skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> More than generations. The hand axe, a sharpened rock with no handle, was the apex of human technology for over one hundred thousand years. Even fire took tens of thousands of years to become a widespread tool.

With `s/humans/homo sapiens/g` in the above paragraph, I believe that H sapiens was around for approx 300k - 400k years, and thrived in a variety of environments that would have killed them off if they did not have fire or sharpened rocks (skin animals for rudimentary clothing).

This suggests, to me anyway, that your estimates might be erring on the side of caution.

[WARNING: pure speculation ahead]

Earliest H. sapiens remains in Africa date to approx 300k years ago. Around 150k years ago the climate was cold, dry and harsh (https://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nercAFRICA.html).

If H. sapiens did not enter that climate already prepared, with generational knowledge of fire and sharp tools, they would have died out.

This makes me think that they had already had widespread use of fire and sharp tools, plus sophisticated enough communications to pass this knowledge down for multiple generations prior to the climate change.
feta and goats cheese are good starting points, easy, tasty, quite different. I would recommend getting a pH meter as it makes the process more observable.
HN’s whoishiring freelancer thread could be an option. Many comments there mention part time work.

You could add a comment with the “SEEKING FREELANCER” tag.

The thread is monthly; most recent one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573870
Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi
Not necessarily. I have grandparents who just sat there for 40 years after retirement not doing anything.
To be clear, we didn't do anything. Corporations, the ultra wealthy, and the purchased politicians did this.
I've been getting the hang of darcs recently. There's been your typical hiccups of learning something new, but it’s been an interesting process. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Patch Theory-based DVCS be the Git successor, & if true, darcs will be the early inspiration and the terminology would likely be copied from darcs when in doubt so it doesn’t feel like a waste to learn. It’s definitely not a beta software supporting all the necessary basics for DVCS. Considering my biggest gripe is reliance on a Haskell module for SSH that doesn’t support ed25519 keys, there aren’t many issues.
I hate all these oh they’re just being a woke company articles, blah, blah, they completely misunderstand the point of diversity from an HR perspective. Yes there is a good reason to promote diversity in a company that isnt necessarily an immediate make more money thing, but does contribute. Basically companies have a lot of problems with recruiting and retaining talent, having good talent will increase performance. Showing you are accepting of a diverse set of people is on some levels a recruitment marketing exercise.

The amount of money spent on diversity executives, well yeah probably a bit high, but about the amount you’d pay an HR exec at that level

As a gay man, if I have 2 similar job offers, one with a company that shows they are accepting and dont accept prejudice, and another that says nothing. Which one do you think I’ll choose?

Not just in diversity, but I’d far more prefer to work for a company that has values that align with me, eg I wouldnt want to work for a company that is involved with arms dealing, sure this will make you a lot of money for shareholders, but do you want to hand out pain, misery and death? Not all of us work for the bottom line. I recognise I am working for a business, but Id much prefer to think of my job as creating something, making things easier for people rather than just making money as a mission, that sounds like a miserable way to live.
Not for me, as Windows developers don't need to depend on UNIX culture.

The only thing that is debatable is using command prompt instead of powershell, unless for legacy scripts.
They are Chinese. If anything, they would avoid a fourth floor. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerology
> A large data set of highly biased, uncontrolled data is still useless. You can't model yourself out of the factors that have not been recorded. And believe me, the data you'll get on patients that try experimental medication will be very, very incomplete.

There are many safety issues that placebo-controlled and double-blinded studies didn't catch, but postmarketing surveillance later did. Large data sets are more powerful than you give them credit for --- and, moreover, in the real world drugs are not always used the way they are in clinical trial settings. In the real world, people skip doses, double up on doses, drink grapefruit juice, etc.

If you want a full picture of "factors that have not been recorded," you want as large a dataset as possible, as close to real world conditions as possible. It may not be as clean as you'd like, but it'll give you enough to draw every inference.

> How many people have squamous cell carcinoma between now and the moment of approval and are willing and wealthy enough to buy this particular medicine? 100 seems too much already.

When the alternative is to allow the drug to spend a decade or longer in development hell, I'll take poor data and lives potentially saved over "great data" (not really) and a pile of dead bodies.

Besides, when drugs are potentially curative, and the disease otherwise so invariably fatal, even 50 datapoints should be sufficient. This is trivial to model mathematically.

> Barely, according to wikipedia.

Oh come on. Besides, teratogenicity is now an absolutely basic component of safety tests. You don't need the FDA's failed paradigm of extensive efficacy trials to prevent "Thalidomide part II."

> Thalidomide was never going to save 100,000 people.

The exaggerated response to Thalidomide, exemplified in your first comment, has absolutely condemned more than 100,000 people.
thb that "half of a unix" usually weights less than some other popular runtime envs
> In contrast, Fossil is a single standalone binary which is installed by putting it on $PATH. ... It manages a community server with wiki, bug tracking, and forums, provides packaged ... Standing up a community server for Fossil takes minutes.

Let's see...

About a year ago I try to set up fossil because I wanted the issue tracking it supposedly provides. I'm already using git for VC and will stick with it.

Spend several hours and got nowhere. It's a local web-based thing and all I kept getting back was 404 Not Found. Did some reading around, found somebody had solved the problem by using --force option (IIRC, to force creation of a repo) but that didn't get me to anything actually working. The docs were unhelpful, as in wrong. Gave up. If you can't document your software then don't release it. Certainly don't make claims for its greatness and ease if you ignore what your users are saying on your message boards.
It's like the rain on Venus or the tears of all the people mildly wealthier than the next.
These CDOs are, sorry, dumb as bricks. They were hired so the real executives didn't have to hear complaints anymore; the whole existence of the position is a blatant attempt to reabsorb and deflect any material changes back into the standard hierarchy of capital. If they had any clue and desire for change they'd be forming unions.

My company started sending out "Eid Mubarak" letters the same year they announced they would no longer have the resources to sponsor MENA visas. They're offering anti-harassment training at the same time the sales team is chasing down far-right orgs with huge contracts. It's all a farce. The rank and file know it, the executives know, the minorities who can't get hired and promoted at real jobs know it; the only people who don't are the DEI teams.
Ok I watched it, thanks.

I’m not sure if it is meant to make me aware of anything I wasn’t already aware of, but for the record, I’ve spent much of the past 10+ years thinking about the pros and cons of this work and wrestling with the risks/pitfalls she describes (as well as eschewing stoicism for pretty much those reasons).

One of the biggest changes from doing this work is that I’ve become less repressed and more compassionate and emotionally available, as well as being more committed to working to overcome societal injustice and dysfunction.
Out of curiosity: How did you find HN?
I was almost going to mention Drive and OneDrive and iCloud, but I realized that these are not secure sharing methods, unless your target audience also has accounts on the same cloud service. You can share to "anyone with the link", and practice security through obscurity.
Probably Hungary
Most people don't know that forests are actually a vast network of underground fungi "highways" that communicate, analyse and distribute resources across the whole forest.

Dying trees literally distribute their resources to healthy ones, and trees that lack nitrogen get it from other trees whose roots and bacteria produce too much.

Bacteria use those highways to distribute themselves, where bacteria is needed for fertilization.

Plant life and natural intelligence is right in front of us, we are just too stubborn to admit it.

The more you research about fungi, the more you see how nature really works.
Maybe if stuff was still quality and we didn't have to buy everything multiple times as they break and malfunction, we could afford purchasing more expensive tools and items. And it's not like things are all that cheap anymore.
I previously had a Logitech G613 which I kind of regretted as it was huge and several keys got sticky after around 18 months. Tried stripping it down and cleaned everything with alcohol but it didn't fix them.

Next I got a Keychron K2 which is a lovely keyboard. I gifted it to my girlfriend when I upgraded to the Quefrency.

So, that sounds like I'm on the slippery slope of mechanical keyboard buying. But actually, no. I just had to try a few until I found the right one. I don't see any reason to change again, if I need a new keyboard I'd probably just get another Quefrency or a very similar model.
60megs?

that'll bareley hold the latest styling theme package thingy
I wish people would stop seeing the world so black or white.

JSON is not the the be-all and end-all of formats. All formats have their drawbacks, and there is not one format that is THE BEST for absolutely everything.

The author never claimed that YAML is simple, or whatever. But what I can see, is why'd they use YAML instead of JSON for this specific project.

The first thing that comes to mind is multiline strings, as files typically have multiple lines. How'd you do that with JSON? "fn main {\nprintln!(\"Hello\")\n}"? Looks super fun to edit.
The people it helped the most are not elites, but workers from third world countries.
Ural Asbest, Russia isn't running semi autonomus trucks, no - that's the current wave that hasn't yet tounched there .. but they are hitting a half billion tonne / annum target and that does take skills - planning , blasting, maintaining 100 tonne haulpaks, city scale power stations, etc.

https://www.uralasbest.ru/index.php?q=en/about-company

I'm chasing the grandparent comment that mining is "low skill" work to point out that some actual focused effort is required.

Diamonds come either direct from Kimberlite pipes or from the downwash from their erosion.

As you likely know from your school of mines it takes some not low skill level magnetic surveying to find and identify good kimberlite pipes.

While we all know stories of conflict diamonds and the related dubious conditions there remains many diamond mines underpinned by skilled techniques; - machine use and maintenaince to remove the overburden and core deep into the earth without collapse, often in severe environments ("trad" mining) and of course the new (well, a few decades old) techniques of marine vacuum mining

https://www.wsj.com/articles/de-beers-harvests-diamonds-at-t...

Custom build floating exploration | extraction plants don't roll cheap so you know the volume is there for the profit to foot those bills.

Gold, bulk gold, comes mainly from superpits ( eg: https://www.superpit.com.au/ ) that return ~ $billion per annum, rare earths like lithium are another local resource and again from modern mines like Greenbushes .. there's a hard rock engineer from there commenting on HN and maybe you can make the case that their work is low skilled. (I'll stand clear).

With demand growing at numbers that hit billions of tonnes per year it takes applied technology to reach the goals expected, it's not exactly easy.

With massive fuel demands we also see miners leading the way in advancing new green (and cheaper, less polluting) technologies (eg: https://fortescue.com/what-we-do/green-energy-research/green... | https://fortescue.com/what-we-do/green-energy-research/green... )
The moment you sign in with the Apple ID in the App Store app, it helpfully signs you in to iCloud and you have to go and disable it.
And probably keep the project language agnostic, by letting the user specify the content of functional build files.
Lmao this guy deletes the cookies to log himself out every time he closes a tab and then has to do 2FA every time he uses any website and he thinks it is the system that is wrong.
Burner numbers aren't available in many countries. Most eSIMs in Europe only support data, not calls or SMS.
I think it's cummulative. I had lower back pain for the last 15 or so years when I would lift something heavy or do something awkwardly (eg diving under desks). But after couple of days it would pass.

Last 4 years or so I'm using an ergonomic chair and mostly using a standing desk. And definitely for the whole of my life I've been trying to sit properly and was very attentive at my posture. Even my therapist says that my back muscles are relatively very strong and nicely developed.

Nevertheless starting this year I've noticed that the back pain wasn't going away and actually getting worse. So headed to the certified PT. After 2 months of hard work it actually got slightly worse and I went to a private clinic and had a MR[0]. Bulging disc at L5/S1 and herniated L4/L5. Surgery recommended as by that time I was in quite a lot of pain and discomfort. 3 days before the surgery I was in extreme pain. They've supposedly fixed the L5/S1 and the other one wasn't touched because it didn't bulge or anything.

So that was in March, and I still didn't recover and I have a feeling that my spine is hanging on that small piece of disc remaining and bit of other tissues. Still doing PT religiously, swimming between off-days. It is getting better on average, but unfortunately not linearly or without regressions. And awfully slow.

[0] I was waiting there a bit because spine problems "always happen to other people", and at the same time I was hopeful that PT would get me back on track.
> "quote the raven"

Are you sure you're not thinking of “whip the llama”? Specifically, on its ass?
for scale you usally want things to be efficient. and caring about caching effects is not seldomly the lowest hanging fruit.
Exactly the kind of thought that can be replaced without a loss.
> lighttpd

Wow now that's a blast from the past. That's a nice relic from the times of people getting annoyed with Apache's one process per request model and Nginx not being popular just yet. Does anyone use that anymore for, well, anything?
this started off well enough but quickly descended into unintelligible jargon. i fear that quantum physics will never be accessible to the common person, and that all this was mapped out only 50-100 years ago. i want to skip the next 1000 years of theory hardening and see what happens.
>Like, Google does not let you search their app store and filter by cost or spyware

Why would they? But Aurora Store does: https://auroraoss.com/
That's kind of the point of the SSFM -- to clue people into the simple sabotages they can participate in by more or less just following the rules.

It's not terribly dissimilar to work-to-rule protests.
Wow a long thread of back and forth and confusion :)

Fwiw I’m with Dylan on this one!

I have direct experience of absolutely humongous data processing using random bits for shard selection where each shard uses sorted storage and benefits from the sortability of the time bits so, with just the smallest buffering, all inserts are basically super fast appends.

This is super normal in my experience. And I can’t wait for the new UUID formats to land and get widely supported in libs to simplify discussions with event producers :)
The comparisons, being intra-race, are between people of the same race.

How does that mean there's nothing to compare?
> which happens to be the exact sort humans have developed

I disagree. Climate crisis, pure ignorance for destruction of nature, and not even a backup colony of our moon.

If we really were that intelligent as a species, we would value the survival of our own much more than a fictive self-invented imaginary value called "money" which actually has no meaning at all in the universe.
yea idk if you heard, there is this new thing called "zooming" were you essentially just project a portion of the image onto your whole screen.

sadly it is forbidden by the creators of the website
In that case you might really love "...SCons, a popular Python-based build tool. In a nutshell, my experiments showed that SCons exhibits roughly quadratic growth in build runtimes as the number of targets increases" [0]

[0] https://blog.melski.net/2013/12/11/update-scons-is-still-rea...
My browser tries to load all the videos at once...can't watch any of them yet.
Does this still work? I mean, can we actually get it looked over and make sure it's not going to turn everything into a screaming botnet, and fire it up?

While I applaud the idea of decentralising Internetty stuff, there are all these massively overengineered monstrosities like Mastodon out there that have shit user experience and break down at scale at an exponential rate.

WASTE looks like it might be fun to run alongside "slow internet" services like NNTP and non-ad-heavy websites.

Fuck it, bring back Gopher!
I only engaged you out of an interest in opening and expanding my viewpoint. (Just stating my perspective with no intention of offending:) I went into this under the assumption that you are jealous of rich folk and have a misplaced sense of entitlement. You’ve failed to change my mind. I’m not saying that’s necessarily true, please don’t be offended; you’ve just done nothing to convince me otherwise and’ve left me with a stronger sense that I’m correct. Consider that, from the standpoint of opposing your argument, I have no reason to believe otherwise.

That being said, my views aren’t your problem. I’m asking for help understanding an alternative look on things and giving you the benefit of the doubt that you aren’t immature.

You’ve done nothing to back up your stance. By all means, feel free to provide a breakdown of your argument in the context of my point regarding deceit. I’m genuinely interested.
The discrimination aspect of the discussion could use some research and, ultimately, is only a sideshow to the concept of dishonesty in business (and can be disregarded). As far as the logic of the “deceit” portion, there is a leap of faith in extending the deceit of basic haggling/negotiation to hiding one’s identity. As I said before, if we differ in this belief, there’s no reconciling. Otherwise, my logic is rock solid.

To clarify my point with anecdote: I recently negotiated the purchase of a car; at no point did I practice deceit. I simply stated the price I was looking for and then negotiated to lower the price by pitting sellers against each other. Regarding deceit, I’m referring to what is more along the lines of “haggling” — an attempt is made to get a better deal on a purchase/sale than the bottom line of what you are willing to offer. This haggling would be present in Disney’s purchase of the land where there are no other current buyers for the seller to pit against Disney.
Although there could be legitimate hope, that one of the other people is not clueless and will bring up important points. Not necessarily only "covering ones ass", but probably also a responsible thing to do, when making an important decision. At least, if the list of people actually includes technical people who have experience with the matter.
Just read about him on Wikipedia. It mentions:

> Lampert is a self-proclaimed supporter of free market economics and is a fan of libertarian writer Ayn Rand.

Big surprise there.

From another article:

> As Sears blew through its dwindling cash reserves, Lampert’s hedge fund made loans to the company money that were backed by the company’s assets, including real estate balances on Sears credit cards. That made him Sears’ largest creditor: Sears owes him at least $1.3 billion.

How is this even legal?
By definiton, there's very few people on top. Way fewer than people attempting to climb there.
You should probably put some kind of contact details on your HN profile in case an interested party should happen across this post.
Academia has the same issue because most of it is government/military funded. Unironically, a whole lot of the private sector is too. And a good deal of professors sell off their students for pennies to industry partners for 5-7 years. I would say, academia has it worse depending on where you sit.
Fresh milk is currently £1.45 for 2.27 litres, down from £1.65 at peak.

Tip for UK readers: You can put an unopened 4pt plastic milk bottle in the freezer and it will keep as long as UHT. Defrosts in a few days in a fridge. (Was handy during COVID lockdowns)
Er, it was written by Linus for use in Linux...
How would you compare the relationship between breathing and phrasing, with the relationship between bowing (eg on a violin) and phrasing? I have musical experience with the latter but not the former.

The buttons on an accordion are usually chords, right? Is it the root then which is arranged in a circle of fifths? Or I guess if it's the same chord shape it's all of the notes in the cord too?
So
(a) subscription doesn't work at scale
(b) advertising has turned the web into a hellhole
(c) media being a billionaires hobby has obvious democracy deficits
(d) ....?
Subversion is basically CVS done right. The problem is that CVS was a dead end that didn't scale to a distributed development model.

Git goes back to the local RCS model and adds atomic commits to that model. That's how it climbed out of the local optimum that was Subversion. There were a couple controversial choices that Git made, for example not tracking renames and not having linear revision numbers, but they turned out to be not a big deal and they allowed very efficient operations without the performance issues of e.g. darcs.

Given all the attempts to fix version control between 1995 and 2010, the basic data model of git seems to be very hard to improve on, especially with additions such as git-lfs.

There could be new command line interfaces but it has become harder and harder to kick away the incumbents. I know no one who is using git switch and git restore instead of the overloaded and confusing git checkout.
Looks like a good summary and a balanced take (except without additional context it could’ve been a she).

I find materialism weird because it seems like a given that all we do is motivated by our minds, including physical models—but then we are tempted to make a leap and claim that metaphors from those models (particles flying, strings vibrating, fields permeating, wave functions collapsing) are objective facts about environment rather than metaphors that try to predict how our environment would behave (in order to satisfy our minds’ curiosity and increasingly achieve some goal relevant to our minds), and that our environment and our mind itself completely reduces to those metaphors. I blame it on lack of philosophical sophistication.

That is not to claim it’s one way or another—just that we should at least be aware that it is a leap without positive proof.