skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a professional anthropologist or historian, but I do enjoy reading about it. You should be skeptical when authors/books make general claims about a large group of people. There are counterexamples, especially when writing about a long period of history, and books like these can often end up being Eurocentric.

Here are some good Reddit threads from r/AskHistorians and r/AskAnthropology, where professionals often visit, describing the flaws in Sapiens. The comments have specific examples, if you follow the links.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/igfkv5/is_sa...

> Beyond that, Harari seems generally unconcerned with differentiating the experience of Western Europe from the experience of "us"- the species. This is why I can't really recommend the book, because this so thoroughly undermines his apparent goal. The very name of the book tells us that it will be a history of all of us and how we became so dominant in the world. And yet, so much of the book focuses on things that only a portion of H. sapiens ever developed, but talks about them as if they were natural developments for our species as a whole.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/i7v3ab/wha...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/71mayz/tho...
It is a named set of a peer SV companies. So probably FAANG, but they don't give specifics.
It’s not narcissism, it’s survival. I don’t like it either, but agree that this is how most larger companies function.
I did a CTRL + F for “docker” and “container” and surprisingly didn’t see any hits in the first page of comments.

I’ve found it’s a lot easier to just make a single docker image of my favorite OS, load it with my dotfiles, vim plugins, etc. and then pull it down wherever I am.

Of course, this means you need Docker running on the machine. I’ve hit a couple of snags with credentials and key files, but I just end up mounting them as a volume or environment variable.

I followed this guide I found on HN, and it’s worked incredibly well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26669474
> Is this a real issue?

In a sense? It's an issue that there are a number of solutions for, from card sleeves to just being super careful. Having this possibility available would probably hurt the industry around protecting cards.

> This just shifts the burden to authenticity of the NFT. How does that help?

Proving authenticity of the NFT is easier than proving authenticity of the card? The latter involves intimate knowledge of the properties of the card, and the former just involves looking at the NFT and seeing whether the first owner/issuer was the publisher.
You mean DTC DNA tests are illegal. DNA sequencing of humans is not. https://www.fiercebiotech.com/it/france-plans-745m-investmen... and I didn't have to look hard to find papers published by French authors in French journals that show they are sequencing humans in France.
I think years ago things were much different, also even today that might still be true.

Among interpreted languages python is/was one of the faster ones.

NodeJS has similar speed, and in some cases is faster. I don't know any other interpreted language though.

People are also complaining about GIL, but ironically NodeJS is single threaded.
Trump never actually accomplished anything unless you count ugly casinos that go bankrupt and a golf resort. There is nothing redeeming there to outweigh the bad stuff. There's just bad stuff.
> The campaign was certainly surveilled. Have you seen any indication it was unwarranted?

If it was any other campaign and there was sigint that a foreign power was trying to influence the campaign then they would have reached out to the candidate to alert him as such. But the intention here was not to prevent foreign tampering. It was to use the FISA process as an excuse to surveil the campaign wholesale.
Being hit by ransomware is not an indicator of total IT incompetence.
Having no good options but to pay the ransom absolutely is.

Part of paying the ransom is the promise that the ransomer will not just unlock your system, but will also delete all the data they downloaded (which often includes a pile of PII that the ransomee doesn't want published).
I wouldn’t even pin it on IT. I’d be willing to bet there’s some poor IT person, or perhaps a lot of them, cleaning up this mess who have been begging management to beef up info sec for a long time.
I don't know where you keep getting this idea that I think a heat recovery turbine is simpler than a generator. All I said was that if you think a heat recovery turbine is too complex to be feasible, then you'll also think an electric motor is too complex to be feasible. Because neither are too complex to be feasible.

And no, it is not complex at all. The turbine part stays the same as your garden variety turbocharger. Instead of directly attaching a compressor (which makes it a turbocharger), you directly attach a generator (which makes it a turbine-driven generator). In fact, you could even do both: power an intake air compressor as well as a generator. Literally anybody could build one in their back yard using parts ripped out of random cars at a junkyard.

Without capturing any waste heat at all, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells are ~60% efficient. With a waste heat recovery turbine, you increase the efficiency. 75% efficiency is already feasible.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062...

Yes, this solution is more complex than a normal fuel cell...in exactly the same way that a turbocharged engine is more complex than a naturally aspirated engine. That is to say not only is it entirely feasible, but it is a well developed easily adaptible solution that has been used for increasing efficiency for over a century now. Learn how to google...there are literally hundreds of papers detailing efficiency gains from using turbochargers on fuel cells. Hell, most turbocharger manufacturers are already making custom hybrid turbocharger/generator packages specifically designed for fuel cell use.

https://www.garrettmotion.com/electric-hybrid/twostage-elect...
https://www.mtu-solutions.com/eu/en/stories/technology/turbo...
https://cdn.borgwarner.com/docs/default-source/default-docum...

You thought it was infeasible because you were imagining a big ass steam engine, and when it was pointed out that turbochargers are an entirely commonplace form of heat recovery turbine, you backpeddled and tried to redefine words (b-b-b-but that's a Turbo Compounder!!!) to weasel your way out of it. Give it up. You're embarrassing yourself.
Actually the publisher wouldn't even need to have a db full of keys or maintain a catalog of valid NFTs. Authenticity could be proven by just seeing whether the initial owner/issuer of the NFT is the publisher
1) This is false, you should read the Hamas and Islamic Jihad charter, and their official statements. It's liberate from the river to the sea and slaughter the Jews.

2) It matters because even if you believe the occupation is wrong you need to understand the reason for it, the hostilities didn't not start in 47 and not in 67. Hell the PLO was founded in 64 to liberate Palestine by force.

3) It's the same situation, it's just it was hundreds of years ago going back to the 16th century. By that logic lets wait 100-200 years and then there will a statute of limitation? The only reason this is a thing is because news media, tv and radio which distort reality into small chunks to be feed to the masses. If this was Muslims conquering other Muslims that's fine but when it's Jews? Oy vey that won't do.
You have to understand that it's not the settlements in the west bank, they consider every Jew a settler and want them to go back to Europe or Russia. What about the 850K Jews who were expelled from Arab countries?

Ideally? Palestinians stop all hostilities. Denounce violence. Disarm. Recognize Israel right to exists. Israel stop building more settlements. Israel sees that they hold on to their word, ease road blocks, ease the blockade. Help them have a sea port and airport (which Israel already agreed to do but was declined), connect the gaza and west bank somehow. Both sides agree on borders with land and population exchange, Israel retains security controls, Israel and the Palestinians reduce friction to a minimum but there is a joined council with daily meeting with cooperation on security, economics, health and holy sites.

A non ideal solution is that neither side agrees to anything, all the settlers go back to Israel and the west bank and gaza become a nature reserve because no one can play nicely.
This kind of laws can turn out to be useful if they prompt google to make recommendation algorithm customizable in order to say "we are not recommending anything, users are choosing for themselves".
The top 1% - minus the top 0.01% - are paying 35% of all income taxes. The top 0.01% themselves are paying another 5%. The bottom 99% are paying the remaining 60%.
There's one thing that would probably prevent humans from living on Mars that we can really never change: the gravity is wrong. There is no evidence that human gestation and growth is possible in a net g field less than 9.7 or larger than 9.9. For all we know, no outside-Earth colony is possible without artificial gravity or extensive genetic engineering. No foreseeable human contrivance stands a chance of changing the mass of Mars — and even if we could, it's orbit would be knocked wildly off course and possibly destroy the balance in the inner solar system. Even Venus is ruled out by gravity.

So these terraforming plans might allow us to visit Mars, but not to live there, at least not in the foreseeable future.
Stock market investors don’t care, because they’re in it for the long term. It’s the stock market gamblers who bitch and moan, even though they’re the ones who actually cause these fluctuations by reacting to superficial, fleeting news stories which have no bearing on the underlying asset.
It seems fairly expensive for what you get?
"There are shared values — openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice. Those qualities are what make us the first postnational state."

~Justin Trudeau [1]

Mr. Trudeau sure likes having it both ways, fancying himself a postnational while influencing people in Canada to watch more Canadian media. He has also been the driving force between keeping the US/Canada border closed during the pandemic for better or for worse, making his trade policy effectively more nationalistic than Trumps in practice. He's a postnationalist in name only and in reality he's a proud anti-nativist nationalist. His Liberal party also has connections to the "Century Initative" [2] which imagines a Canada population 100 million by 2100. This population will presumably be safely protected from the foreign pandemic and watching wholesome Canadian Content.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/magazine/trudeaus-canada-...

[2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Initiative
Success requires luck. Why don’t we spread it around?
UK HS2 tunneling machine [video]
Bad for consumers. Great for major Canadian labels. It does little for indie music. When Bieber, Drake start being played every hour I'm not sure anyone really wins.

When it first came out it helped expose some new music. What it became was another tool to feed the machine.
> What if a legit chemistry paper was tampered with such that the procedure creates and explosively releases a nerve agent and a cheap grad student that didn’t pay for the legal copy unknowingly follows it?

That grad student is visited by representatives from the military-industrial complex and is quickly drafted to doing that again. Imagine creating nerve agents by accident, what a breakthrough!
Have you ever worked at a startup before?
you realize "2K" is just 1080p, right? it's hard to find a lower resolution than 1080p in 2021 unless you go digging deep in the bargain bin. to my eyes, 1080p is more than enough for a 13" display, but possibly insufficient for 15"+. ymmv, of course.

> There are people in every laptop thread pushing the narrative that anyone who prefers a higher resolution screen is delusional or lying. It's really strange.

people get frustrated when they can't find a SKU with their preferred feature set. 4K is not without its drawbacks (dramatically increased power consumption and lackluster hidpi support in some software). imo, 1440p is a much more reasonable upgrade for most laptop sizes, but it seems that most models only offer 1080p and 4K SKUs. sometimes you can't get the high end parts without also getting a 4K panel.
1993?

but honestly, we've ALWAYS had these issues, you should've been there when we had to support IE on Mac
> So how do you distinguish between faux "experts" and actual experts?

It's not always easy, but in the case of COVID there were a lot of obvious shysters who were slavishly worshipped by the mob.

Opening your eyes and thinking for yourself, and not being desperately and pathetically subservient to "authority" or to mob mentality is a good start.

> Do you believe that people who write (long form articles, books) about a subject have nothing useful to say?

I do not.
I see the argument as convicting for the same reason the person above is being dismissive: do people care?

If Facebook, Adobe, Twitter, and Discord care about hosting their apps on PSN, then there can be a case that this is a general purpose usage that should be allowed. In reality, I imagine they don't and even if Sony/Microsoft were forced to open up that their competing stores would be as thriving as those Custom Firmware homebrew stores.

Point #2: ephemerality. There's a 99.999% chance that the PS5 and XSX will be succeeded in a decade by the PS6 and the Xbox Whatever. Would Adobe want to spend all that development time releasing photoshop for PS5, only to need to re-develop it for PS6 6 years later? For what is likely to be an entierly new OS?

in contrast, there's good odds that an app made in 2010 would still work just fine today, barring some outdated Api calls that Google/Apple made great strides to ease the migration on. So that security on not needing to change OS's every generation would incentivize development.
That's the thing, the edge cases are a long tail of accessibility challenges, and most of today's developers are OK with just telling that 1% or 5% tail to pound sand.

Me personally, I want my sites to be accessible from libraries, that old device in the closet you're attached to, survival centers and shelters, old kiosks stuck in the corner of a community space somewhere, and all other kinds of scenarios I haven't even imagined, but I don't want to leave those users out in the cold.
> and then sold at a huge profit

No they didn't, according to the announcment:

>> Tesla will not be selling any Bitcoin and we intend to use it for transactions as soon as mining transitions to more sustainable energy.
Note: I just tried the demo [0], and no obvious prompt showed up, instead it was a tiny window [1] on the bottom right of my screen, which only showed up for a couple seconds and is easy to miss.

[0]: https://schemeflood.com/

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/YqbbfPt
This is being far too kind to Safari. They were the ones who unilaterally decided that 7 days is sufficient time to clear out localStorage and IndexedDB.

Additionally, found this recent post going into why Safari is hot garbage. https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/

While the File System Access API is still being developed, I'm not holding my breath for it to appear on iOS. To be fair, it isn't supported yet on mobile Chrome (for Android obviously), but I expect it will be added quickly after the v1 of the API is finalized. I expect it will either never appear on iOS or it will take 5+ years from now...
In 20 years Edward Snowden Jr will reveal to us that it was the Department Of Energy the whole time...
Unfortunately these types of breaches don't net the culprits nearly as expeditiously as we'd all like. Given that they're likely based in a country that could care less or may be adversarial to the US this may even be lauded.

In the grand scheme of things it's very low likelihood we'll see any level of prosecution for this incident in the next year or two, if ever. And even then it will likely only result in attribution in a random report a year from now with no actual consequences for the attackers.

The final thing is the amount of money isn't extraordinary. As others have said it's mostly a rounding error in annual revenue that passes books of a company like this.
Solid OS
Who is "we"? Did you actually read what I wrote before replying?
What are you going to do with private signing keys? Compromise an iPhone? Unlock an iPhone?

Like how the FBI paid $900,000 to do so and get exactly what they wanted (at least with respect to the phone) in the San Bernardino case which you are referencing? Or how the going price for a iOS zero-click remote code execution with persistence, which basically gives you the ability to arbitrarily compromise any iPhone at any time, on Zerodium is $2M? You can get effectively the same outcome as stealing their signing keys for $2M or less in a way that is far less traceable or detectable. There are so many ways in and to get what you want that the fact that one of them, which is not even clearly the best or easiest way, being untouched is not exactly a cause for celebration or indicative of the quality of that defense. The cash register being untouched because the safe door was wide open is not exactly a very compelling security story. So, no, they do not reach the $10M level. Not even close.
At least reader mode works.
I'd imagine the HN crowd cares less than executives at large organisations and government departments. There's a requirements for industries and businesses to either own their own data or keep that data onshored in their jurisdictions.
Investigate the Origins of Covid-19
> You're saying that having the language enforce memory safety isn't worthwhile.

I am saying that it may come at a cost, and overall it may not be worthwhile; but, of course, there are different kinds of safety bugs, different kinds of soundness, different costs, and different alternatives.

> But the evidence suggests that practical language-enforced memory safety is actually worthwhile, despite the fact that no theoretical absolute memory safety is possible

What is it that the evidence suggests exactly? There are so many variables. For example, Zig's runtime checking could be much more effective than similar systems for C or C++, because it is much easier to track all pointers in Zig, just as its overflow protection is far more effective than sanitisers in C, because there's no pointer arithmetic (unless using unsafe operations) and all buffer sizes are always known. So you can't compare what Zig can do to what C can do. Then there's the question of what the safety mechanism is. Then, for each point in this coordinate space, what is the fitness you're looking at? Reducing a particular bug or improved overall correctness?

> What is reasonably describable as consensus nowadays is that having the language enforce memory safety is worthwhile.

No, this is not true, or at least, that depends on what is the fitness function and what exactly it is compared against. To put it bluntly, there is absolutely no consensus that Rust would more cheaply produce programs that are more correct overall than Zig. It's possible this is the case, as is the opposite or that the two are about the same, but we just don't know yet.

> To get concrete, I see no reason to believe that quarantine (Zig's current solution to UAF) is a meaningful solution to use-after-free problems, given that quarantine has been deployed for a long time in production allocators in other languages and has failed to eliminate this bug class in the wild.

But that's not how we look at correctness. The goal isn't to eliminate all UAF bugs. Of course completely (or close to it) eliminating a specific bug is more effective at reducing it than not completely eliminating it. If my only goal was to eliminate UAF, then I'd choose Rust's approach over Zig's. But usually our goal is to write a program that meets our correctness level for all bugs combined in the cheapest way possible. Investing a huge language complexity budget in completely eliminating UAF, as opposed to, say, reducing it by 99%, has not been shown to be the best way to achieve what we actually want.

I am not saying that it's not reasonable to believe that soundly eliminating this particular bug with something like Rust's ownership and lifetime system ends up being better overall, but it is equally reasonable, based on what we know, to believe that Zig's way is more effective overall, or that the two end up the same. There's just so much we don't know about correctness.
I still do it today, and proudly support IE3+, Nescape 2+, Opera 3+, Links, Lynx, Dillo, w3m, NetSurf, and many others.
"Climbing a peak may offer fresh air and a view, but just getting to the top is rarely the goal for climbers these days."

These days? Was there a time climbing was the only possible way to the top? They picked a bad example, I think, the whole point of rock climbing is the climb, lol. Regardless, I didn't see an explanation of why it's a paradox. There's nothing contradicting here, many things are about the journey, not the destination.
If the Canadian government wants to support Canadian artists, just pay them. Don't force other people to pay.
I'm still not sure why there is a need to set a quota for content. Or for the state to subsidize it.

Entertainment is a hugely profitable business. Disney and Marvel for instance made billions of dollars of profits year after year for almost a decade. They did it by making content that people want to watch.

Why not simply... make content that people want to watch?
Yep, same experience on FF. Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/YqbbfPt
I don't think there's any 4D chess. With most of his stuff, he's just selling a story.

Lately, that story (and the products to match) have pivoted from eco-luxury (Roadster, Model S/3/Y) to a story targeting the well-off eco-prepper crowd.

Switch out the underlying technologies and the customer demographics and it would would be offroad pickups instead of Cybertrucks, propane generators instead of Powerwalls, suitcases of unmarked bills instead of crypto, flamethrowers instead of guns (ok, I'm stretching the analogy, but you get it).

And just like with the lower tech equivalents, the likelihood/frequency that most of his customers will use the products to anywhere near their full potential is close to zero, because most still live well within the safety margins of civilization.

And whether he actually believes in any of the story himself is sort of besides the point, because there are enough people that fit the above description who will eat up his products and the story that comes with them.

This is not to diminish how much he's done to accelerate EV adoption. He realized that most people aren't really onboard with using EVs for the sake of the environment, and that you have to target people's selfish needs to move a product, not their prosocial feelings. Remember that Nissan Leaf was the first mass market practical EV, before the Model S, but for a whole lot of people it didn't do much for their mojo.
As 'drops says, your versions is correct if you drop the comma. You can move parts of a sentence around from the "normal" order with commas:

Normal: Hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons by eating them.
Move with comma: By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons.

Normal: I think it will rain later.
Move with comma: It will rain later, I think.