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I'm leaning to agree. Europe has half the number of endangered species as do other continents.

Asia has 2,100+. Africa has 1350+, America has 1600+, and Europe has only 700.

It seems to be that the in previous centuries, Europe gained much human progress at the cost of its ecosystem--particularly niche species (e.g. instead of 20 variety of mouse in a forest, you'll see just 3). Yet we don't consider Europe incredibly ecologically impoverished.

If every continent were to reduce the number of species to mere European levels, I doubt that anyone would mind---especially if everyone could live at European quality of life.
Unfortunately, the forces that fake news are currently being leveraged for happen to be the ones who do not want strong education policy (because tax cuts) and they currently have the upper hand. The boil-the-ocean strategy of just teaching everyone critical thinking isn’t really on the table at the moment.
Regarding open-source FPGA design, you're in luck! "Project IceStorm" reverse-engineered the Ice40 line of FPGAs from Lattice, and has a fully open-source toolchain for them. They're not super high end chips, but the HX8k line isn't terrible (~7680 LUTs, I believe).

That being said, both Xilinx and Intel/Altera have both supported Linux for years, and the free versions of their software basically support all of their chips that don't cost several hundred dollars per chip. The licensing and such is pretty awful if you're a purist about these things, but they are giving you a fully fledged hardware design suite.

I think the main issue is that using FPGAs is actually doing hardware design, and most people don't want to do hardware design, they want an automagical way to make their software go faster. FPGAs are a great way to implement digital logic without having to incur the huge capital costs of taping out a chip, not a magical 'go faster' device for a random algorithm.
The unoccupied spaces optimize the system for time efficiency. Surplus capacity makes finding a parking space reasonably close to the destination faster. That makes reaching the destination (and searching for parking spaces) faster by reducing traffic.

Parking is both spatial and temporal. That's why all those empty spaces in Jackson Wyoming don't alleviate parking woes in lower Manhattan. The spatial frequencies at which parking spaces are fungible are less than 400m. Often much less. When human preference comes into play 4m (one stall) can effect selection.
police must present as open and transparent because presence is a crime deterant, order is more effectively kept when people trust / relate / engage with them, and they are service and public facing and an image of transparency reinforces faith in justice.

but investigations and methods and intel must be secret to preserve capability. and also legal / judiciL integrity.
This was discussed 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17621823

Posted link doesn't add anything new.
Check out uuni pizza ovens. They use wood pellets for fuel and in 10 minutes of pre-heat mine gets to the necessary temp to cook a pizza in a minute or so. Small enough to put on table on a balcony or fire escape and you can even pack it in a carrying bag and take it on the road.
I don't have the foggiest idea why it is important to protect endangered species in and of itself... Every species that has ever existed has gone extinct... Human endeavor is more important

If every species goes extinct, and if there is no reason to protect any species in and of itself, then what makes human endeavor so damn important?

This is the logic of the powerful, a pure might-makes-right argument. I see what I want, and I take it. It's easy to kill things, or at least hard to avoid killing them, when they get in our way, so don't worry about it.

In fact, profess to not having the "foggiest notion" why you might want to worry about it, even though the arguments in favor (biodiversity, makes life more wonderful, we don't know how the web is connected, etc.) are part of mainstream culture, and not at all hard to discover if you honestly wanted to try.
I open them in a separate tab, then occasionally think about reading some of my tabs when I have time in the future. Then occasionally my browser crashes such that it loses the open tabs, thus cleaning up. And thus I start anew.
I've tried many others and always end up back at email to name+toread@domain.tld. After I read it and if I want to keep it for reference, I tag and archive it, otherwise just archive it. I'd like to move from tags to a personal knowledge database with full text search, but I haven't been sufficiently motivated to set it up.
Yeah, it's probably not the right topic to just make a short comment about.
Jellyfish Barge: Sustainable Source of Food and Water
After 3 years this award winning project does not takeoff - it should deserve more consideration.
http://www.pnat.net/jellyfish-barge.php
http://www.matteodemayda.com/filter/photography/Jellyfish-Barge
and to think that most of the space in an atom is vacant. Seems to be a tremendous waste of space. incomprehensible that nature would permit this. surely something must exist in that nothingness where the electron vibrates around the nucleus. and we are blind, deaf, insensate to it.
Show HN: A dummy web server to return arbitrary responses to test your services
I don't understand why I should have to go through that popup to read a public announcement anyway.
At one point I was taking 40mg.
This a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17635063
i think her political ambitions combined with consumer privacy being an electoral issue is a better theory
The temperature limits issues can be (in most cases) solved by simply putting the batteries underground.

If you can go deep enough, temperature is almost constant, check, as an example, Fig. 4 here:

https://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Cooling/EarthTemperatu...
If they don't they can be sued for it (at least in the EU) so I imagine a company like Autodesk does check these things.
Aren't you answering your own question? He popularized it. Therefore, everyone is adopting it.
I use a simple TXT file formatted as YAML that is a part of my organization system: https://github.com/galfarragem/superfolder
> But I think banning all relationships between a boss and subordinate is stupid.

Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't, but telling a story about how people commonly drawn the inference that the participants in such a relationship are engaging in an improper sex-for-job-rewards exchange with toxic effects on personal and working relations is an odd choice to support that claim.
"The random thing" is indeed efficient. That's why it takes millions of years to evolve from single-celled organism to what you see on the planet today.
Hi everyone, I realize this is not terribly exciting or inventive but when testing a large company's infrastructure from the inside and outside, I noticed that there are a lot of services that I do not have easy access to that I would still like to test.

So imagine you have a reverse proxy that looks at a certain host and you'd like how that reverse proxy reacts if you send it a 200, 201, 400 or 500. Somehow I couldn't find such a tool and so I built a small dummy web server to do that.

Hopefully someone will find it helpful.
I found such a thing in a textbook belonging to a friend's mother who went to some kind of household school in the 70s or so. It was a revelation.

When I later wrote some teaching material, I realized that there are two bad kinds of educational texts: Cookbooks and math textbooks. One is a simplistic series of steps without explanation, the other is a facts dump with no motivation, context or intuition.

Getting back to git, its documentation manages to combine the disadvantages of both styles: it is a disjointed cookbook where steps are explained in confusing technical terms that only make sense if you already know the theory, which isn't coherently explained.
Check with your local laws...that is probably illegal.
We have much more information than the 90's school which in turn had information few decades outdated.

Some new stuff include: epigenetics, the role of 'junk dna', small RNA etc.

Overall I am very enthusiastic about epigenetics
If you want that to work nicely that would be a heck of a headache. Not only are "Straße" and "STRASSE" different lengths, but converting "SS" to lower case would now depend on context (which is probably the case even when you're solely considering the German language, consider the name "Bessel" for instance, or compound words like Linnaeusstraße).
Europe's lack of biodiversity comparative to other continents hasn't caused an ecological collapse yet. Ecosystems are not that fragile, multiple species occupy the same niche and are only termed different because we human beings have decided to call them so.

For instance, a tiny difference in a stripe pattern and breeding zones is enough for us to call two different groups of voles, a difference in species. Yet, all the wildly varied dogs in the world are still considered one species.

Are we really losing genetic diversity when one vole species becomes extinct? Perhaps, the difference is merely incidental, and the genes for the different stripe pattern are contained in all vole sub-groups, and they are truly a single species.
Perhaps we will see improvements to boot camp now.
Apple have announced plans to deprecate OpenGL. Whether they do it next year or in three years the writing is still on the wall, and I can't blame any company that doesn't want to invest their time and money on a platform that'll be a dead end. Even if it isn't removed yet it presumably won't be getting updates that other platforms will.

(Plus, Autodesk might be trying to convince Apple to change their minds with a move like this)
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The operations on floating point numbers do not behave like rational numbers. Floating point 1.0/3.0 is not equal to the rational 1/3. It's the same up to a margin of error, yes, but that's where the emulation part comes in. It would also be fair to say that floating point numbers are "emulated rationals".
He wasn't saying metal can render via the cpu, he was saying that macos apps in general can choose whether to use cpu or gpu rendering.
New tabs in browser, and the "onetab" add-in to keep lists of links.
Most sperm, too, are beaten to it by others
I read it as satire.
Why is that important? Being able to compare to other countries isn't going to improve the lives of people living paycheck to paycheck.
In the right hands, of course.
But... all they have to do is not track me... :)
The Bath County Pumped Storage Station has been doing a similar thing since '85 and can be characterized as the largest battery in the world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_S...
I don't have a Tesla nor had I heard of Rich before. What an awesome dude. I just signed up for his Patreon. In case others want to:

https://www.patreon.com/RichRebuilds/overview
"Farms are a long way from a natural environment, the modern farming process is awash with chemicals and such."

It seems you are viewing industrial, monoculture farming techniques as a justification for what humans should be able to get away with as far as land or resource use. It is not at all self-evident that such an approach works best. There is an opposite viewpoint that traditional, diverse crop farming could produce higher quality, higher nutrition output without using too much inorganic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides.

My point is that you seem to conveniently accept the "obvious superiority" of a modern approach and ignore other viewpoints or approaches wherein biodiversity fits in naturally.
Or a Big Green Egg or similar Kamado-style cooker. I've been making pizza on my BGE all summer, and it is fantastic. Cook for 2.5-3min at 600f, rotate 180 degrees, and cook another 2.5-3min.

Kamado cookers make great ovens, smokers, and grills.
Under this defintion of 'nailing it', it there any way in which the TSA are not 'nailing it'? Even if the TSA were carrying out a highy biased and ineffective program, you'd just see a small proportion of the majority being searched, a large proportion of minorities being searched, and then conclude that they're 'nailing it' because the numeric magnitude of people being searched is high...

Of course, in real-world tests of the TSA's usefulness they have been found to be quite ineffectual [0], [1]...so why even make weird justifications for them like this?

[0] http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-tsa-a...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/tsa-fails-half-time-706568
Is that "known to the scientific community" or "known anecdotally"?

The news here seems to be that there's now scientific confirmation of what was known anecdotally.
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I really loved the minimal Mapbox implementation of the concept! (by Vladimir Agafonkin)

https://jsfiddle.net/Mourner/zbdu3fkg/
Actually, the Council of German Language has been recommending use of ẞ in daily usage instead of SS since 2017, and it’s starting to get more popular.
That’s the best part!!! Love me some Objective-C
Certs help for the first 0-5 years of your career.
Verizon’s new ‘Safe Wi-Fi’ is a VPN that blocks ad tracking for $3.99 a month
AI vs. Humans: Upending the Division of Labor
Zero regrets.
> Why is everyone adopting the term fake news, thus leaving a linguistic legacy of that illiterate mafiosi?

He adopted it as a way of neutralizing it because other people were using it about propaganda supporting him that appeared, at the time, to follow what RAND Corp had earlier described as the “firehose of falsehoods” propaganda model employed in recent years by the Russian government (and with the benefit of hindsight appears to have been, in no small part, actual Russian government propaganda, which would explain it following that model.)

So, I guess there is a sense in which it connects to his legacy, but not the way you seem to think.

> He obviously used that neologism due to his limited vocabulary

Trump may be an idiot, but the people crafting his campaign messaging were not, and his use of “fake news” was much more careful than you suggest (and effective, as your own mistaken idea of how it came to be prominent in the 2016 campaign illustrates.)
True, but that issue has been existing for the past decades already.

toLower(toUpper(a)) != a
len(toLower(toUpper(a))) != a

If your code assumes any of this, it already was broken
I use a pizza stone but I also turn on the convection feature of the oven. The oven is set to 230C/450F middle or sometimes the top rack.
It depends. For a lot of content on HN, I simply save to Pinboard with a tag. Most of that never gets read, but when I happen to need to work on something that uses, say, a graph database, I’ll review my “database” tag bookmarks to see if there’s anything useful there.

If I actually intend to read the content of the link
and not just potentially return to it later if needed, I’ll save to Instapaper, which is configured to automatically create a Kindle-formatted digest of all the links and send it directly to my Kindle on Friday mornings. It’s like a mini-magazine of only articles I care about.

Some other commenters have suggested other “Send to Kindle” options, but I prefer this because those create a single Kindle item per article, while Instapaper’s digests compile a whole weeks worth (or more, the length of time is configurable) of content into a single Kindle “book”.
>He popularized it. Therefore, everyone is adopting it.

So you jump when everyone else jumps?

But more importantly, he popularized it among his own base. There was and is no need for anyone else to pick up that term, especially outside the US.
There Was No Big Bang Singularity
Google Keep browser extension.

I store my "jotted notes" of all kinds in Keep, and one of my labels is "toread", while the one for videos is "towatch". Keep works for me since it's cloud-based, free, and works across iOS and Android.
I used MapTiler to generate a graph of the largest connected nodes on the Disqus network: http://webrender.net/disqus-universe/

Found it fast and easy to use. Couldn't believe how difficult it would have been to render the tiles otherwise.
No different than any place that allows you to have a grill at a similar location, and since there are never going to be flare-ups or similar issues it is actually safer than those items; for CA residents you need a concrete or stucco balcony, no wood. I use mine in my English garden (back yard) but it is portable enough for lots of different locations.
I use the Tabs Outliner: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...

Here is a screenshot of my current HN reading list: https://i.imgur.com/KvbucE2.png

It is similar to Tree Style Tabs for Firefox but with some key differences:

- It sits in a separate window and shows the tree for your entire current session. Each Chrome window is a child of the root node.

- It supports indentation via Tab or Shift-Tab and has several useful keyboard shortcuts

- Rearranging the tabs with the mouse is very precise. Indentation can also be controlled this way.

- It uploads the entire tree to Google Drive periodically and manually. This way I can move my tab tree between computers with a simple drag and drop.

- It can unload tabs or entire sub-trees (the green X icon in the screenshot). This makes extensions like The Great Suspender obsolete and I can still keep my gigantic tree hierarchy without eating all my RAM.
Haha, if you are simple minded, and not forethinking you could use this: http://docs.racket-lang.org/compatibility/defmacro.html?#%28...

If you only want to code small trash away scripts it may suits, bit I don't recommend that at all. Just learn the proper way, or you can break stuff.
The proposal isn’t to use the dam’s excess power to pump the water back uphill. They want to use excess power from other solar and wind plants to effectively store any excess energy that they produce. Since these alternative sources cannot consistently produce energy 24 hours per day, and the times that they are able to produce it do not necessarily match up with consumer demand, they need to store it somehow. This is being proposed as a more efficient and cost effective form of storage than batteries (though I am curious how much energy will be lost due to evaporation after the water has been pumped in Hoover dam’s hot climate and other inefficiencies).
Yeah, if you use 7 or 8 primaries you can do a lot better.
How Twitter collaborates with neo-Nazis
Does anyone have links to solid studies that provide some better answers if there is a significant share of people who can live on little sleep? As they tell you that you won’t recognize yourself if you’ve slept enough, I don’t quite trust my instincts
It can go up to 125 bytes per second, maybe more. I've not finished reading the pdf yet
Humans seem to have the ability to make things extinct at a much quicker rate than would happen otherwise. Due to the permanence of extinction maybe there is some worry we will cause damage to the ecosystem that can't be undone.

Same thing with CO2: there have always been varying rates of CO2 but with pollution from vehicles and industry we're worried our affects on our habitat are too large and negative consequences will result.
You just said it... the electron is there. At any given moment, the electrons occupy that “empty” space, which means it isn’t really empty, but full of electrons. The wave function of the electrons is a “smeared” out geometry which occupies that space, with various probabilities of localizing the electron at any given point. When you touch something and experience mutual electromagnetic repulsion (i.e. what touching actually is) you’re very much sensing that. No need to invoke magic and mystery to fill a gap that doesn’t exist.
Why is it better than building a greenhouse on land and using some pipes to get the water?
remind me of this http://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/
You go here:

https://codewith.mu/en/developers

Which links to here:

https://mu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Which links to github (Watch button):

https://github.com/mu-editor/mu/

I guess they didn't want "users" to accidentally think they need GitHub or read the "developer docs".
Both tools are monstrosities. Xilinx should once and for all decide if they are in the business of selling hardware or selling software.

If the latter they're terrible at it and it's painfully obvious that the culture of the shop is not software-centric.

[edit] the hobbyist argument doesn't hold water. Software and normal computer manufacturers made the exact same argument in the 70's (why would anyone ever need a computer at home?).

If Xilinx opensourced their toolchain - or much better - OpenSourced their protocols, my bet is their chip sale volume would at least double in a year. In particular because folks would choose their H/W to avoid vendor lock-in.

My bet is they're so ashamed of the pile of spaghetti code they're peddling to their customer that they just can't OpenSource it for fear of losing face and reputation for ever.
Oh boohoo, look at me, I get inheritance I didn’t ask for and now I’m cursed. Better write all about it.
I worked at Autodesk from 2007 - 2011 and on Alias / Alias-related things for a good chunk of that. I was part of the team that ported Alias to MacOS.

Alias development started back in the late 80s and was written for (I think) SGI machines. Back then, the company was Alias (merged with Wavefront and ultimately acquired by Autodesk in 2006) and the software was called Studio. OpenGL formalized in the early 90s and Alias (the company) ported Studio to support this nascent API. That meant that Alias could run on any OS that supported OpenGL.

This was a fantastic strategic decision because it allowed Studio to port to various flavours of Irix, HP Unix, Windows, Mac OS, and even Linux. The Linux build was/is internal. It was a little janky to use as a modeller 8 hours a day, but good enough for a development workflow.

Porting to Mac OS occurred in 2008 (I think) and was a reasonably sized project. Alias renders all of its own UI in OpenGL, so in theory, it was as simple as "Get a GLContext, and render to that". Of course, there were other things to deal with:

- Cocoa specifics like windows / events
- Various filesystem differences
- IPC (Alias launches a subprocess to open new files to insulate a bad .wire file from crashing the main process)
- Performance issues caused by various aged code (e.g., still a few places using display lists).

I don't have any specifics for why Autodesk invested in porting Studio to MacOS back then. Apple was on the upward trend in terms of design and market share. I can speculate Apple was demanding a Mac OS version of Alias for its own use since, as others pointed out, Apple is a pretty big Autodesk customer.

I agree with the other points made here that the decision was likely made that the ROI of maintaining the Apple port wasn't worth it. Sure was fun to write though. :)
I like Linkpack: https://www.linkpack.io/

It syncs to Dropbox, so I own my data, it's a nice interface over that.
There has been some pushback to the mission creep; my favorite is the response from freight railroads to a proposal by the TSA to have their agents show up unannounced at rail yards:

https://www.cnn.com/2012/02/06/opinion/don-phillips-tsa-vipr...

"You might just lose a leg" and "some of our employees carry guns" is a pretty bold way to turn down the TSA...
Another option is to use a Kamado grill with a pizza stone. They can get very hot, and with the charcoal it gives it a nice smokey flavor. You can add wood chunks for extra flavoring as well. It's hard to eat pizza from the oven now after we have starting cooking them this way!
"Irrational refusal"?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/06/linus_torvalds_targ...
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