skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are birds actually so scarce elsewhere in the world? My experience in a small city on the east coast of Australia is that birds are everywhere and in great variety. On a recent morning, I counted 10 different species of bird walking 500m to the shops and back. And it is hard to ignore the noise from the large flocks of sulfur crested cockatoos and rainbow lorakeets that frequent my town.

I understand that what I see is already a pale comparison compared to 200 or 10,000 years ago, but the numbers are still impressive. I am also aware of how little attention my fellow citizens pay to the variety of bird life around them. But it is still surprising to me that people can talk about cities having few birds and little diversity.
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Are you suggesting you would rather these UIs devote an unknown amount of screen real estate to various bulky OS scrollbars? That makes concise and predictable design for complex applications very difficult.

This "very, very narrow" number of applications you are suggesting is exactly what I was talking about. Those are the ones who need custom scrollbar solutions, and the way to get that done now is obtuse, brittle and hard to maintain.
Your request will hit CloudFlare edge node in your country and be served from there. Under your jurisdiction.
Nothing about modern fighter procurement makes any sense logistically!

It seems the F22 was basically picked on the promise to make as many components in as many separate states as possible, in order to ensure every politician on the hill brought into it.

And the idea of servicing different parts of the F35 in different buying countries is another logistical masterstroke, not! Oh my god, servicing F35 engines in Turkey just when Turkey starts to dance with Russia, what were we thinking?

Right now we're telling Turkey you can't have the F35 because you've just brought the S400 SAMs from Russia, but we've already invested in servicing the F35 engines there...
Birds have been in significant and will probably continue to decline due to human activity.

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

The main drivers I think are plain habitat loss, pesticide use (associated decline in insect population), and large scale change in available food and climate.

I think the easiest to address would be pesticide and herbicide use -- widely known to have other negative side effects, such as effect on bees, possible human effects, biodiversity loss, etc. Hopefully it can be replaced by techniques like crop diversification and maybe robotic/biological pest control.
That’s a very good point. In fact all of them do, because the same EU that mandates GDPR also mandates data retention, which only differs in details in member states.
agreed. Just yesterday I was reading about shared object support in Go, and it hasn't improved since inception. Sometimes I just want an object/module, and not a git repo. Even VB had this down.
> The WebGPU working group does not currently have any participation from AMD or NVIDIA. Khronos and the SPIR-V working group do. I trust them to get these details right.

On the other hand, the SPIR-V working group has no participation from Apple or Microsoft (vendors of relevant platform APIs, relevant shading languages, and in Apple's case, of relevant GPUs).

You might argue that Apple should join the SPIR-V group but you could likewise argue that AMD and Nvidia should join the WebGPU group. After all, their voices would be valuable as to the API and not just the shader language. The barrier to entry to a W3C Community Group is also much lower.
Or NVN, libGNM.
France says killing software engineers is legitimate if software used in war
The change in monetary system caused a cascade of despair.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Cracks on windshields and dinged paint are cheaper to repair than high efficiency solar panels.
I think we're blessed in Australia with variety and number of birds.

But even here, especially in larger cities they seem to be fewer and fewer and less diverse.
Funny, the way i remember it happening: both YF-22s were lost do to mishaps, the YF-23 was faster, stealthier, and just as maneuverable without the vectored thrust. The AF wanted the -23, but the chairman of the senate armed services committee was from Georgia, where Lockheed promised to build the -22. and the history got rewritten.

Source: Dad was part of the YF-23 program at northrop and lost his gog when the project was shitcanned. yes, still bitter almost 30 years later.
What drives down their fares is this:

If an airline based in A is running a flight A>B>C, they can’t feed any pax to B except from A, or carry pax further than C (without interlining). So there’s a bit more of an incentive to sell tickets B>C while other airlines flying that route can sell tickets to a much wider array of passengers (coming from pre-B (but not A) or going post-C).
But you already have all of that, since public transport is usually subsidized to some degree.
I tolerate (apparently) a 6G memory leak with 50+ tabs and Tree Style Tabs. It was much faster when Mozilla accidentally remotely disabled extensions for a weekend.
What is happening when the battery is full?
Sparrows were every where in Bangalore when I was growing up. After the city grew crazy, the pollution grew and so did the Mobile phone towers.

You won't be able to find a single sparrow today. Not one. There is a also a noticeable decline in other bird population and diversity. Mostly because Bangalore's lakes are gone. There was a lake called Hebbal Lake where migratory birds would visit from Australia every year. They've stopped coming.

Unmitigated disaster.
This doc offers great depth on why dynamic shared objects are so hard: https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/m/a/1/e/dsoho... and that's just for Linux & co. I'm surprised the Go team chose to add support for DSOs.
I think that last mile vehicles also have a place to play in that regard.

Things like a onewheel pint, a scooter or a boosted board.

Truth be told, in places like Paris, the only case where I would need one of these is when my move is not helped by the subway : the lines tend to go from the center of the city to its outer limits, so if you are move on the city limits, you might have to first go back to its center. For most of the cases, the subway is good enough.

In US cities though, last mile vehicles have been a must for me.
The free tram zone isn't that large though, it's maybe a 15-20 minute walk from one end to the other.

What annoys me with Melbourne's public transport is that people taking short trips essentially subsidise those taking longer trips. It costs me almost $5 to go one stop on the train from Richmond to Flinders St, a 5 minute trip. It's also the same price for me to take a train all the way to Sandringham, which is 45 minutes.
> Redis was reporting 50% higher throughput even though both systems were saturating the network using identical payloads. [...] at some point Redis almost immediately stops replication and continues to skip replication while workload remained high. [...] significantly raising the risk of lost data. [...] By default, Redis is sacrificing the safety of data to perform faster under high loads.

Wooooo. Shots fired. Excellent article, looks like they dug into the issues with quite a bit of depth.

This is what I come to have news for. The title dosnt do it justice.
Django Views and Django Rest Framework Views
> Also, much of violence is related to legal marijuana businesses being unbanked

Right, except for the critical fact that there are no legal marijuana businesses, that is certainly an important effect of the continued federal prohibition.
This syntax even made its way into CommonMark (https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#fenced-code-blocks)
Owning Your Own Home Is Even More Stupid Than Running Your Own Servers
Growing a profitable newsletter of daily coding problems
Previous discussion from 2.5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20364348
Its not just France, its an issue across northern/western Europe. Combine that with the difficulty of getting a proper AC installed in a rented house/apartment with normal stone walls and it explains the current lack of AC units. Most landlord will immediately be scared for the buildings substance. The few AC units that you see are those "mobile" devices with a single tube hanging out of a window. Even window units are a rare occasion because of the kind of windows installed across the country. Not to mention regulations stopping renters from changing the outer appearance of the house. I really dont see a viable plan to retrofit living spaces in a reasonable time frame. At this point i would even be doubtful, that there would be enough people capable of doing the job available.

An often overlooked point is also the situation in workplaces, some parts of Europe simply lack the worker protection needed during heatwaves.

I honestly dont see how most countries in Europe could retrofit buildings to a detectable degree, let alone finance it. There are just to many older buildings build for another kind of climate. Providing air conditioned shelters during the weeks of deadly heat sounds like the most realistic option. That would be similar to what is being done in winter to prevent people from freezing to death.
Convenient collaboration features within a team. Version History. No manual update or disconnect of tabular data.
He got his Phd from Cape Town Uni and probably grew up there.

My limited experience of SF left with the impression that fewer than 10% of people who work there grew up in CA let alone SF.

Seattle is probably similar.
Haswell can branch predict the indirect branch at the end of each bytecode instruction to dispatch the next bytecode instruction much better than previous generations.

In highly dynamic languages like JS, Ruby and Python it’s not even this which is the main source of branching anyway. It’s branching on the typesfor each opcode to handle all valid types.
If you don't want to do time, Don't do the crime.
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Just like WebGL fails short of OpenGL ES, with less features and lower FPS count on the same hardware.
I wouldn't let it put you off. mlthoughts2018 is pretty much the only commenter on HN who has seriously used Haskell yet also complains about it.
I never realized how good their pricing is!
> exp(iπ) = –1 ... How can this be?

The “plain English” expression of this formula is: a half turn rotation in a plane is equivalent to a reflection across the axis of rotation.

YMMV, but I have found that small children can understand this statement.
My experience with cesium is that everyone thinks its radioactive. It isn't-- like many common elements there is a radioactive isotope, but that is not what would have been used here.

I speculate this worked by the highly reactive cesium ionizing the air. Similar things have been done with doping rocket fuels with metals to stimulate lightning strikes.

Presumably most of the cesium would end up reacted very quickly, I don't know what the products would be but plenty of obvious candidates like cesium carbonate appear to be non-toxic.
It should be for a lot of people. But, for more than enough people, it’s not. And, even if it is obvious, the drama it promotes even among the knowledgable is a big negative I’d prefer to avoid on HN.
With extensions count growing every week.

Good luck making sense of Vulkan in 10 years time.
Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purge
My manager does this. He is incredibly wary of adding process so he tries to automate it and it never gets implemented. For example, every quarter he tries to come up with some automated system for assigning code checks. It usually has some jank that causes it to go unused and we fall back on just asking one another as needed until he tries again.
I wonder if you could try a standalone website/brand purely for the resume service to isolate the spiel? polishedresumes.com or something. Make that the tip of your spear. You can be known for other things, but if someone wants to recommend your resume service to their peers, they have a URL that is to the point.

That said, Homeless Resumes is a bit barefoot investor or whatever that brand is.
Or 20 minute cycle
My favorite A12 talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGdxpqqsHl8

Frank Murray's talk is full of great facts, insight, yarns and stuff. Still as sharp as a tack.

There are lots of other interviews with A12 and SR71 and other interesting planes on youtube.

Be warned: an HNer could lose days browsing there ;)
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Vultures man, those are things that we nearly lead to extinction recently in India. I remember when I was a kid there used to be a road in Delhi with the dead tree and vultures sitting all over it. But by the time I was an adult there were no Vultures in most of India. The heavy use of antibiotics we realised too late was causing the decline. The Parsi people (zorastrians) were impacted badly because their religious practice is to let the body be eaten away by animals, and without vultures the bodies were just rotting very badly.
Should it do that for all emails sent to the domain, or only for valid addresses? If they only fetch for addresses in use this will open up for an easy way for spammers to verify if an address is in use or not
For me the most mysterious equation is:

⌊π⌋ - ⌈e⌉ = 0

This equation shows connection between pi, e, zero and number theory.
I'm talking about the whole banking sector in France.
Well are we seeing a comet's tail? Or a retrorocket?
For those not in the know, the joke here is a play on the real quote from Carl Sagan:

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
IMHO I think it's unlikely you would get any serious replies... Kickstarter is sure to monitor this thread.
It all seems like a giant plan to prevent people from starting their adult lives

It literally is; the Blair government specifically had their 50%-go-to-university goal to monkey with youth unemployment figures.
Browser vendors are a lot better at writing compilers than GPU vendors. Also there are fewer different browser engines than different GPU drivers so that also helps.
Solar RV Prototype (German): https://www.promobil.de/dethleffs-erstes-elektro-alkovenmobi...
Too expensive given the app.

S3/Google give around 2 cents/GB a month (lower for cold storage) but you also get to access it through the web... what's the benefit with this?
Is the SV model really the most optimal model?

Similar statements get brought up claiming SVmodel(old_thing) = better_thing, but without really going into _why_.

It might as well just be giving an old thing the Midas touch.
Tokyo is a fantastic city, I spent two weeks there and loved it. It is extremely clean and safe, loads of good restaurants and entertainment, and good outdoor spaces. If I could speak the language and work there, I would move in a second.

California is in no danger of being overpopulated... The issue is as you say - single family homes are a brain dead way to live. Every homeowner has to spend hours a day maintaining his house... We stopped running our own internet servers after the first ten years of the web. Why can't we do the same with housing? Convert everything to medium (4 story buildings) or high (10+ story) density housing. You would completely get rid of suburban sprawl and everyone rich and poor could live within a mile of the ocean or mountains, walk or ride a five minute train to work, and solve climate change at the same time.
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I live downtown in a large Canadian city and there's magpies, pigeons, sparrows, ducks, geese, and the occasional hawk or falcon. That's just downtown. Go to one of our parks and there's more variety. An hour outside of town, even more. No, birds don't seem particularly scarce here.
This is important. Kickstarter has presented itself to the public and employees as an ethical company, a public benefit corporation. It would probably be the best-known tech company to have a union, and we can't set that kind of example, now.
> California would have had legal marijuana a decade sooner except for lobbing by the union, they're a major force for mandatory minimum sentences and tougher sentencing in general.

edit: Do you have any articles to recommend that would shed some lights on this matter ?

Do you have some sources ? (I don't live in the US, but I find the idea that guards somehow lobby fascinating)
And if gas prices in USA come closer to the rest of the industrialized world the savings would be much more.
> Basically, any patent that an average software developer would violate just in their normal course of work

By definition that's every software patent, given the same problem to solve.

Donate: http://endsoftwarepatents.org/donate
It is though? I'm using it on Firefox without any issues
I've entertained the idea of abolishing prisons in my head, but I can't imagine what we would do as an alternative. Suggestions?
And when we took the lead away, crime dropped like 50%
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesi...
This seems intuitively obvious, not a miracle.

Take every other element in a series that has any regularish omnidirectional trend, alternate addition and subtraction, and you are quite likely to end up with a zero convergence.
What Are Identity APIs?
It is upon you, who think there is a need to replace them with anything, to motivate why. As far as I'm concerned, patents don't solve a problem and is therefore harmful.
I have but only as a tourist. I called out that border because Alsace and Lorraine have gone back and forth quite a few times. I don’t think that’s a “natural” border but I think being exchanged by war and treaty is a pretty purposeful expression of local and national desires. So it’s not random. That wasn’t kind of what I was trying to express.

Some borders are arbitrary (Kenya and Tanzania) and some are based on rivers or natural borders (France and Spain, Nepal and India).

But curiously the people are different in Alsace than Germany. And also different from Alsace and France. Some differences are the result of French laws and culture, some differences are the result of local custom, some differences are the result of historical German laws and culture. This doesn’t mean that people here are alien or have no commonalities. I think that people have much more in common than they have different.
> length alongside with the (binary safe) string itself,

What is the type of the length?

What is the type of the length+string?

What lengths is it limited to?

Do we need a 32 bit and 64 bit version? And 128+ bit version?

Can you provide an implementation? What is its best and worst case efficiency?

What is its expected efficiency for the typical string operations?
> ad hominem

Hardly-

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

> Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"),[1] short for argumentum ad hominem, typically refers to a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.

You failed at the "genuine discussion" part by citing pop econ horseshit.
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Yes. Covered in https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/kickstarter-turmoil-uni...

The union wanted to ensure management adhered to the company’s stated values, notably in pay equality and standing up to fascists.
Possibly, but then it would lose the benefit of being understood by any reader of English; recursion requires a little mental gymnastics.
I "attacked" pop econ bullshit, not a person.
So this isn’t directed at you in particular but I don’t understand this “do you have any sources?” for stuff that’s one search away. If it was some obscure hard to find information published in some journal I would understand it, but this in this case

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=california+prison+guards+lobby

And yet I see this constantly on almost every thread. What is it with HN and asking for sources on everything?
I agree the original quote doesn’t present a very strong argument against the MWI. In the same way that arguments against determinism in classical physics are not very convincing. But seemed worth pointing out.

In the MWI case it’s not clear how sensitive the “worlds” are to the in initial state. It’s not even clear how sensitive they are to the current state! Better understanding of how (and how many) worlds “emerge” would be needed to say if the “problem” is or not as bad as in the classical case.

Is the number of worlds stable? Is it increasing? In any case, those worlds are the inevitable consequence of the initial conditions even though we can’t even estimate how much fine-tuning is needed. I don’t think “randomness generated along the way” is a satisfactory counter-argument.
Presumably in a world without patents a monopoly like google wouldn’t exist.
> There exist functions of a single real variable that have derivatives at the origin that are all zero, yet are nonzero

The function that is equal to 0 for x<1 and equal to 1 otherwise also satisfies this.
The amount of downvoting on legitimate questions is starting to get a bit out of hand around here. If people can't answer a mild challenge to their claim, should they be making it in the first place?
I don’t know who I am and what I want. I’m in my 30s and engaged because my SO couldn’t accept the status quo. I recently dropped out of my PhD after 3 years or floundering to take a job. I worry every day about the decisions I’ve made and I’m afraid of regret. I feel like a mess. I can’t articulate my thoughts but I know I have an aptitude for programming and math, though I constantly second guess my solutions and revise them all the time leading others to doubt me. I don’t believe in anything or anyone. I can shoot ideas down like nobodies business but have no vision myself. Sometimes I wonder if how I view myself matches up at all with how others view me. I fantasize about my own death. I can’t commit. Feeling sorry for myself I guess, but feels good to write it out