skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
40 K years sounds like a long time, but there's a lot of evidence that human DNA has hardly changed at all in that time. I.e., for making fancy bracelets, our ancestors back then were just as bright, artistic, etc. as we are now so that given the materials, tools, and technology they had then they could do as well as we could and we couldn't do any better. I don't know about the "extinct human species", but there is there is a simple argument based on (i) mitochondrial DNA and (ii) a simple observation.

We take humans (a) in western Europe and (b) east Asia. For (i) we argue that from the rate of change in mitochondrial DNA the most recent common ancestor was about 40 K years ago. A guess is that that ancestor was in or near present India. So, some descendants walked NW to western Europe and others walked NW to east Asia.

Now for (ii), compare western Europeans and east Asians on essentially any attributes you want and observe that they are very close. Well, necessarily each is even closer to their most recent common ancestor: I.e., to get the DNA changes from western Europe to east Asia, have to have the changes going back in time to the most recent common ancestor and then more changes forward in time from that ancestor to east Asia; i.e., each of western Europe and east Asia is closer to the common ancestor than to each other and, since Europe and Asia are close now, they are even closer to their common ancestor.

So, conclusion: We are still really close to the most recent common ancestor.

Or, in simple terms, take the that ancestor, wash them up and give them some modern clothes, and they'd look just like us except with a different language. And they might be wearing a very nice bracelet.
I love this thing that happens where someone jumps in to make an incisive point based on something they learned just recently and even on this same forum. the article about emancipation was posted here just like 2 weeks ago. so that's how certain you should be about that fact. and yet here you are proclaiming it as if you yourself have done the research and know exactly how prevalent emancipation is.
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You can use a personal installation of dnscrypt-proxy which supports both dnscrypt and DoH and allows you to select multiple providers. It even supports round-robin. This is what I'm doing.
Reddit and HN also appealed to us people born in the late ‘70s - early ‘80s whom I wouldn’t call millennials (I’m born in 1980 and I definitely do not consider myself a millennial). We are an interesting generation, we joined the workforce a little after the dot-com crash but before the 2008 financial crisis and especially before all this social media crazyness.
Most of this comes from a single type of ship waste:

"Half of the great Pacific garbage patch is made up of fishing nets, by weight, according to a report published last year in Scientific Reports."
It’s also up to the law
This is indeed very nice for maintaining things such as indices for full text search. Solutions based on triggers never felt easier to maintain because triggers were one step removed from the table itself.
The question is not if those are bad, the question is where does that plastic come from.

over-use of disposable plastic is bad independently from whether it ends in the ocean or not. But if you want to reduce this specific pollution you need to actually understand where it comes from.
Anyone that lives in a city next to a river/lake/sea knows that all the small pieces of trash on land end up in the water.
What are you talking about? UT Texas resident graduate tuition for the school of engineering is $5277 per semester for 9 hours. The degree requires 30. That works out to ~18k for the entire course of study.

Play with the calculator yourself if you don't believe me: https://tuition.utexas.edu/
yeah read about that
Wouldn't the US company resolver be based in the EU though and subject to EU Law? That would have to be the case without the DNS resolver having ridiculously slow DNS query times.

I don't think the US govt can ask for data present/originated from the EU.
Do you have evidence to back up it being an exception?
Is there a law that says I can't pay you a full time's salary for 20 hours a week instead of 40?
Thank you for reminding me about this! I remember being mesmerized watching a few donuts go all the way through every time we stopped by when I was young. Sadly that location has been closed down.
Mostly in places with no regulation or poor regulation enforcement —at least since the “Don’t mess with Texas” days.
And now we don't even need to record anything. Just putting an important documentary in my Netflix watch list immediately makes me a more accomplished person ;)
It was an initial pre-study where the purpose is to determine if it would even be interesting to do a proper study. They didn't even have a nonblind control group.

It is still exciting, because most studies of Alzheimers doesn't even pass this initial step from curing mice.
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Sounds like the generated column implementation is faster than a PL/pgSQL trigger.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21134706

I don’t have a link at hand from a discussion on the mailing list, but I’ll take Peter’s word for it.
Am Romanian, I entered the comment section to say the same thing. More than half my friends and work acquaintances from the last 10-15 years have moved abroad.
The real problem is that AMD doesn't invest enough in the software.

Nvidia's Linux support absolutely puts AMD to shame.

The biggest lesson in hardware is that "it's the software support, stupid". Too many hardware manufacturers think they are selling hardware alone. They are selling hardware AND the software that makes it work.

A computer is useless without software support. Witness the vast array of essentially useless ARM devices out there because none of them have usable software drivers/Linux support.
I expect them to find another employee. Or not.

It's really not my problem. I work for companies and clients that respect their staff. We both do better that way.
Oh jeez, the Pixelstick existed back in 2015? Looks like I was quite late.
I agree with you. For some reason, a significant proportion of people think that people in the past couldn't perceive the color blue and/or were hallucinating gods' voices in a schizophrenic kind of way (bicameral mind hypothesis).
geography isn't a protected class. it's not a class at all. it's a set of circumstances. your skin color and the privileges or liabilities incurred are inescapable.
> In Android, a double-free of a memory with size N leads to two subsequent memory-allocation of size N returning the same address.

I get that freelists are fast and great for small chunk reuse, (I'm guessing that's the implementation that allows double return) but is there no way to protect against double-free here? I wish it crashed instead.

Edit: it does indeed look like a form of a freelist - https://blog.nsogroup.com/a-tale-of-two-mallocs-on-android-l...
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We do, but usage statistics is only around 3%
So what have you built? All I see from you is criticism and telling other people not to build things.
Thank you. My question was more about if it was required by any means that the 'Purchase Amount' should be deposited to a bank account first etc for a SAFE to be recognized as legal and issued. Actually the offshore company is under my control, so I have no worries on it, but since it will actually need to spend money to hire and pay engineering team to develop the technology but IP needs to be given to the US based startup to secure funding later on
Or even the context. A coffee shop in my neighborhood started keeping straws behind the counter, so that you have to ask for them.

And yet, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that there's less plastic in a straw than in a disposable coffee cup, let alone the doubled cups that they serve the coffee in in lieu of using those paper sleeves. Certainly after they've stuck one of those plastic sippy lids on top of the whole affair. If they're worried about their waste stream, that's the place to start.
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In the last decade, in Manhattan? What on Earth for?

Partly to upsell more complex products like investments and mortgages, but mainly because surveys have shown that wealthier demographics will only use online banking if there is a branch nearby “in case”. The cost of a branch is dwarfed by the additional revenue from those customers.

Source: used to work for a bank that did this, and those were the reasons.
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Many of the locations are a block of ATMs secured behind a door. Your ATM card is required for entry, and occasionally there’s a security guard who looks like he could be a bouncer at a club. Or, at least, that’s the majority of the Chase locations near me. TD Bank appears to actually have people working in customer facing roles.
SoYouStart user tries out Hetzner dedicated servers
Since a lot of the emigration is to other EU countries it can be comparatively easily reversed. It’s harder for Serbia, Bosnia etc.
For reference: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy
Albania is the same :(

Thanks fucking communism fir destroying our country
I still don't get it. Please help me out.

Why should the type system have anything to do with something like this?

function something(num : number) {
assertIsInRange(num);

return num + 1;
}

function assertIsInRange(num: number, msg?: string): asserts num {
if (num < 50 || num > 100) {
throw new Error('not in range');
}
}

something(50);

How is `asserts num` helping here?
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There are usually two arguments presented when someone says software and robots are coming for many jobs - first, this has been happening in history, so nothing new. Second, the people who lose their jobs will move on to different and hopefully better jobs.

Both are true, but this time the scale and speed is the difference. Even in software which is considered a safe job, I am much more productive today than just a few years ago because of better tools, third party services, libraries etc. We are able to do a lot more with a lot less with every passing year.

This time it is different and it is not going to be pretty, unless we take a step back and look at ideas like Universal Basic Income etc.

One other mindset that is quite difficult to change (at least in the U.S) is tying a person's self-worth to the amount of hard work they put in.
As pointed above, it was a joke about security through obscurity and a worried thought that some manager might actually think of that as a solution. I was hoping that was obvious enough to not require a "/s" at the end.
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I can't comment on Switzerland, but in the US local bookstores are thriving: "Between 2009 and 2015, the number of independent bookstores grew by 35 percent."

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/29/598053563/why-the-number-of-i...
Really? I doubt it. Sure, changing teams and funding may have a short term effect, but given how world-changing all the "miracle cures" that are announced would be, and that they so rarely pan out, makes me believe nearly all of these exciting breakthroughs have something fundamentally wrong.
That is a classic Monty Python (only for the record):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Hungarian_Phrasebook
I think you are right in that it is cultural. Then, it could be less a matter of being risk averse or not, but more that people like independence, and the preferred status is not 'founder of a company' but 'self-employed'.

There was this interesting survey:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

a quote:

> 1 in 2 self-employed persons highly satisfied with their current job

Looking at the other numbers, around 2/3 of them don't have employees, so a large portions of them just don't want to grow beyond and take the full burden of managing a company.
My undergrad students did a research paper on this about 10 years ago (when I was a professor). It turns out that most promising results don’t get followed through for non-scientific reasons, mostly a lack of money. We never published the work (I left academia shortly afterwards), but it certainly was depressing.

I do realise the irony of not publishing this work.
That's still a small amount of trash compared to what gets intentionally dumped in the ocean, plus abandoned commercial-scale fishing equipment.
And since the OP is about issuing options to employees (and not incorporating a business), how many such options have you issued?

I have issued a lot of those (in Sweden) and its a nightmare. One of the major issues is that you can’t be absolutely certain what the tax consequences will be.
XT implies 8086 and there are more real address mode instructions than those available in 8086. AFAIK real address mode can use pretty much any 32bit instructions with a prefix, which is what this project is doing.

(this incompatibility bit me a bit many years ago when i was writing a small real mode OS in assembly - i used a bunch of instructions i thought were available in 8086 but when i tried the OS on a real XT machine it would lock up :-P)
I'd still ask a lawyer or accountant.
I believe this already has some limited use in the military.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.0011...
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I think this is possibly the wrong way to look at it.

Both Pycharm (and the JetBrains core IDE) and Vim have large feature sets and those feature sets can be extended via plugins. So saying what you would gain from one to the other is not straight forward. You gain some things and loose others.

For example Vim keeps it's undo system as a tree whereas most GUI apps keep their undo commands as a stack.

i.e. if you have series of edits and you undo 2 and then make a new change the other two edits are lost. In Vim they aren't, the tree of edits can be navigated at will.

Assuming that undo tree is a useful feature to you (it is for me) I'd have to do a good search of Pycharm plugins before I can say it's a definite advantage of Vim.

Equally you might find that Pycharm has some code aware feature that Vim can't provide via an LSP plugin or VS Code extension in which case you'd want to stay using Pycharm.
Just got reminded of a funny sketch by Foil Arms and Hog I've seen a few days ago. It's about the Irish "emigration police" that tries to stop people from leaving the country.

Emigration Police (The Brain Drain) - Foil Arms and Hog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZcAH4vyCZE

Funnily enough, a lot of Croats are actually emigrating to Ireland.
'Flight shame' could halve growth in air traffic
Yes, but "in the water" includes both shallow water near shore and deep water far out in the ocean. The OP is about one. You're talking about the other, which might not even be relevant, so the "anyone knows" condescension is misplaced.
Many will have paper straws as substitutes, but I’m very skeptical they did a study regarding cradle-to-grave impact of the substitution. Maybe they are net positive (results wise), but I doubt they looked at numbers and said, yes, clearly paper straws are less impactful.
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> You can redeploy the code scheme independently of the data scheme and set up permissions so that higher layers can only use objects from the code scheme and never touch the data.

That all just sounds a touch complicated compared to data in database, code somewhere else (like git). I'm circling back to the same point in a couple of different ways, but pgSQL specialises in the relational model of data. That isn't a great data model for code and there are already better ways to manage code than shoehorning it into the database. Its cool that it is possible, and I'm not saying that someone who does is making a mistake. But I also don't think they are gaining an advantage and there is a really easy opportunity to separate out where bugs can occur from where data lives.

> How often do you plan to migrate to another database? In my experience this almost never happens in reality, but the layers above come and go.

If you are using a database for its advanced general purpose programming capabilities? The chances probably start to get more likely.

Databases that are a store of data don't need to change because they already do their one job (disk <-> relational model translation) really well. If they are pressured to do 2 or 3 tasks like business logic then suddenly it is a lot more likely that there will be pressure to swap databases.

If I were using SQLite and someone wants to do fancy triggers then maybe I need to swap to PostgreSQL. Avoiding that sort of decision making is a great reason to seal the data completely away from the code.
Wouldnt worry about that. No matter which method you use its the actual DOM part showing the result that is slow. I have a thing that builds >4K row HTML table from localstorage data one line at a time, it takes 200-300ms to build (timed with performance.now()) depending on if I cloneNode/appendChild/build a string and shove it into innerHTML, but then about 2 seconds for the browser to actually update the DOM and show user the actual Table.
Researchers Demonstrate First ‘Poor Man’s Qubit’ Probabilistic Computing
Which buyers exactly? Enthusiasts seem to be switching overwhelmingly to AMD: e.g. Mindfactory having AMD at 81% now. [0] Anecdotally, there seems to be a lot of resentment towards Intel for their shenanigans, I don't personally know anyone who's even considering Intel for their own builds.

It's a different matter for laptops where consumers have much less say on the topic, of course.

[0] https://m.imgur.com/gallery/9edvLSn
> my ancestors were not oppressing either latinos or Africans. I'll make my voice heard by not voting for Democrats.

so I guess you're making up for lost time? or setting the precedent for your own progeny? because I'm like 100% sure that during the era of slavery the same arguments were made by slavers - "my ancestors didn't participate in the crusades so I'm morally absolved..."
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You're either the most naive person in the world or you are wilfully looking the other way. Let's just say that corporations don't have the best track record in the world when it comes to being honest and upfront...
The problems were created by giving preferential treatment based on race, but the solution is to ignore race?

No one is advocating wishing anything away. If you want to focus specifically on equality of opportunity you can't do so without recognizing that race directly affects which opportunities are available to whom. Any solution that ignores that is just more of the same. And doing more of the same only extends the timeline of "when" that the original comment took issue with.
One hour is quite enough for taxi-type and drone delivery.

Also, you could use structural batteries, which would substitute for part of the plane structure.
To me the article reads as a complaint that the legal and tax structures of employee stock and options compensation in Europe make such compensation rare.

It doesn't present numerical data on how rare it is though, I'd like to see data on this.
I'm pretty sure neither manufacturer is really that worried about their Linux support. And, as far as my experience has gone with them both on Linux, they have both had their good years and their bad.
Counter overflows and clock drift bugs in aircraft and missile defense systems
The internet is a kind of Babel fish, letting people from different cultures easily interact. Douglas' comment on the outcome seems sadly prescient:

"Meanwhile the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
It sounds a lot like a non issue.

If providers want to keep vacuuming personal data they can provide DNS over HTTPS and they'll capture the same amount of data.
Now this is something you don't see often
Extract. The words author was looking for were "extract wealth".
Rocket Lab uses an engine that is mostly made by 3d printing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_(rocket_engine) (Not as one piece though)
It's now been almost 30 years. Isn't that enough time to be able to revert the damage and develop prosperity?
It wasn't communism that destroyed your country, it was a authoritarian regime.
and given that there are so many countries outside europe who don't tax you as much it is just easier to move there.

I have a bunch of German friends who just went to Singapore to start their business there. In the US you also get less taxed. So it is a way of saying, hey I'm healthy, priviledged, why should I fund this massive safety net. I'll come back to Europe when I'm 60 and vulnerable.
More evidence that HS2 is more about capacity than speed
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Microsoft ARM Ambitions May Repeat Old Mistakes
doh, never heard of TikTok, just googled it and their logo is giving me a serious headache
Intel's offering still looks bad compared to AMD.

Before the price cuts it looked pathetic, so I guess it's an improvement.
A better expose on the subject from Jan 2019 here:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cave-that-housed-...
One interesting side-effect is the rise of the edible straw. There are other edibles as well, spoons, forks, knives and bowls - though the latter is rather an old idea.

So while the ban straws was a token gesture it does seem to have generated some creativity and movement on other fronts which at least gets peoples attention on the problem of single-use plastics.
> They should be able to lease access to this data to websites in turn for goods and services.

Should they? Then you get back to same problem as before: "Allow us to spy on you or pay $$$".

Instead privacy is treated as right and you can simply say "no, neither of those".
Note that this does not say anything about ads. It is still perfectly legal to show ads, just the whole privacy invasion on top of it is excluded.
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When you have $1000 to drop on a CPU I'm quite sure you can also afford a country club membership ;-).
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/fede...

I'm sure you're aware that like 10 other states have similar cases working their way through the court system
Just wanted to make sure you realized its not possible for animals to not consent or consent. So this idea you can decide for them means I can too.

As a note :

A large solar storm taking out the grid would show you how close we are to losing the comfortable society, or one of many other similar events. There isnt a city in this country that would be able to handle the loss of electricity for a week let alone a month.
Right. But that's the limit I don't get. If I always have to view the expanded set of commit messages to understand anything about the commit, what's the value in a short subject? And why 50 chars? That's even more restrictive than the normal 72/76/80 chars.