skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone's curious about this domain and theories of human development associated with it, you may want to check out Jeremy Lent's "The Patterning Instinct".

Slowly reading through it right now, and coming across the OP cave painting piece was interesting. Some rough notes below.

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Rough timelines & theories:

Theories:

- Aiello & Dunbar "gradual and early" language hypothesis, Pinker, Chomsky

- Bill Noble & Iain Davidson - "sudden and recent"

- Ray Jackendoff (1999) - blend the two above theories, reframe from whether hominids "had language" to "what elements of a language capacity"

Timeline:

- 8 million yrs ago - Great rift valley challenges, birth of mimetic culture (see above)

- 2.5 million yrs ago - Olduvai - Homo habilis

- 2 million yrs ago - transition from mimetic forms to early language/symbolics?

- Jackendoff's development - development of mimetic language

- 300k yrs ago

- under Aiello/Dunbar "gradual and early" theory, we "crossed the Rubicon" to modern state just before anatomically modern humans

- Jackendoff, we developed protolanguage - small nets of symbols

- 40k years ago - upper paleolithic revolution

- Noble&Davidson, arguing this was a "sudden and recent" revolution and explosion of symbols, since we had less artifacts before this period.

- Jackendoff, modern language (giant net of symbols)

# Ch. 3 - The rise of mythic consciousness

## Great Leap Forward Theory

- lascoux cave paintings from 17k yrs ago - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux

- [found recently] indonesian cave paintings from 44k yrs ago?

- https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/786760790/44-000-year-old-
indonesian-cave-painting-is-rewriting-the-history-of-art

- "great leap forward" theory (Jared Diamond)

- If humans were anatomically modern 150k yrs ago, why did it take so long for the upper paleolithic revolution (40k yrs ago)?

- "Why did it take so long for symbolic thinking to get going! This rather awkward question was first framed by archaeologist Colin Renfrew, who referred to it as the “sapient paradox“."

## Out of Africa

- "The revolution that wasn't" theory (Sally McBrearty & Alison Brooks)

- Contrary to "Great Leap Forward", argues things were slow and gradual.

- "Out of Africa" theory / story, backed with some dna analysis

- 70k yrs ago - humans expanded through africa, small contingent crossing red sea into arabia -> south asia -> australia
Bennett Foddy has a GDC talk with another indie game developer (whose name I've ironically forgotten) about how good of an idea it is to release indie games under your own name. At the scale of an indie game, you're not likely to release another game with the same group of people, but you are likely to work on another game yourself.
Exactly this - avoiding macular degeneration.
Better do not give people the ideas..
Certainly not a ring doorbell camera. Mine is so slow to respond to motion it won't capture a pic unless you walk up to it and stand in one spot for a few seconds. 99% of my motion events are just an empty street. You can fast walk up to a ring doorbell camera and knock it off the wall, or just cover it with a piece of tape, before it has a chance to capture a picture. I would bet this is true of most consumer level "security" cameras.
Yes they are.

FTA:"The NulledCast is a podcast livestreamed to Discord. It's a show in which hackers take over people's Ring and Nest smarthome cameras and use their speakers to talk to and harass their unsuspecting owners."
But the majority of that security is required due to the vulnerabilities that come with the smart part of smartphones. A dumb phone has a much smaller attack surface. If I use the phone solely for texting and the occasional tethering and phone call, my exposure is automatically seriously reduced.

The dumb phone has no access to the pocket computer, after all.
I'm not sure I understand the question. As phrased I think you have a natural understanding of the difference. Are you asking how we measure that nationally?
For the last couple years Erin & I have been partners at Latacora, which is like a version of Matasano that instead of just doing application vulnerability assessment, joins startup engineering teams for 9-18 months to run their whole security team and then recruits full-timers in to replace us once it's up and running (there are 4 other partners, including one of my Matasano cofounders). In addition to appsec, we do cloud security, secops, and corpsec/vendorsec. It's been pretty great!

We hire almost the same way we did at Matasano, but more so: we're almost completely resume-blind, don't do phone screens, and have only an hour or so of face-to-face interviews that don't include any tech-out at all.

Even here, where part of the premise of retaining us is that we're going to do recruiting work for you, we still have to actively sell our approach for qualifying candidates, and many of our clients still do some technical interviews.

(Patrick, of course, has been at Stripe since we wound down Starfighter).

I miss the technical work we did at Starfighter but if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't make it a business through contingency recruiting; fee-for-placement contingency recruiting is an experiment I expect never to repeat again.
Also note that the "1 year" thing is only true in the US (I think), and that in most jurisdictions, disclosure immediately prevents patenting.

IANAL, etc.
> > (To paraphrase Justice Ginsberg, law will be “fixed” when there are nine women on the Supreme Court.)

> Wait, what? Is this an argument that men are inherently unsuited to be Supreme Court Justices?

It just means that if gender is not considered, we should see an all women's court once every 2^9 = 512 time.

If the number never goes above the mean, gender must still be a factor.
The people caught on video stealing the glitter bomb were in on the "experiment" - what was shown in the video was mostly or entirely staged. (find the apology from Mark Rober on YT :)
Thank you for the clear articulation!
I'm not commenting on the OS architecture, just my quite extensive user experience.
That was a cheeky statement by the author if I've ever seen one.
This is an issue with an incorrectly configured server setup, not specifically about WordPress. A proper hosting provider that advertises WP sites as part of their service should have disabled directory listing by default.
MS Office the desktop software isn't free, but you can use the online versions for free[1]. Considering the Works was never quite at feature parity with Word anyway, the gimped down version of Office Online is a decent alternative.

You also have the benefit of not having inconsistencies in file formats, which was always frustrating when working with Works and trying to edit files from Office.

[1] https://products.office.com/en-us/free-office-online-for-the...
RTFA:

Computer system design reflects the business that a company is in. It isn't the case that after years of development Microsoft has ended up with a bad operating system because people at Microsoft are idiots, rather it's the case that they're in the enterprise software business.

It isn't the case that Linux has not adopted the architectural advancements [...] because they aren't smart enough to implement those changes. The reason they have not adopted these changes is because they are in the business of ensuring that the people who pay them aren't made unhappy by a massive change to the kernel's architecture that necessitates a non-trivial expenditure of time and capital to modernize all it's software products just to keep them running.

Computers are becoming less secure and in many cases only a few systems are continually innovating in both the APIs they offer developers and the architecture of the underlying system itself.
Women dont like nerds
What made you choose pedestal over compojure/compojure-api or other alternatives? Similarly, why fulcro3 over something like reagent/re-frame. I have used the latter choices and am considering switching for the my next project.
I have gotten great mileage out of a dark mode css style sheet.
Actual evidence consistently shows that mild penalties with a high probability of enforcement are most effective at maximizing compliance. If you're going to turn up the dial on the enforcement probability, you absolutely should turn down the dial on the punishment, else you encourage a situation with perverse incentives and an undue burden on society greater than the one you are trying to solve.
So when the media gets a one party consent recording on Barr, it’s spying, but when they do it to me, it’s about not “going dark”
Spot on.

Every feature needs to weighed against the risk it introduces.

Example: I had commercial camera (I do machine vision) that had this feature that would allow you to flip the image. I would come back from lunch and the image would be flipped. If the camera never had this feature this wouldn't/couldn't have happened.

I'm not saying you shouldn't add features but you weigh the risks.
To some degree, the Trump and Bernie campaigns set back that sort of reaction. By offering alternatives that involved voting for a new type of candidate rather than marching in the street.

If nothing much changes in terms of the status quo because of those politicians or their campaigns however, that's when you'll probably see the marches in the streets, protests, etc.
I think it's possible you're missing the point.

If you have such crippling social anxiety that you cannot name literally any book, whether you've read it or not, and you can't even make one up, the odds of you performing well at an interview are extremely small.
This is true -- and if you're happy with Android or iOS, then that's probably the best recommendation. But I don't use iOS, and a big part of the appeal of this for me is to be able to stop using Android.
Where I live they have to be "baked" at a certain temperature for a certain time, and there are rules about visible stains, etc.

See https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Mattresses/

Sometimes they're re-covered.
Ime this is completely untrue.
Having read Red Notice, I strongly suspect the plot is much thicker than a simple copyright violation. The fact that NGINX now runs the majority of web traffic would be a clear signal to the Russian oligarchs that this NGINX is a valuable commodity to control and Sysoev needs to be moved aside. I'm guessing they don't have a deep understanding of BSD licensing terms, but they understand the value of controlling the contributors, and the log files.
I'm not sure, but I believe the EU doesn't grant this one-year gap - it becomes unpatentable as soon as it's published.
Speaking of corvids. Magpies are ones of the more social birds, I'm always amazed how vocal and varied their communications are. You could teach them to speak simple phrases. They can engage in gang violence (especially between two groups of juveniles). Magpies can establish "friendship" with crows if it helps them scavenge food.
and here i was thinking all owls were always solitary
Thank Bush family friends the osamas for 9/11. Patriot act normalized sweeping search and surveillance. Just like a lobster in boiling water average citizen has became more complacent with their rights being taken away. Smh
It may well be a bad idea. But I don't think you can be sure until we try it.
I don't think it happens until the next major recession. Even if you aren't personally benefiting from the equity bull market there's too much easy credit and rates are too low. As soon as that goes and the people at the bottom are really screwed then we see something akin to Occupy Wall Street at 100x the scale.

In general I do think easy access to consumer credit is the difference between the US and everywhere else. It numbs over systemic issues and provides the illusion that things are better than they really are. AFAIK credit is much harder to come by in other countries, which is why seemingly small things like an increase in gas prices, transit fares, or a small tax blow up in other countries when it wouldn't have the same effect here.
Wasn't it WordPad that shipped free, and Works or Word that were upsells?
I thought Konami stopped making games that weren't attached to Pachinko machines entirely?
Speaking of time... OpenBSD bumped time_t to be 64 bit in 2013, even on 32 bit systems: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/
Crime can make more money than being a landscaper or bricklayer. Why sweat in the heat all day when you can break into one house a week?

The penalty is harsh but chances to get caught are somewhat low.
> The U.S. media has virtually exclusively covered the protests in Hong Kong, and barely mentions any of the other (often larger and more violent) protests.

That's clearly not true and very easy to disprove.

Iraq, Iran, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia have all gotten continued coverage in US media. I can provide, say, 100 links to stories spanning all the major US news sources for those protests if you require it, dating back to the beginnings of the protests in Chile and going forward.

NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, NY Post, NPR, TIME, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Hill, Bloomberg, Voice of America, Reuters US, CNBC and so on have in total covered all of the protests persistently.

A quick drop into Google news with "Iraq protests" or "Iran protests" or "Bolivia protests" or "Chile protests" pulls up a lot of US news articles spanning the totality of the protests in question. Chile got enormous coverage in particular.
"among other things" :P
> The analogy that programmers “build things” is just that—your typical programmer is certainly not cut out to be a construction worker.

Building things is not just construction though. I mean, your average clock maker is not qualified to plumb a bathroom, but that doesn't mean he's not making things.

I don't have an opinion on this, but the idea that programmers aren't building something is a bit silly.
In my app, yes, it's a binary flag. But in the underlying data you can get detailed elevation data for every section of road worldwide that is readily usable in open source routing engines. GraphHopper supports STRM and CGIAR (two different data elevation data sources, available globally and free to use).
<looks at username>

Quiz bowl. Right.
I wouldn't be using the dumbphone for that sort of thing. I'd be using the pocket computer.
Agreed. I think the beauty of the phrase "shit is fucked up and stuff", is that the problems we face are so overwhelmingly obvious that we don't actually have to articulate them. And since the usual way calls for change are defused is by arguing about definitions, terms, assumptions, etc, in many ways articulating what shit is fucked up is counterproductive to change.
At the time 1GB was a ton of memory and few applications would use anywhere near that. A 64-bit kernel took on fairly quickly but actually compiling 64-bit applications took a lot longer. Consensus at the time was the memory overhead of larger pointers outweighed the benefits of extra registers.
Am I mistaken, or is it not an accident that “podcast” rhymes with “broadcast”? I thought the whole metaphor behind the name was that these were essentially radio broadcasts except you listened to them on your iPod: podcasts. The fact that they weren’t generally live is simply due to the fact that electronic hardware and wireless internet weren’t up to the task at the time.

Now, calling live audio streams “podcasts” seems perfectly understandable and arguably even more faithful to the original idea because of the ubiquity of streaming media.
How to become a better Node.js developer in 2020
everything, I always try to research what I'm buying.
I would say maybe books and movies are something I do get on principle without reading the reviews.
I don't really follow the distinction you're drawing here. If you think that working in isolation is a bad thing, and most programmers should be talking to lots of people all the time, "people who like working alone on challenging tasks are inherently deficient" sounds like an accurate summary of that view. It seems perfectly reasonable for an introvert to say that they don't want to work that way, and that it would be bad for them if your views on how programmers ought to work become more common.
The majority of county boards of elections in Ohio are using a voter registration management application that is still written in Visual FoxPro (and still uses DBF files as the back-end).

Aside: It has a recently-added ToTP implementation that replaces their prior "scan a barcode" system of "two factor" authentication. Of course, you can just open the DBF files directly in another tool and manipulate them w/o any "authentication". The mind boggles.
> Many/most developers are prohibited from working on open source projects by their employers.

This is 100% untrue. IP assignment is not enforceable if you do work on your own time and use your own equipment (including connectivity).

If you don't own a personal computer and your GitHub page is loaded with commits during your working hours, yeah you're going to have a hard time arguing it's not company IP. But for the vast majority of developers this is a complete non-issue, and insinuating the contrary is just FUD.
For the price, buy a Tesla instead
16. Quit Express, it’s aged and not maintained properly. Fastify and Koa are great candidates in 2020
Not to mention peak oil, which is going to make mechanized agriculture financially impossible.

Plus acid raid, which is going to cause continued crop loss every year.
Someone renting out a few AirBnB rooms would gladly furnish them with used mattresses.
No, neanderthals are scientifically considered a different species from homo sapiens.

It's not uncommon for two related but different species to be capable of interbreeding with viable offspring. That doesn't detract from distinct speciation.
I heard Robin Hood earns revenue by operating a trading dark pool. Is this true? And if so, wouldn't using Robinhood be like jumping into a shark tank?
Reporting someone for minor traffic offences if they caused an accident is the right thing to do but reporting people for the sake of reporting people is a little unsympathetic. I've lost count of the number of times I've misjudged a situation because kids were screaming in the back of the car, I'm stressed about something at work and had the briefest laps in concentration; or even times when I just have a complete brainfart despite being fully focused on the drive. We also have senses that are entirely fallible -- for example it's very easy to miss-see something because your brain fills in gaps of information with "fake" information based on what you expect to see (there was a great blog post from an ex-fighter pilot on this topic).

There needs to be some flexibility in society that allows for human error in instances where there is literally no personal, physical, monetary, etc damage. The kind of police state where all footage is processed for any minor traffic offences is such a dangerous road (if you pardon the pun) to take because it leaves people with no margin for genuine human error.

Think of it like senior developers having a bad day and making school boy errors; or mistyping your username (something that should be muscle memory); or that guy who accidentally hits "reply to all" -- we've all made stupid mistakes. If those mistakes haven't caused harm then I don't see why need to be reported.
For clarity, in this context I think @
vetrom was talking about emulation, not a virtual machine. A virtual machine makes use of the native instruction set (relying on the hardware) to create a machine within a machine and naturally can only create virtual machines of identical hardware capabilities (or a subset thereof). Emulation does all of that in software and could emulate even a completely different architecture.
The extraordinary story of the only B Corp in Afghanistan
>So what are we to make of this mess? Why the frenzy of protests – and why now?

Except that many of these countries are always protesting about something. In any year one can find at least a dozen countries that have had protests of some sort. Hong Kong had protests in 2014 too. And Brazil had protests in 2016 over bus fares, and in 2015, 2013, etc.. Brazil has protests every year over bus fares, it seems. The remarkably geopolitical stability of the US and its strong economy , compared to the unrest everywhere else (such as Hong Kong, Lebanon, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Chile, etc.), yet again torpedoes the media narrative in 2016-2017 that Trump would user in an era social unrest and economic instability in the US...the opposite has happened, with America being even more stable and economically successful relative to much of the rest of the world. The media got it all wrong, predicting collapse and instability in the US, when the instability and high inflation occurred elsewhere instead.
This is not how the law works in a number of states.
The distinction: S Mode can be enabled/disabled by an admin on any Windows 10 system, as a toggle in Settings. S Edition was briefly sold as if it was a different product or different version of Windows; to disable it one would need to purchase Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro, and there was no way to reenable it.
> Deep learning's recent accomplishments have been nothing short of astonishing.

For example...
Well, yes? That shouldn't be surprising, it's not an unusual phenomena, but it seems I've offended somebody enough to have them downvote every comment I've made in the past day (which is hilarious.)

When you do something that somebody else should be doing but isn't, it's common for that somebody else to response in a less than gracious way. It's not limited to police, but it's particularly common with police.
But speed cameras and red light cameras exist and write legally binding citations...?
Doesn't Ring already have such a feature for users?
You are correct, the 1-year part is specific to US rules.
Calling this discrimination is offensive to people who are actually discriminated against.
LineageOS + prepaid SIM card reloaded with cash in person. Never install Play Services or use any mainstream apps, only F-Droid apps.

One day I will do this.
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>The first example is missing the scope brackets likely enclosing the expressions

Sure, but so is the Clojure one. So I guess it's more like:

fun bar () {
let x = 5,
y = 10
foo(x,y)
}

vs

(defn bar []
(let [x 5
y 10]
(foo x y)))
For starters, Facebook could offer a paid version of Facebook that allows people to completely opt out of all ads. I would be happy to pay $4 a month for this option (or maybe something like $30 a year), even though I use adblock to block all your ads anyways.

Also, I would really like to just see my activity feed from all my followed friends in straight up chronological order, with no filtering, dang it.

The way you all display stuff right now is obviously designed so you can sprinkle ads into the feed as if they were actual content. But I don't want to see ads. At all. Period.
>Well it is is pretty obvious to me that [...]

I think you are just advancing your own arguments against allowing women to serve in the military here, not actually giving any evidence that these arguments were widely used in opposition to women's military service. That's a tangent.

Incidentally, in the broader context of this thread, this is exactly the kind of fringe content that just might give women the impression that the tech community has a sexism problem.

>Call me old fashioned but I'm ruling out the idea that men are the primary baby making engine of humanity.

I think you misread. I said "if you see women primarily as baby machines", not "if you see women as the primary baby machines".
You're right, these events are often triggered by a combination of factors, and repression of freedoms is often a factor. But I don't see any repression of freedoms either.

But also consider that it is not necessary for things to be _uniformly_ bad to trigger a large protest. E.g. France is "prosperous" on paper, yet a substantial segment of its population is really hurting, and they blame the "progressive" policies of Macron et al for that.