skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"that was already true for business customers before the iPhone." - Hence my use of the term "mass market"

"what the iPhone brought was email and the Web" - So I never mentioned email re: the iPhone, that was supported back in the first smartphone in 92. For the web, I saw an article that mentioned that, but that doesn't jibe with what I remember or can find elsewhere. There were definitely phones that allowed you to browse the web, as early as the Nokia 9000 Communicator. I think it was the first to have 'unlimited' internet plans due to their partnership with AT&T, but I'm not sure that's nearly as convincing an innovation as 'the web'. Maybe the fact that mobile Safari had a look and feel similar to desktop Safari.

I list the app store from https://time.com/4837176/iphone-10th-anniversary/ and https://www.vox.com/2017/6/26/15821652/iphone-apple-10-year-... (though to be fair, the latter also includes the web), and because it jibes with my own recollections; I don't recollect app stores before the iPhone (though it came after launch). Yes, I remember user customizations, but not an official, searchable repository of them.
Additionally, it's now understood that insufficient exposure to very bright light (say, sunlight) during key years is the main risk factor for nearsightedness. Cutting time outdoors during Winter, for lower-elementary kids (K-2), when school is monopolizing a good portion of daylight hours, is almost certain to increase rates of nearsightedness. Cutting recess in young grades hurts kids' eyes, permanently.
What I wanted from Cue was a way to set structured config parameters in one place (eg, my server roles, host names, and IP addresses) and populate the various config files that need that information, with a bit more typefulness than yaml and jinja.

[I look after DNS servers so the setup is relatively static, but I would like to make it a lot easier to spin up temporary test instances, which needs a more loosely coupled config setup.]
Definitely do #2! I bailed on a job where I did plenty of 1 and 3, but instead of actually saying I wanted to manage, I crossed my fingers, hoping that all the good work would be noticed and rewarded. Well as the team grew, I thought to myself, "yessss they're going to need a manager now and I've definitely been showing that I could do it for the last few years! I am certainly at the top of the consideration list!"

Well, on a random 1:1, manager said "Oh, by the way, the team is growing and is too big for just me. We couldn't find a good internal candidate so we hired a new manager for you guys externally. Hope it works out!" Finally, at this point, way too late I said "Gee, I was kind of hoping to make that move myself!" Manager looked at me mystified that I'd be interested in career growth. Total miscommunication. I was really bummed, demotivated, disgusted, lots of negative emotions. I didn't even last another year there.

Don't do what I did :)
This is fascinating and I appreciate you linking it. I was mind-blown when I read page 8's claim that white supremacy manifests itself in mathematics education when "students are required to show their work in standardized, prescribed ways".
Right, but you would never get this choice.

Maybe350 miles with 600 cycles vs 300 miles w 1000 cycles...
WhatsApp really does it, by default. It's a weird choice.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/iphone/how-to-save-incoming-media/
So was the Killdozer though.
Unless Mozilla has already approved the concept the bounty is unlikely to get claimed. $500 isn't worth trying to get it merged let alone the risk they just flat so no the the page.
Is anyone familiar enough with the generalities of contract law to speak on that angle of the discussion? I tried searching through the comments but I've been wondering lately: if a Googler (or any worker, really) signs an employment contract that lays out salary, pay frequency and similar, but doesn't specify that said pay, pay frequency and similar are a condition of one's physical location, do they have standing to sue their employer for breach of contract if said employer tries to change their salary when that employee packs up their bags and relocates?
My ideal car is this but also self driving which complicates matters a bit.
I remember when it was all the rage to point out how the CEO to build up a company might not be the best choice to keep it working smoothly once it begins to see the limits of growth.

Maybe this is true of everyone and simply less documented. Silicon Valley has hijacked “disruption” but in many ways the old definition still applies to the same people. Tom was a disruptive influence so when he demanded a raise we let him go instead.
That matches the history I know, generally. The original Basic, the 'Holmes Blue Book' by J. Eric Holmes, was indeed a much simplified restatement of OD&D, intended as an introduction. AD&D had many changes and much more material, though obviously it drew a lot on its predecessor.

I don't know that OD&D, even at the end of its publication run, offered nearly as much as AD&D. For example, where is the DMG? The modules?

However, while I know that OD&D had sparse rules as you say, and that the DM was expected to fill in the gaps and dungeons, where does it say that the characters didn't continue from adventure to adventure, from game to game?
You might not hear about it as much because sadly the mass transit is underutilized by a lot of my neighbors. Also, people usually really prefer the freedom of having private transportation. Like, just riding a bicycle so max of ~5mi or so, I have maybe an option of three different supermarkets (six if you include pharmacies, which usually do stock some groceries). If you add a simple bus route, that adds maybe another two. If you choose to take a car, its literally more than dozen different super markets within a 10 minute drive which would have been an unrealistic bike ride or a complex bus path, which is not something you want to do with a week's worth of a family's amount of food you're carrying.

Its then the same thing when it comes to going to restaurants. I can easily walk to three or four restaurants. Bike, add another handful. Bus, add another dozen. A 10min drive? Literally a dozen options of practically any kind of food you could possibly imagine.

So you get less choices for more time if you ride a bike or take the bus. This is the math that most Americans do. Since its somewhat cheap to own a car for most of the US, they don't even stop to think of the cost of driving versus the cost of riding a bike or walking or taking the bus.

As to having a supermarket close by, the supermarkets near me as absolutely massive. The Kroger near me has at least 30 aisles, a full deli, full bakery, full butcher stand, full florist, fresh sushi station, massive produce section, and a hot and ready to go meal area. And its only about average sized for the area. If you've never seen them, modern American supermarkets are incredibly massive, larger than what I've seen of most European groceries. There's usually a bit of distance between them because they're such massive places. Its often not just a small hole in the wall grocer with a dozen or so aisles and a produce section.
Reminds me of this fascinating Numberphile video [0] on how brains, human or otherwise, count.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sPBCxlDQQ
Elementary is really great. I have to admit that no other OS (other than alpine/void/arch) can run smoothly on my Intel Atom N450 netbook.
How can one live without the minimize button? What does the OS recommend instead?
Shortly after I left, they moved my team from Plymouth Rd (on the main campus) to a new building in Santa Clara. The old setup had high-walled cubes with 6 people per cube (which is objectively horrific, but good by Google standards). The new setup was a large room with nothing but tables and hard surfaces.

Worse, the new location was off the main campus, away from every single other group we collaborated with (and away from all the good food, activities, etc). After the move, most of my group either left or retired.
I think you can grab it from Google Drive possibly via rclone?
As a Scot, I find that a bit sad. We’re really not that far away!

Does that also mean you never learned about Rabbie Burns in school?
I don't use Vue-Native, but it seems to be undergoing regular, active development, with a release in July 2021.
Video walls are suitable and are used. There are no seams between the panels and realtime rendering is fast enough for moving cameras. All camera movements are tracked, a virtual camera at the exact same position renders the image which is then shown on the LED wall. The image outside of the panels will be masked with a seamless transition (biggest obstacle here is video wall brightness vs. studio lights). Delays are adjusted for.

You can see how this works in a very small set here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhmYawxWfjE

And here you can see how the image moves when the camera moves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6koVH1vmLp4

The combination of the technologies is product of the last 2-3 years, but it is already used around the world and a major benefit is that there is no additional post production needed.
The main problem of this article is that it uses modern cultural and artistic norms to interpret ancient art.

Traditional Catholic and Christian iconography was not meant to be accurate, but rather to symbolize meaning.

For example, in my church, the priest recently pointed out there is a dog in every single stained glass window depicting scenes of Jesus's life. In particular, the dog is a dalmation.

If we were to apply this same line of reasoning in the article to these windows, we'd be forced to make ridiculous conclusions that Catholics of 20th century Portland believed Dalmations were holy holy dogs alive at the time of Christ.

In reality, the dalmation is a symbol of St Dominic (it's a dominican church), whose mother had a dream she gave birth to a dalmation (St Dominic) with a torch in his mouth who lit the world on fire. The symbology is obvious, since Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers, did indeed spread the gospel message throughout large portions of the world at the time. The dalmation symbolizes St Dominic's following of Jesus's example. At no point is any of the art intended to be realistic.

So if that's true of 20th century Catholic art, made by people alive at a time when art is expected to portray reality, then even more so should we not interpret this fresco as realistic, since it was made at a time when people couldn't even paint realistically (perspective was an enlightenment / renaissance invention IIRC).
No, you're obviously not understanding simple economic concepts.

- They are not the only ones making a vaccine: There is also Moderna, J&J, AZ. So there is competition.

- It's more profitable to sell 1 Billion vaccines for $19 than selling 1 Million vaccine for $1000 dollars.
==A dwindling youth essentially enslaved to take care of a burgeoning aging population is pretty dystopian.==

Using the word "enslaved" will successfully paint anything as a dystopian future, that doesn't mean it is the inevitable path of mRNA vaccines. If we have life-extension technology, maybe people will start having more kids, maybe twins/triplets will become more common, maybe the poorest countries will never achieve the technology, nobody knows.

Maybe this puts some context around it. The first nuclear power plant came online in 1951. 70 years later, only 32 countries have nuclear power plants and the content of Africa has 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country
Amazon wouldn't, but another cloud service might decide to run this rather than implementing their own S3-compatible object storage from scratch. Or they might use part of Minio's code to make their existing object storage solution compatible with S3.
Yes I definitely felt dumb in my Russian math classes when someone saw a clever trick and I did not. That made me try harder to look for tricks, it's a challenge in the end.

I ended up with a Math degree very later on. So I don't see how feeling dumb harmed me.

PS: the top level professional math is 90% tricks.
> by an agent working for Russia

You're talking about Jan Marsalek, right? That he worked for Russia is new to me.

According to [1], he did business in Russia, but that doesn't make him work for Russia. If you have more information in that, I'd be interested to hear.

[1] https://thebell.io/en/what-links-russia-to-germany-s-wirecar...
can't wait to see the horror videos that come out of this. the public can say no to boston dynamics and the police but i doubt the same is true for xiaomi and the pla
I think ‘subitizing’ is the word you’re searching for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing
Do you own a BEV though?

At 70mph, your 300 mile range car is getting maybe 250-270, if it's 21C out. if it is colder or hotter, range does drop a bit to a lot. Dead of winter can get more like 150-175 miles range.

Then on top of it, for road trips, you often use the battery from 10-60.

Combine those two things, and your dead of winter BEV is needing to stop like every 100 miles.

But, thats like 5% of trips. most of the time this is vast overkill.
This could be really cool! No concrete plans but did you have any examples of when you've seen this done well?
Whoa. Congrats! Very nice OS.
You would probably benefit a great deal from finding some co-founders. I think the age discrimination, while possibly true, is far outweighed by you being a solo-founder.

Having a combo of younger / older co-founder composition could actually be a comparative advantage if you do it right probably.
You can now enable Twilio longcodes to receive SMSes from shortcodes.

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223181668-Can-T...

Many companies who do SMS for account verification check whether or not the number is hosted with a VoIP provider and purposefully do not send verification requests to those numbers. It's a fraud prevention tactic.
I disagree with algebra being too difficult for a 7 year old. You can learn geometric algebra at 7 with plastic blocks. It's a common way to teach math in Eastern Europe to young children afaik.

Excellent maths teachers can really bring a lot to the table with geometrical approach throughout the years.
But if it were accurate, wouldn't companies spend more effort on retention and engagement over hiring? This is a data point that I have seen claimed for years and years and yet companies don't act on it.

Companies are either making a near universal error that has been well publicized at this point or the number is wrong and hiring is nowhere near that expensive.

Amazon is a very data driven company. But they have no problem churning through people like crazy. They are a company with hire to fire, so if hiring an SDE cost $50,000, they are letting managers spend 50K to fiddle with attrition stats.
Looking great, I've been a long time Mac user and I think I actually like elementary's evolution of the UI styling (from when it started as a pretty direct clone) better than I like Apple's in Big Sur. Tried elementary before (Luna and Freya IIRC) and while it hasn't replaced my Mac for development or my Windows desktop for gaming, I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.

Can't help but notice that the Sound indicator's dropdown doesn't line up with the icon above it. But the fact that a single UI glitch is a notable item now says a lot about the overall quality. Very tidy, still customizable, and a suite of built-in software that ought to cover most users. Good stuff.
> Is a life engaging with rich virtual worlds ever going to be good

But that's not the question, at all. It's: how does it affect mental health? One way of looking at it is: are we so social we need contact with a physical human being for certain aspects of our well being?
consonants vs. vowel?
Reanimating Hamsters Using Microwave
Elementary is starting to actually look nicer than macOS. There's still some janky details here and there, but the overall design language is very nice.
Impressions of the GDMC AI Settlement Generation Challenge in Minecraft
"...The GDMC AI settlement generation challenge is a PCG competition about producing an algorithm that can create an "interesting" Minecraft settlement for a given map. This paper contains a collection of written experiences with this competition, by participants, judges, organizers and advisors. We asked people to reflect both on the artifacts themselves, and on the competition in general..."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.02955.pdf
I'd have to agree. GNOME is notorious for this. We used to joke on slashdot over a decade ago about how one day GNOME would just have a single giant "do stuff" button.
I did it internally however I'm a mix of the two, so more of a "Principal Engineering Manager" than a traditional people manager.
It was an interesting book, but the interpersonal dialog was rather tough to get through. It really picked up some momentum toward the end though!
As a Southern Scot I'm familiar with muckle, many a mickle makes a muckle.

I believe the CSS equivalent of a pixel in browser rendering here is a "baw hair".
Push where? At least you still can configure chrome padding and element sizes with CSS tweaks, unlike the main competitor and its wooden interface with absolutely zero customization possibilities.

There's Vivaldi, and it too uses HTML for its interface, but the team doesn't seem to care about UI performance at all.
The problem is that we are now using the browser for many disparate tasks: web apps, reading, entertainment, shopping/banking/etc. Maybe we need different browsers tailored to each use case? I do something similar using the Window Titler extension where each FF window is labeled for a certain type of task/information.
Gusto (YC W12) Secures $10B Valuation as Its HR Software Sails Toward IPO
Is this actually different from other cloud photo apps? If you use Google Photos then your photos will likely be scanned by Google. If you use Apple’s photo app then their app will do the scanning.

There seems to be a vague idea floating around that this is built into the OS or the device just because the scanning happens on the device, but it’s not clear that’s the case. Apple doesn’t make the distinction between OS and app clear either.
Disagree with some of this. There is a need to define what 'management' actually 'is'. Great 'managers' are leaders imho. The difference being, that they help inspire and motivate a team, and help contribute to vision, direction, and clarity which a team can rally around, while encouraging collaboration and excellence, and setting clear and ambitious expectations.

Great ICs actually have a huge advantage here, because the key skill for an IC is often technology skills, whereas the key skill for a great leader/manager is trust with the team. Being able to have a deep technical understanding of the problem space will help to develop trust that much faster. However, the key transition is then to get out of the way, and use your knowledge to help challenge ideas while growing the team. The #1 piece of advice is to hold back from giving answers, and instead, challenge people with questions, to let them do the thinking.
I think we do see results in domains where math & science is particularly important. Eastern Europeans are consistently among the best algorithmic programmers I've worked with. My employer was co-founded by a Russian immigrant, son of a math professor. Russia beat us to space, and given the backwardness of the general eastern bloc economy they're remarkably strong in science and technology.

On the flip side, the American capitalist economy does a remarkably good job of making productive use of people who are not academically strong (this is a notable strength vs. the Chinese, as well). And American culture & education stresses team-playing, communication skills, and trust, all of which are weaknesses of many of the Eastern-bloc programmers I've worked with.

The thing is, I don't believe that the strengths of American culture are mutually exclusive with Russian and other Eastern European strengths in mathematics and science education. In other words, we could have both. What's stopping us from ripping out just the dumbed-down math curriculum from schools and replacing it with Russian-style instruction? I guess that's what the article is about, and some families are doing just that with private enrichment classes.
As someone who can do a 90-120 minute door to door commute into our city office or an event in the city, it's still awful. I did it about half-time for about 18 months at another company. I would get up at 6am to drive to the train station, get to the office by about 8:30, get home 7ish--maybe somewhat later if I grabbed dinner in the city.

Yes, I could read and so forth and it was better than driving, but it still meant I had maybe 3 hours to myself in the evening.

It's OK as a very sometime thing but I'd certainly prefer not to do it even a couple days a week.
"the Genesis story is Jewish, and predates Christianity by at least five if not ten centuries"

But the fresco the article is about is from the 13th Century. Christians at that time or even earlier might have re-interpreted the Genesis story in light of psychedelic experiences.

However, on the subject of psychedelic use in early Judaism, there is an interesting article titled "Strange Fires Weird Smokes and Psychoactive Combustibles Entheogens and Incense in Ancient Traditions"[1]:

"The incense cults of Israel have been the subject of a wide variety of theological and academic treatments. Researchers have speculated on the use of entheogens of a
variety of species in the Bible (Shanon 2008; Merkur 2000; Allegro 1 970) as well as linking a shared entheogenic heritage with Persia in such crucial texts as the Book of
Ezra, which sheds much light on foreign influences on Jewish cultic practices (Dobroruka 2006). A number of scholars have discussed the psychoactive incense used in the
temple with various theories as to ingredients (Ruck, Staples & Heinrich 200 I ) and cannabis has been suggested as the kaneh bosom (appearing throughout the Old Testament
with the first mention in Exodus) that eludes -- along with the other ingredients of the holy incense -- positive or at least complete identification (Benet 1976). ...

...

The exact recipe of the Old Testament incenses (Levitical and foreign), if there ever was an official recipe that persisted with exact continuity, will likely never be
known. Some of the ingredients may be deduced from other examples in the ancient world of incense cults and their psychoactive aromatics. A starting point would logically
be Egypt, from which the Israelites made their Exodus, and their various temple incenses and magico-medical fumigants, which included benzoin, cannabis, Hyoscyamus,
bitumen and arsenic sulphide (Shehata 2006). Psychopharmacologists link Egyptian plants found in the various Greek writings and Egyptian medical papyri with the soma/haoma
of the ancient world and Peganum harmala, which is still used as a magical incense to this day. Linked with the nybt of the Papyrus Ebers (Flattery & Schwartz 1 989) Peg
anum is also mentioned by Dioscorides as being used by ancient Syrians as besasa, or "Plant of Bes" and that it was burned in Egypt before the statue of Bes. The ancient
kyphi has been speculated by some scholars to have contained cannabis as well as other psychoactive plants such as Acarus calamus and from sixteen to fifty other
ingredients, many of which are unidentified."

[1] - https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I have a 123ppi display, normal is ok but I have it zoomed out to 80 or 90%.

People are different, so it's good to have font size and zoom options. Some can go bigger, some can go smaller. I use 80% on a lot of sites, and an extension called 'Zoom Page WE' to remember the settings.
Dear friend, they were simply drinking. You don’t need hallucinogenics to ramble with ecstasy, just a few drinks.
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No wonder their phones are so much more expensive.