO, who has a boss (the board and/or shareholders). No one gets to "force subordinates to submit" to anyone, at least not for very long.
I’m comparing to Mac wc, which is apparently what they were testing against, and I was getting twice that perf without anything clever.

That said I’ll try to post my horrifying impl to GitHub later :)
You appear to have posted this just because he is the submitter of the article. Is that true? If so, that's crossing into personal attack, which is not allowed here.
"Spitballing" seems more accurate
If you're interested in reading more about the value of studying halophilic achaeons: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/extreme-microbes
Usually putting them in jail.

Then at least you don't have residents complaining about homeless tent camps. And the cops feel like they have a tool to "fight homelessness." And the added (perceived) incentive of disincentivizing people from coming to your area to be homeless and set up semi-permanent tent camps.
If by Western you mean US, then probably. Because in any other part of the world, being pro universal health care is not considered a left-wing position per se. Even most Tories support it in the UK for example.
IBM was the biggest seller of computers to the Apartheid regime in South Africa which helped them to implement the system ... the infamous "dompas" being one of them.
From a security perspective you must assume "Anything you post on the internet will be there forever". That's also why we tell kids that it'll be online forever - because there is no guarantee we remove all copies of it.

However from a data integrity perspective you must hold the opposite perspective "Assume your copy is the only copy that exists", as you cannot guarantee other's have a copy of the data or will keep their copies.

I'm personally very worried about what the internet will look like in 15 years. How many awesome communities, blogs, projects, etc. will disappear?
Believing things are as simple as 'conservative' or 'liberal' is a poor point of view. One indoctrinates himself with this attitude.
I have a challenge for you: Without google or other external sources, what do YOU think are the top 2 or 3 downsides of using them? Do you even know?
What if one used audio feedback while using soli, eg swiping made a literally swiping noise, turning your hand clicked every notch you turned on a volume slider.
It is not equivalent.

Ecosystems take many years to develop and often host unique species that don’t just pack up their bags and move where we want them to. When habitat is lost, extinction occurs— maybe not all at once, and maybe not species that we know of, but habitat loss contributes significantly to extinction.
I like that they have a "take the flag, but dont hold the ground if it isn't worth it" approach.
Learn lots and fail fast.
Smaller companies can find a niche for themselves in "we are basically X that google used to do". Let someone else make the market and create your marketing, right?

Maximizing profits (and innovation) over time may mean closing something profitable now, and focusing on new potential profits. Thats great.
Which is about 700k people (when counting the metro area). Which is not huge...but a long way from small.
I became a US citizen when I realized how easily I could be deported as a green card holder. All it would take would be getting into a fight where the blame was ambiguous or something equally unlikely yet possible.

If you have children in the US it seems especially important to ensure you cannot be deported.

I’m from the UK and can have dual nationality - some countries cannot and if this is the case I would think about the option more carefully.

You say “we” - if your spouse is a US citizen then you likely want to file taxes jointly anyway, even if you are not one, so this may also be a factor.

Other benefits: easier entry to the us through customs (they HAVE to let you in), access to foreign embassies, potential security clearance, access to certain jobs that are nationals only, voting rights, reduced friction when applying for some jobs, no need to be at the constant mercy of the INS - important if you feel like being involved in political activism, gun rights - some states only allow citizens to access firearms.
Maybe Heaven is 2D. Practice on a flat harp (not flat notes).
I think you're right and I misremembered how I did it, since it had been so long. Thanks for the correction!
Dropbox Security builds tools for threat detection and incident response
Everyone now knows how babbys are formed.
Thank you for sending me on a trip down memory lane. :) Still can't believe that most of this stuff is from +/- 10 years ago. Getting old is weird.

Julien Danjou, original awesomewm author, ruminates on the X11 saga and the resistance to XCB in [0], dated 2010-06-01.

While that post expresses the bleak outlook for X11 and the Freedesktop project in general, it seems the real clincher about the freeze on awesomewm comes from a LWN article from November 2011 [1], which quotes Julien thus:

"The missing parts are advanced stuff like new XInput and multi-touch support, but we were blocked by XCB for those, and users seem to be able to live without them. Now, since everyone seems really happy with the 3.4 branch, I think it's enough that we just keep maintaining it."

Taken together, my interpretation at the time -- and I think the general community consensus -- was that the hours and days spent rebuilding cairo to enable the XCB backend and then rebuilding anything that depended on it, which was (is?) basically every substantial Gtk application, were not going to get any easier.

Venturing into the comments on that article and seeing the links to issues with users pleading for distro packagers to enable XCB out of the box brings the old days flooding right back.

[0] https://julien.danjou.info/thoughts-and-rambling-on-the-x-pr...

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/467559/
Even with a dedicated lane, there will still be more delays than with a grade separation (subway). Intersections are a bottleneck.
The podcast brought both the teller and the starbucks examples up but didn't go in to research details. I agree with you it sounds sketchy and I don't know how they'd prove it one way or other really. I'm only inferring from the podcast that Laurie Santos has research to back up her claims that even these little ways of removing human interaction from our lives affect our (most people's?) happiness negatively.
Intra-Articular Steroid Injections in Hip and Knee: Not as Safe as We Thought?
I wonder if the ergonomics of text based adventure in SOV-order languages is/was substantially improved for this reason.

北に行く (north, go) ポーションを飲む (potion, drink) スライムを戦う (slime, fight).
Again, knowing that privacy is good doesn't have anything to do with the "underlying tech" and doesn't require any technological understanding. You can read a book without knowing how it was printed.
I was responding to the first half of your comment, not the second, specifically:

>> By breaking the law, these travellers got sorted into the "criminals" bin and are now treated like shit.

> Only its immigration law so its civil not criminal law.

[edit]

And to respond to your second half, colloquially the word "illegal" is used to refer to civil matters all the time (e.g. illegally parked car). Not all undocumented immigrants are here illegally, but those who would be legally deported if discovered are.
Sure there were -- thousands died fighting Franco, in Spain. See George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, or Whitaker Chambers' Witness.
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L.A. is a place that respects the value of a creative solution.

If one cannot force the homeless to leave, how does one positively incentivize people to stop living in the street?
Ever use a credit card to make a donation anywhere?
My family has being hounded by BBC goons in the past for ceasing to pay for the TV license. They even had the "TV detector van" come out and hang around their home before a women hired by them try to forcefully gain entry by pushing past them at the door.

It's an entirely optional license fee and those who don't own a TV are not required to pay for it. They employ scare tactics and harass people into paying up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van
You should tell HR that would be great, one seat at the office costs a lot. They have a huge savings potential :)
How so? Op is correct - you shouldn’t be using the console to actively manage your infrastructure. The consoles primary purpose is to let you quickly spin up resources while you explore. If you have a real business use case, all your infrastructure should be defined in configuration and deployed out to AWS. That way, you always know what you need to spin up and it’s exact, specific configuration, all stored in source control.
Looks a lot like the Asus C403 but without the SD card slot.
>the experience actually had me somehow understand where my depressions came from

While I realize that it is an entirely personal matter, I can't help but ask if you can perhaps share some of your insights?
Air pollution is linked to miscarriages in China, study finds
AWS announces AZ64: 5-10% smaller and 70% faster than ZSTD
That why I used "Your" genes in quotation marks.I think that saying that this process is not genetics is not factually accurate, as its obviously clear it affects genetic expression. Its just a paradigm shift of how you would traditionally view "genetics" to be more broad than just your direct inheritance.

Lets go with the Hilter example since I think this is an interesting thought experiment.

Was Hitler a failure? (From his evolutionary perspective.)

At first glance you would say yes, obviously. He had no kids, he killed himself and was probably very unhappy and distraught with how things turned out in the end. The very people he thought were the "best" in his society actually suffered the most (as defined by him as he said "all the best have already died in Germany").

Now, if you think about it as a kid who was born with almost no family structure, no inheritance, and not very competitive in terms of capability compared to his peers (He wasn't a good architect, he wasn't a good painter, most of the esoteric things that he tried at he failed). I don't think its a stretch to suppose he thought his environment didn't bring favorable advantages for him (and others) and he sought a remedy to this. What did his remedy amount to?

The destruction of a large part of genes from the gene pool. And what where the genes that were largely removed composed of?
You could argue he was wildly successful in influencing the genetic frequency of expression of a certain types of genes, while suppressing others.
Using Conditional GANs to Build Zelda Game Levels
Mods: can we change the headline to include a few words on what a soli is?
Why visiting your ancestral home feels so familiar: It’s literally in your bones
I edited and added Macbook trackpad example before your response. I agree when its done right, it works but those are rare examples. Vast majority of products do not go to the lengths that Apple does.

> Even space, versatility, & cost aside, there are definitely tasks that a touch screen does better. Using a map with a touch screen is incredibly intuitive compared to a mouse. (I cannot imagine using sliders or other "physical" interfaces)

Have you used a space mouse? I think it is vastly superior to moving hands, pinching and getting tired after about 3 mins. CAD work requires moving things around for hours on . Pinching, zooming and moving things around with hands is completely insane to a CAD engineer - take a look at this: https://www.3dconnexion.com/products/spacemouse.html

I've been using a space mouse since 2005 for mechanical CAD. I wish I can explain what it is like to use to others because you can't. It is as if its an extension of my senses, and it feels so incredibly natural.