skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are people who study and investigate this kind of things who probably have good reasons to believe this object served some kind of ritualistic purpose.

> What evidence is there for that? […] Why is there never any proof or evidence required for saying an artifact has a religious purpose?

From a related Wikipedia page:

It is assumed that the Golden Hats served as religious insignia for the deities or priests of a sun cult then widespread in Central Europe. Their use as head-gear is strongly supported by the fact that the three of four examples have a cap-like widening at the bottom of the cone, and that their openings are oval (not round), with diameters and shapes roughly equivalent to those of a human skull. The figural depiction of an object resembling a conical hat on a stone slab of the King's Grave at Kivik, Southern Sweden, strongly supports their association with religion and cult, as does the fact that the known examples appear to have been deposited (buried) carefully.

I'm sure you can find more precise details if you dig deep enough.

> Which sun-god?

You can read more about this cult here[1] and here[2].

> This is a calendar. It's proven to be a calendar. We know how it works as a calendar. It's a tool for predicting celestial events.

Do not project the hyper-rationalistic character of our current society to societies and civilizations of the pre-industrial era. People in the ancient times were not as rational and utilitarian as we are. Everything was permeated by religion, superstition and magic.

[1]: https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=...

[2]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnja9z/scientists-reconst...
Equal Protection Clause.
Same for Hong Kong
How can they not detect such an incident?
> chroot

Personally I wouldn't trust chroot alone. There were some privilege escalation bugs available in the past from "forgot to sandbox the cwd" [1] to more sophisticated exploits via "nsswitch in docker" [2].

But, of course, given the amount of bugs I'd say that chroot is as secure as it can get. But always take everything with a grain of salt, chroot developers also make mistakes, like everyone.

The problem with chroot is not chroot itself, but all the libraries linked in the binaries. And if I know any statement to be true, it's that game developers on Steam don't give a damn about correctly linking anything. I mean, they even don't get 64bit right. And we have 64bit architecture mainstream since 2005 or so...

[1] https://github.com/aykit/chroot-privilege-escalation

[2] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14271
I suspect it was panic buying that drove prices up. You can't go and just buy 63M doses on the market as there isn't that much lying around normally - it was probably produced to order. I know Novartis donated 30M pills and was offering to supply 130M.
I'm not American, so I might get American political culture wrong. Wouldn't this transfer a lot of power from the states to the federal government? Isn't that considered a bad thing?
Down from Asia.
Is GitHub down for you as well?
I'm having issues opening anything. Error 500 is all over the place.
US Central down also.
I'm totally cool with that.
Part 1:
> Dealflow and access are the most important things to work on as an investor. Your judgment doesn’t have to be that great, because the returns follow a power law. And you can always get capital if you have good dealflow and access.

Part 2:
> At the end of the day, judgment is the single most important thing. It’s more important than access to deals and access to capital.
500 at India
same in the UK
GitHub is down (at least in India)
GitHub is down (at least in India)
https://www.githubstatus.com/
Down from kenya as well
Here in south africa too
there is one now, Major outage in "Issues, Pull Requests, Projects"
Google is much further ahead with ChromeOS and Android.
India as well.
The Netherlands is also down! ;)
Down for Mumbai too.
What is procrastination and why we do it
Down in Vancouver, Canada as well.
Same here (Europe)
Same in Estonia
How to have a safe psychedelic trip
can't using kubernetes solve this issue?
Down in South Korea.
So it's down across the whole world? Just to add to the list, it's gone for Ireland too.
I did read it, just looks like I failed to fully parse that long winding sentence. So it is not a good choice for compute-heavy workloads, like a webapp that does video/image processing?

Multi-threading could be added to the runtime for back-end applications (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498219)
In my street aswell.
oh well, time for swordfighting on office chairs https://xkcd.com/303/
Time for a decentralised github and yes I know GIT is decentralised. It is about issue management, discovery, pull request etc.
> it's basically the same code that must be implemented on the backend in either case :-)

No, it's not. If I expose an API e.g GET /widgets,I need to ensure that there is no combination of parameters that will ever return a widget that the user should not see (e.g because it belongs to some other department).

Whereas when I render a web page server side, I just need to write a single, correct, SQL statement that pulls in the widgets that this specific web page requires.
That's just an automated status check, the above comment is referring to an incident which contains prose and updates from the ops team to describe what's actually happening.
This made me even more depressive.

I stopped developing browser extensions when Mozilla killed their only competitive advantage over Google and allowed Webextensions only.
Down in Singapore as well
Bee Informed
But not Down Under scnr
Working again for me.

edit: spoke too soon.
I've never had a problem with gmail recipients since setting up DKIM, SPF, etc. There is an incompetent rinkydink shop running IT for the Irish government ( Topsec - https://www.topsec.com/ )that blocks ANY email from namecheap DNS which is really annoying, though.
no problem in china
> I don't understand why businesses are entitled to have access to consumers who use Apple.

I don't understand how expecting a computer to just run software became entitlement. Why should anyone need Apple's permission to do anything?
> While Mr Morrison said the Government would not take the formal step of publicly naming which state, senior sources confirmed China is believed to be behind the malicious attacks.

What senior sources?
Down in UK
https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
they already use k8s IIRC
Same here in Dubai
> This implies he does not support opposition in any way. This is not true.

It implied just that I don't know for sure and it does not change a lot. Even Khodorkovsky is not considered a threat worthy of eliminating - he much better serves the cause being a propaganda target. Durov has even more to offer to Russian gov't (digital technology is the new arms race) so he has even lesser chance of bodily harm.
Same 500 here in Southeast Asia
you mean something like
https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki ?
Both Google and Apple do block apps for certain countries though especially those used for distriution of copyrighted materials. Russia certainly can force Apple to comply if there was wuch a goal. Or at least RKN can just break push notifications for everyone.

I'm not the one for conspiracy theories though. Most likely they never intended to actually block it simply because they are using it themselfs and that's just it.
I’m doing Zero to $1k/mo in 12 Months
I too was very weirded out by this. The worst part is I couldn't even figure out that esc was doing this till I read your comment. Esc is usually used to stop or close something, not open something new.
Is it just me or is this happening more and more often recently, i.e. since Microsoft acquired GitHub?
It's also very shady that they don't even seem to detect these incidents properly.
This is what ForgeFed is building: https://forgefed.peers.community/
While there are restrictions, free developer accounts can support installation onto your own devices.
Seems to be up again (France)
We might need organizations to protect "robo rights"? I think I already saw some piece of information where someone tried to enforce that.
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Working now in India
If a company promotes/hires people who make decisions deleterious to the company's financials, that company will be less profitable and the stock price will be less.

I.e. the market corrects for things.
You know you could actually use a self-hosted GitLab for your team's projects. Which is why projects like Xfce [0], GNOME, etc are still up and running and don't suffer from this.

Also if I were a school sys-admin I would self-host and use GitLab.

[0] https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2020-April/032436....
Undersea internet cable is the latest snag in US-China tensions over Hong Kong
Could Netflix figure out who torrented their content? Steganography in Python
> I guess one can find a spiritual beauty in the idea that living matter, thinking matter, is a preferable state of being for matter in this universe.

But it seems that the thinking species are creating all the problems on this planet ...

Also, some say that the function of the brain is to stop thinking as soon as possible. We're using it in the wrong way.
A Dad Drank 50 Beers Everyday for 6 Weeks. This Is What Happened to His Brain
Isn't GitHub decentralised?
Oh those people didn't (all) get punished. And this is still happening all the time - huge companies waste an enormous amount of work & money. They can waste/mismanage for decades before the market punishes them (if at all).

Bureaucratic waste (and sometimes corruption) is absolutely rife at huge companies.
It was back for a moment, now 500 again. Each refresh is a lottery, 200 or 500.
If you are more productive using Node.js for back-end and React/other JS framework for front-end then don't worry about it and go ahead. Especially so for a small business with few development resources. The performance issues can be tackled when they arise and in in some areas you could use addons or even just break down some work into another service/micro service using Java or whatever. The productivity benefits can be massive and that's usually the bigger issue if you're creating a general web/service. I work on tesults.com and it's all JS.
PSD2 was meant to enhance security for users: how PSD2 will only irritate users
Think Product Hunt, but You Launch Every Week
It's great really. Nice to see something good happening. Selenium Classes in Pune https://www.sevenmentor.com/selenium-training-in-pune.php
First, good luck, it'll be a tough year.

Have you considered quitting your job completely?
i think this an example where government intervention came about the right time (but it was unintended as it came as the result of the war).

once electronics got complex the whole development process got more complex and required much more r&d - that added to the costs by an order of magnitude. That was beyond what most private companies could afford at the time - given they were just past the great depression.

Also people probably weren't used to view things as a system, that was a quite different paradigm. I think I read somewhere that thinking in terms of systems was one of the big changes that were the result of the war.
With Fourier you can analyze oscillatory characteristics of function (frequency and phase). With Laplace you can also analyze amplification/attenuation.
Just use Maven. Works very well w/ Kotlin.
GitLab has way too much overhead. I'd use a far lighter alternative like Gitea.
i'm getting intermittent 200/500s - australia
Similar to file browser in OS X
> by "open" I obviously mean "people can enter and exit it".

Most countries have their borders partially or fully closed to international travel. The only difference between New Zealand and most other countries is that New Zealand isn't also dealing with a rampant pandemic.

> A country with indefinitely closed borders is not "open", it's North Korea.

Comparing New Zealand to North Korea is absurd and demonstrates that you're not being serious. Something like 90—95% of all people on this planet will never travel across a passport control border during their entire lifetime. A short term, medically rational restriction on international travel only restricts the "freedom" of the most affluent few percent.

> Until the NZ population gets over its fear

What fear? I'm starting to wonder if you think that the only thing worth doing in New Zealand involves international travel. I suppose we're all in a big North Korea called Earth because we can't hop onto a rocket into outer space.
Ah, the good ol' KISS - complexity kills.
I've had some problems understanding the Laplace transform. Maybe somebody here can point me towards some material.

I have an interest understanding how IIR filters are designed, and I always get stuck at this part in DSP books. The Laplace transform is used, but as well as finding the mathematics difficut I don't really understand why it is being used at all. I think it is trying to replicate the effect of an analog circuit?
It's a pity the semantic web never took off. It might have greatly reduced the need for sophisticated centralised search-engines.
No, just trying to highlight the double standard when it comes to how law enforcement are treated compared to everyone else.

I also wouldn't classify destroying the car of a government organization as violence. It's destruction, but fairly mild compared to burning people's homes to the ground. And even then, I wouldn't think to compare property damage to actual violence, like murder.
UI toolkits - Seems that all the highest quality UI toolkits (Ant, Material, Fabric/Fluent, etc) have way too much whitespace. It works for things that work well in "cards" but the low information-density is killing me personally. I think more developers would choose high-density UI toolkits if one was released by a major dev team and could be relied on to be maintained. Maybe Photon/Protocol could eventually fill this gap, I like them a lot more overall but they don't seem nearly as well-packaged for easy use, or at least don't seem to have a complete kit available at https://www.adobe.com/products/xd/resources.html or anywhere else really.

Walled gardens - not being able to build things that integrate multiple services. Instagram live videos, combining amazon and walmart listings, google places "here now", or unified client for iOS/SMS/Discord/Slack/Teams are all off limits to ambitious developers.

Centralization - Seems like home email servers are increasingly being ban-hammered by the major providers like Gmail, ProofPoint, etc so you have to have your mail sent by a hosted server. CloudFlare is also seemingly becoming a single point of denial/failure. Chromium can now effectively dictate W3C standards because whatever they implement instantly becomes the ground truth for web dev.

DNS/BGP - Sorely in need of a major update.

IoT - It's shockingly difficult to find IoT devices which can compute locally/privately/on-the-edge. Everything sends all the data back home and stores/processes it there.

Tracking - If websites insist on having an OAuth or email verified signup, I'd like my browser to quickly and quietly create a new profile for every domain, or even every visit to that domain. And otherwise keep all tracking/fingerprinting down to effectively zero. I'm really tired of being tracked everywhere all the time.
Eventually, sometimes. After billions have been spent/wasted. Companies the size (and with the cash cows) of Apple/Google/MS/etc can make atrocious decisions for decades before they go down.
Same here. Overall, I am a bit confused and everything that would explain it better seems to be behind the sign-up wall. A bit annoying.
I think at this point, the systemd mess is an opportunity.

Write a better one.

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."- Gandhi (maybe)
Yeah and I wish it happened more often.
Why would that be better than buying DDG, Qwant, Ecosia, Startpage or any other alternative out there?

Or just putting their support behind one?
Self-hosting simply means your downtime doesn't happen with everyone else's.

And there are some good reasons for not self-hosting: price/comfort, built-in tools, decent security without having to do your own, etc.
>from someone who only had a Laplace 101 course

Laplace transforms are an entire course?
> It's simply pointing out that Apple, when given a choice, would rather use an external payment processor (in order to pay lower fees) when building an app for a platform they don't control... while at the same time denying people the ability to do that on their own platform.

Apple explicitly allows apps like Spotify and Netflix to use external payment processors on iOS via their developer guidelines.
Really nice! Does anyone have similar resources for javascript?
>The first study pushing it was immediately recognized as broken.

I think you are probably thinking of the first Raoult study but there was a lot of history before then including plausible mechanisms and even somewhat positive double blind trials done in Wuhan in February. It's still used in places like Thailand where they have sane policy and basically no more local transmission.
Getting a 500 from Github.

Here is their paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.02391.pdf
I'm surprised by this content, because Google actually changed the web for the better in this regard. Anybody remembers the ezinearticles era? Where people kept publishing the same short articles filled with just a few keywords and nothing more, over and over again, just to get backlinks? Back then you couldn't make a search on any topic without falling on page after page of those light articles filled with keywords only.

Those article directories were eventually murdered by Google within the blink of an eye maybe a decade ago, and quite frankly on any given topic nowadays it's way easier to find good content rather than SEO filler. Google's algorithms will nowaydays favor fresh (aka published or updated recently), long content over short, "popular" (aka lots of links on it), duplicated content.
Apple continues to pretend that it applies these rules to all developers when it does not:

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1273720080291950593?s=20
Ask HN: Should we go with mobile or web app first?
We are planning to launch e-commerce business starting from tier-2 tier-3 cities. Should we go with mobile or web app first?
Maybe they should change the algorithm then. There is an important discussion going on and the dumb algorithm thinks its better to just brush it away and kick the can down the road.
>if you're a nice platform monopolist, you can charge arbitrary platform access fees

If you're a nice platform monopolist, you're not charging arbitrary, excessive platform access fees. You can have a monopoly on a platform, charge fees and still act in a way that makes those fees seem reasonable.

Sony for example seems to have a pretty positive relationship with its developers. Here's for example something I found related to the PS4 dev kits:

>Although this $2,500 price [for a PlayStation 4 dev kit] is being cited in development circles, the game-makers we spoke to all said that Sony had lent them dev kits for a limited period of one year, for free. As of right now, there are no dev kits being sold. Sony is sending whatever it has available to favored developers. "All the indies I know got them for free," said one developer. "Sony has been amazing about kits and development thus far."

>Another developer said that Sony is focused on loaners, rather than collecting fees. "They are handing them out like candy," he said.

There's also various accounts of Sony providing support for its developers, including launching a $10 million fund for independent developers.

https://sonyreconsidered.com/playstation-commits-10-million-...

If Sony and the like were every bit as bad as Apple, Google, Steam, etc., I'd imagine we'd hear a lot more negative stories about them. I tried to find stories of Tim Sweeney talking shit about Sony's cut, but couldn't really find any. Only really found things like this:

>“We’ve been working super close with Sony for quite a long time on storage,” he says. “The storage architecture on the PS5 is far ahead of anything you can buy on anything on PC for any amount of money right now. It’s going to help drive future PCs. [The PC market is] going to see this thing ship and say, ‘Oh wow, SSDs are going to need to catch up with this.”

Maybe developers are more forgiving towards platform fees when they feel like they are working together with the charging company rather than against.

>Such behaviours are anti-competitive as it would be exceedingly difficult for a new market entrant to compete with such artificially low console prices.

Sure. But it also works out in game developers' favor. Console makers are cutting the cost of the device to reach a larger install base, which then increases the potential customer base for game publishers and developers.

>What you're saying is that the US Government should enact laws which favour dumping and loss-leader activity.

I'm not.
Apple permits external payment processing for this category as well (Spotify, Netflix)
ForgeFed: A federation protocol for interop between version control services
With this spike in work from home and delivery, it could be that society have just realized that it doesn't need that much commercial property at all.
It's by Richard D Hipp of SQLite fame.
What would happen to China? Foxconn alone employs hundreds of thousands of people
maybe assigning students to faculties in a bronze-age educational facility
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Sure, it renders slower. I've just signed my 25th professional client, and I have never yet had a client who even mentioned rendering speed, let alone was willing to make any trade-off for it.

That's because understanding rendering speed is your job, not the client's job. What the client will be saying is things like "Why are my conversions so low?", "My site doesn't appear in search results." and "My friend's neighbour's dog-sitter told me my website sucks because it takes ages to load." It's your job to translate those comments in to meaningful actions, like optimizing rendering speed.
> (aka the Wayland Nightmare and DPI issues everywhere)

The picture is more mixed than you present.

I use Fedora at 2560x1440@14" and 2 by 3840x2160@27 and the dpi thing isn't an issue, set your font scaling to 1.5 and that's about all you need to do.

I dual boot windows and fedora (for gaming in the former and dev in the latter) and Windows 10 is by far more unpleasant to deal with, updates that tie your machine up for significant time, drivers are still "track down random binary from random vendor site and hope it works" vs "sudo dnf update" is (for me) no comparison at all.

Into the territory of personal preference, Cinnamon is a better desktop on than Windows - it's more responsive, more cohesive, closer to the classic WIMP interfaces I prefer.

As for wayland, I don't use it yet, I will when it's been stable for a year or two.
Without a go.mod file, it will only compile when placed in the right place in the GOPATH, which Rob Pike presumably does.