skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That podcast episode explains something from the 11:20 minutes mark to 11:45 that I did not get from TFA. Namely, who is this Barney that he hated? In the featured article they only wrote:

> But occasionally there were things that elicited thoughts he could not ignore.

> Like Barney.

> "I cannot even express to you how much I hated Barney," Martin says.

> Since all the world thought Martin was a vegetable, at the special care center where he spent his days he was often in front of the TV watching reruns of the children's cartoon hour after hour, day after day.

But in the podcast they use the melody from the Barney & Friends kids TV show and now it makes sense. Before listening to to the podcast, after reading the article I was like "but who is Barney?"
You clearly lack background knowledge about contemporary archaeological understanding of the palaeolithic and neolithic periods in southwest asia and anatolia.

First off, referring to 'civilizations' as basic entities or units of analysis is just nonsense. Sure, there has been some talk about 'social complexity' up to the mid-90s, but (a) that discourse is largely outdated since it tends to be based on justifying prior presumptions regarding the nature and boundaries of societies that were already assumed to be 'civilizations' without adequate reason, (b) that perspective is being replaced by more bottom-up approaches that model various kinds of behaviours and interactions, including possibilities and limits thereof, and as guided by the archaeological evidence, and (c) even when we do talk about so-called 'civilizations', that is typically limited to a period starting around 4000 BCE. You are clearly ignoring (what I consider to be) the most exciting topic of archaeological research, the pre-pottery neolithic. As bildung points out, coherent models about this period have been formulated by drawing on evidence accumulated from dozens of PPN sites.

EDIT: Beyond the Ubaid is a fantastic edited volume that touches on this shift, with papers by leading archaeologists: https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/saoc/saoc-63-b...

EDIT2: See also: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2014.44 and https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-007-9008-1

Yes, it is true that Gobekli Tepe has no habitation associated with it, but we do not consider this an unresolved puzzle. Gobleki Tepe is commonly accepted as a great example of the ingenuity of nomadic peoples. Why do you assume that it would be necessary for its builders to have been sedentary?
But open source still requires a license. And the company owning the license might be based in the USA.

Is it possible the USA government can say that this is open source and free for all to use, except for people in China.

For example, if Red Hat Fedora is open sourced, but Red Hat is a USA company. Then they will still be under USA jurisdiction.

Given all the lies and bullshit coming out of the current administration, I can actually see them doing this.
> Capitalism does not mean we can’t have legislation to protect humanity

Mostly, it does.

> think of the clean air act and a host of others (e.g. OSHA)

Those laws are at odds with capitalism, because they limit the control of private capital owners over the application of that capital in favor of social direction or limitation by the State on others’ interest.

Now, you can support that as necessary for the good of society or oppose it as an infringement on the liberty of owners, but in either case you shouldn't mistake it for capitalism.
It is a bit silly, but at the same time an effective way to illustrate some very technical concepts to non-techies. Judging from the response I got from my partner, it did the trick.
Forth is a good example of trade-offs too. In exchange for readability you get impressive bootstrap-ability, and easier writeability IMO.
Given that it already runs Android mobile apps and Linux desktop apps, I think he's referring primarily to _legacy_ desktop software.
I've had the opportunity to use headsets from both companies, and own a Vive.

Oculus' devices seem generally a bit lighter and more comfortable, and Valve/HTC's devices tend to be a bit heavier, but with more focus on high-end performance.

This varies across their product lines of course, but I think it's fair to say both are strong contenders for good consumer VR products, albeit with different primary focuses.
> No. Because people don't drive cross country everyday.

Do you like spending a non-insignificant amount of time driving to/from a gas station (or electric charging station) and then spending even more time to wait until your local energy (car's tank/battery cells) has recharged enough for you to go again for....non-insignificant amount of time...etc..etc.

How many people have done this? How many years? etc. It's a pretty important first principle to have a system where energy density is a maximum (or at least significantly higher theoretical maximum than existing trends [i.e. Li-ion]).

> For grid storage density is also totally irrelevant.

I'm not discussing this. I'm talking about high power demands needed for semi's/trucks. The above (in this comment) is also considering the consumer market efficiency to be had.

> Go look what is possible

I'm aware but many of the efficiencies that are implemented for Li-ion [and it's variants] could theoretically compound the limit with hydrogen based. Abundance of essential compounds is a better by product than a scarce quantity of essential compounds.

P.S. This is about moving the goal posts. We're talking about innovation in a specific market. But ultimately the end goal is improving all aspects that affect society. (less destructive to the earth, doing more with less, etc)
Thanks for the great explainer!

Do you happen to know more about "organic matter decomposing" as way phosphine gets produced? Microbes are certainly a pretty broad group here on Earth, and I wondered if there was something more specific about this metabolic pathway that could help our understanding of what was going on in the clouds of Venus.

[Yes, I googled a bit a couldn't find a good lay explanation]
Zeppelins and jetpacks!
The deck of cards isn't changing its contents and yet gambling is an addiction. And if influncing behavior is such a sin why are you speaking? Don't you knoe that could influnce beliefs and behaviors?!
If curious, see (small) discussion on HN from 8 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3878054
This is about JSON

xmlstarlet supports XPath 1, but the W3C did not stop there. They made XPath 2 featuring variables, lists and regular expressions, XPath 3 featuring higher order function, and finally XPath 3.1 featuring JSON support.

For example,

echo '[{"a": 1}, {"a": 2, "b": 3}, {"c": 4}]' | xidel - -e '?*?a!(. * 100)'

will print 100 and 200.

Or the same with a verbose syntax:

echo '[{"a": 1}, {"a": 2, "b": 3}, {"c": 4}]' | xidel - -e 'for $obj in array:flatten(.) return map:get($obj, "a") * 100'
If you only look at today's numbers, it doesn't make a ton of sense. But looking at the market, the world is moving -more- towards ARM, not away. The last couple years have given us ARM in a gaming console, ARM in mainstream laptops, ARM in the datacenter. Especially as the world strives to go 'carbon neutral', ARM kills everything from Intel/AMD. So with that in mind, I don't think it's a bad buy, but time will tell.

RISC-V and ARM can coexist, but RISC-V in the mainstream is a far away due to nothing more than momentum. People won't even touch Intel in a mobile device anymore, not just because of power usage, but software compatibility.
What features do you think make it a programming language? Because I have spent quite a bit of time working with it and all I can see is a file format.
That assumes heat is distributed instantaneously, which it is not. There will definitely be local affects. The question is if those will harm or collapse native habitats.
And raising children can be more expensive than these games. Have you seen how they've gamified the college admissions racket and now everyone has to submit multiple applications. It's just like the games here.
>It takes about 80 watts to heat up a liter of water 1° celsius

You're confusing power and energy here.
I agree. The issue with social media isn't the tech, its the people and its power structures forming over social networks.

This whole thing, social media, derives from 2 types of issues: Errors/Flaws in natural thinking, and malignant hacking of brains.

The second will always arise when you have more than 100 people in a group, and said group has some non trivial impact on voting patterns.

At that point, this group is like a unprotected bank account - which will be hacked.

The normal response is to protect this account and to target hackers - but current social thought (excluding China) has huge issues when it comes to censoring speech - and especially political speech.

Add to it layers of additional complexity, (political parties can abuse the laws and say they are being unfairly censored), and the distance between this solution and the underlying human problems seems equidistant as that of current Social media and the same problems.
There are a lot of question where I would have problems to asses whether an answer is a correct/valid one. I'd even argue that different people would accept different answers as answers. Which in turn make them bad questions to begin with.
Chrome's HTTP/2 GREASE experiment results
> blaming the supplier will never solve the problem, everyone's consumption of fossil fuels is the problem as it drives a high price of oil that funds these projects.

Up to a point - but the UK for example deliberately destroyed its own coal industry partly due to concern over carbon, so I would say it's not completely reasonable to give countries a pass for merely responding to fossil fuel usage generally. Nations can and do take the better choice sometimes.

It's the contrast between the incessant virtue signalling from the Canadian government with the wanton destruction of the environment and harm inflicted on indigenous people that is really sickening.
http://draw.io
More to the point, we acted decisively as a society to remediate these conditions and those efforts succeeded. To look back now and ridicule those predictions without considering the actions taken to prevent them is folly.
If you've never done it before, consider drilling every single aspect of the performance.

For example-- in a performance, you usually walk to the instrument, bow, sit down, adjust the bench, pause, consider the tempo... all to play the first few notes that establish the tempo of the piece.

So you would drill that entire entrance, as well as drilling from a sitting position and establishing the tempo.

What you'll probably find is that the variance in speed among these drills is well beyond what you desire for your performance. And the more you drill, the more control you have over the established tempo, which is probably the most important moment to not make a mistake. :)

This approach doesn't "solve" nerves. But it can slowly decouple them from the performance. E.g., you start freaking out because you never noticed how "weird" your thumbs look in this passage; nevertheless, muscle memory established a nice, solid tempo for your freakout instead of one thats 1.5x too fast... :)
The Chinese have shown a willingness to do whatever they want within their own market. The question is the global market. Sure they can pirate intellectual property of ARM for their domestic market all they want, but they won't be able to export it and sell it on the global market.
I was in kindergarten in the early 90s and it was a half day. The school had two sessions though, so half the kids had morning classes, the other half had afternoon classes.
> I for one, cannot get over this: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=tsa+lot+of&_trksid=p233...

> Pretty much theft and resale.

Why? It's common knowledge and well signed [1] that knives aren't allowed on planes. IIRC, the TSA does people with knives the option of getting out of line to take their knife home, but most people don't bother because it's more important to them to catch their flight.

[1] https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Mana...
So either the NYT knew that the NSA was using secret codes on printer pages to track people and sat on this information, or the NYT had no idea about that security measure and is criticizing a fellow journalism institution for having the same lack of information. This is a shitty and unprofessional article that the NYT should be ashamed to have published.
Absolutely. Carbon offsets are a pretty cool solution, but I really want border-adjusted carbon taxes (border adjustment is a tax on imports from countries without a carbon tax so we don't just ship our carbon emitting work overseas). I favor carbon taxes because they're mandatory and more fool-proof (it's easier to measure carbon emitted than carbon that is not emitted).
"The Big Question in politics is, as it has been for 2 centuries now, how do we deploy the brightest minds on the biggest problems."

I am sorry to have to inform you, but this is a meritocratic, very naive view of modern societies that every single datapoint points against. That is not the biggest problem.

The biggest problem is: what to do when there is an ongoing state capture of your country by oligopolic pan-continental corporate structures?

Stop assuming that we just have to find out a solution. Solutions exist. We can have co-owned drone farms sustaining entire villages. We COULD have that. We already have tens of thousands of bright scientists who work on drugs where the patents go to the corporations, not for those who actually did the research anyway. Profits, however, are more important to those who make decisions about our ways of living.
I was arguing with someone on the internet, and biodiversity became the arguing point. They ended up flat-out asking me why anyone should care about biodiversity.

It's such an ingrained assumption inside my head that everyone should understand the value of biodiversity that I couldn't even answer.

I grew up watching David Attenborough, David Suzuki, and Carl Sagan explaining the natural world.

I can't imagine how much poorer my life would be, if I hadn't grown up with that.

And I can't begin to imagine how to explain my world-view to someone who clearly didn't grow up with them... Other than to sit them down with all those fantastic series, and hope that they take hold in them.

I mean, like, start by watching "Queen of the Trees," and see how inter-connected all of that life is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM
People tend to overestimate and also like to use hyperboles
Oh, interesting. TIL. Reasoning about emissions is hard.
Maybe not "spotted" an ad while browsing Facebook (since even with uBlock Origin, FB is ruthless at shoving Sponsored posts into the feed), but certainly clicking on an ad disqualifies one from being able to claim "I am cautious with account security."

That was like, the #1 rule I learned in the 90's: don't click on banner ads unless you want to get a virus or get scammed, what the heck.
Have you considered that the root problem may be that a plurality of voting Brazilians are simply terrible people?

Fascists rose before with radio and newspapers once and there wasn't any meaningful changes preventing the usage for such and yet they didn't reoccur indefinitely in the same nation.

Stop blaming the tech and start blaming your countrymen for being awful people.
What about another 20 years of Trump? He will probably seek to abolish the term limits.
> recycling was largely touted in the 90s as the solution to the world's pollution problems

On the contrary that's not how i remember it - everyone was talking about how recycling was the worst out of reduce, reuse, recycle.

However people want to clear their concious for free, so they chose recycling above all else.
My summary: the Drake equation takes a bunch of scenarios and multiplies their expected values/average probabilities. But this is a bad way to combine distributions that are not normally distributed (and may look more like bathtub curves)! It turns out, if you combine these potential scenario probability distributions in a smart way, an improved "Drake" equation predicts a much stronger likelihood that we'd see no life anywhere.

So there's no Fermi paradox, no Great Filter, no nothing. It's reasonable we're alone.
Needs a section on engineering research, specifically energy. Cleaner energy and energy distribution is the #1 global concern, in my opinion, and has been for a long time.
> the price of a CO2 offset is not a constant.

Well asymptocially it is. And then the real intersting stuff happens, because economy becomes aligned.

> But currently there's still an absolute glut of fairly-cheap CO2 reduction methods that just aren't being done, or wouldn't be done without the offset pricing, so it's still a net benefit to do them.

There also is a net harm if people get the wrong impression of what the real cost of CO2 is.
My major was interaction design, which is in the design department and shares many points of affinity with graphic design. I have 23 years of experience in technology.
Biodiversity is important because biology has been doing chemistry, physics, medicine, and neuroscience far longer than humans have. Many modern technologies exist only through studying nature. There's no need to love the splendor of nature to know that destroying a discovery before we know it exists is shooting ourselves in the foot.
I don't even think it's a risk to culture and knowledge, speaking as someone who ranks climate change as our highest long-term priority. Unmitigated it will cause millions of excess deaths and have a substantial drag effect on GDP growth, but it's not going to cause us to revert back to paleolithic or even 19th century living standards. Humanity will just be substantially better off in a century if we deal with it now instead of shrugging our shoulders.
> You have always been able to customize Homebrew to install at a custom prefix, e.g. ~/brew. It’s just that, when you do that...

...and then try to build something entirely sensible like Postgres, but hours of fiddling with different XCode versions and compiler flags still lead to a dead end of errors, you're stuck because you're running an unsupported configuration.

I still don't understand how the PG bottles for Mojave can be built.
Or alternatively, we deliberately infect it without athmosperic bacteria: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318094642.h...

Which would be terrible... but true to our history when discovering new world.
Sorry, buts carbon offsets are utter BS. Google has a 500,000 square foot office in Los Angeles. The City of Los Angeles gets 20% of its electricity from a coal plant in Utah. Power is fungible, you cannot select the source for your power if on the city's grid. Therefore, Google's electricity comes from burning coal.

Seriously, you cannot just cut a deal with the building next door and say, I'll give you a bunch of cash if you claim you're using the coal power so I can claim I am using the solar power. And then pretend to be carbon free.
You can use Maxima via Emacs with Latex output: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MaximaMode
Google probably could implement similar security. But the problem is as of today, 2020, they don’t.
No matter how much you learn, you will still never know what you don’t know. A zero day is by definition something you don’t know and therefore we recognize that there is some futility in trying to defend against everything that ever was and all that ever will be
Well yeah, xkcd 2268 is a good joke for a reason. Confirmation of a new result is always desirable and everybody knows this, "more studies needed" is however not the same as saying "we're probably wrong".
The ship was named after this guy instead of being named Boaty McBoatface which was voted by public, and he happily accepted it. This should tell you about his ethics.
You mean they extracted your primary full access token, not the generated restricted oauth token?
I wouldn't use the term "unfair" here. There's also just three x86 licensees in the world and people don't usually consider that an affront. You buy, you control, that's how the world works.

But I do think it's important that we recognize that we're going from a position of tremendous competitiveness to a much less competitive situation. And that will be a situation where ARM will be tightly controlled and much less inducive to the innovation we've seen in the last years.
Hello,

Specifically about the Apple case,

After your tone, not certainly obligated to answer but will write one quickly...

Apple A13 adds AMX, a set of (mostly) AI acceleration instructions that are also useful for matrix math in general. The AMX configuration happens at the level of the AMX_CONFIG_EL1/EL12/EL2/EL21 registers, with AMX_STATE_T_EL1 and AMX_CONTEXT_EL1 being also present.

The list of instructions is at https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/xZmmVF7tS8/ (didn't bother to document it publicly at least at this point).

Hopefully that clears things up a bit,

And please don't ever do this again, thank you. (this also doesn't comply with the guidelines)

-- a member of the checkra1n team
Apparently some actors don’t like the publicity and zenodo was hacked after publishing the preprint...
> The easy way is decently secure: if you tick the checkbox, it memorises the certificate serial number for you, the same as if you had manually trusted a self-signed cert. Any change to the certificate will show the warning again. This is comparable to trusting an SSH certificate the first time you connect to a host with Putty.

Then it should say so.

"Click here to never show this again"—never show for this certificate? For this connection? For any connection?

Be clear and specific, even if it takes three more words.
Ask HN: How do people become experts?
I've know a number of people who were really good at one thing or a handful of interrelated things. That might be a programming language or specific technology, some business domain or something else, but I've never quite figured out how they did it.

I've tried the deep dive thing a few times and always come out frustrated. It seems like the important stuff that differentiates the expert from someone with casual knowledge isn't documented. Sometimes it's explained by the knowledge being locked behind a paywall or IP protection of some sort. Sometimes its not, but the knowledge seems to be locked in the brains of a few individuals or organizations and can only be unlocked if your'e lucky enough for them to take you in (employment at a company that specializes in something, or having a mentor type relationship with another expert). On the other hand, a minority of the experts I know are nearly completely self taught and I'm struggling to figure out how to manage. Generally as a hobbysit Like I said every time I've tried to deep dive I reach a point where I'm not sure what I'm missing, where to find it.
I use Sympy interactively, and I don't know what you mean by "forced". It doesn't feel that way to me.
Some were, yes, but they were in the minority. Curiously, folks are still predicting global cooling, but the proportion of such papers continues to dwindle.

https://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-in...
Fun fact, Google allows end to end encrypted backups, but Apple - due to pressure from the FBI - decided to keep access to your iCloud backups.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

So if you use their cloud services, both Apple and Google have access to your photos, but Apple has access to all of your whatsapp and signal conversations, while Google does not (if you decide to password protect your backups).

And you have to use iCloud if you want to keep your 3rd party chat history safe, unless you jailbreak to extract it from the file system.

iMessage is of course purposefully flawed to allow for MITM.
I wouldn't "take it out" on the candidate. I always treat my candidates with due respect and courtesy. I would no-hire them, though, if they were not a match for the team.