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Not OP but if you have a question please refrain from throwing insults while asking. HN's rules are relevant here:

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To answer your question:

Their original comment was noting that the idea of hypothermia allowing individuals to survive after appearing dead can be seen as far back as old religious texts.

A question was asked about what religion it was and whether it was actually instead a reference to a Sci-fi series (Stargate).

In response they explained that it's from Zoroastrian texts (which is one of the sets of religions texts Stargate draws a lot from). They went on to show a story from said texts that happened to be very similar to another well known fantasy work (Lord of the Rings). LoTR unlike Stargate doesn't explicitly draw from Zoroastrian texts but it's been speculated that Tolkien drew inspiration from Zoroastrianism on top of the other religious texts that Tolkien drew inspiration from.

Does this help explain the reason the comments' relation to the thread here?
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What do you mean? Historically most people in most places in the world (e.g. my ancestors in Europe a few generations ago, my godparents in southern Mexico recently, or most of your ancestors if you go back a couple centuries, wherever they happened to come from) have lived as rural peasants.
I mean there's two possibilities with that, right? If they got lucky they could push immediately and freak everyone out and they could also just sit on the answer for a week. Either way, we get bounds on their capabilities.
That doesn't work for my hair. There's a reason most people buy separates.
already too much boilerplate for content, and please dispense with the div tag.

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Ask HN: How to view UI changes before & after a pull request?
I've been a backend developer for a while. My team has been sending me frontend PRs lately. I find it hard to see visual changes before and after a PR request. This is for UI changes, not for logic changes. Is there any tool that can make this smoother?
In many places “low divorce rate” is a euphemism for widespread sexual assault, domestic violence, and total lack of women’s individual rights. You get young women handed off from father to husband as effectively chattel. Women have no choice but to put up with that when they don’t have any viable social/economic alternatives, but it’s overall pretty unpleasant and oppressive.

A significant proportion of people in the US seem to pine for the days when homosexuality was taboo and illegal, women could be beaten or raped by their husbands (and children by their fathers) and it was treated as no one else’s business, non-white people were kept out of the neighborhood and interracial marriage was frowned on if not illegal, pre-marital sex was encouraged for men but made women into “sluts”, middle/high school students received no education about basic human biology/anatomy, rape victims were forced to deliver their rapists’ babies, most professional jobs were reserved for white men, etc. But hey, low divorce rates!
For more details, check out this model: https://blog.dshr.org/2017/08/economic-model-of-long-term-st...
You can flip this the other way though — “this site uses cookies for ad targeting, business metrics, and UX improvement blah blah.” If you the user don’t consent all you have to do is terminate your connection.
If you eat seafood, you should watch Seaspiracy. It uncovers the massive amount of lies flowing from the seafood industry. https://www.seaspiracy.org/
Question is a bit ambiguous whether it refers to a 'second-preimage attack' or a 'collision attack'.

'Second-preimage attack': You are given a message, and your goal is find another message that hashes to the value as the given message.

'Collision attack': Your goal is to construct two messages (of your choosing) that hash to the same value.
“Ex NSA running a consulting/security shop” has become an identifier for wolf-calling by far.
There isn't. Sorry, but there just isn't a permanent format. The real problem isn't the storage media but that technological standards evolve. Tape media is excellent at surviving. I have a 9 track digital tape keepsake from when I used to work with it regularly some 20 years ago. I'm absolutely certain that the data on it is still good. I don't have the 300-pound "dishwasher" drive that can read it, the three-phase power to run it, nor a DEC Vax that understands EBCDIC encoding.

The only true solution is a living one, where you have make sure you have the ability to get your data from an old format to a new one periodically. More importantly, you should look into the idea of 3-2-1 Backups. Anything that you intend to keep indefinitely is subject random events, ie fire, flood, tornado, theft, etc. Having multiple archives in separate systems is more import than worrying trying to ensure a single copy will last a long time.

Storing less than a gigabyte is very cheap to do in multiple formats, such as USB flash drive, external hard drive, CD, BlueRay disc, etc. You can hedge against data corruption with PAR2 files. Also, consider storing a copy on the cloud, ie Backblack B2, AS S3, etc. Again, I suggest creating PAR2 files and/or using an archive format that can resist damage.

Just create calendar events to check periodically the integrity of your archives. Having problems reading a CD, use the hard drive backup to burn a new one. This also a good time to consider if one or more your formats is no longer viable.

Finally, realize that a program runs within an environment and those get replaced over time. You need to no only back up your program, but probably want to store the operating system and tools around it.
A question for the experts:

Does it add any additional security to multi-layer multiple hash algorithms and/or multiple runs of the same algo?

For example, sha1(md5(sha1(foo)))
Once you're in, you've got the same privilege as everyone else.

Homeless to Yale isn't that different from Cisco-engineer-parents to Yale. You're still at Yale. You're still hobknobbing with the elites, and you are one of them.

He is part of the problem, even if he doesn't get it.
> Sell high and buy low at the same time

Maybe there is a damping function in that. All I've read is the rumored short.

Either way, playing a zero-sum game still seems at odds with value creation. Blue shift versus red shift mindset. Based on past value creation, with MSFT and a crucial investment in Apple, Gates shorting a company seems out of character.
How is it actively making the world worse. My day to day has almost no impact from Twitter or things that happen on it
It appears the law is written in such a way that it addresses the shortcomings this user thinks apply.

> odds are this will be fought in court and won by Disney and thrown out as unconstitutional because the state just violated their own law

Its a bit naive to think that the State law makers did not make changes and build in provisions to prevent this from happening. Sounds like alot of wishful thinking on this users part, no idea why claims this large(with no supporting evidence or links) are worth sharing.

I'd rather Florida not do this but it'd be better to accept the reality of these special protections being removed or trying to lobby for a change to the law to get them added back.
I try not to reply to myself, but here's an interactive 3D scan of a 4770 year old homework assignment on a clay tablet:

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ancient-mesopotamian-stars-p...

The cost per bit of this data is mind boggling at this point.
Lawyers are complex technology for sure too.

Defenders of Complex Justice.
The creation of conspiracy theorists is itself a conspiracy? An interesting thought if nothing else.

After seeing Veritasium's latest video about leaded gasoline and how the creator and others behind it knowingly lied to people about its safety, I wouldn't certainly can't put something like this past the oil companies. The global demand for oil certainly gives them a lot of money and influence.

(To be very clear: I'm not saying that I think this is actually what's happening)
Seeing that the article was about the "Tree of Life" metaphor and Coral, it is surprising that it didn't mention that Darwin actually suggested that a "Coral of Life" metaphor was superior to a "Tree of Life" metaphor in his notebooks (or maybe I missed it?).

I'm not a biologist, but I found this paper (Podani, 2019) about the "Coral of Life" metaphor interesting: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11692-019-094...
Control-NeRF: Editable Feature Volumes for Scene Rendering and Manipulation
I recently got (and recommend) the Gigabyte M32U, a 32" 4K 144Hz monitor w/ adaptive refresh. With the 2021 Mac Pro it's plug-and-play, super smooth @144Hz. You connect your Mac via a single USB-C cable, and the monitor has a built-in KVM/hub for peripherals (sent via the same USB-C). The USB-C port also charges your Mac at 18W while the monitor is on, and charges faster when the monitor is sleeping. It's somewhat pricy but is apparently considered budget for a 32" 4K, recently on sale for $600.

The monitor wakes from sleep exactly as suggested. Even when the Mac is closed, you can move the mouse/keyboard connected to the KVM to awaken it. (However if the KVM is switched away from the Mac, as expected it won't auto-switch back when the Mac is awakened.)

IMO the monitor looks fantastic, but it's IPS so doesn't have as-good-as-possible blacks/contrast/HDR. There is also some backlight bleed visible in a dark room (apparently typical on large IPS monitors).
The idea of a company being more cohesive seems appealing from the employer side as well.

I don't remember if I've seen studies to back this up, but I'd suspect that retention is much higher when your employees have formed meaningful relationships within the company.
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>> One of the biggest reasons for going "unlimited PTO" is that there's no accrual, therefore they owe you nothing.
> IMO that's the only reason for employers to offer "unlimited PTO" schemes.

I think that's generally true, but at my company (which is a very small startup of about a dozen people) we have unlimited PTO because we just really don't want to bother with tracking it.
password hash is not a general hash.

general hashes are to be used in other crypto constructions. Or, if you really need just a quick hash (but really think if you really need it.)

Password hashes are for passwords.
Just put a copy in S3 Glacier and maybe the equivalents from Azure and GCP. It’s ludicrously cheap, on the order of cents per gb per month.
> I don't quite get the continued argument

I keep telling you that, in fact, these primitives can literally be OS resources such as the semaphores from the BeOS system call create_sem() or the POSIX sem_open or Windows CreateSemaphore.

Your insistence that these don't have a dependency on the kernel, that they're just memory to be garbage collected is wrong, they aren't, this won't work.

You propose the Java ReentrantLock class as an example, but, that's just a thin wrapper for the underlying Java runtime parking mechanism, so, sure it's just a Java object no big deal, but the actual implementation (which is not in the file you just linked) requires an OS primitive that you've not examined at all, that OS primitive is being managed by the runtime (via the "Unsafe" interface) and is excluded from your garbage collection entirely.

In essence you get to "just" garbage collect these locks because they're only a superficial Java language shadow of the real mechanism, which you aren't allowed to touch and can't garbage collect.
Pretty sure whatever logic the Russians are using leads to genocide considering they're committing it right now...

I'm literally advocating for an end to genocide...
Just set your bills to auto pay no?

As to the passwords issue, I use both 1password and apple's keychain password manager. I've never had a problem with either. 1Password I believe lets you specify symbols, numbers, capital letters etc when generating a password. LastPass does too.

None of these issues are really Web 2.0 related, just poor implementations and designs. Plenty of counter examples to how great Web 2.0 is.
The Modest Proposal is to put all children of single mothers into foster homes. Done, no more single mothers.

Destigmatizing doesn't increase prevalence more than the conditions that actually cause it (welfare donut hole, the drug war).
That's just confusion about discount rates.

Money in the future is worth less than money in the present, so an infinite sequence can have a finite sum when it's priced in today's money.
https://80000hours.org/

https://80000hours.org/job-board/
Somewhat piggybacking on what someone else said: you should always have a fully executed copy of the entire contract itself, and in the worst case a copy that the employer had signed (which is often enough). “Misplacing” an addendum can be a serious grounds for sanctions, but ideally you have the addendum with your copy and if possible there is additional evidence that there was an addendum, like perhaps contemporaneous notes or emails talking about the addendum.
Shanghai video overwhelms Chinese censor, gets 400M views
We’re talking about the fact that people in Asia who are a lot poorer than lower middle class Americans manage to have much better social indicators of family stability and crime. And when those people come to America, even the poor kids have much better income mobility than their white American counterparts. So blaming social dysfunction on wages not keeping up with productivity growth is a bunch of baloney.
I think an i9 is distinguishable from an i7 and a human.

All our artifice isn't meaningfully different than termite mounds in this sort of sense.

So, a more prudent/understandable question is: just how alien do you need to be to unsure where to draw the "organism/not-organism" line on a termite mound+termites or as a counterpoint: on a snail or clam vs thier shell.

Does the fact that the shell of animal was chemically changed by it's body give it some specialness? Or would an animal that constructed limb extensions on demand from wood or stone include those bits? What about brain extensions from bits of metal and glass?
Ecommerce Sales Tax and Nexus in a State
Yes, I think all of those are worse if they are effectively coerced.
It’s true that if you can say “you can hire from {top N colleges like MIT}” then this would be attractive. Trouble is, this won’t scale beyond the top 10: the ones which get far more recruiter reachouts than students.

The other thing that could be a sell is retention. Retaining new grads beyond a year or two is notoriously difficult. If you’d have data or proof that this approach significantly increases retention and its because of the group setting, that could make the premium laid worthwhile.

You still need to convince companies to trust your assessment method: not a problem while you only have new grads from the very top schools, but would be a problem if you open up to all colleges.
I'm really disappointed by this article. The author is a philosophy professor, but what he has written here is horribly vague, fluffy, imprecise. He seems to be spruiking his recent book, but his summary of its argument is so light on details I can't tell if it is worth reading or not.
I've eaten a lot of raw domestic Japanese salmon, I'm doing ok, probably because as others have said, it's common knowledge it should be frozen before serving.
The original post should go to /r/whatcouldgowrong :-(
How is this anywhere close to legal?
(Not the layoff but the BYOD policy for accessing sensitive patient data) .
There isn't a single answer to give re: the viability of interbreeding. It depends on the particular individuals and the particulars of their offspring and a whole lot of environmental luck besides. As individuals get farther apart, the chances of successful reproduction simply decrease. Beyond a certain point, fertilization simply ceases to take place and the issue is moot.

In general, the babies that are born have already passed through a nightmarishly difficult biological gauntlet to survive. If they fail at any stage, the pregnancy is simply terminated. The majority of fertilizations never lead to births as a result.
I think so, at least in the broadest sense. Modern software has glaring flaws that make scaling it astoundingly complex, in a large part because of "Worse is Better". Coincidentally, I've been developing a screed on the bird website going deeper into this. It's a massive problem that must be solved, before we unintelligently create another intelligence to take care of it for us.

https://twitter.com/riley_stews/status/1518389855864037382
If you are lucky or clairvoyant, you can make a sort-of-haiku out of the guesses.
Some of my actual games:

Troll stopped play: IRATE TROLL SPORT SHORT

Alas poor Yorick: STARE SPOIL SKULL

New virtual law firm: IRATE CLOUD LEGAL

Reacting to The Slap: IRATE SHOUT PUNCH SNOUT
Even if nothing else, a boring tunnel could be used for “remote parking garages” and if the tunnel robot takes your car ten miles away to store it what would you care as long as it was available when needed?
That's actually "Chat Features"
It will decrease the security.
How’s it’s been: I forgot it was on. So pretty good, I guess.
Not an expert but this provably doesn’t add security.

In your example, if sha1(foo)==sha1(bar), then foo, bar have a collision regardless of what you do afterwards.

Maybe there’s some fancier layering scheme that adds security?
The fact that it's considered a epithet is more revealing than anything else.

Him being an elite - someone who knows he's intrinsically superior to everyone else by virtue of selection - is 100% relevant to his opinions being flawed.
Thanks for your input! I agree with all your points. Right now, we're just doing things that don't scale and hoping it works out. A year after the first two batches graduate, hopefully we have enough data points to workout tangible benefits.
(not the parent)

Many times it did. Light shines on whoever listens to Jesus. But the evil one never sleeps.

Anyway not the place for this, I guess.
I think its a cool idea, but unless this is aimed at large tech companies (which maybe it is, I can't tell), I can't see the value here. I know you are from highly sought after school but to be honest the working industry of software engineering is very little like your college experience.

You are not going to be hired as new grads to be writing proofs using turing machines. You are going to be thrown into the grinder of (most likely) web application development & software engineering (which you may have taken a class on, but is nothing like the actual experience). Working as a professional software engineer requires so many things not taught in school that the only way to learn this stuff is through experience.

I am not trying to sound like a old bastard but you are over-valuing your hand. Competitive programming, FAANG internships, are all great but its not the same as actually having a job. The hiring shortage is mainly senior engineers and if you were offering an app for senior engineers to find a job together I could see that really paying off, but for new grads I don't see the employers going for it.
> Gnome supports Google Drive, or at least used to, directly in Nautilus. I don't use Gnome, so I can't comment.

I'm using it right now. It is not particularly responsive (perform an operation and it looks like no operation is happening until the remote end responds) but works well enough for copying files in and out via nautilus if you don't expect instant feedback.
Not typical - he's a veteran. I admire that. But he still got in. Therefore, he's superior (nearly intrinsically, on almost every dimension) to 99.5% of the American population and has the privileges that come with it.
Hangouts is just another client for Google Chat now, Allo is dead, and Spaces is a feature of Google Chat. Meet and Duo are not chat apps really, but there is a pretty clear separation in that Meet is primarily designed for business meetings (competes with Zoom) and Duo is more primarily for personal use (competes with FaceTime)
Edit: Also this circuit is simpler than an adder, since there's no carry

Which is interesting in itself on occasion. If you need to count to a particular binary power on an FPGA, an LFSR for that word width is the most parsimonious way to do it AFAIK.
Or the time for a product to die.
Ask HN: What separates a good interviewer from a bad one?
What is this "Listerine case" you mention? It sounds interesting and important.
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I frankly wouldn’t care, I’d be looking at the buyout amount.

How much time he can spend is a much bigger question if he’s being hired to run the joint.
Why open a second html tag right before the body?
Nope, she was dead

Just turns out she wasn’t irreversibly dead
The Next Cybersecurity Crisis: Poisoned AI
The TLDR for how a bond that continues to pay interest forever can be valued at less than infinity dollars is due to the "time value of money", which states that $X in the future is worth less than $X today. This makes sense intuitively if you consider that if you had that money today, you could invest it and earn interest on it.

So since money in your hands is worth more than that same amount of money in the future, you can actually calculate how much a future cash flow is worth today by discounting it to its present value ("discounted cash flow" aka DCF).

To bring it back to perpetual bonds, if you DCF all of the future cash flows to their present value, you actually get a finite number (due to the diminishing nature of the cash flows that are further and further in the future).

For those who want to learn this in more detail, I recommend MIT's OCW course "Finance Theory I" with Andrew Lo.
Create two so you can delete both of them!
That pressure still exists. I'm not sure why you might think otherwise. Various parts of current culture came from immigrant communities maintaining parts of their cultural identity while still broadly assimilating, eg St Patrick's Day.

Keep in mind a lot of immigrants from Central/South America 6 generations ago just pass for "white people" now so you don't notice them.
Assuming you read the news, that is not true. It’s the communication and social channel of choice for modern journalists, and the way it’s used by said groups absolutely influences how news is covered.
I bought a fanless quad core Apollo Lake Chromebook and installed Linux on it.

It's not perfect (headphone jack doesn't work), but been really happy so far. Probably the best $ per performance laptop I've ever purchased.
I never thought to donate to Internet Archive before. Thanks, done. I use the Wayback Machine too much to not pay for it!
> Contrast that to “Black Lives Matter” or “We are the 99%” which are also short slogans that encapsulate the broad and varied beliefs of the respective movements without being off putting to even the people who agree.

Err, the former had people shitting themselves over it online for years.
I finally took an instrument design course and am fairly confident I can restore life to the 48GX when I open it up. And my Panasonic plasma that’s been dead for 3 years. I will hear that hum again!
The book you read in 2006 couldn't have been Graeber's _Debt_ (which is more informal and opinionated), and it wasn't Ryan-Collins's and Werner's _Where Does Money Come From_...

So what book was it?