skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but don't forget that for a relatively small amount of a beef liver you need to kill a whole cow. And when you kill the animal you couldn't cherry-pick the parts of the meat you use, everything was used while it lasted. The parts that could be preserved would last for a while and things like a liver would be eaten right away or used to make sausages. In the middle age common folks didn't eat meat as often as we do today, it was a luxury. They primarily used a lot of buttermilk, cheese and eggs instead.
How do you compare the wealth of Crassus us with Bill Gates?
"Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?"
Twitter is a complete mess, UX-wise. I don't know what they're doing over there.
I think this is a subset of "dreaming of what it'll be like once you've reached a goal tends to be more pleasurable than reaching that goal".
They're objecting to the idea that there is no reason, never, for anyone good-looking to commit to anyone.

See again the original sentence: "top percentage [get] frequent sex with no reason to commit".

That sentence is simply too strong to be true. Nobody is denying that the possibility of easily finding someone for casual may cause some people to hesitate before entering committed relationships. But as it is written, it denies the existence of reasons for commitment other than to secure frequent sex.

There must be at least some people who, despite their excellent looks, top IQ, huge penis, and high political office still found a reason to commit to a partner. The previous US president comes to mind...
Can we really compare wealth between people who lived 2000 years apart though? The amount of material goods a relatively poor middle class American can afford is vastly greater than what the richest Romans could buy 2000 years ago. How do you compare net worth?
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I would focus on something much easier - what was life, approximately, like for somebody in the exact 50th percentile of socioeconomic status. It even makes more sense today. How has life changed for somebody in the 50th percentile in 2000 versus today? How has it changed for somebody in the 50th percentile in 1970 vs today?

This focus on the lifestyle approximation also makes much more sense than even factors like inflation. For instance inflation today is ostensibly very low, with the Fed becoming increasingly aggressive with monetary policy to try to sustain it (deflation is not fun). Nonetheless, that doesn't really mesh well with the 50% who have seen many of the necessities of life (housing, education, healthcare, etc) inflate at rates vastly greater than the reported inflation rate.

Quantification makes things seem much more scientific, but the key word there is seem. Without a strong 1:1 mapping of a quantification to what it implicitly represents, it becomes less than useless -- it becomes actively misleading. So for instance I think based on what I said above you might suggest I'm just referring to median personal income. Of course in nations where e.g. women do not work, median personal income would be incredibly misleading. So perhaps I am talking about median household income. Yet in countries where large numbers of poor individuals reside within a single household, again the value becomes meaningless.

I do not think there is any singular consistent and clear way to compare wealth over time and circumstance, other than to compare an average approximation of a lifestyle. I think this thread is a good example of this. Many have mentioned that by many metrics today, the average person today is wealthier than a medieval king. Yet how many people would rather be an average individual today than a king of a medieval era? If people like the things that these metrics represent, the answer to that question should cohere with their measured increase today. In other words most people should prefer to be an average person today. I strongly suspect that is not the case.
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I just wonder why all of them have to be in the most expensive part of the US. Tech talent might be more accessible in SF but support staff and marketing shouldn't be. Having offices in a cheaper location would not only save the company money but also be potentially nicer for employees. It would probably cut most people's commute time and increase cost-adjusted salaries.
You not only misunderstand what privilege is, but you also misunderstand what the article is about. First, let me quote @mindslight who makes a great point:

This article frames risk taking as a "privilege", rather than a core result of the technology called civilization. If you want to talk about perpetuated systemic inequality and oppression, I'm right there with you. If you want to talk about the downside from risks being externalized, I'm right there with you. But focusing on what luckier people have, especially as some form of original sin, is a zero sum game and a sure path to ruin.

As he says, the article frames risk taking as privilege. In fact, this is 100% absolutely provably not true. People of all socioeconomic strata take risks habitually. That was the point of my post.

Second of all, you misunderstand what privilege is. You say "Privilege is about recognizing that there are people are who not you, and who did not have your story." -- I submit that this makes no sense. Privilege is not recognizing that there are people who are not you (that's simply not being a sollipsist). Further, you're obviously not talking about Bill Gates' kids -- although they, like me, and like those born in the slums of Rio, have their own stories.

You're talking, from what I gather, about those with less than, say average, "original conditions" -- someone that's an orphan, a widow, a handicapped person, a disenfranchised person, and so on. Privilege is also not about equity, it's about charity. (which is by all accounts, a virtue). It's about helping those that are less well off. Equity is about egalitarianism, a discussion about privilege is decidedly not.

Finally, you make the oddly accusatory claim: "I hope you can stand in someone else's shoes who did not have the same fortune as you, and reflect so that yourself are not becoming a vehicle that reinforces privilege." I hope that all your passion about privilege yields a bit more than reflection. I'm a Christian and as you can imagine, prayer is quite important to me, and yet I still volunteer in LA's Skid Row and donate money whenever I can: because that is the fruit of this labor of privilege, not merely reflecting so you don't "become a vehicle that reinforces privilege" (whatever that means).
Glad to see this comment top of the pile here. I'm almost inclined to believe that people who are depressed AND choose not to do anything about it are likely to have an entitlement and/or victimhood mentality. The problem with that? It'll lead you deeper down the rabbit hole and inside within your head; things that'll only make you feel worse than better.
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Didn’t apple just ADD support for external, discrete GPUs? It’s certainly disheartening to see them drop support; I understand the latency demands, but the platform tie in is unnecessary.

At least there’s linux! :)
I think there are two points to consider:

1) From a security point of view, put yourself in the shoes of the other states. The NSA and its friends have a well proven history of backdoors and state-sponsored malware. From the Stuxnet/Flame family to the backdoors that were found on the hard-drivers malware (Story was on HN recently, I'll try to find it). So it is very normal, and as a matter of fact I'd say it's abnormal for a government to take a security product that holds administrative rights on the computer, without first inspecting its code to verify for backdoors. There is no such thing as a better state. I read on the comments "politically charged states". Well from the point of view of a Russian, the US is a politically charged state. Keep it relative ladies and gentelmen.

2) I've read people complaining about how "the way they scan"/"the way they do the detection" will be compromised. The way the AV software works IN GENERAL doesn't differ from one another. From a binary of the software one can identify with "relative ease" (for threat actors who are sponsored by governments), when the unpacking happens, decompression happens, sandboxing, hashing blocks, etc. As for the parts that are unique to the AV, for example watchdog parts and heuristics, these can also be reverse-engineered or just obteined through classical spying etc.

So all in all, source code reviews are, in my opinion, a very necessary thing. Because frankly if a simple source code review is going to fundamentally break your AV software, there has to be something wrong with that product. Because setting aside the government looking at the source code, hundreds of devs have already looked at it.
OT but if you want a nice alternative to jmeter, check out Gatling. Instead of XML, you can code your scenarios in scala.

edit : hnlmorg beat me to it :)
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Manufacturers or software developers who're especially privacy-conscious, or collecting data that wouldn't be able to get with otherwise, might use this scheme. Maybe the folks who run the upstream server will also pay for the intermediate server. It shouldn't cost much for an entity that's already operating at scale, whether in users or revenue.
The parent likely means "La ilaha illallah". So the point it not about "Allah" (indeed many cultures use that word for God -- it is derived from the semetic El). The point is instead about an inscription of the Shahada on the cloth of the Patriach of Russia. This would be akin to the US President wearing a garment with something along the lines of "God save the Queen" in Latin (assuming the President didn't understand Latin).
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Tap water often contains high levels of minerals, and over time they precipitate in the dirt the plant grows in. Mostly calcium, which is useless to plants anyway.

As they accumulate, the pH of the dirt increases, until the concentration is higher than that of the inside of the roots and osmosis stops working, and the plant cannot absorb nutrients anymore.

Then usually, it starts showing signs of nutrient deficiency, so the first idea the gardener gets is too give them fertilizer, which increases the concentration even more and makes the problem worse.

Rain water is very poor in minerals and acidic and doesn't cause this problem. It's also possible to just use rain water from time to time, to leach out the minerals in the dirt. Another solution I've heard when using tap water is to always pour it until it flows from below, and throw away the water in the saucer, it helps prevent the accumulation from water going in and never out and never having a chance to leach out minerals.

Some plants (most common houseplants like this one) can tolerate elevated levels of minerals, so I don't think it's really a problem here.
No, there's the opposite. People seek out with an immune system as different as possible from their own. How? They smell differently. (Pheromones etc.).

At least that's what I remember from ten years ago or so. Not sure if the science held up.
Depression is often caused by life sucking. When depression is amply explained by this model, you become depressed when both (a) the present is unenjoyable AND (b) you have no hope that the future will be better.

I know that this is sometimes the case because I've struggled with depression on-and-off and it tracks 1:1 with my physical health and ability to live a normal, enjoyable life.
I think what they really meant was "no expectation to commit". Or "no need to commit".

Hopefully that poster returns to clarify.
> the recent Debian efforts show that it is not trivial

Is there a link on this you recommend?
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It's more the duration of the lease. If you'd rent a house on a fixed contract for 10 years, landlords would also allow changes under the condition that they're reversed at the end.

Interestingly that's exactly the case in Germany. Home ownership there is one of the lowest in the world so that tenants stay in one place for longer. It's normal for tenants to change apartments as they like during the tenancy. Landlords don't care as long as it's in a good state at the end of the tenancy.
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It's entirely possible that there were converts, as well. Many European cultures pre-Christianization had pretty broad-minded attitudes towards religion, and while the majority would adhere to the predominant pagan tradition, some individuals and families would sometimes convert to another religion when exposed to it. Especially given the rather pragmatic attitude towards religious worship among pagans at the time, choosing to honor and worship a god perceived as "stronger" for whatever reason would not be inconceivable - and the impressive early military successes of the Caliphate would be seen as testament to the strength of the god proclaimed on its banners...

While we're at it, one of the founding myths about Christianization of Kievan Rus involves knyaz Vladimir holding a council on which faith to convert to, and inviting preachers to compete - supposedly, Latin and Greek rites of Christianity, Islam (via Volga Bulgars), and Judaism (via Khazars) were all on the table. According to the legend, Islam was rejected first, solely on account of banning alcohol. Judaism was reviewed and rejected next, because the loss of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple was seen as a clear sign of divine weakness by the pagan Rus. Finally, between the Greek and the Latin rites of Christianity, they picked Greek, because Greek churches and priests were decorated much more lavishly (with lots of prominently displayed gold etc), while Latin ones were more subdued.

While it's almost certainly a legend that does not correspond to an actual event, its very premise speaks volumes about how religion was viewed in that time period.
Ubuntu has used AppArmor for years. Debian users will benefit from those years use.
Just because you can't dam a river doesn't mean you can't divert it.

More explicitly: there are many cases of regulation shaping the course that technology takes. It's a strawman (of the variety people are trying to call out here) to say that we're either helpless in the face of technology or we must halt its progress. There's a huge middle ground of regulating and guiding the process.
"Anyone that knows gun owners know this is exactly what will happen."

I know dozens of gun owners. I know full well that there would be no "gladly" about it.

"Eventually the guns in society will go away."

Yep, because declaring a law totally causes all the criminals to take a step back and say "hey man this is illegal so we shouldn't do it".

Black markets will always exist. Smuggling will always exist. There will always be some way for someone to obtain a firearm. Hell, in this day and age of 3D printing and DIY projects we're already starting to see folks working toward homemade firearms.

Gun control in this day and age is - at best - a temporary solution. Actually figuring out why people are so motivated to kill other people and addressing those reasons is much more viable as a solution that's actually somewhat permanent.
If you are OK with medieval levels of wealth then you can also take half the year off. In fact, you could probably take 11 months off if you live in a hut and buy a sack of potatoes once a week.
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This sounds like an article I would have written in college. In my experience, if you're using regex often enough to remember how to write patterns that are sufficiently complex to actually be useful beyond short 'pre-processing' snippets, you're overusing regex. (Or alternatively, your memory is significantly better and/or less divided than mine.)
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From what I remember reading, agriculture was actually a downgrade from the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Early crops were terribly hard to grow, had little nutrition value and agricultural practices too were primitive.

People started growing crops out of necessity. In terms of food security, hunting-gathering was far easier. The average hunter also worked far fewer hours than the average farmer in antiquity.
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Probably a continuous fight between progessive and conservative UX designers. Just like the US basically.
Not sure, perhaps you are reading too much into this statement, or alternatively you’re reframing it in the worst possible way. In any case I’d say chill out a bit.

I read it differently, as in: the most sought for men, those actively pursued by women, have more options so the date churn is higher.

Also: what’s wrong with “Just for benefits”? If both consent and agree I see nothing sad about it
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Count yourself lucky for not having run into someone with a Cluster-B personality disorder yet.
Searching too long for the repo?
https://github.com/marijnh/Eloquent-JavaScript.git

no_understand = author(!put_repo_url(site)) || me_blind;
Romans and Greeks where also Post-Wood- meaning, they had deforrested most of the mediterainian for ship wood.

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Ask HN: Is a Non-Compete Contract enforceable for a non-competitor?
Hello, back in 2011 I signed a Non-Compete agreement with my employer (I was a doe eyed fresh graduate engineer). I was given the contract on my first day at the job and had little choice but to sign it.

Now, I have accepted a job at a customer of my old employer. The new employer does not compete or sell/offer services similar to the old employer (I do factory automation software, the new employer makes semiconductor chips).

My old employer seems to be pushing the angle that I am some how stealing business. However, the customer will still be buying licenses from my old employer. I will hire a lawyer in Portland Oregon to help (any recommendations?) if things get nasty. But, does anybody have some experience? I am losing a ton of sleep. Thank you
keywords: "And if [getting sports implemented] is the problem"

I never said not to do sports (neither did the article: it merely pointed out that telling people to "_just_ do sports" may not be helpful) and I never tried to sell a silver bullet.

This is unlike the inevitable influx of comments in the style of "ignore therapy, just imitate my sports routine, and if you can't, just try harder". Those appear under _every_ depression-related submission on hacker news.

Those comments are harmful: therapy already comes with stigma, so it's not the obvious route - unlike, as you can see here, sports. Everybody proposes sports, healthy eating habits and regular sleep (btw: what about the depressed who can easily sleep 20 hours a day, should they just get one more nap?).
Reinforcing the stigma around therapy discourages folks from taking a route that might help them.

The "just try harder" angle that's all too often seen in such comments is also harmful: What do you think did those people do (often for years) before they consciously consider that something might be wrong with them? Exactly: they buckled up and tried harder - and they will continue until they crack unless something changes fundamentally.
I like 1 and 3. Is it open sourced?
That's not true.

You mean "the oldest tree now" is always alive.
You could also leave instructions, just like you would for a cat:
- water N times per day, use this cup to this measure.
- check the soil; if it's moist, do/don't water
(don't use these instructions, I have no clue about plants :))
A quick search on pubmed shows plenty of positive results.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21495519/
Placed in the perspective of the current political climate in Sweden I can not be but sceptic against research which tries to make islam part of Sweden's history. While the article is published by the BBC, the research - for what it is - was done in Uppsala.

That Vikings travelled to islamic countries is known. That they traded with them - willingly or unwillingly - is also known. They did the same with many other cultures and brought materials back to Scandinavia. There have been finds of Buddhist statues, swastikas, Christian ornaments from the time when the Vikings were still going the way of Odin and Thor, etc. There is, however, no research showing the Vikings were making Buddhism part of their culture even though they used some of their symbology (swastikas come to mind). Why not? Because there is no political drive to give Buddhism a part in Sweden's history while there is a strong drive to do this to islam, especially in parts of academia.

Also, if these Vikings wanted to show allegiance to allah and Ali, why did they do so in mirror image?

This belongs to the realm of Beatles covers showing mirror images of Paul McCartney being dead, backward satanic messages on rock albums and chemtrails: the conclusion was the starting point, all that was left was a search for 'evidence'.
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>> "play my party playlist"
>This shouldn't generate any off-network traffic at all.

at least it should check for drm and weather you paid parking tickets or resell the song otherwise
I get what you mean, but the same might be said for someone being able to check manually every 10 minutes. Then there is no equal opportunity between the working and workless classes.
"So, like, anything not agreeing with the mainstream US opinion on things?"

I live in a country (Lithuania) RT constantly pours BS on, so no, I can assure you it isn't just alternative news -- it is a pure propaganda machine. The latest major story was that German NATO soldiers (stationed in Lithuania as a part to deter Russia from trying something like in Ukraine) raped a local teenage girl[0]. Of course, neither a "victim", nor a single witness was found by police and more reputable journalists.

0. http://www.dw.com/en/why-the-fake-rape-story-against-german-...
Undoubtedly he lives deep, deep underground in some palatial bunker

Undoubtedly he likes to leave that at times. Even for deep bunkers they are solutions, super-penetrating bombs and bombs that close entry /exit locations. USA has plenty of bombs, they don't have to hit the jackpot with the first shot.
It should not be a call to authority. The only thing that matters are the individual arguments he exposes in the books, not the fact he's not an expert.

And history has also shown some experts can be wrong when the paradigm change of new ideas is too big.

However, and I say this is particularly important: all refutations I have read about his work focus on some particular detail, they are of the type: 'this number is wrong'. Of course it can be, he's speculating. And that's the easy part to fix! Just change the number in his argument with the correct one. Be constructive.

But I have never read a refutation that says: 'this line of reasoning is wrong'.

In fact, his work has been cited as an inspiration for 'Sapiens', which is a current best seller and it follows the same modus operandi.