skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They transitioned from a democracy to an empire in which entrenched power didn't need to innovate. Additional their power structure was extraction based in terms of lands that they conquered and integrated into the empire.

At a certain point in the growth of the empire I am sure that the ability to move classes was more political/militaristic than through entrepreneurial capability thus it limiting individual drive to achieve.

As well I am not sure how much public funding there was available to literacy / sciences.
But journals do have an economic restriction. More pages cost more money and the subscription fees only go so far. I suppose page charges might balance some of the editorial costs, but those are also limiting. They can't be too high or they'll chase away submissions.
It's an interactive prompt once you press the spam button. Whether it appears depends on whether the system identifies an unsubscribe link in the mail.
Hiring a growth engineer.
Visualising a Codebase: This sounds very interesting, it looks like similar graphics as what CodeScene creates.

The dependency between the modules seems like a nice addition to me. I don't think CodeScene has that one. Can't wait to try this on our bigger projects.

I never found a really good way to visualize large codebases and the dependencies between the modules, does somebody have something for this?
On the contrary. I watched his appearance on JRE last night and thought he was pretty fun and engaging. It was a great episode.
> I'm honestly surprised it took this long.

It didn't take this long, though. This kind of thing happens all the time. Here it is happening to the same game back in 2020: https://github.com/Luohuayu/evil-mhyprot-cli
If Copilot reads copyrighted code to learn, and it‘s copyright violation…

Does the same apply to a human? Do we now define copyright violation differently for computers? I don‘t know the perfect answer here. But I‘m not so sure we should have standards that change depending on if a program is doing it or a human is doing it. Perhaps a bad standard to begin with.

I do tend to learn towards thinking „company uses publicly available, open source code in product“ is somewhat of a nothing-burger though.
It's been awhile since I read through this literature, so I'm not an expert and things might have changed. However, with face neurons at least there was always an argument about the extent to which the neurons were specific to faces versus extremely motivationally significant stimuli that required individual recognition. I vaguely remember there being studies showing that if you showed people something that was very emotionally significant to them, and that they were expert in discriminating between exemplars (for example, many similar but different models of vintage cars to a vintage car enthusiast), similar neural populations would be recruited. The argument was that faces just happened to be something that tend to be really emotionally salient to most people, and that people have to differentiate between large numbers of exemplars of.

Maybe that interpretation has been disproven now, or maybe it doesn't quite apply, but I wonder if it's really food or something else. Or if maybe at some level the neurons are responding to something so similar to "food" as a category the distinction is moot.
Overall the medieval era was something of a setback in the aggregate if you look at social development overall in the western core. (See Figure 3. https://aspeniaonline.it/why-the-west-rules-for-now/)

However, you're absolutely correct that any explanation of why the Roman Empire didn't have an industrial revolution (without moving the goalposts around the technological advancements the Romans did make) has to account for why there wasn't an industrial revolution in the Eastern Roman Empire or China. And the reasonable explanation is that the technology tree wasn't developed enough.
FWIW businesses are not required to accept cash. 'Legal tender' status only matters for paying off a debt; if the company doesn't extend credit to you then it's free to accept whatever payment methods it wishes.
Roman and American slavery were very different.

https://beardyhistory.com/2018/01/01/roman-slavery-and-ameri...

The American industrial revolution was primarily a northern thing. Plus some tooling (like the cotton gin) used in the south to process slave output.

If anything, Roman slaves would have been more fit to be part of an industrial revolution as they could hold educated jobs.
Also any contractor has to request 2x-3x more than when receiving a salary, to cover for extra expenses and taxes and for extra risks (time when no contract is obtained).
> Nothing was surprising, we got exactly what we expected.

Such a satisfying feeling in the engineering world.

> We noticed Cassandra was running 10 second “stop-the-world” GC constantly but we had no idea why.

This makes me very thankful for the work that the Go team has put into the go GC.

> In the scenario that a user edits a message at the same time as another user deletes the same message, we ended up with a row that was missing all the data except the primary key and the text since all Cassandra writes are upserts.

Does cassandra not offer a mechanism to do a conditional update? I'd expect to be able to submit a upsert that fails if the row isn't present, or has a `deleted = true` field, or something to that effect.
We like the open-core mode. We have definite plans to open-source the client. Still think the best way to do this for the server.
This is an important consideration - we do not have perfect knowledge of the last century let alone the last millennia.

Imagine a painting being determined to be an elaborate forgery; it is NOT a genuine Da Vinci, it was faked!

Later research determines that the faker was Michelangelo! But we already destroyed it ... not realizing it had just been mislabeled ages ago.
Non-profit just means money goes to employees and managers, not investors. Focus more on the social value of the work the business does, and how fairly emooyees are paid, not legal tax status.
Oh?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1563075898013650944.html
The question isn't "Right at this moment is everything good" it's "do we have a strategy to get to the point where everything is good". So sure, the first thing you're going to find when you implement endpoint management is lots of devices are breaching the requirements, the important thing is to then address that - not to just go back to the board and say "things are really bad".
If you look through f.e. justjoin.it, most Senior offers are between 20-30k pln(4,2-6,3k eur), most western companies will offer you 40 eur/h from my recent experience which would amount to 6,4k eur/mo. I'm personally looking for something between 45-50 eur/h and I'm not having much luck, but I already had few 40 eur/h offers within last few days(for .NET). Also Dropbox opened in Poland and offers something around 30-35k pln/mo, at least that's what a friend got there.
Yup. We've considered moving to the small IL town my wife is from. It's even fairly lively for a small town (they have like 7 restaurants instead of 3). But we visit for a month or so once or twice a year and by the end of the month we are dying to get out.

Even thought in Chicago MOST of the time we go to the same handful of restaurants, its the option to have a near countless amount that we COULD go to that keeps us from feeling like were going to the same few places.
And even before the Roman empire in ancient egypt...
Hey, seems like node uses libuv and in fact we did a blogpost on it!
https://metalbear.co/blog/mirrord-internals-hooking-libc-fun...
as someone that's worked with a similar workload (edit: in terms of write volume, not persistent chat messages), it's an incredibly annoying volume.

Too high for simple solutions, not big enough for large scale solutions.
Yes, C++ has CppCon, so that conference is making money for the organizers.
Your "proof" is not supporting anything. Environmentalists can be anybody.

Russia didn't want Germany to utilize fracking gas because this would mean that Germany doesn't need Russia anymore. The Green party opposes any gas where possible. Just because Russia financed a few fringe groups doesn't mean that the Green party is in bed with Russia.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/nord-stream-2-die...

This clearly proves that in June 2021 the Greens already predicted what would happen in 2022 and opposed the opening of Nord Stream 2 because of geopolitical and security risks.
I have a lot of long strings I type at work (like paths I cd to often, urls, etc). I've abbreviated most of them to 3-4 letters with Espanso. I've tried using some of the fancy form building stuff but it seemed a bit rough still (although I'm still on 0.7.3)
Nothing has made me happier than to simply leave the academic/publishing side of CS and focus entirely on things that I find interesting and can do on a single desktop computer. If I share, I share and give people my code and ideas freely, but don't publish. Why would I want to take all my hard work and beg somebody with power to put it on a piece of paper?

If I have something useful to say I'll put it in arxiv. Peer reviewers just wasted my time.
> Larger picture is that this is just running some software and now a provider is telling you what you can and cannot run on there.

This has been the case for decades. It used to be "no public IRC, no torrents" or "no adult content". Now it just shifted to crypto. Providers always had terms of service defining which applications are acceptable and which aren't.
There’s a tear in Armstrong’s eye: the Apollo missions as never seen before
Brink's guard slept as thieves stole millions in jewels, lawsuit says
> There was an uptick during the Roman Empire, then the activity went down, and by the year 1400 the human actually was larger than the peak that was achieved during the Roman Empire.

It's extremely easy to verify that this is not actually true.

For your idea to hold, you have to entirely ignore how islam spread to South East Asia through the trade routes of the succeeding caliphates and the trade infrastructure put in place between the Eastern Romain Empire and China. Same for digits of pi, the approximation was improved significantly both in China and Persia during the medieval era. You can check the work of Al Khwarizmi or Zu Chongzhi.

Regarding smelting, Rome did very little. Meanwhile, China had discovered cast iron in 513BC and by the fall of Rome was probably doing more metallurgy than the Roman ever did.
> So your rate calculations have to include all your costs, including your vacation/sick days/etc.

If I understand you (and the other replies) correctly, the advice is to ignore the benefit value of PTO when estimating the hourly equivalent rate, then add it back in after the fact based on... something?

Is there a better formula than $TOTAL_COMP / $TIME_WORKED?
^ (Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD)
I guess it just depends on how much you like/dislike driving. I hate driving. I hate parking. I hate traffic.

I'd happily take a less nice walk than being forced to drive.
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I am curious. Do all contractors do hourly billing or do some work on weekly or monthly rates or just per project rates? Hourly billing seems hard for contracting.
I take about 4-6 weeks holiday a year, so averaging about 19-20 days a month
Trying to point out single factor is a exercise in stupidity.

Time matters, places matter, culture matters, food, existing technology, technological connections with other regions, math, scientific progress, etc etc.

For example you need to be able to make blueprints. To make blueprints you need the math technology, the printing technology, and drafting technology, and the language necessary to all be developed first.

There are hundreds of thousands of different variables. Probably millions. More probably trillions.

None of them aligned for the Romans. All of them aligned for coal mining industry in Britain.
I too am surprised. I've been in many conversations where some technology leader says "we have no idea how this app works, it's a black box."
I'm disappointed that we haven't talked about

a) using the GPU to accelerate the poll item sorting (EDIT: I was wrong! Someone did!)

b) rewriting not just the backend in Rust, but the whole front-end in Rust, compiling to WebAssembly. (Drawing the whole thing into the canvas instead of using the icky DOM, too!)

c) Machine learning wasn't mentioned once
Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech over coronavirus vaccine
Agreed. It's also true that the early Industrial Revolution cotton mills used slave-picked cotton, because although millions of slaves continued to exist and their produce was imported even after slavery itself was banned in Britain, slave labour couldn't possibly compete with industrial mills in output of finished goods. (And not just because the early mill workers often earned little more than the cost of procuring, securing and covering the subsistence of slaves)

The UK had the tech to build mills and the financial system to fund the capital costs of building them though (and a larger, more global market to sell mass produced cotton to)
May be you are right, but can you add some color and context to your commentary. Like a good article link etc.

I am more than happy to chance my mind, if provided evidence.
> And the evidence feels very cherry-picked

Cherry picking and misrepresenting evidence is David Graeber's whole shtick.

Full disclaimer: I didn't read Dawn of Everything and I don't intend to. My opinion is based on Debt and some of his other writings.
Also, traditional landline phones (no hands free short range radio etc) draw power from the telecom central office. They aren't on your standard grid so you are effectively paying for that electricity on your phone bill.
The cream isn't rising to the top. I doubt many people on HN - never mind in the STEM community a a whole - can name anyone born after 1960 doing research at the level of Dijkstra, Knuth, Hoare, and maybe Wirth.

This either means there's no one that smart or original in the last few generations - possible, but something of a stretch - or the system isn't successfully selecting, motivating, and rewarding people with that level of talent.

My suspicion is that the top people are working in the private sector, and many of them are doing very highly paid but questionably useful work as quants and system engineers.

Building things is fine, but of course it's not academic research - which is defined by the creation of game-changing concepts and philosophical structures, some of which happen to be mathematical.
what's your area of expertise?
Ironically, if you could pay for the services with bitcoin, you'd eliminate the concern about being the victim of credit card fraud and having your payments reversed.

Social credit and trust isn't necessary when exchanging digital cash (or physical cash) like it is when exchanging credit.
And how do you decide who votes and how many votes each person gets? A basic democracy favors the young, foolish masses. The goal of the journal system is to put the smart, seasoned academics in charge of choosing the best material.
"Warehouse does not permit usage of storage space for rotten seafood or any kind of living quarters"
Well played!

"What have the Romans given us in return?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
some conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32604094
What I don't get is there's millions of "good enough" e-waste motherboards, RAM, CPUs etc. out there. Wouldn't recycling be better than having nothing or waiting indefinitely? Are there that many workloads that can only run on brand new hardware?
> not sure why this just doesn't work now

markdown-composer passes a uri to the program. [1]

You can see the uri by setting `g:markdown_composer_browser = 'notify-send'`

inlyne expects a file so `inlyne http://127.0.0.1:44205/` fails

[1] https://github.com/euclio/vim-markdown-composer/blob/master/...
Roman law and customs are still a thing somehow in Southern Europe.

Roman insulae were pretty close to modern low-med buildings having four or five stories here.
I raised $2M by developing a full e2e white-labeled crypto crowdfunding solution as an entrepreneur(as a solo dev anyway), but I make 50$/h as a solo dev for any other side gig. And I took care of everything, from legal, accounting, infra, dev team, marketing, and business. Guess I'm undervalued as an individual and not as a corporation? Take away: incorporate yourself
I wouldn't underestimate the importance of improved steel-making technology to the spread of the industrial revolution. All the machinery that made up the industrial revolution - pressurized steam engines, water turbines and pumps, etc. - relied heavily on high-quality steel that wouldn't fracture or explode under constant use. Railroads relied on steel rails, as did shipping and the spread of industrial methods of waging war.
Figure 6 on page 13 and the surrounding discussion to be exact.

Manufacturing CO2 over vehicle life:

64 grams per mile (g/mi) for the EV

35 g/mi for a gasoline car

Fuel carbon over vehicle life:

EV emits 117 g/mi versus

335 g/mi for the gasoline car

which is 1:2 for EV and 1:9 for gas, presumably the precise ratio depends on how far you drive a car, how efficient it is.
How long have you been in the field? Data Science and Machine Learning?
Because it would take years to prepare for but would be run and completed in seconds?
Enpass user here since sheesh, probably 2016? It was whenever the 'LostPass' [1-2] security scandal broke and shortly after Logitech acquired LastPass, after which the usual 'corporate suck' had set in. I had used LastPass for a good seven or more years before switching to Enpass.

Enpass has given me good cross platform support, especially like that I'm not a 2nd class citizen on loonix systems. My only gripe would be that it's not open source, but I think the company does a good job of allowing you to keep and sync your data locally, without constant pushes to whore it out to 'the cloud'.

[1] https://www.seancassidy.me/lostpass.html
[2] https://betanews.com/2016/01/16/lastpass-lostpass-passwords/
Well I negotiated a 150+ bump in rate for the 1100 contract to offset the IR35 taxes as my current contract is inside IR35, but it's still a net loss for me compared to my previous 950/day outside contract. At 1100, my total tax burdern is 49% (that's total, not marginal!)
Wouldn't this rather ironically constitute a ban on hosting a blog about Hetzner banning cryptocurrency related hosting being a good thing?

I mean at some point, isn't everything "cryptocurrency related"? I have the "openssl" package installed on lots of servers, that probably has most of the cryptographic functions needed to fulfill some cryptocurrency functions I imagine.
I ordered one a couple of months ago along with the keyboard case.

The phone arrived in a week or two but the keyboard case was the big selling factor for me so I've barely used it while I await the keyboard.

It shipped in June and still hasn't arrived. I contacted support and they said it seems to be wedged in US customs. The tracking number I have only shows China Post info and so I can't really confirm or deny that info. Rather unfortunate...
It's great until its cold or rainy. I don't really want to bike in the rain to a restaurant for dinner. Or even if it rained recently due to the water kicking up from the tires. I can walk with an umbrella just fine.
Every 226th person on the planet currently owns at least $1 in Bitcoin
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There's clearly some cache to calling your field a science, because we see it so often. They'll even emulate Sciencey Things to maintain the illusion, but like you say, they don't produce testable, falsifiable models. Political Science is a perfect example of a study that's very far from a real science.

Actual science will accept when it's been proven wrong. Much of we have these days isn't that. And that includes many folks working in what would be considered the hard sciences.
on HN the convos aren't private.
The point is that since so many services require email it's getting to the point that not having an email is a major hurdle, and therefore government must recognize it as being part of critical infrastructure and provide this service, just as they do with USPS. IRS (US govt tax authority) requires email account to register and pay taxes. So that the state government, and the county where I live as well. My kids school requires email to register kids for school and for their many educational systems; so does their pediatrician office. Bank accounts require email. The list goes on. All of these cannot and should not be anonymous and I do not have any problems with using government-provided email provider to use these.

I do want to have an option to use other emails for my streaming accounts, shopping, and all the other stuff, so that I'm not required to use the same email address everywhere. I can rent my own domain name and use the email service tied top that.

That'd work for me.
Why wouldn't this be done over git? It seems almost ridiculous for this to be a GitHub-specific API and authentication mechanism instead of merely authorizing an SSH key from Datadog (which would then allow whatever this service is doing with the source code to also work for any other source code hosting solution).
Sure it is! Redis is even fully ACID if you use the right persistence settings complete with transactions support and a WAL. You can even set up locking to abort/rollback transactions. In DB parlance Redis’ isolation level is strict serializability which is stronger than Postgres.

If you mean “it doesn’t have every feature of Postgres” and behaves a little differently then sure but it absolutely is a database.
Analogous to the British industrial revolution I suppose, where the relative cheapness of coal and iron versus labour is considered critical.
If you put a poster in front, the poster pays for the light.
It seems like the earliest practical steam engine was the Newcomen Engine which wikipedia dates to 1712. It was extremely inefficient so it was pretty much used only at coal mines to pump water out. That water had to go somewhere and formed a canal system in England that helped take the coal to market. I think the problem with trying to find the cause of or the source of a phenomenon like the Industrial Revolution is that it's obviously multi-causal. And the inter-related bootstrap process is fascinating.
Claiming that your statements are an unfalsifiable declaration of faith in the system is not the same as taking a position that everything is bad and wrong, and doesn't have to be defended. If the reason you're speaking is because you want to convince people that the system is fine, this is one of the vague objections that your listeners (the people you're trying to convince) have.

It's your job to explain how there are no cultural effects that you can find that affect your thesis, and that you've examined the ones that people have previously mentioned. Not the listener's job to be very specific about their suspicions that cultural factors could have an effect on your thesis.

Black man, south side of Chicago, single mother, learned C at 12 (or 13) on my own. Doesn't qualify me to make sweeping cultural statements and not be questioned about them.
Inside IR35 or outside?
But at the core of his arguments is that rejection is mean. He's complaining about the "it's not novel" argument now but if everyone takes this to heart, they'll just have to come up with some other reason to reject. There are only so many resources and academia tends to massively overproduce talent.