skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serfdom was on its last legs in England by this stage. I believe there were plenty of landowners who practiced the longbow but a majority would have been yeomen who were tenants of big solid farms, not themselves landowners. England was almost the first place to get rid of serfdom and a peasantry both, though the Netherlands may have it beat. Remember we’re on the verge of the Reformation. These are quite urbanized bourgeois societies by the 1400s.
I use emacs because the elisp system makes it easy to add custom workflows or functionality. I'm not sure if the same is true for vscode, but from my past experiences with vscode users they tend to do very little modification of any kind and just accept what's given to them. The IDE is the most used tool for a developer, so being unable or uninterested in personalizing that tool can be a heavy loss in productivity over your time as a developer.
No, not at the time of retraction.
As far as I am aware, most longbowmen at the time were yeomen, a sort of middle class between the landed gentry and the serf class, where they owned their land and thus had the free time and energy to practice and hunt with a longbow.
Okay, I haven't been accounting for system-on-chip versus system-on-a-chip.
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No they are not. You can easily do concurrency with a fork-join approach on just on thread (no parallel execution). fork-join in the browser with e.g. V8 as the runtime is a good example of that.
Yeah, that's why I figure it's the bit of loose solder that's the ultimate cause. My solution was to remove the whole mechanism and the solder with it.
No, they usually expect the worker to set up a local company in Country Y, and hire the worker as a contractor through their own company.

Then the worker takes responsibility for their own work visa, employer's payroll taxes, social security and medical insurance. It is still possible for the hiring company to provide IT equipment and even offer stock options, or other bonuses.

In practice, the worker might actually be living in Country Z.
I don’t think that’s what the report is saying: The 1.5% is used to determine how long the trial will take to reach the required number of cases. Not sure what prior they were using, but my guess is that it’s conservative.
It also seems to have been primarily used to kill people who weren’t fighting back due to serious but not instantly fatal injury.
>FUD

Very was meant to highlight the contrast with a SoC that has open RTL.

i.MX is indeed one of the better documented ARM SoC families.
Would Harris become the president if Joe Biden died before he is sworn in? Or would the electoral college select someone different? I think the constitution is pretty clear on succession if the president dies, but what about the president-elect?
The intuitive understanding that you still retain was only built up by repetition and memorization in the first place, no?
> so how do you know which model to use?

That's like asking, "How do you know what algorithm to use?" You can come up with a justification for why a particular algorithm may be suitable for your purposes, but you'd be hard-pressed to explain how you go about choosing an algorithm. It's the same way with rules for a codebase... you can justify why you are using a specific set of rules, but explaining the decision process that led you to choose those rules is much more difficult.

That's why tech leads don't grow on trees.

I'll add to what the original comment (about "confused concurrency") was saying, because it matches with my experiences. The good lead developers are the ones who are able to get the job done (design systems) and keep the concurrency model simple. It's often possible to keep concurrency mostly simple and mostly safe.
modern night would be a standard equiped military soldier from a first world country. modern peasant would be an average civilian from a third world country?
As far as I can tell attack rate assumption is there only to calculate desired sample size, and statistical analysis of vaccine efficacy is independent of attack rate assumption.

It seems to me exact prior is unspecified in protocol. The usual choice is uniform prior.
Which is exactly what dual licensing with (A)GPL and commercial license is.

And yet, this is more rare than common.
Somehow I have memories of the 1990s and audio visualisations coming back... Fantastic. I'd love to be able to plug this into mpv for playing audio files. I wonder how hard this would be (or how many resources it would use...).

I really enjoyed your work: the write-up was clear and the demo page worked well.
Now bring that one coloured object into the green room, which clashes badly: At this point, you're in Frank Lloyd-Wright territory (he used to move the chairs back to where he damn told you to put them)

Beige being neutral, tolerates more random colour intrusion. Choice of colour is about more than the empty room.
I think this is only half true. Of course, if you want to be good at maths, you will have to remember things because you can't always look up or re-derive every smallest detail (and because you have to become good at pattern-matching at some point). But the memory tends to work best if it's activated by deliberate practice. For example, instead of memorising a proof line-by-line it's much better to try to remember the key points and then practicing filling in the gaps. If necessary, repeat this process several times. When I was studying for ODEs, I tried to re-derive many of the standard techniques by trying to remember which trick to apply instead of trying to memorise the formula.
> The average person historically was remarkably short, generally because of childhood malnourishment.

I believe the average member of the House of Commons was visibly shorter than the members of the House of Lords at least through WWII. Certainly Americans were obviously taller than Europeans until after WWII. Even American slaves were taller and children were generally malnourished until about seven when they became capable of working. Adult height seems to have been unaffected reflecting just how rich the US was comparatively. Complete unfeeling bastards didn’t malnourish children enough to do permanent damage.
Sounds like you would be better served by the Pixel 4a, which has all the things you say are important but is quite a lot cheaper.

And that's why it's a negative review...
Mutation is not merely a performance optimization, but makes code more concise and expressive. Mutation makes things like `cfg.tabs[2].title = "Suspended"` possible to write in one line. Trying to achieve the same thing with only immutable data structures forces you to clone title, then clone cfg.tabs[2] with a new title, then clone cfg.tabs with a new [2], then clone cfg with a new tabs.
For them it was a matter of preference. The board they selected was priced similarly to the pi zero, but they were afraid of making things too easy I guess ;)
> the virus was not widespread when the severity threat became apparent.

It was pretty bad in Victoria and it was an impressive effort to get it back down. Not many places have achieved success like that. To me the key was the population and its leaders having the will to fight.
I recently wrote some of the type of code that you would be upset to read, so maybe someone can sympathize with this a bit.

The task at hand wasn’t easy at all, it required both:

1. Making numerous network requests (some endpoints support batching, so do that as much as possible)
2. The entire main loop needs to be as fast as reasonably possible

The only real way to satisfy both, given that serially executing the network activity would waste tons of time, was some fairly tricky concurrent logic. I ended up using a few queue structures to collect day before making batch network calls, and stitching together all of the results at the end (block on all work threads, collect, report, then start next iteration)

Every step along the way made sense, every addition of complexity felt justified. And the first person to come to me asking how the fuck it got so complicated is frustrated, so my knee jerk reaction is to get frustrated back saying well how else could we satisfy complex requirements with a complex solution.

We should always be challenging ourselves and others to keep solutions simple, but remember that the simplest solution may itself still be complex.
You man not be able to make it into a toaster oven either.

What you can and can’t do with it depends on your capabilities. Apple sold it to you as it is.

It’s up to you to decide what is possible.
I buy tons of reviews and have found it to be far and away the best use of my advertising dollars. A close second is buying Reddit upvotes. Classic advertising doesn't come close to the value provided by these services. I'm just one users but I've thrown away enough money on traditional advertising that I'm never going back and would recommend others to stop throwing money at Google and Facebook for good.
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I love this idea, but I think that VR actually has a great opportunity here. Basically a professional (or less anime VRchat) would be great for remote conferences and workplaces once vr headsets come even further down in price.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSi232j2ZA6_1Exhof5vn...
It's a really deep problem, which bothers a lot of philosophers and cognitive scientists. I don't pretend to know the answer, but here are some speculations.

We can speculate that consciousness is some kind of a representational process, using non-verbal, non symbolic representations. We can suppose that what is being represented is in part the state of my own body, and my current interactions with the external world. So this is not a static type of representation, it is a continuously changing representation, which is representing a real time 'dance' between my body and the world. So, returning to your (excellent) analogy of the field of rocks, the field of rocks would not be conscious unless and until it becomes an emergent representation of itself and its boundary with the rest of the world, all happening automatically and in real time. The field of rocks has no sensation of the sun's warmth because it has no representation of warmth, and no way of moving or changing it's own body as a response to that representation of warmth, and no attentional mechanism to prioritise how it responds to representations of warmth, hunger, thirst etc.

Once you start to think of consciousness as a representational process you start to see how consciousness might become an emergent phenomenon inside a machine 'designed' for creating representations. A machine like a living animal.

Of course, that puts you in the position of having to explain what is a non-symbolic, or non verbal, type of representation. But that's doable, I think.
I agree.

In a world where companies are shipping working 5x optical zooms, and things like the Vivo X50 Pro have a built in gimbal[1] that make the digital zoom usable too I just don't see how the Pixel competes. The software is but that isn't enough.

Just look at the comparison with other cameras: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-5-super-res-zo...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/2020/07/16/vivo-x50-pro-...
There is no shift. Here's BBC article[0] with CCTV screenshots you can look at yourself. You seem to be under the belief that I was going to produce evidence that would satisfy you, which I never claimed to do. I wanted to disprove your assertion:

"The only evidence is "everybody knows", or the U.S. intelligence community being "certain" of his fate."

This is obviously a silly statement. There is a ton of evidence, some more damning (CCTV screenshots, audio transcripts) than others (claims from Turkish officials that aren't backed up in the reviewed audio). Never did I state that I had access to non-public evidence, just that it was reviewed (by multiple independent agencies, I might add). But it is very much a fact that there is also public evidence that you yourself can review.

But I understand you conspiracy-types. What if it's a false flag op? We never saw footage of Khashoggi getting sawed in half. We all know that intelligence agencies are run by the "DEEP STATE," taking orders from a cabal of lizardmen. If your burden of evidence was actually met, obviously the evidence was forged.

But this is the dumbest form of conspiracy. "Admission of Guilt" is a form of evidence in US law, and Saudi Arabia has very much admitted to the fact that Khashoggi died while in the consulate, as well as to the premeditated nature of his death.

[0]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49826905
Sometime you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar eats you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVLyB0Yc6I
Must be why vegans and vegetarians die so much younger! Oh wait...
At the moment I feal that it's a lost cause. There is no longer any connection between the people running the ads and the communities they are impacting. When the printing press was invented, the people writing the paper and publishing stories tended to live in the communities they published in. As media empires started being built in the 1980s and 1990s, local ownership vanished, and local content disappeared as well. The internet then amplified this effect as the advertising empires of Google and Facebook began to grow in the '00s. I don't think this is healthy for humanity. And I don't think we have the collective political will to fix this.
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There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?"

"An operating system," replied the programmer.

The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. "Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system," he said.

"Not so," said the programmer, "When designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outside appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design."

The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. "That is all good and well, but what about the rants on lkml?"
Ehhh yes, but this gets complicated and interesting in the details. Have you read Keegan on Agincourt? Short story, the popular version of French knights getting bogged down in the mud and shot to pieces with arrows is mostly false, but the English peasants did play a critical role.

Far from being mowed down by longbowmen (although they absolutely would have taken a toll, especially on horses), the French cavalry was turned back by the stakes the archers planted in their positions. The stakes were likely mingled with the archers in a kind of thicket, rather than the fence you see in movies or video games, preventing the french knights from seeing the danger until the archers fell back and it was too late.

The French second wave, armored foot, was essentially invulnerable to arrows. But the French piled into dense columns to attack the English men-at-arms (they had no interest in fighting peasant archers, there’s no glory or loot in it). So the front of the column is in big trouble and is being pushed into the English spears by the men behind them, and those in the rear have no idea what’s happening up front so they keep pushing forward. This is how people die at rock concerts or on black friday.

Mostly out of ammo at this point, the English archers come out to gang up on stragglers at the edges of the columns. This is the “flank attack” that eye witnesses report. The peasants certainly didn’t charge the flanks of the columns en masse, they would have been slaughtered. But they could definitely pick off those who tried to escape the press out the sides. Without an escape route, the French columns turn into a panicked rout. This is where most of the French losses happen, either stampeded by their own or cut down or captured by the pursuing English knights.

The English don’t chase them far, however, because there’s still a second line of French men-at-arms which hasn’t been committed to the battle, and the English have a large number of captives to keep an eye on. In the event, the French don’t renew the attack, and send out their heralds to parley.

So yes, the English won a major victory and the peasants played a big role, but the popular version misses the actual mechanics of the battle. “Conquest of France” is also rather strong. Immediately after the battle Henry turned around and went home to London. His later advantage is more down to the long term consequences of the sheer amount of the French aristocracy killed in the battle rather than any immediate gains.
What Pfizer's landmark Covid vaccine results mean for the pandemic
Mel Gibsons Apocalypto has some great fight scenes, and probably one of the best foot chase scene on film. The ending scene is a sort of target practice of skilled warriors with a weapon vs an unarmed prisoners given a head start to try and escape. It becomes pretty apparent what a huge advantage a weapon in skilled hands is.

https://youtu.be/rM8Fxd9svzA
At least they had the decency to not offer a 64GB option.
The Pixel 4a has one, and is faster than the Pixel 5...
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I had to think about it a bit, but I think in the end it's probably due to a couple bad experiences at startups. There's a lot of toxic, authoritarian company cultures out there that hide behind the idea that in order to be a good coworker you need to upbeat, peppy, and thrilled to be working at all times. It seems to go hand in hand with the (usually toxic and exploitative) work hard/play hard mentality.

If I were required to use this at work, I would instantly view it as a yellow/red flag that management is starting to get heavy handed about team culture, and I would probably start resenting it.

My ideal company culture is pretty minimal at this point: friendly people, a healthy work/life balance, and coworkers who are open to/good at learning - because that's what I strive for myself.

I'm probably coming off as a curmudgeon, and like I said maybe it's just due to some bad associations that come to mind, but this seems like it's starting down the path of "look how much fun our employees have at work!" My $.02.

That being said I wish you luck, and it seems like a neat option for more social settings.
I’m assuming you mean vendor XYZ cloud dependency and not AWS/GCP/etc?
The founders and investors are both interested in the company being adequately funded to reach its next stage. So if the founders’ plan requires an extra $50k, then they should ask for more money. If the investor doesn’t want to give it to them, then maybe they should find a different investor or change their plan.
> Can someone help me to understand all of the pessimism surrounding plant-based meat?

Think about what you wrote. Plant-based "meat". Would you eat a meat based salad that was created in a lab?

> "it's not healthier", "the name sucks", "it'll give you cancer".

It's not healthier, it's name does suck and god knows what it will give you. It's the most inorganic lab grown processed burger you can possibly have.
Its a tradeoff made differently in the US/ Italy. The Naples style pizza uses “fresh” buffalo mozzarella which releases a lot of water. It has a nice creamy flavor but you can’t cover a thin crust pizza in it without it becoming soggy. What we call mozzarella in the US is actually low moisture mozzarella and one of its advantages is you can cover a whole pizza in it.
At what point can we stop pretending most universities prepare you for the job market?

If your a professor that cares about Google give a rapid oral exam. If your a college professor giving multiple choice or other memorization based formats, what value are you providing over free online courses? Frankly, if your institution "has" to use this sort of software, it's not worth attending.
But only an employee for tax purposes (IR35), i.e. you cannot get a tax benefit by paying yourself a minimal salary (just enough for NI social security qualification) and taking the rest in dividends from your company at a lower tax rate. It is still a contract position in other respects, such as termination (contract law applies, not employment law).

Some other countries do not have this problem, because, for example, dividends are not (double) taxed at source, and people pay the same income tax rate on their total income, earned and non-earned (interest, dividends).
You don't lose conciseness with mutable state. What you seem to think is lost can be regained through abstraction.

Just think about the complexity behind the assignment operator, all the way to the logic gates in RAM.
I need help understanding how a lance is practically used. Wouldn't you impale one person and immediately lose your lance or fall off your horse trying to hold it?
A lot of processing does entail removing fiber and other nutritional content. That's why I just eat normal vegetables, not lab atrocities created at McDonald's.
I had a math teacher that explained math in two categories.

Either you will understand permutations and combinations almost instantly, or you will have to do tons of examples.

Likely not applicable to all kinds of math but relatable to some concepts for sure
What Can I Do When Result Code 6003 Is Returned?-Huawei Developer
> It takes more than shoes to get such a one sided outcome.

If you make them out of cardboard and try to cross the Carpathian Mountains perhaps not.

https://ww1blog.osborneink.com/?p=5961
In the US the Audio Home Recording Act explicitly legalized noncommercial recording (and also created a tape/CD-r tax to compensate copyright holders.) In an alternate reality this could have legalized file sharing onto (taxed) MP3 players. (Though the subsequent NET act added criminal penalties.)

How did Apple's Rip. Mix. Burn. campaign play out in the UK?
Vim is good for wrist pain, clearly the author doesn't struggle with that.
I’d love for this idea to be applied to tracking cookies.

Just keep a pool of a hundred million of them, and send some at random with each request.
Nicely done. Does this support colored background for different sticky notes ? Could be useful for spotting high priority notes more quickly.
> DO NOT EVER MUTATE STATE!

This is counterproductive.

Mutating state is by far, the most efficient operation on the computer. Copying state means (usually) calling the memory allocator, which (usually) must be done in a sequential manner. There are optimizations to allow memory-allocation to occur in parallel, but... things start to get inefficient (use of thread-local storage, which makes many pointer-indirections, etc. etc.).

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Why do people program parallel code, despite its overwhelming complexity?

Simple: to be faster. That's it. Its an optimization, arguably premature, but the programmer reaching for the "parallel" button is going for optimization for a reason.

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Sequential code with state-mutations could very well be more efficient than parallel code with tons of unnecessary copies. Registers are fast, L1 cache is fast, etc. etc. Doing an operation, then undoing it (entirely inside of register space) is so incredibly fast, it will make your head spin.

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1: Write code.

2. If code isn't fast enough, single-thread optimize it. This usually means mutating state in an intelligent manner.

3. If code is STILL not fast enough, multithread it. You make a copy of the state, and then have multiple threads (each with their own copy of the state) doing... whatever you're trying to do.
Misleading headline and incorrect article.

There was no theory that all apps would be available. Craig Fedherhigi was clear in his interview with Gruber that they expect developers to adopt a variety of different strategies.

Once an app is in the store for the Mac, users will expect it to remain there or be supported.

For anyone who hasn’t decided on a strategy, not putting their app in the store yet is the right move.