skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like they do keep their feet above freezing. Which is counter to the article’s: “Given a bird’s frantic little heart, blood simply rushes by way too fast to freeze.” As the blood never actually reaches freezing temperatures.

“Warm blood moving toward the feet is cooled, which helps penguins keep their feet at temperatures just above freezing.” http://blogs.britannica.com/2011/01/penguin-feet-avoiding-fr...
Very American to bump prices for the sake of national identity lock-in.
Or perhaps an explorer? Richard Garriott was recently elected president of the Explorers Club.

https://explorers.org/news/news_detail/richard-garriott-elec...
Tesla to manufacture in India and Indian startup challenges Google Maps
Ultima IV is free on GOG.
I don't know about other countries but here in Sweden we have Lantmäteriet ("The land measurement agency") and they have an interactive map based on their data that is free to use. https://minkarta.lantmateriet.se/
There wasn't an announced leaving date.
Could have fooled me.
Hi Omneity, thanks for asking. You can deploy Mindsdb on a container, no application that you build querying the Mindsdb server has licensing dependencies, as its essentially no different from using most opensource databases out there.
Must be a submarine PR campaign by Big Bird.
Nice!

Hers was a rather more professional looking job. The trackball was about 8 cm in diameter and sunk right in.

(She also hacked up the kernel driver to make horizontal rotation be interpreted as the scroll wheel.)
Maybe oxygen then? Worse circulation or carbon monoxide could be involved, then.

I don’t think there’s anywhere for CO to come from, however air quality varies (CO2 levels easily reach 1000 ppbv at times).
Hmnnnn ... sceptical take on this story in Ars Technica:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/study-blames-earths-...

> But for most of the rest of the paper, the researchers search for anything that happened at roughly 42,000 years ago and try to tie it to the mix of altered environmental conditions they think were triggered by the Adams event.

...

> Other potential connections are extremely tenuous. Modern humans, despite having been in Central Asia for tens of thousands of years, seemed to show up in Europe around the time of the Adams event, and Neanderthals went extinct shortly thereafter. While it's reasonable to suspect that those latter two events are linked, it's not clear why either would be associated with the magnetic field flip and any impact it had on climate.
Disagree. LN providers will exist, just as exchanges exist today. The most likely candidate is the payment card networks. While I dislike this future, they probably offer the best solution for consumers interacting with layer 2, and its always on requirements. LN isn't just a toy, its a new way of transferring value peer-to-peer. Payment/state channels are the best candidate to scale this tech. Anything else -- sidechains sharding or block size increases is just kicking the can. Not every transaction must be recorded on a blockchain forever. Layer 2 is how we will achieve this, while retaining the massive value that Layer 1 provides. I also find technologies like cut-through transactions in mimblewimble compelling for scaling without recording everything.

You must be joking re eth scaling.
ERC20 tx's presently cost $20USD https://etherscan.io/gastracker
A low priority btc tx currently costs 57 sat $4.40 https://mempool.space/

Currently 5x the price to transfer a fake bitcoin token on eth to a BTC L1 tx, whereas transferring a real bitcoin on lightning might cost a few satoshi.

I think some elements of eth are interesting, but are unlikely to actually achieve whatever it is they want to achieve. Proof of Stake isn't secure.
Lets see if they are able to retain consensus with EIP-1559. I suspect it will cause another schism.
> it's inefficient computation to energy ratio

Probably true.

> affects the global climate in a negative way

If electricity consumption of all computers in the world doubled because of Electron apps, the total annual electricity consumption would increase by 0.01%. So probably false.
Digital currencies allow for full tracking of every transactions and are a privacy nightmare.

They allow applying negative interest rate on everybody and they would facilitate neverending hyperinflation (no need to print new bills at great expense).

Hence they can't coexist with cash so say goodbye to cash.

I don't like where we're going.
This is so out of touch. If you want people to simply roll their eyes and ignore your words completely, keep on espousing arguments like that.

Alexa, Siri and co. do have legitimate use cases for people, even if they may not be useful for -you-.
Wow, that's just your particular bubble, but you write as though you're speaking for everyone .. it's exactly that kind of myopia the parent comment was pointing out.
Even in Western countries, if draconian anti-cryptocurrency laws were passed and even slightly enforced, it would kill, or at least force into regulation, large-scale mining operations.
Terrible thing about that was they built new terminals at the same time they built the light rail line. The light rail maintenance facility is less than a 1000 feet from the airport as the crow flies.

My thought is all the transit agencies need to be desilo'ed
> I think the 'pay attention to the media source and journalist and decide if you think they're good' is a viable route in the meantime even in the context you provided.

I don't like this, again because of filter bubbles. It's very easy to fall into a 'i don't agree with this person, they must be wrong' trap.

> The look stuff up yourself kinda thing always reminds me of the conspiracy theories that people develop after they 'research'.... it's so easy to find what you want to find...

I would argue that this is what we're doing on HN though. HN has a policy of preferring the primary source.
I can't help but think that the "accessibility" is doing most of the work here. Handling cash is a pain in the ass. Giving a merchant a series of 23 numbers over the computer is comparatively easier.
The OP mentioned Syncthing .. I have a similar workflow where I use dropbox to sync(with dropsync installed on boox)
I had the same feeling; I've been using the Microsoft Ergonomic keyboards for what feels like the past 10-15 years now:

http://xahlee.info/kbd/microsoft_ergonomic_keyboard.html

Every time I change job I bring my own with me, or persuade the company to buy me one. I did experiment with an actually-split keyboard back in the late 90s; two pieces joined by a short cable, but it was really difficult to use and so I gave up on it almost immediately. My memory was that there was only a short/stubby space-bar on the left-half of the keyboard too.

(I'm a touch typist, and I definitely use both thumbs for pressing the space bar. Albeit I use my dominant hand most of the time.)
This Axios article has the claim from an unnamed source.[1]

[1] https://www.axios.com/scoop-google-is-investigating-the-acti...
Yeah no WebRTC could ever be used to track you...
Trying to find how ADs work is like injecting a small piece of machine code to a running computer system and trying to find out what changes are produced. Its clinical effects are like the effects on the GUI.

There are many abstraction levels in the process and mostly we have to make large jumps over them.

Discl: I am a doctor specialized, among others, in adult psychiatry
One of the next few updates of SuperNote is supposed to have a working markdown editor ... not sure how pen input would work.
FTA:

> Exacerbating and prolonging this sticker shock is a decision on Tuesday by the state’s Power Utility Commission, which regulates the nonprofit ERCOT’s operations. The order from the gubernatorially appointed PUC asserted that, even with a hike coinciding with cold weather and increased heating use, ERCOT had been undercharging consumers for the cost of energy and directed it to raise its rates.

Not really, ERCOT does not have anything to do with consumer energy rates, only the wholesale market. The vast majority of consumers buy energy through retail providers that in some way isolate them from spikes in wholesale pricing. A handful willingly decided to buy at spot prices through providers like Griddy, and they are feeling the consequences.

I don't know what to say, really. If you decide to play at being an electricity trader with your home energy bill, there is no way you are going to win in the long term.

You can't contract to buy a commodity at the spot price then ask to be bailed out when you end up on the wrong side of the trade.
The idea of a no fill-in-the-skin-color day is unbelievably racist.
That wouldnt be hard.
Google display network (contextual ads) is tiny. Google search is direct intent, very different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law

Not sure of how it applies but there it is.

One way I could see this going: the smallest unit of a Bitcoin is a Satoshi. What happens when that value is greater than a transaction base cost?

Right now it’s $0.0005 or 100 millionth the cost of a coin. This implies a lot of runway.
When I went to the /convert URL I was given the option to pay for 10 years worth of service for what I consider to be perfectly fair fee. Running a site like pinboard on my own, or with a very small team, would basically be my dream job. Happy to support Maciej and the site.
John is a biblical name. Not naming your kid that because it’s also occasionally used as slang, is pants-on-head stupid. There’s also nothing wrong with Charlie.

Dick/Richard is the only one here I agree with. That is extremely commonly used slang, so it makes sense.
With an android tablet like Boox, you can install any android HN client.
Taskell, A CLI kanban board/task manager
Who created the shared content is not kept. After sharing, just remove the content. Others will take on this task for you.
Coming soon, the CryptoKitties IPO?

There really is a market for unique stuff, even useless unique stuff. See Upland, Decentraland, etc., where people are buying virtual real estate. In Decentraland (which is totally centralized) you can at least log into a virtual world and put something on your land. Upland skips that step. You just get tradeable certificates which supposedly represent real-world locations to which you have no rights.
Some cyclic executives and such, too.
Yes, that's what I meant. I've edited my comment.
BTC: normies know it; network effect wills it

ALGO/XLM/Etc: CBDC hop on and ride the road to riches.

ZEC: what Hal Finney was trying to make BTC.
my fav https://breaking.ai
I don't doubt it. Got a good example?
The only things I can readily find just reiterate what is in this article about heat exchange in the blood vessels:

https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/why-birds-feet-dont-fr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_feet_and_legs#Thermal_reg...

One article I briefly looked at indicates there isn't as much study of avian ...something ....as mammalian. Maybe fattiness because I was wondering if they have any adipose tissue in their feet. Oil is harder to freeze than water.

I also googled for info about saltiness and bird feet, which helped me find some article about "antifreeze" in various species but it barely mentions birds in passing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/science/19creatures.html

Salt gets used to de-ice roads in winter because it changes the freezing point of water. But I am not readily finding anything that indicates we have found a chemical antifreeze mechanism in bird feet.

It may exist but not have been studied or looked for at all.

Edit: Though upon closer examination, the article about animal "antifreeze" talks about proteins that serve that function, which is a new one on me. So someone else would need to google up info on protein structures of bird feet and speculate if those could have antifreeze properties. I don't know that much about protein and its impact on physiological characteristics (other than, you know, it's pertinent to insulin resistance or something, which most diabetics seem unfamiliar with while we blame everything on fat and overlook the role of lack of muscle).
I have a friend who works for a semiconductor company that mainly makes sensor chips for the car industry, and he confirmed this. Modern diesel engines in particular are very complex and require a lot of sensors.
Everquest is still alive too, and it is older than WoW or FFXI.
I stick to plaintext http and don't use it for anything sensitive or private.
It comes on fedora servers by default. I’ve been using it for the last 3 years on my home servers. I’ve also installed it on armbian running on my *Pi devices.

It works just fine in my experience. I’ve configured mdraid with it for fun - and it worked. Ditched it in favour of Zfs which is not yet supported unfortunately.

I think it’s a good direction. It will become the default “GUI” for server maintenance I think.
And a function should not take up more space than a screen anyway!
What about iterator invalidation or multiple mutable aliasing in concurrent code
Wow. Do you have an example of this happening?
An interesting aspect of these cryptocurrencies is the aspect of consensus, not through the intended mechanisms like PoW, but through societal acceptance. Look at BTC and BTG (bitcoin and bitcoin gold). One has the suffix of "gold" while the other maintains the (arguably?) superior lack of any such embellishments/augmentations. Was it the miner's decision to call it that? Was it the users?

Look at Ethereum v Ethereum classic. Same deal. We have two chains that share a common history, yet at some point the users of both decided to split and then society had to come to a consensus on what each chain would be called. Again, did the miners sit around and conspire to which chain would be called "Ethereum?" I don't think so. I think the decision was decentralized and emergent.

My point is, even if there was a nefarious actor who attempted a 51% attack, it seems like there would be enough of a societal pressure to ignore their empty blocks. There would exist a chain that would still be valued by the perpetrators, but not so much by the individuals being harmed by such an attack. The attacked chain would be maintained and acquire a new name "Bitcoin Hacked" or something similar, and the chain where society ignores the empty blocks would go on its merry way still being called "bitcoin."
I played a bit of UO, but I played a lot of Star Wars Galaxies, which was in many ways the spiritual successor, as Raph Koster was the lead designer of both.

Raph came from a background of roleplaying in MUDs, and both UO and SWG had very active roleplaying communities. He designed games that brought together a diverse set of player types and nudged them toward interacting with and depending on each other. In SWG you could (if so inclined) play for months without ever picking up a weapon or venturing outside a city. Professions like Dancer, Image Designer, Tailor, Merchant, Architect, and Politician were on equal footing with the combat professions and you had a certain number of skill points to distribute between all ~30 of them.

Entire player-created cities with shuttleports and malls and parks were constructed, mayors were elected and set policies. City founders worked to entice the best crafters to set up shop in their town (due to an incredibly deep crafting system that resulted in a wide range of qualities and styles of crafted items - people ran full-time businesses just staying on top of the frequently changing mineral deposits and mining high quality materials to sell to crafters). You could place almost any item in your house or guild hall, people decorated elaborately to make their towns and spaces unique.

The planets were huge and very little was marked - you would just go adventuring. One time very early on in the game, someone was running around Mos Espa on Tatooine, getting together a group to head out to Fort Tusken. Like most people at that point, I hadn't been there and didn't know where it was, so I joined up. Once we had assembled a full group of 20, we met on a bridge and headed out, running across the countryside in a line behind this guy for 15 minutes straight. Later they would add mounts and vehicles to the game - early on there was a lot of running. Finally we arrived, and he instructed us to wait outside the fort. He ran in and pulled a couple Tuskens over, and they handily slaughtered our entire host in seconds.

At this time the game still had corpses, so we all woke up as ghosts back in town and had to run all the way out again.

I remember that and other moments from SWG like actual events that happened in my life, moreso than any other game I've played. It's basically inconceivable to me that something like that would happen in a game like WoW where every quest and character and item is fully mapped out and codified, and you largely progress along the rails. In SWG you picked a starting profession and were dropped off in a city, and that was basically it. You had to go run around and observe and talk to people to figure out what you could do. There was so much wonder. UO and SWG were committed to creating rich virtual worlds where players had the tools to write their own stories together. I believe they were ahead of their time and we will eventually see more games like this.

EvE online has largely taken up this mantle and has done amazing things, but the space-based gameplay is a turn-off to many.
I wish DataHand was still made. The 3d printed keyboard based on DataHand looks very interesting but right now I don't have time to invest into making custom hardware.

I wish I could just buy something similar!
There's a lot of enterprise server-side software that, for better or worse (I'd argue worse), was only developed for Windows Server and will probably always only be developed for Windows Server. So at the very least you'll need some Windows VMs to run these (or maybe Wine, but it's highly unlikely to receive any sort of enterprise support that way, which is kinda the point of using enterprise software).

The good news is that a lot of it is written in CLR-based languages (particularly VB.NET and/or C#), so porting to cross-platform versions of .NET (e.g. .NET Core, .NET 5+, Mono, etc.) is at least theoretically feasible if developers can be assed to do the porting. Barring a solid business case for it, however, it's unlikely.
why do you expect that? you're talking about tens of thousands of individuals and companies, all themselves invested in bitcoin, being asked (through no existing command or enforcement mechanism) to essentially destroy their own personal wealth. even assuming the chinese state could achieve compliance from 77% of the existing hardware, it would optimistically take several days. the only way around that stumbling block would be to mandate centralized control of the miners, which would be impossible to keep secret and would also inspire some sort of reaction.

the idea that every miner in china will jump when xi says is pure fantasy.
Sure, BTC and other popular ones work this way, but monero is completely anonymous (as long as senders don’t collude), so it’s not an inherit trait of crypto.
Best Buy Settles $633,500 Case over Return Policies
The Skeptics Introduction to Crypto Art and NFTs
It still blows my mind that CPI is not budging. Maybe it is true that we collect useless collectables during times of abundance instead of stuff that we need for survival.
Considering Cockpit is neither supported nor tested on Arch Linux[1], I think forming an opinion of it based on that would be unfair.

[1] https://cockpit-project.org/running.html
It would be 1-apple to 1-orange comparison. If the columnar store has an "ok" architecture, it should provide 10x+ faster queries.
Google fires second AI ethics leader as dispute over research, diversity grows
Isn’t one Twitter horrible enough? Why create another one?
I’ve used this for almost 8 years now, and it’s both easy to bring with on a trip, and comfortable at home. Is this the Goldtouch you’re talking about?

Goldtouch GTP-0044 Go!2 Mobile Keyboard, Portable Foldable Travel Keyboard with USB https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DT73FVM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...
And any lawyer would also tell Google not to blatantly lie about easily verifiable facts around the firing.
> I believe an analysis of GameStop’s recent price action must start with a discussion of the exorbitant short interest in the stock, as well as an investigation into any potentially manipulative shorting practices and brokers’ reported failures to timely deliver shares and settle trades.

We have a group called the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission... maybe they should do their job instead of Congress having looking into this.

But then, maybe Congress needs to address the incestuous nature involving the SEC and Wall Street.
Google fires Margaret Mitchell, another top researcher on its AI ethics team
Too often it seems like the more precision matters, the easier it is to choose the wrong word.

In this context IMHO the choice of words matters quite a bit. I do my best to never write “China” if I’m in fact referring to the entity commonly identified as “CCP”.

(I understood OP’s point though, probably because I used to make the same mistake—perhaps still inadvertently do with some other countries.)
Finally Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West Are Divorcing
The algorithm for determining the outline seems pretty efficient. I just drew circles for a while, and it instantly figured out the bounds.
Not him.

* People start to believe propaganda which they want to believe - spread of nationalistic feelings helps this. People value these feelings over science. Boomers were reading whatsapp forwards and thinking "Ayurvedic" honey and ginger will cure COVID19 during the pandemic. You might be labelled anti national for saying Ayurveda is pseudoscience and not reliable. The mainstream nationalist narrative is so anti-science, and further, this propaganda is being used to build a cult of personality around Modi.

* Because the ruling party can portray themselves as patriotic and nationalist, and get the media skewed towards perpetuating that viewpoint, people ignore the economic and policy failures of the government. Currently Petrol/Diesel prices are rising in India but most of the India is silent about it. If it was during last govt, there sure would be riots and what not.

I am neutral regarding Indian politics. The opposition party (Indian National Congress) is fucked up due to nepotism and minority appeasement tactics too. But nationalism is a valid concern.
Using a disk-backed Redis alternative to reduce AWS S3 bill
Given the extremely wide evidence basis from existing data (there's millions of worldwide users) I'd argue no more than has been, and that the current data is sufficient to show its lack of effectiveness without any additional effort. But had the obviously-silly hypothesis (adding a tiny bit of something bad can have a good effect) been rejected from the start in a different context we'd never have gotten vaccines (which originate from a similar hypothesis in a different context).

The problem with homeopathy is not that it's a crazy idea. It's that it's been extensively shown not to work and is still being pushed as a good idea.
I’ll second the Note 2. It’s the greatest gadget I’ve ever owned. Completely supplanted paper/pens for me!
I am a Hindu and definitely against the expansionist philosophies of these religions. But isn't the mainstream nationalist narrative too pushing the same Hindutva-Hindi homogeneous propaganda? And diversity is not only about religion either.
They are inherently dangerous, money as a service, with all associated risks. What's next? Car as a service? House as a service? Government as a service? Life as a service?
One benefit I didn't see mentioned was that central banks, being an arm of the government, presumably won't cut off payment processing for completely-legal-but-socially-unacceptable sites like private payment services do. I know this happens to porn artists/websites all the time, and recently it's been happening to political extremist sites like Parler etc. too.