skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to hedge my tentative comments by pointing out that India is probably doing the best wildlife conservation job of any country in the world bar New Zealand. That they can faciltate such large populations of tigers and elephants in such a densely populated country speaks volumes in favour of them.
That would certainly work as well, and ultimately it does get converted into a Vec<u8>. I did consider just having the buffer as it from the start, but by using a String it was just a little more intuitive when it came to pushing more bits onto the buffer, as well as doing the padding operation at the end. More just to reduce complexity during development than anything I guess.
> Spreadsheets are one of the best possible approaches for prototyping data-driven applications,

Bingo. Back when I worked in big corp Excel was the prototyping tool for the masses. If someone in a remote office built something in Excel that solved a problem that was useful to other offices my team would come in and use that work to build a real system. It was great because a lot of the requirements discovery work happened organically before we would even hear about the process/Excel.

Admittedly, we were a small team and could only take on so much work. This led to Excel being used beyond its capabilities which leads to a host of other problems.
The first version since the NaN buyout... So you mean the first version since 2002?

One advantage of Blender being open source is that you can use any previous version forever. And the previous versions are quite good!
Stephen Hawking's book was published in 2001. Please, look at data from 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law#Measured_values...
I completely agree. It used to be a very simple piece of software (I’ve used it since the beginning) and they’ve progressively tried to add more UX changes which only confuse and add reliability issues.

Simple tasks like resetting a password or adding an entry in 1Pass can often be frustrating now.
I don't think empathising with a company is expected behaviour for anyone.
That is a very victim mentality statement to make.
> "It's heavy to see how your home just gets destroyed," says Omo. "The treehouse that you built and where you lived and where you spent so much time. And then you see hundreds and hundreds of cops running through your home. It's a heavy thing to see."

I'm astonished by this hypocrisy. Not only have they squatted on someone else's property, they did it not just to live in a forest, they did it as activists: with the exact purpose of creating the image of police brutality to create public backlash and affect the parties involved.

Even if their cause was completely just and good (which is a different conversation that I'm not prepared to have), they're getting at it by manipulating the media and purposefully creating the coverage they planned. This exact destruction was the main purpose of them building these houses, in this spot, to begin with.
If interested in some footage from protests and the site in general - https://twitter.com/JoanieLemercier
Show HN: VectorStyler for Mac Public Beta
That might be an excessively pessimistic attitude - intolerance of corruption is also a deeply rooted human trait.

It seems to me there might be some tradeoff between having a flexible society and having a just one, the more leeway any particular actor has, the more they can use that leeway to gain personal advantage. It seems at least possible that a thorough study of the factors affecting levels of corruption could improve the overall system to have both more personal freedom and less overall corruption.
It's hard to get a sense of how smart RMS is, because he seems to be anti-showy about it. But I've seen him talk in different venues, and calibrate how much he says to the venue. I've also seen him ramp up how much detail he goes into, and what kinds of arguments he can make, when someone with a background in some area is challenging him on some point. I can't tell how smart he is, but I suspect that most people talking with him underestimate him.
I'm working on VectorStyler (https://www.vectorstyler.com), a vector graphics and illustration software for the Mac.
VectorStyler was started with the goal of providing not just a different, but also a better solution in the vector graphics and illustration software space.
I believe that many requests for tools and features from designers and illustrators, have been left unanswered for long. Due to the peculiar situation the vector graphics software market is.
And I hope that VectorStyler answers some of these requests.

The detailed list of features can be found at: https://www.vectorstyler.com/detailed/

If you use a Mac (post 2014 models recommended, MacOS 10.11 or newer), and would like to try a new vector graphics software, please download the public beta and let me know how it works for you.

I would love to hear your feedback on this.
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Why bother when we have PNG?
Part of the original rationale for Eevee was to replace Blender Internal.
Just curious, what would be your preferred method to attract media attention or fight climate crisis in general?
So glad to see 2.8 getting closer to release. I recently used blender for a project, had a problem with the new gltf exporter, luckily it was so easy to fix that even I could create a patch and a pull request, which was reviewed and accepted within a day. Now THATS open source!
Will official Intel drivers work on a counterfeit card? It seems like Intel would bake some authentication into the drivers and authentic hardware such that the drivers would not work if the card is counterfeit.
> .. Kosciuszko. Nor can you spell it or pronounce it; ...

Then the rest of the article misspells it by dropping the Z!

As mentioned, it's also the name of Australia's highest mountain[0]. Named by the explorer Strzelecki.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kosciuszko
Excited to try this, but the download is going at low KB/s ... anyone got a torrent for the linux version?
IPv6 bans in transit fragmentation. If any part of the network can't forward a too large packet, it informs the host and puts the onus on them to resend it.
That's a good test.

I worked on this for free until we could raise venture capital to support the open-source development. Without venture capital, I'd probably be working on it in academia but I think that'd be less impactful given limited resources. Developers have been building apps on Blockstack since 2017, the App Mining program was introduced in late-2018. There is a genuine community of developers who'd work on this for free because they believe in the mission.

Users don't have any strings attached. There is a free username registration service for them (the default method) and the apps on https://app.co/blockstack provide real utlity while hiding blockchain-complexity. I don't think most users even realize that there is any blockchain involved.

Finally, no user is being paid to use any app. The App Mining program for developers is the only component in the ecosystem where any incentives/payments are involved. Apple had developer incentive programs for iOS for example. When launching a new platform you have the chicken & egg problem of users and apps. We're trying to get enough high-quality apps so users can get real utility. The App Mining program stops after the initial years.
Really. I’m not a seller so I didn’t know. But that’s almost serfdom.
Dans Le Noir is just one chain, the concept is older:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_dining
All that is speculation, which was based on two premises: 1) Hubble constant has value about 70(km/s)/Mpc; 2) with distance, we see "younger" (bluish) galaxies.

(1) - wrong, Hubble "constant" has different values depending on frequency of light or radiowaves used for measurement.

(2) - wrong, but papers about this started from 2008 only. In short, increasing diameter of telescope makes galaxies look "older".
HR should have a policy that beating up anyone who uses priority notifications is perfectly reasonable.
Why does it require more time than any other sport such as basketball?
This is one of the reasons that I use Google Sheets regularly for such tasks at work. The API allows you to do all the hard work in your language of choice and the post the output into a spreadsheet for viewing or other manipulation better suited to spreadsheet-style interaction. We have implemented all sorts of ad-hoc interactive sheets that can be viewed by anyone by emailing the shared URL around. It's a powerful tool for transcending the code-to-reporting boundary.

Love them or hate them, I think Google has done a great thing here. I'll be sad when they decide to suddenly drop support for it ;)
Yeah, interesting..
International typography on the Web: language support matrix
I recently switched from riot android to riotx, and while it is indeed beta quality in my experience that is more due to some missing features compared with riot android (such as VoIP, searching rooms by name, and sharing files) than the stability and usability. I still have riot android on my phone, but I haven't opened it in a week or so.

If the missing features (that are clearly being worked on and probably will be implemented soon) are not a big deal I would highly recommend to start using riotx!
Lots of conservative backlash against wind energy in the south. "Asparagus landscapes" was a slogan used to get votes of people who don't want wind turbines around.

Also fear mongering for infrasound etc.
In this context the ecocide caused by the construction of windturbines is especially alarming
Seems like the same strategy starting with AV1 would be a good solution.
My conjecture, for which I offer no proof: people get a lot of utility from friendship, especially if that friendship is with someone popular/fun/cool/beautiful. People are also not very good at distinguishing "I see this person on a screen every day and it's like we're hanging out" from "I hang out with this person every day".

Way back when this effect played out in the way people connected with the people on their favorite TV shows. If anything, it's compounded now, since you can watch these people do normal hangout stuff like "sitting all day on the balcony". That stuff used to be reserved for friends and family, or at least acquaintances. So we still attach a special feeling to taking part in it. Again, this is most true when we see the person as cool.

Might even be further compounded by the rise of actual friendships (i.e., two-way streets) that mostly play out online -- if many of your interactions with actual friends occur over Instagram, it's easier to see "I see person x's Instagram posts" as a kind of friendship.

These are just guesses. I follow some people on YouTube, but they're all very skilled practitioners of at least one of my hobbies, and I'm not into their sporadic "my life outside my hobby/vlog" videos.

Also, on reflection, I probably stole most of these ideas from an old essay David Foster Wallace wrote about television, "E Unibus Pluram" [1].

[1] https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
Disappointed this wasn't building canoes out of ice. That sounds more fun.

There was actually a plan to build ships out of ice during WWII, and then they came up with a better material which was wood pulp mixed with ice. It was stronger and took longer to melt. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
Spreadsheet is great and dangerous!

Try to find duplicates or do vlookup in a table/sheet with more than 10.000 rows.
It will only look at the first part of your data, and skip a lot if you don’t remember to sort your columns first.

Yes spreadsheet are a great start. I often ask people to “prototype” in Excel, after that it is SQL that rules.

And remember: Pivot in Excel = ‘Group by’ in SQL
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I've met a lot of people while working and travelling around Europe the past couple years, I would say 2-3 is more common.

I rarely met someone who could speak four languages fluently.
Agreed. An AV1 based format would be more interesting, and likely have better compression ratios.
No more "just learn them 100 shortcuts you newbie". It was incredibly annoying advice for casual user, who has simply forgotten everything everytime they need to do some 3D-modelling.
In that case, you might want to check the wiki. There are still some examples missing, but they'll give you a general idea.
Where murder (on any scale) is an option, it's almost always the mechanically easiest option. The reason we don't do it (collectively) as often as might be practical is because we have collectively agreed that it's not a nice idea to do so. Given those things, I don't see what exactly unnerves you. Is it the realisation that it is indeed easier because you suspected it would be difficult? Is it unnerving because you are not used to thinking of it as a solution?
It's also worth pointing to Kaze's videos for what dedication can bring even without the original source code. You'll find among other things recreations of later Mario games, or even games like Portal (and mechanics!) implemented in SM64. https://youtube.com/user/KazeBG0/videos

His wiki: https://mario64hacks.fandom.com/wiki/Kaze_Emanuar
Some time ago I always looked down upon such creators, but, with time - what is the difference between those influencer kids and Hollywood (especially in times of netflix cut-cost model)? Its still only about content provided, and content market is biggest ever today. Of course, I doubt that this (being employed as YT persona) is sustainable on a long run (there is myriad of reasons, including platform dependence), but girl already has a foothold in entertainment industry, far easier to start for her now than if sending screenplays to random producers. My point being, people watching it (or authors creating it) are not stupid, they are market driven, its almost a systemic problem that we can create value out of nothing and sustain this value doing nothing. World continues to spin.
The original URL has way more information than the new source. More pictures and more text.
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" 1800s England, Manchester child workers were losing their hands to clean dirt from textile machine without stoping them because it can effect their productivity.
Same children who has just cleaned narrow chimney. "

I think this pollution and all those sufferings are first step of industrialisation you might say what about current england or germany, I guess they suffered enough to make changes.
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Please see AVIF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#AV1_Image_File_Format_(AVI...) for an open, royalty-free alternative with similar or better performance.

And if you must use HEVC-based imaging, consider HEIF which has considerable support.
I think she needs some kind of counselling or mentoring because working long stretches like that is not going to lead to long term gain as she's already noticed with her health. The attitude and work ethic are commendable but it's not what I want as a role model for my own kids.
The US land forever leased to England
> there's never been a better time!

Sounds like the best time is "in the coming days." :) But seriously: I'm not sure I want to cut my teeth on a version that hasn't been fully tested for bugs.
This might be true about sheer number of installations, but by wattage most of the power comes from massive solar fields, not rooftop PV. According to Wikipedia [0], the five biggest installations are all in the Brandenburg area (a poorer region in the northeast), though anecdotally I see medium size fields all the time along the railways in Bavaria.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany#Photovo...
Fabrice strikes again! FFMPEG, QEMU, TCC . . . .

https://bellard.org/
Calling China poor or not northern is kind of a stretch and so is putting it on the same developmental level (even as a rhetorical device) as India.
Bitwarden will also stop working with Catalina / Safari 13 so that doesn't help this particular use case
I do love that this site still exists years later. I still use it regularly. It only took me like three years to remember the name right the first time.
To get your phone to act as a stingray, wouldn't this require two antennas?

(one to receive and another to broadcast)
You are forgetting the part where RWE is also paying the income of a whole lot of miners, who would suddenly be without a job if the mines where to be closed.

That is the biggest political hurdle here, it's not solely RWE being greedy, a lot of it has to do with nobody being able to offer these miners any job alternatives once their mines are closed.

Yet these miners make up a substantial part of the population in certain German states, thus the result that majority of Germans want to exit coal but in those places where coal actually matters there's vehement opposition to closing them down [0].

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/kohleausstieg-meh...
In the US there is a trend to not write orders down (the reason is unclear to me:it’s saves paper and makes it mor personal?), short term memorize them and run to the computer and type them in.

This tends to lead to a fair number of mistakes, and makes those with allergies ver nervous.
AMD Ryzen 3000 Post-Review BIOS Update Recap: Larger ST Gains, Some Gains/Losses
No, it makes it an opinion, with no argument supporting it provided by OP...

It's not a self-evident truth, at least to me.
To folks interested in writing compilers, here's a tiny list of resources I put together for myself: http://hexopress.com/@joe/blog/2019/04/14/awesome-compiler-r...
They also have (had?) a "surprise me" menu. An incredible experience to be sure. Highly recommended to anyone. I couldn't guess the main dish in the end. (spoiler) It was shark!
I have noticed this effect in myself while watching streamers on Twitch. You start to feel like you're sitting on a couch with your buddy playing a game.
Is there a reason that browsers don't jump on the bandwagon and implement codecs for all reasonably-stable image codecs (save this one, which seems to be patent encumbered)?

i.e.: why doesn't Chrome support AVIF? Is it because it competes with their own invented-here WebP?

It seems like adding new image codecs for given content types would be pretty trivial if the libraries are available and stable and license compatible; why be conservative and not just support the newish ones to help the best ones gain traction?

It seems like browser vendors are just dragging their feet.
Intel 10th Gen 'Comet Lake' Desktop CPU for LGA 1159 Socket Leaked
The vendor is selling just the executable. But it appears tgat ghey have the source code, so why not provide a 64 bit version?
The Story and the Cost of Re-Building our ecomm site selling $1M+/year
GNOME's Mutter Picks Up Another Optimization Helping DisplayLink-Type Hardware
"just like riding a bike" - best summary of Excel I've read!
The jobs at risk are not only those in the coal industry but also the jobs powered by the coal. You can't run a business without electricity. So if coal makes up about a third of the power then about a third of the jobs in Germany could be lost.

Of course coal can and should be replaced by something better but thats gonna take a while and Germany has chosen to phase out nuclear before coal so this is a consequence of that decision.
The Methods Pain Doctors Use For Drug Screening Pain Management Patients

Urine this is the most common and widespread tool utilized for testing compliance. The window of detection ranges from 12 to 72 hours. It is also useful for testing drug metabolites. Pain doctors can do a screen in the office that will give a positive or negative result for numerous drug classes. Then the sample can be screened by gas chromatography for extremely specific confirmation of drug levels.
Sweat - Perspiration provides a detection window of around a week. The collection method is inefficient - patients need to wear a patch for days to weeks. It's not a widespread method of screening.

Hair The window of detection for hair is lengthy - up to 6 weeks. The incidence of false negatives is fairly high and the testing is cumbersome to perform. There also is questionable racial bias with individual hair colors binding differentially to certain drugs. Like sweat, it is not very efficient for clinical screening.

Oral saliva this method of screening offers easy collection with the additional benefit of being able to actually watch the patient produce the sample. It has a short detection window (up to 4 hours) and the drugs are generally found at lower levels than what one sees in urine. The frequency of positive drug test results in workers has been shown to have similar efficacy with saliva testing in comparison to urine. Saliva testing is growing in popularity for drug screening.

https://untappedreviews.com/my-back-pain-coach-review/
> left click select as the new default

This is a huge improvement for new users. Right click was very un-intuitive when coming from other applications.

Congrats to the Blender team on this release.
That’s quite the Malthusian viewpoint. Alternatively: “Malthus theory, which holds that since the world’s resources are more or less fixed, population growth must be restricted or all of us will descend into bottomless misery.
Malthusianism is scientifically bankrupt — all predictions made upon it have been wrong, because human beings are not mere consumers of resources. Rather, we create resources by the development of new technologies that find use for them. The more people, the faster the rate of innovation. This is why (contrary to Malthus) as the world’s population has increased, the standard of living has increased, and at an accelerating rate.“

https://space.nss.org/the-significance-of-the-martian-fronti...
Make a new locale :)
Intel Introduces Co-EMIB to Stitch Multiple 3D Die Stacks Together
It was the last old forest in Germany. Like, it was a forest for 12000y, basically since the last ice age. Individual trees are only a couple hundred years old, but the ecosystem you get from many generations of trees growing in a mostly unmanaged forest is rather unique and due to the time scales involved irreplaceable.
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> Things like needle biopsy of the prostate can miss cancerous cells, unless you take 100 samples.

biopsies can cause a stable tumor to metastasize [0]. Sometimes medical screenings are useful, but when you’re looking for problems and don’t actually have symptoms, practitioners have an incentive to find something to treat you for. Ideally you’ll be fired as a patient, but I’ve heard of doctors who do procedures and operate every time they can possibly justify it (“he owes money to everyone.”)

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4015162/
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On which platform/hardware is 100MB ridiculous? I was using it on my Raspberry Pi with a 32GB MicroSD card which cost ~10€ for the High Endurance version (officially supported by SanDisk for Linux/Pi) i.e. 100MB is peanuts.

Also the difference between 60MB and 100MB isn't huge, so using the word ridiculous is IMO a bit over-dramatic.
Turned out to be number #1
The outage was due to an internal configuration change, which we're now fixing. Some people may be able to access Twitter again and we're working to make sure Twitter is available to everyone as quickly as possible.
They make so many good decisions without sacrificing functionality.

I feel Blender should loan some of its UI people to GIMP...
If I was making a graphics format I'd have one bit in the header for: is_lena. Then I could have very small Lena images /joke
Pablo Escobar’s brother escalates flamethrower feud with Elon Musk
EV battery prices to fall to US$100/kWh in 2022, says Digitimes Research
Desalination is not a panacea.
Thanks. I went to the AV1 page but didn't notice that section. Seems promising, with implementations already cropping up.
Do you mean the death of birds due to wind turbines? As best as I can tell, that is dwarfed by the birds killed by domesticated animals.