skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking out your ass.[1]

> Annually laminated (varved) lake sediments offer considerable potential as high-resolution archives of palaeo-environmental conditions where other high-resolution proxy indicators are not available (e.g., arid terrestrial regions), and latitudes poleward of the treeline (Lamoureux and Bradley, 1996; Wohlfarth et al., 1998; Hughen et al., 2000). When annual deposition of the varves can be independently confirmed (e.g., through radiometric dating), they provide seasonal to interannual resolution over centuries to millennia. Varved sediments can be formed from biological processes or from the deposition of inorganic sediments, both of which are often influenced by climate variations. Three primary climate variables may influence lake varves: (a) summer temperature, serving as an index of the energy available to melt the seasonal snowpack, or snow and ice on glaciers; (b) winter snowfall, which governs the volume of discharge capable of mobilising sediments when melting; and (c) rainfall. Laminated lake sediments dominated by (a) can be used for inferences about past high latitude summer temperature changes (e.g., Overpeck et al., 1997), while sediments dominated by the latter two influences can be used to estimate past drought and precipitation patterns (Section 2.5.2.2).

> Ocean sediments may also be useful for high-resolution climate reconstructions. In rare examples, annually laminated sediments can be found (e.g., Hughen et al., 1996; Black et al., 1999) and it is possible to incorporate isotope and other information in climate reconstructions, much as varved lake sediments are used. Otherwise, sedimentation rates may sometimes still be sufficiently high that century-scale variability is resolvable (e.g., the Bermuda rise ocean sediment oxygen isotope record of Keigwin, 1996). Dating in such cases, however, must rely on radiometric methods with relatively poor age control.

Biostratigraphic dating isn't how these things are dated. The existence of a species before or after an event isn't how the event is dated. It's not even really that relevant; it relies inherently on species that are not well represented. Instead well represented species, usually ones that didn't die out, are used.

Not to mention that biostratigraphic dating is a secondary evidence source... those fossils themselves are dated by far more accurate methods. Near as I can tell, you're basing this opinion off the resolution of radiometric rock dating, which is accurate to about a million years. That has nothing to do with measuring fast changes, which are measured via properties of the rock itself.

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What neighborhoods would those be?
Modern video games are reaching 100GB in size per game. I have been waiting for bigger hard drives so I can store raw blueray rips which are about 50GB each.
Interesting! The last time I used this with Python was 2014, and this, alongside the botched migration to 3 was the reason I moved on from Python to Go. Glad to hear things have been improving.
>Yeah, I know I can switch to desktop mode and reload, but no thanks, I already got your message to me loud and clear.

When a third-party developer can make a more user-friendly and less crash-prone app than your official one, it might be worth considering that maybe your official app sucks.
One of the most insidious portions of non-competes IMO is that they are often non-enforceable. Depending on how wide or restricted the target of the non-compete is it can be ruled invalid. A lot of the more questioning people have probably discovered this but consider that there are probably janitors laid off by amazon who read their non-competes as the word of law and end up suffering hardships because of it.

Also, as an aside, a non-compete is not required to prevent corporate espionage, it's just easier to prove violation of. A lot of the sales teams worried about losing leads when team members departed could have pursued them with law suits focusing on the theft of corporate resources, it's regrettable non-competes have even gotten this far.
And, conversely, you can't implement both List<String> and List<Integer> on the same class.
Hi everyone, I just open sourced one of my react native animations, can you star my repo on Github, please :)

There is a tweet button in the README if you are feeling extra generous
I've long freed myself from the exhausting pipenv/virtualenv/pienv/conda rat-race by using docker. The only downside is some annoying IDEs refuse to acknowledge the existence of interpreter in a container.
Is it true that encryption cannot proetect from a relay attack? If the encrypted payload is passed based on some kind of pre-shared secret (pairing) then each message should be unpredictable to a third party right?
Could a men have a baby with such a transplant?
First rule of burner phones: don't talk about burner phones.

Just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it's not happening.
If you count cyber, we're currently at war with Russia and China, and maybe North Korea. If you count operations aimed at our internal politics, we're currently at war with Russia and Iran.

The way I see it, you'd better count cyber and political attacks.
Indeed, the last time this attack vector came up on HN, it was pointed out that one company has patented using time of flight to validate keyless entry.

Here's the patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8930045
And in a fun twist, what you mention is 99% of the reason for 99% of degree requirements on a position (yes, some positions truly do require years of specific background education) -- it's the best evidence a company has on an inexperienced person that the person can persevere.
A california court would invalidate the contract IF :

If (the venue was california in the contract)

Else if (the contract was based on laws that were similar enough to what the california legislature expressely legislated against or califonias judiciary addressed in prior case law)

Your employer may have standing in another states court and that court may find a way to establish jursidiction and sanction you according to the contract and its law
Wait, why are you downvoted? I wasn't aware, and you helped me greatly. I wish HN would offer a way to just order comments by date and make flagged/downvoted things collapsed, the end. People playing political tug of war with comments in conversations they don't even partake in is just annyoing.

Karma-free HN could be a browser extension. We could call it nirvana or something.
I think this post missed one extremely important point. I almost never see it in blog posts, and yet the successful heads of 100+ engineer organizations all know this.

Find good managers! Or groom them. Whichever. Just make sure you have good managers.

I see endless posts about recruiting, and I see tons of posts about engineering culture, but I almost never see posts from these same sources about the nitty gritty of how to evaluate and grow leadership and people management skills. Ironically, I see a lot of that from MBA programs.

Actually getting good management in place is extremely hard to do and does more for talent retention than almost everything else. For every company blog post I've read that talks about scaling the organization, including Stripe, I also hear corresponding horror stories from friends and acquaintances who are leaving because they hate their manager and because their company isn't doing anything about it.

Sure, it's relative, on the grand scale of managerial quality I'd wager that Stripe is on the right side of average, but I'd really like to see more focus on scaling leadership.
> But it is creepy that he has snippets in there projecting them as liberal anti-conservatives hipster organizations.

I don't think that means the characterization is false, though. My friends working at Facebook and Google are very liberal and internal polling and their message boards have shown that to be overwhelmingly true for the wider organization as well.

> Come on - 2016 would've turned out very different if facebook was really suppressing conservative content at the scale this film is talking about.

It's possible that it happened and simply backfired. Conservatives aren't blind and turned out in greater numbers due to personal anecdata that they and the current events they were interested in were being squelched and misrepresented across social media. I personally recall Facebook's news sidebar feature had a clear pro-Democrat bias in the editorialized titles they wrote and presented above stories throughout 2016 (before they took it down).
I agree journalism can exaggerate points for clicks, but this is a strange comment here when you look at the actual research cited.

They are pointing to multiple economic studies based on natural experiments where the total prohibition of NCAs can be compared with their use under similar circumstances.

The studies strongly suggest that total repeal is better than permitting these contracts, and it's not obvious a simple modification would have the same results.

You might worry those studies are not representative of all the literature on this, or more work needs to be done, fine. But I don't think we can dismiss the argument as silly offhand.

The author makes at least a prima facie case.... Better than that, there's evidence supporting it from different contexts.
The problem with Facebook and the rest of the big tech companies is that they appointed themselves to be those aunties who tells you what to do, what to read, what to believe in and how to behave correctly.

If they just said that they follow the law and that's it, without agendas and politics there would be no problems because nobody would expect anything from them. But they have this hubris and arrogance and that will be their demise because they will never be able to satisfy everybody.

We use our representative in the government to make moral decisions and laws and if we don't like it we can vote for a different candidate. Zuckerberg is not my representative and I got no control or power to take him out of his position. So just shut up and follow the law. Don't censor stuff if the law allow it and don't collect information if the law doesn't allow it.
Datacenters as well. Peoples data storage needs have gone up only now we put all the data on someone elses computer.
> D had a closed source reference compiler for a long time, and didn't have any major backers.

In addition, wasn't there for a while two separate and incomparable versions of the standard library that fragmented the community?
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Source: Google Allo will be officially shut down soon
How do you improve understanding if you've decided that something is true and forbidden any questioning of the subject? Science cannot exist without skepticism - otherwise it's just dogma.
> technology being developed to satisfy innate human desires as opposed to actually bettering the human being

Society works better when everyone is allowed, to the maximum extent reasonably possible, to draw this line on their own. The entirety of art, for example, could be categorized as either.
For anyone like me who hadn't seen these displays, there are some photos in this article: http://www.thedrive.com/tech/23280/a-first-ride-in-waymos-se...
Even when a company gives me a phone, I keep my personal.

If you leave a company unexpectedly (which can happen), it's good if you don't give up the ability to be contacted.

I made this mistake in my twenties, and never again.
These types of contractors are different. They can't dictate their hours. They are basically software engineers hired on contingent status. The IRS frowns upon it but will typically allow 1 year before they convert to full time. A lot of big tech companies use them to hire engineers at lower pay and also to try them out before converting them to full time. People will take the lower pay on the hope that if/when they convert they get their actual value. This however frames the original price decision. Not saying it's evil but it's definitely not 1099.
The batteries are under the second row. This is where the 2nd row seats fold into the floor in a conventional Pacifica.
Marking up text using a markup language? It'll never catch on! (Actually, it probably won't, because XML is "uncool" now.)
A 1TB SSD this past Black Friday was at the lowest about $115/1TB. That's about the price a 1TB HDD was back in 2010.
> if everyone good leaves organizations because they're "bad," well, those organizations will just be filled with the worst of us soon enough.

This is just complete rubbish and it appears you are still rationalising the time you spent working for the company. If you are trying to achieve 'good' inside a company like Facebook then you are a complete sucker or, as Zuckerberg would say, just a 'dumb fuck'. You're being played. Facebook is not interested in doing good; that has been abundantly clear since almost day 1.
I have had my seagate 3tb drive running since I think 2012
Here's some of the rationale behind the specification https://www.sanity.io/blog/why-structured-text-is-awesome-an...
Yes, we're waiting till 1.11.6 lands - some important fixes for clouds in there. We've debated releasing at the same time as Kubernetes, but the feedback we've got is that users prefer that a kops release is ready to run, but we also need to do a better job of releasing alphas & betas earlier.

Obviously the current delay is not great - I'd much prefer for us to be on 1.12 (which actually has fixed the main issue already). I'm hoping we can catch up once we're (finally) done with the etcd3 migration.
I rarely comment here on hackernews. I've also seen several flame wars over pipenv. I also believe that python packaging and pinning is nothing but a mess. Recently I started using Pipenv and suddenly I've been having horrific issues with python to the point of me almost giving up on the language itself. I believe the issue is a mix of Pipenv, Pip and Debian. I don't have full scope view of the issue yet but without evidence I believe the issue is how Debian uses Pip at the system level, and in pip 9+ an API used by Debian changed. Pipenv seems to greedly somehow upgrade my pip and thusly hoses everything and I find myself reinstalling everything. All three are making me consider making changes to my entire stack and setup that I've been using daily for the past 5 years on many many systems.

In addition when/if I have time I'll further debug and attempt at PRs and issues to help.
> A "burner phone" gets thrown away--"burned"--to prevent the someone from tracking you.

I would see this as a tertiary characteristic of burner phones that is certainly optional. Almost every usage of "burner phone" you see in media, film, and print, is used to indicate a phone that is unmonitored.

Queue scene of FBI in room with monitors showing camera views of Jason Bourne talking on a phone. "He's got a burner" is more likely to be said when Bourne is talking on the phone, not when he's throwing it away.
I think the weirdness is, the distance between masses wouldn't change, they'd just accelerate together, in the same direction, indefinitely.

Both mass would experience negative repulsive force:

F=Gm(-m)/r^2

=-Gm^2/r^2

The positive mass accelerates away from the negative mass, because
F=ma

=> ma=-Gm^2/r^2

=> a=-Gm/r^2

Now here's the kicker. If inertial mass (the m in F=ma), is the same thing as gravitational mass. Then, the negative mass accelerates towards the positive mass. Because

F=(-m)a

=> F=-ma

=> -ma=-Gm^2/r^2

=> a=Gm/r^2

So accelerates in same direction as positive mass.

Technically, conservation of energy & momentum is maintained, because the negative kinetic energy of negative mass would cancel out positive energy of positive mass.

But I think the above can't be natural, because the magnitude of kinetic energy would grow to infinity, leading to even more impossibilities.

So you'd need to 'hack' the theory of gravity and make inertial mass different to gravitational mass. So the particle has negative gravitational mass, but positive inertial mass, to make laws of physics stay sane :)
There are not all that many babies.

Older legally free kids do gain awful lot by being adopted. It is generally also very hard to adopt older kids. Not everyone has what it takes. And when people fail, the failure is euphemism "they got abusive unable to deal with very real issues doing awful lot of harm".
> A decade or two ago I was pretty optimistic. The world came together to phase out CFCs after all, albeit a problem an order or two of magnitude smaller.

ps we started releasing CFCs again
This is something that interests me intensely.

I had a drug experience once that "I" was a story I was telling myself about a conversation between a number of distinct drives or entities in my head, and that I could "uninvite" them from the conversation, or with discipline create or destroy them.

I've always wondered if this had any basis in reality.
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This hypothesis was already falsified by DNA study long time ago.
https://www.nature.com/articles/jhg200782
And they have a chilling effect even when they're probably not going to be invoked or are unenforceable. I worked for a very small consulting firm for a number of years and we passed on pretty much anyone who had a non-compete. Management wasn't willing to take even a relatively small risk that we might get involved in a lawsuit.
FWIW, resolution in Python is significantly harder than for Ruby, JS or Elixir because it requires cloning down each dependency. To really speed it up, what's needed is a registry API that provides all of the details for resolution. That's much harder for Python because of the legacy of setup.py, which allows version resolution to depend on arbitrary system considerations.
So...

Free cars?

Whats the yield on the secondary markets for these hot vehicles since the VIN is compromised, a new license plate is needed and a thorough scrubbing has to happen
The smoke blocked out the sun during the fire, so the temperature was temporarily lower.
And apparently what we had 10 years ago was better as people couldn't steal your car without touching it.
So AppAnnie is directionally accurate, but not massively. Onavo (as far as I understand it), did lots of bias correction (standard survey/panel adjustments really) that tended to give them better population accuracy (which is what you normally care about).
Fair enough, adjusted some wording
Fair call ^
It’s really pretty impressive too. I once tried (accidentally) to lock my key in the trunk of my car and it refused to close the latch.
In our company we also have a lot of excel files. Most things should done different, but then we would have to work WITH the IT guys, but they have even to solve a simple ticket more than a week, some tickets are open for more than a half year. That's the problem why we do so much as possible without the IT guys. I know that's bad in so many ways ..
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Sound advice. Also, I can't help but read it in the Baz Luhrmann "Wear Sunscreen" voice, which was a nice bonus.

Be careful and thoughtful about where your money goes. Spend on memorable experiences and things you and your family can enjoy together. Maybe use this as an opportunity to find hobbies together and get even closer than you are now. Enjoy!
To be fair, that's not very detailed. While I trust Mozilla, I agree that it would be interesting to have more details.
Don't worry, each CalVer release still breaks things.
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You can't just say stop polluting but not give any alternative mode of transport for this people.

Part of the reason they don't have alternative modes of transport is because driving is so (artificially) cheap that other modes have a hard time getting off the ground & staying operational.

Yes, I know it's chicken & egg.
I just checked out the price of that 14tb seagate drive and you can get 2 of their 10tb drives for the same cost of 1 14tb drive. Who is buying this 14tb drive right now if it costs that much?
Sure, but I think it's a CIO's job to push an organization forward in technology. But I have seen plenty of places whose current reason for using Oracle is, "Welp, that's what was hot when we got started and now it's baked in to our architecture." And that's the same reason I've seen older "enterprise" companies keep their mainframe stuff going.

In contrast, I recently heard about a company with a market cap in the tens of billions where the execs said, "By date X, we won't own hardware or run datacenters anymore." I'm told it forced a lot of teams to reevaluate fundamental technology decisions made decades ago.

So sure, the decisions are proximately about compatibility or specific features. But I think it's reasonable to ask why those specific features are necessary. Because places like Google and Facebook make it clear that it's not scale alone that makes it necessary to give Oracle a truck of cash every year.
I suspect many people will happily give up such a convenience if it means they won't have their cars stolen so easily.
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I still don't see what that has to do with variance policy specifically. You're basically saying that reified generics are bad, because they require all languages on a given runtime to be aware of them to interoperate. Which is a valid point, but if you are aware of generics, then CLR lets you express whatever variance you want - including none. And so long as your language has CLR interface casts at all, you automatically get support for that variance at runtime, even if the type system of the language doesn't reflect such relations statically; so e.g. you might not be able to implicitly convert IEnumerable<Derived> to IEnumerable<Base>, but you should always be able to explicitly cast IEnumerable<Derived> -> Object -> IEnumerable<Base>.
Ask HN: Free Software Proponents, was there a moment that converted you?
Could you share the moment or set of experiences that pushed you over the edge and made you want to commit heavily to free software?
Odd that Right to Work laws don't ban non-competes. </sarcasm>

Edit: Added tags, just in case.
I'm not sure why we can't have some sort of challenge response protocol to prevent MITM...