skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen the high school world history books of my nieces and nephews and all of those (except maybe lithuania), were at least mentioned in US schools. Other civilizations ranging from the maya to the khmer were also included. By necessity, none of them are examined in depth but they all got at least a few pages.

The simple fact is that pre-industrial history has had literally thousands of different thriving civilizations around the world. It's simply not possible to even briefly cover anything but a fraction of the more "important" in a non-university setting.
Well, both questions question the quality of videoconferences in regard to the number of participants, so I would say the questions are very comparable.
De jure? I believe so.

De facto? He's still doing it
>It's worth remembering this article seems to come from a rather clichéd and narrow frame of reference - overly driven by money and perceived status - one which seems to drive a lot of very similar advisory posts.

That was exactly my reaction. I was a lead for three years and recently decided to go back to a purely technical role. I just didn't like the work, and the prospect of spending the rest of my career in middle management was not appealing.

I currently received an offer from a FAANG(M) company. This was a real offer from someone I had worked with in the past which would have required a very thin interview process. I declined because I very much enjoy the work I'm doing today.

It may turn out to be a bad idea down the road if all I consider is money and that nice company name on my resume. I decided I don't care. I'd rather be a big fish in a small pond and work on truly interesting tech than be another cog in the wheel. I'm well past the "live to work" phase of my life, I just want to be happy, and I can't complain at all about my salary and benefits.
sure, here you go https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9316567
0.1% for flu is of symptomatic infections. I think covid would get another near ~2X multiplier under the same measure.
Scientist can and should be political, but they shouldn't claim their opinion is a "scientific consensus".
I think the universal language would gradually extinguish other languages. The more universal a language becomes, the more powerful the network effects get.
He’s supposed to have a lawyer review tweets. The first lawyer assigned to do this quit Tesla very soon after one of Elon’s (interviewed) inanities, which itself came very soon after the SEC action.
Yeah I'm also kinda confused... What do those "hopping" people do at work? Must be consulting roles for new projects? Or just working on small "easy" projects?
Otherwise it usually takes 1-2 years just to get comfortable for the current project.
So could you drive down the price of something you want to buy by offering the same item (that you don’t actually have) at a low price?
JEP 338: Java Vector API
explosives don't really jive with the social credit system's API
Thanks, I didn't know it was called that. And yes, I had the same impression about spelling contests
Really great work! I see you have used Fabric. What else? D3?
On a similar note, but in regards to non-work projects: I see things all the time like "look at this thing I built in a [week, weekend, day]". Man I sometimes spend months just thinking about my stuff.
Check out VS Code remote support. Where the code is running doesn’t really matter and there are a lot of good reasons to be executing on a remote machine that’s more powerful, closer to build cache, etc.

These experiences just remote access to it. You still get a command prompt, you can still apt install, and it means the dev env can match prod (eg Debian) vs mismatches if you’re on OSX for example. Also allows the base machine config (tools, scripts, etc) to be curated and centralized.

Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces are great.

I actually think on machine development for non-mobile experiences will be uncommon in a couple years.
CPUs with the name of a programming language exist:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor

These are examples of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_language_computer_a....
There are various showroom & service center locations around where you can schedule a test drive. Y came out in February.
Very cool thinking here - especially like the thought and implementation of the “Rendezvous Points”.

I can see this being really useful for many different types of chats and groups.

I am needing to replace an old chat system soon, and may kick the tires with pushing this to some users for testing, but first:

Is the ip addy of the users sending and receiving - so it's easily discoverable or is it possible to make this use an intermediary server like a STUN/TURN kind of thing?

Sadly with some of our members, they will do anything to snatch another user's ip addy and use that for blackmail and hacking - so we need to make sure we can hide it.

Moderation - is there an admin level for users that we can give access to see other participants ip addys and option to kick / ban / block ip addy, certain usernames, ip subnets, CIDR notation, ASNs / etc. ?

Some problematice people have caused us to ban and block over a few million ip addys to slow down their returning to troll.. if we can't easily see and block ips we won't be able to use it for our public groups.

But I can see how this is really cool for small groups that know and trust each other, really like the thoughts of use going here in this post.
I made a 3D renderer of web page DOMs
I finally made a 3D renderer of web page DOMs. It allows you to travel through the DOM in 3D by using your mouse. Zoom by scroll, rotate with left, move with right click. Here is http://google.com: https://thelaboflieven.info/show3D.html

It's based on THREE.js. Full code can be found here:

https://github.com/denshade/3DwebsiteRender
Yes, the examples I quoted AES and CRC all have dedicated instructions in x86 processors (at least the ones that implement the extensions).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set#Instructio...

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/crc32

As does ARM:

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0514/g/introducti...

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/g/A32-and-T3...

You could say that these are language-agnostic, and indeed they are, but in a certain way they are more specific than the JavaScript operation, because the JavaScript operation is likely used in many different algorithms. I'd argue that from the point of view of a chip manufacturer, the difference matters only little. Both are tasks that the CPUs do often and thus cost energy. By implementing them natively, the CPU manufacturer reduces the cost of those workflows for their clients.
Speaking of which, there is radio silence about the AIMA 4e in the community. No one appears to talk about it, no one appears to use it, no appears to be praising it, or criticizing it. It doesn't exist.

Fine then.
Spare parts is about theft protection. If you can't put in spare parts, that means theives won't steal a tractor and sell the parts on eBay.

It should be easy and cheap to recode eBay parts, but only once they are verified not stolen.
Ah, thanks for the correction. I had not seen the follow up since that was originally posted.
You imagine Zuckerberg as pretty incompetent, but I think he's got some brains.

It's not hard to imagine how to talk policy to Trump. "Wow, you are the best president ever. So smart and strong. Also very good looking. I will hurt your enemies if you give me a tax break."

Make sure you get paid in advance, of course.
It’s good but someone well attuned please quote some poetry that speaks of the viciousness of a brick wall met by toil.

That’s when you got to get real.

The romanticism of good faith and idealism is romantic, but a lot of good expression is rooted in despair. I see despair in that anecdote, the desperate plea of ‘don’t you see what I feel?’. We have to infer that such an unstated thing needed to be dramatically expressed, for no other reason than catharsis. Which leads us to the conclusion that, yes, there is a story of sadness here.
> There is credible information that this information is a part of a Russian disinformation effort to influence the campaign.

I went looking for this and found this recent CNN article that looked promising. [1] But it does not mention any evidence (credible or otherwise) tying the laptop to Russians. It notes various weaknesses in the story, most notably that the emails were in image form, so contained no headers. But even if the emails were completely fabricated, that doesn't implicate Russians. Can you point me to the credible information you referenced?

1: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/russian-disinformati...
NY Gave Cuomo “Unlimited” Emergency Powers. Some Say It's Time to Take Them Away
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Interesting. So it's as much an x86 legacy issue as JS and presumably JS followed x86 because it was more efficient to do so (or maybe by default).

Sounds too like performance gains will depend on how often the branch is taken which seems highly dependent on the values that are being converted?
One day I’d love to find a reasonably priced copy of LiSP. It’s the most elusive widely-recommended book I’ve ever come across.
In season where?

Nice though - I've wanted this to exist, but haven't been so motivated to build it - thanks!
Today, your ISP is probably doing all of that now, with a real billing address & identity. Your ISP is your default VPN. For example comcast sells traffic data to marketing firms. And because they sell that data to adtech, private investigators, the govt and creeps can also buy the traffic log to whatever is in your house.

At least with VPN services, you can change it easily AND you can make it all they know about you is a coarse IP set via paying cash (see mulvad) vs. a fucking billing address. And changing VPNs is a lot less work and has far more options than changing your ISP.
Thanks for that. What a great story. Please update if you will be writing a longer version.
I'll buy one of these. Not because of the CPU -- despite of that. Ryzen would be great but there's no thin&light Ryzen laptop with great screen and great build. Not sure why. However, apart from the performance disadvantage (that's not extremely serious), the 9310 is a great package overall (or at least I can't find anything more compelling on the market with good battery life, good screen, good docking story (TB), good keyboard, good build).
For flu the commonly cited IFRs out there are restricted to symptomatic people (though still lower than flu CFR, this inflates it relative to seropositivity IFR estimates on covid).
It also includes things which are technically true but lack context, or aren't relevant to the policies or decisions we want.

"George Floyd was a drug using criminal" is true, and therefore becomes a talking point in conservative circles to justify the police brutality he suffered, even though it's irrelevant to why others are upset at his treatment.

I think it's a more useful framework because half truths are way more dangerous than outright lies.
Stolen parts are the danger. Theives steal cars and strip them for parts if they can get away with it.
"the visible wavelengths required significantly lower laser exposure than near infrared wavelengths to disable subjects, though near infrared sources remain attractive given their cost and retina safety"

The paper repeatedly claims near infrared laser light to be "retina safe" (quotes theirs) which is an oversimplification. Infrared light of wavelength around 1 µm in sufficient powers is very dangerous for the retina, especially compared to visible light where the blink reflex can save damage by lasers up to a point. Telecom wavelengths around 1.5 µm happen to be safer because such light gets absorbed in the cornea before being focused onto the retina, but at sufficient powers or longer wavelengths (e.g. 3 µm) where the absorption depth in the cornea gets very short there can instead be damage to that part of the eye. It's always the combination of the wavelength, which determines the absorptivity in the different parts of the eye, and incident energy (pulse duration × power), that determines the safety; there are no innately safe wavelengths close to that part of the spectrum.
A Systematic Review of HTML’s Unfitness to Be Considered a Programming Language
Seems to support the general conclusions of less detailed reviews - Xe graphics are a big upgrade over Ice Lake, but general CPU performance is not. Even loses out to a Ryzen 5 4500U when parallel tasks are important.
The idea of a "causal nexus" is not accepted in any law system (natural or positive). The fact something can happen due to your actions can't be used as an ethical argument to limit your freedom of action.

From the perspective of individual freedoms the ban of guns is unacceptable under the pretense they might end up harming others by chance; if that's the case, the police and the military themselves shouldn't have guns. Besides, populations that live under strict gun control surprisingly have more people being harmed by guns than populations that don't have strict gun controls (case in point: criminals don't care about laws, by definition).

Also under the perspective of individual freedoms, the enforcement of masks is not justifiable. If you feel unsafe due to a potential virus outbreak, take your precautions but don't force others to do whatever they want to do. Otherwise, we'd fall into authoritarianism.
step 1 to macro-cognition is to get a lightspeed coms network linking every human to every other human in real-time ... complete!
Isn't it cheaper to go there and pump out the oil and sell it, than to fix the ensuing environmental catastrophy?

One would think at least the insurance companies involved would be all over this.
The thing with programming in general is that everyone will write code differently depending on how they look at the problem.

The best programming language is the one you are most familiar with. Yes you can write faster code in Ruby,Rust,Python etc but often times those languages hide soo much code, leaving you with a sparse understanding of the underlying concepts.

Language wars are not my forte but, I say use the language you are most comfortable with and become very good at using it. What takes you 30min in c++ may take me 5 min and vice versa. Happy coding!
Sounds like the author is just LARPing being a successful genius software engineer in Silicon Valley...
"fotograf" is precisely how it is spelt in Czech and I am not sure why the English language insists on keeping the ancient-looking "ph" in those words; what the phreaking phuck?
True, but John deere makes a ton of money from selling spare parts. (despite what you hear, tractors are repairable)

Deere Employee, but not speaking for my employer.
There are laws that are forcing the manufacturer to explain why me changing the mirror on a car would void my warranty of the engine. And is fair, if I changed something in the engine and the engine got destroyed because of it they will not have to pay anything. Is it impossible that 1 guy could abuse this system , yes it is possible, should be screw everyone else because of this possibility instead of finding a way to prevent the abuse? sure we should do this instead of screwing everyone and by "coincidence" making more money for the companies that are against right to repair.
Maybe it's only recent but r/Apple is also very critical of Apple's anti-consumer moves[0].

0: https://redd.it/jaidc5
Machine vision system that detects insects and targets them with a retina safe laser, however:

> For both the coarse and fine tracking systems, subjects are identified by the size of their silhouettes generated from near infrared LED back-illumination or reflection.

Very impressive system but it currently requires a uniform backlight.
Blobs – Generate beautiful blob shapes for web and apps
What's happened in the past is the old media or social media or both will latch on to your most outrageous user. They'll make headlines about them, all the while including your company's name in the story. It will get bad enough that advertisers threaten to pull out to show their support for the cause of de-platforming evil.

The platform that chooses not to de-platform its worst users has lower fitness than the platform that goes along with it. Would you rather your ad revenue look like that of Twitter or that of Gab?
In the United States, cheques remain the most reliable free-to-the-user way to move amounts of money above about $2000 from one individual to another. There are a bunch of companies that effectively give you ACS access, but they tend to have low limits due to KYC concerns. There's wire transfers, but those are pricy ($50/transaction is normal) unless you have very large deposits with the bank. Most banks will let you do transfers online, but often only to other account holders at the same institution, or else with Zelle or one of its clones, usually with the aforementioned ~$2k limit.

The use case here is paying rent. I write exactly one cheque a month, and I haven't found a better way to do it that wouldn't either be expensive or require action on the landlord's part to set up a portal or something.
I now think this explanation is false. Can't edit the comment because two hours have passed. Please have a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24812214 instead.

tldr: The ship is in Venezuelan waters. Noone cares.
The branch always has to be taken if executing JavaScript, because otherwise how would you tell if the value was correct or not? You'd have to calculate it using this method regardless and then compare!
https://thelaboflieven.info/show3D.html
Absolutely love this, very well done!
If we take the theory of natural evolution seriously then IMHO we should also take Gödel's incompleteness theorem seriously like Roger Penrose does.

Note that he proposes both a problem and a solution, which are two separate entities. There may exist other solutions to cognition of incompleteness.

I think that if the problem of and solution to incompleteness in cognition did not exist then we would experience these computational inconsistencies similar to migraine blind spots. However we don't, and we perceive the error in computation as a single entity and not as two boundaries.
Same here. From around Excel 2007 - 2013... activating the GPU acceleration option slowed Excel way down. I remember turning off the setting many times during those years to get better performance.

Fast forward to 2016-today...Microsoft fixed the GPU acceleration bugs.
> If someone gave you a perfect simulation of today’s world to play in and told you that it’s all fake with no actual consequences—with the only rules being that you can’t break the law or harm anyone, and you still have to make sure to support your and your family’s basic needs — what would you do?

I don’t know if this is still considered a “risk-free” situation given that I would still have people depending on me. That situation alone introduces a lot of risk.
...and even ARM breaks instructions into uops, just like x86.
It's usually less than that (but still in the tens of thousands). But 2017-18 was estimated at >60,000. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html#:~:text=Whil....

You are of course welcome to ignore the CDC. You have a lot of company these days.
Good point. Also, if you want to watch a movie that explores these two perspectives and has nothing at all to do with tech, My Dinner With Andre is pretty good.
There's a saying, I'm not sure as to the origin, 'If it looks crazy and it works, it's not crazy'.

Not sure whether you'd disagree in this instance, but if so I'd sure like to know why.
Tesla got a new water supply contract with a different company, and the Berlin factory construction was never stopped at any point. There's video evidence to prove it.
Is there an insurance policy on Nabarima to begin with? Is it real? or by a Venezuelan company?
> Thomas is making a careful argument that the opposite is true, that the judiciary has broadly interpreted the law for maximum indemnity, taking it well beyond its text.

Indeed! And there's some real legerdemain going on by the author related to that "indemnity."

He brings up traditional cultural ideas around an open and free internet, and he then argues that opponents of Section 230 are against the spirit of the internet. But this is only the case if you believe the spirit of the internet was 3rd party indemnity, and that's what made it grow. (A cynical position to hold in my opinion.)

If you believe that the internet is what it is due to openness, then it's people like Twitter and Facebook that have got it all wrong. They're effectively saying "we don't want to be held responsible for content on our platform" (e.g. bear the costs of editorial oversight), and simultaneously "we also don't want to be held responsible for content we take off our platform" (done so voluntary with the same cost burdens they're fighting against).

It's a weird type of Internet Provider Exceptionalism: "The Internet is great because the providers were free to do whatever they wanted."
I really don't understand what the green bar represents. Also how do some vegetables have 675 days left, wouldn't that be all year?
Is there anyone that gets bought out by a PE company that doesn't go to absolute shit? QlikTech, Sencha, TravisCI all got bought and suffered a marked decline in service and roadmap confidence. Nowadays, when I hear someone is bought by a PE firm, I start looking for the exits.
Let's see if this gets the thousands of comments that show up when Facebook or Twitter censor just ONE right-leaning article.

Oh wait, it won't, because HackerNews is overrun with people who THINK they are libertarian free thinkers, but are really just pedantic sociopaths detached from the lived reality of anyone who is not them.
He's referring to beryllium-10, which is mostly generated by cosmic ray interactions with nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere. The Be-10 subsequently washes out of the atmosphere with precipitation and tends to bind in surface soils. It has a half life of 1.39 million years so it is useful for dating various geological phenomena.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllium-10

You can see how this beryllium isotope was used in the original paper "Climate controls on erosion in tectonically active landscapes" (linked by sradman in comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24812181) within the Materials and Methods section of the paper.
The Verge is a Vox owned website. They do some good reporting but they’re not the most impartial.
> Expecting to go anywhere and speak English is rude.

I would just like to clear this up: I do not support the notion of any universal language, and that includes English. My observation that English is relatively more universal than Esperanto is not an endorsement of the premise of universal languages being a laudable goal.
Your argument is essentially (a) and (b) combined. That you don't find it valuable (however you choose to define "necessary") and you envision that the environmental impact could be lower and still provide the same function.
Systems without cash bail still have remand. It's reasonable to deem someone to dangerous or flighty to release. It's cruel to demand a legalized bribe for release.
>01/02/03 has one order

It has one order in the U.S and a different one in most other countries.
> If I buy sawdust from someone and they send me sawdust

The validity of your point depends on whether you can demonstrate that people do pay spotify to listen to silence.
Frankly no bank will display this data voluntarily, because in being transparent, it would gain a reputation as a less reliable place to deposit checks than other banks - customers would shoot the messenger. This is exactly the type of thing a “Surgeon General’s Warning” regulation/law could enforce, and sidestep the prisoner’s dilemma here. But absent regulation I doubt this will ever become common knowledge.
'Near extinction' of influenza in NZ as numbers drop due to lockdown