skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turns out we suck at engineering ecology: about the best we can do is introduce a wild population into conditions we think they’ll survive and let nature take its course. Prey and predators eventually reach their own sort of equilibrium if we leave them to it, absent factors which are severely detrimental to either.

And this isn’t a deer extermination project either: it’s a lynx reintroduction project.
A significant number of respondents read like members of a hedonist death cult. If you really believe it's hopeless, please do not roadblock people aiming to achieve a better outcome.
I’m glad I don’t have that blender. :) (I’m the proud owner of a blender with a bona fide brushless motor. I don’t know specifically what type, but I suspect the inrush current is quite low. It also outputs considerably more power than most brushed motors can probably manage for any length of time.)

edit: The product blurb says it’s an induction motor. The nameplate says 1000W. It would be fairly straightforward to estimate the efficiency by blending a known amount of water and measuring the temperature change over some period of time.
I'm aware it works fine without js disabled, but my question is why I need to load some js libraries to display a wall of text and a button. Most websites still display text and allow you to read without having js enabled, I keep it disabled by default to block tracking and fingerprinting.
"Analog" meaning the ability to represent data across an uninterrupted, infinitely-fine continuum, versus "digital" meaning only able to represent data as discrete steps. Continuous versus discrete.

The comment that the "computer" in the game is correctly referred to as digital is because from the picture, there are discrete steps for the points on each policy (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. on each area of the economy).

An "analog computer" could be implemented with electronic components, and a "digital computer" could be implemented purely mechanically.
Data breach at Bonobos hits 7M customers
I miss the days of using trillian and Adium. It was great being able to talk w with all your friends in one place, even if they used different chat services.

So sad that this has disappeared, and what has replaced it is not as good, and in many ways a regression.
Really hope China ditches the Outer Space Treaty and claims sovereign territory on the moon. Only then will the space race ignite again. It seems only competition makes the human spirit move.
Or maybe that sealant Flex Seal they advertise on TV that you can make a boat from :-)
That would be great if that was the result, but the more likely outcome is that the tenants own cars that are parked in neighboring blocks.
Thankfully, in computer science terms like "array" and "string" still mean what they did many years ago.
> I don't really follow your argument in the last paragraph. Could you simplify it a bit?

I'm not a great writer:) Political parties are private organizations; we shouldn't draw districts with the intention of either assigning half of the districts to each of them or assigning half of each district to each of them.

As for race, the way you fix historical wrongs is by fixing them, not through trying to tweak the system until everyone who has equal resources will get a fair shot regardless of race. Groups historically discriminated against by law don't have equal resources.

I'm also black, from the south side of Chicago, and don't care about "representation" in and of itself. I'm not insulting me.
We've seen this play out in the Apple App Store over a decade. Paid games, a dollar, were quickly left in the dust by freemium titles. Bypassing "is this worth paying for?" and replacing with "is this worth installing?" Once you are emotionally invested in a game, you pay, not before.
Different purposes. Roughly FireWire replaced SCSI, and USB replaced ADB/serial.
Not that I'm trying to blow anyone's mind but here's a couple of other 'emergent patterns' in reality which can also be called standing waves, which proves some very low level patterns like DNA can cause identical patterns to emerge billions of layers higher in the causal chain of reality, and way higher than just the physical structure of the body and brain but also into the surrounding world.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/l2mtfx/separated_...
that can change. what's the cost and the benefit of doing so?
That's why we shouldn't have any free parking in the first place. Parking spots should always be paid; they are not a public good.

https://www.vox.com/2014/6/27/5849280/why-free-parking-is-ba...
In the old days, the solution was simple - block the UI.

But nowadays - a background thread will search for the stuff that should appear in the UI, and adds that directly when it found something.

You can solve the problem by changing the mouse icon to the hourglass, blocking the UI for just enough time to not get any accidental clicks, and update it.

As side effect, every update now takes some time - so you have to minimize the number of updates.
>God this is some top tier incel shit.

if you're going to shit on someone and their opinion at least give them the data they need to remediate the situation that you're unhappy about.

The author can't just say to themselves "Oh, apparently someone on the internet thinks that i'm acting too 'incel', let me just tune that down for the next essay." -- incel is too vague to pin down societies meaning of at any given time.

It's like booing someone off stage; it's rude and utterly useless except to express dismay.

It's about as useful to discourse as just saying "tl;dr 0/10"

Experiment i've been having fun with during the recent over-loaded word trend: Any time I hear 'cuck', 'beta', 'incel', or 'based' I ask the person to define it with context to how they used it.

So, my question : What did you mean? Can you define your usage of incel? What about the person made you relate them to the word?
I can second this. There’s of course some trade offs you have to make, but overall I feel much happier and relatively stress free.

It can be very frustrating too, I can’t even keep count of how many times our product launch has been delayed by the business because of some “urgent business requirements they pulled out of a hat. Our latest launch was scheduled for two weeks ago, a day before launch, business just cancelled it because they wanted to make some changes. Mind you that we have strict sign off processes that now all need to be redone. But that stress doesn’t fall on engineers.
"The notion of Satanic ritual child abuse may seem crazy. But have you ever heard of the strange case of Michael Aquino?"

Not saying that will actually be Curtis's tack (almost certainly not) but it sure would be entertaining.
....Seventy gigabytes' worth of customer data stolen from the website of U.S. men's clothing retailer Bonobos has been posted in a hacker forum, reports Bleeping Computer....

....Bonobos confirmed to Bleeping Computer that the data was genuine, but said it had been taken from a cloud backup hosted by a third-party service and not directly from Bonobos' own network...

A lot of these breaches seem to come from 3rd party companies/service providers. Does it mean these companies are not vetted enough, do not bear any consequences if a breach occurs at their site, a combination of these and more?
I would hazard that almost all stress that white collar workers deal with is not the result of having to perform repetitive manual task, but having to deal with the politics or performance demands in their workplace.

Their boss demands unrealistic timelines, actively undermines them, their coworkers are difficult to deal with, etc. I've never met anybody that works as an SWE that is stressed out because they have to fix bugs or manually migrate DBs all the time, its nearly always the environment that is the root cause.
FireWire was replacing SCSI.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3

> The iMac was a huge success for Apple, revitalizing the company and influencing competitors' product designs. It played a role in abandoning legacy technologies like the floppy disk, serial ports, and Apple Desktop Bus in favor of Universal Serial Bus. The product line was updated throughout 1998 until 2001 with new technology and colors, eventually being replaced by the iMac G4 and eMac.

> ...

> A later hardware update created a sleeker design. This second-generation iMac featured a slot-loading optical drive, FireWire, "fanless" operation (through free convection cooling), a slightly updated shape, and the option of AirPort wireless networking. Apple continued to sell this line of iMacs until March 2003, mainly to customers who wanted the ability to run the older Mac OS 9 operating system. USB and FireWire support, and support for dial-up, Ethernet, and wireless networking (via 802.11b and Bluetooth) soon became standard across Apple's entire product line. The addition of high-speed FireWire corrected the deficiencies of the earlier iMacs.

USB promptly kicked out the ADB peripherals.
What problems are those?
and we are learning about this on twitter. hope they let it slide...

https://redecentralize.org/
I think a better way to describe it that it’s CAN all the way up until the PHY. It’s still CAN protocol, you still need CAN modules, and really, nothing looks different at all to them.

You just lose out on the differential pair... but even that isn’t required when you look at fault tolerance CAN in single wire mode, or single wire CAN PHY transceiver options, as to the original point about termination, I can’t remember if Single Wire CAN is terminated in a loop or pulled up or down, but I promise it’s not 120ohm termination like differential CAN is.

Imo, safer to say that CAN is a protocol that can take many physical forms, and one of them is direct A to B modules with no termination.
One of the pieces you quoted said that two were killed by police.
What do you think the fuel charge would be on a martian round trip?
Android 10 ported to RISC-V
It's not immediately obvious to me what href.cool is.
That's shooting an ant with a rocket launcher. You could avoid space junk in much lower orbits than the Lagrange points.

I encourage everyone to get a sense for the sheer scale of this. Do it on your floor or walls. Try a scale of 1cm = 5000km or 1cm = 10,000km. Cut out little Earths and moons and map out geosynch, the lagrange points, etc.
The Probabilistic Method of Proof
9/10 better than I thought.
> A Russian hacker called Guccifer 2.0 had hacked into the DNC, and given the contents to Wikileaks, who told the Trump team. Sure enough, a few weeks later, right before the election, Wikileaks released 20,000 of Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s emails. While it was handy for the Republicans to have the other side’s campaign material, there was literally nothing incriminating in there.

Actually what we learned was that they torpedoed Bernie Sanders so they (the DNC) could appoint their chosen one.

And here we are 4 years later with a crusty old man with obvious dementia or cognitive issues as president and a VP who was basically bottom of the barrel in terms of approval ratings. Does anybody believe it changed?

Sorry this is probably overly salty. I feel like we had some genuinely good candidates in 2020.
The sibling comment is confirming my interpretation, that they were referring to the deplatforming!

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The deplatforming thing that ramped up in 2018 has overwhelmingly been about things like white-supremacy and neo-nazis... so it hit the alt-right very hard.

This is like conservative politicians complaining their followers are being deplatformed when Twitter decides to take a harder stance against white supremacy in the wake of an attack on our capitol which featured the alt-right/ neo-Confederates/ neo-Nazis... you're not confirming what you think you're confirming.

The conservatives is not being targeted per se, but it just so happens a lot of neo-nazis are conservatives. Take it as you will.

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They're also ignoring the fact the "deplatforming thing" has recently kicked into high gear because of a certain set of events

This would be like someone from the Branch Davidians saying "We've always felt persecuted" in March 1993.. there were, but also a little thing happened with 4 ATF agents the month before!

That's the point being brought up, those events are very relevant if you're talking about deplatforming today. You don't brush such a major occurrence under the rug if you're arguing in good faith.

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Even them saying it ramped up in "around 2018" is disingenuous. It ramped up with Trump and his actions.

And there was as a lot of gnashing of teeth over if that was right, if Trump was actually building a hateful support base or if this was just political lynching...

And then the Capitol breach occurred and removed all doubt and now we see it accelerating.

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Also you read the sibling comment, you should have realized it makes the last part of your comment complete non-sequitur... sometimes it's a useful sign the argument being made just lacking self-awareness
Arbitrator Seitz sets Baseball players free
10 years ago the consensus--scientists, engineers, etc--was that self-driving cars would be ubiquitous or on the cusp of ubiquity today. That same common but woefully mistaken wisdom is also behind the preference for remote space exploration and exploitation.

We clearly have issues with underestimating the complexity of these engineering problems and overestimating the pace of technological progress. I'd also argue, albeit more contentiously, that we systematically underestimate the utility of a physical human presence at exploration sites, and the cognitive dissonance of our biases cause us to scale back our ambitions so we don't have to admit to the limitations of the remote-controlled approach.

Exclusively committing to remote-controlled exploration also avoids the thorny issues around deliberately putting explorers into harms way or even actual harm. I think Musk understands, knowingly or at least intuitively, that the debate is basically impossible to have; our culture isn't equipped for it. Necessity will drive us toward human space exploration. Safety will be to some extent needlessly neglected, and then there'll be vigorous finger pointing and "I told you so"s after the fact--after the sacrifices have been made and after the benefits have been secured for all. Basically the same pattern will play out as with any other area where prohibition or abstention is the official choice despite its patent unviability.
> Why do people still think they can judge a person's character by a single photograph?

They don't. That's the point. This was a test of recognizing people, not photo-personalities. You don't need to take things so pedantically.
Are you sure? What about HEMP a.k.a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_nuclear_explosio... before intercept?

Brrz, Brrrz, Brrrrz!

/me vanishes, spraying rainbow colored sparkles... ;->
He recently returned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25865062
> Nobody asks of Google that they pay for indexing news sites in Google Search

That's 100% what the French media asked for.

What they wanted was essentially for Google to pay them a "You make money doing what we used to have a monopoly on" tax; they got mad when Google dodged the tax by following the letter of the EUCD and removing quoted snippets from searches.
Alternatively, Lagrawnge
This is how we winhttps://patents.google.com/patent/US7379286B2/en
Using the Performance Web API with Chrome DevTools
Oh this is a great idea!

Does Google still let you create
your own custom Search Engines? I forget.

I think there could be a pretty native way to make a working prototype
of this idea (just add 1,000s+ of ad free approved domains).
I would argue that it’s more important for watersheds to align on jurisdiction boundaries. Representative government doesn’t need to fall on the same lines as local policy decisions on pollution rules, water rights, and emergency prep.
In the same way that some districts are richer than others, water is produced in some watersheds and consumed in others. Strongly aligning politics to those watersheds might not promote the cooperation you expect.
Not dystopian or absurd, at all. It's like a tobacco company sponsored research lab to determine if nicotine is addictive.
I think that most modern countries are doing a reasonable job.
That’s been said mockingly and seriously so many times in the last few weeks; it’s literally impossible to tell which this is. Bravo on ambiguity.
I'd love to see a short essay written by each board member about their general views of Trump, along with how their vote went.

I don't really see it happening, but it will be very weird in 2023 if Trump re-runs for election but is still banned from all the major social media sites.
You're glossing over the insurance replacement like it's free. It's not. Your replacement Tesla was paid for by everyone else's premiums. The more Teslas that get stolen, the more each Tesla will cost to insure.
I'm a build/release engineer for a large manufacturing company.

It doesn't pay as well as working for FAANG, and I'm not going to get stock options that will make me rich. I live in a medium cost of living area. I make enough so that I can own a house, 2 cars (both paid off), and have a nice retirement account.

For the most part it is pretty low key. If the build breaks close to a deadline, there is some pressure to get it fixed, but that doesn't happen often. Most of the time it is just working on my projects that have realistic deadlines.

Every once in a while I get a little bored, but then I remember those past jobs where everyone's hair is on fire. The thing I like is that I get to work at my own pace, and spend most of the day writing scripts. I enjoy writing scripts more than I do application programming. I consider my scripts to be my minions that I send off to do my bidding.
SWE for a top tier investment bank. Pays good. Attend meeting all days, no harsh deadline, work from home, boss doesn't do micro management, got plenty of free time so I end up running 10km everyday during lunch hour.
I think what needs to be "mass adopted" is parking etiquette from ICE car owners.

Often do I find them parked on parking bays designated to electric car charging. This is such an annoyance when you have an electric car with limited range.
I have a few pet projects that I am working on right now. Basically, 'Build Your Own Cloud'.

The idea is to provide a set of plug and play tools that auto configures and secures your servers and services and using a separate device to manage authorized connections.

Each household / user will have its own forums, streaming and other services that FAMG usually provides.
from inside should be better for actually keeping air from leaking. I wonder why it isn't working 100% well
They're absolutely gameable, and would lead to a lot of debate. Maybe we should work on standardizing and democratizing the redistricting process rather than just skipping to the end.

I'm just saying that I think we should take gerrymandering more seriously than pretending that it's a map coloring problem. There's certainly a lot of math involved, but the properties that are theoretically desirable in a district are not straightforward.

I fear this recipe (especially for the political party balancing) might be optimizing for strife. The only people who would win would be local TV/radio and direct mail in an endless election cycle.
The irrationality of the mob is multiplied 10x with the power of technology and automation.

These past two years makes me feel like we’re living in a black mirror episode.

“Plato argued that democracies inevitably degenerate into anarchy, as the poor plunder the rich and profligacy produces bankruptcy.”

Tech has only sped the slide of western democracy. 100 years from now, the West will be ruled by mobs or will have adopted something close to China’s modern communism just to ensure “order.”
You’re correct.
I agree with both of you. It’s just too bad we need to hope it gets worse in order have any expectation of it getting better.
You know, I'm back, because the more I think about this, the more it bugs me.

You compare Christmas to Halloween and Thanksgiving, which are in the US secular holidays. The most common argument I've heard for wishing everyone "Merry Christmas" is that many people celebrate Christmas as a secular holiday. That's fine for anyone who does so, but it's not a correct assumption in general. I celebrate Christmas because it is one of a set of holidays that tells the story of Christ's birth, and it's an important part of the liturgical calendar. I do not want Christmas to be secularized. I know I do not share my approach to Christmas with random coworkers, and in particular with non-Christians, and I do not want to pretend I do. It's a religious holiday for me and it irks me to treat it otherwise.

So it seems like you're trying to cheapen or appropriate my religious observance to be a cultural marker instead, a marker of "being American". But the colonies were established in large part by religious dissenters, including in particular Puritans, who were highly critical of the secular Christmas. So you betray the roots of the American nation in forcing secular observance of Christmas on people.

Having abandoned both American ideals of religious liberty and Christian ideals of sincere and sober religious observance of the birth of Christ, what, exactly, are you left with?
Sure, they can. Should they? And should they be allowed to looking forward, or are they now an active threat to democracy? By the way, I say this speaking as a conservative who opposes basically everything the Socialist Workers Party stands for, but who is more threatened by autocratic tech censorship than by opposing ideas.
Which cloud providers are better? What do you use?
The CGI was ruined by publishing in widescreen format. The live shots were filmed wide screen, but the CGI was not, so they chopped off the top and bottom of the screen and called it a day.
I think stress is much more about how you perceive it than anything else ? I’ve seen people sweating over deadlines on product deliveries ... nobody cares if you miss it, no lives are lost .. but some people go absolutely insane. 99.9% of the jobs aren’t critical for society to function and if you miss a deadline, no one will die.
Strange this lands on their plug-in page. But still I'm grateful for plug-ins and Pidgin. There was a time they spoke incoming chats with TTS and I could dictate responses to rest my hands.

It even had a Slack plug-in, though I found it too rough to use full time.
Grub is basically a second OS. People who say 'systemd is large and should just do one thing' and then say 'this can be solved with GRUB' blow my mind.
"Independent"... but uses fbcdn and blocked by Firefox's Facebook container.

Have a look of the source code of the page. It literally starts with...

<html lang="en" id="facebook" class="no_js">
One reason I can think of wrapping malloc is that C is more likely to give you that than whatever OS-specific API you are going to use to get memory from the kernel (if you even have one!).
Wes Bos Project 4 – Key Concepts (JS)
Any sufficiently-dominant corporation is indistinguishable from a government.
An Introduction to Time Representation, Serialization and Management in Software
Please do not insinuate that someone did not read an article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> the more elements you see the harder tha is to digest for your brain (attention).

If there were fewer elements _total_, okay I'd agree with you. But all the elements are there, just some of them are hidden, so they take _more_ time to remember how to reveal each one.

When they're all visible, you can use simple 2-D memory, and "reach for" the area that a given control is in, even before you've found it, because you know it's in that general area. Get the mouse moving there, find it, zero in on it.

When some of them are hidden, you have to remember which hiding place they're in (object permanence), then wiggle the mouse over in that area, wait for them to reveal themselves, then find the one you want, and start another motion to hit it.