skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something is weird.

> After its initial discovery by farmers in 1966, Balamku was visited by archaeologist Víctor Segovia Pinto

Segovia Pinto reportedly died in 1955, according to this source: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=es&tl=en&u=htt...

1955 was 11 years before the reported discovery. Either there is a typo somewhere, or Pinto was not the original discoverer. Pinto was a bit of a celeb at the time, so it's entirely possible that someone erroneously attributed to him what happened in 1966, or that the discovery happened before but was only recorded in 1966.
Well, the quote by Warren Buffet is IMHO great:

>“Larry Ellison has done a fantastic job with Oracle,’’ Buffett said Monday in a CNBC interview. “I’ve followed from the standpoint of reading about it, but I felt like I didn’t understand the business. Particularly after my experience with IBM, I don’t think I understand exactly where the cloud is going.’’
I have something better to say: the op is bs and don't make any sense.
Sure, some won't.

We had 13 mass shootings in the 18 years prior and then 0 the 22 after.

We don't much mind what they think.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Working on a New ‘Loop’ Network in Las Vegas
Graphyne. Cyclohexane rings connected by poly-yne chains of equal length.

Allows for a somewhat tunable pore size, with no "drilling" necessary. Graph-di-yne and graph-tri-yne are nearest the appropriate pore size for water. A series of graphyne filters with larger pore sizes would likely be needed to clear out particulates and larger ions, so that the final purification step proceeds at a reasonable flow rate.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3179

Similar problem as graphene, in that it has not only never been outside of the lab, but also never been outside of the computer model.
One other thing to consider is brand reputation. Most lenders, big bank lenders at least, don’t want their brand being the one that took a family home away. Often before things get real bad they will offer to break the term and let you refinance somewhere else.
You are confused, you mean.
My problem is "net neutrality" is a meaningless term. I'm in favor of Mom, baseball, apple pie, and net neutrality as much as the next guy. However, the concrete definitions of net neutrality being pushed deeply underwhelm me, and tend to look a lot more like Big Tech installing regulatory barriers than anything else.

We're all here expected to go "Net neutrality? That sounds good!" and demand it, while not deeply inspecting what is actually involved, and by golly, we're doing it.

I personally find myself less than inclined to demand that Big Tech be allowed to pull the ladder up behind them, since I'm more in the "break 'em up hard" camp, which is probably basically the opposite, really.
I think when I was writing the post, I was rebuking the GP post about how HN always complains about the website design. In that sense, I was referring to “we” as HN.

Indeed, the reason I joined HN after being a silent viewer for a while was because I enjoy the arguments, the back and forth, essentially exploring levels of perspectives.
The SEC dogs Elon Musk but doesn't dare lock horns with Larry Ellison, the pathological corporate sociopath whose company locks users into seemingly never ending software leases with threatened audits and whose corp has teams of lawyers and only offers "limited breakdowns in its financial disclosures" . . .

Larry recently bragged how even Amazon is under his cloak using Oracle because there is nothing out there better. Bezos response: We'll build our own database no matter what the cost and then we'll compete against you signing up what were your customers. How do you like that Larry ?
Didn't Verizon sell a lot of their DSL subs to Frontier Communications?
It's not just about having less, it's also about paying more for less.

Constant property ramping by the BBC back in the early 'oughts was the main reason I cut the cord and never looked back. They're about the only big player in UK media with no commercial interest in doing it (no ads from the property sector), but even so, they just couldn't control themselves.
Also in software dev and yes it's a pain, I've had to point out multiple times that UTC != GMT.
There's no such thing as a "patent monopoly", and there are multiple competitors in this space (4? mentioned in the article). The idea that there's a meaningful monopoly here is strange, to say the least.

Unless you're actually trying to argue that "warehouse lidar produced by Google" is a meaningfully different market than "warehouse lidar", which completely contravenes both written law and precedent.

Also the right of first sale is trademark/copyright law, not contract law. Companies are absolutely allowed to create non-trademark agreements, and they do all the time. Think software licenses.
Tornado Activity Is Shifting, but Is It Due to Warming?
Thanks to this article, when I torrent music that is shared in 24/192 format, I always resample to 24/96:

ffmpeg -i foo.flac -ar 96000 -acodec flac bar.flac
This. If you are c-level you aren't touching the code, but you like the idea of paying the people who built the thing a support contract so you can call and yell at them when you misuse the product and it falls over.

The alignment between product support and product builder is muddier for c-levels to follow.
I am curious. So you are saying there have been no cases filed in last 50 years where car manufacturers have sold parts but mechanic repairs were shoddy causing an accident?
Hi, I’m British, even our police don’t have — or want — guns. [1]

[1] not as standard, but there are some exceptions.
Exactly, I agree. It's going to be a boondoggle.
Design for Survivability [pdf]
How about adding in something about scientific research? Personally I find fundamental research more fulfilling than creating products. Learning things about our world is a fascinating adventure.
Discarding the S in STEM would be a tragedy, as the S informs the T and E.
Alexa Learns
Historically[0] that was a profit center for contract lenders which people living in redlined neighborhoods (i.e. mostly black Americans) had to resort to if they wanted to buy a house before the reforms of the 1960's. These people would lend money for a house with very predatory terms. It was apparently common for a borrower to have their house foreclosed on for minor missed payments and the contract lender would simply repossess the house so they would have the house and all the payments they collected. The borrowers couldn't easily refinance since the neighborhood was redlined and there were few to no regulations on the contract provisions so a mostly paid off house could still be repossessed with no reimbursement.

This was one of the major ways the black middle class was hollowed out since homeownership was one of the major sources of middle class wealth gain.

[0] https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/contract-selling-redli...
with an object method you could return the changed dict (ref semantics, much faster) and as class methodcall you would return a copy, as with +.

d.merge(d1) vs dict.merge(d, d1)

So have the best of both worlds, and backwards compatible.
E-cars are nowhere near a car culture, because of the significant innovations in every ecar that have no history, nobody you can collaborate with to learn. It may someday be a culture, but not yet. Its something new under the sun. Maybe its sensible to go slowly.
Part of the problem here is the entire smartphone and app culture of walled gardens. No native desktop applications try to pull this shit excepting the webapp as 'native' electron-based fakes.
I think its safe to say "Almost All Major News Outlets Are Also Sending Data Directly to Facebook".
This reminds me of Monty's A Digital Media Primer for Geeks[0] and Digital Show & Tell[1] - the delivery, the explanations and the way the experiments are set up is superb.

[0] https://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml
[1] https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
Oh well I just had a question but not related to cando itself more about how you structure your research project / team / finance. But maybe that's not a place to discuss this.
I dont think its about voting. The whole system is corrupt there due to the people who have power. And if west lets them legally spend their money its going to be transparent to the people in Russia. Which might push them towards some action.

Btw west itself is not Liberal Democrat.
Checkout Russian Liberal democrat Vladimir Zhirinovsky you'll see how different Russia is from West.
I feel like you expect a western solution to a Russian problem.
Im dont expect everyone agree with me, but to me it seems like this problem needs some extreme (not normal) approach
It wasn't a sponsored result, so its more likely that the site in question puts a lot of effort into SEO. It is also part of Jenny McCarthy's organization which may lend it higher search significance. Reasonable people can definitely disagree on Google's role in policing such misinformation.
Introducing+Kraken,+an+Open+Source+Peer-to-Peer+Docker+Registry
A warning: it's seriously self-congratulatory. But I don't know of anything better.
Oh, if that's what you meant then no, lots of stuff isn't offered that way (though a lot of stuff is, and when it isn't you can often just take installers from various software and open them with 7zip to extract their contents without issue). However the entire Sysinternals suite is portable, and old MS software would at least give you the option to install to any directory of your choosing (after which you could usually move it around without problems). Newer software from MS pretends that this is possible, but really often just installs a tiny portion of the software in the chosen path and dumps everything else into the hardcoded default one.
Its not clear what you expect people to learn. To me the obvious result will be Amazon must invest in increasing worker productivity to match its wage hike if it wants to maintain output. Win.
Did you like the giant image at the top of the article?
Coinbase accidentally hired mercenaries who sold cyberweapons to Saudi Arabia
import exploits;
JIT'd languages don't help you here. You still need the data layout of a given class to be constant otherwise all field lookups can't just be a load at an offset. And you can't specialize this on a per-method basis, which is the level JITs tend to work out. You'd have to do this via whole-program optimization, which JITs by and large don't ever come close to doing.

Also, the problem you describe (abi stability) is orthogonal to whether or not it's JIT or AOT. Nothing says an AOT language needs to have a defined data layout (see: Rust), and nothing says a JIT'd language doesn't have that same constraint (see .NET CLR, which defines struct layout as sequential by default for interop with unmanaged code).

It's easier to do data layout optimization in AoT'd languages as a result. Much, much easier. And, in fact, some JIT'd languages have been converted to AOT specifically to do this, such as Unity's HPC#.

EDIT: Also you need value types for these layout optimizations to make any sense at all - which Java doesn't even have.
Or if at least it checked the whole file and just treated the exact block of signature bytes within as a set value (like Authenticode).
std::visit mostly allows you to do that already:

https://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/be5c44281eea8bc4

Then only unfortunate missing piece of the puzzle is that there's no trivial way to create a closure out of this, so it requires a bit more manual work to propagate local state to the visitor.
Which is exactly the same as using standard time all year and then moving all your appointments 1 hour earlier for the rest of eternity.

Except that "noon" ceases to mean the time when the sun is highest in the sky equidistant between sunrise and sunset and "midnight" ceases to be the middle of the night.

In this respect, standard time makes more sense. In no respect does "daylight time" make more sense.

Still, anything that makes us stop changing the clocks twice a year is fine with me.
Show HN: Maroo.Africa – helping African music artists own their digital identity
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger
Capturing bacteria that eat and breathe electricity
I did some spelunking as a teen (lived in an area with 100+ caves), and you sometimes heard about stone blocks ramming down with climbing speleologists in large underground halls, higher levels of carbon dioxide preventing breathing or sudden flash-floods preventing escape. Not so much about sudden cave collapses (I guess in earthquake areas that's always a possibility).

When I was in the dark, squeezing through tiny holes in various angles, I felt a bit like having an "out-of-body" experience, where my brain visualized my whereabouts in some kind of 3D map and internally I was looking at the whole 3D map "from outside"; like viewing an autonomous robot making its moves. It was quite fascinating. I guess sensory deprivation allowed the "3D mapping signal" to be perceivable and dominant.

Also, given there is no smell inside caves, if you spend a few hours/days inside, then climb back to surface, upon entering ground you are hit by a wall of smells you never perceived before. Suddenly you can distinguish individual flowers, trees, grass, soil etc. That however only lasts a few seconds :-(
Are there any good suggestions for what to do if "just get more sleep" isn't really working?
These sort of articles really frustrate me, their suggestions always feel fairly weak.

I have difficulties falling asleep and a little bit of apnea and getting a grip on how to get consistent "gold standard" sleep is really frustrating.

I've tried forcing myself to sleep early using sleep meds, which doesn't really seem to work well or be a really good long term solution. Cutting coffee and/or alcohol for periods which doesn't seem to have any significant effects.

Irritatingly the most successful solution I found for a period was movement, as in someone driving me in a car on a long drive, I'd fall asleep in seconds into a deep sleep. Except that doesn't seem to happen on a train or taxi (not sure why yet), and it would be problematic working out how to do that routinely.
(1) Toy Story 4 L Official Trailer HD 2019
there's nothing acceptable over ssh

you can do steam in-home streaming over zerotier.

it's actually faster than geforce now

i have a raspberry set up so that i can plug it anywhere and work on my home computer

latency is so low that shooters are very much playable

you can use steamlink hardware as a client, or the newish raspberry pi release
You are mistaken, native apps do pull and have been pulling this shit for a long time. It just so happens that this electron you hate so much has good debug tooling and more readable source code than your average native app, so it's more visible.
The walled garden could also be part of the solution. Apple could change their policy and ban this behavior.
An app to launch them all
To thank the article even more, you could resample to 16/48kHz.
But who is using MP3 players these days any more?

I found myself to buy an iPod in... like... 2011 or so. Converted all the CDs I had to FLAC because losless was the way to go.

Two or three years (let it be 5, doesn't matter) pass by, I got a better Smartphone, Spotify Premium and don't touch my 1xx GB of FLAC music anymore, because I don't want to carry around another device etc.

I'm not sure but I think "owning" music like in "I got some files here on my drive" seems dead to me. That obviously has downsides but I feel lucky to use Spotify these days and being able to discover new music every day and listen to all of it on the go without buying something, converting it and more.
Yeah, that would be bad — hence my proviso ‘so long as it’s clear what [the post-signature modifications] are.’

If modifications aren’t clearly called out, then that’s a (bad) bug in the viewer.
Living in a space with a suite for each person / couple and shared common space might be ok.
I think you'll find that if you encode these guarantees into the language level itself, that won't allow the programmers involved to stop thinking about the math. Either your language won't allow them to express the first thing they want to express, and they'll have to figure out how to do it with the proper mathematical primitives (and they'll complain up a storm about how useless your language is on the forums), or it will allow them to express it but yield a compile-time "Operation violates monotonicity constraints at line 88..." and they're going to have to understand that fairly deeply, or also end up dropping your language when they can't scale up their program because the "blunder around adding and removing sigils and annotations and sprinkling in 'unsafe' until the compiler shuts up" just doesn't scale very far beyond "complete the school assignment due tomorrow".

Look at Rust. Putting memory management concerns in the language front and center doesn't relieve you from having to thinking about them. It means you have to think even more deeply about them. Fortunately, this is the correct thing to do, and it get easier with practice, and is also easier to learn when it's so strongly highlighted instead of implied and buried. But if anything, it forces a more mathematical way of thinking on to you. (Reasoning about scopes is the foundation of the mathematical discipline of structured programming.)
What Is 5G? Here’s What You Need to Know About the New Network
I have a degree in electrical engineering, and I'm currently in a graduate course on computer music systems, so I hope that qualifies me enough to avoid the author's ad hominem attacks he seasons this stinkpiece with.

I can't stand seeing frequency response charts and scientific measurements in articles about audio. Like my favorite audio reviewer says [1], I listen to music for enjoyment and I talk about audio in subjective terms like "warm", "lush", "wide soundstage" - not "unexpected 14.5kHz falloff". I don't go to a restaurant and demand to see pH tests or measure the temperature of my steak myself. I'm not going to do blind A/B listening tests because I don't care about that. If you told me you liked one wine, would it be appropriate for me to say "No you didn't. You don't have taste buds that can tell the difference between that and any other wine."? Of course not.

Music is an entirely subjective experience and trying to distill it down to data is both condescending and telling of how little an author cares about music. Even if you don't care about subjective experiences of audio, why are you so bothered by letting people like what they like? How does it affect your life that I listen to music encoded at 24/196?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlCG2fK-abo
To spare others the work of digging, the highest-cited paper where Jordon Peterson is listed as first author is the 1990 paper, "Acute alcohol intoxication and cognitive functioning," at 321 citations.

Important work, I'm sure, but not what I'd call groundbreaking; I think the effects of drinking on cognition have been somewhat well-known, at least anecdotally, for at least a few thousand years, give or take.
In which way for example Siebel's PCL is "walking on eggshells"? On Lisp? PAIP? Am I super obtuse and missing some very obvious and important point they are tiptoeing around?

Even if one does really think it's important to convey they are presenting superior technology, it can be stated clearly and concisely without sounding corrosive.
Nasa's InSight Mars lander got stuck between a rock in a hard place
Scientists levitate particles with sound to find out how they cluster together
Already discussed. Main posts:

[2012] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3668310

[2014] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8689231

[2015] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10520639

[2017] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127633
> boondoggle

Learned a new word today. Thanks. :-D
An interesting similar study was one where they did the same scans on transsexuals. Those found that the MRI predicted the gender that the person identified with rather than the one they were born with.
China Plans to Launch Its Own Mars Probe Next Year
Pattern matching is on many people's radar, including the "Direction Group" (See: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p093...). This proposal was discussed at the committee meeting last month: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p137... I'd love to see it standardized in 23, but I have no idea how likely that is. (It definately won't be in c++-20, which is now closed except for tweaks).
I know dozens of people that are able to retire, but don't. Or they chose to retire, but then very quickly started doing some other work that gave them satisfaction. I just don't believe in the myth that if you retire early you're going to spend the rest of your life sipping pina coladas on the beach. My argument is that if I can be doing the work that I would be doing if I "retired", and it paid me enough money to make ends meet, then I won't need to retire. Sure, if the work you want to do can never pay you enough to live off it, then you have to find another income stream; maybe passive income. But it's not the only option if what you seek is satisfaction.
> Today, the main bottleneck is JavaScript. The amount of JavaScript on pages is growing rapidly (nearly 5x in the last 7 years).

How about we stop placating developers that create trash heaps like that? If the browsers become twice as fast they’ll just add twice as much ads and tracking.
This used to be me. I now realize that the reason for my grogginess was that I was totally dehydrated after my 10+ hr sleeping marathon. I now sleep with a water bottle and try to drink half of it before going to bed. When I do this I find that I will naturally wake up after about 8.5 hrs, drink the remaining half of the bottle, fall back asleep for 30 min, and then wake up feeling great. Wonder if this could work for you too
Percent of Americans admit to having their identity stolen
> Where did it go?

It bought something, presumably. (That's if it didn't end up in the pocket of some politician or one of his cronies, or a lobbyist, or...)

> You can argue about where exactly the money should go but it all ends up back in the economy.

Yes, money circulates around indefinitely, but money isn't wealth.

> If I can't find some way to make money off of that $99 million before it gets chipped away to almost nothing at 1% a year then maybe it would be better for that money to be spread around instead of concentrated somewhere it isn't being efficiently used.

If the government actually did make more efficient use of money than individual taxpayers would, I might buy this. But very little of what the government does meets that test.

Also, if you're making money by creating wealth using your $99 million starting stake (say you start a business with it, for example), and paying the wealth tax out of that, then you're doing what I described before: you're paying the tax out of income, not wealth. More generally, if people keep on creating wealth faster than the government is taxing it, then yes, there's no problem (or at least, not the problem I was trying to describe). But that's the situation I was describing when I said the tax is really an income tax, not a wealth tax. (I agree that "income tax" vs. "wealth tax" is not the best terminology to use to describe this distinction, but it's what we have.)
It's not necessarily a placebo though right? I think 'catch-up' just isn't very well defined.

I can be short of sleep and feeling awful each day of the working week, and then sleep in at the weekend and feel good that day relative to the last five.

Have I 'caught-up'? Or does catching up mean negating long-term side-effects of sleep deprivation?
But it's words they say because that's how they want to present themselves to total strangers; as a courteous person. In the same way, people could dress like total slobs, but instead take time every morning to look decent.