skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the country and who you ask. If you ask the UK Government[0] and UK’s RSPB[1] you will find that cats are a predator of birds but there is no evidence that they are the reason for the declining bird population.

In the UK garden birds are on the incline which would be counter to the general public argument that (paraphrasing here) “pet cats are killing all the birds”.

The declining bird population as whole is put down to other factors such has changes to how we farm food, decreasing hedgerows, basically us humans ripping out the birds habitats and not our cats murdering them.

Where I live small rodents are a pest, there is a large number of them and we want to control their number. Cats will stick to their learnt hunting behaviour. If they learn to hunt rodents when they are young then that’s what they will focus on hunting in their adult life’s. So in my area my cat mainly hunts rodents (comparing the numbers of mice she brings home compared to the number of birds she has). So as a kitten (and though out it’s life) play with ground based hunting toys instead of airborne toys. Get them a bell on their collar, and change it up ever now and then.

Now... Am I going to say that this is the case in all countries? Nope. Let’s take Australia where the feral cat population is vastly growing which is causing harm to the native rodent population, but that’s been blamed on the feral population and are being culled and not the domestic cats living with humans.

[0]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[1]: https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/gardening-...
UK, Commission Only Google Shopping Ads Shopify App. Interesting
So, i've been running some ecommerce experiments, thanks to these guys - Redbrain - www.redbrain.com, I was able to hit £5k in my first month, dropshipping health related products, Ave. Order Value - £10-£15, small margin stuff. Couldn't get the shop to really make money, but I got the turnover so it was nice hearing the little Shopify "kerching" 10 times a day or so..a first for me....after years of toil.. haha

Sadly, I was down at the end of the month, but Redbrain only took 5% and I was able to get launched on Google PLA's for Zero.

Great news is they're due to launch a Shopify App in a few weeks, enabling merchants to plug directly into their (UK Only) Comparison engine (they're a premium CSS partner, so get 20% off ad costs, thanks to the EU ruling.

I'm running some more tests on higher ticket stuff, that's where the margins are better. Other risks too for sure, though. Oh yes, they're launching on Facebook so the pixel gets the retargeting, also commission based I understand. Controversial.

Anyway, thought i'd share for anyone struggling to get up and running with FK all cash. Pretty sure they do business with USA firms, pretty easy to work with most dropshippers in the UK, maybe easier then US dropshippers.

This could give you some ideas..good luck! https://www.google.com/basepages/producttype/taxonomy-with-ids.en-US.txt
You are suggesting, are you not, that top-down is as good as bottom-up?

To that I disagree. I believe what caught my interest was the bottom-up approach that was the commodore manuals.
For the cSDH conundrum and similar tough calls, it is indeed complicated, that's why one needs to stick to guidelines or expert opinion. If there are no clear instructions, then the attending's way is the highway. Or your gut feeling. The most important thing in this case is to document your decision and notify patient and relatives.

(resident neurologist here) :)
1991: simple and readable, minimizes scrolling, no menu to click through, lightweight

2015: complicated with low-contrast text set against an animated background image, maximises scrolling, requires clicking through a hamburger menu with gratuitous animations, heavyweight

Or, put more simply...

1991: content

2015: content + cruft
For a LEAF, $2.3k for a refurb, and >$6k for new. https://electrek.co/2018/03/26/nissan-leaf-battery-pack-repl...

Unfortunately, that's in the ballpark for a used LEAF.
The function addShapedRecipeFirst (List recipeList, ItemStack itemstack, Object... objArray) is really doing a number on me... gonna be fun not touching that code for a few months and when you come back you don't even know what the heck you are doing
> If the state takes ~10GB each process will multiply that.

In POSIX there is such thing as copy-on-write memory during forks.. So if that state is mostly read-only, additional memory required by each slave should be minimal.
> how mobile games are almost all just the same game

That is because they ARE.

Once upon a time (2011) there was a long article called "Who killed video games? (a ghost story)". It has now been blown away by mists of time, with only stale links referencing the detailed, cruel and flat-out cynical - but oh so true - treatise into how mobile games are essentially built on top of mathematically optimised engagement wheels making use of the anticipation/disappointment cycle. I wish I could find a working link...

In only slightly unrelated tangent: a university mate was an aspiring game designer. I remember how he once, off-handedly, mentioned how he experiments with mechanics and rules until he finds a set that works. We actually got to playtest some of his work-in-progress experiments, and while I never got to try anything really good, others in the group did.

But right, back to the topic: once the abstract rules of the game itself were ready and sufficiently balanced, he picked a theme and genre most likely to expose the game to the biggest possible (welcoming) segment. It's easy to extrapolate that once a working game design has been found, the creators would fit the same engine with various other skins and themes to target as many lucrative markets as possible.

One can find the same approach everywhere, really. Cookie-cutter reality TV show formats; talent shows; sequels of upon sequels, be that films or TV show seasons; ...

A really cynical view of all this could be that mobile gaming is now a properly mature market. Innovation is unreliable and expensive, so why bother?
> should either round or truncate when the parameter is a floating point number

Isn't the parameter always floating point in Javascript? (which does mean a package like isOdd will have to incorporate some level of mysticism...)
I've heard the Evangelical Christians mentioned very often in relation to their support for Israel. However I'm not fully convinced that they're the major force behind the US's unwavering support. For example, the article you linked states that only 53% of evangelicals actually support the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital: it's not an overwhelming majority. Meanwhile, 63% of all Americans oppose it, so it's overall an unpopular move: why was it made then?

Also, the expert interviewed in the article says that "the gathering of all the Jews in exile to the Holy Land is a prerequisite for these events unfolding" (the end of times, etc.). But then, absurdity for absurdity, why don't the evangelicals call for the Jews to be expelled from the US, which would advance the evangelical cause even more? And more, to a Christian fundamentalist, a non-converted Jew is basically an infidel, so you'd expect them to be regarded with suspicion and contempt- which doesn't seem to happen. The Evangelicals then seem to entertain their beliefs only insofar that is beneficial to Israel. Isn't that strange?
It also has an issue not present in Pascal's, which is you are multiplying by infinity in a context where it doesn't actually make sense.

The payoff from AGI may be incalculable, but it isn't infinite both in itself and in Altman's ability to enjoy the rewards it promises. Once the value becomes finite, a whole heap of risk-reward logic kicks in that the Wager wants to sweep under the rug.

As a concrete example, following this Altman's wager would result in Altman giving all his wealth to the first beggar on the street who mumbles that he might be able to run an AGI project - the possibility that the beggar can achieve that is, technically speaking, nonzero. Multiply that by infinity and you have a great expected return (infinite, in fact). However, practically speaking, the risk will overwhelm the large-but-finite payoff.

Infinity is bigger than people think :P
I personally find the taste of aspirin to be delicious! Not steak or candy delicious, but more like tangy taco sauce delicious.

So I chew them up and swish them around my mouth and rub them up against the inside of my lips with my tongue, to get the most effective rush and quickest headache relief.

Does anybody else do that, or am I a mutant?
How would you define failure in this case? As we've seen from Uber's IPO the valuations aren't accurate. There is little price discovery to be had in private markets.

The company could also hang on for a long time before being acquired or going out of business.
If you were innocent, wouldn't you want your body exhumed so that people didn't assume you were guilty and the victim's family could have closure?

I guess if one was guilty and dead with other living accomplices...
> You failed to understand that at least majority of people who engage in economic activities are greedy. This is also what communists deny the most why they always fail.

This makes no sense at all, and is an argument against capitalists at least as much as communists.

Up your game if you want to convince anyone of anything.
> dealing with python2 code for a long, long time.

Won't python2 be EOLed sometime in 2020? Is someone expected to pick up security maintaince after that?
Maybe I’m extreme in my view. But I look at most companies that produce games skewed towards IAP/DLC/P2W as ethically corrupt.

They’re just wasting the talent of game creators to produce these games to pad the revenue of these businesses with no regard for the well-being of players (I’m not one to harp on the whole “only drug dealers call their customers users” thing, but it’s very apt here).

I’m hoping sooner-rather-than-later that the ratio of good vs. evil games is skewed towards the former. Unfortunately by that time a lot of execs will have already ran away with the money while leaving a pile of burnt-out developers and players.
> A mistake that causes a station blackout for a couple hours can cost thousands of lives

A mistake that causes a hydro dam burst can cost thousands of lives.

A coal power plant operating as designed does cost thousands of lives due to direct pollution and eventually thousands more through climate-change-induced famines.

A solar farm of a size that can replace a 3GW nuke plant as baseload doesn't exist yet, would have to have 10-15 GWpeak capacity, would need a 10-15 GWh battery just to cover overnight load-balancing, which is a substantial chunk of global factory capacity for batteries...
You get denied from jobs, school, and are essentially outcast from society because of your low score and then sent to a re-education camp because your score is too low and likely to commit a crime.

After destroying a person's livlihood, friends, and family...why wouldn't they resort to crime? It will most likely be the only way to survive.
An example of bad code that always stuck with me was the flawed CDDB disc id hash algorithm.[0]

I was reminded of that short-sighted decision every time I ripped a bunch of CDs and saw how importing song titles was not automatic because a dozen different discs had the same hash ids which resulted in collisions[1]. It ended up creating needless friction for millions that depended on that discid.

What's sad is I'm not even sure if one can extract any useful "lessons learned" from it! The programmer that wrote it was not an amateur script kiddie; he had a computer science degree from Uni California. Apparently, he didn't realize he was writing a flawed hash algorithm as he wrote it.

One could say that hash algorithms should be "peer reviewed". Well, he got unsolicited peer review that pointed how his homegrown hashing computation was flawed but he ignored the suggestion to improve it.

[0] >Ti Kan wanted to use a hash. He could have chosen something like CRC32, which would have given him a 32 bit number, yielding 4 billion unique IDs. Instead he wrote his own hash.
[...]
Ti Kan was made aware (not by me) of this problem back in 1994, and given a script to convert this format into a CRC32-based format, but he rejected it because the deployed base was too big. At that point it was probably in the high dozens. -- excerpt from http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/notes/cddb.html

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/multiple-matches-jp...

[2] wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB#How_CDDB_works
The Science of Roundness [video]
Labor Day is internationally on May 1st to commemorate Haymarket Masacre in Chicago 1886. Not in US however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day
Just a side note-- this is the beauty of Open Source. If there is some bad code (we all write it), it can be improved with a little help from Open Source "friends".

All of us are stronger than any one of us. Long live Open Source!
The first line of the article is utter nonsense. The person with "$25 million" can just pay the rent up front for a year with ~0.1% of their wealth and not even have to reveal their bank balance. 99% of landlords would accept that.

Back in the real world, If you're renting a fancy apartment in downtown Manhattan with a few grand in the bank (e.g. you can't pay up front) you have some serious budgeting problems. The landlords/agents are doing you a favour by not allowing you to spaff away your money, IMO.

I'm currently FT but have contracted in London. I've never lived in a city center apartment, it's thoroughly a luxury good.

You can live half an hour away for less than half the price, or have a house with two gardens half an hour away for the same price.

It would be much easier to take the article seriously if they used realistic numbers for "normal" accommodation.

Personally I'd say that if you're going to go it alone then having a few months to a year saved is just par for the course. You need it in order to maintain a sense of sanity and not feel like you're completely impoverished all of the time.

For most people that will entail reducing outgoings so that the number is manageable.

It is, however, quite odd that I could have employed someone out of the proceeds of my business and they would be able to rent an apartment without issue. I imagine some people must do this with their spouses, for example.
> As far as I know, there's no full text search and the types of reports and aggregation you can do are extremely primitive.

My understanding is that it's helpful to think of honeycomb.io as a replacement for Scuba -- which, to my understanding, is Facebook's tool for doing fast math and aggregations on metric data even if those metrics come from things that look like logs.

There are some "visualize" things you can do in the Kibana UI which really stretch ELK's capabilities (graphing p99 latency per handler for every one-second bucket of a sample minute in a high-throughput service that writes all its hits to log files, for example). Where Kibana and its backends start to stutter, or when certain kinds of graphs are just impossible, you might begin to be well-served by Scuba-style tools.

Not having worked at Facebook, I have only heard about this secondhand. After a certain scale -- when you have many many requests per second and when handling a request involves a forest of other services doing some work in series or parallel -- you start to feel like you can no longer rely on raw logs and start to lean on tools who do things like distributed tracing or aggregations; if your tool work well, eventually you may even feel a disdain for those raw logs and feel like you're _better_ off using the more advanced tools.

I feel a bit left behind sometimes because I live pragmatically in both worlds (I'm excited to get results rapidly from newer visibility stacks, but honestly am also still happy to log into a system and read its logs -- just in case we ever need to do that).
DoorDash Takes Aim at Nearly $13B Valuation in New Funding Round
yeah, I think this should be repeated several times & with some better controls such as people who are bedridden for a different reason.
In what way are they being "violated"? You make it really hard to make advances in police work because literally every form of police work is a "privacy violation", even if you are dead!
Funds for pensions are usually mix of stocks and bonds, but stocks are really bad for defined benefit contributions because in a downturn you will have to oversell. This is something that actually happened in 2008 and broke some pension funds in the U.S. So bonds would not have that issue (treasury bonds, low-risk bonds) so you have no volatility.

But even they will not produce enough for the benefits that are promised: as soon as someone outlives their contribution the fund might not be actuarially safe. It turns out it is exceedingly difficult to mitigate all risk in a retirement fund, and government makes the promise that if they fail, they will pass the bill to someone else.

Pension funds are truly evil.
While usually focusing on smaller snippets, thedailywtf.com is a site about (mostly) code wtfs. A fair number of management wtfs too, though.
Ugh, this is terrible news.

I have a family history of heart disease, so I've been taking a small aspirin daily as part of my doctor's recommendation. I've been trusting this to help increase my chances of avoiding a heart attack.

I'm going to keep taking it. I don't think I'll even talk to the doctor about it.
DEFINITELY not for everyone but Girls Frontline is a less idly idle game. There are dailies which you can do to get items, and logging in every day gives you stuff. There are microtransactions to get the stuff you need fast, but even with all the money in the world you still need some grinding to beat the game.
Rightfully soo.. the forrest cut for the butts stinks to heaven.

Germany should have bidets like any other civilized country.

I dare to mention, that a lot of bidet development has to do, with the lack of piping that could handle large congesting cellular clumps of matter.

So - the more recent the canalisation - and the bigger the pipesizes used, the less need for biddets.
The original discussion was accessibility to programming, and now it's top-down vs. bottom-up programming, which is a different topic. But IMHO, even if you believe top-down is not as good as bottom-up, it's still better than your original parent comment, which explicitly mentioned no programming at all.
I love gambits. I play the King’s Gambit, Smith Morra, and Benko. I also like the Wing Gambit in the Sicilian, but haven’t looked too closely at it. But perhaps my favorite, in response an attempted Fried Liver Attack, is the Traxler Counter Gambit as black. Here’s one of Traxler’s games: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1224609
The web should be a library, a collective knowledge. F money. We're in the friggin 21st century it should be time to look beyond.
Especially in the case of diets, I think personal experience should acccount for most of how you make your decisions. The human body is very flexible to different conditions, the science here is pretty flaky, that trying to make sense of diets by using logic only helps very little. Anyway I'm just repeating what you're saying, that personal experience may not be universal but it's important for yourself.
If you were innocent and japanese, and the state would like to round up all japanese people in an internment camp, wouldn't you like the state to not be able to use your dna to find all your descendants and family?
Haven't read Uphill Athlete yet...I think it ships in a few days. Really looking forward to it and to going to see Scott/Steve speak in Denver.
Is there an option to turn off all mitigations? A public hoster is different to my local build server where security is not an issue and only performance counts.
What's with the text in those screen shots? Yikes! I'd pay just to have a nice anti-aliased font!

Reminds me of the 3x5 font from Mike Koss's "The Terminal" emulator on the Apple ][ from 1981.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120206091422/http://mckoss.com...
The airline pilots who are flying from NYC to LA have a fairly safe job. It's the bush pilots flying between remote places in Alaska who are driving up the statistics; basically all of the fatal air crashes in the US are in Alaska.
Managing career path in a high growth startup
This week I'm speaking to the employees of a 10 person start-up, about to grow to +25, about managing their career path through the stages of start-up growth.

Any tips from those who have been there before?
But they have slowed down their drive towards lower priced cars significantly. The model Y was supposed to be ~25k. Instead they chose to go after the much more expensive SUV market. Makes perfect sense, Tesla needs to improve their financials before they can ask for more money to make new factories. Battery supply is limited and the costs are still fairly high so they are focusing on a higher margin product. At the same time I think they might be holding off for better autopilot before they make the truly cheap model.
That is the nature of capitalism and not really something in Apple's scope to fix. If Apple do not participate by bringing out new models and marketing upgrades then people will just go and be capitalistic with other companies and their products instead.
That advice is wrong too, a 32bit number would have been insufficient due to the birthday problem.
> The web should be a library, a collective knowledge.

Sounds like an ad for Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. :-)
"less urgent" doesn't mean its not important at all. When we were constantly at the brink of war and supporting all kinds of terrible governments to secure stable access to oil and keep the petrodollar intact.. There was more pressure to quickly develop alternatives to oil.
That looks nasty, but surprisingly hard to fix with loops because everything is of different types. If I were fixing it I'd look to some kind of code generation solution, even if just a hacky python script parsing a CSV.

(addShapedRecipe is just begging to have ASCII art as its canonical form)
Buttery smooth emacs is not a corner case. When working on API-level things (for those who don't know--emacs is practically an operating system), if we care about not breaking things, one must be highly cognizant of all the ways that API is consumed. Even if the final change ends up being very small code-wise, the head-space required to make it is immense. That is why we have (relatively) so few people who make operating systems and compilers that are worth a damn.

Most emacs plug-ins aren't operating at that level of interdependence. This one is working on a text buffer at t0, and that other one is working on a text buffer at t1. Of course, the whole thing can be vastly simplified if we can reduce interdependence, but that is not the way the world works. Typical end user doesn't want emacs. Typical end user wants MS Word.

Even if I accepted the replacement of my word "feature" with your word "program" (not that I do), one only needs to look at Docker's prevalence to see the point still holds. Interdependence is hard, and sometimes unavoidable.