skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans are bad at curating habitats for other species.

Making or improving habitats for endangered species most effectively involves: leaving them the hell alone.

Getting a construction company to commit to curating (or financing) the habitat for endangered species is a specious political solution that favours continuing with unsustainable construction over essential habitats. I bet there is not a single case where this has been long-term effective.
> doing so requires a JVM-like runtime such as wasmtime. Cosmopolitan proves that it's possible to just fix C instead

This doesn't sound like a fair comparison. WASM isn't just providing portability, it's also providing security and runtime safety. Cosmopolitan doesn't, it presumably requires you to trust the codebase, and doesn't protect you from C's undefined behaviour. Of course, WASM also imposes a considerable performance penalty, I presume the Cosmopolitan approach easily outperforms WASM.

> This is probably how Java would have been designed, if Intel's instruction set hadn't been encumbered by patents at the time.

To mirror the comment by Someone, I sincerely doubt this. Java bytecode is a very high level stack-based IR, nothing like a CPU ISA. They could easily have made it resemble a CPU ISA if they'd wanted to. The lesser-known GNU Lightning JIT engine takes this approach, for instance.
Destroying the environment in order to expand our use of resources is not an equilibrium.

We've never been in equilibrium. We've continuously expanded at the expense of other species. It's just that now the limit of this expansion has become very visible
Main site: https://rc3.world/rc3/

I don't quite understand: Why do I need a login to access anything there? And why are the tickets limited? I would have expected that they have the knowledge to make the infrastructure be able to scale up to any number. And I would be happy to pay for that.
Most of these systems are evolutions from previous designs, however. How much is completely new?
A crime large enough to get flagged, it seems. I guess Seinfeld has slipped out of the assumed background common knowledge.
It sounds like they implemented it from scratch, which means they simply beat him to market. I'm not sure what the issue is here.
Brexit: 'Bumpy' period expected as UK adjusts to new EU rules
There has been no implication of anything here being temporary in any reporting I've seen during the whole process. Did you see something specific that gave you that impression?
There aren't "so many horror stories" there are the same small number of ancient horror stories replayed over and over.
Occam's razor. Inventing conspiracy theories isn't helpful.
I just read that old complaint thread you linked to. Sorry you had to deal with that, and thank you for making software for all of us people, polite or not.
Iron Foods Made Simple
Original author here! The original implementations of Zoomquilt 1+2 were done in flash. I created the HTML5 port in 2013. Zoomquilt 2 consists of 88 single images, each 1024x768px. Basically each image takes place at 50% the size in the center of the previous. For each frame, there are at most 4 images rendered at once on the canvas. The first Zoomquilt has smaller images of 800x600, hence the better performance. Arkadia.xyz has source images of 1200x900px.

The performance in Chrome is noticeably better than Firefox. The smaller the window size, the smoother the playback. Since it is only four images at once, whenever one image leaves the scene and a new one appears, there might be a small lag when the image is loaded into memory. I don't have a deeper understanding on how this could be optimized further for the browser.

For the Android OpenGL implementation I was able to take care of loading the images asynchronously before they enter the scene and freeing up the memory again after they leave the scene.

Happy to take suggestions on how this might be optimized further, as it would be interesting to work with even higher resolutions for future projects, but this quickly leads to much higher performance load and choppy playback on weaker machines.
This is such a nicer compliment than it will be in a week.
> Apple though directly contacts another one of your devices, regardless if you still own it.

Just so I'm clear, you're saying Apple sends a 2FA request to devices that are no longer tied to your AppleID? That seems like a huge security hole, and one I'm sure they would like to have reported.

> Also no, with Authy, as long as I have my master password somewhere, I can still login and get my 2FA codes.

Keep in mind that while Authy is great, it does weaken 2FA a bit. Now a hacker can hack Authy and then gain access. In a maximum secure 2FA setup (with a hardware token or Google Authenticator that is tied to the device), if you lose the second factor it's supposed to be hard to get access. Some companies even tell you up front, that if you don't have the codes shown when setting up 2FA, and you lose the 2FA you lose your account.
Does 1/hour really count as /Continuous/ integration/delivery?

They made 2000 action-minutes-per-month for free for a specific reason. I think they can bare the cost and the potential 'abuse' inhibited by free orgs.
I immediately jumped to the Rush Hemispheres [ my favorite album by the boys, btw ] Cygnus-X1 reference, and I feel my instincts were correct when I noticed the guitar amps in the background of the thrust-vectoring video.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOiNJAihxhEA67VCx54dzVX...
> It was desirable economically to the upper classes. It was, obviously, bad for workers (two-income trap).

Long term yes. But did women enter the workforce because of the economic benefit originally? Then as women continued entering wages fell (supply and demand) and the working class ended up trapped, as you say.

Another huge factor is globalization. Women maybe had to enter to earn enough when work started being outsourced.
This is behind a Medium login-prompt fyi
Here's an image gallery with modals using just css. The css :target selector is the magic ingredient.

https://madmurphy.github.io/takefive.css/
Long term equilibrium for the species is not a great concept for us right now. At some point we'll run into an ecological problem wiping out most of the corn in the US for a year. That could be a potato famine level event, but we'll regrow in a few decades... equilibrium kept, but it doesn't help those who starved.
Just to be pedantic, low-voltage transport is wasteful (expensive) compared to high-voltage transport of the same power (energy).

That is because transport (cable) loss is a function of the current squared, while the transported power (energy) is a function of both current and voltage.

Of course most appliances that want DC usually do so at a lower voltage (typically 5-24V), hence why they often go hand in hand.
Not the person you’re replying to, but I just got stainless steel cookware this year. Covid got me cooking much more, and I actually started liking it, so I thought I’d invest in some decent pans as my non stick ones were wearing down. I am not a natural in the kitchen, and the learning curve for stainless has been huge for me. The heat is different and the pans get much much hotter at a lower heat. When you throw things in the pan, it sticks for a moment. This can make things yummy but is unsettling after a life of non stick. You can season stainless like a cast iron pan to get it non stick.

I was really frustrated after making the switch. Non stick pans are so forgiving. However, now that I’m over the hump, I really love these pans. They are so sturdy and will last my whole life. I’ve learned how to control heat much better, and they’re quite satisfying to cook with. There’s something so quality feeling about them.
If you have a financial incentive to do anything, your motives should be investigated if not outright suspect, even if they're objectively good.

If everything is above board there's nothing to lose. But hand-waving it away doesn't help anyone except people with motives that appear good at first blush but are in fact not.
I like the fact that people notice and call attention to these subtle devices. I use them myself when writing[1] and they're useful tools, but we should always be aware when we are basically clubbing our reader over the head with our own take on things.

I would love to see a compendium of these sorts of subtly domineering turns of phrase.

[1]: it turns out I used "it turns out" in the last thing I wrote that was at the top of HN, heh.
Source: https://twitter.com/paulmaunders/status/1343143578147684357
It's not even that space is too big.

Time's too big. There's no reason to assume that the lifetime of technological civilization is more than a few hundred years. By then they will have destroyed their own habitat and - despite some half-hearted (or even serious) attempts on colonizing different planets/planetoids - will have come to an inglorious end.

Let's be generous and say that the lifetime of a technological civilization is a thousand years. That's the time that it can both send and receive signals from another technological civilization.

The chance that one technological civilization is able to receive the signals of another is so vanishingly small as to be zero for all practical purposes.
They can just paginate.
It seems plausible that this is the current EU standard on encrypting DNA profiles, in which case the agreement is correct (in some sense) to mirror it.

Once the EU (hopefully soon) updates its standards, the UK will then have the option to decide whether to follow or not (regulatory divergence) - and presumably the ERG (tory party brexiteers) will not die in a ditch over a move away from SHA-1...
> it encourages the formation and processing of thoughts.

I found that writing has the same effect for me, that is why I use journaling for dealing with complex situations in life. It forces you to materialise what is in your head the same why that speech does, and I find it almost meditative as well.
Meticore Reviews
Thanks for this! Really useful to see how the experience went, and what worked as a speaker. I find the same issue with no audience feedback, but it is good to hear that you've already received mail directly. I guess the loss of in-person spontaneous questions is one downside - was there any "live Q&A" time via chat questions? I've seen that work quite well sometimes in past in-person CCCs, and imagine that it could work if people were watching synchronously.

Perhaps in the world of async, we now need to focus more on the Q&A via email in slow-time, but therefore be able to have more meaningful interactions.

All in all sounds like a pretty good experience, and interesting to see their approach to Jitsi in making this work! thanks
> Ghidra is open source, you are free to audit and build it yourself if you are concerned.

^ the manyeyeballs fallacy
iCloud is a lot like Maps (and in some cases Siri). It was rough, but has gotten much better.
>So China’s power will decrease a little bit due to aging. But not a huge amount. A shrinking, graying population is likely to alter the country’s domestic politics — in ways that are hard to predict — but it won’t make the country shrivel up and disappear.

I've long maintained that Chinese demographic bomb is overplayed and is actually a blessing in disguise. Some considerations:

Birthrate of 1.4B people is sufficient to generate more absolute replacement human capital compared to most developing countries, even factoring in immigration. For comparison China has more people than OECD countries combined. This is important in cultivating future competitiveness as long as brain drain is blunted. It's enough to retain advantages for regional power balance.

There are still 600M Chinese living on less than 1000rmb per month. This represents a massive internal underclass that can be arbitraged for caretaking and other labour intensive duties for a fraction of the cost. China is both a developed and developing country, this is an advantage that is not going to change until population decline stabilizes. Or rather China cannot be uniformly well/highly developed precisely due to there being too many people. Which leads to the next point.

At the height of Chinese export economy, manufacturing sector "only" accounted for 400M jobs. There was also less automation then. The takeaway is world demand is not sufficient to uplift even a majority of Chinese population to barely middle income status. There simply isn't enough global demand or resources for every Chinese to live as well as the west. Manufacturing is increasingly automated, China is rapidly integrating industrial robots to retain industrial base. Even when those 600M can work wages cheaper than Vietnam or Bangladesh. Pending focus on neglected interior development, maybe they will at the expense of rest of region trying to replicate export led development.

A lot of issues related to food, energy and resource security would be alleviated with less people. Despite import dependencies, China is also one of the largest domestic producer for many raw resources. A relatively food and energy secure China can start pursuing more flexible foreign policy goals in the 2070s.

None of this is to imply it's not a difficult problem, especially socially. But unlike many countries, long term Chinese goals is better met with less people. Demographic dividend can be a demographic curse as well. See India, who needs to (and hasn't) maintained an 8% growth per year just to keep up with employment. Technological paradigms and geopolitics dictates they won't get a fraction of the 400M manufacturing jobs that China did. They're projected to have 1.7B people. That's a recipe for disaster.
If you've ever been in an airplane, you'll know that airplane cabin noise is largely uncorrelated rumble, not fixed-pitch components from the jet engines and such. Good luck solving for the response at a user's position for that, no matter how many microphones you throw at the problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3pyLk_wBs

Spectrogram sample: https://mrcn.st/t/flight_noise.png

I get that this is HN, but no, ML and AI do not magically solve all problems.

Thankfully, most of the energy is in the low frequencies, which existing noise cancellation systems can already do a god job of dealing with in the near field.
They're engaged in fraud - misrepresentation for profit. That should be enough to breech the various appstore t&cs, and be banned.

Anki has a similar problem (a copycat also called anki).
Communism is based on advanced economics, where production is significantly higher than demand.
That is a great point. I watched a documentary on the person who finally solved the proof (twice!) and I don’t remember his name, but I do recognize Fermat’s theorem.
Check out La Villa Strangiato next...it contains, in my quite humble opinion, the best solo Alex ever composed and performed.
Depending on importing electricity is the wrong phasing I think.

Most of the electricity we import is due to French nuclear power overproduction, the marginal cost of producing more power is negligible so it's more economical for them to produce as much as they can sell at almost any price.
Not necessarily, at least JAMStack front-end frameworks like Next and Gatsby can co-exist with Wordpress because headless support from WP.

That said, newer CMS's have their work cut out for them.
> when the other measurement problems account for the asymmetry

Such as?

And what about the 2nd and and 3rd quartiles?

And even if the phenomenon is caused by the mathematics of floor/ceiling effect (low skill people bias their assessment upward because they know they can't have a negative percentile), it's still real effect in misestimating their percentile.

Baseball players at bar can be modelled by random numbers too. That doesn't mean variance in performance over time is purely random.
RTS games and shooter games like Quake ultimately have the same problem. The skill ceiling is very high compared to the average player base so you're always going to wind up with a lot of people playing short term then moving on to something else.

When you start losing players, the match quality goes down, which leads to longer matchmaking searches or unbalanced teams... Either outcome accelerates the process of losing players until the game only exists for the better players. At this point any new players are turned off by the skill level and matchmaking times by the players left.

The last ditch attempt to save the game is making it free to play. This is the only way out of the last problem because you get a lot of new players for a minute... Usually this doesn't work unless you pull a FortNite and completely change the game mode when you go F2P.
Silver searcher and ripgrep can ignore git-ignored files very easily. Don’t know how to do that with grep.

Fzf gives you a list of hits that you can go through to select the one you want. Ctrl-r in bash just shows you the current hit.

Those are real advantages.
Well, consider the Simpsons' comic book guy: high-IQ but essentially unproductive. He represents that smart-weirdo stereotype.

In terms of envy and anti-intellectualism, it's convenient to lump most tech people, including productive ones, into the smart-weirdo stereotype.

Furthermore, someone is also a "weirdo" if they have a lifestyle that differs significantly from an acceptable "normal" range of allowed configurations.
That's why I'm confused as to why they're selling this as being relevant for ANC (optimizing for the news cycle?), when it would be a lot more useful to talk about things like optimizing free space speaker systems for a user's position, say, for VR.

Like, the idea of remotely sensing where a user's ears are and what they're picking up is useful. Just not for far field ANC.
I agree. Though I wonder if Christmas is a bigger iOS activation day than iPhone release day each year? I haven't had a problem activating a new iPhone on release day in years.
Well the time before that matters as well. Someone has to prepare everything.
3% solar and 4% wind right now. Seems a long way to go before these can get us through days like today.
ok. lets run this:

assume its the year 2000 with a 20 year old having some level of PFOS in blood & cells etc and the half-life of that PFOS is 5 years*

2000 100% of accumulated measured concentration in blood & cells by some measure

2005 50%

2010 25%

2015 13%

2020 6%

2025 3%

2030 2%

2035 1%

2040 <1%

So our fictional 20 year old is 60-70* by the time the stuff has "fully" degraded. This doesn't mean they are now healthy. It just means the toxic stuff is now no longer at the original level. Impact on organs? Not a great picture.

A "Forever chemical" indeed.

* Assumptions just to make things easier to see. PFOS half-life is actually 5.4 years. So the table above is too short. Assume nothing gets stuck where it can't decay. What is toxic for this? What is typical buildup for a 20 year old for various locations/contexts?
There is a 110 year roughly-linear downtrend in UK coal production. Recent technical improvements would have had some, but minor, impacts on the UK de-coaling their economy compared to that.

> Unless the UK wants to heavily subsidize coal at a major loss and force themselves to continue to use antiquated technology to prop up this energy buggy whip, it's done.

If the buggy whip drove further & faster than a motor vehicle we'd still be using them. Coal produced more electricity than their new setup does. This is more akin to all the horses being dead so everyone has to move to bicycles. Arguably not a big step back, but not obviously better.
How to Properly Vet Vendors for a Two-Sided Marketplace Startup
The problem statement is simple: there needs to be lawful accounting for negative externalities, even when discovered after the fact. And the price to pay should be roughly equal to the damage caused by the externality. Solve these two problems and you solve governance and capitalism. As for the implementation...
Ahh, that is a nice and unexpected bonus. Does “Sign in with Google” allow provisioning of new accounts with appropriate permissions for a service/SaaS by an admin? (I’ve only used OneLogin/Okta)
Why are video games graphics (still) a challenge?
> By this argument, few CEOs, salespeople, or advertising execs should ever have been heard.

You say this as if it was a negative.

Besides the history of science is very fuzzy, and complex enough that "commitment" by itself is too vague a term. Also, science is not homogeneous enough for any kind of it to be a positive on every field.
Absolutely! I think it would be fine to go back to 1 billion, although the transition to a less extensive infrastructure will probably be quite rough. It's good that we already started concentrating most of the population in cities. This will help with the transition immensely.
> One of the most amazing experiences of my life I always thought Richard fineman was crazy for beating a bongo drum. But he was on to something.

Not crazy at all. Dancing, singing, music is part of just about every human culture. I'd even say dancing is a sort of fun communal therapy. Which makes total sense why its part of ceremony.

Note, Many people such as myself claim they don't dance. But secretly I "dance" (thrash about incoherently) around the when the music is going and no one is looking.
In the meantime my 7yo T440s is as good as new.

I have flooded it twice, once a month after buying it with hot latte. Then second time two years ago when it was dropped into clean water. In the second case the water got absolutely everywhere including between individual leaves of the LCD panel.

Thanks to how it is built, both times I was able to disassemble it myself and clean it properly to remove any water and residues.

I have also changed internal battery which was as simple as unscrewing it and disconnecting from main board. I hacked BIOS to accept 4G M.2 card because when the laptop was certified 4G wasn't even a thing yet.

I will be giving it away and replacing it with a newer one but only because of some outdated technology. It still runs fast, doesn't get hot, panel is perfectly readable and everything works smoothly.
And this means... what exactly? That we should expect MPs to perform their duties with the same diligence that we expect from military commanders, teachers and specialist doctors? Or that military commanders, teachers and specialist doctors should make rash uninformed decisions because they are underpaid?
Why so?

> But the harder we make a task the more we push that perceived ability line down.

That's only true if people misperceive how hard the task is across the population. Or if the measurement is trivialized because the distribution of actual performance is ovwrwhelemedr by noise.
Product Management for Dummies
I really like the current ui. Thanks to being so simple and lightweight, HN works perfect even with the "experimental" browser on my Kindle - which is my main and eyestrain-free way of reading HN. Only large discussions with lots of comments can weigh it down, but deactivating JS helps in those cases.
Well put. I got very good at typing:

find . -type f -exec egrep -il "whatever" {} \;

and now I instead type:

rg whatever

and, somehow, I feel like that's an improvement.

And it automatically ignores the directories like .git, build, node_modules, etc., whatever is in .gitignore, without having to add a bunch of "-prune" clauses.
The amount of art created for this project is quite impressive.
American cancel culture is borderline cultural imperialism akin to communist China. Ask any (eastern) european open source maintainer how badly they are being treated because of their different opinions.

Dealing with anything american is the same liability like dealing with anything chinese.

It's not a matter of "if" but "when" you will be cancelled.