skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My experience with academic archaeologists has been that they are pretty myopic on this.

I wonder if anyone has done a survey of views? There is some "do no harm", exploit non-destructive techniques, and reserve excavation for rescue archaeology. But seemingly a variety of other standards of care for site conservation and consumption.

Not my field, but one thing I've anecdotally seen underappreciated, is the rate of change in molecular biology, and thus eventually in molecular archaeology (aka bioarchaeology outside the US). Where over a mere decade or two, "can't imagine doing X" can change to "doing X costs years and millions", and then to "new trainee can casually do X in an afternoon", and even to "X is a field-deployable box". With a potential impact... for example, it turns out tooth calculus preserves DNA. So from millennia old teeth, one might sequence the owner, their mouth microbiome (with health information), and the species they've been eating. Grabbing a few soil samples might be ok if you're thinking pollen, but rather less so if a single tiny rat incisor might tell you so much. And proteomics is just getting started. And in addition to biology, there's improving imaging, inorganic materials analysis, bulk data management, robotics, and so on. Aggressive excavation, with 'DSLR, eyeball, sample bagging, brush, sift, and float', while largely unchanged for decades, seems rather more problematic if one looks ahead?
I would be curious if research confirmed your theory. In my mind with proper layering it makes authentication and what is provided much more clear.
>> I am speculating that as usual gas price is going to determine how many of each they will sell.

That seems like a perfectly reasonable plan to me. If everyone went all-electric, the price of gas would fall through the floor making high demand for gas powered cars. Make them all available in various forms and let the market decide what it wants.
Upvote for "The Selfish Gene". Should be mandatory for anyone interested in science and/or biology! A great eye opener about how evolution really works.
Still need to study.
That's for modifying Yue's code, not your code.
I already paid $1,000 for my iPhone 7+ though it would cost $869 if I was living in the US (I don't know though if the prices in the Apple site are pre-VAT).

Apple next challenge is not making people pay $1,000 for an iPhone. People already do that. Apple next challenge is bringing globalization, breaking the VAT, and putting profits in safe havens away from the fiscal preys.

People already pay thousands, dozens and hundreds of them for luxury. Apple upping its price might have the reverse effect: People line up to buy the highest price iPhone because it is not "accessible for everyone". Apple always got your back with a cheaper version but you really want the expensive one otherwise you are out of line.

We are getting close everyday to the confrontation between IT giga-multi-nationals and the traditional countries/governments of the world. We are probably still too far from the real battle but everyday is showing more why these two are not friends.
Yah, this needs a better title.

Changing it to: Tell me your Sbanken bank account no. and I'll tell you how rich you are

Would be enough.

Although I would prefer: Tell me your Sbanken bank account no. and I'll tell you your account balance
Thanks for your answer. My company does provide health care, the issue is that as a remote worker I don't want to start face-to-face therapy. I've looked for online therapy but I don't like the things I find.
Ask HN: Is it me or HackerNews needs a better UI?
I really enjoy the content posted on HN. But I frequently find myself skimming through the (often) insightful comments/discussion. Am I the only one who thinks the comments UX makes it difficult to read/participate?
Possibly not UL approved though.
I'm confused by what you've written here.

When you say they "left out the petrol", are you assuming that a better analysis would assume that the petrol is never made in the first place?

I mean, that might be the wish but we don't yet live in a world where the gas will stay in the ground if we don't use it to fuel one automobile at the margin.
I don't think the problem is in architecture. API might be sometimes easier to analyze because it usually has a detailed description, often even in machine-readable form.

> It's also easy to use marshalling tools/framework features that serialize entire domain objects, which contain sensitive IDs/data that is then inadvertently leaked.

This is just poor code quality. Sensitive data can be hidden in HTML attributes and inline scripts too.
Given the lucrative export market, California might not be terribly interested in cracking down on a cash crop...
The problem there is that low rent health insurance didn't cover anything. You'd had catastrophic plans with $2,500+ deductibles and a cap at $25k. It didn't cover preventative maintenance, doctor visits, kids, drugs, etc. It only made sense in a "what if I injure myself at work, but not too seriously" kind of way.

I imagine ACA mandated insurance is a net boon here even if the monthlies are more.
It really depends on the traffic, we have launched the site for only a month, we've got about 9k users so far (mid aug til now), revenue is about $200
Linux can be upgraded without a full reboot using the now-somewhat-ancient two-kernel-monte, or kexec?

Plan 9 had been able to load new kernels and such without rebooting the machine fully as well.

I love when people make crazy claims like "NO ONE ELSE CAN DO THIS... I MEAN WE NEVER ACTUALLY VERIFIED THIS OR LOOKED BUT WE'RE PRETTY SURE NO ONE ELSE CAN DO THIS!"

Should go into marketing where that crap is allowed.
I think buildings sites as PWAs is a good idea but it'll take some time for them to actually replace apps. As other commenters have said, user habits go straight to apps. And until Apple decides to support service worker in iOS Safari, it won't have the same functionality as on Android.
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Some earlier discussion on an article in the Times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206796
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> Just run astyle or indent.

"Style" is more than indentation - my favourite example is something I worked with very closely, but always needed a cheat-sheet on my desk - the PHP arrays api.

Just look at the docs for array_search and array_replace.

This is much worse in managed memory languages - do you allocate memory, who frees it, who can use a buffer in zero-copy mode, who can't ... whether the functions are always re-entrant.

All that said - any originating coder who burns out due to support issues, killing the community is measurably worse off than someone who has thousands of users who demand that you support such "legacy" APIs for another six months.
I guess the point of submitting this story now is that the patent expires today. For interested readers there was another recent discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15046601
Windows Event Forwarding for Network Defense
I'm not sure that you could extrapolate to that wide an audience. One of the largest factors would have to be exposure to that interest, if you aren't exposed to it, then you can't know if you enjoy it (Nurture).

In small groups that are already interested in something, finding genetic similarity would mean that their nature is similar, and that nurture has also had an opportunity to take effect.

So small groups of people interested in something, can't necessarily be extrapolated to a larger group.
What exactly do you beleive politics to be?

This sort of thing is a prime example of politics, the failure to recognise that is harmful to your understanding.

Politics isnt just voting for congress-critters and presidents.
Or at least explain how it's different from the existing things that work pretty well.
This is sooo great!
Nice work. But I'm not looking forward to trying to select text only to drag an image
Ethnic groups are defined by appearance and cultural history, not by genes. Many ethnic groups (e.g. African Americans) are extremely diverse genetically.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. The tone of your comment comes across as if you're refuting/disputing something (that may be implied?) in what I wrote, but I'm not sure what it is.
> If you want to make more money and a law hinders you doing so, then go through the democratic channels.

Exactly!
A couple big questions follow, if the rise of electric-only cars implies a shift away from today's gasoline-car infrastructure (which seems increasingly imminent):

How soon before fast recharger stations are plentiful (and fast) enough to allow long distance trips via electric-only cars?

If multitudes of rechargers do not arise, does the inevitability of electric-only cars spell the end of using the automobile for interstate travel once the last gas station becomes unsustainable? If people already are using cars less for long trips, this trend away from road trips may be unstoppable in most of the world, and soon thereafter, everywhere.
Also everyone forgets evolution is about adaptation. It's not about "levelling up" across-the-board like in a video game. If a species is already optimized for the environment, and the environment remains stable, of course you won't see much evolution!
What do you think drives investment in small teams? Do you think it's fancy JavaScript and a hero banner? No, intellectual property is a significant factor for the types of teams I'm talking about.

These teams need robust protection from large organizations intent on acquiring or replicating their hard-earned results. Facebook's licenses undermine that protection for the shiny carrot of a flashy webpage. It's a bad deal.
I do not trust mozilla.

Try getting information from actual organization putting their money where their mouth is:
European Copyright Reform: A New Directive Against Fundamental Freedoms[1].

See also: https://changecopyright.org/en-US/ and https://netcommons.eu/sites/default/files/netcommons_eecc_no...

[1]: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/node/10289
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Yeah, I'd prefer Facebook to declare to not participating in the software patent fiasco at all and to lobby for it not being allowed, but at present, my thinking is that it just seems like having the ability to EXPLICITLY revoke you a patent grant is actually worse than having an implicit one, since then it will probably would be harder to argue for Facebook that they have the ability to explicitly revoke something that is part of the license as a whole, but I accept that I might be wrong on this as IANAL.
Exactly, just like that uninventive louse they are named after. Wires? Existed before. Magnets? Long history. Rotating fields? Over 75 years old at that point. All he did was come up with a winding pattern. Pfft, big deal.
Society in general, when Facebook and Google becomes the next ATT and all innovation much be funnelled through (and approved by) them.

The issue with monopolies (e.g. ATT in the Ma Bell days) is not that they're intrinsically evil, but that they're terrible at allowing innovations to reach the market.
> The people who own these medallions are rich taxi companies,

Or poor immigrants from Ghana. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/06/20/taxi-...
> I am now seemingly surrounded by the un-empathetic (and the uncritical-thinking...)

Then you cite fundamental attribution error...

Perhaps what's really happening is other are recognizing that the statement "it was kill or be killed" is not enough to determine what exactly happened, and does not necessarily mean the miners were attacked.

Even if the miners were attacked and had to kill in self-defense the other claims would still be crimes. If they were a "psychological coping mechanism", that would not absolve guilt, but only be relevant for determining punishment.
GNU as an organization pushing the idea of free software long predates the GPL. The people creating the BSD licensed BSD NET/2 explicitly aknowledged the GNU influence on their decision to release.
I don't think people realize how critical nuclear power is to achieving decarbonization in a timely manner.

Nuclear enables decarbonization about a decade sooner.

Yes, solar and wind are inexpensive when penetration is low. I'm fully in favor of them. And YES, most of the world could fully rely on them if given enough money. You do this by building enough solar power to provide electricity even during cloudy winter days then enough storage to go through the night.

BUT:
The UK is high latitude. That means that during the cloudy winter, it's just not feasible to build enough PV. And building enough storage for weeks is also not feasible. So you're going to burn gas, and not get to full decarbonization, or you're going to have to pull geothermal power from Iceland or something else very expensive. Going from 0 to 20% of electricity from solar/wind is cheap. 20-50% becomes more expensive. 50 to 70% is really expensive because you have to curtail a lot.

Going from 70% renewable to 100% is insanely expensive (think of that last 20-30% as being about 5-10 times as expensive per kWh) because you have to curtail MOST OF THE TIME.

But if instead you have nuclear, you can stretch your batteries and demand-response enough that you don't actually have to curtail so much. So in a world where we care about decarbonization, even 20-30% of nuclear is very valuable.

I've done the calculation. Hinkley C, even with the cost overruns, is a bargain if you're shooting for full decarbonization.

...but a lot of greens aren't. Many are being disingenuous as they care more about stomping out nuclear than they do about fighting climate change. They don't care much that it means building more gas in the near term.

Ask yourself: is throwing away nuclear worth a decade of delay in decarbonization?
The Roman's crucified a lot of people, I would think they had the system pretty well down.
In general what you are talking about is Euhemerism, trying to figure out the "real story" behind myths/religious stories and my understanding is it is pretty poorly regarded these days.
Refreshingly practical site.

This is exactly why I think solar will beat nuclear hands-down. Solar enables gradual adoption, unlike nuclear's power-plant sized step function. Regardless of the actual price in $/kWh, people like doing easy things.
If you factor in the chain from crude, you also have to factor in the mining and transportation of coal. I don't think that's usually done when calculating the CO2/kWh.
Are you only discovering now that mozilla is into propaganda ?
Maybe you don't drive that much? I appreciate the luxury of the new Audi A4 especially when I'm on a 3-4 hour driving route.

If you don't drive much, try smaller cars: A1, Mini-cooper, BMW series 1, etc...
Happy to hear that, we just did another update this morning. :)
The LIFT project (http://www.lift-project.org/) is specifically trying to solve the problem of performance portability. Our approach relies on a high level model of computation (think or something like a functional, or pattern based programming language) coupled with a rewrite-based compiler that explores the space of OpenCL programs with which to implement a computation.

We get really quite good results over a number of benchmarks - check out our papers!
We replaced the title with the subtitle.

Submitters: the HN guidelines ask you to change a title when it is misleading or baity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). This one was both. When changing a title, please look for representative language from the article itself. Usually there's a subtitle or a first sentence that says what the article actually is.
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As a teenager during the summers working for my father driving frontend loader. I sat in a AC cab and screened top soil all day. I went to work at 7am and left around 4pm. I didn't have a care in the world after 4pm.

It wasn't just because I had no bills to pay, I just didn't worry about work. I knew the pile of dirt wasn't going anywhere and the area we were digging out was going to be the same when I got back to work.

I never brought work home. It took me a good 14 years to re-learn that in tech.
I don't think you're thinking it through. Facebook is setting up a situation where it can do bargain barrel corp dev -- acquihires or (what reasonable folks would consider) theft of IP based on what technology was used to build the target's "About Us" page.
How come I am from Europe and all my best friends are (originally) from Asia? :O
Microdosing is specifically about avoiding the sort of active, vision-causing effects that normal use of acid has. I'm really not sure how "making sure to not have a religious experience" could be part of the quest for spiritual enlightenment. It feels like the sort of line that sounds pithy as long as you don't worry about accuracy.
"What has Telsa done that is completely novel?"

While it's not that sexy, I think that distributing the batteries throughout the very bottom of the vehicle was a novel and very useful innovation.

The Tesla cars have a much, much lower center of gravity than any ICE car could have and that is a figure/measurement that seems to matter enough to people that car magazines discuss CoG when reviewing new cars. It helps a lot with handling and safety.

All wheel drive with multiple motors, while not a Tesla innovation, is also something they are doing that is a pretty big leap forward in that space. It's hard to get excited about Quattro when the Tesla gets AWD from two different motors.
i'm guessing it's more useful to speak cantonese in shenzhen.

if you don't speak either, hire a translator.
Well, "hybrid" in this case is a bigger engine starter and battery, that also can propell the vehicle for a while, I assume.

This could be done with old manual cars without fancy security checks so, we have been there, done that.
It doesn't seem like there's anything new in this article compared to the original announcement.
It's interesting to me that it took me one minute to write 138 words, thank you for that neat fact. And congratulations on a comment that is otherwise pretty useless.

For the record, you do not have the right to demand that someone use their time to prove something that is only of interest to you, nor do you have the right to demand that someone debate you. It is extremely arrogant and self-righteous of you to state otherwise.
It's worth pointing out that this code snippet is over five years old and the Clojure style and community tools have evolved since then.

That said, if your objection is because it's a lisp and lisps are unfamiliar, then that still remains.
Building a Campus business
x2.

The most meaningful change comes from within.

There's a reason dictatorships spend a lot of effort trying to stamp out internal enemies.
Hey yall - I built an Alexa Skill that says your wifi network ssid & password when you invoke it "Alexa, open Home WiFi" - It uses account linking & Login with Amazon, so no need to create new accounts / no email stored in a db somewhere (just your ssid, wifi pass, and a _skill-specific_ (not amazon-specific) user identifier). Love to get your feedback!
Same with voting...
This would be nice, however, if you were making a printed document like a book.
This, some people prefer sweet lies to bitter truths
What you experience in the CLA250 is a combination of turbo lag and an electronic throttle optimizing for low fuel consumption. There should be an option where you can engage sport mode to increase the throttle response and also prevent the gearbox from selecting a high gear to keep revs low.

I drive a car with the VW EA888 2.0 (230BHP@4000RPM, 370lb-ft@1600RPM) and it is possible to have near immediate throttle response and pull provided you're familiar with the gear ratios and power curve of the car. However, it's also a manual, so I don't have the disadvantage of being caught out in the wrong gear.
Bell's Theorem has (correctly in my opinion) been called the most profound discovery of science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

It is our most precise characterization about what's weird about quantum mechanics. John Bell had no competitors and his work (1964) went unappreciated for a very long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart_Bell

Without him, it is very likely his theorem would have remained undiscovered for many decades. At the least, we would have waited for quantum information theory to pick up steam in late '80s and early '90s (and I don't have a good sense the degree to which he contributed to that).

Ultimately no one is irreplaceable in science, but Bell arguably came as close as is possible in the modern era. The best argument against lionizing great men like him is that the property that makes them great -- a lone discovery unlikely to be made without them -- also means their work is often in an unpopular area and so has little impact...until the area gets so popular that it would have been discovered anyways!
That's pretty neat. I think a couple improvements would be:

- Some kind of feedback over whether the compound name is valid or not

- Validation on the SMILES input

- Whether it's working on building the picture or not

- Autocomplete for the compound name

- Different colors for each element

- Preset color pallettes

- List of "cool-looking" or "most often used" compounds
>What we REALLY need are informed consumers

What we really need is a friendly post-singularity AGI, or an omnipotent omnibenevolent god that directly and noticeably runs the government. But, we can't get those. What if we can't get more informed consumers either?

Informing yourself is hard work, and there's no clear way to do it (see: multitudes of bullshit everywhere on everything). Most people aren't wouldn't know how to do it even if they 1. knew they were lacking understanding, 2. wanted to change that enough to put in hours a week of research.

I mean, in theory if you go talk to people about problem X they'll be "more informed consumers", but your evangelism doesn't scale, and human nature won't magically improve any more than it did the last 2000 years of hoping it would.

What if we can't get more informed consumers?
You are confusing price insensitivity. If the iPhone is a better phone, I'll just buy it and save myself the hassle of dealing with the stupid android one.

But getting to the water point: Yes, people spend too little on the water they drink. They should be more careful but generally speaking it is not that serious. (ie: Focusing on quitting smoking will have more significant health improvement)