skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, e.g light eyes and light hair in Europeans comes from the neanderthals.

https://www.eupedia.com/europe/neanderthal_facts_and_myths.s...

"According to the Canadian anthropologist Peter Frost, the current level of hair colour diversity in Europe would have taken 850,000 years to develop, while Homo sapiens has been in Europe no longer than 45,000 years. This is evidence enough that genes for fair hair were inherited from interbreeding with Neanderthals."
Couldn't they also move the keys around in memory to every second or keep the bytes of the key separated (this seems like it would be similar to encrypting)?

These side channel attacks even under ideal conditions take a very long time and part of the problem is they basically need to guess at memory addresses. Even when data is in a known location, it is sketchy. Anything that slows down locating data would help immensely.
Probably the only safe place would be pretty far underground.
It's a federally endorsed banking account, you can't enjoy such services without assuming tracking liabilities.

If this is a burden to you, why not just open the emails in a text-only client?
What does ISTM mean?
Google Hardware quits the tablet business, again
The point is that we'd like to know that its not heavily degrading to the existing purpose. No one said anything about high performance.
Hmm not sure I have come across Uber driver having a second car as a backup.

MacBook Pro is an expensive piece of equipment and someone who produces music for living (or any other freelancers really) must have stretched their budget to get the primary machine itself.

If I pay top dollars for anything then I do hope that I don't have to pay top dollars again for having a backup of that.
Don't waste your time crying me a river ;-) I'm ok!
Can't speak for everyone, but I do.

I didn't vote for either presidential candidate last time around especially because of the us-versus-them attitudes all around. Pretending folks like me don't exist isn't going to improve our culture.
No, the laptop was old and not in a great condition, I would have to buy new motherboard,CPU and who knows what, I preferred not to invest my money into that and get a new one.
Move aside Liger.
That washing part always gets me. Its consuming more resources, perhaps more than the bottle or can is worth. My mother in law used to put empty bottle and cans (trash!) into my dishwasher and run it with soap. My god, the waste, the damage to the environment.

It reminds me of eco-tourism. Its fun/satisfying to be part of 'recycling', so folks make up steps they can do to participate more, and end up torpedoing the whole point of it.
U.S. Plans to Limit India’s H-1B Use Due to Localized Data Storage
Bike: Common Lisp .NET Core Interop
Can someone explain why in countries with established infrastructure, automation and cheaper capital cost (albeit higher labor cost) the internet cost is around 10-20x more than in India?

Additionally, it's often ~5x slower than in 2nd world countries...
I think this is something that has become normalised and is no longer creepy, simply by virtue of how many stores do it.

If I abandon a basket in a retail store, I don't expect a phone call about it hours later after I've left the store and gone home. The first time an online-store followed up with an email about my abandoned basket, I stopped using that store.

Not naive enough to think other stores aren't tracking these metrics, but it's still creepy unless you've been subjected the obviousness of it a lot.
Whaluga!
That's uncalled for. No need to blame the victim.

A laptop going into flames is generally a manufacturer's fault. If one were to damage the machine through fault of their own, they wouldn't demand a replacement.
90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world's oceans gets flushed through just 10 rivers: The Yangtze, the Indus, Yellow River, Hai River, the Nile, the Ganges, Pearl River, Amur River, the Niger, and the Mekong (in that order). [1]

[1] Christian Schmidt, Tobias Krauth and Stephan Wagner (2017), Export of plastic debris by rivers into the Sea

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b02368
Mandelbrot Set in SQL
Prop 13 opponents always sound unhinged.
How to make your web typography accessible
And if it wasn't for Gradle it would be mostly irrelevant today, so much for Grails and JEE Java's companion language for bean implementation.

The recurring talks on Android build speed, with everyone moving into buck and bazel show how much everyone loves putting up with it.

Just last week AMA on Reddit had the recurring answer to add memory and profile build execution.

When a build tool requires profiling to make it usable, it already starts on the wrong foot.
Strange - WalMart used to be hell on bribes, years ago. The WalMart Engineer that visited our site would put a quarter on the counter when taking coffee from the free machine - because it could mean his job to appear to take any freebies whatsoever from any vendor/supplier! How the mighty have fallen.
A bitcoin wallet is just a collection of private keys.
If you are Australian, then they must fix this, regardless of if you have Apple Care.
Yes, I wonder why "free energy". It is not free energy, it is a respectable, thermodynamic law abiding machine.

According to what I've seen here, it is good for making tiny engines but the efficiency is low.
I read the Mistborn novels following my reading of Stormlight, and compared to the later I really struggled to get through them. They read more like teen-fiction in comparison.

There's been a stark improvement in his writing quality. The Stormlight Archive is much more robust in characters (granted the main protagonists can still get a bit angsty in places), incredible in terms of world-building (which of course is what Sanderson is really know for), and has a story line with enough plot twists and development to keep you entertained despite the page count.

I highly recommend it, but if the size of the volumes are bit daunting the Audible narrations are decent too. I flipped back and forth between the two, listening to it in the car and then reading from where the recording left off when I got home. I'm not normally a fiction buff, but I'm chomping at the bit in anticipation for the next in the series.

The 3 books total about 1.25 million words mind, so get ready for the long haul.
Plastic means you can design in obsolescence, if we take off the metal hinge support here then this bin will break in 24 months and we can sell a new one.

Look at something like the handle on a paint roller. A wooden handle will probably last a lifetime, plastic handle - with carefully measured amount of plastic - can be designed to break the second time you use it: At which point we go to the shop and buy another cheap piece of crap that will do the same.

Honestly I think a cm more metal in the handle, and a few grams more plastic and they'd last a lifetime ... but what capitalist company wants to make goods that last a lifetime, that harms profits.
There's a highly entertaining account of the uses and properties of Wootz steel in Neal Stephenson's The Confusion, part of his Baroque Cycle.

(edit - beaten to it - see below)
How difficult/expensive is it to recycle the material? i.e. if one had some sort of wonder-generator based on it, would it make sense to use a model where once per year, the owner sends the nitinol pieces back to the manufacturer (who recycles them) in exchange for a discount on replacements?

I assume since titanium is part of the alloy, just discarding it after use is probably not great from a cost perspective.
This looks great! I'm a big fan of the 3d printer (off tpic, I know) but building my own custom 3D printer has been one of my most technically rewarding experiences.
The Wheels of Justice
Wait till it happens to you.
There was supposed to be a Ron Howard directed version of Seveneves but I think it's been on hold for a few years.
I agree with you in general, but the username is whitepandamusic; if they're actually White Panda they're a fairly prominent DJ and producer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Panda

Edit: Looks like it is! https://twitter.com/whitepanda/status/1133847982317723648
Don't forget the screen cable breaking and requiring the screen to be replaced.
Yes. src: We did a study on this. But, this was fairly well known.

One problem is the enormous closing speed of probes relative to the object.

http://kiss.caltech.edu/workshops/constellations/constellati...
Don't underestimate what hackers with enough motivation can achieve. Specially when the stakes are so high and the geopolitical power coming from a software vulnerability can be significant.
I love Julia, but feel the interop story could use some work. If I want to have my python package depend on some Julia code, how easy is that? Last time I checked (a few months ago), it was pretty difficult.
> but if Netflix keeps making more anti-hindu propaganda

Have you actually seen Leila or are you simply parroting nonsense you heard from Twitter trolls?

> in-fact they have little religious freedom in their own nation.

Please tell me how on earth does America have little religious freedom?
These API improvements (aka potential situation to refactor code within the next 3 - 4 years max) is why I think compile-time frameworks are going to win eventually.

People want to build UI. They don't want to migrate from function components to class components. They don't want to migrate from mixins to HOC. They don't want to migrate from Hooks, to whatever comes next. They just want to build UI by writing code once such that it stays performant and maintainable for as long as possible.

Now is a good time to switch to Svelte / Elm / Whatever. Something that helps me declare my UI layout and behavior with a minimal API, but has a deeper understanding of my intentions. Such that, whatever that is better is eventually a compiler advancement - not an userland API change.
I have always though cats were super interesting. They are still so bound to their natural mindset if you want, and I have never experienced any cat being as pet-like as dogs.

They have an interesting mind and can be super funny to observe, because of their natural patterns.

Great story this
When I was a public school teacher in Baltimore (ten years later, I still start so many of my sentences this way), I would have days that were completely insane. One of my many responsibilities was to call parents to discuss behavior issues at the end of the day.

I realized at some point that I was literally forgetting what happened. I took anecdotal notes to be able to accurately describe behavioral situations, and rereading them mere hours later, I couldn't actually autibiographically recall many of these incidents.

I think it's what allowed me to have normalish evenings after insane work days. Otherwise, the stress would be completely overwhelming.
Libra Coin Explained on CoinTalk Podcast
Most programs aren't coded to have all of their elements scale properly. You have icons, buttons, pictures, etc that may be bit mapped images, then you have other elements that are vector mapped. So if you just change the font size, you can read the text, but it may be in a text box that is too small (so it overflows).

So the best thing you can do, other than re-write all the applications that have been around for the last 30 years or more, is to make the app think it is writing to a display with a specific resolution. Then scale that up to whatever resolution your screen actually is. Then, any element that is bit mapped in the app may not look very crisp, but things like fonts or any element drawn by a UI library can be drawn at the screen's native resolution (because those libraries have been updated to know about the "fake" vs "real" resolution).

This is very similar to when you hit "ctrl +" in a modern web browser. If the web app says "place this element 25 pixels to the right", those are logical pixels and has little to do with actual screen pixels anymore.
> There are many other issues: liability if someone gets sick, employees intentionally preparing too much food to ensure extras leftover, etc.

Pretty sure the liability thing is just a convenient excuse. In the US we have the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, which protects food donors from being sued. I bet most other countries have something similar. Additionaly, nobody has ever been sued over donated food in the US.
TypeScript doesn't encourage returning classes. Writing classes just as data handlers is still verbose and clumsy. You can have a team that's writing Java in TypeScript and see that, but that's not conventional at all.

Instead, TypeScript encourages returning structurally typed interfaces. Which are just data.
I think the swollen batteries are quite common in the MacBook Pros. Seems to be plenty of reports on the net. Typically people seem to notice this when the trackpad or keyboard starts acting funny.

Not sure if Apple even considers that as a defect or if it is just the way some of the batteries are expected to behave when they get old.
“If nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do.”
Not sure this applies to everywhere, but I can talk about Romania (Eastern Europe) vs. Western Europe.

Romania has some of the best Internet in the world; as far as I recall, you can get 1Gbps for like 10-15 dollars in most non-rural areas. I think that's partly because of the huge amount of competition that was present in the early 00s, when we had a ridiculous amount of ISPs per city, and partly because all the cables are suspended on top of lampposts, as opposed to buried under the sidewalks and streets. That's way cheaper than digging half the city for new, higher-speed Internet.
There's a recall on now according to Reuters.

Apple recalls certain older MacBook Pro units

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1TL2BW
This is tied up with untold logical fallacies.

In the UK we used to have electric milk floats with milkmen that would deliver milk in glass bottles. The dairy would be local. The cows would be local. Big cities had trains to get the milk in. Or the milk would travel in tankers.

The bottling plant would be for local distribution. The empties would be carried back on the milk float.

Moving on we now have dairies many, many miles away. They are not a common sight. The milk goes into single use plastic bottles and gets sent to supermarket depots. It then travels by road vast distances to supermarkets and convenience stores. People then drive to the supermarket and buy the milk.

I personally preferred the way milk was delivered. I liked the community value of having a milkman. I liked washing the bottles and putting them out for collection. The milk wasn't homogenised then, it had not the same shelf life.

I don't believe that having four pints (2 litres) of milk driven over two hundred miles of roads is that efficient. Particularly when I can see cows out the window. Then, since it is the EU, milk can be driven from Germany. Or in yogurt form over the Alps in a 1000 mile journey.

So at one level the CO2 emissions of glass are higher but driving milk hundreds of miles is where the CO2 problem really is.

From a capitalist perspective everything is now really efficient and the market is working. But when milk was government and cared for that way, there was a lot more employment going on. We could have kept it all local with solar and other renewables powering the milk floats instead of coal. But when those former dairies have been shuttered and sold for housing developments there is no goin back. We are stuck with mega dairies.

Water is even worse. There are lorries driving from the Alps with bottled water. This is plain absurd. There was a time when tap water was as good as it could get.

Beer is different, as are spirits and wines. Beer should be brewed locally and served in glasses that get washed in a public house. But widgets in cans and other tricks have made canned beer fine, what most people drink.

Anyway, saying that plastic is less CO2 than glass is just not fair to all the issues of globalised food.
No worries. Looking at the sine AC wave should be fine. If you get a "10X" probe or one that has a 1X/10X switch, what happens in 10X mode is that the voltage gets divided by 10 through a resistor, so your multimeter should see 22V RMS sine wave (peak value should be 31V).
You could likely find something anti-science about most people. For instance a mind boggling number of people believe in ghosts, should they be disinvited? With regards to a security conference, it’s no more harmful of a world view than believing the Earth is flat. What about anti-vaxxers? Ban them too? Maybe come up with a list of beliefs you think are ideologically pure enough for the conference?
While I know GitHub does that (see, e.g., https://github.com/kragen/stl3dpy/blob/master/showerring.stl) I think it's lacking a lot of things to be a reasonable Thingiverse replacement. It can render STL files, but not OpenSCAD or STEP/IGES, for example, and it has no way of associating different files (even files it can't render) to a single "thing" the way Thingiverse does. From GitHub's point of view, your example is a random file that belongs to a project named "3D", and mine is a random file that belongs to a project named "stl3dpy". This poses obvious problems for implementing search.
Interesting, but maybe it referred to the Urmia and Van Lakes, because initially Urartu kingdom was smaller and was mostly between the two lakes.

Do any of toponym similarites in https://allinnet.info/antiquities/armenia-and-the-basques-sp... look anything plausible to you? On one hand it would be cool if languages were related, on the other hand considering how often someone in Armenia claims that X is related to Armenia, that it is hard to take the claims seriously.
Jio censors the web of its own volition including censoring torrents and porn websites [0]. And it is no secret that it does deep packet inspection and kind of has an extensive footprint via its numerous apps that I'd presume gather how much ever data that they can abt its customers.

[0] This has interestingly resulted in folks using Helo, Telegram et al to share pirated content and porn.
What are the good intermediate level data science books?
Ask HN: Self-funded SaaS ideas for local markets in small developing countries?
Hi HN!

I live in eastern europe and was wondering if any of you want to share some resources/ideas about some projects that could generate 2-3-5-10000$/month.

I always get advice that I should think globally, that my country is a dumpster with no opportunities, but in reality more and more people are becoming "techliterate" and the market looks ripe both for B2C and B2B for the scale I'm looking for.

What ideas from the west/developed countries would you consider viable for this ecosystem now, but still niche enough to fly under big businesses radar?
Since we are a couple of years behind here, existing/vanilla/boring/schlep ideas are welcome, too :)

My motivation:
-global startups have global, faster than me competition. you can change my mind, I'm open
-eastern europe right now is a low hanging fruit that I understand
-I want to get away from my 9-5 corporate outsourcing job

inb4: "don't quit your wellpaying stable job", I own my apartment and have living expenses saved up for 5 years. (don't want to sound arrogant)

any comment is highly appreciated, thanks!
Is it bigger or smaller than a maine coon?
Does this lock you in to the Azure cloud, or can it actually be run on your own machines too?
Can someone explain why has the police mostly betrayed the population? Aren't they the relatives of the protesters?
Testing of sewage confirms rise in marijuana use
> There's no compromise on either side

Over the last 10 years, only one side has been consistent in blocking and denying compromise to the other. The Democrats, sadly, naively, keep trying for compromise because they haven't yet quite grasped what's going on (although it finally seems to be filtering through - the Republicans are never going to compromise.)
Yes, yes, and if we point the finger harder at _other_ people then our own failure to provide a model for action will be fine.

Us: You need to clean up the Yangtze.

Them: Well what are you doing about your plastic waste

Us: We're shipping it to you!
Where are you?

In Poland I pay ~ 13.30 USD for 12 GB per month (with additional 12 GB on top of that for 1 year) + unlimited calls/sms/mms.
And my plan is pretty crappy in comparison to currently available ones.
The last major breaking Vue change was 21 months ago. So react wins nothing in that regard.
One factor that helps operators in India is the massive subscriber base. Nearly a billion people ought to spread the high fixed costs of telco infra to a decent point.
You Don't Need Kafka
While I'm happy that Jio is leading the data war, I'm little concerned about the competition (which is non-existent at this point). May be I'm paranoid, but I'm using Jio Postpaid and would never go to JioFiber to give away all my data.
You must be booking first class? Or at peak times?

It’s £150ish open return from Dundee to London via Edinburgh IIRC for standard class off peak.

Pretty much same price as Dundee to Edinburgh train > plane to stanstead > train into liverpool street.

Also takes about the same time..
As a counterpoint the GPs diagram was useful for me (perhaps because I have a background involving some study of optics).

Granted the parents picture is way better than the rough ASCIIart
>Using a static site generator means that you have to keep track of two sources: the actual Markdown source and the resulting HTML source. This may not sound too difficult, but always having to make sure that these two sources are in line with each other takes a mental toll.

I write in asciidoc and I find this trade off is well worth it. It means I can write more easily, I can future-proof my documents (if html versions/practices change, I just export them again) and I can output in multiple formats instead of just publishing to the web.

I don't understand what he means by "keeping track of two sources". I have one source: asciidoc documents. I output that into one format (today, typically) HTML. I have a script that just adds a header/footer to each one and sync to s3 bucket.

If asciidoc dies I can convert them to reStructuredText, Markdown, or whatever format is popular next. My mark-up is very simple, headers, bold/italic/underline, bulleted and unbulleted lists, etc. So my "source" documents are simple to convert between formats.

I find this gives me the best combination of ease-of-writing, flexibility and future-proofing.
Personally it sounds like a diplomatic and moral superiority coup to position themselves strongly in the future.

If it was done by a foreign superpower which wouldn't be obvious massive hypocrites I would be very afraid for future diplomatic and trade impacts if I was in the US government - especially if reforming wasn't in "my department".
> The next four are mistakenly reported as "no statistically significant difference in performance." This is a false statement. Having high p-values means that any effect is below the resolution achievable with those numbers.

No...that's what "no statistically significant difference" means.

In these kinds of statistical tests, literally all you can look for is a statistically significant difference. Either you find one, or you don't. Once you know that you've found one, you can say what size it is—a difference of 0.1% is still plenty statistically significant if your p-value is <0.001. It's just not very practically significant.

There are a lot of different reasons you might not find a statistically significant difference, and simply knowing the p-values cannot tell you which ones are true here. That's why a lot of journals (at least in Psychology, the field I have some knowledge about) have been pushing for reporting additional tests and measures.
meh...this is like the bare minimum i would expect from a 'decent' manager, quite frankly.

edit: that this is the top comment indicates that there are an astonishing number of sub par managers out there.
What part of the existing purpose is performance-critical?