skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know when neanderthal was living in Europe and we think we know when Humans arrived. Based on the evidence that we have, the conclusion is that neanderthal has symbolic thought.

I am not saying it is not possible that modern humans are not responsible for the cave paintings. I am saying that all we have is evidence for a settlement in Israel that is old enough to show Humans could have migrated OOA much sooner than thought. That settlement is not evidence that they did. If you find more data then we can talk about it. A settlement of modern humans in the Balkans or even in Anatolia during that time frame would at least bolster the argument.
Definitely gonna dig into this one.
China was more open in the 80s, less open in the early 90s, and then increasingly open until 2008. After 2008, it went down hill.
Lightning is trustless and decentralized
Giant OneNote notebook with a numbering system up to 10,000. Split into categories of 1,000 each. Open up new sections each time you start a new topic. 5,000 might be programming, 6,000 history, etc.
As a multilingual person who speaks two languages on a daily basis, being able to interact through the language of my choice seamlessly is something I'm really looking forward to.
> To frame democracy as a "Western mindset" is naive

Who invented democracy? Who were its earliest proponents, and later 'rediscoverers' and adopters during the late Enlightenment? Does not the culture and the government co-evolve with one another over time, such that they form a single functioning unit?

On the contrary, it is the idea that the formal system of government can be completely shorn of the context of the society and the cultural mores from which they arise that is naive.

The failure of the majority of states outside of the West to be democracies in actual fact even when they have the formal process of elections should demonstrate that simply imposing a foreign system of rule on a nation that has no experience with it is highly unwise. How well have the democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan turned out?

I find it pretty surprising that you speak with such certainty and conviction about Western liberal democracy when the

I'll leave you with this quote from Aristotle, who certainly believed there was a relationship between the people and the form of governance they could attain:

"The nations inhabiting the cold places and those of Europe are full of spirit but somewhat deficient in intelligence and skill, so that they continue comparatively free, but lacking in political organization and capacity to rule their neighbors. The peoples of Asia on the other hand are intelligent and skillful in temperament, but lack spirit, so that they are in continuous subjection and slavery. But the Greek race participates in both characters, just as it occupies the middle position geographically, for it is both spirited and intelligent; hence it continues to be free and to have very good political institutions, and to be capable of ruling all mankind if it attains constitutional unity." [1]

Agree or disagree with his (perhaps chauvinistic) assessment of his own people, but he at least realizes that governmental forms do not exist in a vacuum.

> This kind of thinking is also used as a defensive tool against real debate about the morality of what China does.

I would love to have a moral debate about what China is doing, but that would require moving beyond a reactive 'they are not a democracy, and hence automatically wrong'. I am saying this as a Chinese person whose family personally greatly suffered during the Cultural Revolution.

Let's have a real conversation about, what the proper role of government is, what its ends ought to be, and how that interacts with the experience of its host civilization and its history.

[1] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_41
… which means that you have much less control and when something goes wrong, you can't fix it.

To be clear, I enjoy having this as a tool available but not every problem is the same and not every organization is the same.
It's great that someone down voted my comment even though it is a true statement.
> If you need to know, you look at what consumes the result. If it's abstract (say it's a top level binding `... -> m a` where the m is abstract) you don't need to know "what it is actually doing" - it should be correct for any choice of `m`.

That seems to explain a lot. So to make an ad-hoc version of the Elvis Operators section that's actually equivalent to the Haskell code would be more like this?

___ a ___ getData();
___ b ___ a ___ getMoreData();
___ c ___ b ___ getMoreData();
___ d ___ c ___ getEvenMoreData(a);
print(d);
Another name for serverless is function as a service, which might help clarify. No to both of your questions.
No, being slightly autistic doesn't make you more intelligent, but it makes you use that intelligence differently. If you consider the dichotomy between "fast" and "slow" thinking, my hypothesis is that mild autism causes you to think slowly more often. This can be both useful and harmful, but in many modern professions it's advantageous.
I bet they had to search long and hard to find such an example. For the simple fact is that after your first job (and usually not even then), no one cares about your university grades. All they see is what school attended and what you majored in. And after a decade or two, people stop really caring about your major as well. The "brand" of the university lasts a lifetime.
"Japanese scientists invent robot girlfriends for lonely insects" -- the real cause of the insect population decline.
Are you referring to the difference between the subjective experience of feeling like a "self" vs your knowledge of being a "self" (or the illusion of being a self)? If that is the case, I actually disagree that the experience of being a self would remain unchanged indefinitely if you change your belief of what you are as a self. If you are mindful of your new concept of self, the character of your daily experience will be changed as you reframe your experiences in to your new concept of self. To take this to an extreme, you could practice mindfulness meditation to the point where you lose the experience of a sense of self.
https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
It was to meet the PCI-DSS Level-1 security standards for banking compliance. We'd store encrypted cards in one place and store the master keys in the AWS KSM to later decrypt it. But to retrieve the master keys, it goes through another layer of encryption.
A major breach would probably surface on the dark web or other places
I wholeheartedly agree with the premise. However, I disagree with "...blockchain save a few, it is trivial to track your trades.".

If coinbase does your buy/sell off chain than this is really more a matter of what coinbase knows/doesn't know and is/isn't willing to report. The transparency isn't asserted like it is with the blockchain which is public.
I’m not a lawyer or cpa, so would definitely recommend talking to one if you want more solid answers. My understanding is that the penalties are a percentage of how much you misrepresented your taxes. Different tiers for different types of violations. Something like 20% on small mistakes and 75% for fraud. Beyond penalties they can come after you with civil and criminal charges if you committed fraud.

Small mistakes may never trigger an audit, but audits can be random as well. If you’re audited they will find these mistakes. It’s much easier to claim negligence for small amounts than gross omissions. There probably isn’t a steadfast rule for when something would be considered fraud.

My advice, don’t knowingly omit things, even small amounts. I wouldn’t sweat if you accidentally missed a few bucks in the past. If it’s any significant amount I’d file an amendment. I believe you aren’t liable for penalties if you unknowingly made a mistake and amend a return.
The IRS specification on Bitcoin has been set for five tax years now, including for 2013.

https://www.coindesk.com/internal-revenue-service-treat-digi...
The IRS has no definition of "Bitcoin". To them, cryptocurrencies are just generic "property", like houses or art collections or shares of stocks. If you sell an asset, and receive more for it than you paid for it, you have a capital gain that you need to pay taxes on. For details, see https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf.
What is this method of transaction? Credit cards?
“The Commodore Story” Documentary Premieres 23 Feb 2018
> and then increasingly open until 2008

Could you cite any examples? I'm asking about China, not Hong Kong. Every time I ask this question, I am consistently pointed to repression in Hong Kong.
I find the equity split between Drew (25.3%) and Arash (10.3%) especially interesting given @paulg's 2014 tweet that "Zero of the most successful YC companies have a significantly disproportionate equity split"
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/535588566978404352
Currently on Android in order to use assistant at all I have to allow Google to record everywhere I go, every app I launch on my phone, and every web search I make on any logged in device. This is way more of my privacy I’m than I’m willing to give up. So until Google allows me to use assistant with some or all of these turned off, even if it reduces its effectiveness, Google assistant is turned off on all my devices.
500,000 years ago our eyes and vision were probably significantly worse than they are today. As our eyes evolved to capture the world better our brains also evolved to correct the errors from our eyes. On the other hand, we feed into our neural networks high quality images. It's true that they are low resolution but they don't contain noticeable noise or artifacts. The attack described here is a smart application of salt and pepper noise. It's ineffective on humans because our vision evolved to filter it out, but a network which has seen only noiseless images is helpless.

I'm curious whether training the network by adding noise and other mutations to the set would make the network more resilient to this attacks. In other words, it's the training set or the network architecture that's vulnerable here?
This article was a little hard to follow. The takeaway I got was that the Botai horse which was considered the last species of wild horse is genetically similar to the earliest known domestic horse breeds, so it is better classified as a feral horse species.

Edit: see correction in comment below!
Any ideas on how I can purchase with the underwriter price?
I am late to the party, but others may have similar interest:

Are there any physical 1000+ year clocks for sale?

Asking for a friend.
Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead
They built it out of specifically engineered materials that are highly resistant to corrotion. It's in an underground hole carved into rock to be dry and fairly dirt free. This was planned for quite a long time, I assure you.
RETORNO AS AULAS
This one's pretty important. I tried to implement slack commands using lambda. But because slack needs a first response within a tiny period of time, my command would often need to be run twice since the first attempt would timeout as lambda spun up the server.
I was actually skimming his article to see if he mentions decentralization or blockchain somewhere.
How is that not counterevidence given the significant split between the two?
Just a hunch, but I'm pretty sure that in all the years they've been working on this and the millions of dollars they've sunk into it, they already thought of corrosion and dirt.
SEPA Instant Credit Transfer.

The Eurozone has had for many years a free transfer system between bank accounts, nowadays thanks to recent upgrades it's not only free, but also instant.

And banks now have to provide an open API to all functionality as well, so that it's very easy to build technology on top to allow people to just quickly transfer money to someone, or pay online with it.

But technically, it's just international wire transfers, for free, instantly, with an open API. Like most banks already provided.
I think the assumption today is that is easy to boot from some alternative media (usb/cdrom/pxe) into what used to be called a "live cd" (like Knoppix). Once there you can mount your existing partitions and attempt to fix any issues. The Fedora CDs have provided a "rescue" option since as long as I can remember and this attempts to find and mount your existing installation. There is also a rescue option in the grub boot list but I have never needed to use it.

The Fedora docs also describe two further rescue and emergency modes available from the grub menu:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/f27/system-administrators-gui...
The trick is to search for "WHO" oral rehydration salts.
I think that may be his point (that PG views that as an appropriate split for one or more reasons).
You don’t understand how iCloud Keychain works and are spreading FUD. GP already linked the white papers which explain why what you are saying is inaccurate.
> I assure you.

Wonderful. I was simply asking how did they do that. Like in technical details.
Naturally it depends on the situation and trade-offs, but I agree with what you wrote pretty often. I summarize all this as: "Software is not really made of cogs."
If you you've forgotten the details of that episode, here's a link: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-g...
While it's a superb article, it strikes me as being distinctly aimed at laypeople, and I suspect someone who studied linguistics might already know large parts of it. (I haven't, but I know parts from having had Latin in school.)

(Also, it contains the words "This is not exactly what happened but it is basically what happened, please just fucking roll with it, this shit is long enough already." so I suspect there might be more in-depth material somewhere.)

Anyway, all of this is not aimed at you directly, but more of a general pondering of whether sending people articles on their subject matter is useful. Family members occasionally send me news articles on technology, which I usually find only moderately interesting.
I'm pretty sure that's already illegal on many countries.
Reverse Engineering BLE from Android Apps with Frida
How Jeff Bezos was selected for, but never joined, the Defense Innovation Board
IntelliJ doesn't have a dedicated build system. You can choose from no system, Maven, and Gradle.

No system is often good enough for basic projects, but not Android development. Support libraries, configuration, API versions, NDK support, etc. make Gradle a requirement. Gradle is the official build system of Android for a reason, it's not something that Google just added willy-nilly to Android Studio.

As an Android developer, I LOVE Gradle. I think it's a vastly superior build system. I also use it for complex desktop applications, and applications that run on both desktop and Android, using shared code and OS-dependent code (the module system makes this very easy to organize).
This discussion about the name comes up in every single thread about serverless

See prev discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16406822
I think IntelliJ is excellent. I can't imagine a better IDE.
I'm not sure about (1), although Google's infrastructure not making it an internal priority seems plausible. I also think for Go it's more common to build directly on top of the standard library than in many other languages.

For (2), dep was endorsed only as the "official experiment", whatever that means. It looks like they went with a different design for a bunch of specific technical reasons outlined in these blog posts. According to the last one there are 67(!) pages of content. I'd recommend at least reading part 3 though, "Semantic Import Versioning".

The main advantage of the new system seems to be that it handles major version upgrades in a way that doesn't leave the user exposed to difficult build problems in situations involving shared dependencies. As a trade off, it makes it a little less convenient to upgrade major versions (since the import paths change), although I'm sure tooling can make this easier.

I like a lot of the properties of it: builds should rarely break, the whole system is pretty easy to understand, you can make API v1 a wrapper for API v2 (so users who haven't migrated get the new implementation), you get library versions with the dependencies they were tested with, backwards compatibility is encouraged, a single module can't force you to use old versions of sub-packages (only upgrade), no lock files are needed since builds will be stable without them, it's easy to upgrade but done explicitly, and so on... I guess the main thing is it would be nice if it was around earlier!

Hopefully the transition from dep will be pretty smooth (I believe they are contracting with the main dep author to help with this). I think the vgo prototype already uses some information from other Go package managers (not only dep).
Ask HN: Fake video or compression artifacts?
What do you think (it's video from Ghouta from this week)?

https://twitter.com/QalaatAlMudiq/status/967104512233230337

It looks like compression artifacts. Anyone with experience with video compression who can tell? How would you differentiate manipulation from compression artifacts? (one prominent effect is explosion flashes staying on top of smoke for a while)
Watch out for overtraining. It can cause your central nervous system to become overworked, leading to (mental) fatigue, and other nasty symptoms.
It's general property, and you don't have to report pure losses AFAIK. Otherwise everyone will have to report the loss basis of stuff they sell for a loss on craigslist.
What little protection remains is a relic of the seventies. An interesting time in America. A time of strong resentment against the government after Vietnam and Nixon. There was a really powerful TRUE left wing in Washinton that had power.

Ofcourse even back then they never extended FISA to non US citizens. Nobody legislates the CIA.
Judges do not create new law. They interpret existing law and decide if a potentially new use case can be considered to be covered under existing law. If so, they make a ruling to that effect, and depending on jurisdiction and other factors, that ruling may become precedent that other courts can/will follow. If not, they dismiss the case, and it's up to the legislature to make a new law governing this use case, if they so choose.

Having said that, I agree that judges aren't idiots, and they can often spot when someone is trying to be creative in order to circumvent existing law. The IRS also has pretty broad latitude in determining what falls under existing tax law and exactly how, and the courts take a dim view of people who are trying to evade taxes.
While we’re opining on bad regs, my pet peeve for this week is Massachusetts law that requires any plumbing fixture installed in the state (that includes faucets, sinks, tubs, and toilets) be explicitly approved by the MA Board despite nationally accredited testing which would already have been performed.

Of course manufacturers need to apply for each product SKU individually and needs to resubmit every 3 years, and pay a fee of $150.00 per every 10 SKUs with a maximum of $1,500.00 with their application.

In response MA will cash their check and add a line item into a database (which they paid probably untold millions to build) and do absolutely no testing or certification of their own.

The typical solution is to simply stipulate that products must have gone through nationally accredited testing for XYZ and that the licensed plumber simply attests they have verified this is true for any fixtures they installed by checking a box on the permit form.

But you know, 100,000 product SKUs at $1.50 per SKU every 3 years is a pretty sweet money grab.

So much for ordering a $30 cold water fill from Amazon, I can pay Delta $100 for the same thing. Or, you know, install the Amazon version myself after the inspection is done.

Ditto for regs which technically make it illegal to install a light switch or new outlet with USB charging ports on in. Because, you know, screwing in 3 wires.

Ditto for regs on make-up air for over-range ventilation which doesn’t account for the actual tightness of the building envelope and type of vented gas fixtures which could conceivably backdraft. Wouldn’t want to make it too complex, let’s just cut big fucking baffled holes in the building envelope to “make-up” for every CFM over 400. I guess I can just disconnect the pressure switch after the inspector leaves.

Building codes are often quite sensible and important. But some states or even towns in particular turn it into a money grab.

Sigh, first world problems.
This is exactly what I was looking for.

Just wondering, I see the Tax Summary. It seems to be all that I would need to fill out my taxes, right? What does generating the 8949 form give me?
Something I didn't know until recently was that PyCharm debugger was a cross-project cooperation between PyDev people and PyCharm people [0]

[0] https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2016/05/debugger-intervie...
> so it was pronounced like “seek”

How do you know? I doubt it, but maybe my stress on seeek is just too long. Good to know it's not as sick, anyhow.
Sorry, what???

I mean, you're entitled to do whatever you'd like. But do you see the potential valuations being tossed around? "Drew" is worth tens to hundreds of millions.

I just have no idea why someone would find it not only worth it to take money out of their own pocket to further a corporation that has no need for the empathy we would normally afford to people (or small businesses, which "round down" to individual people or small groups), but would actually see value in sharing this thought process with everyone else. It's not like using a "deal" is unethical or illegal (like, say, piracy), the company in question (or a reseller taking the hit) offered it. Is this some kind of silicon valley flavor of virtue signaling?

If dropbox was a startup with 8 employees, especially one that didn't offer the near-commodity service (yes, I know UX etc matter here) that dropbox does, I would understand this. But that's so far from the case
Considering how overpopulated the planet is, this is probably a necessary evil.
I wish more PDF creation softwares would allow to embed the original document within, like how LibreOffice does it.
It is all too common for young, bright, technical people to think the law works like mathematics and to try to find logical or technical reasons why they should be found not guilty of crimes. Most of them get shipped off to prison. This is doubly true when you're up against the IRS. Don't be that guy.