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Ask HN: How different is sponsorship from advertising?
I have always wondered how fundamentally different is the concept of sponsorship from advertising.
Is there any difference at all?
Can sponsorship be a good alternative to minimize the negative effects of attention economy/advertising? Also, can sponsorship work on a big scale?
For more than a decade, evidence has been piling up that humans colonized the Americas thousands of years before the Clovis people.

It's actually been longer than that. The site at Monte Verde [1] in Chile seems to have been widely accepted as a pre-Clovis site nearly 20 years ago (1997 according to Wikipedia [2]). Awareness of the site, at least among the archaeological community predates that (1989 [3]). The first radiocarbon dates indicating a pre-Clovis origin for the site go back to 1982[4].

The idea that Clovis was not the earliest culture in the Americas, and the commensurate theory that the earliest colonists must have been traveling by boat [5] goes back decades. I know I've been reading about it (in the popular press no less) since the 1990s. It seems like every article I read about it makes it seem like some new and revolutionary idea. The only conclusion I can draw is that archaeological science operates on time scales only slightly shorter than those the archaeologists study.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verde

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verde#Acceptance

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verde#Diffusion

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Verde#Discovery (third paragraph)

[5] I'd like to give you a citation for this, but this theory, as far as I can tell has no official name.

[Just quoting myself from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12603556]
>Sometimes digressions can be fun though - Neal Stephenson's works or the footnotes of Infinite Jest.

Shudders

Not for everyone.
I'd say text is not specifically a poor medium as much as an inefficient medium for conveying emotions.

Text can convey fantastically deep and moving emotions. It just takes a more investment on part of both the author and reader than images.
Everyone is different but I was formerly obese and doing a 7 hour fasting window in the morning (7am-2pm) I dropped into a healthy BMI shockingly fast.

I ate meat, processed sugar, and dairy throughout. In the past I tried cutting those things out (except meat) and I struggled with weight loss.

The one other factor that probably played a role is that I cut out restaurants.
Most of their ryzen cpu support correctly ECC. How did you draw this conclusion?
Yes, but the code that actually checks for the valid characters can bomb if Unicode blows its brains out.
I don't know about the others but to burn out as the correct verb and to burnout as the incorrect verb mean two different things. I'm pretty sure this exactly the same phenomenon that gives us things like "to Google" where Google is a noun.
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Looking at tethering support in Darktable is how I came across libgphoto2.

I'd say switching comes down the switch's goal and how committed you are to that goal versus how committed you are to your current workflow. At the level of mouse movements, switching means abandoning your LightTable workflow and making a new one in Darktable. At the level of tooling, switching means finding equivalent tools and/or combinations of tools to achieve your photographic results...or living without some LightRoom tools. At the high level, the proof is in the print.

It might be worth watching some of Bruce Williams Darktable tutorials on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkqe4BYsllmcxo2dsF-rFQw
Why is it obvious that 4000 calories of olive oil is not metabolized without waste?
Please provide sources.
No, they will not delete the account. They can change your username to something random but answers / questions will stay. As much as I like being able to remove accounts on websites when I quit them, I side with HN here: there are some really interesting discussions here sometimes and removing all data would break the thought flow.

StackOverflow does the same.
> still don't understand what was wrong with generic yellow.

What race is Homer Simpson? (Casual normal person answer, not nitpicking, please).

If you can answer that, you have all the information you need to understand.
If you punish moderation, you end up with an unmoderated site. You don't want a million "help. please write this code for me. thanks" posts, as any legitimate question will be lost in the noise and nobody will waste time "answering" (aka working for free) those questions. SO works because it discourages super-low-effort questions and has a lot of moderation (both by official moderators and high-rep users).
There are so many examples of this sort of thing. I am frustrated by the ease with which buildings are declared historical sites and how often that designation happens after somebody buys a piece of property to develop it. I think it would be far fairer to the purchaser (and the seller, who makes out like a bandit unfairly) to mandate a 90 day stay when a large parcel is sold to allow for filing of historical paperwork. If that doesn't get filed or if it doesn't get granted after filing, then the property transfers at the agreed upon price. If it does get historical status, then it reverts to a much lower price or the sale is canceled.

You may be thinking "well that damn richie-rich developer can just get screwed, he wanted to destroy important history in my town for his evil profit." I am thinking about the guy who just wanted to live in a nice house walking distance from downtown, so he bought just outside a historical district to avoid all the paperwork, intending to replace a dilapidated house constructed poorly in 1920, only to find that the historical preservation committee extended the boundaries right after his sale went through. Or, in the alternative, the recent news out of Denver where they attempted and ultimately failed to designate a chain diner as "historic" when the owner wanted to sell the place and retire. Using regulatory power to stop the guy from getting his expected retirement payout when he's done being a restaurant manager is unreasonably heavy handed, in my opinion.
Deletion of accounts, I have no problem with.

But I have a big problem with deletion of content, outside of a window of time similar to that of editing posts.

My opinion is, if you write it, you publish it, then you don't have the right to leave such a big hole in a discussion. I'm sick of being on various social media and seeing "deleted" "deleted" "deleted".

I'm fine with removing your name from the posts, but other than that, if you say it, you shouldn't be able to run from it.

GDPR isn't some shining beacon of light, it's just a framework of policies set forth by people of power. GDPR has the potential to be just as damaging as the improper uses of PII (for example, look at what happened to the comments on a crapton of MS blogs when they transitioned to a different backend - all the comments were wiped because it was too much work to both preserve those comments and ensure GDPR compliance).
>Love, hate, sorrow are normal human emotions

Yes, but humans weren't always humans themselves, but more like animals (and before that, exactly like animals). Those emotions were developed and honed over thousands of years, and the religious experience one of the major carriers and early expressions of those.

>The real root of burial is emotion, not religion?

Not much difference. Early religion was akin to organized emotion (including sorrow, mourning, fear, hope, etc).

"The earliest evidence of religious thought is based on the ritual treatment of the dead. Most animals display only a casual interest in the dead of their own species. Ritual burial thus represents a significant change in human behavior. Ritual burials represent an awareness of life and death and a possible belief in the afterlife. Philip Lieberman states "burials with grave goods clearly signify religious practices and concern for the dead that transcends daily life."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_origin_of_religio...

Or:

"In the latter part of the twentieth century, theories of religion that emerged especially from the social sciences reiterated the claim that emotion was central to religion. In the work of Robert Bellah, Clifford Geertz, and, eventually, Rodney Stark, “feeling” of one sort or another was integral to religion"

https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-Religion-Emotion-Hand...
Energy in/out, at least in the sense most people and your grandparent refer to, can be wrong without violating conservation of energy. E.g. if you poop out food from which not all calories have been used.
>> Conservation of energy still applies.

Of course, but in this case we can only measure energy intake, and only semi-accurately (not everybody metabolizes every food 100% efficiently).

The body is known for up-regulating and down-regulating energy expenditure based on a wide variety of factors, especially blood sugar level. So what you eat matters as much as how much you eat.
The ones in British airports give terrible rates for Swiss Francs. My bank also had a terrible rate at the time. I got a better bank-like-entity since then.
Well, there are very few projects where someone can make a real difference from day 2 or 3. But given that there are numerous permie developers who want either to be a) Product Owners, b) Software Architects or c)professional Youtube viewers, getting a contractor in means you can cut your losses at the end of a 4 week period if you want to and firms do. While it's possible, I've never seen a permie cut during the probation period.

What did you do instead? There is a wave of people looking to get out of contracting in the UK right now exactly because of the messes HMRC keep making.
Emissions from everything else are rising fast too. Surely curbing emissions growth from electricity generation will have a much bigger impact.

The articles about SO2 and NOx emissions are clickbait. They compare to cars, which are extremely clean in this respect. In any case, the subject here is climate change and these pollutants are irrelevant. (Strictly speaking, they slightly mitigate warning.)

I’m not saying we should ignore shipping, but I don’t see why it should be anywhere close to first on the list of things to focus on when fighting climate change.
Thanks for pointing that out,

The site basically allows you to post your unfinished projects. The other users can click on Participate to join your project.

You as the project owner can decide if you want them to join or not.

If you do, you can start having a conversation with them about the project.

Will write an about page since many people are having issue understanding what the site is about
Thanks for pointing that out,
The site basically allows you to post your unfinished projects. The other users can click on Participate to join your project.

You as the project owner can decide if you want them to join or not.

If you do, you can start having a conversation with them about the project.

Will write an about page since many people are having issue understanding what the site is about
If you go to sleep at midnight, it means "skip breakfast, skip lunch, have your first meal when you get out of work." It has the added benefit of skipping lunch time and getting out of work at 4pm.
Statistical Significance Explained Through Dice Rolling – Among Other Gimmicks
Darpa Looking for Underground Facilities
On Stackoverflow it costs you to downvote. Ask an ill-formed question with more than one easy to find good response, then you get downvoted at those users’ own expense.

> “Is there a way to list all standard Go packages? I have a list of packages and I want to figure out if this is a standard package”

‘A list of packages ... if this is a standard package’, is ambiguous. What ‘this’? The list? Are you asking if there are standard ‘package lists’?
And if I search ‘list standard go packages stackoverflow’ on duckduckgo I get answers with 25 and 50 upvotes already.
In this situation I think Stackoverflow works.
to add on other comments: correlation between colon cancer and red meat
We had a Cygnus customer back in the 1990s, DSC, whose customer SLA was measured in minutes/decade (I believe it was less than three minutes of downtime per decade). They paid extra for long term support on a specific GCC release. When they submitted a bug report and got a fix they would examine the binaries to make sure that every change in the binaries could be traced back to that one patch and nothing else. No upgrades, general bug fixes, or anything like that.

Ironically a few years later one of their customers had a multi hour outage and that was the end of (quite a large company) DSC.
don't give up brother. post your projects with details, you never know who is going to join ;)
Somebody told you Ferraris don't have heaters?
I think people just react differently to substances. I tried Ayahuasca a while ago and during the first night I just felt very heavy and dizzy until I threw up after which I just felt relieved. Next night I had some interesting hallucinations but nothing that was very impressive or impactful. Other people in the same group talked about really life changing experiences on the other hand. I have also tried Marijuana and didn't feel good while others love it.

I would be curious about trying mushrooms and LSD and see how that works for me.

I wonder if it also requires some practice. If you start an intense sport it also takes a while for the body to get used to it so you can enjoy the tough moments. As beginner you just feel as if you are going to die. Maybe it's the same with psychedelics.
I’m going to echo the GP - this does look like an interesting tech, but it must work in a privacy-preserving fashion. Logs contain loads of sensitive info, especially if they are of a verbose/debug type, which is what will probably be used to capture failures. But in SaaS form, where it wants raw logs, it’s a no-go even for the eval purposes.
Accountability is predicated on outcome. If the extent of outcome is some keyboard warrior outrage or a minor stock dip nothing will change.
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Cryptovaluta: Is it still playing or is it an investment?
Other commenters have given the 24-60 hours figure, but it's also worth seeing the section "From animal models to the clinic": "may also mean that humans need to fast for a (much) longer period of time than mice to obtain the same benefits".
I wish I had the mental strength to forego one of the few pleasures of life without looking back.

It's amazing to me how someone can (almost) exclusively eat vegetables and enjoy it.

Is it all about habits? Genes?

Everyone says that taste is unique for each individual. For me, no amount of good seasoning on a vegetable will ever beat the taste of a steak. I cannot even fathom doing that FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. I guess if I had no option other than dying, that would change my priorities. But aside from that, it feels like you're trading so much to look a little bit better (I know everyone says it's always about health, but let's face it, that's not true a lot of times).
while what you describe is imaginable, I don't think this is the case, as physicists would then speak of "superconductivity at temperature T for a material in phase X formed at pressure P", not "[ ... ] superconductivity at megabar"

Perhaps you also think the claim states room temperature conductivity, and one only needs 260K temperature to form this phase?

When the title is phrased like it is, it usually describes a point or region for the equation of state
> The one other factor that probably played a role is that I cut out restaurants.

You would be shocked how many calories restaurant food has (usually >1k calories in a single dish -- no matter what kind of restaurant -- and probably more in the US). Personally, I would've assumed this is the more likely primary factor for your weight loss (combined with the fact you probably eat less food overall because you only have two meals when doing IF). You could try going to restaurants again for a few weeks and see if you start gaining weight again.

But, if it works for you -- it works for you.
It has never been confirmed it's anything but it's been extensively researched and it's pretty obvious what it was.

It's not like this highly-targeted Siemens controller worm was a cryptojacker written by a bored teenager.
I might have some time to dust it off tonight.
ROMs and Mappers: Why NES Games Can Be So Different on the Same Hardware
That's your opinion. The EU's opinion is that you have the right to be forgotten - though this is separate from GDPR.
I don't really have a daily news habit.

It's hard to miss the larger stories -- they intrude into discussions and conversations. If that story is something I perceive as not useful to know or engage with I'll state as much. This includes most crime and political stories, to the extent those focus on crisis de jour, immediate and personal impacts, horse race, or some orange running its mouth off.

I'm more interested in deeper undercurrents. My guiding question over the past seven or eight years has been "what are the Big Problems". And information that doesn't address this isn't particularly interesting.

Specific major stories are. I've been following hurricane Dorian, for example, though my entry point to that wasn't news, but the https://earth.nullschool.org weather visualiser, which shows interesting phenomena. And Dorian showed up initially as a minor swirl just off the coast of Venezuela, then developed rapidly. Then it started turning up in news mentions.

I occasionally catch On the Media's weekly deep-dive into major stories of the week, or longer. That's about the right frequency for me to catch up on news, and it's no longer every week.

Mostly I'm looking at larger themes and patterns that repeat through history. Models, frames, context. Philosophy, history, systems theory, cybernetics.

Focusing exclusively on the new and now takes away from that.
One of the more entertaining things about Dune is that it's been relatively bad at attracting fanfic and cosplay.

It's so ambiguous, rich, and open to interpretation that it's a daunting universe to visit as a casual tourist - and it's so stark and amoral that it's hard to feel comfortably at home in it, even if you're a fan.

Which is why it's such a challenge for directors. The visuals are critical, but it would take an uncanny imagination to make them work as metaphors as well as images.

IMO Lynch was a bit too literally imperial and historic. The movie feels more pedestrian and earth-bound than the books do, with some of the grandeur squeezed out by obvious signifiers and references.

The Jodorowsky version would probably have been amazing. I'm looking forward to the Villeneuve version, but I think Jodorowsky's Dune would have been a real game changer for SF movies - and all the characters would have been strikingly but plausibly weird, the BG included.
[5] I'd like to give you a citation for this, but this theory, as far as I can tell has no official name.

"The coastal migration hypothesis" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_migration_(Americas), which should not be confused with "the Southern Dispersal scenario (also the coastal migration hypothesis)" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Dispersal.
As a non-native speaker, I have to admit I find it very very subtle, the kind of sentence I might speak / write / hear without even realizing something is off. Thank you for the link - the author's done a great job explaining it.
Personally I find that going into a standard cookie-cutter instance of a franchise is depressing; they're usually built with pleasing aesthetics low on the list of priorities, far below "cheap", "easy to hose down", and "does not encourage customers lingering". Going into one that's been shaped by a place with an aesthetic agenda results in something that's got a few surprises, and has design flourishes that exist solely to please the eye.

But what do I know, I grew up in the second city in the US to ever establish a Historic Preservation District and had my tastes shaped by lots of architecture from a time when "maximizing profit" wasn't the only thing ever considered in building.
Leather is easier to clean. You'll regret cloth everywhere if you have have dogs that ride in the car, kids, or you enjoy getting dirty. Leather wipes clean.
>What race is Homer Simpson?

Indiscriminate. Homer's race is only assumed white not because of his yellow color, but because of his other life circumstances and stereotypes used in the show.

The whole global culture is not beholden to Simpsons, so that "what race Homer is -> that means Homer's color denotes that race for everybody".

There are comics in black/latino/asian dominant countries where the heroes (if the comics are not realistic, like Marvel) are all kinds of shades, yellow, green, pink, red, brown, white, etc and are still supposed to represent black/latino/asian etc folks.

(And nobody ever considered Mickey Mouse black, despite having a black body).

>If you can answer that, you have all the information you need to understand.

Not really.

If anything, the additional shades in the emojis give people more power to discriminate, focus on skin color, and be insensitive...
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Ask HN: Good Books on Climate Change?
I am taking on a special information diet of sorts and part of my process is to consume long-form materials on current events instead of perusing articles that I'll forget about the next day. What books are good scientific, political, and economic overviews of climate change?
The problem with this thinking is that it completely disregards the time complexity/probability of that happening. So having certain "bits flipped" in DNA in a certain sequence in multiple representatives of the same species in the same location for the change to propagate has too low probability, especially when the number of instances of biological species was usually quite low due to constant struggle for survival; the complexity of growing e.g. a new leg because you somehow need it is again unthinkable with our current computing power (we can't even model that properly with reinforcement learning on fastest supercomputers). So as a conclusion, theory of evolution is fitting for small adaptive changes but is either too optimistic or outright wrong for large jumps inside species; we are obviously missing something very important there. Listening to Dawkins I can agree with his local adaptations arguments but then he suddenly makes a jump and says "and this happens all over millions of years" and that somehow makes that happen, which is a position of faith and not science. Better would be if biologists finally admitted we have no clue about mechanism that allows these jumps; references to random sampling are laughable and fitting freshmen at a university and I am saddened this is accepted - we are likely going to miss some great discoveries because somebody will be insisting on this ridiculous hypothesis instead of figuring out the proper algorithm behind it.
> Always consult a medical professional before you do any drastic changes like what I've done, and do your own research on this stuff so you have the confidence that it's the right choice for you, and that you'll stick with it.

Intermittent fasting is not drastic.

Of course don't do it if you're too skinny, drink water, avoid physical activity when you're fasting... The best is to ask a doctor, but intermittent fasting is easy, not really risky and will yield good results.
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