skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But writing didn't (IIRC) start with writing down speech. It started with accountancy, with recoding taxes payed and owed. So it arises with agricultural states, it's part of what lets a king rule so many peasants that merely having his brothers remember who owes how much doesn't work anymore.

Figuring out that it could be used to write sentences took a few millennia after that. And only after that came enough simplification for people other than palace/temple employees to learn it.
Foucault would politely disagree; he used "schizophrenic" (literally, "a mind split into pieces") to describe the way that (post)modern society uses symbols and signs to point at cultural features, without actually understanding how those cultural features interact. In such a society, the signs themselves, and they way in which they chain into each other, become the primary meanings, replacing the cultural features entirely.

The parent reasonably points out two families of sign-chains and sketches how they conflict by emphasizing how the signs espouse conflicting opinions on male sexuality.
I'm familiar with an organization that lost about $750,000 because someone spoofed an email from the CEO to the CFO asking to wire money to an account. The CFO fell for it. AFAIK, the money was never recovered (nor was the CFO fired... it was all just chalked up to 'the cost of doing business').

That was with NO crypto/signature spoofing involved... if the CFO has now been trained to not act on large dollar amount requests from the CEO without at least checking a digital signature... perhaps the CFO would be more likely to fall for it now since he has been "trained" that cryptographic signatures are a sign of authenticity?
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I'm new to podcasting so i'm enjoying the site and the concept of micro casts. each post is less than 2 minutes long so it doesn't get boring.
Yep. I was too young in eighties to participate in these discussions, so I can read about them only, and watch some lectures, which is not satisfying enough for my curiosity.

Can we discuss something easier?

Why you think that photon is immortal?
Why we have rule of right hand in EM?
Why we see star formations older than BB?
WTF is "physical vacuum"?
What is waved by gravitational waves?
What is happen in linear Sagnac interferometer?
How photon is formed (it requires FTL to form)?
What happens in double slit experiment?
And so on.
I would interpret that data precisely the opposite: designing and manufacturing a new car is hard, swapping out the power plant is much easier. Thousands of Ford and Toyota engineers are doing something and it isn't redesigning an ICE engine every year.
Humans hunted the megafauna to extinction, which is probably why we invented agriculture:

https://theconversation.com/how-the-extinction-of-ice-age-ma...

Basically as the population grew, hunting and gathering became insufficient to feed the population.

Also bone analysis shows that the health effects you mentioned happened probably BEFORE widespread adoption of agriculture, possibly due to malnutrition.

This isn't far-fetched in an environment in which people are starving.

And with the adoption of agriculture it got a little worse before it got better. Height and life expectancy started going up again.

Basically we built better tools, we started diversifying the crops, we learned to cope with the nutritional deficiencies (for example we started eating dairy) and we eventually adapted, like we always do.
Joshua Bardwell has a pretty good discussion here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E1aEym-1cQ
The signer is assumed to be trustworthy. That's why we care for their signature in the first place. It's the sign-ee that is presumed to be the attacker.
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Some friends of mine are entry-level developers that work alone on an Arduino/C++ codebase. Baremetal development and C++'s bad library support encourages them to write huge amounts of their own, very bad, code. They've taken a year to write the functional equivalent of a few hundred lines of Python and some packages.

Their codebase would improve immensely if they used a more powerful chip to run Linux and Python instead.
> They just shouldn't be allowed to prevent other employees from not unionizing and working without the union.

Yes they should. Repeal all right to work laws.
I do have kids. Did they teach me something about human nature? Not that I noticed. I still go to the bar often. Do I learn anything about human nature there? A little, yes, but not much (in essence, that people act stupid when drunk. They can be very funny though). Do I travel? Yes. What does that teach me? Mostly, that there's no place like home.

I maintain you will learn a lot more, and a lot faster, by reading Shakespeare, or Flaubert, than by talking with any number of people.

It's likely that putting yourself in "extreme situations" will teach you something about yourself, and by extension, about human nature in general. But you may die learning. There must be a better way.

If you think novels are "made-up stories for entertainment", chances are you didn't read many of them, or many good ones.
Zero evidence of things like refined metals or synthetic materials in the geologic record makes the odds of an advanced ancient civilization seem highly improbable.
Oh, and the Lumen project is looking to get it to compile to WebAssembly rather than run on a VM which seems like it will also provide a more lightweight way of running it. That both adds a new use-case and potentially improves the places where it can be suitable.
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> It took an Einstein of the time to figure out things could even be planted. It is a monumental achievement.

Not just that. But someone had to invent:

* Pottery (Lets store food, instead of looking for it all the time)

* Writing

* Cities (Hey, lets all settle here and come back here for some reason)

* Law

* Basic tools: Rope, Hammer, Wedge, Knife. Metallurgy.

If we were trapped in a hunter-gatherer society, even with our advanced brains today... it would take a very smart person to invent a city and/or writing. And you'd need the support of the entire hunter-gatherer society to bring you food and resources to fund the inventions.

Cities invent the aristocracy, a group of people who are dedicated to advancement of culture and technology. Agriculture and Pottery provide a way for transportation and storage of resources (food especially), supporting the aristocracy.

At which point, true inventions can begin. You can't invent new tools if you're too busy hunting for food every day of your life.
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In my opinion Arduino and "pro" does not belong in the same sentence.

I work as an embedded software engineer who's tasked with ripping all the terrible arduino code out of a fairly large codebase where I work and the arduino core libraries are the lowest quality code I've ever had the displeasure of working with.

It's full of awful decisions everywhere in the arduino core libraries such as defining min and max macros when they're writing C++ code which in turn results in STL includes blowing up if you attempt to use something simple and safe as std::array.

I could go on for days about all the terrible decisions that reeks to high heavens of always taking the path of least resistance...
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Welcome to propaganda 101. The journalist who claimed this is now walking that statement back https://twitter.com/janearraf/status/1213862885925019648
For mysql at least you need to specify what CA or cert to trust. There is no default CA which mysql will try to use. So once a CA expires you will have to rotate it
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Maybe someone should organize a campaign to flood the European GDPR Regulators with "our data might have been compromised already or maybe in the future, and might have contained data on EU residents, that might be considered 'sensitive' We are - (or will be) - working on it, but just wanted to let you know immediately so that you can't say we didn't warn you and slap us with a ga()-illion dollar/euro fine.." () “Ga” subject to change at any moment based on ECB forecasts, or how much we don’t like you.

All kinds of companies, from all over the world (eu or not) flooding the GDPR headquarters in Brussels with "pre-emptory warnings". The purpose of course being to let them know how ridiculous (and possibly/probably arbitrary) their regulatory framework

And is anyone else annoyed that since GDPR started, every single website that even so much as stores your username now has a "this website uses cookies" thing you have to click on to get rid of it? And if you turn off cookies, you see this damn intrusive thing every single time. How is this making the web "safer"?! Can "we" (whatever that means) petition them to enact a standard where people can set a preference in their web browsers that says "I don't care unless it's financial/medical/physical-address data" It's a $#%$5# pain in the collective derriere.

I wouldn't be surprised if some websites are doing it as a matter of course, "just in case" - like the "this product contains things that are known to cause cancer cause cancer to the state of California" - applied to everything - in a catalog that sells drill bits (okay, I suppose the couple of nano-grams of drill-bit-dust coming off it). Just to be safe (pun unintended).
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Until it's not. Until a pandemic wipes out an appreciable portion of your population, and causes a reversion, until a war does the same, or an asteroid, or low birth-rate. Progress isn't some irreversible, implacably forward-moving wave.
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Oh dear, yes! I missed that in the release notes but I'd heard it was coming. I want it. I wanted it today.
> To be excessively pedantic

This is the best, most delicious, type of pedantry friend!
Oh dear. Video acceleration means GPU is doing what CPU would be else doing. Which means user threads get less indirect access to GPU. Which is a potential security risk, because GPUs and GL are designed to perform, not to secure data.

VA-API is not mentioned in the question at all. It is the most common api for video acceleration, but there are others - direct vdpau, or nvdec.
If I want to person A as a close friend, and they're not active on the platform, that should be allowed. Maximizing interactions isn't the goal, or else we wouldn't limit the feed in the first place
Intel have a great partner program - I'm a small OEM (as one arm to the company), less than 100 units a month - but, still a nice number... Intel give me advanced warranties, presales support, partner centre, certain privileged information including roadmaps and samples... I couldn't imagine better.

AMD - I'm struggling to get them to return a call despite numerous chase messages for over 3 months now.

I want to sell AMD due to Ryzen demand but literally can't find anyone... even met an AMD rep at an industry event and he gave me his business card... non stop voicemail and just has never got back to me.

Again, I know I'm not huge - but, it's still over 1k units a year and I'm talking to a brick wall. When I started ~15 years ago and literally doing 1-2 a week, Intel were VERY supportive.
> The three cycles are 15, 19, and 28 years long.

Where did these numbers come from?
I hire a good tax professional. That's it, as simple as that. I have a gentleman that I have used since 2014 who I pay about $350 to make sure everything is filed correctly. He helps me with tax planning. He helps me with the forms. The IRS is happy with me. I spend maybe a total of 2 hours a year thinking about it (I am fairly organized with my receipts though, which helps).

I also have a good attorney and a good insurance broker. All in all, very simple. If I spend half of a day per year on any of this stuff, I would be surprised.
In context, it appears to be saying "you can't keep secrets from God."
If we're comparing to "Europe":

- EU Youth Unemployment Rate: August 2019 https://www.statista.com/statistics/266228/youth-unemploymen...

- US Youth Unemployment Rate: November 2018 - December 2019: https://www.statista.com/statistics/217448/seasonally-adjust...
In this case, signature creation time isn't under control of the attacker. The attack scenario being considered is that Mallory can convince Alice to sign a key K1, provided by Mallory, such that it looks like Alice signed K2. The party creating the signature is honest here.
100%. This is not a good thing and the article here is pretty much a bought piece.
I don't know where you live, but I'm guessing you're in the US. I'm 43 as well, been mostly the startup world for 20+ years - similar journey (worked, founded, etc). After my last startup got sold (not at best terms), I also took the time to relax a bit (and ended up rebooting another business and starting another instead).

Anyway, after my timeout I got back into contracting. First of all, I've never encountered ageism and my experience was always appreciated. It could be to do with my attitude, or maybe ageism is not a thing in the UK as it is elsewhere. I think attitude helps and if you come across as a friendly experienced person you will be able to get in.

My question to you would be why go for the "Larger" tech companies? Why not focus on established smaller companies? I personally equate those with start-up level stress but less ability to affect things. Again, just my personal perspective.
Second point - do try contracting. It's quite liberating not being tied to a place in a long term mental-bond. The market is great for contracts (at least in the UK).
Literature, like any form of art, should be rated using the best works, not the worst ones, or the most common ones, or the most recent ones. Who cares if there are a million bad books. That's not the point at all.
Unpopular opinion: Large segments of the american population don't even real realize they have foolishly internalized decades of anti-union propaganda.

They just think they are smarter/better/more rational.

I disagree. I think you have just eaten up the propaganda pushed by billionaires. There is an entire industry that is dedicated to pushing anti-union propaganda.
Right - and I think that point 6 and 7 are exactly why I use rebase daily, and why I will never use Fossil.

The version control history is made for reading by other people, so it is a story. After all, we only write the commit once, but people will read it many more times. (This is especially true if there are code reviews involved)

I am an imperfect programmer. My work-in-progres is often broken, and even fails to compile. Sometimes I will refactor interface only, and will want to checkpoint my work before I go and refactor implementation as well. Sometimes I will choose a totally wrong approach and revert it later. Sometimes I will disable/break large part of system on purpose, to make testing easier. And I often do stupid data-destroying mistakes, so I want an ability to save/store all the past versions, even if they are completely broken.

My “raw” commits may look like: “start on feature X”, “refactor interface Y”, “more work on feature X”, “wip commit”, “fix tests”, “fix performance”, “fix more tests”. Does any future reader care it took me 3 commits to get the tests right? Do they care that I discovered the need to refactor only while I was halfway in feature X implementation? Do they want to see a repo that won’t even compile? Do they want to hav to cherry-pick dozens of commits to get the tests to pass? I don’t think so.

The final version will only have two commits, “refactor” and “feature X”. It would be obvious to everyone which lines of code are associated with which change. Each revision will be buildable, and will pass all tests - so bisect will actually work.

(If rebase support is missing, it is possible to “fake” it by having multiple checkouts and manually copying files around. But this is much more error prone and dangerous. I have spent plenty of time with SVN/CVS, manually copying files and applying patches - and I can tell that having this integrated with version control is much more pleasant)
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I think many take issue with the use of the word "cognition" in that definition.
> Why is it okay for a company to extract a so much more money from an employee than they pay them, but not okay for employees to band together to get paid what they're worth?

Salaries are based on supply and demand, not value generated. More developers at your skill level = lower salaries for everyone. More successful companies competing for talent = higher salaries for everyone.

If you want compensation based on value to the company, that's stock options or partial ownership.

Tons of companies fail because they pay their employees more than the value they create.

The salary a FAANG or any company offers is designed to be a win/win. The employee gets a fixed income they can plan their life around and the employer gets the potential upside of generating more revenue. As long as the marketplace is competitive and unbiased this works really well.

Please also remember that revenue != profit. If I run a business and I generate $1.6M in revenue off of a $300k employee, it doesn't mean I'm walking home with $1.3M in my pocket.

And running a business isn't exactly easy. If it was so easy to generate $1.6M off of a $300k employee, you'd be flooded with other companies willing to pay higher and higher salaries. It's really, difficult and rare.
How does that square with what David Simon has to say in, “But I’m not a lawyer. I’m an Agent”?[1]. It seems pretty fanning about what happens to novices in the industry.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19570735
Hi, awesome work! Love the idea of using S-expression for the query syntax! Funny fact: we share the same project name - even though the core language and the query syntax are different - see https://github.com/yamafaktory/jql.
Sure, thats what paid membership websites are for.

But none of the websites should be allowed to pull the fast one on their visitors by stealing and sharing visitor data to other entities.

If you going to give me a free kiss, please ask my concent to be infected by personal-data-stealing disease.
Of course if you like kissing and don't give a shit about others - government should step in to protect their citizens.
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I should be clear. I’ve been in hybrid or management positions for many years now so it’s not a matter of trying out managing, it’s a matter of going in cold.
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Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who eat chimpanzees and gorillas as bushmeat, even while appreciating their intelligence. There's no contradiction there. Humans are predators--don't underestimate our capacity to dissociate and follow our predator instincts. In fact, forget the whole predator angle--don't underestimate our capacity to dissociate. That ability isn't inherently bad; it's one of the things that makes us human, and is a prerequisite for making choices in the first place.
It's also been my experience as an engineering manager that it's best to think of yourself as a manager without authority.
Taboo observation: the human population has experienced multiple divergent migrations starting potentially as early as 300k years ago[1].

This would have significant implications for potentially different cognition among different human subgroups. Especially those that have lived in isolation for 10s-100s of thousands of years until recent history with modernized travel and interconnectivity.

This may not be a pleasant realization, but it cannot be overlooked in the quest to understand sociological dynamics.

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_mod...
And then we get science reporting like this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/science-journalism
If you're after a dialogue, perhaps the term "denier" might be seen by those who are skeptical as a little pejorative?
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Wrong. I'm not for any war with Iran. I'm not a supporter of Trump. Me saying "shit" doesn't mean anything about my credibility.
Bad for whom? Aviation was much safer both for the passengers and the poor guy on the ground once it became professionalized.
I used a base year of 2000 in my compact date formats, one because it allows hundreds of thousands of years, and the other because years closer to zero can be stored in less bits:

https://github.com/kstenerud/smalltime

https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-time
Right. I'm saying that I AM saying a hotter climate will cause the initial burn spontaneously.
By my definition of spontaneously, being "without human input".

What I mean is you're being needlessly defensive. The strawman completely fails even on its own terms.
I think that this is more useful at showing height on a massive scale. Contour lines seem more generally useful, I agree, but looking at say the Appalachian mountain range on this zoomed out is much more appealing and intuitive than looking at the same scale using contour lines or another method of showing off height. I can also quickly compare the height of those mountain ranges to the Rockies.

Also it's just cool. I'll talk to my friend who does this type of thing professionally and ask his opinion. He is on vacation though. I was trained to read contour lines in boy scouts and I hike a lot since I live in the mountains, so I am quite comfortable with them too. I think this one is just a cool way to represent the data. I think the only time it is better is showing of height and height on a massive scale that are simply too big for other types of maps to be easily understood at a glimpse.

I'll challenge you to find a good map showing off the height of the Appalachian region, as I can't find one and really want to after seeing this. The one those tool can provide is quite cool in comparison to every one I can find. My friend would probably be a good person to ask in that regard.
They are attempting to set precedence with Google before going after Amazon and others. Going against them all at once would likely bankrupt them.
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Didn't Linus move to the US and became an US citizen?
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Deleting master is a thing that would _actually_ never have occurred to me! A neat trick

That being an example that I remember from late last year, there are just sharp edges to git I end up catching myself on :)
I would ride my bike almost everywhere if I didn't have to get on a street to do so. If there are bike-only roads, I would support this.

I think the future is commuting carts. Small, electric vehicles that aren't on main roads that can cruise 20-30 mph and hold 1-4 people.