skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any ethical and easy way to keep cats out of my yard?

I live in an suburban single family neighborhood where the houses are close together. (5000sq lots) There are 3 or 4 different solitary cats I see slinking through my yard from time to time. They all seem like outdoor house cats as opposed to feral cats.

I try to hiss at them and scare them off but they come back. Is there a method that will encourage them to avoid my yard?
Makes me wonder, how do you most effectively avert danger when you're being attacked by a dog?
Some of my favorites, that haven't been mentioned yet -

The Supermen (Charles Murray), essentially a biography of Seymour Cray.

A Few Good Men from Univac (Lundstrom and Aspray), similar thoughts about the same era of computing.

Showstopper (Pascal Zachary), essentially a biography of David Cutler, plus a bunch of the development of Windows NT.
Thanks for letting me know. It is good to be aware of alternatives.
Microsoft has stopped making Windows
Of course it’s an argument because we can simply license based on predictors of burden. Small dogs which are projected to fall below a risk tolerance threshold should have less licensing burden.

Similarly, different classes of vehicles get different licensing requirements; saying all cars are the same is just lazy, and a regulation meant for big risky entities being applied to small ones is what we call regulation moats. We have enough pet owners that we should be able to quantify risks and burdens for the purpose of licensing. Here we have an article which provides empiricism on the community burden from cats.
I'm part of a lucid dreaming community on reddit and I've noticed a huge increase in posts from people who just had their first lucid dream. There is also an influx of posts about dream recall being stronger and dreams being more vivid.
I don't like smartcards, HSMs, YubiKeys, etc.
I use (free) equivalents of this software to view the GUIs of Linux applications running on workstations/servers on my desktop PC running Windows 10 (essentially a thin client here). Works great.
Yeah, I maintain that whenever you allow your mental model of the world to drift away from reality, there's a price to be paid. There's a cost to being wrong and people should put more effort into challenging their beliefs.
Depends how you define ethical...
> If AWS wasn't profitable, AMZN would not be able to grow

Amazon wasn't even profitable until 10 years after its founding. So that's demonstrably incorrect.

BTW, the thesis that "if a business isn't profitable, it wouldn't be able to grow" flies in the face of hundreds of successful venture capital businesses funded by the yCombinator (founder of Hacker News) and many other venture capitals funds. Profitability is one variable in a very complex mix.

I personally like the idea of bootstrapping, which does require profitability, but that's not the only way to successfully grow a business. You can also grow a business using debt, or by using equity.
Curious if anyone knows how it stacks up against Sequel Pro?

(At least if you only need to work with MySQL, obviously?)
It seems like the author just wanted to write about something, and he chose something he's not familiar with but what appears as quirky to him.

Welcome to Hacker News, you must be new here. =)
My city has an app you can report things like that with so it exists.
Q: "Can you get Coronavirus twice?"

A: “If you get an infection, your immune system is revved up against that virus,” Keiji Fukuda, director of Hong Kong University’s School of Public Health, told the Los Angeles Times. “To get reinfected again when you’re in that situation would be quite unusual unless your immune system was not functioning right.”

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...

* In a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, was asked if people who have contracted the virus might now be immune.
“We haven’t formally proved it, but it is strongly likely that that’s the case,” Fauci said. “Because if this acts like any other virus, once you recover, you won’t get reinfected.”

https://www.c-span.org/video/?470277-1/federal-health-offici...

* From the paper: "Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 patients."
"The positive rate for IgG reached 100% around 20 days after symptoms onset. The median day of seroconversion for both lgG and IgM was 13 days after symptoms onset. Seroconversion of IgM occurred at the same time, or earlier, or later than that of IgG. IgG levels in 100% patients (19/19) entered a platform within 6 days after seroconversion."

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.18.20038018v...

Study - Reinfection could not occur in SARS-CoV-2 infected rhesus macaques. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1
Finding the Bedrock of Web APIs
Yep, too early and too little coffee. s/ntfs/nfs/g
Which is a big shame. I'm happy to $$$ pay for Sequel Pro, but it's been abandoned for 1-2 years now?
Hmm, I'm in the same situation: how reliable is the company behind it, can I trust their expertise?..
is this similar to DBeaver?
I live in downtown Chicago. I'm one block away from Trader Joe's and Osco Jewel. Cost of living in downtown Chicago is cheaper than NYC/SF and maybe even LA.

Within 20 minutes of walking, I can get to two separate Targets, Whole Foods and even a Home Depot.
Evergreen note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work
Even further, presumably things like kg·m·s⁻², which (perhaps) this library can equate to Newtons.
That's not what I meant.

On an architecture where "long long" is 8 bytes, but only has a 4 byte alignment requirement, the compiler knows this, and knows that 2 pointers of type "long long * " may overlap. Therefore it would disable the optimization. (Except the pointers still aren't supposed to overlap, but...)
Indeed there's many different interpretations of fairness:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-procedures/#Fai
Got it! Thanks! I will reply soon! (On the phone long time today, wanted to write a proper reply.)
This is very welcome, because it's a side of WP content that isn't very transparent without a lot of time-consuming scrounging. Hopefully others can build on this foundation.
If humans are pleased by killing cats, the cats have to die
Animals do deserve to have it good. First, their basic needs like food and water should be taken care of. Then self-fulfillment and medical care. After that, higher philosophical concerns such as freedom from government registration.

But that's in general. Specifically, registering indoor pets does nothing to prevent pets from being abused. What it does is satisfy the state's innate desire to assert control, and create a fakejob for a bureaucrat to administer the registration.
Then again how many types of birds are invasive species in the Americas? Pigeons, doves, starlings, sparrows, finches and I'm sure many more.

For mammals some mice, rabbit and squirrel species are invasive species too.

Invasive cats killing invasive animals. It seems cats like small birds and mammals that tend to be invasive.
"Can relatively easily adapt" is not the same as "has already been adapted". It still performs awfully without the work put in to make the hardware and software cooperate, but doing that work is not nearly as big of a burden.
I looked at TablePlus but the formatter was horrible.

DBeaver internal formatter is decent and if I want more I can use an external tool.
This is a pretty cool video about a couple that made the MLB schedule for years https://youtu.be/yT0CMOGKKhU
Yes, but it’ll take some work. Get a dog.
Don’t Build That App: Saying no to the status quo
This is really naive. Money is just an idea and it lets the mega connected world of today operate with some semblance of sanity. What do you propose we use instead of money and how is that different from money? Who gets what and how much of it? Who decides all this?
http://newanimalcontrol.org/newsystem.shtml proposes a sensible dog licensing system that "gauge[s] the competence of those who want to take their dogs out onto the public streets. Those who can prove that they have perfect voice control over their dogs can become licensed to walk them off lead, while others may be forbidden to take their dogs out among the public at all. It all depends on the animal's behavior and the owner's demonstrated ability to control him."
Water. Cats do not like water.
But why would you even change the order? I don't understand how can this be an issue if you treat it as a static declaration which it simulates.
Coronavirus means videoconference weddings now OK in New York
Open the door and put down a bowl of food...
Humans are better off with household cats than with rodent infestations.
There is a lady down the street that feeds raccoons. Raccoons cary several horrible diseases:

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/baylisascaris/prevent.html

Occasionally I burn their latrines cause these diseases scare me to death. NO NOT FEED RACCOONS! Walt Disney is lying to you -- they are nasty creatures to have around.
Got it. I've been trying to solve a similar problem as well. I also stumbled upon this Gatsby theme for such a scenario (https://github.com/aengusmcmillin/gatsby-theme-brain). It's inspired from Roam Research's bidirectional links to notes.
This, incidentally, is why I don't take people who make the "wind turbines kill birds" argument seriously. It's not false, but the number is very small compared to those killed by domestic cats and window collisions. So the loss is minimal provided they're not in a breeding area for an endangered species.
lol some socal cities are kinda like that. The streets are maintained just fine but the business owners/landlords are trying to squeeze every last drop out of their 1960s pieces of junk and refuse to maintain/update/rebuild them.
Corporate debt
Something I haven't seen data on is how much domestic cat predation compares with population change from habitat loss/modification. The population density of some bird species increases in suburban areas where domestic cats are likely to be present. I suspect the impact of outdoor cats (at least on North American songbirds) is overstated.
I read parent as saying that trying to cut corners with SMR is even more stupid seeing that the HDD-market is becoming 'more enterprise' on average.
A lot of people assume that urbanized metros imply a lot of high-rise residential. But take a place like Somerville in MA. It's one of densest cities in the country outside of the environs of NYC and there's not much high rise construction generally and a lot of the city is standalone houses.
All forms of redistribution, of any kind or at any level?

Here in the UK we have a bit of a different history on this that has pushed British conservatism in a more centrist direction. The first and second world wars were existential crises for us that stretched our economies and society to near breaking point. Millions of Britons were called up, worked in munitions factories, or volunteered in public services and the Land Army. It was a concerted effort across all levels of society. A major problem in the first war was so many draftees were unfit for service due to poor health and nutrition, this created a consensus that a coordinated system of social support and health care was essential for national security if nothing else.

So over here, it’s not really about redistribution. Sure there are plenty of socialists over here who are committed redistributionists, sure. Socialism is entrenched in Europe in a way it really isn’t in the US. But even among the majority of conservatives over here, history has shown us the its in the national interest to have a population that is well nourished, healthy and has a basic education that makes them fit to work, and serve if it comes to that.
Indeed... the MacOS command line tools often are missing or have some different defaults and hotkeys (I'm looking at you, 'top') than the versions I'm used to on my linux systems, which, sure, ecosystem diversity is cool and all, but... Every time I try to rearrange the processor usage in TOP, I open it up and think 'IT'S A TRAP!'

(admittedly, this was all just an attempt at making a sufficiently substantive comment so I could make the joke about 'ack --bar')
I had a destructive mouse and rat problem (chewing things in the walls) until a cat adopted us.
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Seoul's full cafes, Apple store lines show mass testing success
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> If the builtin scan doesn't call CUB, how fast is a prefix sum in Futhark compared to Cuda using CUB ?

Last I checked, it's about 50% the performance of CUB, but a sibling post describes a current effort to implement the decoupled lookback algorithm in Futhark's CUDA backend.

> What does "pretty well" mean? 95% of peak device throughput ? 60% ?

It's as fast as Futhark's single-dimensional scan. In exotic cases (when a single segment or "scan instance" fits in a thread block) it can be even faster.

> When a compute device costs 8.000$, an efficiency of 90% means I'm throwing 800$ out of the window.

Certainly! But people run much less than 90% efficient code on $8000 CPUs all the time, so I think there is definitely room for a high-level programming language that runs on GPUs. It's the usual performance-versus-productivity tradeoff, although Futhark's ambition (and to a large extent, reality) puts more emphasis on the performance side of things than when people usually use that argument.

While Futhark can in principle not beat hand-written code, I will note that empirically it is not unusual for us to see performance increases when we take published GPU benchmark code and rewrite it straightforwardly in Futhark. Much GPU code out there is not perfectly written at the level of CUB, and while the Futhark compiler doesn't exactly generate highly inspired code, it gets the basics consistently right.
Well thanks for this. This was wildly good.
The problem with disabling this optimisation is that it will produce garbage code for basically every architecture. Code which does unaligned accesses are noticeably slow compared to aligned accesses -- this is why there are separate instructions and intrinsics for aligned and unaligned addresses on most architectures. That way you don't pay the penalty of unaligned accesses all the time. But if you try to use the aligned instructions on unaligned pointers you will get all sorts of fun errors.

And note that this slowdown would have to apply to every pointer operation in your program because GCC can't know whether a pointer is aligned at compile-time. I'm sure many more people would complain about significant performance slowdowns in a GCC update than about unaligned memory accesses being something you need to do with great care in C.
Cats do too, maybe not as frequently, but I think the important factor is, that the damage is not as severe in most cases.

It probably is related to the size of the animals. If there would be more tiger-sized cats and more Chihuahua sized-dogs it would most likely be different.
Wait, the latest stats read that there are fewer homeless people in Japan than all of San Francisco (and definitely all of LA). That can't be right. It has to be a definition difference or they're doing something remarkably right.
You surely don't mean other people's properly identifiable pets, do you?
Really interesting take on fairness:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/#TwoGuiIdeJusFai
What about the fact there are two of the largest tech companies in the world headquartered nearby? The downtown most definitely subsidizes suburbia.
Indeed. I think a lot of (successful) gifted folks wear that mask. And it's entirely possible that I misread OP. But I'd challenge the 'factual' aspect of his assertions because I've met a lot of people who express similar sentiment. A high general intelligence implies mastery of life itself; if one is capable of learning quickly then I would think problems like feeling isolated are something that they find a solution for, as it requires exactly the kind of snow-globe shaking that you're referring to

As for specific places, Slashdot used to have a lot of good conversation. Usenet too, back in its day. Nowadays I think most of the good talk happens on small, individually-run forums and, to a lesser extent, reddit. Personally I have thrown my lot in with the burner crowd, as the group's 'leave no trace' ethos and emphasis on independence, survivalism, sarcasm, sexuality, gifting, and performance art is right up my alley. (Plus we have excellent taste in music, if I do say so myself ;)
> These are just my crazy theories, so maybe I'm way off base.

You absolutely are not. From my experience I'd say about 30%+ of the pictures that were posted to OkC 2+ years ago were doctored in some major way (I'm a straight man so this anecdotally only applies to women's pictures).

Using your "own" picture that's doctored is easier to justify for these folks vs. just using someone else's. Also, these people are still going on real-world dates, so if they look like an entirely different person they're taking on more risk vs. using weird Instagram filters.

> I'm not saying that all or even most people would use this technology in dating

I think most wouldn't employ this sort of deceit like you posit, as MOST of people I went on dates with were totally operating in good-faith.

BUT - there will be a huge chunk of people that are happy to do the mental gymnastics to justify posting a fake picture of themselves.. and those people are exhausting.

Protip: NEVER meet up at a bar initially because it's expensive when this happens (AND IT DOES!!!). ALWAYS do an informal coffee. It is easy to keep coffee to a 15-20 minute thing and not get on the hook for at-minimum 2x $15-20 drinks. If you chose a coffee place, do so an hour or so before lunch/dinner in walkable distance to a nice restaurant. This gives you both the opportunity to keep the date going if it's a positive experience =)
I also found this to be the case but check out verbatim mode under Google tools search it makes it all better apparently
It's April now so that means this:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

... is now 14 years old. This was the first warrant canary[1] and, I am sad to say, one of the few remaining ones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary#Usage
Glitch, the creative coding platform by FogCreek is launching a paid plan
It breaks the site guidelines to post accusations of astroturfing like this. The overwhelming majority of the time, there isn't the slightest evidence for these. Somebody liking something that you dislike does not count as evidence.

I've studied the question closely on HN and looked at data for years. There have been occasional cases where we've banned accounts for the kind of thing you're complaining about, but we have to go by evidence. Well over 99.9% of the time, users are just making shit up. Please don't trash talk like that here.

If you want more explanation, see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on. If you're genuinely worried about astroturfing, you're welcome to email links to hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look into it.
Pull the settlement from the police pension fund.
What do you mean by "reverse the tunnel" and what would you hope to get done with it?
That can lead to better mobility though, can't it? Instead of living in a town full of poor people who you can't sell anything to. lol.
Even in Detroit where we have notoriously crippling roads and no public transportation we have constant large strips of highway shut down for replacement. At our lowest point the poor infrastructure cause wear on vehicles, that can probably be curbed with public transportation.
If the employee was like Manning, they would just leak all of the DMs.
...and /48s at that too.
The untrusted system could flash malicious firmware to a component with DMA (e.g. GPU VBIOS) to infect the second system.
I don't want Patriot act thinking—we agree there—but the US is so used to assuming it's rich/powerful beyond belief and then getting poor outcomes. We have general efficiency and cost disease issues that emergency planning can absolutely teach us how to address.
Basically yeah, but it gets much more complicated. For example, when a write hits memory is actually not the same thing as when it's observable by some particular other processor. There might be particular rules for writes that have dependencies too. Here's some good reading material if you have a spare afternoon.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt

Amusingly, it treats dependency issues as obsolete, but I worked on a processor as late as 2009 that had all of the weak-memory-ordering issues of the Alpha (because it was the same design team). We uncovered lots of missing memory barriers in the Linux kernel. Good times.
When people look at the tax base and where federal dollars are spent, the Red areas usually end up getting anywhere from $103 to $110 in federal dollars for every $100 collected in federal taxes, and much of that comes down to roads and highways.

Without the highways most of these areas wouldn't be able to buy or sell goods to the outside world.

(Aren't trains cheaper? Maybe we should be building more track and fewer lanes)
Perhaps it's a fast turn-around time thing? You want to hijack capitalize on news cycle with an article that gets clicks ... you need an eye grabbing graphic within hours. This style is the path of lease resistance.
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The entire premise of the conclusion is that larger dust particles absorb light and warm the atmosphere, and yet the cited paper [16] I believe, does not appear to reach that conclusion at all. If anything, the contribution to cloud formation may offset the absorbed energy.

Models are little more than extrapolations made from assumptions, but I am having a hard time understanding the basis for the assumptions made here.
Processing Tweets on iOS Using Natural Language and Create ML
Can you play multiplayer games and not get banned?
You need 6 times more QLC chips to get an equivalent write performance to TLC on average.

Of course, for NAS RAID arrays that were already saturated by TLC man times over, it makes little difference.
This is the way evolution works. The species of the future don't come from responsive adaptation, but from not dying before reproduction. Now with a new cause of death, those species are in danger of no longer existing like nearly all species across history.
Software vendor relationships can be abusive, but they don't have to be
but even then they provide enough worth to the states to merit the federal costs
Build an iOS Application to Predict Air Pollution Using a Random Forest Regresso
It's been a while since I visited Chicago, but I stayed in a hotel downtown. Not only was public transit excellent and easy to use, but walking was a delight. I don't remember there being a grocery story anywhere, but Google Maps shows quite a few. Chicago's downtown may have a lot of problems including being expensive and a high crime rate, but poor access seems inaccurate.
No it’s not. I have a desktop and 2 laptops. My desktop has 3 OSes, Mac windows and Linux. Why the hell would I buy this, and then have to think really hard about which one I’ll use with it?

I probably feel too strongly about this. Last week I setup a nytimes cooking subscription and then immediately canceled it when I realize I had to leave it on auto pay or else it wouldn’t work.
Nothing About New York’s Outbreak Was Inevitable