skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess few consider feasible a "wakanda" hypothesis. Maybe these guys somehow managed to survive in few numbers through the million of years since their civilization decline, and they'are around us, hidden in plain sight.

Around 1400, a giant base - thousands of "old" people - in the middle of Greenland or Antarctica would have been almost 100% unreachable / undetectable for that moment's human technology.

Right now there could be a giant space station around Neptune or somewhere in the outer ring of the solar system and we could barely notice it as an asteroid doing funny stuff (lights with no sunlight reflections!), if we got lucky enough to get a blurry image somehow.

Maybe those out-of-the-solar system visitors are here not for us at all (no scouting), but they are here in their regular interchange with our older - highly advanced - cousins.

Think about it, didn't we try to do the same with some primitive human tribes in the Amazon? We just tried to left them alone as far as possible, to do their stuff and we thrive in our own civilization, far away from them.

A more advanced civilization of this solar system could be doing the same with us in Earth.

We say "out there is fully inhabitable" just as we said that
about Siberia or Alaska, or the Sahara. But now - with some technology help - there are thousands of humans living in those places (even if we have no NY city like settlements).
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They should reissue the treo650
I would throw in a bunch of caveats...

I'm OK with "because lenders make money on them" as a generality. ...As long as we are honest about what an LBO is. It is an arbitrage, of sorts.

The deals are, by definition and in practice, structured to give the acquiring PE a free option. Their risk lasts only as long as they have skin in the game, usually a short period. Since they structure the deal, they structure it in a way that eliminates (as much as they can) short term risks.

The old fashioned way of doing this is took a few years. (a) Raise enough debt and run extreme short-term management strategies. (b) make interest payments religiously. (c) Use this history of payments to raise enough money to pay yourself out fully. (d) sell the now indebted company, run it, or whatever. Any dollar you make is profit on a zero dollar investment.

It's a risk arbitrage, more specifically. In a liquid market, this arbitrage wouldn't exist, but if it did it would look like this: (1)Buy shares in Tesla. Put it in a LLC (2) Borrow money under LLC, interest only (3) Pay this money to yourself. (4) Sell shares as necessary to pay interest (5) pay yourself when you deserve a treat (6) If you run out of shares and no one is willing to lend you more money... the game is now finished.
> Yes, Hacker News is a lot better than Facebook, I think. Here, the crowd seems to skew extremely libertarian and contrarian...

HN's more balanced and tolerant than most tech communities (including the StackExchange network and especially Twitter), but it still skews quite left. If I ever show an indecent amount (by Silicon Valley standards) of libertarian-contrarian tendencies, I get thrashed and downvoted to Hell. That said, I have learned some of the libertarian-contrarian (or, really, non-Progressive) land mines to avoid in HN discussions, and tend to get up-votes.

That said, this comment (third most upvoted comment under OP) is pretty typical of the soft authoritarianism prominent on HN. I have no particular love for Fox News or even Facebook (I kind of dislike them both and don't consume either), but what they do is kind of up to them and their viewers/users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23657692

So, anyway, HN is left with a small-ish but dense pocket of libertarian-contrarians, the Valley is left of HN, Tech Twitter is left of the Valley.
That is surprising, especially considering that it's on the continental divide and has mostly headwaters.

I live a bit south of there in the mountains, also close to the divide. A lot of our precip, especially in winter, is moisture carried by the jet stream from the north pacific that gets caught on the mountains. Could be the source, but that's a wild guess.
Civilisation is not a state of mind. That doesn't make any sense, because it is completely at odds with how the word is used in practice, e.g. "Aztec civilisation", "Western civilisation", "Modern civilisation". The actual definition of civilisation is about structured culture and communities: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civilization
Not all signals are honest!
That it's small and minimalist? Personally I'd pay a huge premium for a 3-4 inch screen phone with an okay screen-to-body ratio and a somewhat privacy-friendly up-to-date OS with a browser (I don't need apps besides basic phone, sms and browser). I haven't found anything that ticks all three besides building something myself with a RPI zero, a 4g modem and a hyperpixel4.
Author here.

Trademarks can also help to claim App names in Appstore[1]. But in several countries(even federal), registration/incorporating applies to all the states. Since, Appstore require DUNS which has company name, may be Apple would respect incorporation too especially if the app is country specific.

[1]https://hitstartup.com/when-to-register-our-startup/
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I only ever owned an XPS 13 9350 (~2015) and it suffers from really horrible coil whine, regardless of whether anything is plugged in or not.

I really wonder whether they’ve fixed this issue, as I’ve heard that some models after this one still suffered from the same.
Hey, thanks!

The boat's historical track is shown after some time (within an hour of starting), but it will only draw the lines between the positions at the top of each hour (so intra-hour positions are lost, but this isn't that interesting anyway for more long-distance races). But you're right, it's a bug that it doesn't show you any track within the first hour. :)

Also, when you have more than one boat in a race, you'll see your historical track and all the other boats' tracks shown on the same map. This makes it interesting for long-distance races with multiple boats.
If you mean online-only ghost kitchens, they sure do work (even without automation). They already exist today (I believe former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has a ghost kitchen venture).

Right now, most ghost kitchens have one major shortcoming: they lack a compelling narrative. Restaurants don't just sell food -- they sell a story, a distinction. They sell a distinct style of ramen or pizza or pasta because the chef brings their culture and training to the product. Standard markup gets you margins, but a compelling story coupled with good execution adds a premium.

In this regard, pure-play ghost kitchen food feels empty and generic. There's no story or flair behind it, just a factory production line. For the "food as fuel" demographic -- this doesn't matter. Food is food, pizza or pasta is the same anywhere. For people who believe "food is culture" -- this matters a lot. I'm not going to order pizza from a generic Grubhub place named "Sam's Pizza".

One way around this is perhaps to have restaurants with pre-existing narratives to lend their name/brand and process to a ghost kitchen operation. The Filipino chicken chain Jollibees -- which has name recognition -- is trying this out, so we'll see.
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>What does 'too much laws' mean, and what does it have to do with anything?

It means, that you have laws that you should not have at all.

It means that you never can make absolutely wise perfect laws.
And it has to do EVERYTHING with this topic.

If you use perfect means to follow imperfect laws you would end up with stupidity amplified.

If you can't grasp this concept, look at the example of 'Turing' it is exactly about this pure dumb stupidity amplified.

We have now all kinds of idiotic laws and if to insist on them with too much of precision using technical amplifier their stupidity will be revealed too vividly and this would lead to a strong opposition and let us hope it would be not armed opposition, but I would not bet on it.
I heard there were problems with build / coil whine when I last bought a laptop back in 2018.

I wanted to run Ubuntu as the primary OS .. ended up choosing a ThinkPad. Still certified for Ubuntu, and the fact it came with a Window's license was a benefit for the few times I've needed to use Win10.
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I wonder how bad the battery life is in practice.

Third party reviews have said that it could last 18-24 hours

All the smartphones I had in recent years I had to charge overnight. Not because they were depleted completely, but enough so that they usually run out some point the next day. And I prefer to just plug the devices in at home insted of carrying around cables and charging banks.

That’s the same reason I bought my iPhone 8 Plus. At the time it had the best battery life of any iPhone.

Now the iPhone 11 Pro Max can easily last two days on a charge but that phone is ridiculously large.

How well does the apple or other smart watches do with audio interactions only?

We tested ours when we first got them. I had my watch on, arms down, no headphones and we couldn’t tell that you weren’t on a phone. Of course with a headphones you couldn’t tell the difference. Apple Music works well with voice interaction. I’m not sure if Spotify has been updated to take advantage of the new APIs and Siri integration Apple introduced last year. Text messaging using voice only works well. But, if I know my wife is out and about. I try to ask simple questions in text where she can just use a quick reply - yes, no, etc.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has experienced this. Only thing I'd add is the lack of understanding about how hard backups are at some of the scales of data in research. Trying to explain to researchers who run the departments that doing a full backup on 35TB+ of data on all budget drives is going to take weeks was something I could never get across, until they lost all their data.

And no, snapshots weren't an option on a legacy clustered filesystem that they wouldn't migrate from.
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> or just isn’t paying enough attention to such down-ticket races to care

The Open Society Foundations has had a ton of success in changing how crimes are prosecuted at the local level by pouring money into district attorney elections across the country. That's a major reason the BLM protests have been successful: most people are not being prosecuted because the local DA is a "friendly." Since many people don't pay attention, money spent at this level has been very effective.

Presumably the OSF could target county Sheriffs races next, which would stop those cases from even reaching the DA's desk. Then the police wouldn't need to be abolished per se, they could simply stop enforcing laws that disproportionally target minorities, while simultaneously ratcheting up enforcement on the people who voted for those laws.
Eloquent JavaScript (https://eloquentjavascript.net/) is free, up-to-date and really good too
Yes, and if my grandmother had wheels she would be a bicycle.

Honestly dude, we barely have evidence for existence and you just invented a interplanetary civilization out of thin air. While it might be amusing to some, its slippery slope we have already fallen down and found anti-vaxxers down there. Please refrain from making these wild assertions, and if not at least put a disclaimer about where you got the theory from.
Same here. I even know there are 360 degrees in a circle.

Took me a while on my small phone to see there was a North, therefore the 0 was not trigonometric on the right. Then I realized that the north was not up. By the time dumb me finally understood all this, I wondered if the angle should be negative like -90 degrees when towards west, or +270??

Finally I tried to do 180+45, entered 235, was told I was again not a human, realized I was super dumb about my math, and now wondering if the 2 minutes were expired.

And just spent 5 minutes explaining all that rather than trying again. Captchas can be overkill.
> These are what all high end consumer displays like the Apple Cinema displays

Yes, in 2004. That was 16 years ago, a lifetime for some HN users.
Predictive has always been used. You can predict a lot of things based on data even on your own. A certain neighborhood downtown could have more criminals. Just tip if the iceberg here
Scientists have been basically screaming at the public since the 60s or so. 60 years later, people still don't take climate change seriously enough for the majority to vote in politicians who care about it.

Just look at how we're actually having protests against something as simple as staying inside. We can think better about existential risks but that won't help if we don't actually take action. Given our track record, my bet is that barely anything will be done.

Not enough people care.
You decided against Win 10 Pro and WLS? Why?
Sailing tips from a novice:

- To get past captcha: Find N on the compass. That’s 0 heading. Now go clockwise and add 30 for every notch until you get to the needle. So 0 (N), 30, 60, 90 (E), 120, 150, 180 (S), ... 330.

- Once sailing, find the wind angle. You cannot sail within 45 degrees of the wind. So if wind is coming from, say, 140 degrees, do not set your course between 95-185 or you will come to a stop. (Because physics.)

- Sailboats are fastest when sailing 90 degrees to the wind. So if wind is 140, the fastest course would be 70 or 230. Just keep in mind that might not be the direction you need to go.

- More wind = faster sailing.
One reason Color TV wasn't implemented like this is the need for a compatible signal and the ability to decode the compatible signal with analog circuitry.
A lot of the crazier conspiracy theories probably started out like that. Think chemtrails, flat earthers, 5G, that kind of thing.
I actually think there is very little misinformation led climate denial around climate here in the UK. Plenty of people refuse to do anything. But that's a decision they've made despite being informed, not because of misinformation. I see evidence of the same attitude in the US, but I don't live there so I cannot really comment.

Many of us from a educated or stem background mistakenly think people get (large amounts of) information, digest it and then make the socially correct decision. But that isn't what happens. Most people make the decision that suits them personally, they do it within about 5 seconds of realizing a decision is necessary (long before they can have been given any real information). People then use any justification that fits the decision they already made in order to defend that decision.

I actually think most climate misinformation is a result of people's climate denial, not the other way around. People don't want to give up carbon so they spread useful BS that helped them justify keeping emissions. They do this because it makes them feel better about a decision they know has massive negative consequences, just like people share cat pictures: they are not sharing a picture of a cat they actually know, they're sharing "feels". "Feels" in the form of cat pictures spread, so do "feels" in the form of political humour or climate misinformation or vaccine denialism.

It is "feels" that have beaten facts, not lies. That's why more facts are not solving this issue. Climate misinformation is just a small subset of the many examples of this.

What we need now isn't more information or less mis-information (aka moderation of social media). It's celebrities endorsing emissions cuts. A Kardashian driving a Tesla or a photo of a single child that died from a climate driven disaster will convince more people to vote green than 1001 research papers or carefully structured arguments or expert interviews or statistics.
The paper discusses the longevity of radioactive isotopes over large time scales - basically only a few isotopes have half-lives long enough to last for tens of millions of years, and those can be created naturally as well as artificially.

On the point about oil, the paper points out that oil deposits have been created cyclically over large time scales:

"At least since the Carboniferous (300–350 Ma), there has been sufficient fossil carbon to fuel an industrial civilization comparable with our own"

There were three anoxic events, where the ocean was completely depleted of oxygen, in the Cretaceous period 132, 120 and 93 million years ago.

"these [carbon] releases often triggered episodes of ocean anoxia (via increased nutrient supply) causing a massive burial of organic matter, which eventually became source strata for further fossil fuels.
Thus, the prior industrial activity would have actually given rise to the potential for future industry via their own demise. Large-scale anoxia, in effect, might provide a self-limiting but self-perpetuating feedback of industry on the planet."

Although, as the paper notes:

"Alternatively, it may be just be a part of a long-term episodic natural carbon cycle feedback on tectonically active planets."
I have heard that they have really good customer support once the payment has been made.
Yet at the same time couching ideas in familiar language helps contextualize and retain them.
Which model(s) of the XPS line? Can you share that?
> the lease is held by YC

That doesn't sound right to me (I've been in the YC network for 10+ years, as has dang), and is at odds with what tlb (an original and still-serving YC partner) said in this comment [1] above, and what has always been YC ethos.

Maybe the person who told you that was mistaken? Or it may have been a YC partner or staff member doing it privately?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655750
Or how big they would get, as big as octopus eating ships.
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Really? Why is that in the times of smart pointers? You can just malloc a pointer and it gets cleaned up automatically by unity if it's no longer used?
"Dre was convinced that his connections with the elite would eventually earn him a big business deal... But these never came to anything. Clients were happy to call him when they wanted to go out, but that didn’t mean they took him seriously as a business partner."

I'm not convinced this was Dre's primary motive. In a good year, he earned $200,000 -- certainly enough for comfortable life. He also partook in the presence of the powerful and wealthy mixed in with models. He was getting paid and still got the entertainment aspect of attending the party, and that's why he was there.
it has been possible with transpilers. Typescript works out of the box. Opal for ruby, Transcrypt for python, etc.
I love the idea behind Ecosia and, a couple of months ago, switched my browsers to use it as my default search engine. Unfortunately the results were so poor and I found myself having to re-try my search in other search engines so often, that I gave up and switched back to StartPage / DDG.

[neither of which are that great either. But all search engines seem to be getting worse these days]
I stopped using it recently, but cryptsetup (with luks if it matters) definitely allows passphrases. I think my longest was ~50 characters? Not sure if you were going beyond that.

I can't seem to find any old (or new) complaints about it limiting, or anything about a fix for same. You sure it was that?
It's interesting that she had to lie. That $1000 split between 5 girls would provide a living wage. And $200 for something you would be prepared to do for free seems pretty nice on the surface.

But that $200 is the difference between a "party girl" and a "whore". Perhaps not quite literally, but close enough that it's a really bad idea. The tactics used in the article to get girls to stay if they want to leave early are bad enough; once payment is involved...

And from the other side, rich people want to go to clubs full of party girls and will avoid clubs full of "whores".
Even if you manage to signal somehow (real or not doesn't matter) your finances, people start liking your money instead of you.

The most valuable social status, the type that actually matters, is the one you get from not caring about what people think of you, having massive fun and brightening the day of the people you interact with.
> I really don't think there's a generally applicable moral framework that doesn't require veganism.

While I don't agree with the parent commenter and I think you made very good points against what they were saying, I also don't think meat consumption in principle is immoral. I absolutely think that industrial farming practices are immoral, especially the horrors of animals raised their whole lives in minuscule coops or pens.

However, free-range animals which are given a decent life before being slaughtered likely lead a better life and definitely have easier deaths than virtually any animal in its natural environment - no predators, almost no disease, and a death that doesn't involve being violently killed or maimed by a predator, or slowly losing the power to find food and dieing of starvation in old age, or any of the numerous horrors that are a certainty for all animals living in nature.

You can argue that we simply can't sustain the modern meat-eating diet for 7B people with traditional farming practices, and this may be true. But the solution is not to stop consumption entirely, but to force ethical production of meat while consumers adapt to a diet with less, but still some, meat (and eggs, milk, cheese, etc.).
> > Start with the book: “Head First JavaScript Programming”.

> Please don't. 6yo book doesn't worth it. Even one year is a lot for modern tech.

I'm sorry, I know you're parroting conventional wisdom here, but have you read a book? Did you look at the table-of-contents? It looks like a great introduction to me, covering the basics that I think would be a prerequisite to learning any of the more recent language features. "Don't judge a book by its cover", as they say!
Totally understandable. There is a minority of non-CS commenters on HN, so I always try to expand the conversation. Wasn't meant as pejorative.

Re your comment on generics saving lives, yea, this is a pickle question between sovereigns in negotiating trade agreements. The US pharmaceutical behemoths make too much money in my opinion. The inability of Medicare to negotiate on drug pricing was an insane give away from Bush that effectively allows drug companies the ability to set their desired profit targets. But with other nations catching up in terms of Quality and manufacturing tech transfers, most small molecules will be easily riffed. The era of blockbuster small molecules is coming to an end with a lot of the space/targets explored. More complicated biological and gene/cell therapies are the next frontier and it's going to be a lot harder to riff these technologies because "the product is the process" a lot of time. It's a lot harder to steal process without hiring know-how.
You ignore the fact that some protocols are easier to "do wrong" than others. The point other people are making is that JWT is one of those.

You're welcome to disagree but don't gloss over the fundamental point being made.
Author here.

From the content,

>Most countries don’t allow patent for a software[1]. Economic theories, methods of doing business, mathematical methods or computer programs as such are not patentable inventions in several countries.

The hyperlinked content from WIPO details about patentability of softwares/algorithm(Link doesn't seem to be working now, so including archive)

In short, in USA -

"According to the US Supreme Court , the Congress intended the statutory patentable subject matter to include anything under the sun made by man, but the laws of nature, natural phenomena and abstract ideas are three specific areas which are not patentable."

So, you can apply patent for the application of that algorithm.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20200213051434/https://www.wipo....