skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The emergence of behavioural modernity some 40k to 50k years ago seems to have been a cultural watershed.

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

It’s possible this might have been a result of the developments of prefrontal synthesis some 70k years ago.

https://essentials.news/ai/research/article/acquisition-pref...
The problem with buildings with windows that don't open, is that the windows don't open. What do you do if you want to open the window?
Privacy Labels Reveal Interesting Insights About Popular Cloud Drives
I love starlark and I love this as a better way to run Github actions.

It's confusing that this is a managed external service. Github Actions are a fully flexible runtime, it feels like you could get away with all this functionality with Actions as the underlying runtime not some third party service.
I don't like NFTs, but the point of putting it on the blockchain is that it's globally available, verifiable, and immutable. Many versions of a PGP-signed message could exist and be passed around.
This is a huge red flag. Especially when Waymo's had no significant milestones and when the CEO is using language like 'spend time with friends and family'. That usually means they're being pushed out, or that he's made the realization it's not going to work out and is jumping ship.
Nonetheless there is a widely used system of loans which use a fixed fee rather than interest payments which for fixed-term loans ends up being functionally identical.
I've been wondering if it would make sense to have a lightweight way of expressing frustration at a given bit of source code, in a way that's collected and aggregated.

It seems like this could be useful for prioritizing technical debt, although it's likely more complicated than a naive ranking). Surfacing the info during code review might point to areas that need additional attention. Overall trends (for the group and for individuals) might help give a manager a better sense of the health of the team.

Of course, one would have to be very careful about the social dynamics of it all; in particular, tying it to blame seems fraught.
Fun fact: up until the latest Android version, any app with Read Storage access (i.e. nearly all of them) could go through all your photos, pull location data, map out all the places your phone has been, and stealthily upload that.

Several years ago, if you gave it microphone permissions, it could stealthily record all your conversations in background, transcribe that to text, and upload that. This was a beginner task that needs about 2 hours experience and I still use it for my tutorials. Lately it prompts a full screen saying that it's recording you, but this doesn't prevent apps that take a few days to build their own stealth recording system.
The only way that NFTs make sense to me is in some sort of impossible to implement DRM-like system where ONLY the current owners of the media can display it or utilize it. If buying an NFT of a piece of art meant that I could digitally display the file in full resolution, or if it otherwise afforded me some tangible benefit during the period of ownership, I could see it making sense.

As of right now NFTs are basically donations to the artist with more steps and about 1000x the carbon footprint.
> There's a reason we pay attention to tail risks, where the low-probability negative consequences are far worse than the high-probability costs of averting them. The vast majority of people are not going to die in car crashes, or of SIDS, or of COVID, or from untreated kidney infections. They are lucky.

No, by definition, they're the norm. They're not lucky, they're just normal. The expected outcome. The people who encounter the tail risks are unlucky.

Not too long ago, a part of a jet fell off over suburban Denver. I would be dismayed if someone -- engineers and investigators -- didn't obsess over this event. But if my brother wants to know if it's safe to get on an airplane, or live in suburban Denver, then my answer is not going to change.

I would also discourage anyone else from reading HN posts with obscure technical documents from Boeing and the FAA, and speculating about what it means for aviation in general. Or reading other peoples' posts on these topics, and sharing anecdotes about how "someone they knew" died in some ghastly aviation accident. And so on.

It is in our nature to exaggerate the importance of rare events. They are still rare.

> But the consequences of death are so much worse than the costs of wearing a mask, or not seeing your friends in person, or dealing with anxiety, that it's worth taking some precautions even if the chance that you'll die from COVID is low.

How did masks get swirled up into this? I swear...people will find any way to turn these things into a political debate. Can we agree that by this point, the debate about masks is fully baked, and no amount of discussion of Covid outcomes is going to change someone's mind?

You can find anecdotes on the internet to support literally any fear that you care to indulge. The point is, most of the time, these fears are not worth indulging, and what you read on the internet exaggerates the actual threat.
That's exactly how I read it. It's a huge red flag.
The video is flicker-y, but the audio is perfect.
It feels weird to me that this blog post would suggest acquiring Let's Encrypt certificates for certificate encryption. While it's great for something public facing that needs your CA installed by default, creating certificates for things that you probably don't want being public - like your database backend - just makes it more discoverable. For example, certificate transparency logs mean that anybody can see what certificates Let's Encrypt has handed over to you. Example: https://crt.sh/?q=ycombinator.com

Of course, this is a security through obscurity type of approach, and you'd want to secure your database whether or not somebody knew where it was running. But there's a difference between somebody seeing that you've just created `staging-psql.foo.com` that you might still be configuring, and the passive background noise of internet port scanning that's a little less targeted.
I will contribute a data point for Sublime and VSCode.

I use Sublime for scripts and small programs and use VSCode for larger programs/codebases.

I could use VSCode for everything so I guess they are technically interchangeable, but I prefer Sublime.
From the story:

> Peltz bought Ferro stock via others’ accounts, culminating with his last purchase at 9:37 am on March 15, 2016, according to the indictment.

> Around six or seven minutes after that final purchase, Bloomberg posted a scoop by Hammond and another Bloomberg reporter under the headline, “Ferro Said to Have Received Takeover Approach From Apollo,” a major private-equity firm.

A 6-7 minute gap implies coordination and foreknowledge of when the story would go out.
And that shows one of the main problems with JavaScript. People in my team have spent countless hours removing lodash dependencies from the codebase.
It's so fascinating. There is no tricking God in Judaism either, but in a completely different way. Since God is by definition all-knowing, you cannot trick him by using a loophole. Rather, He put the loophole there for His own inscrutable purposes and you are not more or less holy for using it. (Unless it's a loophole in a holy text, then you are clearly more holy since you managed to find the loopholes that He himself put in there for the faithful to find)
I.E. for long term archiving or legal compliance.
Ok, maybe the US tax system is very different from the Canadian tax system, but I've never heard of someone claiming depreciation on personal use of children's toys.
I'm "Asian." I don't see why it's disgusting or blatantly racist.
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My point isn’t that the token itself is globally verifiable but that the asset it refers to actually is ...
Definitely google some Tesla FSD beta videos and watch them. Waymo doubled down on a technology set and data methodology that is not scalable. Tesla is going to win in this space 100%
That's by design!

See: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-05/the-curio...
Boy, I didn't exactly mean to inspire quite this level of skepticism. There is like pretty solid evidence of some wards being awfully full of covid patients some of the time. You're one trip down one wing of a hospital and finding it empty doesn't change the fact that lots more people died in 2020 than the year before
Studying Bitcoin’s Historical Volatility
The Unique Pleasures of Letter-Writing in a Era of Impulsive Interaction
1. When you don't want your data on other people's computers, or need extensions or configuration that's impractical, or need control over your uptime
TL;DR:

We have two primary findings. First, our estimates show no effect of LEED certification on average energy consumption measured in kBTUs/ft2. Second, the absence ofan effect seems to be driven by trade-offs across LEED attributes. Buildings with higherenergy scores have greater energy efficiency post-certification. Some other attributes, no-tably higher water scores, decrease energy efficiency post-certification. These trade-offs across LEED attributes seems to account for the absence of energy savings on average.
I remember story about using program to open CD which pushed reset button of another computer. It was used as a watchdog to reboot it.
You need something that can distract you inseparably for at least a period of time on a somewhat regular basis. It doesn't have to be of the hobby sort, as long as what you are focusing on isn't in the same mode as what is burning you out - so in your case, not on computer. Even something as simple as working out a favourite tune on a kalimba, or paper planning the spring time garden is the kind of break your brain is crying out for.

Learning new things that you like, and aren't too complex or frustrating, that you can grow with, will force your brain to reset automagically. At least for a while. And sometimes that's exactly what you need to unwind and see the daily grind as less onerous.
List of remote work visas around the world
I'm gainfully unemployed and like Luke you can't make me go back!

I've job hopped looking for a place where people don't engage in the Kabuki but apparently all the worlds a stage. Maybe I'll make one of those lil ships in a bottle this year.
That doesn't make them Islamic, as a matter of fact, many scholars have spoken out against them.
My dad too! From EGHead in Seattle.

One morning we were going to brew it but it was whole grain and we didn't have a grinder.

My dad was a fool for believing a random cashier's word that it was instant coffee!
No but the point is, when you’re talking about physical artefacts you can in theory issue as many tokens as you like ... it’s still down to a central authority to certify.
> I think that really depends, I don't think you can compare 99.9% reliability power to 95% reliability power.

I question whether you can call any renewable 95% reliable. The capacity factor of solar in the US has averaged 25% and wind at about 35%:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#United_States

One can certainly argue a large enough grid can shuffle energy to and from across large areas to create 'aggregate reliability' of course.
> This flies in the fact of lots of evidence to the contrary

Your examples are not evidence of higher IQ. They are examples of human progress.

> 1) High-school students now understand mathematics that only advanced degrees would have understood in 1919.

Being the first to do something and following in their footsteps is two very different things.

Sure but that is just because it is better understood now. All this this means is that the idea / technique is better understood and understood by more people.

> 2) High-school musicians now regularly play pieces that were considered meant only for "virtuousos" in 1919.

Again this is just evidence that more people understand how to play the pieces.

Doing something novel and unique is much more difficult than understanding something that is already understood. That is why scientists sometimes say they are standing on the shoulders of giants

> The fact that IQ tests (whatever they measure) have shown an aggregate increase is also evidence against your hypothesis.

You are oversimplying the findings, I made the same mistake when I first heard of the flynn effect. What you are referring to is the Flynn effect. This is where the average IQ increases each generation. While there is an increase of ~3 points every decade, it is on the low end of the distribution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Rise_in_IQ

> Some studies have found the gains of the Flynn effect to be particularly concentrated at the lower end of the distribution. Teasdale and Owen (1989), for example, found the effect primarily reduced the number of low-end scores, resulting in an increased number of moderately high scores, with no increase in very high scores. In another study, two large samples of Spanish children were assessed with a 30-year gap. Comparison of the IQ distributions indicated that the mean IQ scores on the test had increased by 9.7 points (the Flynn effect), the gains were concentrated in the lower half of the distribution and negligible in the top half, and the gains gradually decreased as the IQ of the individuals increased. Some studies have found a reverse Flynn effect with declining scores for those with high IQ.

In other words the people with the lowest IQ scores are increasing more greatly and pushing the average up. The whole distribution itself is not moving with it though.

I dislike the whole idea though of IQ as a test of intelligence (which is a nebulous concept in itself). I've seen people with high IQs believe in very ridiculous things and engage in behaviour which most would consider to be stupid.

As someone that did 2 proper IQ tests back in the 90s because my school thought I mentally handicapped (I am dyspraxic so technically I am). The tests are good at identifying whether you are good at abstract reasoning. There are other forms of thinking that I am very bad at even though I am on the higher end of the IQ scale (I was graded at 142 at the time).
That is astoundingly stupid.
Everything in your story lines up with that article. It's probably worth a fair bit now if he can find it.
It would be wise to stop feeding the outrage machine for no other reason to create more outrage.
In Kangerlussuaq (Greenland), the price of booze goes way up after 6 pm.
I think if you’re responsible for eradicating polio, you can be as shitty as you like.
The Islamic perspective is different. If something is prohibited, then there is no trying to get around the prohibition by stitching together a series of individually permitted transactions, such that the end result is a transaction that mimics the original prohibited one. The prohibition is because the act itself is impermissible, and hence, we are not to try to get around it.
Similarly when Americans use the generic term “white people”
Actual source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03419-0
nice touch
I'd argue it's more a manifestation of "Asian" being an artificial construct that people don't use very often because it's typically meaningless.

What the hell is "Asian food?" You're either looking for "Indian food" or "Japanese food" or "Korean food." What is "Asian history?" Are you talking about Mughals in Bangladesh or Qing in China? It's all completely different.

People who are actually searching for these things use the specific term. I'm from Bangladesh. I don't look for an "Asian market." I look for a "Pakistani market" or "Halal market." I remember staring at a scantron in elementary school trying to figure out whether I should check the "Asian" box--which I ended up doing because the other categories made even less sense.

It's only in politics and porn where "Asian" is heavily used.
Suppose nuclear requires various government supports to make the projects economically viable and in research for new reactor designs. Now suppose we put that same money into subsidizing renewables, and building a modern grid. Which one gives a better result?

Edit: to add an even spicier question, why not keep renewables + natural gas with carbon capture?
they do, it just usually gets re-written to hell in about 30 very anxious email rounds
Sometimes the code monkeys actually code something.
We know how to store the waste now and we can keep doing the same for hundred years. Why would it become a problem later? Is people IQ going to drop? It is a pure straw man to ask about what happens with waste monitoring in thousand years from now.
> In my opinion, you should only borrow money to make a profit on it.

only monetary profit counts? i shouldn't borrow to buy something that makes my household more efficient, like a dishwasher?
You lucky young folk! In MY day the Apple IIe didn’t have CD, mouse or network! Pranks were pretty limited...
Very cool! It talks about using stunnel for https, but for ssl termination I could just as easily put caddy or haproxy in front of the standard (non-https) http althttpd right?
Amazon Exploited a Weakened America: Review of Alec MacGillis's Fulfillment
Statistically on any stock with a large trading volume there's pretty much always going to be someone who bought up right before a big announcement purely by chance, realized they got lucky and sold immediately afterwards.

It's not obvious to me how you'd separate this from intentional trading on insider information. (Unless you just investigate everyone).
I do it because of custom extensions we need. I don't think any cloud provider allow it.
WASM compilation in browser is both cool and unexpected. Seeing that the translation is quite direct, I do wonder how much optimization (either within the compiler or adding wasm-opt) will help and cost.
> Other places that don't have a relatively constant solar output and more variable seasons? No.

How big of a problem is this really, though? We could run more HVDC lines (as we already have in some places), such that sunny states provide power to northern states in the winter.
I recall the first internet search I ever did. It was for 'mathematical models'. The first result was the Jimmy Carter interview with Playboy. The rest were not appropriate for work.
A deaf person wouldn't be able to hear the kettle going through its phases.
>Compare that to something like redis. They at least used to listen for connections external by default and not even have a password to connect

Not anymore since version 3.2.0 [0]

>Unfortunately many users fail to protect Redis instances from being accessed from external networks. Many instances are simply left exposed on the internet with public IPs. For this reasons since version 3.2.0, when Redis is executed with the default configuration (binding all the interfaces) and without any password in order to access it, it enters a special mode called protected mode. In this mode Redis only replies to queries from the loopback interfaces, and reply to other clients connecting from other addresses with an error, explaining what is happening and how to configure Redis properly.

[0] https://redis.io/topics/security
Agreed. Also, Norman Borlaug (the Green Revolution which prevented, or at least postponed, the famine we'd have been living in for 40 years now, thus saving a billion lives) and Stanislav Petrov (who refused to raise the alarm in 01983 that would have started a global thermonuclear war, thus saving three billion lives).
Arno's Engram Key Layout
"Unfortunately, this sort of air-gapped setup is not something PostgreSQL supports out-of-the-box."

Not sure what they mean by "out of the box", but you can make the listen_addresses list empty:

"listen_addresses (string)
...If the list is empty, the server does not listen on any IP interface at all, in which case only Unix-domain sockets can be used to connect to it..."

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/runtime-config-connectio...
I give it less than 5 years before Google offloads or shutters Waymo entirely.
That's the feature that sold me on electric kettles!
In Sweden the monopoly shops have a really good assortment since they have no profit interest and can afford to provide shelf space for less popular beverages.
It is comforting to see this discussion continues the great HN tradition of having a lively and wide-ranging debate about a complex scientific article or paper without ever bothering to read the article and paper.

This is a rather complex paper, so I perused it for about five minutes. As such I consider my self a one eyed man among a hoard of shouting extremely opinionated blind people, so you should all listen to me carefully and follow me as your leader.

And now that I have your attention I shall carefully summarize the paper so none of you have to undergo the indignity of perusing it for five minutes.

1. Leeds is not solely for energy efficiency but also for solving other environmental problems such as water use.

2. In buildings where the energy efficiency was the main problem to be solved, the leeds overhaul was actually effective at improving energy efficiency.

3. In buildings where water use was the main problem to be solved, the leeds process was also successful in reducing water use, but actually increased energy use. This is because the water reduction process invariably included complex electrical systems with a lot of sensors and control circuitry that ate up extra power.

4. Considering points 2. and 3. above when you add all the buildings up as a whole, on average energy use did not decrease after a leeds overhaul and certification.

My thinking here is that this does not mean LEEDS is a failure. The study shows that there was improvement in every building that underwent the certification, it is just that for some buildings energy wasn't the highest priority. In many parts of the US water use is much more important than energy efficiency.

So I am sure for many parts in the US it is a very good trade off to increase energy use for lower water use. (This would certainly be true for the entire southwest, at least).

But there is still a lot of room for improvement. The water preservation systems can themselves be made more energy efficient. At first glance, these systems do not do something that requires a lot of energy -- all they do is communication, sensing and opening or closing small water valves.

Generally speaking there is a lot to be desired of analog circuit design. Now that we are surrounded by always on always connected electrical devices, this is something we as a nation should start paying attention to. There are a lot of always on circuits that use 10 or 100 times the power they should, just because someone wanted so save 50c on parts or they simply did not how to properly design the thing.
Which comment are you replying to? What you write here has nothing to do with the parent comment.
Interesting... how exactly does this work? Like Happy Hours? Or do shop owners also have to pay more to distributors?
Long distance transmission losses are pretty low. Most of energy losses happens in the "last mile" networks.
Currency (spot) markets are not typically public. They are usually OTC deals between 1 counterparty and a specific bank. Even on multi dealer platforms you don’t see the same prices other people trading on those platforms see.
It's nice... but cost-prohibitive for small nonprofit projects!
OK, so Germans are now free to call all American "Piters" Peter with two actual e's, and you will staunchly defend their claims that this is the correct pronunciation?

Or should we perhaps stick with the old rule that names are correctly pronounced as their owner wants them pronounced...?
> What would be the causal link between the printing press and slavery

Advertising, accountancy and international shipping, all enabled by Gutenbergs presses. Prior to that, slavery, which has been practised since ancient times, was a local phenomenon.
Nice diversion. The actual message is of course that said Facebook developer should either quit or lead a similar campaign in Facebook.
Geometric Unity: Author’s Working Draft, v1.0 [pdf]