skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my knowledge, that is not recently learned behavior of orcas, regarding washing seals off floating ice islands.

Further, orcas are culturally separated into many groups, often called ecotypes. Although some of these ecotypes may eventually be separated into separate species, they are currently all the same species. They are able to eat whatever food and they are able to interbreed, except that they don't. These are cultural separations that orcas have created, and they are not biological.

So, certain ecotypes are fish eaters, and very particular fish eaters at that. The Southern Resident orcas in the Pacific Northwest only eat a specific type of salmon. That salmon is in major decline, and thus the orcas that eat them are in decline and for various other reasons as well such as being hunted in the 70s for capture to serve as entertainment. As far as I know, it is unknown why these orcas do not switch their food source. From what I read, these orcas performing the attacks are tuna eating orcas, so they are again fish specialists. They are likely experiencing the same threats to their food source as well.

Other ecotypes, like those that you mentioned about seals, have more diverse diets typically revolving around mammals. In the Pacific Northwest, the Southern Resident (the salmon eaters) and Transients (the mammal eaters) share the same waters but do not eat each others' foods. Since the transients have more diverse sources that are not struggling, they are not struggling like the fish eating ecotypes.

Thus, it's highly unlikely for fish eating orcas to suddenly want to eat orcas. There's multiple reasons. There is the cultural reasons, and there are also the reasons as humans are terrible meals. My own personal suspicions are that orcas are much closer to human level intelligence than anyone recognizes, and so my personal guess would be that these attacks are one of stress and aggression to prevent other animals stealing their food. It is also possible they've been able to reclaim tuna this way as well.

There are stories of orcas in the early 20th century helping whalers, but the way I read it, it was actually the orcas training the humans to help them capture and kill the whales. Orcas are intelligent enough that they understand how things work.
>The difference in education between the ELITE universities I mentioned above and your average engineering college is that of Harvard vs a Community College.

A lot of people (myself included) would say that the difference between Harvard and a community college also resides entirely outside the lecture halls. I can't speak to Harvard, but my experience with community college and a well regarded University of California campus was that instruction was much better at the community college. No one takes a position at an elite US university to teach. They go there to do research. Conversely, the professors at community college don't generally do research, so they have much more time for their students.
Hold on, the reason why RISV-V cores slower is that companies who make it doesn't have an existing backend or just got into CPU game.

I'm not saying Apple can drop-in RISC-V front-end to their silicon and call it a day, but you get the idea.

Sifive has a pretty decent chance at making performant chips within next few years.
Intel Makes It Official: Eight Core Tiger Lake Chips Coming
I had a demo of Grouparoo a few weeks ago -- super cool platform that solves so many ETL / integration challenges.
The peers are of the same age group (largely), so as a comparative tool within a cohort, would it still not be relevant?
How did they get to the public markets in the first place? You'd think they got private funding?
You're describing demand.
I don’t have answers but I have some suggestions:

1. Remove food insecurity. The job of the govt is to provide basic calories to ALL. In the form of credits. (Like in Switzerland)

2. The subsidized calories will come only from farms that have to follow ecological practices.

3. Housing: everyone gets to live in state housing for diff income levels. On 99 year lease at market rate. This gives generational housing security. And protects housing from speculative shocks.(like in Singapore)

4. Universal health care.

What is provided is a basic quality of life to everyone. Just as everyone deserves a basic quality of life guaranteed hybyeh govt, everyone has to display responsibility. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Downgrades to quality of life if too much is siphoned off from the commons is a reasonable and fair bargain.
My least favorite part of database design is the bit where you have to pick lengths for your char columns.

Twenty years in and I'm still picking these pretty much by guessing. And when I guess wrong it causes really annoying problems further down the line.

I love how SQLite doesn't make me do this - it just has a TEXT type which is always unlimited in length.
Swift is a shitshow
The point is we accept a certain level of risk in going to work.
Let's say we've got the brightest minds on the biggest problems.

They come to you with the solutions to the largest problem: nationalize the energy industry globally, convert nearly entirely to mass transit systems, dramatically decrease consumption in the global north, and convert to a state-run economy because capitalism will collapse under decreased consumption.

What now? Is that going to happen just because the smart people are working on the tough problems? Of course not. The real biggest problems are not actually a matter of smart people knowing the solutions, but of competing powers (that are much stronger than you as an individual), propaganda, exploitation and human subjugation that prevent balancing against those powers, war, etc.

Worse, while it may seem like a good idea to have the wonks working on the biggest problems, consider the immediate precursor: who decides on what the biggest problems are? Right now, that will end up being heavily influenced by the moneyed interests that create the biggest problem. You'll stick entire generations of the biggest and most clever nerds on making better batteries and electric cars, but ever-growing consumption will make all of that moot and the descent into collapsing ecosystems and agriculture all the more inevitable because they were focused on a lack of tech (stuff to sell / consume) being the biggest problem rather than questioning core structures (an imposed economic requirement that consumption always increase lest we all go hungry and die).
No way; not at all.

First of all: there's lots of software that's not the OS. The OS is the easy bit: everything else: grindy, grindy horrorstory. A lot of that code will be third-party. And if you think, "hey, we'll just recompile!", and you can actually get them to too - well, good luck, but performance will be abysmal in many cases. Lots and lots of libraries have hand-tuned code for specific architectures. Anything with vectorization - despite compilers being much better than they used to be - may see huge bog downs without hand tuning. That's not just speculation; you can look at software that's gets the vectorization treatment or was ported to arm from x86 poorly - perfomance falls off a cliff.

Then there's the JITs and interpreters, of which there are quite a few, and they're often hyper-tuned to the ISA's they run on. Also, they can't afford to run something like LLVM on every bit of output; that's way too slow. So even non-vectorized code suffers (you can look at some of the .net core ARM developments to get a feel for this, but the same goes for JS/Java etc). Webbrowsers are hyper-tuned. regexengines, packet filters, etc etc etc

Not to mention: just getting a compiler like LLVM to support a new ISA as optimally as x86 or ARM isn't a small feat.

Finally: at least at this point, until our AI overloads render that redundant - all this work takes expertise, but that expertise takes training, which isn't that easy on an ISA without hardware. That's why Apple's current transition is so easy: they already have the hardware; and the trained experts some with over a decade of experience on that ISA!. But if they really want to go their own route... well, that's tricky, because what are all those engineers going to play around on to learn how it works; what's fast, and what's bad?

All in all, it's no coincidence transitions like this take a long time, and that's for simple (aka well-prepared) transitions like the one's Apple's doing now. Saying they have ISA "flexibility", like they're somehow interchangeable is completely missing the point on how tricky on those details are, and how much they're going to matter on how achievable such a transition is. Apple doesn't have general ISA flexibility, it has a costly route from specifically x86 to specifically ARM, and nothing else.
There are standard ways of achieving low latency. Everybody else does it. Why did they choose to implement a proprietary solution that works only with their phone and their earmuffs?
You are not I assure you.
I don’t ever remember anyone alleging the United States used the TAO to steal trade secrets to give to American corporations, nor do I ever recall them hacking other countries to gain advantages in trade negotiations.

If you’d like to paint them as equally entwined, please cite your sources.
Probably with some market downsizing. It’d essentially be an arcade but with slots. The appeal might be to use large denomination machines, like with the apps - lots of zeros
> You need to have some sort of duplication unless you want big bottlenecks, performance penalties

I think that's called a cache. You can still have solid database design at the core. Then add redis on top of it.
They could have me do it. Also, they do it eventually to auction off the main parts.
Facebook will buy REI’s unused headquarters complex in Bellevue
You raise an interesting point, but it is my understanding that Swift is by far not the only language that has a shaky foundation in terms of type theory. Other type systems can at least be unsound, I don't know if any of them is undecidable.

Even so, "undecidable" doesn't need to be a problem. It would be possible that the undecidable Swift program is such a random mess that nobody would be likely to write it by accident.

However, it is worth looking into more practical aspects of how Swift's type system works, and there I share your concerns. Swift is the _only_ language I have ever used where I have ever seen the error message "the type checker was unable to infer the type of this expression" etc. - sometimes on dead simple code. Worse, I once tried to write an expressive, generic, functional framework, only to discover that it was completely unusable because the type errors that Swift returned were simply wrong and to fix it you had to put in type annotations in a bunch of places (without necessarily knowing where, just from the error messages), making the whole API extremely verbose and not particularly declarative anymore.
> If microsoft can do it, why not google?

If you watch the two minute video or read the 5-page essay “I, Pencil”, you will see why.

The vendors’ vendors’ vendor is not in the loop. They will not know that the raw materials they are mining in a 3rd world nation are being consumed ultimately by google.
Rust offers data-race freedom and in general correct concurrency (e.g. it's impossible to access mutex-protected data if you don't hold the mutex), correct handling of objects and invariant preservation due to shared xor mutable (e.g. can't pass an array to a constructor that stores it in a field, and then modify the array in unrelated code that kept a reference, breaking the class invariants), better exception safety since exception propagation is explicit, a macro system, deterministic finalization, no GC latency, reduced memory utilization, better code generation, better cross-platform support, ability to produce lighter C ABI dynamic libraries.

Rust doesn't really have fundamental drawbacks other than the fact that there are more ways to store and refer to data (e.g. owned, borrowed, boxed, reference-counted, etc.) and thus you need additional code where you want to support more than one of them.

Of course there are ecosystem differences and learning curves.
What you're describing is consumption per capita. We should be concerned with consumption per capita regardless of whether we have a growing or a shrinking population. It's possible to have a net increase in consumption while population is decreasing, for example.

> You should be concerned about funding public schools because the subsidized cheap frozen fish fingers is what’s causing overfishing elsewhere in the world. More children at a higher consumption strata = more habitat destruction

Funding public schools is orthogonal to whether that school churns out cheap frozen fish fingers. You could add funding on the stipulation that the funding needs to be used on sustainably grown local produce, for example.

> One way to NOT incentivise over population and irresponsible procreation at a macro level is for America and other rich countries to curtail consumption and stop economic exchange of goods that are hostile to habitat preservation. (Example: palm oil)

I'm sorry, you're suggesting that if rich countries stop trading environmentally hostile goods this will disincentivize reproduction locally? How do you reason this? Am I going to have less children because I eat local organic produce?
Duplication is OK provided there are strict, documented rules about which copy is the "point of truth". If the duplicates diverge you need to know how to fix them.
This is probably a dumb question, but what does the Fever API do that isn't done in RSS itself? Does it keep track of what you've read already?
WebRTC Samples
LOL, that's rich, engineers in the UK feeling underpaid when you have the best market for SW engineers in Europe(London).

Wanna see underpaid? Come to Austria.
What state is/was this? It sounds highly illegal and that person should be prosecuted. Make it have an impact by reporting them.

NY for example:

"Thus, for example, even a spill of a gallon of oil into a ditch is covered."

https://ag.ny.gov/environmental/oil-spill/oil-spills-homes-a...

California:

"California Penal Code 374.3 makes illegal dumping on public and private property punishable by a fine up to $10,000. Also, pursuant to Section 117555 of the California health and Safety Code, a person who dumps illegally is punishable by up to six months on jail."

https://pw.lacounty.gov/epd/illdump/penalty.cfm

Calcycle page on illegal dumping:

https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/illegaldump
Yeah, I'm confused as well. SoftBank could have done things the UK didn't like. They've owned ARM since mid 2016.
Yes but hey, the core ARM ISA is like 40 years old. The key is that they are in fact "low cost SoCs" which is not something I knew existed :-).

Its really too bad the dev boards are so expensive but I get you need a lot of layers to route that sort of BGA.
The IMSAI 8080 was considered a clone of the Altair at the time.
I’m a big fan of Oblique Strategies, perhaps too big a fan, and I have what is perhaps the most rare edition of them all: the special edition Peter Norton (of Norton Utilities fame) had made as a gift for his friends in 1996. It was never available for purchase but I managed to find one on eBay a few years ago.

It has a very unique case made out of Dupont Corion, a material I’ve never seen anywhere else in my life. It feels and looks like white marble but is actually a form of plastic. Some of the cards have been redesigned in collaboration with Peter Norton and Brian Eno, and there’s a unique intro card too.

Details on the Peter Norton special edition:
http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Edition4.html

Took some pics just now:

Case:
https://i.imgur.com/7xJcUPP.jpg

Special Peter Norton card here:
https://i.imgur.com/6vtjdGe.jpg

Full gallery here:
https://imgur.com/gallery/qhEQLTo
"When Apple was in the ropes"

Can you explain when you think this was?
See my comment below, but orcas do not switch up their food source very readily unless they are in an ecotype similar to the transients found in the Pacific Northwest. Orcas that specialize in fish do not switch up, even in the face of dire straits, even though they could. This is at least so far. Orcas' splitting up into ecotypes is almost solely cultural and not biological, and so even though we wish orcas wouldn't have to struggle, I feel we could potentially see them adapt to other food sources, but that so far has not been observed.

The orcas that eat mammals have more varied diets and thus hunting techniques, since their food source requires that (mammals are smart, have good eyesight and hearing, etc.).
He does have drawing of O'Doyle at the top of the readme.
Another fairly well-known account of locked-in syndrome would be The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the memoir of Jean-Dominique Bauby (also made into a movie); in his case the precipitating event was a stroke.
Is that really still an issue? From my understanding, it's sort of a solved problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AdW030xQB4
« Answer the question first ».

There are so so many interactions that would go better if people would only do that.

Yes, you may well be able to guess that the asker is taking the wrong approach, and if they only told you what they were really trying to achieve you might be able to tell them what your preferred way of doing that is. But they haven't asked you about that.

If I ask "about how much would it cost to build the hull of an oil tanker out of titanium?", there's no need to ask me why I think I want to do such a daft thing, or tell me about all the manufacturing problems it would doubtless involve. Once I hear about the cost I'm going to give up on the idea anyway.
Because we live in a world where governments use their power to prop up certain companies, giving them a competitive advantage.
I only learned of Tika through Dovecot which can use it to include email attachments in it's Full Text Search index using it. Pretty neat stuff.
That's a good normative standard, and one I wholeheartedly endorse, but the problem in politics is also that your normative standard there is far from universally endorsed. There is a significant (and, during times such as 1930s Germany and pre-1860s USA, very powerful) group that does not believe that the suffering of all individuals should be minimized. Less extreme but perhaps more pervasive is a value structure that discourages developing "potential" to the fullest in lieu of knowing your place and not going outside of your lane. That means that if you hold to that normative standard, your political life is likely going to be less about coordinating society to meet that standard and more about trying to convince other people that your standard is correct.
While it's true that funders should perform due diligence, diligence for fundraising still relies on an underlying need for the entity raising funds to be truthful.

As an example, if you apply for a bank loan and falsify the application, you can still be charged with fraud and go to jail even though the bank potentially could have discovered the falsehood by hiring an investigator before issuing the loan.
>how crazy does that sound, saying I have to go to North American companies to get better working conditions but it's true

Same for my time in Germany. I got way better working conditions(not talking about money) working for US companies who had offices there than for German ones.
So, what's informed your making this open source?
Cool natural way to encourage signup and paid accounts. Well done!
Same, I love it for hacking together a quick prototype or testing some small bit of library functionality I need for a larger project.

Along with language and library docs, it’s usually one of the tabs I’ve got open when working on a project.
Besides reasons mentioned in the article (no oxygen, no humans to bump into stuff), I wonder if radiation could play a role. Cosmic rays, maybe just less radio sources around (tons of other servers).
Not sure if your comment is asking about those things or implying that what I said is incorrect.

Healthcare costs: I personally do not have experience with USA healthcare system. In terms of UK healthcare system I have mixed feelings: key reasons(short list):

1) While it's free, getting many basic things(like blood, urine tests, ultrasound scan) is complicated if you have no symptoms. It's much cheaper and better for the health to treat things at the earliest stage possible and it's not always easy to do so in the UK, even with some private health insurance.

2) Relatively long waiting times for procedures, A&E[1] etc

3) Biased(and potentially selfish) reason: healthcare costs need to be looked both in terms of general population and personal level. If you are healthy and young your chances of using healthcare services are lower.

Education: can't comment as haven't studied in the USA and people from outside of the UK(me) had to pay tuition fees in the UK

Vacation(I might be wrong on this one): from my understanding speaking to some tech working from the USA, amount of days is only 5-10 days lower than than of the UK for many tech companies.

Above does not mean UK is better or worse than USA, I love it here, I love British countryside,it is majestic!
[1] https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/urgent-and-eme....
[EDIT] First sentence replaced "what I wrong is incorrect" with "what I said is incorrect" and added some commas
Health care. The actuarial cost of gold or platinum health plan for a 25 year old single man is about $600 per month. The cost for a couple in their 50's, with two college age children, is about $3,000 per month.
Thanks, I somehow missed this, will read shortly.

Meanwhile, one aspect of the 2016 presidential coverage that drives me nuts is the omission that HRC's voter file was stolen and likely used by GOP, Trump, Russia.

Meaning they knew exactly who to target.

A campaign's voter file is it's Crown Jewels, it's secret sauce. It is the campaign.

HRC knew they had a problem in MN, WI, PA. They just couldn't figure out what was going on in time. Plus a zillion other things going on.

Again, will read your link soonest. It might help me fill in a few more of the puzzle pieces.
There were lawsuits flying left and right over the origin, which scared a lot of resources away from it. (It turned out Ashton-Tate stole it from NASA's JPL, who modified some of the keywords, but stole the concept from a defunct company and product called something like TymeShare.)

I thought dBASE was a great language for small-project RAD and ad-hoc data fiddling. I could crank out smallish apps in hours.
That's faulty. Solar installations change the albedo of the planet. That's not a problem if the fraction is a very small one and it is spread out. But if it is concentrated or relatively large it certainly could have an effect.
The container is huge, and the insulation by algae is not that good. Anti-fouling matters for boats because increases energy consumption when it sails. Pretty sure for the datacenter it only contributes to a few degrees C.
> FoxPro got out out to pasture

SET PROCEDURE TO MEADOW
It's subscription-based to get advanced features: https://repl.it/site/pricing
They gave a pass at the cameramen as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBRu3LGceAg

It doesn't seem as full effort as the normal ones, so they could have been training or experimenting, both of which they are known to do. They could have been play and giving a little scare as well.
The burden of proof should probably be on the other side, here.

Why is it better to introduce hundreds of millions of bored free-range emotional-support predators into any given ecosystem than to not do this?
The popularity of C++ took off at a time when its competition was C. Not modern C, but C89 and older. Oceans of ink have been spilled describing the quality-of-life improvements that early C++ made over contemporary C. It is only with hindsight that we see how flawed these improvements were, and how other languages might achieve them with more elegance (and fewer corner cases that constantly explode in your face).