skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beer is pretty easy to make if you're in an early agrarian state with a modest surplus of cereals, not up to the standards of modern-day breweries, but good enough by a fair margin. IIRC if you were a temple worker in the ancient state of Uruk, your pay would have included a bowl of beer a day. Such arrangements weren't rare.

Historically, people have drunk surprising amounts of alcohol – we may not have been as collectively sober as today for millennia (depending on the exact location, to be sure); beer and wine have the big advantage that they're reasonably safe to drink even if the primary source of water isn't (due to the fermentation process and the alcohol content), and that it's easier to tell when they aren't (because if fermentation doesn't work right, you definitely notice). In some of the more remote areas in the alps, even children still drank lots of diluted wine as late as the 1950s, for precisely that reason. That sort of thing was the rule, not the exception, for Europe pre-industrialization.

Evolutionary pressure on humans also doesn't usually involve everyone with allele X dropping dead right away, because people are pretty creative at avoiding that outcome, and it's often (probably, likely) not about small-ish effects under good, stable conditions, but outsize ones in exceptional circumstances.

There have been bad years and very bad years all the time; even as late as the 19th century, agrarian societies were pretty much helpless if harvests failed on a large scale (think Irish Potato Famine), and that's after 6000-ish years of working on that existential problem. When bad years become bad decades, and lots and lots of people die, that's when things like alcohol tolerance and lactose tolerance can make a big difference.

Being able to tolerate alcohol may mean access to a cleaner source of fluid, less pathogens for weakened immune systems to deal with, and access to nutrients that store pretty well. There may have been a social component as well – getting drunk together has been an extremely important vehicle for networking and bonding for literal ages. Finally, being able to get drunk relatively safely may have kept people functioning through highly traumatic experiences as well. Not saying that's what happened for sure, but a few ways this could have played a decisive role.
A woman's woman perhaps?

Servants and maids where much more common in the past than now, especially among the middle class. Also it was more common to have several generations living under the same roof, so 1-2 people would often be preparing meals for 6-12 people. Today it is much more likely that you have 1-2 people preparing food for 1-4 people.

I strongly suspect that the proportion of people eating a meal they cooked themselves is almost certainly higher now than at virtually any point in history.
I've said this elsewhere here but I think that 1) it's likely been written by an engineer, not a patent lawyer, and 2) it's possible that one reason for the large initial exposition is not to claim new invention but to establish prior art - to protect the engineer against patent trolls
Nope. I was specifically warned that I would suffer diarrhea if I drank too much milk. I don't, of course, but they do.
The PDF doesn't have embedded fonts. Try this: https://files.catbox.moe/px77ns.pdf
They're surprisingly lax with verification, even on ccTLDs with requires actual verification of details they just rubber-stamp what you've said is your contact details.
Funny, I was just talking about dairy in Asia in the thread about alcohol flush. At least in Taiwan, cheese is super popular. Wine and cheese charcuterie, cheese on dan bing, cheese tea even (albeit creme cheese). It's probably a generational thing though. Many young people here study abroad and are very international in their tastes.
To me it read more like they were just acknowledging that a result that fit too neatly into their modern view of the world could be shaped by their own unconscious bias.

In general, I think it's safe to assume that social scientists speaking in a scientific context just literally mean "neo-liberal" when they say it, rather than any politically charged meaning.
I don't understand the complaint here. The author writes music. He made this analysis out of curiosity and because he loves music. Isn't this perfect HN content?
This article claims that Markdown has no standard, but this has to at some extent been rectified, right (e.g. CommonMark)?
Essential Things for Homes and Commercial Buildings
Fire alarm installations in North London are mandatory and regulatory bodies also have made it compulsory for all types of buildings. It can actually play a part in saving lives because it notifies the residents and people in the offices regarding the smoke and fire situations so they can escape the place on the earliest basis.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712771
Salary is not about providing a certain level of quality of life for an employee. It is about the value the employee can create for the company. There part of the value can be due to the synergies of being physically close. In the mid term the salary will be dependent on what the employee brings to the table and not how expensive his lifestyle is (at least in companies that will do well in the long term)
But this seems to be a bit contradictory. Both facebook and you claim that prophet is a package to easily do better than other simple approaches, thus providing at least a good baseline for applied data people.

By contrast, the article suggests that prophet does badly in many common forecasting situations. So while prophet may do fine with piecewise linear seasonal data, it apparently is far from a good default.

There’s an inconsistency in the message here. Is prophet a tool for a very specific type of time series? Or, as the marketing claims go, is it a general easy to use default?

Much like facebook, you made both claims successively, which is I think the point of the article.
disclaimer: I have totally no experience in data-ish stuff.

>"data engineering, is a software engineering approach to designing and developing information systems."

this description is so broad, that every SE would be data engineer now?

for me git is just text comparison, management + some kind of visualisation tool (so it kinda sounds like data X stuff, doesn't it? I'll back to it below)

meanwhile data X jobs seems to be more focused on:

understanding business domain

using e.g statistical methods

working with huge data collections with various tools like hadoop, spark and fancy keywords like data lake, warehouse

>Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data,[1][2] and apply knowledge and actionable insights from data across a broad range of application domains. Data science is related to data mining, machine learning and big data.

>Data science is a "concept to unify statistics, data analysis, informatics, and their related methods" in order to "understand and analyze actual phenomena" with data. It uses techniques and theories drawn from many fields within the context of mathematics, statistics, computer science, information science, and domain knowledge.

I feel like git doesn't fits this description, I'd say it's more like handy tool that handles snapshoots of some text

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or maybe I'm misunderstanding relation between "data engineer" and "data science"?
In the UK they haven’t been completely phased out, but I haven’t seen a cheque or a cheque book in the last 22 years. In 2019 only 51k paper cheques where used.

That is to say, other countries have already done it.

1. https://newseventsinsights.wearepay.uk/media/e1mdcljg/pay-uk...
Problem comes from BigCo approach to people. Such corporations would like to have a QA team that should be utilized to a 100%.

So that if they don't have much work on project X you just drop them into project Y.

In reality we all know that is just not possible, because people have to have domain knowledge and keep up with changes. It is not like if you come back to project after 2 months you will be proficient with it as the world changed.

This way if project X has slow times, dedicated QA will have less to do and BigCo has to eat that "loss".

In small startup it is easier to have QA incorporated into dev/product team because as software is constantly changed there is work to be done all the time.
> I can only assume he has changed stances

I don't see how that is different stance. You can oppose Chinese government and still allow them to buy ads in moderation to get their message trough.

They are not in every front confrontation against Chinese government and neither is their readership or their government.
On the other hand, it makes no sense to pretend that ancient commerce was something totally different from modern commerce. People who were just like us took part in that, they had to fight the same problems of greed, fraud, uncertainty, force de majeure, safety of roads... the very word "market" is pretty old, probably one of the oldest in organized civilization. Markets were the killer feature of all ancient cities, at least from the citizen's point of view.
Check is still the cheapest way to move the money between bank accounts. It's basically free, besides the costs of the check itself.
pedantically, the cast itself is not UB. Dereferencing a pointer which isn't compatible with the dynamic type of the underlying data would be UB, but in this case the actual data is coming from outside the process (the OS usually), and wasn't even necessarily written in C++, so talking about the type of the underlying data is really not well defined (this is similar to reinterpret casting the data coming from read() to whatever is the structure representing the layout of the data).

Accessing the data using two different types would be problematic, except that if the other type is char, it is still fine as char is allowed to alias anything.

so tldr; as the programmer you can posit that the underlying data is indeed char8_t and the reinterpret cast is valid. You can also read it as char and would still be safe.
Lots of scams want your bank details. Unlike with SMS 2FA where the phone company never offered their service as a magic universal authenticator, the scammers want your bank account because it's a bank account. To the extent such scams work, we should be pretty unequivocal that it is your bank's fault. Banks are always reluctant to put their hands in their pockets when it comes to meaningful security. Whereas merchants and customers must upgrade to satisfy PCI DSS rules the banks gave themselves an unlimited free pass to just do whatever they wanted under PCI DSS because hey, those upgrades look expensive, we'd rather not bother.

My good bank actually has security. I'm fairly confident that I couldn't sleepwalk into giving bad guys access to the funds in that account by whatever means. I have a physical authenticator device to get into their online banking site, for example, so your scam would need to persuade me that I need to go get the authenticator and use that to sign in, all more chances for me to realise it's a scam.

But I have two other bank accounts, which both still think passwords are a pretty good level of security in 2021. One of them even lets me sign in using a numeric PIN, presumably they feel they've done enough to protect against brute force and so this is fine.
He is based in the UK and his site almost exclusivly covers UK networks with a UK user base reading the posts - so the "typical" speeds would be for the UK.
All this is further confused by the deceptive marketing from carriers. Frequently calling HSPA+ 4G and now AT&T’s 5Ge branding makes for some very frustrating conversations with folks unfamiliar. “Oh, it looks like I got 5G with a software update!”
Well, first of all, ouch. Sure, of course you're right about "product of any significance" and I mentioned one myself in my post - Windows. The more complex the project/team is, the fewer people will be productive in 24-48 hours. So yes you can arbitrarily set the bar as high as you like for what "significant" means for you to be correct.
Embox v0.5.3 Released
God, i need to lose weight
> My comment clearly explains the distinctions

I first wrote: "Earlier investors are payed[paid] with funds from more recent investors.". Those are the economics of a ponzi scheme. In you previous post you just reiterated that point using different words. Go back and quote where you showed that that claim isn't true for bitcoin.

> One more time but even simpler: Bitcoin's structure is not designed with willful deception in mind. There is risk and some organizations working in the ecosystem are indeed fraudulent but the BTC blockchain itself is not. That alone makes it very different from a ponzi scheme.

This has no relation to anything I wrote.

> Secondly: Earlier investors investments may grow or shrink in value depending on a number of factors.

What are those factors for bitcoin?

> They're not dependent on new investors by default, and no transfer is taking place. Previous investors hold their same bitcoin and new investors hold their own, with their respective returns depending on market price of their assets subsequent to purchase, not literal transfers of cash/assets from new investors to previous ones to maintain a fraudulent picture of high returns. This latter process is how a ponzi scheme works, and The difference between these two things is obvious.

From where do the new investors get their bitcoins if not from earlier investors and how do they get them if there is no transfer of cash/assets?

> By your absurd definition of bitcoin as a ponzi scheme

Never did that.

> much of the stock market and especially many high performing stocks with market caps way in excess of their book value could also be called ponzi schemes.

Yes, some stock at some point in time can have a similar behavior to a ponzi scheme. That doesn't make them a pozni scheme.
There's a big difference between Americans and me: I can read in English, watch TV news in English, listen to podcasts from USA.

Population of the Western world is limited to the distorted view that is presented through the prism of their media (which is considered "unprecedentedly honest", hahaha). In the best case what USA citizen may say is: "My neighbour emigrated from USSR and he says that party bosses ate toddlers!"

When I meet westerners face-to-face I'd say that they have all the usual stereotypes. E.g. first thing they'll say to you is "Na zdorovie!" (95% of persons met by me) and will ask you something like "Would you like to drink vodka today?". And it's better not even start talking about politics, although sometimes such conversations are really funny.
I just played around with VYM a bit (after looking at this list [0]), seems to work ok when you know the shortcuts, I might use that in the future.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concept-_and_mind-mapp...
Where do you get inspiration for your experiments and side-projects or even side hustles?

From my every day life. If I see a problem, or an interesting bit of tech, or if I see something someone else has made that I'd like to recreate, or someone mentions something they'd like a tool that does X then I write it down. Often it'll tick over in the back of my head for a while and I'll keep coming back to it. If it remains interesting I'll have a go at building something.

For a very long time I didn't write the ideas down and then I forgot them. I think this is common. Everyone has a ton of creative ideas all the time, but they don't make enough impact to be memorable. That means people think they struggle to come up with ideas. Really they don't, they just have ideas that they quickly forget. Making notes is key.
You are cherry picking:

"The ‘434 patent refers to the aggregate of the dynamically reconfigurable computational and storage elements as a “media processing unit.”

They are broadly talking about loading things in RAM. If there is a more specific purpose, its not mentioned here.

I.e. there is no special purpose chip here which happens to be embedded in some other special purpose device, it honestly sounds like some engineer wrote a driver that could live in RAM and they tried to patent that.

It then specifically goes on talk about it being a thing at runtime, not some pre-soldered state, i.e. software, so yes, malloc.

Utterly ridiculous.
Gap closed all the Banana Republic stores in the UK in 2016.
That's a fair point. In the life of my startup so far, we haven't been blessed with the room to allow us to hire people that we don't think will be productive for a month. For an established company though, I agree it's a totally reasonable measuring stick for good hires.
A poor decision that they continued to make with servo.
While you lose access to some apps if you switch to many unofficial ROMs not based on stock firmware, which is problematic as it's almost always unnecessary unless a device is rooted or obviously compromised, this is far from the only use for unlockable bootloaders. Flashing updates more rapidly, region changes, bloatware removal, and other use cases are still possible with unlocked bootloaders while preserving safety certifications.
Interestingly the underground Chinese church uses a method called tin kay for teaching worship piano. For instance all major chords are represented as 047

And if a beginner counts their piano keys, just with those three numbers, they can now play all major chords. Add 037 and they can now play all minor chords

This vastly beats memorizing each key combo for each scale

This method came from asking God for a revelation on how to teach piano, and they attribute it to Him
Adding fonts is indeed a chore. Fortunately Peter Schaffter (mom macro set author) wrote a script[0] to automate this. Details are available on his website[1].

[0] https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/bin/install-font.sh

[1] https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/appendices.html#install-...
My dream is not paying 100-200 EUR for clothing which cost 1-10 EUR to produce. Don't care about your lifestyle, philosophy, trends, influencers, brand and logo. I want it vulgar - cash for good quality clothes.
This baffles me. I have never seen anyone use a cheque in my entire life. Here you can just issue a SEPA payment, free for private individuals and for business accounts.
Unfortunately, that study is designed to fail.

It's recruiting patients up to 14 days after first symptoms. There's no viral replication by that time. The highest viral load is 2-3 days after first symptoms.

Also they are only using Ivermectin for 3 days, when the recommended protocol is for 5 days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4gkLn-z4II&t=4509s
Some free apps don't mind being niche, for others having lots of users is more important.

There are benefits to both.

API churn seems to kill both, but if you can support your app properly having lots of users will certainly alert you to issues more quickly.
> 1)

Tommy Hilfiger and Guess are doing the same and it's obnoxious.
FYI, I have released a Technical Preview here (1).

The demo application is currently only in DataFlex, but I will add other programming languages for the demo later on.

1) https://antwise.com/Edge-WebView2-ActiveX.htm
Stupid question: Why would Intuit sabotage the CTC? What do they get out of all that effort?

I can understand the massive profit interest in blocking simplifications to the tax system: if people have an easier time filing their taxes, they might not need to pay Turbotax for the privilege. But what's the profit interest in blocking the IRS from sending poor-people-who-dont-file-taxes-anyway free money?
This is absolutely true. My "SSG" is basically just pandoc paired with a script to update the index on the main page and add the new post to the RSS feed.
It didn't really become fast until 10.2 and even then you needed a GPU that supported Quartz Extreme to get that. My G3 Imac never ran it well because of that. I had to disable basically every graphical effect to get anything remotely resembling speed. Mac OS 9 on the same machine even with an eighth the RAM (64MB) was way way more responsive. Unfortunately even by the time I got that machine in 2005, the OS 9 browser situation was a problem for a lot of sites.
The stock market speaks: How Dr. Alchian learned to build the bomb (2014)
Yes, black holes shrink because of Hawking radiation, but in reality this doesn't really happen because black holes are much colder than their surrounding space. Actually they are the coldest objects in nature. Stellar black holes have a temperature of a few Nanokelvins and the average temperature of space is 2.7 K so there's a net gain of energy/mass from absorbed photons from CMB radiation vs emitted photons via Hawking radiation.
In order to have a higher temperature than the CMB a black hole would have to be really small with a mass about half of that of the moon.
It’s now illegal in Norway to not label retouched photos on social media
gnome-help-browser had an ability to render all of the documentation formats well.

It is superseded by yelp, which is much better at DocBook and custom-XML-documentation-built-for-GNOME schema (edit: Mallard), but you can still do "yelp man:ls" or "yelp info:find" to get man pages or GNU texinfo pages rendered directly with it.

Documentation is catalogued by ScrollKeeper.

Indexing is the missing bit, I guess, and a more of a "directory view" into all available documentation.

I think it is more realistic to accept the nature of different tools and see what we can do to make it more manageable for consumption (browsing, reading, searching and discovery). But it's such a non-glorious problem that nobody will bother with it.
You are not Spotify: how efficient teams are born
Company from the article is not claiming that but all the business people are talking about it.

They would like that "test-automation" would mean instead of 2 QA engineers now you need 1 doing 2x more.

Sad reality is that with "test-automation" you actually still need those 2 QA engineers and maybe part time dev to help them out. The upside would be that those QA people would spend less time repeating clicks and improve quality of checks.
I have a different approach for create a similar outcome: everyone rotates projects on a periodic basis. The period of change is longer than a sprint duration so as to give people time to acclimate to the new-to-them project.

[0] https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2021/06/periodic-rotation...
Bad Apple Carved into Apples [リンゴの魔術師/Ringonomajyutsu]
Most new jeans, jackets, sweaters, chinos, trouses, etc below 50-60 EUR per item look and wear like rags.
I'm amazed - to the point of skepticism - that with such minute forces they can extrapolate so much information and prove theories.

I mean I'm no astrophysicist, I like the "pop sci" bits, but when I look closer I'm seeing a lot of small numbers and statistics that imply something - e.g. exoplanets based on minute wobbles and brightness variations, water on said exoplanets based on spectrography. It's theories based on tiny but statistically significant data.

The pop sci then comes in and makes statements like "second Earth found!11", which is like, whoa hold on, when you look closer all they found is a wobble or dimness variation that kind of implies there might be a planet at a certain distance from its host star.

Anyway I don't dispute the findings or that there are exoplanets or whatever, I'm just impressed that they are able to make confident claims on what little information we can receive from here.
Obviously you can do that (since they’ve done it), but it severely limits your credibility when you do speak out.
I've never had real identity verification on various domain sites, including namecheap.