skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The violence of the Hunnic elites that was so dramatically recorded in late Roman written sources could thus have been a consequence of climatic fluctuations in the first half of the 5th c.

Or possibly the descriptions were largely fabricated by the Romans in their writings, that the article itself specifies as being largely non-contemporary.
I say num-pee because it sounds more funny. It's a good contrast to the cold, lifeless, calculating heart of modern scientific computing.
Physics behind the abrupt burst of the largest cylindrical aquarium
Californians seem too be doing fine compared to where you live since that seems to be populated with people who think humans are unable to work towards more than one goal at a time. No wonder California is the home to do many advanced industries and companies, the people there have a superpower!
Stipulating that "Anthropology [is] in Ruins", could you all please inform me what has been lost? Physics and Electrical Engineering can point to, eg, GPS/ГЛОНАСС/GALILEO/北斗 as an example of successful application.

Being ignorant of CP Snow's other culture, I am not aware of any major results from Anthropology; what are some?
So.. you moved the software to a server that runs in the cloud. So sorta-SaaS? ;-)
I'll be brief so you hopefully see my point:

1. A general purpose computing platform is an everything app.
2. Cloud platforms and their APIs are a significant step towards moving higher-level in development platforms compared to, say, compiling a raw binary and running it on Linux.
3. Keep moving in that direction.
Just in case you missed it, the U3223QE does have one USB-C port for peripherals. See [0], bottom right of the image.

[0] https://i.dell.com/is/image/DellContent/content/dam/ss2/prod...
Just use open source software.
It's jury-rigged. Jerry-rigged is a malapropism (think "could of", "walla"). But jerry-rigged is so commonly used I think at this point it's 'not wrong'.
1. They effectively completely eliminated spam.

2. The interface was far superior.

3. Essentially completely free.

It basically blew every other option out of the water at that time.
It’s not hyperbolic at all. Subject them to the same forces and you’ll see.
Yeah they probably should just start banning frivolous use completely everywhere there are alternatives
Because of those legit reviews, that you ignore at first because who even reads these picked out reviews and then start to realize what is written there?
I was there in June and cost of living felt 30-40% cheaper than Germany, it was amazing (for me)
I love this addon!
Dear Twitter – It’s Not Me, It’s You
I always thought firefox and chrome share a standard where you could build one extension and use them on both platforms?
This has been going on for years.

https://www.slashfilm.com/574053/amazon-sued-purchased-movie...
So the performance version is way faster but less fun. For even more fun, I’d drive almost any car with a manual transmission over one of these appliances.
I think many sciences understand that there's a dominant narrative that isn't always right... for instance, we've had a tendency to write and look at history as a succession of important, pivotal men. In this very outdated view, the reason the Tudor period in England was the way it was is because of Henry VIII and that's all that's important to say about it. More modern historians try to answer the questions about what life and society was like back then, and how that whole story of society shaped events more than just the politicking and daily lives of the most powerful monarch.

So, for history, you have a 'classical' approach of just focusing on the politics and intrigues of the most powerful, and you have a more 'modern' holistic way of going about it. I'd argue the latter is better, but to get there, there had to be some moments of open-mindedness and willingness to look at it from other angles.

My best guess is that many social sciences, including anthropology, are also undergoing some sort of 'classical' vs 'modern' approach, which I think is ultimately a good thing.

There used to be a time in the not-so-distant past where anthropologists would find, say, calendars that would count down 28 days and go "why would the men back then make a calendar that counts lunar cycles?" without ever thinking that maybe a woman made the calendar for herself. I think we're better off with a collective practice of anthropology that's capable of thinking those kinds of thoughts.

That having been said, though, I wouldn't want to be an anthropologist right now. It feels like they're throwing so many assumptions up in the air and questioning everything to the point that they can't really do studies of substance.

Like the whole bit about studying violence in native American cultures... doing such studies might impact the way those cultures are seen today, but surely there's a way to still study it in a way to mitigate those consequences? Surely it doesn't mean we can't even think about studying it?

I dunno, I think long-term we'll get a better anthropology practice out of all of this (I read a great but somewhat controversial book called "The Dawn of Everything" recently touching on some of this) but looking at it from the middle of the process without having any idea where it's going... it looks and probably is quite frustrating.
Every highway wildlife crossing has been enormously expensive. But it can be pretty cheap and easy. Just put a culvert crossways under the highway. Various sizes of culvert can be used. Cheap enough to put one every thousand feet or so. Install them when the highway is being repaved anyway.
I don't have the details right. Here is a notoriously right-wing source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11549999/Journalist...
That's the joke. You can scroll down below to see the reviews talking about how unproductive they are while using the extension.

But good you at least opened the link and raised the question, there a lot of people here supposing it is a blocker to be more productive.
Oh nevermind
I also created my account on Mastodon today.
People can do multiple things at once...or rather, different people can do different things simultaneously, there is no need to "better focus on" x over y.
They probably mean that the official stance, as voiced by Zelenskyy on TV and state media, is to reconquer the whole of Ukraine, including Crimea, but everybody knows that it perhaps won't be possible to achieve this ultimate goal.

It's not private, but it is not a secret either. It just isn't the official position of the government.

I think it's good for the morale that Zelenskyy the strong leader of Ukrainians that will repel the bloody Russians whatever the odds, and Zelenskyy the prime minister with a terrible defensive war on his hands, to be two separate personas. One is more personable, but you need the other to win hearts, minds and the war.
There are websites out there backing up every version of every software you can think of. In CD/DVD days, you'd obviously have your installation media, which the vendor couldn't retroactively take away from you. Or its backup. Later, I always kept the copy of the original installer .msi/.iso (mostly to save on download time - companies retiring products or going out of business so fast as SaaS ones do wasn't on my radar for a long time).
It’s not hyperbolic in the slightest. Which other discipline would condition its participants to endure the combination of forces and temperatures over the duration I described above?
Paul, on Nov. 16 you mentioned on twitter, "It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX." Source: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1592852796185128961

In hindsight do you now think that Musk is not suitable anymore? He is too thin-skinned to be running a public forum and not being able to anticipate consequences that his new rules/actions have on the brand value of twitter and musk. He and Peter Theil are extremely anti-democratic as it all comes down to money and power trips. What are your thoughts?
Countless species have already gone extinct over the eons. Why not one more?
Putting a culvert under the highway would do well and it'd be cheap.
The size of free email box. Gigabyte was a lot compared to measly megabytes I think alternatives were offering.
> generally viewed as good for both producers and consumers

How so? All examples of price discrimination I can think of are basically forms of rent seeking where money is extracted without providing anything in return.

Price discrimination is basically a tax levvied by the rich-powerful-and-better-informed entities of the world over the rich-but-powerless-and-poorly-informed.

For example, people who gladly pay premia for organic/green/ethical products while accepting any and all claims about the product actually being organic/green/ethical at face value are, to me, rich-but-poorly-informed.

Private health insurance in Germany is another good example: The cost of the service they're providing is mostly driven by insanely expensive therapies, like cancer treatment or dialysis, that you may or may not ever need. The catalogue of such services that insurance needs to cover is prescribed by law with only very minor deviations permissible, so you'd expect that premia for different insurance products are in a very narrow range. Not so. One such permissible small deviation is coverage of single-bed rooms during hospital stays versus five-bed rooms. That's financially just small change. But the premia for single-bed often cost as much as twice (or even more) as the entry-level premia. The folk who pay them, to me, are simply poorly informed. They don't work through the math of getting the low premium while paying for the single-bed room out of pocket.

A third example: This one is more about situational power than it is about smarts. If there are multiple different modes of transport and railway companies competing to provide transport in a given country, market forces will lead to an equilibrium price for rail transport. This is the price after deduction of the discount you get from the rail card. A tourist however, can't hand in an application for a rail card at the station and wait for 2 weeks for the card to arrive in the mail. So they have to pay full price, without the discount for the railway card. That premium is basically a form of rent seeking, where the rail company extracts a higher price from the tourist, merely because they have the power to do so, and without providing anything of value in return. A plain-and-simple form of rent-seeking. Economically as destructive as can be.
A lot of it is 'I don't like these payment terms or pricing' most do have alternatives that ticks the boxes, except Adobe/MS. For them its a matter of monopolies and price gouging, be it subscriptions/one-off payments/paying for upgrades.
The alternative is having to pay for HPC (Azure offers this) and not developing any competences around the planning, operation and maintenance of such an operation.

Europe has tons of supercomputers, this is just the latest crossing a particular size that sounds cool in outreach and promotion. The research done on these machines (particle physics is a major consumer, see CERN) means there is a very healthy and large community around such tooling, and work is being done to onboard new fields as well. This is a meaningful outcome of such computers, even if they don't contain local free range chips ;)
They're different words with different shades of meaning.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/jury-rigged-vs-jerry-rigged/
over decades there has an enormous amount of discussion about the rise and fall of various programming languages but somehow it remains for ever a shallow analysis, more noise than signal. what do we really know about this phenomenon at the end of the day?

one problem is the difficulty of measuring what we are talking about: when is a language "dead", when the last program in production stops running? when the last programmer that can program in it retires? when the last school that is teaching it removes it from the curriculum? or maybe when the last computer scientist that can enhance it decides there are richer academic and/or commercial pickings elsewhere?

another problem is the objective measurement of any of the above definitions. beside the design and availability of surveys, objectivity was always a problem given that software is big business and hence various actors have incentives to skew the perceived state to support their aims. but it has become particularly problematic in the current interconnected universe of developers that leads to very pronounced virality and network effects which may or may not persist.

finally the scope of programming is ever expanding as more and more aspects of society and economic life get digital but the process is still in full swing, materially incomplete and dominated by idiosyncratic oligopoly circumstances. think for example about the billion mobile devices around the planet that are currently practically impossible to program by their users. one could imagine e.g., of the "dead" languages (Basic?) suddenly return from the grave as an ubiquitous mobile device programming paradigm. A programming language that was useful in the past in a certain context may become useful again if a similar context reappears.

what would be interesting is a sort of "principal component analysis" of the programming language space: identifying the principal functionalities / capabilities provided by different languages. a dead language could then be defined as one that is completely dominated (effectively a subset) of another one along all relevant principal component directions
If I am not mistaken, git clone is an atomic operation (it either succeeds or fails).

Since I see it mentioned in many threads here: for a huge repo one can always use `git clone --depth 1` to get that repo and later do a proper pull to retrieve all history.
If only there was someone with expertise in social media at Twitter
He's already held a poll on unbanning Donald Trump, and while the poll was ongoing, Elon was complaining that too many bots and trolls were voting 'No'.
There were dime a dozen garage companies hand-crafting electric cars. None of them challenged the industry, none of them would.
Honestly sounds kind of like my job. Corporate executives suggesting nonsensical solutions to technical problems they created and insisting they are right. You just need to let them think they won and work around them to get things done. You learn this after a few years working corporate. No point butting heads with people in power. They won’t back down because they will look silly to everyone else in the meeting. They always have to be right to save their own face.
Just started working on a mobile security package aka RASP for React Native that will protect your application and monitor its security, effectively securing your app from attack attempts and covering the OWASP Resiliency against reverse engineering requirements.

It will be able to detect reverse engineering, debugger, simulator, repackaging or cloning attempts, running the app in an unsafe OS environment (e.g. root or jailbreak), hooking frameworks and installing the application through unofficial stores. It also comes with weekly reports about the security state of your application.

Such SDK package for other platforms (Android, iOS, Flutter, Cordova) is already available on GitHub (https://github.com/talsec/Free-RASP-Community). So I plan to catch up with React Native support.

The freeRASP for React Native will be available on GitHub and later also as an npm package, providing an interface to configure the freeRASP. It will be lightweight and easy to integrate.

You will configure Android and iOS apps via a config object. Then, set up a threat listener for setting your actions when a threat is detected.

Would you benefit from using such a package? There will be freemium and commercial versions. See this link for the difference between these versions.

Let us know if there is anything specific you would like to see in the implementation. Our goal is to create a tool that is easy to use and satisfies all developer’s needs for app security and mobile OWASP compliance.

Your feedback will be highly appreciated.
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Well, early transistors were 3-5 orders of magnitude larger, slower and more dissipative than those we have today. So by the same argument, the computer revolution would have seemed impossible just 50 years ago.
> I never really liked to play computer games.

Don't make that your identity.

See, everything's relative. Considering the world's population, the fact that you're asking in English, and not Chinese should be considered an outlier and not normal. The question is, what are the ramifications for you? Suppose we say yes, this makes you an outlier. Then What? How about if we say no, you're normal. Then what? What meaningful pronouncements upon yourself will you then decree you must adhere to?

You gain nothing by having never played a console-based game, so try one. Seek out a gamepad to touch. If you try it and don't like it, then it's not for you, but if you try it and do like it, then that's great! You can use it as a source for joy in your life.

Adopt a growth mindset.

https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/growth-mindset-vs-fixed-min...
>Can you explain how a monorepo for microservices is a tooling nightmare and bandwidth sink?

bandwidth:

I meant "bandwidth" as literal bandwidth. When your codebase becomes huge, your VCS repo size becomes enormous and it becomes harder and harder to keep a full checkout on all the development machines, especially if they are over the WAN (e.g. at home on your laptop).

This has fuelled solutions like sparse checkouts (like MS vfs for git, now scalar) remote development (like TFA; but also Google's cider and srcfs etc).

tooling:

naïve monorepo tooling (which I've seen in various companies I worked for) simply perform a full build of the whole monorepo for each CI execution. At first this is just fine since you can parallelize builds and call it a day; but after a while, the builds just don't scale anymore ; flaky tests become an increasing frustration etc.

The tooling that can help scale large monorepos does exist, but requires buy in and comes with its own learning curve and tradeoffs. One well known such tool is bazel (https://bazel.build) and bazel remote builds and remote caches. These tools are hard to set up, although folks at https://www.buildbuddy.io/ can help smaller startups by offering a managed service.

(Again, I'm talking about really large monorepos. A monorepo which includes a dozen or so modules, for which you can easily perform a full re-build on a single CI worker and on your laptop is not the kind of repo that creates tooling nightmares.)
I'd add that for me at least it's quite good at some small specific subsets of "requires me to think". For example, I do a lot of 3d rotations & transformations, and it's very good at figuring out the math of that based on the function name I chose etc. Most of those would take me a piece of paper and 5-10 mins, but it usually gets it in 1 or 2 tries.

But yes, mundane work it is best at. Some things I have found it made particularly easy:

- scraping websites

- file i/o

- "mirroring" things (I write a bunch of code for doing something on x axis, it automatically replicates it for y and z etc with the right adjustments, or cardinal directions, or arrow keys, etc etc etc)
> some kind of weird conspiracy theory that there was no systematic problem in children murdered in those orphanages and schools in Canada

GPR is not magic.

When ground penetrating radar does show a disturbance, that is not proof of a burial site and everybody presenting it as such, probably has an agenda as well. Even in the context of the (highly problematic) "orphanages", a ground disturbance alone does not make a grave site.

So being sceptical until at least an exploratory dig at that point, is not necessarily a "weird conspiracy theory that there was no systematic problem" but justified scepticism, whether GPR data was interpreted correctly.

Edit: Being sceptical of the existence of a burial site at this specific location is not the same as seeing no systematic problem in that system of "schooling" in Canada.
switching between 2 inputs would take between 1x and 4x (x being the time to switch to the next input) depending if it is from A to B or B to A.
I was annoyed by this too. My solution was to buy a 49" samsung monitor and have either 50:50 or 1/3:2/3 split on the screen so I can see both at once. If I only want one active I can change the source but this has the flicker/delay as noted.
I run Barrier software on both to move one keyboard and mouse between the screens.
I would put WSJ to more of a centre than either left or right of political ideology assuming we can ignore their conservative leaning Opinions writers.
This touches on a more fundamental problem in society: it's expensive to be poor. To me the role of governments should be to mitigate that. Progressive taxes are part of it, but this situation with cars is another.
Very interesting list, thank you! From glancing over it, poor compression mostly seems to be an 'indie phenomenon' though (which is a bit surprising, because I would expect that Unity automatically takes care of asset compression, but maybe not).
The more I see things like this, the more convinced I get that what most impresses us about ChatGPT is at the same time its greatest weakness: it responds to everything EXACTLY the way we expect it to.

Ask it to do anything creative, and it'll respond with the most obvious, mundane, cliched answer you could imagine.

Try asking it to come up with names for a Twitter type app, for instance, and no matter how much additional instruction you give it, it'll come back with "Chirp", "Tweety", "TwitHub" etc. etc. The most boring, obvious selection of names you could ever imagine. The same seems to be true with anything; ask it to write poems or songs, and after a while you'll start noticing that what you get is basically a limited selection of templates with some keywords changed.

AI has ridiculous potential, for sure, but it isn't quite yet where many people seem to think it is.
It's worth keeping in mind that Minding the Campus is run by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative-libertarian think tank. It's very "weird" how lately these proxy sites pushing socially conservative agendas that turn out to be run by conservative think tanks have been landing and languishing on the front page here
Note that this article talks about the decline of men in their 20s and early 30s in the workforce. There's no reason to believe that there's a decline of men over 35 in the workforce.

The article also points out that there's lots of demand for workers, and workers have huge leverage because of this. We're supposed to wonder why these men in their 20s and 30s aren't taking advantage of those job openings. And it's easy to understand. Job openings have these things called "requirements" and if you don't meet them, tough luck. A lot of job openings require 10 years of experience welding, or programming, or driving a truck. So you can't fit the round peg of out of work men into the square hole of these job openings. It's just wishful thinking.

And lastly, why are these men staying home and "playing Call of Duty stoned"? Well, because their parents (Baby Boomers and Gen X) are more compassionate to their situation and allow them to live at home into their late 30s. This is much preferable to previous generations that would shame anyone still living at home past 25.