skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hunger stones, which become visible during extremely low water levels, have been installed as early as the 15th century

https://www.odditycentral.com/news/drought-reveals-medieval-...

They made headline last year because they became visible again.

I don't want to dispute that shrinking glaciers and global warming might be an issue. But one dry summer doesn't prove it. There was no global warming in the 15th century.
A Short Rebuttal to Searle (1984) [pdf]
I'm confused.. so Wi-Fi chips run OSes inside them now?
So ... because they could make decisions based on other citeria than the sex of the patron, it isn't sexual discrimination if they make a decision based on the sex of the patron?
That's reading an awful lot into my comment that's not actually there.

It's a click bait title. She may not have been mistaken for a call girl. The anecdote is told to try to introduce opinions about how the death by a thousand cuts is a larger problem than actual sexual assault. The piece isn't that well written overall.

I realize and stated in my very first comment that it isn't fair. Assertions that I'm saying sexism is totes fine seem wildly out of line to my mind.
This is what Zeit v1.0 was also doing but they moved to Zeit v2.0 and discountinued Docker support. Not sure why no Serverless platform gives Docker support.

Anyways, you might want to check out knative on GKE as serverless on Kubernetes means Docker support.
Noticed it, but I like(d) the ad / package / presentation.

Personally, I think this is "good" marketing.
The ice doesnt replenish in the colder periods. Side streams go dry, transporting less water to the main stream.
There is only so much ice in the Alps. As glaciers retreat, there is less water stored in them. Reduced ice mass means less meltwater, despite warm conditions.
Which, in general rely on your users email password .. which may not be as secure as their bank password, because "email doesn't handle money".

So, to access your bank now crackers just need to get in to your email (which may be true anyway, of course 2FA helps in both cases).
I'd like to see some data on that.
Previous discussion from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15063841 (54 comments)
Making a News Aggregator (YouTube E01 – PT – Eng Subs)
> I can imagine the owner's worry, and that he profiled her based on mental shortcuts. But if she then demonstrates she is not a sex worker, denying her a seat anyway is silly.

I'm not defending the owner's decision, but the problem with this is... other patrons might still consider her one, and they might think/tell friends "avoid that restaurant for your family dinner, escorts hang around there!". She's not just condemning the owner, but probably many in society who still have the same mental shortcut.
100% agreed. If you take a risk and it doesn't pay off, you shouldn't be able to sue other people for your own decisions or mistakes.

Played an extreme sport (like skydiving or winggliding or snowboarding or mountain climbing or anything else) and got injured? Tough, you decided to do that, and you and your family should stop something looking for someone to blame/sue because of it.

Same goes for any other hobby, whether it's fishing or caving or climbing the outside of buildings for Instagram photos. You took a risk, and if it didn't pay off, tough luck. You made that decision.

And this especially goes for anything illegal. Oh sure, there are exceptions for legal activities if some party did do something wrong that caused it to become more dangerous than expected (like say, telling kids to play American football without padding and helmets on ice) then maybe there may be a case that someone is to 'blame'. But if you break the law and get injured doing so, well tough luck. You did something illegal and it worked out horribly, what you'd expect?

For instance, I distinctly recall cases of burglars suing because they got injured robbing some property or trespassing. That's ridiculous, and the whole idea should be immediately tossed out with 'well if you didn't break into a property you weren't supposed to be in, you wouldn't have got injured'.

People should take responsibility for their own mistakes and decisions, and accept that sometimes things don't work out well and that it's merely part of life.
Read the article, or read it again. She was a regular customer and didn’t acquire “dates”. They knew she wasn’t an escort.
people add sugar to their yogurt

We do this in France (at least, kids do and some adults), even with a (I think) decent food/cooking culture
no laces but strings attached
Next disruption:

All new shoes come with 30 days free lacing on creation of an account. Lacing feature billed at $9.99 monthly unless cancelled. Model specific variable tightness DLC pack not included.

Wearing this shoe constitutes consent to our data sharing and privacy policy and acceptance of binding arbitration agreement.
>Why wouldn't they be?

Because it's trivial to implement decent ratelimiter which stops attackers, but still allows normal users to login.
Comprehensive Primer on “Byzantine Fault Tolerance”
Cognitive decline is not the same as drop in productivity.
I imagine people are burning it to make charcoal they can sell.
Ask HN: (Bulk calls) What is the best voice broadcast as calls service in India?
You're wrong, but only because the Chromebook price range goes from $200 on the low end to $1650 for a Google Pixelbook with the high-end configuration. In between you can find lots of usable hardware from other vendors, including two configurations of the 13" MacBook Pro with retina screens.
BLUF: Is that I have been playing around with a news aggregator for the past year and a half, and now I am trying to do a series about this. I am doing this in Portuguese (from Portugal) because there is very little technical content published in my language and I am often sad for it! I'm going to be adding English subs to this series, because a good volume of friends have been asking for it.

I hope you like it, I'm very receptive to feedback, feel free to opinionate ;)
In addition to the other great suggestions here, I'd like to add some of the various domestic power sockets in use around the world.
> I found interesting that my grandma labeled the it "a summer like the summers we were used to long time ago".

Old people often make fact-free claims about how things used to be.

We don't need to rely on faulty human memories. There are actual records of water levels, rainfall, and temperature for all of the 20th century.

It is simply not true that the past summer was something that occurred frequently in the past.
>Now replace the correlation with other undesirable traits, like being a thief and having a certain skin colour.

Check the FBI crime statistics.
I think it's easy for people who have the benefit of being in the favored areas to poo-poo this article, but for those of us who are less fortunate, it's nice to see that someone "gets it".

Also it's interesting that a society that prides itself on strength finds itself all but helpless to address these issues.
In theory blank passwords aren't a problem for some sites, because usernames shouldn't be the same as display names, and usernames can carry enough entropy to deter simple attacks from outside the organisation?
Anecdotal points like yours don't really mean much considering the long term trend data mentioned in the article.
I recently read the biography (for lack of a better term) of sequential circuits. Dave Smith(the founder who still makes awesome synthesizers today) was a primary stakeholder in pushing the standard though. What essentially happened was All companies had a data/sync standard for electronic instruments. Then Oberheim released a system that many manufacturers saw as a threat to their business. Dave Smith convinced Roland to just adopt something and that momentum of sequential and Roland would turn adoption in their favor. That pretty much worked. Iirc the midi association then made Tom Oberheim president.
This is my main beef with tech interviews: you get given a test, or an algorithm, or put under the spotlight in a pairing session to solve a problem in essentially the least efficient way possible. It's usually under the guise of seeing how you think, but it's pretty damn hard to do that without also judging how the code looks and how much you were able to write.

This then becomes representative of your experience in spite of that fact that you are never likely to be confronted with that kind of problem with that kind of timeframe. Whatever's on your CV, and whatever you can say about what you've learned over the years, becomes totally irrelevant in the face of that.

I think it's offensive and I don't like how the industry has standardised on basically assuming everyone's a bullshitter. What's worse is that you'll have to repeat this over and over again for any company you interview with.

To that extent I'd much rather see the formation of a professional body that offers a trustworthy credential, potentially one that you need to renew every couple of years to ensure you're still current. That comes with challenges of its own but I'd rather have something that is both verifiable and can be reused.
Ask HN: I'm building (yet another) RSS Reader – should I quit or give it a try?
Well, in France (and in other countries probably) we do. The formation is quite different from a mechanical engineer ofc, but it ticks all the checks of the CTI (the "engineer title committee").
[Video Tutorial] How to Ues Minos Hypervisor on Raspberry PI 3
Future of Work: Automation's Effect on Jobs by Nils Nilsson (2015)
Vaguely in this vein - there was a game on the Atari ST called "MIDI Maze" which actually used MIDI as a network protocol!
As far as I know, Germany did the same as the Netherlands after the 1993/5 flooding. They increased the leeway the water can have and increased emergency pumps. That might be a better explanation than climate change. But they do not rule each other out.
Open Sound Control has that, but support for the format is very selective.
The Narmer Palette (3200 BC)
I had once an update that broke the system. Here are the instructions I used to recover: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1080595?hl=en

In short you need a pendrive and another computer with Chrome to to download a recovery image and flash the pendrive. Afterwards use a key combo on Chromebook and it should be fixed.

In my case it helped, but I retained this pendrive with instructions for my wife if it would happen again (and she managed). I had to skip updates for some time.

A lesson for me was to not buy an ARM Chromebook again.
mathematically this is just the beginning.. we're about to experience exponential returns..
Fwiw I just received some solo keys after backing their kickstarter. Unfortunately the firmware doesn't yet support key storage, but it should be comming. I think it looks like an interesting alternative to nitrokey in the open source space. They have usba and usbc variants, and are working on nfc ("solo tap") variant:

https://solokeys.com/

https://github.com/solokeys/solo

https://www.amazon.com/Solo-Two-Factor-Authentication-USB-Tr...

https://solokeys.com/en/start/faq/

"Can I use Solo for OpenGPG or Ssh? Not yet

Can I use Solo to store passwords? Not yet."
We read an article, or her version. So we should keep that in mind. I doubt they did that the first time she sat there...
Oh right, you’re a “what people believe is more important than facts” brexiteer, I get why it’s impossible for you to see reason now.
Marketing for Twitter? (Bad sarcasm)
I'm not so sure about that. Hire time on a botnet so you have lots of IPs and start trying mixed usernames with mixed passwords. You won't have any choice over which username you eventually break in with, but I don't think you'd trip any alarms either.
No, I suggested they may have valid reasons to want to crack down an a specific type of criminal activity occurring on their premises. In this case, sex work.

Sex work happens to typically be done by women more than men. I've never been to a restaurant that didn't have a sign posted saying "We reserve the right to refuse service." Given that general policy, they may have been cutting her slack to let her eat there.

While homeless, I spent a lot of time in public spaces. Most of them have policies that pets are not allowed, but service animals are. Most homeless people with pets claimed they were service animals. Establishments were generally legally barred from asking for proof.

No policy is foolproof. There will always be exceptions to any rule and they routinely complain loudly about it, often while not having either sympathy for the very real problems involved nor a better solution.

That doesn't mean I'm justifying sexism.

I'm a writer. I was primarily critiquing the click bait title, insufficient evidence that they actually believed her to be a call girl and poor construction of the piece.

But I'll drop it. It's late. I'm tired. Whatever.
Thanks for your comment, it made me change my mind. The point of the comment was to put it back into perspective that "pets" are still very high on the luxury pyramid.
That's her side of the story. We don't know what the management saw, what they based their judgement on, whether they even considered her an escort or had this policy for single women in order to prevent other problems.
Fuckkkk, the ads are evolving. South Park is right!! I didn't realize it.
Milton Friedman.
Remarkable economist and very bright person. A noblr prize winner. Defender of the free market.
What is remarkable about him is the simple way to argue bringing natural human behavior and historical examples.
It is correlated as aging also slows reaction. Slower reaction and worsened cognition together put a ceiling on how fast you can produce.
> You'll probably even be able to skip the coding challenges in any future interviews.

Is this speculative or does this actually happen?

As a team leader I'm involved in hiring and I certainly wouldn't treat one applicant any different from another regardless of their previous postings nor experience (except when I'm headhunting someone I've previously worked with). My own experience interviewing has taught me it's easy for people to put stuff down on CVs (eg they might have legitimately worked at Google but through an acquisition rather than hired by; or not even with the team they suggest they have). So I would consider short-cutting part of the interview process in the way you described to be grossly negligent.

I don't dispute that your CV is more likely to get short listed however you can certainly still sell yourself without having FAANG on there.

My general point is that while I don't disagree that having FAANG on your CV will undoubtedly look good, however a good engineer shouldn't have any problems getting awesome jobs with or without FAANG. Thus is the prestige attached to FAANG really equatable in the real world or is it perhaps disproportionately hyped?

Maybe this is just one of those differences between how people are hired in SV (where I haven't worked) and London (where I do work)?
> "Buying big soft drink bottles instead of small is both cost-effective"

True, but bigger serving sizes have been shown to increase consumption. If you reduce soft-drink serving sizes from 500ml to 350ml, for example, most people will not purchase two - and will consume less overall.
which means your tests have a full coverage of code and scenarios?
Scientists lied about sugar, maybe they're also lying about anthropogenic global warming. They were also wrong about lead, mercury, asbestos, DDT.
Why would age discrimination be easier to quantify if it was legal?
Yes, normally some sort of real time OS.
I like small for consumption on the go, such as waiting for a train or bus, without wasting food/drink or overeating ... But I do agree with you about plastic waste. I'd prefer some other packaging solution, such as if a snack vending machine could sanitarily transfer the contents of a bag of chips to my own reusable, washable, foldable (when empty) snack bag. No, I don't have a good practical answer right now.
>>So when doing an optics inventory on their patrons they treated the single woman in a patriarchal fashion: they automatically objectified, sexualised, put her (me) in a box – the treasure chest of pleasure.

Ummm...after 4 years of going there. I have no dog in this race just don't buy the worst thing here. Maybe they misjudged, maybe she lead them to believe otherwise...whatever. But maybe they just don't want people bothered at the bar by the opposite sex (or whatever they enjoy.) Some let ladies drink free to attract guys to the bar, some don't, and maybe pull the trigger too fast.

The callgirl thing is tricky. No one knows for sure unless they're there when you ask for the money? What if...she behaved like one? Maybe she was looking to meet a guy not have sex for money, but then, they judged it.
Quarter inch jack has to be older than most, as it's pre-1900.

Still standard equipment on hi-fi, guitars, headsets and other uses. Even the screw on 1/4 to 3.5mm adaptor has become standard. Only smartphones decided to be awkward.
The drought was extreme and even the recent rainfalls have not yet replenished the soils.

Also I haven’t heard of any evidence to support that such droughts are normal for Germany.

To put it bluntly, we’re seeing Climate Change in action.
I'm wondering what would happen if you'd send a GDPR request for deletion of personal data to such a DNA sequencing company. While you might not have sent them any of your DNA, relatives of you might have sent them theirs. Since DNA material can also be used to infer characteristics from close relatives, would DNA material of close relatives be considered personal data falling under the rules of GDPR?
it seems a classic self destruction.. people used to know how to live in nature, now you want to live in modern economy.. but it's not there so you destroy nature for a few coins until there's nothing to destroy or live in.
Good. I hope that vulnerabilities like this continue to surface until legislators take notice. Morally bankrupt vendors will never stop locking down hardware unless governments get involved. Fuck each and every company that does this. Fuck them all to hell.
The implications of banning headers in soccer would be quite interesting, but it also seems entirely possible, as in the game wouldn’t suddenly be completely different.

After all, handling the ball (referring to both arms and hands) is already banned and banning the head would just neatly slot in there and could use the same rules. (I.e. just add “or head” to this sentence in the rules of the game “Handling the ball involves a deliberate act of a player making contact with the ball with his hand or arm.”).

(If you ban headers for health reasons you should, however, probably also ban the goalkeeper from doing headers, even though the goalkeeper is allowed to handle the ball under certain circumstances.)

I do not know what other rule changes would be necessary, but, as I said, I wouldn’t expect the game to be radically different and unrecognisable. (Are there implications for corners and free kicks would be my main question. I could imagine that those are suddenly worth less if headers are disallowed, since in those situations the defenders have time to get in place and space and – as a direct consequence – time are consequently tight. Always having to get the ball to the ground or at least on a level where you can kick it somehow will slow the game down, giving defenders more time to react.) But I also know that soccer (associations, clubs, fans) can be very conservative …
The clash of heads issue will likely be solved by having independent medics judge fitness to continue rather than club physios. The problem is people continuing to play after the first concussion. Clash of heads is quite rare, maybe one concussion every 5-10 games, so I doubt headers will be banned unless there is conclusive evidence that the subconcussive impacts of the headers themselves are harmful.
There is no research that proves saturated fat is in any way harmful to humans. Quite the contrary, humans are designed to digest saturated fat effortlessly and saturated fat provides the majority of our energy needs, regardless of what we eat.

The available studies only show that high fat diets can lead to an increase of LDL particles in the bloodstream but there are two problems with such studies ...

For one LDL isn’t bad per se, LDL providing just transport for triglycerides in the bloodstream and it’s more important what those particles contain. Saturated fat leads to big, fluffy LDL particles which aren’t considered to be a threat.

On the contrary it is sugar that leads to LDL particles that are low density and dangerous. If you’re worried about LDL, it’s much better to cut the sugar and the poly-unsaturated fat.

The second problem with such studies are the common confounders: sugar and PUFAs. Whenever you see negative claims about fat in studies, read the actual study and more often than not you’ll see sucrose or PUFAs being used in the diet of the subjects.

What’s absolutely ridiculous is that excess carbohydrates get converted to saturated fat. Our body only needs about 600 calories per day from carbohydrates, the rest being converted to fat.

It is saturated fat that provides a majority of the daily energy needs, not just in humans, but in all mammals.
I've had a Pi running 24/7 for around 3 years - I use it to run network monitoring scripts, basic IDS for my website, uptime monitoring, etc.

When the Pi Zero came out I bought 4 of them and put them together into a 5-node grid computer, which to this day I use to run Einstein@Home.

You can see live statistics here: https://www.jamieweb.net/projects/computing-stats/

And a video of it here: https://twitter.com/jamieweb/status/1062048785352871936
One case where I like skimmed milk is when I'm using it to accompany a peanut butter, banana, and honey sandwich. I get plenty of fat from the peanut butter, and a modest amount of healthier unrefined sugar from the banana and honey, but in that context my meal doesn't need the extra calories from the milk fat and already has enough strong flavours that the milder taste of skimmed milk works well.

And yes, I use the natural kind of peanut butter with just peanuts and sometimes salt. The bread is commercial loaf bread but of a healthier variety than white, with several whole grains and nontrivial protein, for example.
Indirect (negative) correlation is used when something goes up but the thing under discussion goes down.

I think you were thinking of inversely proportional.

Searching Wikipedia, inverse correlation is also valid but I've always heard it called indirect or negative.

I knew what you meant and you were on the right track.
In my opinion it's possible the Democrats will cave. The strategic situation is that Democrats care about the country, and Trump does not. However, not enough Americans are convinced of the latter fact. Once they are, the only rational decision is to cave - and then remove him from office as quickly as possible.
Ok, but then there's also no such thing as no corruption at scale.

If you accept imperfect hardware, you will get errors written to the drive. A single node of a database will get corruption by definition in that case. We're taking about RocksDB specifically here, so it is only one processing node.

How did you expect it to behave instead?
That service does more NLP level stuff - remove stop-words (a, the, an, etc.), tokenize text (eating becomes eat), keep only words that represent the core message of the text, I think that's about it