skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I was not referring to the Black Sea deluge. That one is responsible for flood myths in Indo-European cultures (and also for the spread of the Indo-European cultures themselves), and it is more recent (6.5kya if I'm not mistaken).

The article I linked clearly states that it was a fertile land basin until 8kya. I decided to ignore kbenson's lack of reading comprehension hiding behind an attempt to insert himself as an arbiter through nitpicking about a thing he obviously knows nothing about, but I see he's not the only one refusing to read the article, so I'll restate my point:

My point of contention is the 15kya date. By 15kya the receding of ice age ice caps has barely started, so 15kya the ocean levels were not affected in any major way. The major geography-changing ocean level rise came a few thousand years later.

The linked article clearly states the following: "Then, about 8,000 years ago, the land would have been swallowed up by the Indian Ocean, the review scientist said." and "The Gulf Oasis would have been a shallow inland basin exposed from about 75,000 years ago until 8,000 years ago, forming the southern tip of the Fertile Crescent, according to historical sea-level records."
I think they know better, but they use it as an excuse to run your credit thus giving them more information about you as a buyer and an opportunity to sell you on their credit products (which is what they make their money on anyway).
Unsurprisingly, something along these lines has already sorta been tried [0][1]:

> Famo.us is the only JavaScript framework that includes an open source 3D layout engine fully integrated with a 3D physics animation engine that can render to DOM, Canvas, or WebGL.

They raised a fairly large amount of money, but eventually dropped the idea and moved to a totally different market [2].

Grid Style Sheets [3] gets an honorable mention as well. It compiled GSS rules and applied them as fixed position divs.

I've been researching this subject a bit lately. Surprisingly, many of these problems were already solved in the native world by the end of the 90s. The key innovation from the web is that it's a fully sandboxed environment.

Despite all the web's flaws, one area in which it has done pretty well is accessibility. Many native apps leave a lot to be desired when it comes to basic accessibility... Heck, that goes for many "modern" web apps as well. Hopefully browsers expose good accessibility APIs by the time your vision of developers shipping their own rendering engines becomes reality.

[0] http://deprecated.famous.org

[1] https://github.com/famous/famous

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/06/nopen-source/

[3] https://github.com/gss/engine
DNA analysis shows that a Viking officer was a real-life shieldmaiden
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> there's typically little meaningful distinction anyone would pick up on

We don't know. At least I don't. But it would hugely surprise me if we are not constantly picking up on all sorts of subtle gene expressions. And this needs not in any way be a conscious process.
Sophisticated ability to suss out degrees of relatedness would be a far too useful feature not to have been selected for again and again and again.
It's also such a non-statement to say you're not convinced that some new unproven technology can do the thing it purports to do.
While I do think blind trust has serious flaws, I do believe that having "trustworthy enough defaults" is good enough for the average user while making it relatively simple to overwrite those defaults would be nice.
I shop at whole foods frequently mainly for fresh produce and dairy. this is largely because of its proximity to my home.
My other regular grocery chains are my local mom and pop grocery store who is about 300 feet from my house, Costco and target. I avoid Safeway as far as I can.

My observations are
1) my local mom and pop store carries the freshest and cheapest vegetable produce. They are alert to my needs and are doing brisk business with a regular clientele. They source their produce from the central valley ave Sacramento area using a network of independent farms.
2) Costco is great for some produce while making up the true per pound cost for other items e.g. Tomatoes. Additionally I find Costco produce to perish faster.
3) whole foods has dependable produce but at over 50% Mark ups.
There is no HTML, it is literally text like: {1,2,4,6}

I'm not versed on screen readers, would wrapping that text in an HTML element (like a span) with a title attribute that read: stock price for last 5 years - solve accessibility issues? How do screen readers generally handle charts?
A method for improving Milky Way exposures in light pollution
Can someone with a legal background explain if this is even worth trying without clear damages? I'm not interested in wasting breath to annoy Equifax.
You would think that if they had a conference listed once for 2015, then you would see the same conference again in 2016, 2017, etc....

But so many here in Austin would appear to have been entered only once, and never again.

Sad.
So is this something you are saying about France or something France has said itself. Last time I checked, France was still pretty dedicated to nuclear, unlike Germany....which gets a lot of exported nuclear power from France.
I live in LA. How can I go to a court in Sacramento?
I keep <$50 loaded on it at any time and if I lose it, I can cancel it instantly using the app. My "real" credit cards remain in my wallet.
the atomic write business is pretty painful in any distributed setting, and only comes into play with concurrent writers with overlapping byte offset regions.

I've always kind of struggled to imagine a case where an application would be correct with this guarantee and faulty otherwise. i guess some sort of cleverly designed structure with fixed length records where a compound mutation could be expressed in a contiguous byte range?
> We certainly bred with Neanderthals and Denisovans

Another way of looking at it is that we are the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

The Neanderthals population is estimated at 70,000 at their peak. At 2% of 7 billion, we Neanderthals are now two thousand times more plentiful!
> Am I just using Facebook "wrong" in that it's not upsetting me the same way it upsets others?

Maybe you just don't have an accurate baseline and it's not that using Facebook upsets you but that not using it increases your well-being.

Try not using it for 2 weeks and see if you notice a difference.
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Automation and why we need it
What would be the best credit monitoring service then? Any recs of ones that have their act together?
I'm pretty sure the credit check is done automatically by the dealership software, as part of entering a person into the system to get their paperwork filled out. It's probably done to save time because 99.9% of the time it's necessary. The credit check won't stop the sale if you're paying with a briefcase full of cash or writing a check.

That said, going in with a briefcase full of cash is going to cause a lot of other problems.
It's the best advice to stay happy. I also removed the app last month on my mobile and it helped me to have a very happy weekend as I don't get to login on my laptop. Earlier on weekends I watch FB in morning and get depressed coz one of my friends friend (out of 500 odd friends) went to Europe and had good time but I feel like a loser and screw up my day.
otoh the pro-privacy approach they're taking also increases freedom, such as in the use-case this article is about. Which imo is probably a more tangible freedom to many than the ability to hack around iOS devices or the idea that the app store isn't free.
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So it's not a "slide" deck, it's a keynote deck? Ok Mr "Hacker". I get the entire point of your useless project now. lol
xterm

$ printf '\e]50;%s\a' '-your-x11-font-spec'
# for example:
$ printf '\e]50;%s\a' '-misc-dejavu serif-*'
it has existed for many year of generate music with ai.
I mean, it sounds like he was trying help intimidate already fidgety witnesses. That's not just wasting the court's time.
I have all notifications for facebook turned off and just leave messanger untouched. It doesn't nag you unless someone messages you.
Should his employer be responsible for this? I just created an issue for BEIPA on this topic: https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement/iss...
What makes something cool?
Oh wow. I didn't expect such positive responses. This gives me hope. I'll definitely look into Minix.

Thanks!
I was a member of Galveston County CERT and still receive their emails. There are plenty of opportunities to continue training and help participate in drills. During Hurricane Harvey (and even afterward), I received quite a few emails asking for volunteers for different things. I highly recommend taking the training and volunteering with CERT.
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To be fair, the reason the medallion system exists in New York is because road space in Manhattan is limited, and the taxis cause a disproportionate amount of traffic. Traffic conditions have gotten notably worse post-rideshare, although there are a bunch of confounding factors as well that could also explain that.
I visited my brother in Sydney and he took me to a restaurant where they served chunks of raw kangaroo meat with a super-heated rock to cook it on. I thought the meat was pretty good.
As I mentioned in a sibling comment, and it's almost ironic thinking about it, this "freedom for security" tradeoff we're making here is not what it seems.

I see your point in the context of e.g. WannaCry and WTC attacks emboldening authoritarians, however this privacy move we're discussing is actually an anti-authoritarian move. It gives the user more privacy and more freedom.

Advocating more lax privacy/security in this case is siding with authoritarian tendencies.
Have you been to Voat?
Relevant quotes from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ...

Optimization considered harmful: In particular, optimization introduces complexity, and as well as introducing tighter coupling between components and layers. - RFC3439

Design up front for reuse is, in essence, premature optimization. - @AnimalMuppet

To speed up an I/O-bound program, begin by accounting for all I/O. Eliminate that which is unnecessary or redundant, and make the remaining as fast as possible. - David Martin

The fastest I/O is no I/O. - Nils-Peter Nelson

The cheapest, fastest and most reliable components of a system are those that aren't there. - Gordon Bell

Safety first. In allocating resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum. Many years of experience with virtual memory, networks, disk allocation, database layout, and other resource allocation problems has made it clear that a general-purpose system cannot optimize the use of resources. - Butler W. Lampson (1983)

Crowley's 4th rule of distributed systems design: Failure is expected. The only guaranteed way to detect failure in a distributed system is to simply decide you have waited 'too long'. This naturally means that cancellation is first-class. Some layer of the system (perhaps plumbed through to the user) will need to decide it has waited too long and cancel the interaction. Cancelling is only about reestablishing local state and reclaiming local resources - there is no way to reliably propagate that cancellation through the system. It can sometimes be useful to have a low-cost, unreliable way to attempt to propagate cancellation as a performance optimization.

Optimization: Prototype before polishing. Get it working before you optimize it. - Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming (2003)

Before optimizing, using a profiler. - Mike Morton

Spell create with an 'e'. - Ken Thompson (referring to design regrets on the UNIX creat(2) system call and the fallacy of premature optimization)

The No Free Lunch theorem: Any two optimization algorithms are equivalent when their performance is averaged across all possible problems (if an algorithm performs well on a certain class of problems then it necessarily pays for that with degraded performance on the set of all remaining problems).

An efficient program is an exercise in logical brinkmanship. - Edsger Dijkstra

Choose portability [high level] over efficiency [low-level]. - Mike Garcanz: The Unix Philosophy

Laziness is the mother of efficiency. - Marian Propp

Jevons Paradox: As technology progresses, the increase in efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource.

It brings everything to a certainty, which before floated in the mind indefinitely. - Samuel Johnson, on counting

... and the kicker...

Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. - Henry Spencer
Drive, fly, walk, bike, etc. Them's the breaks, the superior court is in Sacramento. Same, I'm in OC.
Apple's checks are not very deep. They suffice to keep honest people honest but do little against an actual adversary.
I deleted my Facebook account a few years ago and quickly found that it provided little value to my everyday. I would say longer term, as friends had kids, I missed some of the "social bonding" experience via the web, but din't miss anything in person. A month ago my phone died and as a test, I didn't install Instagram. Instagram was the last FB connection. I always defended Instagram to myself. It didn't require as much attention as FB and barrier to entry was low (post some pics sometimes). In the last year Instagram has shifted more towards the FB notification style and adopted more Snap features. My feed became filled with ads, stories gained dominance, and notifications became persistent. I figured that is sufficient mental intrusion to warrant my departure.

As a heavily connected individual, work in tech, I find that disconnecting does alleviate mental baggage. I have gained more time to read and that brings me more joy than scanning an insta-feed.
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FYI dealers do this because they want to be able to offer you financing if your check bounces. It's also a way to ensure that you go through with the transaction because now your credit is worse and going somewhere else would lead to worse financing. Put a freeze on your accounts with the credit bureaus before you get serious about buying a car with cash. Tell them that they may not do a "hard pull" against your credit. If they try, complain to the appropriate government officials (not sure who this would be, some consumer protection agency) and take your cash elsewhere. It's a scam to lock you in to buying from them. I brought my own financing to a dealership and they wanted me to sign a thing which among other things authorized a credit check. I crossed that part out and signed it. This caused some back and forth with someone who was not in the room (basically my salesman had to go "get it approved") but they really wanted the sale because I drove a rental car down from 6 hours away just to buy this specific car (I had set the sale up ahead of time over email). I was very close to walking out and they probably knew it, and figured that they'd rather make the sale vs trying to sell me on their financing vs mine (I happened to get an extremely low rate from a credit union).
The problem with MIT is that while MIT students are well, MIT students, and MIT faculty are MIT faculty, MIT administrators are generic college administrators, hopping from school to school as they hunt chances at promotion.
I skipped ahead to the 5th installment - how do you know if a hire was successful past the first month of employment?
The only safe email is text-only email
Public Citizen is not in it to protect lawyers jobs, if that's what you're implying. I suspect they know from significant experience that you can't win a lawsuit against a well funded corporation without a fight.
I am not sure that you read my post? What are you addressing, specifically? I can probably give a better reply if you help me out.
It should ask for permission if you try to do that, not when you install the app.
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CAA support was only required starting a few days ago, IIRC.
This is awful. The predecessor to some massive government control.

I simply do not trust every monetary transaction to be logged and tracked, as I know about structuring laws (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring) and civil forfeiture.

Plus, if an economy goes cashless, they can easily have negative interest rates and such other financial games. No thanks, I'd rather pay for things with real money.
That's a false equivalence, we control the number of cows and chickens almost to the animal. They aren't a free roaming pest
"I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all it ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light injustice must be exposed with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion, before it can be cured."

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....
So patient, persistent effort might yield a small shift in the attitudes of some in the audience.

At what cost in those who see the basic terms of debate validated by engagement? When you're arguing that only some black people should be killed instead of all of them, what harm are you doing by legitimizing the basic question of whether blacks should be killed?
It still works great, however the linked post uses Configurator and Apple has since replaced it with Configurator 2, so some of the options and workflow are different now.
> won't confuse screen readers

I don't disagree SVG isn't difficult and a lot more flexible, but I think in this case, the font has the advantage that it is accessible to screen readers.
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A screen reader is going to see an SVG element and I imagine at best it will use some alt-text or other "description" of the graphic. Versus if the data is literally `123{123,234,435}424` then a person without vision can get much more information about what's actually being conveyed.
tl;dr - It was graboids.
You're leaving out a major argument for enforcing general community standards: does being part of a larger group make discovery enough easier to help recruit new members?

In the case of Reddit this argument is especially worth consideration given how common it is for people to promote bigotry with memes & other jokes or selective filtering (remember the guys who only post negative news stories featuring black criminals?). It's very plausible to believe that many users, especially younger ones, hit something like /r/news or /r/funny and end up on a hate subreddit without realizing how far off of the mainstream it is. That seems especially worth studying given the common anecdotal accounts from parents who found their kid managed to start out in a Nintendo forum an end up in pretty dark places.
Nice Service!

Would also suggest adding the ability to set the size of the rendered image. Especially for picking sizes for devices.

Also, if you want to make some pocket change from this, link it to cafepress and let me self-print molecules on a bunch of things (stickers!).
Cool! You're a Hurder! Don't bump into Hurd devs all that often :P

I'm kind of sad the L4 port didn't take. The desire to hack on something like that definitely mulls around in the back of my mind.

As for the hypervisor idea, another comment mentions QubesOS which I've looked at in the past. This kind of thing does appeal to my "Make Everything Minimal" desire as well as (admittedly vague) concerns about security and isolation.
I enjoyed all 5 parts of this in depth series.

Would be nice to have a 6th post about how the engineering team ended up being organized, but all in all a great overview of the goals, techniques and tactics needed to make a big hiring push.
Any source for SMILES of molecules?

My methane is crazy.
https://www.avogadr.io/?background=5f0000&foreground=ce3838&...
You can just publish an 0.1, 0.2, etc. Then when you are ready just publish a 1.0 version.
Small claims court. If they don't show up, you win. They can't show up to all of the cases brought against them.
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Study summary in one picture :)

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Given that they lobbied to avoid penalties for losses of privacy information, I wonder if one could also prove intent?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15212497
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The funniest part of this ongoing debate I see -- to me, at least -- is that the end result is, effectively, one of two options. Given the way we as a society use technology, today:

1) Piss off the like, 10,000 technical nerds who care about this, by having sensible defaults. "We should really teach people to fully manage their CA chain! It sucks I have to spend 20 minutes doing this once a year after spending 10,000 hours learning how computers work."

2) Don't piss them off, but in return, get ready for user-blaming whenever someone messes up, and for your users to be 'responsible' for themselves. "If users were EDUCATED and not so stupid, they'd be able to spend 100 hours understanding the CA system and keep themselves secure!!! Not our fault if you install certificates from Brazilian hackers"

I dunno, it's mostly an observation, even if it's something of a false dichotomy, but this always seems to be the way it goes. Technical users simply have vastly different value systems. But honestly, my go-to strategy these days is mostly "whenever most technical people try to give security advice and speak on behalf of most users, almost always: do the exact opposite thing, in order to keep the users secure".

Most of us have some variant of Stockholm Syndrome to some extent.
How hard is it to jailbreak with ADB shell and get root on a random phone? Does that always require a code?