skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We" are probably not, or only to a small degree, descendants of this guy, because Britain was invaded multiple times, but "modern human" definitely implies common ancestors in "modern" paleohistory. The neanderthal genetics don't matter so much as the loss of pigmentation is thought to happen fairly quickly anyway.

If this appears like pseudo science, then because little is known and assumptions have to be made. For example they can't extract a full genome. But it is a game of probabilities and statistics. In absence of harder criteria, this is likely the most probable theory, therefore it is worth to be discussed.

Likewise, I am not sure how far and quickly was travel at the time or how far the ice had receded 10 kya, but its fair to assume they had fire and ships. Also the isles were connected to continental Europe at the time via doggerland. Maybe they were into timber trade or followed the big game like woolly Mammoths, which are attested 14 kya, or worse taken as slaves or otherwise driven by competing populations.
Just because a quantity is hard to measure doesn’t mean it’s zero. Zuck admitted that hundreds of millions of people saw ads purchased by Russian operatives. To say that has zero effect on all of them just because we can’t precisely measure the effect is wrong. To change the outcome of the election you don’t need millions, just a few hundred thousand. I’m not saying it changed the outcome, I’m saying it’s at least plausible with these numbers.
Thanks, I got the answer to questions I was asking from CDB FAQ, actually. I just wish this article in particular was less fluffy.
Why burn wood for heating if you care about CO2 footprint? Even electric heating is more efficient the reason why no fireplace is allowed to be classified as heating in a flat anymore (they are all decorative) is that 90% of the energy is wasted down the chimney.
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Well, I found the Russian in the thread.
I'm positive that that's true when you're making $1k / month. When you're making $10k or $20k or $50k per month? No way.

There is no way that it's a better use of your time and money to pay thousands of dollars per month vs. just switching to a flat rate provider. You're not providing much more value for someone making $10k / month vs. someone making $1k / month (the email sending costs here are super negligible), so why am I paying 10x as much?

So again, it's just an incentive to switch as soon as you start making real money.
Show HN: Projection.io extension instantly clips any moment from streaming sites
You really should just switch to a DNS provider that does ALIAS-style apex domains like Route 53. GoDaddy as DNS provider will be a mistake you will almost certainly eventually regret, given enough time.
It's not really meant to be about race specifically. It came to mind because of a technical talk by an Indian guy I watched on youtube once where everyone just made fun of his accent. For some reason it stuck with me.

You could say the same about someone with a strong southern US accent, or a thick Australian accent, or a working class English one.
Exactly.

There's an old school programmer at work who founded the company, created his own programming language a big application is running on and is widely considered to be a programmer guru.

He has some really strong opinions about programming, some I agree with and others I find difficult to swallow, but he's also firmly against vaccines, believes his kung fu is superior to the MMA in UFC and is generally very positive to pseudo medicine of different kinds.

I find it very difficult to take his programming advice seriously when he follows by saying vaccines are anti science.
Heh. Over profiting from Russian interference. Which Twitter also did (with knowledge and ignoring warnings), but Carrey posted about it from his Twitter account, without mentioning Twitter or plans to leave that platform.

So, either the reason is false, or it's poorly informed.
Nope, that's on top of Stripe fees.
> It makes me wonder how we communicate at all when no two people ever quite speak the same language.

You should read about Wiio's Laws: http://jkorpela.fi/wiio.html
Chickadees lengthen the number of "dees" in their calls depending on the perceived threat of nearby predators based on size/speed:

Templeton and his colleagues tested the alarm call responses of a flock of six chickadees against the presence of 13 birds of prey predators, which ranged in size from the 40-centimetre wingspan pygmy owl to the 140-centimetre wingspan rough-tail hawk. They also tested responses against two mammals, a cat and a weasel. Each predator was inserted into the chickadees aviary and tethered to a perch.

After analysing 5000 recorded alarm calls, the team found that the number of “dees” in the bird’s trademark “chickadee-dee-dee-dee” call corresponded to the size of the poised predator. Smaller hunters – which pose the greatest risk – received the most vociferous response. The alert causes the flock to mob their sitting foe in an attempt to drive it away.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7570-chirpy-chickadee...
I think this[1] said it better than I did.

[1]: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2017-December/00...
If it really is exponentially more difficult to correct for noise as the number of qubits increases, then it will be impossible to build a useful quantum computer. We may not be able to say whether it's impossible after 24 qubits, or after 29, or after 32, etc., but we may be able to know that it's impossible to build anything useful, if someone can rigorously mathematically prove this.

On the other hand if nobody can provide a mathematical proof that it's impossible, it could just be engineering. Then again, "just engineering" doesn't prove a useful quantum computer may require practically impossible configurations (i.e., having to be in the middle of a sphere of lead dozens of miles in radius cooled to near absolute-zero is not necessarily impossible, but isn't something we're going to build anytime soon), or that we simply won't be able to figure out the requisite configurations.

Alternatively, this guy will prove to be wrong and someone will just build a quantum computer with a couple hundred qubits, at which point we may have enough data to observationally draw the curve rather than via math and the simplifications required to make it tractable, and maybe it'll be fine.
Comfort and hope often live in doubts, like doubting that cancer will ultimately kill you, doubting that skipping that safety check will hurt anyone, doubting that your wife will actually leave if she catches you doing what she told you not to do, or doubting that you'll get caught during this burglary.

Lacking these doubts may leave one with anxiety and depression, but says nothing about whether these doubts are sound or unsound.
It's not that though. The iron filing change the magnetic field making it denser where the filing are. So they self organize into reenforcing channels of flux. So it's not a true visualization of the field, because the field is changed by the measurements.
Nobody is saying that you can't have healthy habits in 2018. Now they have to be a deliberate choice, because the default is driving / riding to work (as most people do). Nor is anyone saying the past was ideal. I am saying we can selectively choose certain aspects of the past as a model for how to make better choices for ourselves in the present. Some other advantages:

- default lifestyle (for economic reasons) is living in the city / suburbs where walking is often aesthetically unpleasant; humans have an aesthetic response to being in nature.

- again for economic reasons, processed food like bread is the default choice; it's hard for some to afford (in time and money) to get all their calories from fresh vegetables and meats. Again the past is a model (I'm talking about humans' natural diet in the days before food preservation / grain agriculture).

- let's shoot for no smog and no cave lung

- social stratification led directly to mass starvation and poverty (poorest segment of society experiences stress-related declines in longevity)

If we assume that every change that's ever happened is for the better in every way, it blinds us as to how to make improvements.
> I don't think people ridiculing others for their fashion choices is all that common past teenage years, but I may be wrong.

Try walking around as a man in a dress in 95% of the US.
> immediately type the name of the program you want to run, instead of having to click the "Run" entry

Why click anything at all if you're going to be typing anyway? Pressing Win + R has worked since the beginning, taking you directly to the "Run" dialog.

> mousing over the wrong part of the menu and closing a sub-sub-folder

The classic start menu (since Windows 98, or Windows 95 with IE 4) allows you to easily rearrange the entries by drag and drop. If you organize it such that it doesn't have any sub-sub-folders, it works much better. :)

On the other hand, if you just let things stay where the installers put them, it's pretty terrible. Each application takes something like 5 clicks: Start -> Applications -> SomeVendor -> SomeApplication -> SomeApplication. I guess this is the way most people had it, so that's why Microsoft gave up on structure and focused on search.
Who built that? That's a real easy way to get blacklisted.

When your response to disagreements with your customers is to act in an unprofessional and childish manner you make everyone look bad. I've worked with lots of people like that during my career and frankly you should be able to get employed with that kind of "king of the world" attitude. Go flip burgers or something. I'm not kidding.
I'm not disagreeing with the idea but why does anyone care what Jim Carrey has to say about Facebook? He's just an actor which isn't a profession that knows anything about the topic. Keep in mind that he's also an anti-vaxer so he's not exactly the most rational person.
Facebook themselves have admitted millions of people saw content traced back to the Kremlin-connected Internet Research Agency.

> Any examples of these Facebook ads that convinced millions to vote for Trump?

I never said there was.
Come on man. I don’t even need to link the xkdc comic but I will.

How do you force companies to play nice without regulation?

https://xkcd.com/927/
Android security is Google's fault. Any kidding yourself that might occur through believing that OEMs deserve any blame for an update mechanism (or lack thereof) in a system designed by Google is pretty easily discredited, especially when you consider it took Google five months to patch KRACK in the Pixel 2, when third party ROM authors did it in two days.

Also, Google's "reputation with security" needs some serious nuance: They are very good at preventing types of exploits they care about, but they are a literal joke when it comes to security that interfaces with submitted content and user choice. Consider that the Chrome Web Store is a literal cesspool of malware, and that a lot of websites blatantly try to force you to install extensions through the Chrome Web Store which steal your browsing data. Since extensions are permitted to request such a huge security hole, Google doesn't consider it their problem that extensions do it maliciously.

Because Google doesn't consider something they gave permission to do malicious things to be an exploit or vulnerability, Google can simultaneously claim that Chrome is the most secure browser, and it be literally the easiest browser to get malware with.

I can definitely agree with you that state level government security has a long way to go and is a pretty scary place. But Google can't fix it, because the biggest problem in government security is still humans, a security layer that Google has repeatedly demonstrated no understanding of.
I am also a non-native english speaker(I am greek) but I immediately understood your sentence. I didnt even have to think about it! So don't feel bad!
It’s marketed as a secure messenger. People using it casually for non-secure things may be mislead to believe by their marketing communications that it’s safe to use, when it isn’t. Its use should be discouraged in all cases as a result.
Your H&M example isn't great. The reason you didn't wear it a lot isn't because of the quality, but because you bought a shirt you didn't like. Save your money and only buy clothing you like.
it’s a signal of belonging to a tribe. you’re expressing allegiance and shared identity with the in-group, that you have chosen because you value what that community is oriented around.
I noticed during a very anxious time in my life that my thoughts (and speech to a certain extent) were most often overly tentative and full of qualifications. (I even wrote a very short story related to the idea which makes use of a similar tack as your first sentence: https://gdoc.pub/doc/1w2Fxd41ptoqD-Qv7NKNK7Yg9pfdE2dg5_ncHmm...)

The way it seemed to me was that I was in a mode where I needed to be very careful about not messing up (and it seemed likely that I would), so I constantly over-analyzed, with the typical result that I found all sorts of ways things technically could go wrong.

I'm guessing an element of paranoia is typically involved as well when you find this pattern of speech/thought.
Does anyone know of a respectful ad platform suitable for authors who prioritise the privacy of their readers?

My site fits your descriptions, but I have avoided adding ads because all good options I know are scary and not good for the readers.

It would be nice to be able to justify writing more though.
Get used to it. Everything comes to an end. All your favorite animals will, and humans will, and whatever comes after them.

I highly doubt consuming meat today affects lifestyle of most humans in 50 years noticeably.
Who purchased these ads? The Russian government? A Russian company? A Russian individual? I'm asking for hard evidence, that's all. Please show me some.
This was a good read. I think I’ll create a github based version allowing for pull requests.

Would it be ok to use some of the text (with credit of course)?

If not, would you be interested in contributing once I have it set up?
Works fine for me too, Firefox Nightly (60.0a1) on Linux.
Also, sshuttle.
That kind of writing makes sense for a blog, and most blogs I see/follow don't have much advertisting that benefits the author.

> writing literature can be an art form

Right. There are some amazing writers out there who are true artists and yet have to subsidize their writing with traditional employment. The writing far outvalues the other-job output.

(This isn't a problem just for writers - many artists are starving of course)

I'd like to find a model that lets them do writing full-time and get paid in a way such that better writing => more readers => more income.

It's unclear how to pay a great writer for their writing if not for ads or directly from readers.
> Why burn wood for heating if you care about CO2 footprint?

Presumably because (assuming sustainable forestry) burning wood is carbon neutral.

> Even electric heating is more efficient

It's not more net carbon emissions efficient. Energy efficiency and carbon impact are not always aligned.
> But policy alone would not be enough to overcome gender inequality. It would require changes in behavior — including by men. There is evidence that the gap would shrink if fathers acted more the way mothers do after having children, by spending more time on parenting and the related responsibilities.

Is this really just an individual decision? Men and women don't make their decisions about child-rearing in a vacuum.
> Facebook themselves have admitted millions of people saw content traced back to the Kremlin-connected Internet Research Agency.

Ok, what actual hard evidence is there? Who actually purchased the ads in question? Can we see the ads they purchased? How much did they spend?
>who cares?

Victims?
We actively try to make improvements so GitLab uses fewer resources, but with the scope of the application it's definitely not easy to make it super "lightweight".

You can see the hardware requirements here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/install/requirements.html#hardwar...
This is really exciting to see and something I feel has been missing for some time. I think if this is grown correctly it would be a great acquisition for Docker to make.

It always struck me that I should be able to "docker push" my data and share that with my team just as I do my apps. In fact, I had built a quick hack to do something similar called Dockershare (https://github.com/ahnick/dockershare). I realized through that effort that a custom docker volume plugin would be needed and that it was a much larger problem than what I had time to tackle.

I imagine that dotmesh must have grown out of what was being done with dvol? (https://github.com/clusterhq/dvol) In any case, kudos for getting this built. I'm excited to try it out.
When looking at it from a business perspective, comprehensibility only makes sense to a certain degree. It often takes a lot of time to get to a certain degree of quality, which could otherwise be used elsewhere.
NSLs cannot compel people to write original software, thank fuck.
I find common sense and skepticism usually works. I mean say someone is an extremely accomplished operating systems programmer. There's no reason to believe they are any kind of authority on programming language design, or that their ideas on programming language design are noteworthy or well thought-out.
> 3. When developing SIMD related libraries which need to be portable across multiple CPU versions you may set up a CPUID mask (so trap, then hide features) to ensure compatibility on legacy computers.

Huh? My impression was CPUID was exactly the opposite: using it properly allows ensuring compatibility on older computers while still getting maximum performance, since one can dynamically dispatch to an implementation that uses only what is supported. (E.g. switch between an SSE2 version and an AVX version.)
> The Computer History Museum in Mountain View runs demonstrations of the IBM 1401 on Wednesdays and Saturdays so check it out if you're in the area; the demo schedule is here: http://www.computerhistory.org/hours/

Regarding the IBM 1401 (to borrow from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend seeing it in person.

I've had the pleasure of seeing several presentations and even punching cards to be run as part of a demo program. The machine is impressive to see in person and the volunteers who run the tours are a lot of fun to talk to!
Also a distributed database engineer, and while I disagree with CockroachDB's CAP Theorem tradeoff decisions, they are definitely well reasoned and principled.

RethinkDB was Master-Slave (strongly consistent) with an amazing developer community and actually survived Aphyr's tests better than most systems.

CockroachDB is also in the Master-Slave (strongly consistent) camp, but more enterprise focused, and therefore will probably not fail, however their Aphyr report worked... but was unfortunately very slow. But hey, being strongly consistent is hard and correctness is a necessary tradeoff from performance.

Other systems, like Cassandra, us (https://github.com/amark/gun), Couch/Pouch, etc. are all in the Master-Master camp, and thus AP not CP. Our argument is that while P holds, realtime sync with Strong Eventual Consistency is good enough yet has all the performance benefits, for everything except for banking. Sure, use Rethink/Cockroach for banking (heck, better yet, Postgres!), but for fun-and-games you can do banking on top of AP systems if you use a CRDT or blockchain (although that kills performance, CRDTs don't) on top.

So yeah, I agree with you about CAP Theorem and stuff, disagree with Cockroach's particular choice - but they do have some pretty great detailed explainers/documentation on their view, and therefore should be treated seriously and not written off.
You should come on Indie Hackers and do an interview in a few months. I'm constantly telling friends to start newsletters. Would love to see how this works out and learn the details behind the scenes wrt to marketing and growth.
It’s not end to end encrypted by default. This is the baseline standard for an encrypted messenger in 2018.
It's not simply miserliness that makes people reluctant to pay for articles online. It's also because subscribing is so much work. If you could pay 50 cents for an article with a single button click, a lot of people would do it. But filling out a subscription form and getting out your credit card and typing in a 16 digit number off it just to read a single article (which is all one wants at the point one is being asked to subscribe) seems like way too much work.
Forging Better Tools for the Web
not sure, but they just lost a customer.

My annual sub end March 1st which is about perfect timing since they were trying to double the annual rate without proper notice, in my opinion.
Why is it bad though? Unless it affects human population, I don't see why should I care. Do you consider it immoral? Well, morality is personal, and most don't agree.
That's a very good point! You'll save a lot of money by being selective about what you buy.

I think I got suckered into the H&M marketing - it looked quite nice in store and it even felt nice the first time I wore it. But then I realized it only really went with one or two other things, and it didn't look quite as good after being dry-cleaned/washed, so it quickly lost most of its appeal.
The 2% is worth it when the revenue base is small, but increasingly less so. When I hit $10k / month I'll be paying this provider $200 / month for something that I can get for $200 - 300 per year from other providers. And it won't just keep going up as I make more.

And yeah, maybe the loss leader thing is their pricing strategy, but it's about to cost them a customer and I doubt I'm the only one.
Interesting.

Maybe this is the problem, people expect Quantum Computers to be powerful evolutions of standard computers, perhaps "computer" is the wrong term because all they really do is flip bits back and forth.

Quantum computers are clearly not a good way to flip bits to 1 or 0 but perhaps they would be useful in abstract projects, such as searching for the "creative spark" in machine learning that would differentiate between Artificial Intelligence and Yet Another Program. Maybe the emergent 'corruption' could enlighten scientists in other ways.

I think Quantum Computers are hype, just like AI, but just because it's useless for doing your taxes doesn't mean it's useless.
Planetary Soft Landing [pdf]
I guess the least the API could do is provide some suitably named constants that represent the various elements such that the call becomes something like -

err = v.Retrieve(ctx, VSphere.DATASTORE, VSphere.SUMMARY, &dss)

The constants can just be enums that map to the actual valid string representations. That way API user knows the full extent of the parameters and doesn't have to rely on arbitrary strings.
Series: Anti Patterns and How to Refactor in Ruby on Rails: Delegate Method
What Smog does to your health, and how not to breathe it
Do you think the DAC in the Echo is good enough for high-quality speakers?

I have to admit, I'm a sucker for things like Apple's claim that their device measures the room acoustics and adjusts itself for better sound. I don't know if it's true, but I kind of want one in my office now.
> It only works on Linux

Absolutely not. My colleagues with Macs are using it on macOS just fine.

> a little more involved to set up

Either TPROXY is the default on Arch Linux, or this is false as well. I just installed sshuttle via pacman and it worked without any additional setup.
Nobody, you got that all wrong. 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN are established, quite mature standards. HomeKit is the (proprietary) challenger, that adds nothing but an ecosystem for Apple to profit from