skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Connecting the dots:

https://yellowstonebearworld.com/how-long-do-bears-hibernate

"Grizzly bears typically hibernate between five to seven months"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast
"Scottish man Angus Barbieri (1939 – 7 September 1990) fasted for 382 days (...) 207 kg to 82 kg"

That's 327g per day so a modern human need about 59kg of added fat to survive 6 monthes without eating or hibernating , while being fully able and functionnal in case some additional food can be found during the time.

As an anecdote my longest fast was 8 days, and I recorded between 300 and 400g of weight loss per day. I was walking a few hours per day without any trouble, so no loss of physical energy.
> The chances of the only two civilisations in the entire galaxy happening to be neighbours, among 400bn stars, absolutely stretches the bounds of rationality.

I think this is dependent on the conditions by which one or more related lifeforms emerged. It's entirely possible life here came from there or from there to here and the reason it's here and there is because it's close. Chances assuming no travel between the two places is just silly.
That's not how licensing Arm technology works.
> bullying ... is increasingly more common than people release.

How can you make this statement if it’s unsaid and unreported?
I would say it's more about elasticity and the ability to scale horizontally if you take the minimum amount of precautions when designing your app.
DOCSIS authentication is based on the HFC-side MAC address of the modem (part of the DOCSIS management protocol) and TR-069 is not required for any basic functionality - it is typically only used to manage functionality that it not common in third-party modems like an integrated WiFi AP.

The more complicated matter is that firmware is typically delivered to the modem via the DOCSIS management protocol (lower level than TR-069) and so the ISP must have firmware available for all supported modems. This is the major factor that leads to compatibility lists. It is possible for the ISP to not manage firmware but most don't want to take the risk as a malfunctioning modem can take down a neighborhood in some cases.
Lode Runner is my favorite game ever. I don't even bother playing games anymore because none will ever match my memory of Lode Runner.
I thought about Amazon for self publishing, and that’s a good point. I could be wrong (and would be happy to be wrong), but it feels like most of the people in the making-a-living-but-not-striking-it-rich group there are turning out high-volume junk. When I think of the “middle class” of the arts, I think of the Duplass Brothers, for example, or the Blumhouse horror studio, where their goal seems to be to allow talented artists to experiment and make quality, if low-budget, media. My very possibly wrong impression of Amazon self publishers is that their success strategy is to churn out as much serialized content as fast as possible.
>Is tbe amount of money people spend on entertainment fixed?

And time.

For a given person, I think it roughly is. I'm probably going to spend about the same time (and money) watching video somewhat independently of the quality of content available (within reason). Preferences may shift over time--I spend more time reading things online relative to reading books than I did 20 years ago. But broadly, more or better entertainment options won't really shift my total time and money budget.
Played Lode Runner on commodore 64 -- had lots of fun -- was a simpler time..
So you’re a Native American who’s lived in the times before these massive migrations?
"For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal."

"Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad"

https://steveblank.com/2019/04/10/startup-stock-options-why-...
I find the nomenclature in this article a bit weird.

> Another disadvantage of backpropagation is its tendency to become stuck in the local minima of the loss function. Mathematically, the goal in training a model is converging on the global minimum, the point in the loss function where the model has optimized its ability to make predictions.

"Backpropagation" is the method how to compute the gradient of the weights with respect to a loss function. But the article repeatedly uses the term as if it was the whole optimization algorithm, running into local minima.
Interesting. There must be some research detailing how much energy a human body minimally needs to sustain the rest state. Every activity needs some energy, beating the heart, breathing, metabolizing nutrients, fats. Turning from side to side (no avoid the bed sores).

This would yield the required the degree of preparations before embarking on such a long stretch of lockdown. Gaining enough fat, stocking wood/coal/water/bread, well, farming what's needed through the rest of the year.

I think this may be a survival stretch for some bad years, not a sustainable practice.
> Yeah, well, a typical laptop should draw around 50W, which is what, like 0.05$ a day?

At least where I live that would be 1.2kWh and about 13 cents per day, around $4 per month, or around $50 per year if running 24x7.

Pacific Northwest has I believe some of the cheaper power in the U.S. at 10-11 cents per kilowatt hour.
I wonder how much latency is added in when you feed the RTMP into ffmpeg.

Why not just plain old webrtc with the viewing clients muted.
Makes me wonder about the link between critical acclaim, commercial success, and production time.

Apparently, Avatar 2 has been in production for 13 years..
It often feels to me that it’s the submission titles that get voted up, not the actual content of the linked articles.
Awesome, didn't expect to learn this much and definitely wouldn't have without your input. Thanks!
Wha wha wha?!!!!

So the government should pay for a thing to be created but private enterprise should maintain it? I believe if anything, you flipped this. Because when I think private enterprise, I think maintenance and long term strategy of only profit. They will do nothing and then dump the hot mess back on the people when it breaks down.

Last mile infra should be owned, operated and maintained by the people. ISPs should connect to the network and offer services. I should be able to have multiple ISPs and free local network access.
In Germany, the provider can't give you an active termination point. You're allowed to operate your own.
Lookup tldr on github.
It works as a replacement for man pages 90% of the time.
Direct link to the thread https://twitter.com/1dolinski/status/1340691144427130880
It's not the cost of failure that is so low, it is the cost of hanging on but not ever taking off that is so high.
Nice hack.

Two tangential complaints.

First, it sounds to me like the ninth note is off - it's lower than it should be.

Second, that page ate a huge chunk of my monthly mobile data allocation.

Twice. Because I made the mistake of clicking the image for the video, instead of opening it in a new tab. The page reloaded in full on the back button.
> remember most Python devs have little experience with staticly typed langauges, so in practice your team will be skipping annotations - e.g using Dict[str, Any], which defeats the whole purpose of annotations

Using mypy or pylance gives benefits even without annotations, and while you can often do better than Dict[str, Any], rough cut annotations like that often, IME, provide value. (For one, they’ll catch paths that would allow either the dict or a key in it to be None when that isn't expected.)
Ffmpeg is an unusual piece of software. It’s CLI arguments (to me) are baffling. But it’s been around so long that there’s so many answered questions online for virtually anything you want it to do. Don’t bother reading the man page, go to google first.
I loved the sierra version of this. I spent countless hours with the level editor.
The technology of recording itself is a lot to blame for the near total loss of the creator economy. For example when you make music you are competing with every song ever recorded in the 20th century. Creators are being destroyed by the wealth of available content. Why should someone listen to my music even if its extremely creative when they have the entire cannon of Duke Ellington available for free from their $9.95 per month?
Yes, Barbieri actually managed to stay reasonably slim for the rest of his life, which is not typical in patients who lost a lot of weight without surgery.

But AFAIK the Guinness book no longer collects fasting records, because they do not want to promote anorexia.
The phantom chorus: birdsong boosts human well-being in protected areas
> You can strategically answer any question.

Good luck with that.

We do exactly that for a living here, we're essentially 5 people who are all CTO grade and have run our own companies. If you can fool us for a whole day you've deserved your investment, but I highly doubt anybody ever got away with that.
That seems pretty tautological.
What a super fascinating demonstration this thread is of why OnlyFans could never have been a Silicon Valley company.

I'm not going to risk getting pulled into any of the ten different arguments going on here, beyond stating that I consider it a very good thing to increase the agency of the most vulnerable members of this line of work. But suffice to say that with this level of vehement disagreement even on whether sex work has any sort of societal value at all, it's really no surprise that this lucrative opportunity has gone to a region that doesn't have these moral qualms.

And that is a little surprising, given that, as the author points out, Silicon Valley takes no issue with any number of other industries that have debatable moral consequences.
Samsung Galaxy S II, released in 2011, has an unofficial port of Android 11
So airlines were one of the first cloud users because they couldn't scale otherwise?

And they're doing "serverless" these days as their IT operations are a good fit for this paradigm?

Or could it be that they're small enough to get things managed with off the shelf software and/or something built and run in-house?
Unlikely.

1. This law does not affect Comcast, because Comcast does not charge you any rental or extra fees for using your own modem. Switch from a Comcast modem to your own, and your internet bill comes down exactly by what had been the cost of your Comcast rental.

2. Comcast generally raises costs every year or so, almost always at this time of year.
I’m not sure which profit margin you are talking about (gross? Operating?) But Toyota had a net profit margin of 6.95% in the last reported quarter, vs Tesla’s 3.77% net profit margin
The article is based on the following two lines in the paper/article Science, Diplomacy, and the Red Sea’s Unique Coral Reef: It’s Time for Action [1]

> The reefs are also threatened by potential oil spillage from oil pipelines and offshore storage facilities. In the southern-most section of the Red Sea the SAFER tanker, a floating oil storage and offloading unit (FSO) anchored off the coast of Yemen, holds 1.1 million barrels of oil and has begun to leak its cargo, a consequence of political and military conflicts in the area which hamper remediation and international intervention (World Maritime News, 2019).

FSO Safer [2] "is a floating oil storage and offloading vessel that is moored in the Red Sea north of the Yemeni city of Al Hudaydah."

> In March 2015, in the early days of the Yemeni Civil War, Safer fell into the hands of Houthi forces when they took control of the coastline surrounding her mooring.

> In late November, the United Nations and Houthi leadership reached an agreement to allow a UN-led team access to Safer by January 2021 for purposes of inspection and repair.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.0009...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Safer
I believe that "people in border villages go up in mountain caves during the winter, and basically lie down there, starving and dying" to be a horror story, with some of the markings of an exaggeration.

Does it make it automatically untrue? No. Do I believe many North Koreans live in really harsh conditions? Yes.

But this particular tale does seem too horrific to believe without some sort of confirmation beyond hearsay. All it lacks is some cannibalism to make it the perfect horror story about North Korea.
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The wikipedia article [1] provides the history. It was used for storage by the government and then fell into the hands of Houthi forces before deteriorating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Safer
Passive investors could have bought a broader market index than the S&P 500.
> friendships don't work that way, they rely on common struggle that is needed to build trust. the older we get the less our chances of going through a common struggle (like puberty)

I think this is true for "friends for life" that you make in school/university/army, but definitely it's possible to make new friends at 50. Granted, it won't be the same "will drive all night to bail you out" type of close friendship and more of a "joking around while at the BBQ".
All of what you've said applies to me as well. I found this particularly implementation a year or so ago. The nostalgia is great but it's still a genuinely fun game. I've probably only made it to level 8.
I'm not sure if there are other episodes, but there's a big hint in an episode in season 4 that Michael is much more astute than he lets on:

During the episode where Michael goes out to do a "survival show" in the woods (ala Bear Grylls). Jim is the temporary manager while Michael is gone, and he tries to combine several staff birthdays which are close together into one big celebration. It backfires terribly.

When Michael returns and Jim expresses his relief, Michael explains that he made the same mistake Jim did once and explains that the decision to celebrate the close birthdays separately is a very deliberate one. He also implies that Jim is very much on the same trajectory as him.

He then makes a "That's what she said" joke randomly, and Jim basically replies "Uh, what?" and Michael explains that he makes dumb jokes often to just break the tension.

It's a pretty lucid moment for an otherwise often opaque character, but does imply that Michael's quirks are a result of his staff and not in spite of them.
> The algorithm tries to find the single most optimal shape that can be drawn to minimize the error between the target image and the drawn image. It repeats this process, adding one shape at a time. Around 50 to 200 shapes are needed to reach a result that is recognizable yet artistic and abstract.

So one way to think about this is it’s a compression algorithm with aesthetic artifacts at high compression rates.

I wonder if you could use a multi-dimensional Hough-like transform on the primitive of choice to avoid the hill climbing step. You can do this easily with lines, but ellipses and triangles will be more difficult I’m sure. Sounds like a fun Christmas break programming project!
Do different electric companies run cables to homes in the U.S?
I remember reading about it initially and saying "that sounds ambitious,and useful"... I think its safe to say they changed the world for the better with that single A/V swiss army knife tool. Amazing achievement.
Yes, probably, but then on the other hand, if panspermia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia) was the cause of life here, whatever mechanism was at work (e.g. interstellar objects, fragments from an exploded system) then it would make sense to have seeded clusters of stars. Fun to think about, obviously, who knows.
Lode Runner was huge in our house on the C64, but I think Jumpman[1] and Fort Apocalypse[2] were played a lot more. We even caught our parents having 2am marathon sessions with Jumpman, which was not normal.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrsZ1bDy4Dg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1A-BNafyDk
Ffmpeg can: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20thumbnail%20image%...

https://superuser.com/a/624573

You’ll just need to figure out the middle bit, shouldn’t be too hard though.
I will always be able to recall the digging sound. That video is 8 hours long!
> got the attention of Apple, who used it to power what most people consider to be its biggest failure

You could also argue the Newton was the predecessor to the iPhone.
Sure. I believe distraction is a solution for many because it allows them to discover the self at their own pace. It’s a more indirect route that may take longer, but which may be less psychologically jarring compared to direct introspection. For these types, self discovery might involve something as simple as watching a film and identifying with both the hero and the villain, something which hadn’t happened heretofore in their development. The film was intended as a distraction from the self, but the self is not avoidable; we constantly compare “not self” to “self” and update our world view based on these comparisons. Distractions may help people cope with their unavoidable development. In trying times, more of us may need more distractions because we are developing at a breakneck pace. I disapprove of shaming people for coping with their growth using distraction, because that’s how they prefer to learn.
Well done, looking forward to reading this!
Here is a good answer https://www.quora.com/Which-is-better-for-live-streaming-RTM...
Back in NZ in the 90’s my first computers were, at home, an IBM AT dad had salvaged, then a compaq 386 laptop which ran dos, had one those GUI app loaders and windows. I spent more time in DOS. In the classrooms we had Acorns, until Pentium was released.
There is litigation that might reduce the problem at the source: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/15/7615373...

Agreed on the need to treat those already addicted.
Agreed. A trained or experienced cook would have no issues with these instructions. When you learn cooking as a trade you learn basic techniques so actual recipes are terse and deal in basic components, techniques to combine or prepare them, and maybe some special instructions that go beyond this.
2x cost is typical, so if your salary is 80K then the employer is likely paying another 80k for things like social security and health insurance. Keep in mind that the employee will still have to pay quite a bit for health insurance, and that is largely driven by number of dependents (spouse and children).
I think you might be combining Darwinism with Dawkinsism here.

Natural selection isn't necessarily preservational of individual genes (nor of genotypes). It just argues that the survivors are more genetically fit for survival. This aligns with GP's comment.

The Selfish Gene theory argues that behaviours among the group tend toward preservation of the genotype. Family over strangers, generally.

I do take issue with GP's "evolutionary purpose" -- these two words cannot be combined in a meaningful way. But, interpreted as "evolutionary contribution", it could make sense.

All that said, I also don't think that GP's idea floats, nor does it hold water. Genetic predisposition to depression is very poorly understood, but seems (to me) to be just ordinary phenotypical noise in the signal. Quasi-random variation which is to be expected in any sufficiently complicated system.
Somewhere on the internet there is a similar story about French peasants by a member of the French revolution.
Facebook blocks Kisan Ekta Morcha page, restores it after widespread outrage
Regarding actual input and output, I assume that’s relatively easy with ffmpeg.

As for results, the challenge might be keeping the illusion of movement from frame to frame.

It’s likely small changes to the input image result in largely different positioning of the shapes. When watched as a movie, this wouldn’t result in a fluid motion.
Re: comedy, there’s definitely been a resurgence of stand up specials, but you’re right in that there haven’t been many blockbuster comedies.
This is absolutely true. But shitty technology tends to have hard upper limits to scalability and shitty security tends to put hard upper limits on the company life span. It's interesting how established companies can have one security issue after another but the customers are so locked in they can't leave and so those companies are not nearly as affected as they should be (Equifax anybody?). But your run-of-the-mill start-up would be mortally wounded by such an affair because they still need to sign the bulk of their customers.

Of course it doesn't always play out like that (to every rule there are plenty of exceptions), but investors don't like to be associated with companies that fail or that blow up their reputations either because it makes their exit that much harder or even impossible.

I've seen investors that took the responsible route and made fixing major security issues or other undesirable elements of the target companies a condition to investment and typically these investments succeed in the longer term, not in the least because they cleaned up their act and could then turn that into a USP relative to the rest of the field.

Even so: better invest in a company with a mediocre product and a stellar sales team than to invest in a company with a fantastic product and a mediocre sales team. The first one will get you a better ROI, and tech can be fixed post deal.
100%

The difference between an introvert and an extrovert is best displayed when there is a lack of incentive.

Introverts can readily step into an extroverted role when it's necessary and aligns with their goals.

Introverts are not going to toast at a large party without good reason(improving speaking skills, impressing a guest, etc) whereas an extrovert might give a toast for fun.

Does your blood settle in the top or lower part of your head?
Does watching people be kind to others also have health benefits? I’ve noticed quite a bit of videos on YouTube about tipping people large sums of money or giving away items to strangers and use that as evidence that people like to watch them. Are people attracted (not consciously) to the same mental/physical benefit?
From what I have seen, people writing about linguistics do not usually bother specifying this distinction in this context. It is usually implied that an expression like "following a vowel" or "following a consonant" has nothing to do with orthography, but the actual phonetics. The orthography is not really considered a source of truth.
A Speculative Frenzy Is Sweeping Wall Street and World Markets
Right, I just have a disagreement with the notion the article peddles that women are somehow better, that this is a "man issue."
It’s a mystery to me why is:open is the default. In most situations you also want any existing “closed” matches to be listed in the results.
The AMT Trap.

https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation/sections/the-...
curious, how many years does it take to read and understand a paper like this? I looked and the thing is pretty dense and to me at least seams very difficult to read. I'm just not sure because I will see some programmers sound like they read and understood it in an evening