skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The oldest books of the Old Testament were written around 300-500 years BC... so many centuries after the events supposedly occurred. To say that those books are definitely indicative of what the law was 5,800 years ago seems like a bit of a stretch.

Edit: spelling.
If I lived there and volcanic activity were normal in that way, I wonder if I would actually recognize a stronger eruption and know to leave on time.
It’s not too surprising to me. If TLB misses cost your program to run 6% slower, wouldn’t you expect a 30% reduction in that to be a 2% overall improvement? Why would it be more? If you’re surprised that TLB misses are not so costly, consider that cache locality and CPU prediction are largely going to hide the cost of misses (cache locality means the miss rate is low to begin with, prediction reduces the cost of a miss). TLBs are also super complex involving a few layers of caching (TLB look aside, L1 cache of your TLB table, L2 cache, L3 and then RAM).
Physics is stuck – and needs another Einstein to revolutionize it
Edit: I took the test and it said that I am probably a super recognizer. I didn't think it was likely since only 2% of people have the ability, but maybe I extrapolated too much from me not remembering names as much as I'd like to.

I'd still be surprised if the average person can't quickly recognize their mom out of context.
Which email metadata program specifically, how you know Biden personally had anything to do with shutting it down and how do you know there's no other programs such as Room 641A, MUSCULAR, etc. that can do the same? Same for phone metadata - what Biden had to do with it and how do we know it actually was reduced and not just changed codename?

You haven't told me anything in fact except that some things supposedly happened while Biden was a VP.
I think the author is talking about a (certified) radiation-hardened Arduino board.
I like to frame it as "not me versus you, us versus the problem" when things get too heated. Otherwise things degrade into ad hominem "Those goddamn X people", instead of "We're having a lot of problems getting our project to work with X"
There are a few libraries that make it possible without abusing conformers, one of which is https://github.com/exoscale/coax
It's worth noting that the right response probably isn't locking either of them up. There are a couple of different basic theories of imprisonment, and the US is on the extreme end of the spectrum philosophically (which is part of why it has the world's largest per capita prison population). Most western countries don't put people in jail to punish them, but either to rehabilitate them, or in the case that that's impossible, to protect society from them. For both individuals there are more effective solutions than imprisonment: Davila should be banned from being a corporate executive, and a person robbing a convenience store would probably needs a social worker and stronger welfare benefits. (I'm assuming a person doing it out of need rather than, say, being a kleptomaniac.)
Is that actually better than AliExpress for low quantity orders?
Great questions and answers. Admittedly, I can’t help but feel there aren’t very many pain points mentioned, which makes me ask what’s being left out.

Additionally, how often was coding actually involved in this role? I hear this claim often but in my experience it’s rare. One-line fixes don’t count. Specifically, what projects were you a code contributor to?
Yes, and yes. In my point of view, the speed of development in Elixir/Phoenix is almost equivalent to that of Rails. And this is minus all the frustration of working with Ruby. Add on all the performance and language semantics of Elixir and you are far ahead already.

Rails can get you started quickly, and allows you to iterate quickly as well, but the way it slows down pisses me off. The only way to keep up is to keep feeding more and more beef.

The only negative I see with Elixir/Phoenix is that you'll have to figure out some things on your own until you arrive at a template for workflows you want to use in your app. After that it's all pretty smooth. A lot of people who have Rails experience don't seem to have any problem picking up Elixir/Phoenix
Not really. From a financial pov GM wins hard no matter what happens. Nikola somehow becomes a real company:

GM gets 2 billion in stock + 700 million in cash reimbursements and a strategic partnership. Nikola implodes, then GM still gets whatever of the 700M they could file and all the work they did is directly useful and necessary for their own EV projects. They're basically getting paid to do their own R&D

The hit is to their reputation.

Nikola basically paid GM to "partner" with them in a lopsided deal so they could have more credibility.
Vim is/was like that too. I always enabled 'visual bell' in my vimrc.
Only certain roles. Not everyone is getting that at L5.
Amazing tool get new background after every regenerate.
Perhaps - though notice that other systems have the same, or greater, simplicity - for example, when making a decision, choose randomly, or choose the option which sorts first alphabetically, or...

When you don't have the constraint of making good decisions, or popular decisions, you can make decisions very efficiently!
The same can (and should) be asked of American cities that regularly get destroyed by hurricanes or floods.
I don't want to snipe but sometimes it's irresistible.

The Golden Rule should be abandoned as an ideal. It's a Christian ideal, it's a Western ideal - I support the general effort but I think we've made a mistake. It is the sort of heuristic that works well in a smaller society but does not scale.

People treat themselves badly all the time don't they. If they are motivated to do this it puts a big hole in lots of social ideas about how humans work. .

The drive to set rules to govern behaviour might be because people are control freaks - or it might be the rules are made by people to moderate their own actions because they correctly believe they can't control them otherwise. A high agency society doesn't need rules - they are developed for low agency societies.

This is another version of why political Liberalism seems to be getting unhealthy in the United States and the United Kingdom - the assertion all equal before the law would have better results in a homogeneously high agency society.
Support Vector Machine- All you need to know
Cheddar Man: DNA shows early Briton had dark skin

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42939192

7,000-Year-Old Human Bones Suggest New Date for Light-Skin Gene

https://www.livescience.com/42838-european-hunter-gatherer-g...

Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6639

Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/25/6886
Eh. Rich people on trial don't tend to set a precedent for poor people. OJ didn't cause young people questionably accused of murder to get a fairer trial, and Weinstein/Cosby's faux sick act didn't help actually sick people.
One aspect of the original novel: Frank Herbert is rather terse on his descriptions of the environment, world and universe, leaving a lot for the reader to imagine. He excels at world building without being prescriptive, I think it’s a strength in the novel and allows for a certain timelessness.

Lynch’s film production design was pulled out of nowhere and it isn’t any more accurate than Villeneuve’s. It just has a more direct relation between the subject - a future space feudal society - which most people correlate with pomp and elaborate visual motifs.

In fact, if you consider the only visual work based on Dune that Herbert himself endorsed, it recalls the the newer film more than the baroque aesthetics of the former - the work of John Schoenherr for an illustrated edition of the novel: http://ski-ffy.blogspot.com/2010/08/illustrated-dune.html
So what are the examples of delusions?
What I have never understood about this is how everybody responsible didn't spend a single night in jail, for Contempt of Court if not for perjury.
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You should absolutely ask about A) and be very suspicious if they refuse to tell you. No one can answer B) with any real confidence because they don’t have a crystal ball. C) is almost always going to be at IPO or when the company sells, though maybe if you’re extremely important they’ll let you negotiate to sell some at a later round, though given this complicates things in most cases they’ll likely not want to bother with it unless you have a ton of leverage. D) is almost always going to be one year cliff, then rest monthly over four years. That should also be extremely easy information to get.
Context, from wikipedia, that sheds some light on the nationalistic headline:

> In June 2017, Luckey co-founded the defense technology company Anduril, along with former Palantir Technologies executives Matt Grimm, Trae Stephens and Brian Schimpf, and early Oculus hardware lead Joe Chen.[40] (Anduril, like Palantir, is named after an object from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings.) In March 2018, Anduril began a pilot program for the U.S. government to detect illegal immigrants attempting to enter Texas from Mexico; the program led to 55 attempted entrants being caught in its first 12 days in operation.

This post is advertising for a drone company that sells surveillance equipment to the militarized federal police department in the US that is responsible for running the concentration camps in Texas.
Feature Acceptance Criteria: Problems and Solutions
The lack of public information about startups means that the value is uncertain, and that’s a reason for a candidate with no special insight to discount the stock heavily. On the other hand, in the job seeking/networking process you may be able to find out important nonpublic information, which could provide an opportunity to legally “insider trade” by joining a company with a lot of upside that hasn’t yet been reflected in the valuation.
Mystery of Jupiter's persistent geometric storms may be solved
One person, one vote?

Why should someone get to increase their voting power simply by producing more children to indoctrinate?

In Europe it's illegal to criticize the crimes of religious figures. That's horrific.
Sure physics is “stuck” in the sense that in the last 30 years it hasn’t made the progress as revolutionary as in the 30 years before that. But it’s still progressing probably as well as any other foundational subjects. What happened in the late 20th century was more of a miracle in the history of human knowledge. We couldn’t expect that to happen every few decades.
Performing 'serious' music -- the physical expression of (an often well-known body of) notes and their interrelationships -- is not only highly technical, but also highly artistic.

The technical - given enough attention, the right physiology, the right brain-wiring - really has to be finished ... completely 'automated'. Missing or wrong notes ... I was reading yesterday that Tom Robbins sometimes spent the whole day writing one or two sentences ... that kind of fanaticism required.

The artistic, on the other hand, is much more subjective, and demands much of the performer's attention. And then, Worse yet, there's the game. There are 'standards' of 'musicianship' ... vaguer still, but people 'know it when they hear it'. 'Maverick' interpretations won't cut it with conventional listeners. Etc. etc. Being well-established in the conventional repertoire might be defined as 'literate' enough to allow occasional 'peccadillos'.

That kind of 'career' is only one of many ... there's improv, jazz, pleasuring (in lounges, at home), composing, teaching. To fail at feeding utterly conventional (however learn-ed) expectations doesn't have to be the end.
Thanks for fact checking. I guess I'll have to preface this story by saying that it's a myth. Oh well
No, the very earliest brick-wall filtered CDs were far, far worse, and largely where the CD's poor reputation came from. The ability to oversample and downsample largely dealt with the truly grating effects of phase shift in the higher frequencies (harmonics being nowhere near in proper phase with the fundamental tones). The godawful remasters once the technical problems were overcome just added insult to injury, really.
Might work. Women are frequently seen as having low external agency so when they do anything impressive people look to find the man behind it and when they do anything bad, people do the same. Might work on a jury.
>> How do you keep in touch with how things really work as you spend less time on hands-on development?

> As someone who still does write code occasionally, this is something I struggle with. Our codebase shifts underneath me constantly, in ways I often don’t see. It has been my goal for the year to make sure I say “I’m not sure, let me check” even when I feel confident.

This is not at all consistent with Staff Software Engineer at any of the several Big Tech Companies You've Definitely Heard Of I've worked at. It would be more of a Distinguished Engineer level sinecure[1]. Staff is usually expected to spend at least 50% of their time actually writing software.

[1] Not pejorative. If I were the relevant hiring manager I'd be happy to let someone like, say, Leslie Lamport, to pick a name out of the hat, spend as much or as little time as he felt like writing software just to have him around.
Smart move on Apple’s part, they do this once and it raises the possibility with all app developers that it could happen to them without warning or recourse - Apple already has an solid history of pivoting without warning and being uncompromising. Their even threatening to do it should raise alarm both with Apple, and with social login in general as Facebook and Google have demonstrated similar behaviors.
A link going into further details: https://carta.com/blog/pte-90-day-window/
Parasitic Plant Waits for Host’s Signal Before Flowering
Stonehenge built by Anatolians: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188

Spread of genes for light skin into dark-skinned Europe: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-europeans-evo...

"Once the first farmers from the near East began to arrive in Europe, and who carried both genes for light skin, they began breeding with the “indigenous hunter gatherers”. One of the depigmentation genes became prominent throughout Europe to the point where central and southern Europeans developed lighter skin."
> Authoritarian dictatorships are bad for many reasons. Ineffeciency when compared with more collaborative decision making processes is often not one of them.

this is one of those things which many people believe but which isn't actually true. authoritarian dictatorships are very often total chaotic shitshows.

the old line about Mussolini making the trains run on time is a great example. Mussolini used propaganda to claim that he made the trains run on time, and he did drive a few improvements to high-profile train lines in Northern Italy that were used mostly by elites and tourists, but trains in Mussolini's Italy were not efficient, not well-maintained (and therefore not safe), and they didn't run on time.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/loco-motive/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/stop-sayi...

there's even an academic term for it: "the myth of fascist efficiency." Hitler's regime was also pure chaos, and he was largely regarded as a clown for most of his political career. authoritarian dictatorships lack legitimacy, so they're run by people who don't care if they're perceived as legitimate or not, which basically means fanatics and grifters. fanatics are too disconnected from reality to be highly effective, and grifters have a vested interest in chaos, since it makes their grift harder to detect.
Solver/Deep diver FTW

All the way.
What about the people that bought your email from someone you shared your email address with? That's part of the problem, from the consumer standpoint.
compile firefox to javascript, render to canvas, stream the browser on app open.
> Deeper in this thread you state this is somehow worse UX, and makes the text less readable. I... don't see how it's any less readable, could you elaborate?

Sure. I argue that this "style" provides poor UX due to decreased readability. Why decreased readability? Well ... Since late Middle Ages (maybe even earlier), people have realized that it is much easier to visually distinguish and consume concepts (in the form of sentences and paragraphs) when they are marked by specially formed characters (capital letters for sentences and initials aka drop caps for paragraphs and chapters). The following link points to the image (as an example) of an illuminated Psalter manuscript from Southern Germany circa 1240-1260: https://www.abebooks.com/images/medieval-manuscripts/german-.... You see what I mean, don't you? Read on ...

> ... this is a real trend and I expect soon we'll all be used to it.

I strongly disagree - there is no chance we all get used to it. With 99.(9)% of all text in the world using traditional capitalization rules / approach, it is practically infeasible that we all somehow get used to an extremely tiny subset of visual styles that make no sense to our brain. Historically, psychologically and, more importantly, physiologically, humans are wired for chunking information for easier digestion and anything that obstructs that is doomed to fail. Here is a relevant UX-focused article on the subject: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/chunking.

> It's also a little ironic that you're rebelling against a new capitalization scheme but you're happy to use "BTW" ... You're clearly okay with some form of language evolution, why draw the line here?

I draw the line between using a slang abbreviation widely prevalent on the Internet - essentially a de facto standard abbreviation for informal communication (which my brief comment on Hacker News certainly is) - and using an extremely unusual, to put it politely, text capitalization scheme for a long (and much more formal than my comment) blog post.
>>Canada taxes capital gains at 50% anyway so it’s probably not a great idea to value it as much there.

Can you elaborate on this a bit more? I thought that Canada only taxes half of the capital gains which is then added to your taxable income.[1] So the amount of tax paid on the capital gains might be 50% or more but only if your taxable income for that year places you in the highest tax bracket.

In the US, you're generally on the hook to pay tax on 100% of any capital gains, compared to Canada where you're only paying tax on half of any capital gains.

[1] https://turbotax.intuit.ca/tips/capital-gains-tax-in-ontario...
I think the author is referring specifically to the situation under Roman law here.
> Laws are the source code of society

They really aren’t. Society doesn’t really have a source code. The concept is not useful to enlighten that phenomenon.
For websites that have questionable password policy, I use passwords that curse the company in my native language (if no-one sees it then it's fine, but if someone does then they have deserved it). I bet the same tactic would work if you get creative, ie spotfuckingify@uuid
Portland officials pass strict ban on facial recognition systems
"After hearing the prosecution and the defence, they asked everyone to return to hear their judgment in 100 years’ time, neatly avoiding the need to ever make a decision."
It should be possible to make a Civ 4 mod that incorporates some of these ideas, likely by just forking an existing mod. Civ 4 is a pretty moddable game.

Any thoughts on Europa Universalis?
I'm sure the S&P 500 committee took note, they decided not to include TSLA in the index, which I am thankful for.
The most important question is the size of the defendants bank account.
I used to write cdrom driver software. I've been organizing my stuff and came across my old references for the redbook, yellowbook, and bluebook specs.

They went right in the trash.
This sounds like the ad for slaughterbots.
These days that could actually be a significant problem, depending on your work.
Murder is mentioned in the first clause of the Code of Hammurabi, in 1700 BC. So that gets us 3,700 years back.

But it, and the Bible, are irrelevant to Roman law, which is what's being discussed here.
Here's how Police Request Data from WhatsApp and Facebook
Economists don't think the lower unemployment rate signals a clear recovery
Dozens of Amazon's own products have been reported as dangerous
I've seen some of those tubes at a Carrefour or Mercadona supermarket back in 2005 or something, in Spain. When they had too much many at the cash register, they sent the money to their backoffice. Super cool!

Nowadays in Germany they just take the cash register part with the money out and walk to the Tresor room, or have sort of wallets and a colleague delivers the money to there. Example taken from a Kaufland.
also works in at least french, german, and spanish.

(I think the big dividing line between cultures is whether it's surprising or not to answer with full sentences how one is doing upon being asked "alright?")
I use it every now and then, but I think its missing a few things to be really great.

1. Its slow. I don't know if it just "feels" slow due to lack of visuals or if it is really slow. I suspect it loads a lot of things that never gets rendered anyway.

2. It needs some smarter focusing. Each page normally has a few screens of garbled menus etc. to scroll past before getting to the content. Maybe filtering out some html tags would be enough.
This is more like a novelty feature to showcase the "power" of elisp. I haven't tried it but it's not really going to compare with normal browsers like chrome and even FF. There might be some use cases for things like viewing well structured HTML documentation or browsing a few sites but apart from that, I'm not sure what the value is.

I'm a long time Emacs users and it's quite frustrating to see how hard it is to use ecosystems of modern languages/frameworks like vue etc. I'm not that familiar with the ecosystem so it might my fault but this is my impression. I actually shifted to vscode to do this. If energy like this were spent there, I think it'd help adoption and usage much more.
They're trying really hard to make this sound like an improvement, but it's really not. Wiring is not going to be visible in the car - and it's going to be much more foolproof. What if someone turns on an RF jammer in the car next to you on the highway? Surely you still need wires for critical systems even if you run some stuff wirelessly.
The Most Efficient Way to Solve Problems
Equity is a much better proposition than $0 if you’re willing to walk away from bad opportunities (i.e. anything flatter than a rocketship).

More information here: https://www.benkuhn.net/optopt/
Analog is continuous and digital is discrete and that implies a loss information. Theoretically at least, any digitalization in the signal chain involves a significant, if not perceptible, loss in signal information content.

Personally I'm borderline tone-deaf so I can't tell the difference, but I'm not going to call the people who say they can tell the difference liars.
A better question: Where are American kids not being repressed?
Nothing lasts forever, and not everything is a slippery slope. Historical context is also important.

For example, some people have this notion that the Roman Republic was somehow "good" and the empire was "bad" solely because the Senate had power in the Republic, and voting = good. But in actuality it was a pretty messed up system of government because only Romans (literally people in that city) got a vote while the rest of the Italian peninsula got no say. And yes they fought a war about this and the "good" side lost. Voting was heavily weighted towards the upper classes, too. The empire wasn't all bread and circuses, but it did scale better, which had some pros and cons too :). But for your average inhabitant of the Italian peninsula you had no more or less say in how either government ran.
This looks promising. Thanks for sharing.
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