skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love whenever crows become a topic online because people have all these amazing crow stories that they never have another reason to share.

How's about we allow a little local flavor while people tell their stories?
> "if you needed a 28-core computer with 1.5TB of RAM, would you really be quibbling on the price"

Yes - when you need a few thousand of these to render your SFX, you shop around for alternatives. Then some startup that recently built a cloud render farm for this exact use case will save you the CapEx, give you a manageable OpEx and prove this Op-Ed wrong. SFX studios are legendary for hiring and firing elastically, you think they care about Apple hardware lock-in?

Also, if you're a software business built on Apple, do some research - they'll fuck you over in a heartbeat. Maybe they'll block you on the Mac Store for using a private API [1], or retroactively apply a bogus rule [2] if they want to compete with you. Control your destiny by moving off an exclusive-Apple strategy

[1]: https://m.slashdot.org/story/362994

[2]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...
Yes and no, in Europe outside London and Berlin (big capitals) you’ll find that developer salaries are much lower than expected compared to the US.

That’s pretty much across the board.
I haven't heard SE outside of a Japanese context, so this may just be a case of different countries randomly picking different acronyms.
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Disclosure: I work for AWS.

We have many tools in our toolbox at our disposal: non-disruptive in-service updates moves live migration from a "must have to operate compute cloud service at all" to "helpful in some scenarios when the workload and/or situation warrants the impact to performance during precopy / potential post-copy phases."

But I would not assume that EC2 does not have that particular tool in the "fully production, and used" toolbox.
We need to create lots of jobs in other industries that allow living wages without a college degree.

The government should massively incentivize:

- solar farms

- wind turbines

- battery storage deployments

- residential solar w/ batteries and grid-down operation (most grid-tied virtual battery solar stops working completely in a power outage)

- achieve fusion power net output

- elderly and disabled caregivers

- offer an option to teach and mentor people the fundamentals of running a successful small business (expanding SBA/SCORE)

- give people a chance to showcase, see and try out different industries

- setup a factory incubator to allow bootstrapping and designing efficient, streamlined operations for quality products made in the US at globally-competitive prices.

Investing in people and infrastructure brings lots of indirect returns. Do everything possible to help people to succeed and have a future.
Both "webmaster" and "security" are standardized in RFC 2142, so one should be able to contact those easily. It's indeed not what happens in practice most of the time, but not sure if throwing more standards at it is a good solution: if/when most of the online services will follow those, they'd probably follow different ones.
There are enough laws in most places thoroughly covering these kinds of activities that you can safely assume it’s breaking at least some law in some jurisdiction.

And even if you wouldn’t be in the jurisdiction that prohibits it and/or wouldn’t be extradited for it, that doesn’t technically make it legal.
I've seen crows do this on my own neighborhood, both on side streets with little traffic, and on main streets on the crosswalk. I had heard of crows doing this in Japan but was impressed to see this in central Europe (although it's corvus cornix, the grey-black kind, not the full black one)
pgbouncer is event based for a reason, they recently added an option to run multiple processes listening on the same socket so that allows it to utilize all available cores.
Most laws don't care about the nationality of the victim - i.e. in a legal sense yes it is illegal. Whether or not the governments would work together to extradite/charge you, on the other hand, is a different story.
what about orcas?
Do you ask people to turn off their smartphones when you’re at their house? Or at dinner? Or in public?
FWIW, the popping speakers are a software related issue, many users who updated to a recent version of Catalina have reported the issue has been fixed for them.
Also, thermal throttling has not really been an issue with the new 16" MBP. It can sustain well over base clock for indefinite periods it seems while still staying under the power budget.
Well, if we ever figure out fusion, we could get the enormous amount of energy part.
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The writer is a typical stock speculator not a real technical analyist. This is just another mesh of buzzwords to get stocks going for momentum trading
Seems so https://github.com/flutter/flutter with 81.3k stars.
Cats and dogs are smarter in every sense of the word. More neurons for one, but the most obvious reason is their ability to convey emotion. Emotion is by far the deepest level of reasoning because it has the ability to transcend pure Darwinism. Emotion is what separates the natural brain from the quantum computer version. True AI is emotion + reason. Without learning from the past, and applying a multiplier based on the severity of the consequence, we cannot accurately foresee potential warning signs of impending doom which is not very intelligent at all. This is why libtards like Dang are so smart.
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Previously I heard about crows in Japan leaving nuts on the way of the cars to crash them when traffic lights are red and collecting them the next cycle. This summer I witnessed the exact same thing when I was driving through a particularly jammy traffic light here in Europe.

Are these crows inventing the method over and over again independently, like scientists finding the same thing at the same time in different parts of the world? Is this some very basic instinct that the crows evolved into? Are they teaching each other and now the Euro crows using Japanise tech? Fascinating creatures.
We also focus on the abilities of an individual.

There can be a fair amount of complex behavior of groups. Ants and plants for example

http://web.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/26/the-intellige...
>I'm not sure it's always so great that everything anyone does online will be permanently archived

The real problem here is the runaway cancel culture, where we attack people for things they said or did years or decades ago which were (at the time) perfectly acceptable and reasonable.

The most egregious example I have seen so far is cancel culture advocates who think we should disregard the late Richard Feynman’s legacy because he said some rude things to a lady back in 1946, even though the lady herself was not offended, since she did sleep with him later that same evening.

There’s a point where we just have to say “That was a long time ago, no one at the time was offended, get over it.”
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They are a bit of a nuisance here, hate's a strong word but I'm at least a bit annoyed by them.
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I don’t buy that. I’m sure the way that they select the sites in the first place is probably proprietary, but once you start broadcasting radio frequencies, it’s trivial to pinpoint the location of the towers, so there’s absolutely nothing stopping anyone, particularly a competitor, from mapping them out quite easily.
I've never heard of a drone proper (vertical lift, multiple motor R/C) operating at 1100', which is well above the legal limit. Without proof, they're both speculating by not presenting factual news, and scapegoating drones. That's why the NTSB doesn't jump to conclusions before the facts are in.

PS: Here's another, better article with the news station involved and video interview:

https://abc7.com/federal-agencies-investigating-drone-collis...
Power users certainly use CSV files when uploading to other systems. Banks allow export of transactions as CSV files. Web shop import CSV files for prices.
You could phrase it as distance from nearest terrain rather than altitude.
If I'm not mistaken, 22k is roughly the amount you would get for placing a single software engineer in a recruitment pipeline. Job-seeking traffic is quite valuable.
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Number/date formatting to the right locale

Uh,... maybe. This may work well for most people, but at least allow me the option of setting up my own format. I happen to live in a locale where the "official" locale-specific formats for numbers and money are almost never used by real people (because they're ugly and fuggly.) So it gets pretty annoying when LibreOffice only recognises it's own list of locales and will only apply the "official" formats. As a result, you can count on the fingers of one head the number of people here who will use "Format > Money". They'll rather use some number format that looks the way locals all expect things to look.
Users don't care about most of this. Custom colors? Tell that to Apple's customers who seems to have no problem using a non-customizable OS. Running on obscure hardware configurations? Users don't have those, programmers do. Company branding? That's not a user request. Touch gestures? Who made this up? Not users.
> You're probably right theoretically, but people tend to choose really weak password if they can choose anything.

Not in my experience. If I can choose anything I'll write a decent-length phrase. If I'm forced to use numbers and symbols I'll make the shortest thing I can.

Certainly there's no reason to reject a 20+ letter all-lowercase password. Apply your capital/number/symbol rules to passwords shorter than 16 characters if you must.
This puzzle was shared by an SRE engineer from his interview(internal transfer) at Google.
Yes there are lots of risks.

At an individual level: even if there is no governmental back door, the necessity for a warrant and the criteria to award one scales significantly based on who a person is investigating. If a warrant cannot be awarded against you specifically, lower criteria maybe awarded against relatives. Poor quality assurances could result in contamination of your sample. This is known to have happened in other countries for DNA material. Additionally, geans Express differently due to environmental pressures of an individual. Your DNA can provide information about your socioeconomic background and your upbringing. understanding the threat model of providing your DNA to a private company is important.

On an societal level: DNA is a fingerprint, that at scale can be used to identify protected groups. Providing your DNA allows for scale analysis against known traits of you and your compadres. This enables all sorts of dangerous future sciences. Medical IRBs are usually tasked with specifying their direct application that requires access to medical material. This requirement helps to prevent against arbitrary and scaled surveillance of populations. The private companies are not held to the same standard. You are giving or selling them access to your current expressed genome set.

Finally, a measure against good: private companies for which you give arbitrary data do not have to tell you the consequences of your shared data. There is nothing that requires the company to even do anything with your data. There is also nothing preventing the company from reselling or redistributed your data in many cases. If a company is purchased, terms of service may change from underneath your provided sample. You do not know the applications, nor do you know if there is any measurable benefit.

I would only participate in a program like this if there was a hard specific benefit to my life, and if I was beyond the age of trivial legal in discretions and had no intention of having children.
The "Just for Fun" link[1] leads to some entertaining videos:

Skiing down a roof: https://youtu.be/1WupH8oyrAo

My girlfriend's spirit animal: https://youtu.be/Qt-pB1R64mI

Teaming up to provoke a catfight: https://youtu.be/WQd9kuXpUYU

Nipping a sausage: https://youtu.be/Y0xwX5iOFok

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/scientists-investiga...
Are there classes one could take that give hands on tutorials on soldering technique? It’s amazing to me how people are able to solder such fine traces or even remove an entire chip from a Mobo without damaging it. Where can you learn these skills because the school I went to (ucla) certainly didn’t have any
Schools don't need to bring professor salaries down. They just hire cheap adjuncts to teach a lot of classes. That greatly reduces their average cost per credit hour.

Good professors pay for themselves by bringing in grant money.
I skimmed all the comments, and am surprised that nobody mentioned the recent advances in radiation treatments. The cancer is modeled with MRI images, dots are tattooed on the patient's body and used to line up the patient with projected laser dots to ensure that body is in exactly the right position, and three trackers are placed into the prostate (Calypso) which allow real time tracking of prostate position. Radiation beams are targeted directly at the cancer, causing minimum damage to the surrounding tissue. The treatment takes about 15 minutes once a day for 30 days. The doctors say it has few side effects and is vastly preferable to surgery. The nurse said this procedure has been available for about 5 years.
You can’t ride on the coattails of FANGO (Oracle) forever. For every person doing well you have just as many doing drugs in a tent on the streets below multimillion dollar 2 bedroom lofts
Wouldn't you get smearing of blood and other remains with a bird?
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Maybe the requirement of starting with problem solving to establish is an issue with the audience and not the author. Imagine starting out by showing the sorts of innovative play that crows engage in, and no one (or at least during blind peer review) would accept it as evidence of intelligence, even if it is.
Dark themes only save battery power on devices with displays that have per pixel lighting (eg oled like a modern iPhone). If the background lighting is fixed like an led or lcd display then the thing that impacts your battery is the brightness level, and most users can view a light theme at lower brightness than a dark theme.

If you're using dark mode to save battery on a laptop it's not working.
> Because deployment tends to be very context-sensitive[1],

Not with Docker. Docker makes that problem a thing of the past.
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There's also Expandrive.
You're thinking too short term. .txt far predates, and will far outlast, any standard du jour. I bet you wouldn't be so gung ho about security.xml.

I really don't see the issue. robots.txt works just fine, and this is simply following in its highly successful footsteps. What you suggest is change for change's sake.
Agree 100% it depends on the software but you cannot choose the color of your professional tools in general. Your Bulldozer and medical scanner don't come in purple, sorry.
No, the Bay Area rides on the coattails of tech. Severs can be anywhere and the second they decide Nevada (Cough Oracle) is cheaper, good by to all the money financing the impractical public policy. Humans are naturally selfish and greedy. That is fundamentally incompatible with any socialization of sufficient size
Just out of curiosity: do you mind sharing which locale/area this is?
Local flavour doesn't have to include stereotypes.
They try to tax themselves to prosperity.
Seems they were in use for about 15 years -before- cellphones became a thing. (See '2009 Utah case' here: https://www.wired.com/2014/03/stingray/ )
Not sure why are you being downvoted. That was actually the first thing I thought - what is the backup strategy? Mirroring is for performance + service continuity.

Let me remind that there already was a fire that destroyed some equipment for internet archive but luckily not digitalized data: https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/7/5076166/the-internet-arch...

Luckily that article from 2013 mentions:
> None of the Internet Archive's digitized data was lost in the fire as backups are held in multiple locations.
Isn't flying stuff more expensive than driving it around?
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That's a very narrow definition of participation. Price setting behaviour includes the effect of non purchaser. Otherwise how do you know it's maximally overpriced? If you don't care about that lost market, sure. If you could have sold 1000x more at a lower unit cost and made more profit... More fool you for ignoring non purchase
As much as I disagree with apple's BS pricing, this take on the fundamental definition of market and customer is even less true. They literally didn't expect and count price sensitive buyers as their target customers, so no, you are not the market.

However, I agree with you that their business acumen is lacking, pricing at 25-50% over their best quality competitor would have vastly expanded the market, and their bottom line. But someone is advising them to be the Hermes/Versace of computers and somehow making business sense to decision makers, so this is what we get.
If you aren’t learning on the job, you’re missing out on a better way to do things
(I mean this rhetorically, not as an actual insult...)

You're a lazy dumbass who types on a smartphone who can't be bothered to etch it into rock instead.
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All it needs for culture to succeed is written down tech. Could we provide video service to crows?
I agree, however, it ran on our own server so it was OK-ish.
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HA! Jokes on them! I don’t have any! Wait...
Killing the golden goose
The headline (I blame Bloomberg on this) would be much less clickbaity as "Silicon Valley Records Your Digital Assistant Requests."
More automation is a win for the middle class and every other class. If a society chooses to violently deprive the middle class of economic resources, that's the fault of the police, not the automated economy.
I'd assume everything between "Alexa" and the response.
Make a user script to provide an "unroll" link next to the post on HN if the link is for twitter.com.
Siri gets to go on field trips.
Windows also compresses pages to alleviate memory pressure before resorting to swap nowadays. Probably the same reason as with Android, as on lower-end hardware, especially with hard drives, compressing/decompressing isn't really noticeable, while hitting the disk is.
Are you willing to share the app name?
Thinking that haircuts will defeat facial recognition is cute but wrong. This is a political/legal problem and has to be solved by political means. Haircuts and LEDs just won't cut it. If anything, they will draw more attention to people.
It isn't like we never tried your idea. That's exactly how it worked for decades & centuries and then the world discovered shipping stuff from far away works better.
Seconded. If anything, I'd personally prefer the date to be ISO 8601, because that format is unambiguous and universally readable everywhere people use the Gregorian calendar.

As a programmer, using locales for number pisses me off too; in Poland, the decimal separator is a comma instead of a dot. Beyond me being used to the dot, this causes me no end of grief when entering numbers, because a combination of system locale and preferences of particular software makes it unpredictable.

There are benefits to universalization and standardization; dates and numbers are obvious targets.
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> induced demand

Oh no, more people can get to their destination by their preferred mode of transportation! How horrible!
Oh yes!
I live in a mostly rural area with lots of roaming fauna. Deer, hares, hedgehogs, cats of course, martens, rodents, foxes, all kinds of birds. Both when driving privately and when at work as a bus driver, I am observant and conscientious about all this wildlife: The roads are full of roadkill, which both saddens and angers me - but none of it is mine; I keep my eyes on the road, and I slow down for everybody.

Except for the crows and the rooks. I keep an eye on them, and keep a foot poised for braking, but I never have to. They stroll, as you describe it, quite nonchalantly out the way, sometimes leaving a walnut for my vehicle to please crush. And here's the thing: They happily stroll into the opposite lane, if - and only if - no cars are approaching from the opposite direction. Complete grasp of the traffic situation, and they hardly ever fail - during the last year, I have seen one dead crow at the roadside; I'm gessing he took cool one step to far.
Recodings and culture independant 'universal' learnable communication is the next stage.
No this isn't. Without calling out names, the first one is a small localization platform (but seems to be a very prevalent issue in multiple APIs) and the second is an international hosting provider. Both are good enough for my case to overlook those issues, that are nevertheless infuriating.
If I disconnect Siri from the internet she’s still “smart”. Alexa isn’t.
Isn't savings plans brand new? And can't you still just buy typical reserved instances?
> Running on obscure hardware configurations? Users don't have those, programmers do.

Users have different kinds of obscure hardware configurations. Some programmers may choose to assemble their PC for performance instead of buying an off-the-shelf Macbook, but users will often buy random crap offered by laptop manufacturers, because it looked nice or was cheap - and the cheap stuff is often cheap because of weird/substandard hardware on board.
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Have you lived around crows? They have no problem conveying their emotions...
I don't think the pipe could know that head will have the -n 4. In what context is -v standard for verbose?

edit: This stack exchange seems to relevant https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45326901/lazy-non-buffer...

I don't think grep was originally open source. FWIW, the nemonic for -v on grep is inVert. I'm so happy that --long_options are a thing nowadays, much more readable.
"Why would you want that? Apart from the very clear and obvious reasons that is."

Why do I always see this sort of question phrasing on this site in particular?
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If you haven’t seen the CrowBox, a vending machine for crows, it’s pretty cool.

http://www.thecrowbox.com/
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I specifically said no phoning home _without asking_. It is fine to have an automated process to submit bug reports if you feel your software is so buggy that it needs it. Any competent OS will also have an automated method for submitting crash reports back to the maintainers (ex, apport)

That said, I would much rather that your software just doesn't crash in the wild. Ship less often. Either test internally or do a developer preview/nightly build if you need to crowdsource the quality control. Take some pride in shipping software that is good!
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Or that’s just you personifying them via disneyfication.
Thank you! I should’ve also warned that the whole business feels a little spammy (sign up for the secret 1 page cheat sheet!), but as someone who doesn’t come to negotiations naturally I did enjoy some of the practical tips and theoretical background.

Any recommendations for other sources?
I want to hear more about how it will work when guys who are braking-bad can drive up alongside the truck and determine that there's no human driver. One car in front, one car on the side ...
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