skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Christian Western Europe" is not a particularly large or important chunk of the Greco-Roman world, relatively speaking.

Importance is I guess in the eye of the beholder, but it's pretty hard to argue that Christian Western Europe isn't a particularly large part of the Greco-Roman world.
giving jamie dimon a lesson in finance huh? this is so arrogant...
The motive is to provide the public with information. Some of this information may be useful to identify the (gang of) attackers.
It's the Harbor Freight of home goods. However, I've had good results from at least some of my Pittsburgh and Chicago Electric tools!
Ask HN: How to learn mobile networks in an efficient way?
Too many materials about mobile networks (3G, LTE, etc). How to learn them in an efficient way?
In order, covering 18 years of time, dear god:

School: Java, C++, Lisp

Self: Perl, HTML, JS, PHP

Work: VB.NET, SQL, VB6, C#, LiveCode

Self: Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Nim, F#, TypeScript
Every company is a tech company and everyone is a techie
On a related note, those interested in the origins of the idea of inertia may be interested in impetus theory[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_impetus
> No. It only cares about unlocked bootloaders on devices that shipped with Android 7 because a requirement of shipping with that was hardware support facilitating dm_verity, which is essentially a check that the bootloader wasn't tampered with. Without the necessary hardware there's simply no way to perform this check in anything resembling a reliable fashion.

So in other words "yes, that is a requirement that will eventually be on all android phones"? Am I misunderstanding something? Older phones being an exception does me little good going forward.

> Also, neither root not an unlocked bootloader is required to make "proper backups". Some data actually can't be backed up, and for some data there is no point in making a backup. If the goal is to be able to restore the system to a specific, known state, a bit-for-bit image backup of the entire filesystem is just one way to accomplish the task.

The last time I tried adb backup and restore, it was a mess. Multiple apps like Skype had no data. And authenticator explicitly opts out of being backed up.

Titanium backup, on the other hand, works perfectly.

Ideally I would just have a rooted phone, but then safetynet complains, and I can't even use Netflix and pokemon. As an alternative I could accept an unrooted but unlocked phone, and root it only when making and/or restoring backups. But having neither is a big hassle.
Optimal pull request size
Kindred and CockroachDB Partner to Build a Global Online Gaming Platform
Designers: What made you choose your profession?
Hi! I've been working on a project that's similar to what LCO does, but uses existing amateur telescopes rather than deploying its own. My goal is to reap similar network benefits, and make astronomy more affordable and accessible for everyone.

Would you be open to talking about this project? I'd love to hear an insider's perspective on things, and poke at how my project could be most helpful/useful to astronomers.

robby@freerobby.com

http://astroswarm.com/

Thanks
Robby
i told a friend the other day, if the US really is at the precipice of nuclear war with Best Korera and i can get gas for 2.25, maybe the world isn't is such bad shape after all.
I would strongly recommend against it. Discord has no privacy guarantees in their TOS and actively says they will sell your data. Its how they offer their service "for free".

Workplace conversations should be private, and that almost exclusively means either a siloed self hosted solution or a service with a contract that guarantees data integrity and privacy.

If you are playing video games using Discord is fine, at least up until you start talking about personal details of your life in their chat rooms or over their voice services. If I'm having conversations I don't want Discord's data customers having, I'll use Signal / Matrix (self hosted or encrypted channels) / Mumble.
Man, what a mishmash of non sequiturs, bad reading of charts, inability to research, and lack of scientific understanding; sure, the data may not be fake, but the words are stupid:

> There is absolutely no evidence that humans are having any impact on the climate whatsoever.

Starting off real strong. Maybe climate scientists themselves don't exist either.

> In order to establish an actual human impact in a statistically significant way, you must show a modern trend that deviates from a baseline of appropriate duration.

Pick a site, any site. This one's good:

> As the Earth moved out of ice ages over the past million years, the global temperature rose a total of 4 to 7 degrees Celsius over about 5,000 years. In the past century alone, the temperature has climbed 0.7 degrees Celsius, roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/pag...

> Not only are we not in a period of "record high temperatures", we are in one of the coldest periods in the past 65 million years.

Which means... what, exactly? We are experiencing record high temperatures within recent history, and that's what matters to our survival. We are not equipped to deal with the speed of the change that is happening.

> The earth had had ice caps for maybe about half of the time over the past 500 million years.

Again, so what? We have ice caps now and them melting quickly is problematic for us.

I don't have enough time to address all the nonsense 4chan can come up with. The rest of it is left as an exercise for the reader.

That being said, there are no sacred cows in science. Questioning conclusions is important; however, when the science has been settled by mountains of evidence and there is scientific consensus, continually questioning those conclusions in the absence of new and contradictory data is a waste of time.

You could likewise argue that the earth is flat for all eternity, and "round earthers" wouldn't be holding their conclusions as a sacred cow just because they dismiss your arguments.

Like the earth being round or gravity being real, man-made climate change isn't really a debate.
> But the loss of the individual freedom to determine the rules is also the loss of freedom for a society to determine the rules for itself.

Freedom of society and freedom of the individual are two different things and a society can have different levels of both.

Say you have a democratic wolf and sheep society, where wolves are the majority and treat the sheep as a lower class, treat them horribly and basically just farm them for food. As a wolf in a this society governed by wolves, you may feel quite free, because your wishes are reflected by many and the changes you aim for tend to happen. How though, would you feel as a sheep? Technically you have the same individual freedom as a wolf but at a societal level, you are powerless. You live a terrible life and there's nothing you can do about it because of the very democratic system that's intended to ensure your freedom.

I believe the sheep would be more free in a benevolent dictatorship. A dictator could give the sheep green grass, sunshine, freedom from being eaten, freedom to live a long and happy life and much more. All it would take is giving up the ultimately useless theoretical ability to participate in democracy. The wolves could be too, perhaps they could eat chickens or somesuch.

> Governance is not a burden. [...] It is not a burden to vote or to take part in politics.

To some, it is. Democracy places responsibility on all its participants and being relieved of that responsibility is a form of freedom. In a dictatorial society, I have the freedom to spend time I'd spend participating in the democratic process doing other things. If the dictator makes a bad decision, I am in no way responsible for it.
https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/02/the-psychology-of-h...
The other aspect of this is that the crows could become reliant on this mechanism as a food source and be unable to survive on their own once it is removed from the environment (or runs out of food).
0% of ethanol users and 0% of nicotine users actually need it as medicine!
On the bright side I guess they did make a decision.

Unfortunately this early stage venture was practically assured of founder conflict :P
Interferometry.
This is so contrived. Why not have different classes selling in the same market? Something like DVR or differential voting rights. Depending on the market and need prices of DVR might be less or more.
He elides the inner workings of an inertial guidance system because it's not really necessary. The point is that the gyroscope provides an absolute reference point, which seems weird in the face of relativity.
> I’m sure at times our internal processes - pretty much inevitable for a medium size company - have meant we have moved a little slower than Cockroach would have been able to, as a smaller more agile company but they understood that and were happy to move at our pace.

What does this mean exactly？
We spent way more than that on a "real" couch from a "real" furniture store and it's a total piece of shit. Was comfortable for a couple of months, and then completely fell apart. I just assume it's all cheap crap any more.

We're back to taking antiques from family members and just reupholstering. The only newer furniture we have that doesn't suck came from Pottery Barn about 10 years ago and has tags from North Carolina.
Well, I think you're just reinforcing their point. If freedom doesn't give you anything good, such as food, clothes, friends, health, career, etc. Then what's the point?

Freedom used to mean these things, it was a way to see that you were in charge of your destiny in a realistic way. That the opportunities would be there, if you were only willing to take them, no one would stop you, you could be anything you wanted if you just walked the part.

If that's not true anymore, if freedom no longer leads to happiness, comfort and health, then maybe its time to go back to the drawing board.
The paper reports:

> Colorado’s legalization of recreational cannabis sales and use resulted in a 0.7 deaths per month (b = −0.68; 95% confidence interval = −1.34, −0.03) reduction in opioid-related deaths.

Which if I understand right, they're pretty sure it did something, but that something might be so small that the value of reporting it is negligible.
I don't know but it seems to me that it could also be to work around when their domain gets blacklisted as spam. (i.e. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32184742/do-subdomains-p...)
This is great. I wish there was consensus that data was the basis for opinions.
If ZK caused a lot of grief then you must be doing something horribly wrong with me.

From my experience ZK is one of the tools that's most ops friendly (i.e. you set it and forget it), right next to Postgres and Solr.
I would also like to know. And would like to know if any of these keyboards listed have had their latency reduced using any methods.
Like many of these stories, it's a bit shallow - that chart is interesting - but as others have pointed out it's pretty noisy.

However, you can line it up against national data[1] it's really bucking the trend. You also find that opioid prescriptions are at least stable or declining in Colorado. Again, against the national trend that's significant.

Equally, you see spikes in Heroin deaths - so picture is a lot more complex than that chart.

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...
Created an account just to vote this up and agree.

Personally, I enjoy smoking/using marijuana. I think it should be legal. I agree with all the typical talking point about legalizing it and the social harm caused by the drug war.

But nothing is more annoying that potheads pretending that some minor study somewhere showing that marijuana has some minor positive effect on something or other means it's a "miracle drug."

What is even worse - various nefarious actors - from intelligence agencies, to Big Pharma, to various players with their own agendas, have a long history of, and a very obvious financial/power stake in, promoting - or perhaps over-promoting - certain social trends, including recreational drug use - and have co-opted a HUGE group of people who should know better to exaggerate the benefits of various things.

St. John's Wart, ten years ago, was "just as effective as Prozac," and everyone was talking about "herbal remedies." The reality was that daily exercise was, for most people, "just as effective as Prozac" but that doesn't have the "cool factor" of being "like, against the drug war, man."

Intelligence agencies have been trying to use drugs like LSD for a half-century to do what in their own lingo is "mind control" yet every time some ad supported, Fortune 500, In-Q-Tel publication like Wired.com tells us how "all the super-smart Silicon Valley execs are micro-dosing on LSD" even hinting at a slight objection will get you downvoted to hell on these social media sites like Hacker News and reddit.

There's a reason for that but no one wants to risk their social media karma pointing it out - you might be accused of being a "alt right neo-nazi trump kkk racist sexist homphobica" something or other.
Rather, they'll subconsciously realize that it's all a facade and it'll make them even less happy.

I'm listening to the great book iGen [1] and it lays out very clearly, with empirical, longitudinal, multifaceted research, that social media apps unquestionably make teens more anxious and less happy.

[1]http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/iGen/Jean-M-Twenge/978...
Maybe I'm wrong but it's wrong to say we don't know how a gyro works. We can accurately and precisely predict the behavior of a gyro, derive the mathematical equations necessary and the model we use is general for all moving objects. This is the greatest level of knowing you can have.

Maybe the author meant that a gyro's motion is not intuitive to most humans. That I can agree with. For me, even the fact that my smartphone is performing billions of calculations every second is non-intuitive. Doesn't mean I don't know how it works.
आज धनतेरस Dhanteras के दिन खरीदना न भूलें सोने चांदी से भी ज्‍यादा कीमती मामूली
IANAH, but if you graph the rate of progress, it seems to generally be exponential (over the long term). Did this rate of progress continue smoothly in other parts of the world, during the "Western European Dark Ages", or did it slow a little? i.e. not a decline, but a lull or slower progress. I guess if 1/4 of the world is declining, that would make global progress a little slower than if it had contributed equally.

As a layperson, I've always had the impression you counter, i.e. that there was great progress in classical times, and it didn't accelerate again until the Renaissance.

OTOH I know of one fundamental development made elsewhere during the W.E. Dark Ages: algebra.
I find the interesting question to be the hypothetical one where they are rational actors. Crows are smart, relatively, so how does the conversation change if we apply that they are not just rational but also have agency?
More of a software lesson
Spurious Correlation - http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Someone needs to study the effects of weed smoke on the lungs. That's the most common way to consume cannabis and I have a feeling it harms the lungs similar to the effects of smoking cigarettes.
There already are legal barriers? Even if the Supreme Court decides this is legal, EU and Irish law make it illegal, and Microsoft will be in extremely deep shit if they actually share the data.
For [2], the analysis is a bit off. For the mix/max age settings, there's not all that much difference between men and women for max age - for example a 30yo has a max partner age of 36 regardless of gender, and a 45yo has a max partner age of 50 regardless of gender. The difference in settings is in the min setting - and neither men nor women have the same range below as above (men quite a lot more, women a moderate amount less). Men never have an equal settings range above and below, and women don't hit an equal settings range until their 40s.

When it comes to actual messaging activity, both graphs show a 'belly' of preferring to message younger partners (except near the origin); it's just that the men's one is considerably more pronounced. Both genders are sending a lot of messages to people younger than their own minimum settings, too.

In general I liked the OKC data articles, but this particular one always seemed to me like they were forcing a story onto the data.
Purely anecdotal but in my experience of the two big recessions I've lived through, it's not the predictions of imminent doom you should worry about. It's the slew of articles that predict "no end in sight" that seem to come right at the peak. It's likely a coincidental observation on my part but maybe, just maybe it's the heavy hitters seeing a slow down trying to pump confidence back into the markets.
If you're confident that you can call on so much expertise that the quality of their execution hardly matters, go for it - but it's traditional to wait a bit to see if that potential competitor stumbles or misses out on a market.

I'd also be wary if there's any network effect that could favor them (unless you've got bags of money.) Also factor in the chances that a really large competitor will also decide to be competition if the sauce isn't that special but the service is very useful and complements what the big guys are already doing - although this could work in your favor if you're cool being an acqui-hire.

As for ethics, everyone understands it's a competitive market (at the bottom); but bystanders might wonder about your judgement for a while: "me-too" companies often fail, since those who lack the acumen to find their own idea often have little else in their quiver, and so fail to add the innovative improvements that are needed along the way in order to create a truly viable product.
> By definition, the dictator is given control over you. He exist as a dictator because you are not free. Now that's different say from an elected leader who year over year gets re-elected because everyone approves of what he's doing. You can't say he's a dictator, even though he might rule as one, but he's not, because the people are in control, even if he has the same power to enact the same things then your benevolent dictator and rules for just as long.

> So to rephrase, what would be the difference between someone doing exactly what a dictator does, same laws, same rules, but elected freely by the people, versus the dictator? It would be the freedom to choose who dictates. Thus, you would have one less freedom, making you less free.

I think this is similar to the argument made in the other comment.

There are two different kinds of freedom here: The freedom for society to govern itself and the freedom of the individual.

As an individual, if I disagree with my leader, it ultimately makes very little difference whether the leader is a dictator there by force or an elected representative of a majority which will never share my views. As an individual, I have no influence on society either way.

My belief is that a society can exist where society is unfree (due to say a dictator) but individuals are free (a fair set of laws is in place that causes minimal harm/maximal good). This society is just as free if not more free than a democracy.

Therefore, democracy is not freedom.

> Having said that, you have a good point. I think you're talking about the majority's rule problem. Democracy suffers from that, where you can't individually choose, you need support from others. Now some people have more power to influence, so much so, that they might be indirectly ruling. This practically limits you're freedom to choose who dictates. And given a majority whose singly influenced by a powerful actor, which doesn't listen to you, a benevolent dictator which were to be more considering of your needs and desires, you might actually enjoy your life better and practically have more freedom.

Yes, I made exactly that argument in the other comment.
That graph is very misleading. I don't have access to the published paper which may be accurate, but the article doesn't mention the reduction in opioid deaths from 2008-2010, which appears to be similar to 2014-2016. Also, the title of the graph states the timeline through 2015, but the x axis suggests there is data up to 2016?
it's about religion, not politics

define:politicize

cause (an activity or event) to become political in character.

But good luck with that theory anyway!
Replace “crows” with “humans”. Does your opinion change?
Tor doesn't work everywhere. I'd don't know how they did it but it was blocked in my school's computer lab.
Infineon is ...

Hopefully people will soon be able to say Infineon was ...

There are certain screwups that are egregious enough to deserve a death penalty. This is one of them. IMO nobody should ever trust a crypto chip like this from Infineon ever again.
Unless we create them. There will always be a point that the apex predators fail to recognize the threat until it is too late.
Gyros are really simple! Think of the gyro's ring as a series of independent particles flying around really fast in a horizontal circle. Now you push up at one point on that circle. Does the circle move up at that point? No. You're applying a force to each particle only very briefly before it moves past and you're pushing on the next one. But you do impart some upward velocity on the particle during its brief time under your influence. This causes it to follow an upward path away from the point where you're pushing, which will continue until the circular path brings it back down. This will tilt the entire circle along the axis connecting the center of the circle to the point where you're pushing.

The faster the gyro spins, the less important the imparted velocity will be relative to the particle's speed, which is why a gyro is more stable the faster it spins.
Or you know, we could setup a powerful system of laws and judges, with multiple recourse to overrule and get decisions reevaluated, where details of a particular case could be thoroughly analysed, and debated, with a professional representative on either side, and we could eventually rule what seems to be the most reasonable given the concrete case.

Honestly, this isn't a computer algorithm. We have the capacity to judge different speech in different contexts.
You'd think the kind of people who use HN would know better than to share AMP urls.

I refuse to click on that URL.
The founder is a crackhead.
> I would wager that, taking a century-level view, the regions encompassed by Alexander's empire increased steadily in urbanization and GDP from his time to that of the Mongols.

There is evidence of a medeival decline, even in those areas, although obviously not as bad.

In "Why The West Rules, For Now", Ian Morris defines "The West" very broadly, and definately includes everything you are talking about. He then comes up with various metrics which are not averages, but which focus the most successful part of the region (e.g. population of the biggest city).

Not surprisingly, the most successful parts of the west by his reckoning, were in the Islamic world during the middle ages. But even then his overall metric shows a medeival dip for the west, which his "east" (aka China) did does not see.
Even back in middle school in the early 2000's, credentials to bypass the web blocker or address to a proxy that hadn't been blacklisted yet was a hot commodity - they were mostly sold/ distributed by entirely non-technical kids too.
Actually nicotine is very effective as a replacement for those on anti anxiety meds that only need occasional stress prevention to prevent anxiety attacks. Although I'm talking about its use in a controlled form as a medication instead of an addictive habit. Quite a few studies are ongoing thanks to the rise of vapes allowing an easy isolation tool for inhaled chemicals.