skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Viking" is indeed listed there as an English term derived from this root [0]
- together with vicinity, villa and villain among others. But the actual invention of the term is not likely directly related to the root. Personally I favor the explanation mentioned elsewhere: since Viken was both a place where many vikings came from, as well as a name for a topography where vikings often gathered before their raids (vik~=bay) then this is the most likely explanation, to me.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derive...
> Traffic courts across America, except for major cities, can be kangaroo courts after fees and fines.

Traffic courts in major cities shouldn't be excepted. They're often just as bad, if not worse.
Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
What thoughts have you had?
Is lobste.rs under EU jurisdiction? It appears to be run out of Chicago.
The thing is that the business would have been perfectly fine without that nonsense. They have a core product which despite all its issues still have real demand it's not bloatware but something you can build a sustainable business on.

Had they not massively overhired, stayed at ~1500-2000 employees, focused on the engine itself and not wasted massive amounts of money on acquisitions like this the company would likely already be profitable.
You risk jumping into the middle of an embedded narrative that is markedly different from the rest of the book.
qingcharles I keep running into you in HN threads, I'm just gonna leave this here:

preston@unlockedlabs.org

hit me up sometime
It’s generally known that American politics is broadcast overseas to promote democracy and peace, especially since the 90s in Europe. We don’t really care as long as you keep holding elections and not starting wars.
This happens all the time. There is a documentary for example on the HMS Elizabeth carrier from the UK and how they deliberately navigated through Crimea waters (together with the Dutch navy) to make a point that they're allowed to do so because that water is Ukrainian and not Russian.

In the same documentary you also see Chinese ships follow around the British group, and Russian jets overflying it. All in international waters, all legal, both not appreciated by the UK side of things.
Have you worked at Shopify before to know that MySQL is not the right approach?

If not, how do you know it was wrong for them?

FYI Uber migrated from Postgres to MySQL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26283348
Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model
- Sheet music: It looks like a completely different language, I don't have an idea of how it works nor can I read it. I can't believe that people can read it without specifically learning it?

- Chord charts: Never heard of this and Google doesn't give me anything relevant either. All I'm seeing are pictures of 6 strings with the frets to play highlighted with a dot symbol. If you mean that, then I think that's even easier than tabs and anyone who can read tabs can read it.

- Lead sheets: Never heard of it either and on googling it looks like sheet music, and I can't read it either.

- Playing by ear: I'm training myself by playing nursery rhymes but admittedly it's slow especially on higher bpm songs where I find it hard to remember or distinguish individual notes. E.g. I recently figured out Amazing Grace, but I know I'm very far away from being able to figure out the solo of Sweet Child o Mine by ear (which I learnt from YouTube). I wish there sequence of recommended tracks for the same, to slowly upgrade the skill of playing by ear.

- Soflege: Haven't heard the term, and I'm not from a western country and we don't use Do-Re-Mi. Though if you mean "scales" (specifically the major scale I guess?), sure I know them, and understand how they are all relative, but again fail to understand how they are related to being able to play a new song on the guitar.

I'm glad to hear your perspective on things because learning music is not something I ever bothered to do until recently, thanks for sharing your thoughts
> would let you play directly from sheet music, chord charts or lead sheets

Are the sites for those less terrible than they are for tabs? The problem here isn't using tabs to learn things, it's that the tabs sites are full of ads and popups (and terrible layouts and all kinds of other things not so easily addressed with an adblocker).
Guitar tabs have been used for over 500 years. Calling them a "crutch" is incredibly pretentious, they are no less valid than sheet music.
And where did you learn that? My wife is Ukrainian and knows lot of Russians and Belarussians (they're neighbours after all, and no they don't all hate each other!!), they watch each other TV shows and like mostly the same singers (they understand each other pretty well)... a lot of the biggest Ukrainian singers go to live and work in Russia (though obviously they're now being criticized heavily in Ukraine when they choose to stay). You don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about.
The author has updated the title and also contacted me. But unfortunately I'm no longer able to update it so.
I'll cross the 40 year old mark. I know I'm slowing down but I don't intend to get into management. It's like the aikido thing, learn to do more with less energy.

That probably means AI stuff. AI is already doing a good chunk of my work. You can take photos of a crash stacktrace and it identifies the solution far better and more comprehensively than Stack Overflow. I write fiction and AI closes a story iteration loop in seconds, something that may otherwise take hours or days.

We've expressed concerns that this is "anti-growth" and I agree. But the way I see it, it's like driving cars vs riding horses. You may end up a better car driver and a worse horse rider, and it will matter in the initial years of transition.

But eventually we all drive cars. It is sad what happens to all those millions of horses, but such is tech.
Nintendo is good at social if all the players are in the same room: their internet services leave a lot to be desired.
I'm not familiarized with those game engines, but the first search showed me that "Unity is more commonly used to develop mobile or 2D games while Unreal is used to create video games on consoles or next-generation PCs."

I have no idea, my own speculation as curiosity, but maybe Unity was looking for coding for realistic rendering, know-how, for rise a competence with the Unreal market space?

But if it were the case, why let to fly away the team? Maybe was this part of the deal with Weta? to sell an snapshot as the parent comment says, with the pack of programmers for to train Unity's team temporally?

I don't know. The numbers are very high, if I were in charge I wouldn't invest that quantity of money without sending firstly a pair of emissaries for to read code and verify the toolset will be useful for the pipeline.

PS: The shareholders owe me a few beers for sowing the seeds of doubt.
I always wondered why photographers held on to negatives/raw files for so long. How often does the need to return years later come up, and can that justify the cost of storing all that in a way that’s somewhat reliable? I’m not saying there aren’t valid reasons to do so, and throwing the pictures on a few externals drives isn’t terrible, but to do it “right” seems like it would be super expensive!
> Do you believe they bombed the theater because they were actively trying to kill Ukrainian children?

Yes. They are also actively bombing clinics (including the maternity ward in Mariupol too, look it up) and they have done that in Syria too. It's pretty well documented. They are evil, but more than that, it's a strategy.

They are currently also bombing civilian areas, fully aware that they are civilian areas.

There might be some normal people in Russia, but certainly the heads of the army, Putin and his inner circle are not normal, and they are doing this.
Really cool and actually a real use case.
US seizes Iranian cargo on even non Iranian vessels [1] with impunity. Iran sending warships would be as harshly responded to as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-confiscates-ira...
This is not a "both sides" issue. Thought experiment for you.

Q: What would happen today if Hamas and supporters permanently gave up all their weapons and surrendered? A: Israel would immediately stop any wartime action.

Q: What would happen today if Israel gave up it's defenses and military, took down the borders? A: Iran and Hamas would kill every last Jew in Israel. They have to, it is their charter.

Also, how many Jews and Christians are living in Gaza openly vs Israel? What would happen to them in the above?
It is and it isn't. It's definitely on the "you don't need it" side of the scale, but if done thoughtfully it can make everyday life just a bit easier.

Some of my favourite automations:

1. Whenever someone arrives home and it's started to get dark outside, automatically turn the hallway lights on if they're off
2. When turning off the TV in the lounge, and it's dark outside, and the lights are dimmed, bring them up to 100% warm white so you can see where you're going
3. Motion sensors in the hallway and landing to turn the lights on when they detect motion at night.

Do I NEED any of these? Of course not. But I like having them.
It’s “Russia made no efforts to contact” and “Russia made no efforts to search” both of which indicate it was because Russia was up to no good.

Funny how you ignore the reasons the commenter you’re replying to gives to indicate Russia did it because it was evil, reasons which do not apply to the U.S. case, and pretend they never gave those explanations at all.
A carnel through the eye of a needle. Might be a pastry. Might be part of a battlement.
Four Countries Boycott OSCE Meeting in Skopje over Lavrov's Presence
Extracting training data from ChatGPT
"you're interpreting a system is hard to understand and work on as being made by super intelligent people"

I read it as the opposite. GP says that if a system is good, it needs no improvement, so there's no fun in refactoring and redesign.

And those good systems are easy to understand and work no, so when something breaks you can't blame it on the design. You can only blame yourself.
This space should be much larger than it is but obviously, lots of people just don't care.

If you have nothing to hide, your life is irrelevant.
tl; dr: They had the wrong contact selected. That's it, that's the whole thing.
We have built out home management platform https://dobu.me for more of the maintenace handling, but I would really appreciate if you could give it a go and let me know your thoughts :)
Is there a way, as either the reader or the writer, to set that as a default? Or do you need to remember it and manually do it every time you read a thread like this?
> When you do a hiring push: being open to WFH gives you a bigger pool to draw from

Onboarding a large number of new WFH employees at the same might easily turn into a disaster though (for example if you "need" to grow your headcount at 50-100% per year like Unity did... of course they didn't need to do that but that's different problem).
I'll note that that's not at all equivalent to v3's 'connect with psql'. v3 popped open a terminal with psql for the user in a new window (thus giving an equivalent experience to 'normal' use of psql, with the user's configured terminal settings etc.), while v4 only forwards the output of a virtual terminal to their web app (thus requiring you to keep a window open, keeping v4's server running, etc.).

I can understand why they did that (with the whole 'web first' shtick), but for me it does not provide the same functionality and is thus essentially useless.
Most interesting article I've read this week. Excellent write-up.
Perhaps you should read about what Haganah did to the British before the establishment of Israel in 1948.
it seems like they did you a solid showing you that you were wasted working in that environment
Someday, witty remark about anaconda and bun
Wouldn't it be better handled by people following accounts they want to and unfollowing bad actors?
Civilian casualties in Gaza are a tragic, unfortunate side effect. It's terrible. But October 7th changed things. 1,200 dead, 240 kidnapped, more than 100,000 still displaced. "Some problems are intractable" is not good enough anymore, our lives are in danger.

So Israel acts, with the goal of destorying Hamas's military ability. If you forcibly take away the other side's guns they can't shoot you anymore. That's not a syllogism, it's simple logic.

This is a solution with a terrible cost, brought about by Hamas's continued active use of their citizenry as human shield. Hamas can end this today by disarming and surrendering. The Gazans would get a functioning state and a better life for their citizens.

Israel doesn't have this option - right now it is do or die.

If there is a way to neutralize the threat from Hamas without civilian casualties, I'm all ears. If not, I assert that any reasonable westerner would act exactly the same. Go ahead and prove me wrong.
I think your company is PSE, correct?
We created a home management platform https://dobu.me just for this, I would really appreciate if you could give it a go and let me know your thoughts :)
To paraphrase JFK, those who make peaceful resistance impossible make violent resistance inevitable.
So we outsource bad decision making of overcompensated people to the public. Brilliant.
Well you can bounce them back and forth until they just quit on their own. Seems like a "great" way to reduce costs without having to "layoff" anyone and pay severance.
> If your land was occupied by an invading force armed and financed by the US and its allies would you sit back and do nothing while that force murdered your people and stole your property, or would you have done exactly what Hamas did on October the 7th?

No, I would have accepted one of the many peace proposals the other side offered.

Regardless, your framing of how there are only two binary options – (1) doing nothing to advance my political goals, or (2) resorting to the most savage terrorism imaginable – and no other options between them is appalling and telling.
When a foreign country kills US citizens, it's terrorism. When the US kills foreign civilians it's collateral damage or a UI disaster ... business as usual.
I think this might be as simple as being the hardware that the reviewer owns.
GPT and the equivalent will be extraordinary at programming five years out.

Being exceptional at programming isn't hard. Being exceptional at listening to bullshit requirements for 5 hours a day is.
I cloned the repo and tried building it, but it seems there's a bunch of devDependencies missing in the package.json? It doesn't appear to build or run to a usable state.
Disclaimer: The title has been changed to "Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware!" to avoid clickbait. However I'm not able to fix the title in HN.
> It is disheartening to acknowledge that in 2023, there are still people who care about the gender or race of speakers.

On one hand, the content of any conference talk is in most cases good or bad regardless of who the person behind it is. Same as how my API performance or DB schema quality won't be impacted much by that either. A bit like how the Silicon Valley show illustrated the fact that trying to hire a "woman engineer" is a bit disrespectful to the person's own achievements.

On the other hand, tech seems to be a generally male dominated field and that could still be an issue in some ways, not just in regards to UI/UX design, but social factors. It's one of those careers that aren't back breaking work and are reasonably rewarding, however sometime between the 80s and 90s, it seems that the amount of women in the industry decreased, along the lines of: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when... Some representation there would probably be nice.

Maybe personal computer marketing was pointlessly gendered, maybe men and women have slightly different approaches to learning and learning in university courses with way more men in them doesn't feel as comfortable for women, maybe the culture in companies isn't exactly welcoming, I don't quite know.

That said, I think there are some groups to encourage women to explore ITC work here in Latvia and I've seen some panel discussions/quick talks along those lines, though I don't remember whether that was in DevTernity or FrontCon, Riga DevDays or something else.

This situation with fake speakers is quite unfortunate and not a good look, though.
They're actually good and have nearly replaced my airpods.
I don't need glasses and don't live in SF so I do feel a bit pretentious though.

The potential is definitely there and I'd be very surprised if the Meta Reality Labs team haven't already added heaps of features internally and are just waiting or staggering releases.
IMSLP has some ads and a little nag screen if you aren't a subscriber/contributor, but nothing terrible.
Those answers are preposterous and your argument is laughable. This is indeed a "both sides" issue, because otherwise it wouldn't have remained a hot conflict after 70 years. There are legitimate and now multi-generational grievances on both sides, that are really difficult to recompose. You can't engage with simplistic attitudes if you want to be intellectually honest.
>with no way to bypass

https://archive.is/ShGa2
No need for that, we built dobu.me for this, currety completely free as we are gathering feedback :)
It should include getting rid of the executives who thought this was a good idea in the first place then. Otherwise it seems like "I might have thought you were incompetent, but now you've proven it" moment.
The point of having human shields is that you don't kill the human shields.
That’s why i put the word “arguably. Because it seems to be debatable and naturally i would like to hear the other side.

Clever and smart scammer is extremely great at his job sending people into poverty. Absolutely great at the job. Is it admirable? I’ll leave the judgment to you.
That's not how publicly traded businesses are run. You are not serving the needs of the business. You are serving the needs of the shareholders. Line must go up therefore you need to constantly expand. This incentivizes stupid acquisitions bought on with stock and debt. It does not incentivize focusing on your core businesses and investing in to it.
> And then there's the timezone issue as I assume most of the leadership is in the US.

Well to be fair that didn't work out that well either...

> also the employees

Still almost dirt cheap by SF standards.
This is not old software being open sourced. It's a cross-platform re-implementation of BBC BASIC, and it's been around for years.
> One of the sneakily genius things Apple seems to be doing is, it goes to developers of some of the most "popular" apps and works with them to make their apps work well

This has been part of their playbook for decades. I distinctly remember some folks from Wolfram (maybe Stephen Wolfram himself?) demo Mathematica running on Intel macs (and talking about how easy it was to port) as part of announcing the transition to Intel.
I'm less predisposed to mysticism, but I agree with you conclusion on "You don't get to keep anything." I would also add "You don't get to buy your way in."

Often in the gospels we hear Jesus say things that stump both us and the hearers at the time. It is almost like he is inviting us to search for meaning behind his words. He is speaking in metaphors, and that much is clear with how "off" his responses sometimes feel to us.
It's hard for me to understand the advantages of this setup. Given the confusion in this thread, it's clearly poorly implemented.
effective altruists are neither.

all the movement does is attempt to distort reality to the childlike views of the wealthy.

yes, ea practitioners think they are better than everyone else. that’s why all the haters are wrong.
> People on M2 wouldn’t already upgrade.

Absolutely this.

And the small category of people upgrading from M2 from M3 will do it because they know what they need. They won't be dithering about with random evaluations or reading random blog posts. They'll just buy, infact they probably bought the day of the release.
Interesting. What are the competitors for to lean?
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A contrarian take:

The Acropolis Museum gets 1.4 million visitors a year and a ticket costs $10 to $20 depending on season. The British Museum is free and gets 4 million visitors per year.

Thus if the aim of any museum is to provide access to the most and widest range of people, rich or poor, the sculptures are seen and appreciated by many many more people and for free if they remain in Britain than if they were taken back to where they were removed.

A counter-contrarian and tech optimist take would be that digital museums technology, high-res photos, VR, video etc would vastly increase the outreach of any object in any museum anywhere in the world. So the actual objects could never see the light of day again, be replaced by high quality reproductions and still more people will see it. One might even say it doesn't matter where they are or if a museum has it, if its properly served by the internet!
I'm looking to break an old java monolith application in something like that: modular code base, single deployment artifact, multiple configurable use cases.
I've yet to find a good existing tool to compose the application at build time, other than using a godawful lot of maven profiles combinations
Yeah, it's often better to _extract_ abstractions rather than to try and predict them correctly on a blank screen.
In this case it is a hardware bug and in no way attributable to Python being fast.
Twitter thread UX makes sense for Twitter, but why do people post things on Twitter, the social media for short messages, that are so long they need threads?
I generally just follow the "It's a drop in replacement for node" and hope the APIs I need are there. Also makes me feel like a 2023 bleeding edge blazingly fast developer which is 90% of the use case right?
I had the requirement for the same basic functionality and switched to Syncthing several years ago. Haven't looked back: works all the time, every time, and it is much easier to maintain.
If there are panels which contain only white men, then I will be asking questions about whether people are being excluded, yes. And less interested in giving money to the people organising the conference.
I worked for Weta a few years before the acquisition, let me just say that I'm not surprised that Unity didn't know what to do with it. It was never a single DCC set of code, but lots of separate tools (many very old) that only sort-of worked together. I imagine they would have to throw everything out and start over to build something on the level of Maya or Houdini.
More like we'll be deeply thankful for driverless trains.
The integrated assembler was very good. I worked for Acorn in the early 80s (was co-author of Acorn ISO Pascal), and we used our own H/W and S/W for all software development. ISO Pascal came in two 16K ROMS, one holding the compiler (in VM code), and one everything else (virtual machine, screen editor, Pascal libraries etc) which was all written in assembler using BBC Basic.

The combination of BASIC with the basic ability to have inline assembly was very convenient - just use a BASIC for loop for two-pass assembly, use CHAIN to split source into multiple files, etc.
Russia has declassified documents that confirm what the GP said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007#So...

> It's actually astonishing that anyone who's been on this planet for more than a couple decades can take any of these narratives seriously.

The only astonishing thing is that you reflexively rushed to Russia's defense instead of looking up the facts.
reminds me of HP48 programming, there was sysrpl which was near asm speed, and then user rpl which was slooow