skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that the Sumerian King List exhibits the same behaviour. The earliest kings rule for tens of thousands of years (each), the second wave rule for hundreds of years, and the third wave rule for tens of years ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List ).

So I'm left with three thoughts that don't necessarily agree with each other.

One, is that it seems fairly obvious that there's some transition from oral histories to written histories; and the closer the event was to the written record, the more realistic it gets (which we also see in the OT).

Two, is that there's a lot of crossover between Sumerian kings and Gods, so it doesn't seem inappropriate for the oral tradition to imbue kings with god-like properties.

(As an aside - I can easily imagine that in tens of thousands of years from now, with fragments of records remaining, someone could argue with a straight face that the early space-agers actually believed Queen Elizabeth was immortal and semi-lizard. This is obviously comical, but does illustrate the risks of an oral tradition.)

And three - the possibility that there's intermingling between these two traditions? Or that there's some cultural factors here where we're seeing the effects without the causes (ie we're not seeing why it was popular to assign these characteristics to ancestors, only that they did so).

But to come back a little more on-topic - Sumer is also where we get the sexagesimal (base-60) numbering that we still see in time & angles. So when comparing units, there could be some mistranslation between different number bases at some point.
I have done this for my friends and they have not taken my advice so I’ve stopped. Things that were all easily within their ability to do. E.g apply to a great company with referrals vs their dead end one (they said it themselves), buying in the capital city the same time as me rather than in a satellite city and missing out on gains. Buying a boat to live on to “save rent” rather than an investment property.

I just keep quiet now since people don’t do things they’ve not “come up with” themselves
And mine pulling dental floss out of the container.
not to mention that I know people with way more money that me that if asked, would you want to trade places with them its an easy "no-way"
Same. Apple products were so obnoxiously expensive.
For comparison I’d be happy to force a comparer and never assume anything.

But the problem can also be flipped around and generalized to include formatting. To seem well designed I think it should be symmetric in formatting/parsing wrt what must be provided. In formatting it’s more clear that the system must assume assume format, or some operations become unergonomic (once one wants to be sloppy and allow concatenation of string and int for example). But perhaps one could compromise and just allow ints (assume invariant) but not floats (require formatter).
Plastic water bottles won't burst when frozen. You can get a case of water bottles for under $10.
We = users *
Why require dependencies to exist in Debian to package a Rust build instead of just using Cargo?

It seems bonkers to try and solve this manufactured problem that Rust doesn't have to begin with
What recourse would you have if you lose your private key? The author mentions a solution to that problem.
Well, you don't necessarily want to optimize expected return alone, since you also care about the probability of ruin. Which is why Monte Carlo's are great, you get everything for free without having to think very hard. (All particle physicists are trained to reach for a toy MC before thinking about anything :) ).
How would electric cars hold up under this situation?
It does matter when.

Outcomes are dramatically better if your local healthcare system isn't overloaded.
I spent about 4 months in total in the US as a child, visiting relatives and doing road trips.

I remember several restaurant visits. I was old enough (12-17) to order from the adult menu without comment in most cases, although in a fancy place I did have all the waitresses coming to look at me eat snails.

Elsewhere, waiters sometimes said "are you sure he/she will eat that?" when my younger siblings made their choices, or "I see you guys really are from Europe, American kids don't eat XYZ".

(I have eaten chicken/turkey nuggets perhaps 3 or 4 times in my life. From 2005, many schools in Britain were banned or limited from serving them [1]. Sodas are also banned.)

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-food-stand...
It's more tendons than the wrist. But I definitely have to do something to have better posture.
A parent catching covid after they are vaccinated and/or after there are better treatments is a parent far less likely to die. A parent catching covid with and without the hospitals currently being overrun is also a huge difference.
Eh, this is a pretty weird take on restaurants.....

Going out to eat commonly (in the US) is something that is very modern. Anecdotally when I was a kid it was a once or twice a month thing, now you have people that commonly eat out a meal more then 7 times a week. In the 1950s eating out was around 1/4th of food spending where it is over 1/2 of the average households budget now. This has caused an explosion in the number of places to eat. That's a lot of competition, not only for the consumers, but the low wage staff they pay.
I am not sure how I would react and what I would think, if I have to face such a situation. Perhaps, under that level of sadness and stress, an aspiration that things will continue in an afterlife is one (only?) thought that would instill hope about future.

This is an unusual situation, I think we should expect unusual coping mechanisms.
I recommend C++. It is mature, ubiquitous, immortal and continues to evolve.
There will always be demand for good C++ programmers, even if your prediction would fail.
I will, and more general exercises (the usual New Year's resolution haha)
We have and we haven't. There's been a lot of apathy about the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, interventions in Syria and Libya etc which have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands probably millions of people. Millions of children dying of easily preventable diseases. If we dismiss that and say oh well we're not sensitive to deaths of others, only our fellow countrymen that's also not true. Deaths caused tobacco, obesity, alcohol, and drugs cause an entire COVID pandemic of deaths every 9 months or so, ongoing, forever (in the US). Even deaths caused by flu kill one of those 50k wars worth of people every couple of years and people are pretty blase about that. Staggering gun murder rates among black American communities (often times I see these discussed it's dismissed with "oh that's mostly gang related"!!).

So I don't think we're necessarily all that sensitive to death, although we I suppose if it's highly publicized and pushed (like war deaths or non-gang-related murders). We're much more sensitive to fear, which is perception of risk (which obviously includes mortality), but it is also very strongly driven by the amount and tone of news coverage, politicians, social media, etc.

Not to comment on the merits of the response to covid or any of these other issues or whether fear is justified, but the reason why economies were shut down for covid was because of fear not deaths.
The Hanselminutes Podcast
Yep, that should help after it subsides. I was hoping for some more immediate tips.
He was actually quite good in many respects, just had a massive blind spot here.
Ok, I read parts of his books back in the days and this jogged those memories ... including pinging friends who used those books more than me.

Was curious what his net worth was ... and found answers in single digit millions, except one article that said 175M but that was a 20 year old article. (I think given the flavor of the week, I can safely blame google for not finding the right links :)). I did read the wikipedia entry about him but still wonder about the ups and downs of his life and how he is doing nowadays at 78. If someone has a more recent profile, even a hagiography, please do share a link.
Being recruited out of college (or not) doesn't really change anything in this equation. If ypu do something, find out that it's bad, and continue doing it anyway, then yes, you're being a bad person.
Stardock's WindowFX is the Compiz equivalent for Windows. It still seems to exist: https://www.stardock.com/products/windowfx/

I remember trying it in the XP/Vista era alongside Compiz/Beryl and it was quite unstable. As a result it never reached the popularity of the (mostly usable) WindowBlinds.
> This technique is used to detect stolen valor by asking, "What was your MOS?" Someone who served in the military could answer it immediately, someone who hasn't would struggle with it.

Hey, I served my year like (almost) everyone else, but I'd probably flunk that anyway: The only "MOS" we had in the Swedish army was potatismos and rotmos.
I like the idea
But I don't understand why you choose "Show HN: I Launched a “Fun” Web App for Developers" as title
Some hint that it's an app that explains code in the title would maybe gain more clicks, attention
> it's best to lock up the vehicle with a note on the dash and make your way to a shelter out of harms way

Just a note for varying geographical locations: If you do this in Australia, you will most likely die from exposure.
sci.crypt has fun stuff from time to time, if you like cryptography topics. comp.lang.c is also nice, if you filter off-topic posters.

They also recently started a usenet newsgroup for the Gemini protocol, but it's not widely known yet.
Wow, native (somewhat) GUI already.

>> V UI is licensed under GPL3. A commercial license will be available. Open-source projects will have access to the commercial license for free. Every single feature will be open-sourced right away and available under both licenses. At some point in the future the library will be relicensed under MIT.

It'd be nice to see a commercial license.
Gem: Exploding string alternatives – Ned Batchelder
There is a sound argument that to create wealth you need a society. We all contribute to it and if we didn’t there wouldn’t be a society and even if you had a billion dollar or a few tons of gold you couldn’t get anything.

At the point where the concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny fraction of members of society becomes detrimental to the functioning of our society it is necessary to redistribute before society stops functioning.

How you feel about isn’t very important.
Intel: “we’ve beat AMD’s last generation in speed!”
AMD: “we’ve eliminated an entire attack vector”
MathCad in VirtualBox.. what a time.
All the extra bits included in the video that are opinions or segments unrelated to the core message of the video
> If code reviewers share responsibility for the code they review, why on earth would anyone review code?

Ok, and if there are no shared responsibility, then what’s to stop the reviewers from just mindlessly clicking “approve” to shut the person up? I know for a fact that that happens all the time.

> If you were told that your code was sloppy, and if your performance review was affected by it, maybe it was sloppy code?

Sure, but again, isn’t “sloppy code” the lowest hanging fruit for a code reviewer? If the PR process doesn’t spot that, what exactly does it offer?

> But to say that your responsibility is lessened because it was blessed by code reviewers and they should share in your punishment, is, frankly, immature

I think we are just going to have to agree to disagree on this. If you are signing off on something, you are attaching your name and credibility towards it. I didn’t really want any of the reviewers to get into “trouble”, but i do think they should share a percentage of the responsibility on breakage if I am going to get in trouble if they signed off on something that was “sloppy”.
>mass market reliable cars from 2008-2015 that come with zero “electronic bits”

Cars with zero electronic bits other than the radio? Like what models? Cars from the 1980s that come to my mind were extensively computerized.

After I checked the history, it appears that electronic (vs. mechanical) fuel injection came into vogue starting around 1980.

I have a late 80s car, that while primitive in many ways has lots of computers, which can have solder joints fail, so electronics repair is becoming a part of maintaining a "classic car".

(P.S. I am equating your use of "electronic" with "digital", but I think there may have been early examples of analog electronics - Bosch L-Jetronic for example)
It is an automatic shutoff. You can always swap the spout/nozzle.
I'll second this; my parents had milk goats while I was young, and their diet definitely affected the milk flavor. Garlic, onions, even some weeds would do it.
But the problem is that there is no unity on where it should be done. One person's "resistance to unjust laws" is another person's rationalization of moral abomination.
"The man that has no shoes eventually meets the man with no feet."
Even then, I doubt it's statically linked into the kernel or any other core component. It still must be some kind of separate loadable module that would most probably be stored as a separate file.
Better: retroceded back into Maryland.
How would you install outside AMO on Android? When I click on a link to any .xpi file (signed or not), or navigate to its URL, Firefox just prompts me to download the file with no option to install the add-on. Unlike v68 and earlier, the current version of Firefox for Android (any channel) doesn't offer an action to open the .xpi in Firefox when I open it from my file manager. It doesn't seem to matter whether I have "xpinstall.signatures.enabled" disabled or not.

The other part of the issue is that I don't think I should have to ask Mozilla for permission to use a private add-on in Firefox on my own device, or show Mozilla the source code to the add-on before I can install it. What I do in a web browser on my device is not really Mozilla's business. Mozilla lists privacy as Principle 4 in its manifesto, so I think they should be able to understand this reasoning:

> Individuals’ security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
Code reviews are kinda forced if regulatory compliance is necessary.
> Even TED has removed her talk from YouTube.

Why? I would add a disclaimer that they don't endorse it and maybe a link to the ruling but at this point it's an historical document.
> since clearly there's strong disagreement on coding styles and conventions

The same people who are perfectly happy to do a back and forth, adding 3 days of code review time, would never go in and refractor existing code to "fix" stylistic issues. It's a cognitive bias that we think everything is up for philosophical debate in reviews.

Btw, I'm one of those people who drove stylistic debates in an organized fashion. I learnt that you simply can't police everything, even if it we pretend that it's a good idea to do so. It's much better to share ideas and have them spread through voluntary mechanisms, such as dedicated tech talks, mentoring, postmortems and other deliberate knowledge sharing.

That said, automated enforcement of pure formatting can work well if there's standard tooling, e.g. gofmt and rustfmt. But contrary to reviews, that's a way to suppress debate during day to day business.

Btw, my experiences are from a mega corp, not claiming it's true for every org.
How does someone fall into a rabbit hole of such hot garbage?

From the outside, you'd think that a successful tech founder would have some qualities that help them to avoid falling for such blatant misinformation. He would have needed to research the market, competition and investors, but apparently the same rigor didn't need to apply here.

At the very least, you'd think he would have been smart enough to keep his opinions to himself. Like, he starts with email saying that the recipients "will think I’m crazy after reading it", and still decides to hit the send button.
"I know the outcome of every encounter."

"I call bullshit immediately."

How do people become this stupid, while believing themselves to be smart. No surprise she dropped out of school. Why does America celebrate people like Holmes.

"Tech Nation's host, Moira Gunn, has a master's degree in computer science and a doctor of philosophy in mechanical engineering, but she was dazzled. "How old are you, Elizabeth?" she asked."

Make sense. Ms Gunn has no education in wet science. She is not associated with a peer-reviewed academic journal, a publication with some history, even a small newspaper. WTF is "Tech Nation". An attempt to mimic Silicon Valley in the UK. This was not "reporting". It was not "news". It was surely not journalism. Why would an outfit modeled after Silicon Valley have any reason to question the integrity of a Silicon Valley company like Theranos. Tech Nation has an interest in producing "tech" hype.
In my experience, trying to push away these feelings of shame, jealousy and inadequacy won’t help at all. By sheer will, or by using “mental hacks” from pop psychology you might be able to push them out of consciousness for a while, but that won’t last for long. Or worse, it will last and the feelings will stay out of consciousness, even though, since their root cause hasn’t been solved, they don’t really disappear. They just become unconscious and part of what Jung called The Shadow: the aspects of ourselves that we can’t accept and we push into unconsciousness. From the unconscious they act up and make us behave in irrational ways without being able to understand what’s happening.

Instead, try to approach these feelings with an attitude of compassionate curiosity.

First, notice that there’s nothing wrong about having these feelings. It’d be wrong if you were mean to your friends because of their success. But you can have these feelings and not be mean to them. The feelings are not the problem.

Second, understand that there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re having these feelings for a reason. There's a casual chain of events that's making you feel this way. So, why are they happening?

The obvious -and wrong- answer is because your friends have money and you don’t. But surely there are plenty of people in the world that have less money than you, and still manage to be reasonably happy. And even your rich friends could compare themselves with even richer people and feel inadequate about how small their swimming pool or their yacht is. Are they feeling this way?

You can ask other more meaningful questions: why do you feel the need to compare yourself with your friends? Why do you feel that you need a ton of money to validate you and make you happy?

These are not easy questions to answer. They often touch deep wounds -otherwise we wouldn’t be so keen to avoid them. But approaching them with curiosity and compassion is the only way to find the root causes of what’s making you so miserable.
One thing I hate is when people with money pay for me. When I lived in NZ I met a guy at work who used to wear a sponge bob square pants tshirt that had holes in it and was like 10 years old. And some old shorts. If you didn’t know any better you would think he got pulled in off the street.

Yet he’s one of the nicest people I’ve met and never flaunted the fact he was a multimillionaire.

When we went to lunch at wendys he would pay, the next day I would pay. (This opposed to others who are always “nah I got this” all the time who make me feel like I can’t afford anything)

I don’t care if people have money. As long as they are nice people. But I’ve met people who flaunt their money and I simply just don’t talk to them. Got more important things to worry about than listen to someone gloat.

(I don’t have money. Just pay slip to pay slip saving a little bit each month and hoping I’ll be able to afford a house oneday)
Meteor Showers That Will Peak in Night Skies in 2022
I guess from a resume-fuel perspective. I don’t think I was a great fit for the company.
Definitely agree. My first thought was "but yes", after reading the article I am not so curious to peek under. Perhaps the marketing department doesn't like the idea of the car being "danger"-ous.
Stardock's WindowFX is probably the closest you're going to get. It's old, was never all that stable and never got super popular (compared to WindowBlinds), but it should work.

https://www.stardock.com/products/windowfx/
In a finite world of limited resources, how couldn’t it be a question of how much?
> And if people cant get around at both the origin and destination

This was my big hope about the scooters when they first showed up in LA, but it didn't really pan out, for a spectrum of reasons. For a minute there it was nice, and I definitely used the LA Metro much more.
https://github.com/minio/minio/tree/master/docs/distributed#... - MinIO has been strictly consistent from Day 1.

AWS S3 recently launched strict consistency.
Let it never be said that the creators of the “small child” product don’t have a wicked sense of humor :)
I do not agree at all. Governments should try to make life fair for people. In my opinion, once a person reaches something like $10M net worth (I took a number purely based on the current 1% of wealth in the US, but I’m not married to it), taxes should go to 100% and the government should use the proceeds to provide free services to the population, like education, healthcare, affordable housing and infrastructure.

I am saying this very naively without reflecting on the effects it would have on the economy, the inflationary forces and the overall corporate productivity. So I realize my view is mostly a romantic utopia, but nobody should be allowed to hoard billions, especially by inheritance.
Making your own is really easy in a food processor and tastes excellent.
How not? Voting to run you out of town must be ("literally") the ultimate downvote, isn't it?
"I think I must have missed the point at which classrooms took on a responsibility for parental productivity?"

Why the resentful reaction? Schools DO increase parent productivity, and that's one among many positive features of a school. It's not a bad thing!

I'm proposing that the cost benefit analysis would show that we should invest more in keeping schools safely open, and doing so will probably pay off immediately without even factoring in future harm or benefit to children. It's not wrong to factor in that future, but if there's an immediate justification using even very reductive capitalist thinking then it should be easy to build a consensus. (It's still not easy to build a consensus, but that's because our civil society is running on automatic and we struggle at making even win-win decisions)
US staffed beds are down 7% for the year, what makes you think it's not getting worse?
He's probably been saying only slightly less unhinged things for years and years and years, to pretty much the same people. Yet none of the people now "outraged" every said anything about it, or acted like anything was amiss.

So why not take it just a little step further?