skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Puerto Rico - 1513

New France - 1534

Little Venice - 1528

Santa Fe - 1610

New Netherlands - 1614

New Sweden - 1638

Norse - 1001 (New Foundland, possibly Maine)

Brazil - sometime in the early 1500s (not explorers but settlements)

São Tomé - 1493

Príncipe - 1500

Guanare - 1591

Nova Scotia (Scottish not French) - 1629

St. Augustine (now Florida) - 1565

Parris (South Carolina) - 1562

Sapelo Island (Georgia) - 1526

Various missions and presidios in California - 1519

Various missionary settlements in Georgia, late 1500s and early 1600s

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I mean, I could go on...

These are some of the ones that we know about. Surely there are others that did not survive historical record.

> They're all sorta contemporaneous

I don't consider a 100+ year difference between 1620 and some of the settlements I listed to be contemporaneous.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Puerto_Rico#Spanish...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein-Venedig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_North_Am...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Brazil#Arrival_and_ea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%A...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_colonization_of_the_A...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parris_Island,_South_Carolina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapelo_Island#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California_before_1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_Georgia
I think GP is talking about MMIO or some device register rather than the CPU’s register file.
> and that's not even Microsoft's job.

Since they're the ones who required NT-on-ARM device vendors to disable user control of secure boot, yes it is their job.
I don't know why there are working examples of things and the USA just has to go it on their own. Why not just wholesale copy SEPA and use it rather than the "we have to build it here" syndrome. I'll never understand that. Same way with working educational and prison systems.
Netflix doesn't have an ubiquitous search engine, analytic scripts on half the web sites in the world, Android, gmail, maps, youtube, and so on.

Netflix business is not to accumulate data on you and resell it, or to display ads.

Netflix was not part of the PRISM program.

Netflix is not Google.
In the EU online purchases can be returned for any reason within 2 weeks? ( not sure about that period though ).
Well, rich people will get degrees/found companies, in their country or elsewhere.

What % of those startups started by poor immigrants, coming in for menial labor, and/or illegally?
NYU isn't collaborating with FB though. It's collaborating with FB users, who explicitly agree to do this.

Does FB get to dictate how its users get to share their own data?
Addition is O(log n), so the naive version is O(n log n).

Gauss would have used a pre-[1960](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm) multiplication algorithm, with complexity at best O((log n) ^ 2).

Using an algorithm discovered in 2019 (cf. Harvey and van der Hoeven), it's possible to multiply in O(log n * log log n), if you have a lot of time. This is presumably optimal.
What advantages does Linux have for children over macOS? It’s UNIX, with the shell and all the OSS packages you could want. Very few children need to recompile the graphics stack, kernel, or drivers.
Are we now denying the centuries of state-sponsored religious oppression that thrived in Europe? Assuming you are in the US, you might want to remember why the first settlers attempted to start a new life.

As someone whose national history is full of religious oppression, persecution, and acts of horror perpetrated in the name of god, you are welcome to walk this path for yourself, but I will not be following you.
If Linus wants to have an Arm laptop to run Linux, I wonder why didn’t he consider a Chromebook.
I am in strong agreement with this. I feel like it is selling kids short to not give them exposure to the Linux environment that underlies our modern world.

To me, it really comes down to empowerment of others. If you are not taught how the world works from first principles (in this case the world of computing), then you are forever relegated to live in someone else's world and live within their paradigm of thinking. In this case, the only justification is market capture for these Enterprises, which hasn't materially advanced society and societal issues as far as I can tell.
> so the trend now becomes 'equity result', which will make nobody wants to work hard anymore, that's socialism at its worse.

Do you have a source for this? I'm very very left I haven't
seen something like this being promoted anywhere.

> US is moving to that direction, fast.

No, it isn't. The current president is Donald Trump for crying out loud. It can barely even get less in that direction.

> I would rather keep working my way up instead of seeing socialism-for-equity-result here.

Why should people be required to artificially "keep working hard" if there's enough resources to not?

> money is not from air

It certainly is though.
I think it's way too paranoid and impractical to seriously have every single thing homegrown. No Zoom, no Microsoft, no Apple, no Google, no Intel or ARM chips. It's just not going to work. It's not even clear to me that would be more secure. Okay, so you've successfully defended against the threat of the US government pressuring those companies to add backdoors to spy on your conference. Now you have to make sure your homegrown software and hardware in secure. Also the EU is multiple countries with competing interests anyway. Come on. We have to be a little more practical in the real-world I think.
you might be interested in https://inertiajs.com/ if you're using rails (or laravel) - doesn't solve SSR if needed, but in my limited use does provide a nice middle ground for not needing to go full SPA

editing to add: https://laravel-mix.com/ is a nice wrapper around some common webpack setup gotchas, despite having laravel in the name it's just regular old webpack (other than the default output directories)...https://luckyframework.org uses it as well
Spend time around the target audience (in this case, top quintile), be observant, and minimize mistakes while learning.

I know a (formerly) middle class guy who was a walk-on football player at a big Midwestern state university who wanted to be rich. He did not come from an area or a family who knew how to function gracefully in the eight-figure net worth NE corridor crowd.

He parlayed his varsity status (I call it a totally-not-a-club club) into a random low level back room finance job in NYC. He made himself useful, socialized, networked, learned from those around him, and after two decades or so (leaving out a lot of the story) he was a partner of a hedge fund that ended up netting him a mid-eight-figure net worth.

Granted, that is not the same as jumping from the bottom quintile, but knowing his personal story, he had plenty of social challenges to overcome.
It forces consistent formatting within a file.

But I think it was more relevant years ago. These days I see a lot of people using code formatters.
The PostgREST documentation makes it pretty clear that for decoupling and security reasons the data schema should be separated from the API schema. You should only provide the client with views and functions and keep all data in a separate schema. This also solves the versioning problem, because if your API schema is separate from your data, you can simply drop and re-create the entire schema for deployment without needing migrations.
> the virus that is more infectious and deadly than flu but with no immunity like flu

That would only be relevant if people were less afraid of Covid than of the flu.

> unknown long term effects but likely cardiovascular disease and neurological damage.

If those effects were real, by now they wouldn't be unknown anymore. Reality is that long-term damage is extremely rare.
We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)
What are these dozens of accidents? How many fatal human space flight accidents did NASA have? I can only think of three, two of which came during the shuttle program.
Thx, didn't know that one! Added ref to github (and thx to you)!
--Martin
I went to Sam Ash a few months back and surprisingly they probably had triple the amount of traffic.
> I myself didn't really consider how I could use code to speed up mundane tasks until I was forced to copy files over from an embedded Linux system over bash. The introduction from "open up a terminal, and type these commands in, which does these things" to "now just put those commands in a file called script.sh and type ./script.sh, and it will do the thing automatically" was eye-opening, at 22 years old. Looking back, it's the exact same problem that resulted in a company I used to work for doing 100s of GB of data processing in Excel, because writing Excel macros was more accessible than writing a bash script to append two .csv files.

I mean, Linux specifically isn't really necessary for this. Back in the early-mid 00s, OS X got me into terminal usage and "real" programming via its free (as in beer), full-octane bundled dev tools and included Ruby installation.

In fact, at the point that I got into these things with OS X, I had already tinkered with a Linux variant (Yellow Dog) and had given up before getting too far because I didn't have the knowhow to make the OS as a whole work properly, and worse, the internet resources needed to fill this knowledge gap didn't make themselves obvious.
>then you are making a purely selfish act to benefit from the unjust system

So what is the downside for that individual?
Casio F-91W: The strangely ubiquitous watch (2011)
Apple goes all out reinventing the desktop processor, and all anyone wants to do is cut them down for not pre-porting Linux to it. So much bigoted hate and entitlement on display here.
Ivy league are a bunch of investment syndicates through their endowment funds created as educational institution for tax advantages.

Not saying there aren't great scholars coming out them.

The question is how good can educational institution get, when it is design to be a investment vehicle for the wealthy?
This person claims to be the only person making fully open non-trivial open source games.

They talk about how other open source games have a variety of insulting problems, while complaining they are going to get lots of insults. They claim, unlike other authors of open source games "they are offer the truth". I tend to get irritated when anyone claims to be the source of truth.
> Cars stop at zebra crossings to let pedestrians cross

Not in Italy though.
Virtually every desktop computer today uses a bitmapped display and a pointing device... like the Macintosh.

Virtually every mobile device today uses a touch-sensitive display (and a Unix-derived OS)... like the iPhone.

Apple Inc. is the most valuable company in human history.

Tell me again how Apple lost the PC wars? ;-)
MAP loopholes (like the thomanmusic.com example you mentioned) have killed brick and mortar retail. Some of those prices you're paying from those European outlets are less than the local retailer can buy it wholesale. So you're asking your local retailer to lose money to make the sale.

I owned a bike shop and sporting goods store in a past life (I've written about it here: http://www.sciencerocketry.com/blog/great-work-and-new-begin...) and the effects of Shimano's inability (or really, refusal) to control pricing from its European distribution was catastrophic to my business and my peers. And not only that, I found that many of those sellers would defraud customs on expensive items by declaring the value just under thresholds that would result in them paying import taxes and tariffs. It was a profit destroyer for us but Shimano moved units, and that's all that mattered to them.

When some of those parts customers purchased from Chain Reaction or Wiggle or whatever didn't work, the customers who bought those parts overseas would come into our shop asking us to handle the warranty process. We were a Shimano dealer, after all! If we politely refused or tried to collect a handling charge, we were the ones that would face the customer's outrage.

The end result is that there is less sales tax in your community because of the absence of that brick and mortar retailer. There are fewer jobs. There are fewer local communities built around hobbies, crafts, trades, or whatever. But you can get products cheaper and your dollars have greater purchasing power. Maybe that's a worthwhile trade-off - YMMV.
Chromebooks are often a nice, relatively inexpensive and hackable x86 or arm device, but there's nothing that interesting about their hardware other than not so locked down (there's dev mode allowing anything and you can overwrite the firmware even). The new apple arm has fascinatingly good performance, and long battery life and the Air has no fan, so there's a lot to like there.
All of it, essentially. The company lent Bain the money needed to acquire itself, Bain didn't bring capital to the deal. Then, over the course of 13 years, the company paid Bain hundreds of millions of dollars in management fees, in cash. So Bain already got paid. They got hard money for driving the company straight into the ground.
She even entered a drag contest for the best lookalike. IIRC she came in 4th place.
Did you look at the source that I linked? Craig Federighi is a pretty high-level Apple employee.

He seems to be saying that the lack of Bootcamp is because Microsoft is unwilling to allow it (rather than Apple).
If interviews are any indication it’s 2-3 years as a product manager for a junior role and 7 years for an associate level role that makes a great product manager.
No, the momentum of left-wing media covering Trump is going to swing to the other side with right-wing media covering Biden. It's a perpetual, cyclical attention grabber. It won't go away.
You know how when people in South Korea, with their practically unlimited internet bandwidth, look at home internet usage caps in the US and laugh at such a silly problem? Someday when our fiber internet arrives, we'll also look back and wonder why did we ever need to debate net neutrality.

Well it's kind of the same thing with university admissions. The problem that we've encountered is that the number of elite schools and admissions spots (established largely for the population of the post war growth economy) has not grown in proportion to the population. 1600 kids per freshman class has been the same for 30 years. And therefore the question of who gets in has gotten worse and worse as the number of kids competing has grown, and we're bickering over people's belief in different weighting schemes.

What the US needs is more good schools. Not tinkering around the edges and theoretical arguments of whether rich kids deserve good schooling more than poor kids. That will get us nowhere in the big picture.
You all might also enjoy a 10-minute podcast on the Year Without Summer: https://thememorypalace.us/no-summer/
> claim to disagree with GP comment

maybe 'jojo2000's comment has been changed, but it currently says "I deeply agree," not "I disagree"
Part of me wants to think that that would add wear to the mechanism but the other part of me remembers how things were built back then.
"pwk" is both code and "executable" -- you can open it with any text editor. I didn't want to name it "pwk.py" to save on typing on the command line.
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Why not just skip to the greatest example of them all: The Manhattan Project? It is well known that science is a fact-finding algorithm that is not concerned with how it is used. People using science for destruction is a reflection of people, not science.
"conservatives are silent because they don't seem to care as much."

It's certainly the case that they don't seem to care as much, given that they're less outspoken, but is there any evidence that they actually don't care as much?

Another explanation for being less outspoken is that they're a small minority in these companies, so they lack the confidence to go against the grain, perhaps out of fear (whether valid or not) of alienation. Or conversely liberals are more confident to voice their opinion because they know they're in the majority opinion group and doing so isn't likely to stymie their career or cause stressful backlash.

Paul Graham tweeted out some survey evidence yesterday that supports the idea that conservatives are simply more afraid to speak their mind in these companies.
MP3 files? What do they do to maintain integrity with lossy compression?

WAV or FLAC i could see, but MP3?
I ignore the war statements since I would have to review several issues again before I could give an opinion.

"conservative liberal"
Not sure that the Economist is conservative. Sure, it is pro-market and pro "west" in the sense of Open Society and Democracy.

"The British should by all means do another referendum or the politicians should mimic the 2015 Greek PM and revert the result the of the referendum because "people don't know"."

This may have indeed the best solution since nobody really know what "Brexit" means since there are several options of Brexit. But I also remember the issue where they wrote: Now, as Brexit has happened, lets try to make the best out of it.

"Respect democracy or overturn it? ;-)"
Well, currently the majority of the British people are against Brexit. So it is the uttermost democratic principle, that opinions can change.

"When I was a subscriber I was getting informed for various matters all over the world, so if it's the economist vs nothing, I would prefer the economist. If it's the economist vs something else, well... I don't know."

Is is unlikely that there is a magazine that can afford the intelligence service of the economist. Maybe Bloomberg.
René Rebe has some thoughts about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NglGEnSJdU

TL;DW (the essence and consequence of that thread): This is not going to happen unless Apple publishes documentation so that drivers can be developed.

ARM laptops are already here though, look at the Pinebook Pro and ARM Chromebooks that are out there. The new Surface Pro X at least has an EFI and the drivers are somewhat there instead of not at all. It would be an order or magnitude less work to get that running Linux properly instead of the M1.

My opinion: I'm not expecting to see usable Linux on M1 devices any time soon. Apple are nicer about this than they are usually however - they want to prove that their new platform can be taken seriously and do general purpose computing - it looks like they lightly hinted at cooperating with Microsoft about Windows on ARM (though it may just be deflection).

They are pretty certainly not going to develop any drivers for anyone else, but I think there's a (low) chance we'll see documentation that will allow others to do so.
It's Bain. They probably did a huge dividend recap, then let the desiccated remains amble away to oblivion with a shrug.
No curly braces looks nicer than curly braces.
That can get arbitrarily close to true, but I think it is false
This is really interesting, can't wait for more.

Personally I cannot really get the hang of linked editors like this that only use links or basic tags for structure. They require too much upkeep to keep things organized. I'm working on my own solution that goes a different way, but it's nice to see more open source implementations of these types of editors.
A Starbucks Coffee is the standard "unthinking spending" unit, it seems
I don't disagree with your point about admissions (and in fact I came from a family that had good income but both parents never went to college, so had little advice to give).

Still: your family was already well near the 75th percentile nationally for the time. In what sense would that not be wealthy?
Why would the acquisition change anything about that?
Yeah that makes a bit more sense, thinking back to arguments about aligning hash key/value pairs in code reviews and how that just never seems to come up anymore (thank god)
We built this city on TensorFlow!
Suppose you didn't have syntax highlighting. Would the braces be more distracting then?
What would happen if the US invested as much in education as it did in military?
Specifically 1-3 hours a week for a few months isn’t enough to dramatically improve the average score.

That’s all the referenced studies show.

That doesn’t mean that the SAT isn’t “coachable” with much intensive efforts, or that more minimal efforts don’t result in large improvements for some subset of test takers.
Equally-applied law sustains inequity.
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I wonder how much online competition from Reverb had a hand in this. I shopped around and purchased a quarantine guitar this year (a fantastic 1990 Alvarez-Yairi DY-90), and Reverb was a much better deal and a better shopping experience. Reverb is a platform, and so they're getting everything from individual sellers to small music shops all over the world. I looked at things on Guitar Center's site, but they're just selling the same factory-built stuff every other major retailer sells.
If you think waiters don't have any actual skills, I encourage you to spend some time as a waiter at a busy restaurant where most of your income is in the form of tips, and then see how your skills improve over time. It is not an easy job, and harder still to make it a good customer experience. You must develop skills to make it work or you can't last for long.
It could be mistaken for a racist expression by somebody who knows 'spade' as a racial slur for black people.
Hear me out through this thought experiment.

It’s hypothetical but hear me out. Imagine that there is a new virus that affects the peoples in 20s and 30s much more than those in 60+. And imagine that for some reason we would have to combat it we would have to tank the stock market, the 401ks and the pensions. Would the ruling generation sacrifice thise to save the younger generation?

What I am trying to say is that maybe the COVID vaccine skeptics are not science deniers. Maybe they just know exactly what they are doing.
Does no one - by this logic - ever die of AIDS because it’s something else (like pneumonia) that does them in at the end?
Please propose a solution too!
Sadly no - apart from a very tiny number of silicon valley companies, everyone else in embedded tech seems to pay the people who write verilog and assembly the same as the people who make the schematics and the mechanical designs. That's sometimes only 40% of what people who write python and nodejs get in the same city...
A browser plugin that I use for Safari/Chrome/Firefox/Edge does this too (https://darkreader.org).

> Configure the dark theme: brightness, contrast and sepia. Enable for all websites or particular domains.

Works for PDFs too.

No affiliation.
Steven Levy's Hackers of course, but also his Crypto which is in some ways even better.

Michael A. Hiltzik's Dealers of Lightning about the heyday of computing research at Xerox PARC isn't universally praised (IIRC it's more or less Bob Metcalfe's version of the story) but it is very readable.

Bob Johnstone's We Were Burning, about the golden age of Japanese consumer electronics (wich also covers many events and actors in the US and UK).

David Kushner's Masters of Doom, about the heyday of Id Software.

The First Computers—History and Architectures is a more academic book, a selection of history papers, but it's still very readable. The Computer Pioneers: Pioneer Computers videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qundvme1Tik&list=PL14396C953... , presented by Gordon Moore himself, cover much of the same ground (it says little about the wartime Bletchley Park computers).

If I'm going to allow myself some videos then I should also mention Steve Blank "Secret History of Silicon Valley" talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo and David Alan Grier's "When Computers Were Human" talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwqltwvPnkw .