skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is almost no way to stop them once they reach full size.

There is only one known way to stop a full-grown feral hog, and that's with a (big) gun. Unfortunately. So until we have a better answer, our best bet is to kill them as rapidly as possible. Even with all the lore and furor around it in Texas, hog breeding is outgrowing active efforts to exterminate them and the population increases every year and is trending upwards.

They're also very aggressive, so enjoy that if you encounter feral hogs. I carry a large bore revolver with me when I go hiking and everyone assumes it's for bears... it's actually for feral hogs.
https://www.alcor.org/ "Extend your life with cryonics."
Texas has a year round open season on board and a lot of hunters, some of whom attach machine guns to helicopters and kill entire groups at a time.

Feral hogs are still a scourge in Texas, I doubt that’s because Texas doesn’t have enough hunters.
> You can just google syntax so I don’t bother memorizing syntax. Specific syntax is never going to be the thing I remember that puts all the pieces together.

As you continue programming in a given language, you automatically memorize low-level things like syntax and idioms. That's not something that everyone needs or wants to practice explicitly with flashcards or whatever (that's not how I learn, anyway). But memorization of syntax is absolutely critical to achieve "fluency" in the programming language, just as in human language.

Imagine a monolingual English speaker learning German and scoffing at their classmates' attempts to internalize the grammar rules. You can Google or look all that stuff up in a few seconds! But having to pause and look up every conjugation or word ordering is exactly what prevents the learner from actually communicating clear ideas at a useful speed in their target language.
What strikes me: the one who draw the guitarist could have done it adding a neutral facial expression (e.g. a jazz musician) but, hell no!, the choice was for a shredding-guitar-solo rock expression. Nice.
Thanks for your comment! I agree with you on the benefits of forgetting and that learning how to code is way more about practice than theory. I should have added that my primary use of the process is to understand concepts well rather than memorize how to write JSX.
> It's intended to be for tapping but that's a common pedal steel technique

I have no idea about how to play pedal steel (but I do play guitar), I thought the string action was way too high on a pedal/lap steel steel to be able to tap on it?
Do Streamers Get Money from Twitch Prime Subs?
It was more an expression of dismay at the lack of evolutionary fitness these actions are displaying. Your fitness is literally measured by your ability to reproduce, and here are people locking their penis inside a device that a) it intended for somebody else to control (weird) b) is actually defective and they ended up being stuck inside it, and worst case could've set their member on fire. Somebody give them a Darwin award.

So no, I don't think such an expression is better saved for other things, though of course I agree it could be applied to those things too.
Is there something about the standard Linux input stack that makes it especially difficult to create a great touchpad experience?

Apple got it right a long time ago, ChromeOS is good, and Windows is too. What's different about Linux?
That’s true. But given the relative success of socialized healthcare in most other countries, I’m not sure why you’re seizing on the “unfettered” part rather than the “capitalism” part.
I think the jewels hang in between the bar and the sheath...
I wouldn't place too much weight on boar taint.

While a real and recognized phenomenon, it isn't common or universal. I haven't ever noticed it in wild boar and have not heard of it from any other hunters. Internet forums of full of hunters arguing over if it exists at all.
Fast food is a popularity contest, with every store having a direct financial interest in driving and retaining customer loyalty. But I've never gotten an email from In n Out saying they need to sell 549 more burgers before midnight to beat Five Guys in quarterly sales rankings.
> I can press 'f' and type letters to follow links.

You can get this with standard Firefox, no extension needed. For instance, on the HN main page, hit ' (single-quote) then "vi" then [enter] and you'll follow the link to this article.
Amazing idea. How did you figure out the licensing aspects since you are also giving out book content for free in the process?
Why not just use github pages for static sites?
Why doesn't the European Union have tech giants other than SAP?
Depending on how many units/day you need. There's a great website for finding low priced insulin:

https://www.goodrx.com/humalog

$68.38 for five 3ml cartridges of 100 units/ml.

So if you need 100 units/day (that's on the high end), that's two weeks worth.
In the UK, the AliExpress mobile site gets me to click "Yes, I am over 18" before letting me open it.
screego_1.0.1_darwin_amd64.tar.gz seems to exist.
The term 'culling' is also in common use, and I can see where one would prefer it.
The most intriguing parts of Vapor in my opinion (in order of intrigue):

- monetizable requests/routing

- proof of request/response

- data portability

- wallet as universal identity
Wild Boar meat is eaten in the US as well but a) almost always you’d prefer juvenile boar and b) boar taint is undetectable to many people.

I for one don’t have a problem but my wife is repulsed by it. Also it’s not “gamey” it’s a different flavor profile.
Well there are many reasons for this specific instance of this being internet connected
Can't the government refuse to allow foreign datacenters?
No particular reason; I have a shift+[ shortcut in Drafts that makes the switch between recent files almost instant. I’ve done both and ended up sticking to a separate file with questions.
There's been a steady, and huge, increase of the prices of most pharmacy products. Not just prescription drugs. Look at vitamins. Some vitamins used to be extremely cheap. The manufacturing cost of Vitamin C is very low.

It's useful to compare prices between CVS in the US and Boots in the UK. They're the same company.
One of the fundamental tensions I see in economics is this:

Cooperation enables greater efficiency. You don't burn resources in efforts that exist just to harm your competitor. You get all of the economies of scale of sharing information, expertise, and technology.

But competition incentivizes greater efficiency. A monoculture can stagnate because there is less risk from failure, less urgency to grow and improve.

I think the point of maximum efficiency is somewhere in the middle where there's enough scale that you don't have the economic equivalent of millions of subsistance farmers each using hand tools to hoe their own patch, but where there are enough independent players to create some urgency and make regulatory capture harder.

The hard part is that there is no stable equilibrium near that regionn of efficiency. Businesses naturally consolidate and form cabals and capture regulation, so you have to constantly push against that.
The alternatives would seem to be "data center powered by non-renewable energy" and "no data center", no?
Cooking will kill parasites/microbes but won't necessarily denature the poisonous byproducts of their metabolism. Irradiating as close to time of butchery minimizes the amount of time the critters can excrete their grossness into the food.
It sounds like you’re saying “this isn’t a problem if you simply break the law”, which obviously isn’t a real solution to the problem.
This is debatable - affirmative action can be interpreted to give preferential treatment to certain groups (based on race/gender/etc). This isn't _necessarily_ a bad thing, especially in the short term. But extended indefinitely it can certainly lead to qualified applicants being passed over in a discriminatory way.

> The executive order also required contractors with 51 or more employees and contracts of $50,000 or more to implement affirmative action plans to increase the participation of minorities and women in the workplace if a workforce analysis demonstrates their under-representation, meaning that there are fewer minorities and women than would be expected given the numbers of minorities and women qualified to hold the positions available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11246
I have made a few custom keyboards with the stm32f103 ("bluepill"). You can get a 5 pack for $10. You get more IO pins and you don't need to suffer through anything Arduino-related. The starter kits often include an ST-LINK clone that makes flashing much easier than dealing with bootloaders and USB serial connections. (I use a j-link, but both are fine.) It is, of course, supported by QMK.

If you want to go even cheaper for a 4x4 macro pad, you can just hand-wire the thing and not buy a circuit board. I hand-wired a full keyboard and while it was not the quickest task in the world, it also wasn't that bad. Kind of relaxing. You also don't need to go overboard with mechanical supports for the keyswitches; I just 3D-printed a platform that the keyswitches slot into.

Basically, if you happen to have some magnet wire, a microcontroller, and some Cherry clones sitting around... you can make yourself a keyboard. (Diodes are nice, but you probably don't need n-key rollover on a macro pad.)
This was my take-away as well. This is cool and all, but if your mapping problem can be entirely solved declaratively like this I don't know if you actually had all that tough of a problem in the first place. Almost every data translation nightmare I've been sucked into involved some pretty sophisticated business logic, and any declarative language that has the sufficient power to handle it inevitably becomes more complicated to write and maintain than a turing-complete, plain old programming language.
Transcribing solos means, you listen to the music and write it down, bit by bit. Someone's solo = their improvisation. If it's simple/slow enough that it's quicker to learn it by playing along, just do that. (I've never needed to transcribe Louis Armstrong, but have just learnt by playing along with him.) If it's very fast (e.g. Bird, Coltrane) you might need to slow it down to transcribe it. You learn how to transcribe it by doing it, it also trains your ear in recognizing melodies, harmonies, chord voicings, rhythms, forms.

You can buy books of solo transcriptions, but I've found that they're absolutely useless. (and always inaccurate) Maybe it's like reading a book vs. typing it out?! hehe. At first glance I couldn't see how typing a book out would help anything, I mean, it's already written down for you! The main element of learning by working out bit by bit what it is, isn't there. But there are elements in common - it's a little like playing a solo you've written down, and you would absorb the word patterns if you typed a whole novel I guess.
How does the bill encourage that? Unless I'm really missing something, the language in the new child pornography section is the same as the current language in section 230e covering sex trafficking. That existing sex trafficking clause hasn't done any of the things that the EFF says this new one will do.

The original Earn It Act was bad. But that bad stuff has been massively ripped out. Plus real protections for privacy added in. It's not the same as it was - look up the text and compare what's been struck through with what is left.

I think in the current form it's a definite win for privacy and common sense.
Also a great example of “Patent Hands”: https://5by5.tv/hypercritical/68

(I’d link to the Flickr album with similar patent drawings involving hands, but it appears to be down)
Ask HN: Would you use an unlimited digital advice service for $100/month?
> I’m not a fan of battle style but is it really fundamentally different?

It gets the tone arm out of the way, which is what makes scratching a lot more feasible.
Once you get through unspecified dependencies of dependencies (and pnpifying tools), my last big hiccup with yarn 2 is that zipfs doesn’t work with vs code and typescript’s language server. So you can’t go to code or type definitions within zips.
It would be interesting to compare big tech’s total carbon output to other major industries and find out. Also neat would be environmental impact per economic output.
I haven't read the paper yet, but if I understand the post correctly, this interface represents numbers as the product of a rational and a recursive real, where the latter may be 1.
Meanwhile in Germany and Switzerland there are non-profit health insurance companies:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany#Health_i...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland#Comp...

Both usually rank quite well in various international comparisons.

The US has a great healthcare system, but abysmal health insurance.
We develop a bi-hormonal artificial pancreas our way
As I understand it the FDA is different.

Even if your product is comparable to the brand-name medication, the cost, time, and uncertainty of getting a permit is so prohibitive that many smaller medications are left with well protected monopolists.

That's at least what I hear. I don't work in the industry.
The Cat-and-Mouse Game of the Modern Penalty Kick
There was a JRE episode with a coyote expert who touched on this. It was relatively easy to eradicate wolves, because they have a strong pack mentality and will stick together even as members die. Pigs and coyotes would disperse into groups of two and three, widening their geographic range and still breeding.
Can't forget raiding, slavery, and cannibalism!
If the big tech firms vanished, and instead there would only be many tech dwarfs, we still would have big data centers that needed the same capacity.
>DRAM margins are razor thin and unlike transistors, DRAM has not gotten much smaller, which is the main cost savings gained from process improvements.

Should we then expect SRAM to eventually be cheaper than DRAM?
> some positive effect of the feral cats existing like rodent control

And "endangered bird control" :/
A Comparison of the Tax Burden on Labor in the OECD
Fringe notions on antitrust would destroy small businesses and hurt consumers
>The US government, in contrast, is mostly funded by taxes on wealthy people: "the top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of all individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 3 percent."

This isn't painting the full tax picture though. It only looks at a subset of federal taxes and ignores non-federal taxes (maybe you meant 'federal' when you said 'U.S.'?). For example, payroll taxes fall disproportionately (on a percentage of income basis) on the non-wealthy and make up 36% of federal taxes but aren't included in income tax stats.[1]

[1]https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/policy-basics-wher...
Not to dismiss someone's passion project, but every time I go into a thrift store or used electronics shop I see a couple of those usb numerical keypads for a few dollars (or buy one new for a $10 donation to the bezos fiefdom) - I assume there is software that could be used to re-route the number keypresses to run macros

edit - instructable for doing exactly that: https://www.instructables.com/Making-a-powerful-programmable...
I read that comment less literally and more like “they just about work for their function, but damn they ugly” :-)
Oh that's cool, thanks for the tip
The government did ban the data from being stored in foreign datacenters - that’s why the local datacenters are being built.
Show HN: Podcast episode bookmark and note-taking tool
U.S. House report on investigation of competition in digital markets [pdf]
November 1929, New York City. The Chrysler Building built in just six months
https://archive.is/N3uMd
I thought the current administration was going to fix this problem once and for all. 3.9 years in and we’re no better than that other guy. I encourage you to vote and make sure your voice is heard!
You're absolutely right, "unfettered" is hyperbole. I just get a bit weary of the "free market will fix it" attitude, because it's only really free market if all involved parties are free to set the terms of the transactions, and most consumers of healthcare do not actually have much power to do that (or even to know the terms before "purchase"). So the "free market," to the extent that it exists, optimizes for those participants who do have that power, to the detriment of the end user. In my opinion, of course.
A near future version of this: data companies will profile humans who are disruptive and sell profiles to potential employers. Anybody who tries to unionize once might be unemployable for years afterwards. The homeless person on the corner might have been a former line manager at the local distribution centre who thought working conditions were unsafe. This data will follow them forever
Facebook Bans All Groups, Pages Linked to QAnon Conspiracy
Big tech are installing datacenters to service users.

Servers have to go somewhere - would you prefer it to be on dirty energy far away from you so it both pollutes and provides poor service?

Datacenters are rediculously efficient (bigger ones even more so) compared to alternatives.
Facebook to ban QAnon-themed groups, pages and accounts in crackdown
Yeah totally, I meant dopamine released by synapses going up on x-y axis then it reaches a peak and comes down. More amphetamines will keep your dopamine levels above baseline but there is a point of diminishing returns (therapeutic dosage), then once your last dose runs its course your dopamine levels fall precipitously and crashes down below your baseline dopamine levels also known as 'withdrawal' period until you get back to your normal baseline. The more amps you take, the harder you crash down below baseline and your adhd symptoms return and feel much worse as you have less freely available dopamine.

That's all I meant by what goes up must come down :)
The discovery of a new taste cell
You don't have to internalise grammar to be fluent. If that's the case nobody would learn a language. You need practice, at the right level, and lots and lots of it. Rote memorization is what happens naturally.
Or perhaps a bunch of less efficient small data centers.
Last Call for Gumshoes
Open the pod bay doors, HAL
From my research public land pigs in TX have been pretty much hunted out of existence, so if you want to hunt them you pretty much have to pay someone for the privilege of hunting their land. This leads me to believe that the problem is either less severe than its made out to be and/or that it is being propped up by people who are profiting by its continued existence.
I find that weird, his style is so distinct any fan would immediately recognize it
Ontario is lauded for essentially doing nothing other than studying the situation and haplessly following up reports weeks and months later. Also, not actually getting rid of any hogs.

But, the real problem is allowing hunters to shoot them when they see them. Got it.
Local Dutch municipalities are fighting for large datacenter. They promise them green energy
Don't forget Google App Engine! Though, it's even more expensive than Heroku.
In my experience, the Heroku $9/mo plan isn't usable for anything production-ready. I had to upgrade to the next tier when I crossed about 100 active users. For $9/mo, you're also getting a pretty prohibitive row limit and a really low connection limit. DO's $7/mo dev database is more in line with Heroku's dev offering.
Agree, this report isn't designed to shock readers, of course (multiple people posting sarcastic/non shock) already expected it. Its almost as if it had to be written to shock people on this thread in order to be accepted, which brings us full circle.

I enjoyed the report not because it shocked me but because it outlined its methodology, it showed clear examples, and it points to a growing trend. It makes me wonder where these things go next, it feels like squeezing a lemon. Sure if you get a hydraulic press you'll get a bit more out. Then you've destroyed the entire communication channel.
Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances – GPU Instances with Up to 8 Nvidia T4 GPUs
Firefox took half a decade to reach 20% market share against IE. In the same time, Chrome became the dominant browser. I'm pretty sure that the FF-IE gap warrants to use FF as an example of organic growth, while Chrome is a clear example of aggressive marketing. You can acknowledge that Chrome was a good product _and_ that it got insane marketing, at zero cost.

As for examples of pushing inferior products into market, some google search cards are good examples of it.
Yep, the experience has become a complete piece of shit. It looks like an infestation of MBAs. I'm surprised nevertheless, I have always been impressed by Amazon and I didn't expect this short sighted change of direction
That's an important point, no matter if the algorithm is some trained neural net or a ruleset written by hand.

I'm often under the impression that moral standards are easier to ignore if "the computer says that X". E.g. we have to accept the fact that woman is much more likely to take maternety leave, and essentially an AI is okay to be aware of that, too. It even has to, else it finds another commom factor (eg womans chess club) - but it should be able to wilfully ignore this finding because using it against an applicant is immoral.
Does anyone else find it strange that Van is actually a middle name, thus rendering his name as HALEN EDWARD VAN
Telharmonium: The first significant electronic musical instrument
Or https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
so no value judgment there, huh? nerds who like sports are just not the right kind, right? certain creativity like plucking strings in various patterns is just inherently better than others? and how was his impact greater? how is one kind of entertainer better than another?

startup founders could learn a lot from kobe, from focus and discipline to creativity and tenacity. he also invested in startups.
When power is toxic: A new study of fish behaviour shows that dominant in (cont)
If you're exploring and tinkering, it's OK to go broad and skim trough things quickly. But if you aim for understanding, depth is required. Don’t see a contradiction here with the "life I short part"; it's more about curiosity (exploring) than studying (exploiting).
It's almost like poorly thought out government intervention has second order effects.
I’m curious about your first paragraph but I don’t understand it, can you rephrase?

DOM elements which trigger JS event on click which are not identified by shortcut tools has always annoyed me, us much that I even tried to fix it myself so I’m very interested if tridactyl has
Baking soda or salt is preferable for putting out a fire. Or sand or kitty litter. Water as a last resort. Flour and baking power can be flammable
How to play the piano: On Glenn Gould
https://archive.is/mDN0o
How would that help? Reducing the number of data centers doesn’t reduce the demand for them.
Then I really don't understand the point you are trying to make.

Memory protection itself certainly preceded the 286 by almost 20 years (I used to use a PDP-10 that ran an operating system using memory protection since the mid 60s).

The article on which we are commenting talks about memory segmentation (which is what Protected Mode used to implement protection) thus my point that this was not an invention of Intel's (and in fact the 286 was not intel's first implementation of the idea, that was the 432).

I don't intend to have an argument; it's just you made the assertion that Intel's failure in this regard was the Road Not Taken while I'm merely pointing out that there is plenty of experience (pro and con) of memory segmentation before and after the 286 and 386.
You are of course referring to the School of the Air:

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

That remote learning system actually started back in the early 50s, a time well before the age of the internet.