skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what are the behavioral effects of such large physiological changes en masse? Surely neurochemical changes will manifest everywhere, from mental health to politics
The biosphere consists of more individuals than just humans. The argument is that humans, specifically, do quite a lot more harm than good to the rest of earth's population.

With perhaps a few exceptions, most other species would be much better off without us.
Why would epic relay back 10% to the consumer? There is not a single motivation for that.

Imagine Epic cut a deal with apple for 10%, you think prices would be cheaper ? or they would grow their margin.
Can these endocrine disruptors also contribute to gender dysphoria?
Can this already be used with Rust? I currently use LDD which already brought some speed up.
CUDA is NVidia vendor lock-in. While not a bad things intrinsically, it does limit possibilities for a general purpose. With this one, you can just plug whatever GPU that supports DX12 into your hardware and start creating "incoming blockchain miners written in C# in ..3..2..1"
Totally agree with derailment and mass casualty very possible.
I haven't seen much evidence of this happening on anything approaching a wide scale. For example the piece of software in the article is used almost everywhere, governments, companies etc and yet it still cannot get the funds for yearly audits.
1. This is happening in the western world, not in places the population is growing fastest

2. It's not just less humans, it s of worse quality
Everyone and their dog is over-leveraged to the gills. The way things are with credit card debt, mortgages, corporate debt etc, it looks like we can't really raise interest rates in the next..ever.
On this topic I can recommend the dystopian movie “Children of Men”. It’s about modern world of basically our time where nobody can get children and what issues arise.
> Syphilis is a bacterial infection

"Herd immunity" applies to bacterial infections as it does to viral. All it means is that the R-value is low enough that the disease doesn't spread. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Theoretical_basi...

As an example, pertussis is a bacterial infection which most US communities have herd immunity to thanks to the pertussis vaccine.

> You can get it more than once.

There are also viral infections you can get more than once. In fact, the South African variant of COVID is likely possible to get even if you've had COVID before.

> Mixture of natural and vaccine-induced immunity.

Sure, just like nearly every virus that has been eliminated via vaccine. As, hopefully, COVID will be. Smallpox was not eradicated without a vaccine.

> We have not eradicated polio

The vast majority of the world has indeed eradicated polio via vaccination, as made clear by the fact that only three countries out of 195 still have a polio problem. The same is true for measles, rubella, and a variety of other diseases, none of which would have been eradicated from most populations without vaccines.

The OP's stance that COVID would be somehow unique amongst viruses or diseases if it needed a vaccine for eradication ignores the history of every disease for which we've mass-vaccinated against in the 20th century, as well as the vast majority of diseases that have not been and never will be eradicated by herd-immunity-reached-through-mass-infection.
https://www.forbesindia.com/article/recliner/chimes-they-are...
Yeah, I'm just using the three character timezone as a handy shortcut: the point is an ISO-8601 timestring isn't unambiguous in all contexts.
For me at least, parking for 8 hours near my office (back when that was a thing) would cost more than taking the bus to work and back, meaning that from a commute point of view a car would never make financial sense no matter how cheap. If parking was free then a really cheap car for commuting might make sense, financially.
I am dismayed, but not entirely surprised, that you are getting downvoted for this.

If we really have hormonal disruption of the ecosystem strong enough that alligators have problems breeding, why wouldn't it influence human behavior? Hormones influence human behavior all the time, so if there is a change in the balance, there should be a change in the behavior patterns.

This is a testable hypothesis and should not be discarded automatically without being tested, especially by HN forists who are expected to be, on average, more friendly towards critical thinking and less towards dogmatism.
Cory Doctorow had (as usual) a good write up on these happenings. He spends a good while talking about how lopsided this law is. For a start:

> But of course, this isn't a negotiation between workers and employers: it's a bargain between a cartel of news organizations and a search duopoly. That's not ideal! For starters, it means that the government gets to decide who is a "news organization."

> That's ripe for abuse. News organizations are expected to report on the government and the government gets to decide whether they are entitled to participate in collective bargaining with Googbook, which could mean the difference between financial viability and bankruptcy.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/21/paltrow-industrial-comple...

He does say that there is some public accountability & reporting that big companies like Facebook & Google will face, which should be helpful generally. But yeah, this looks like a very silly effort, alas:

> It's not wrong to say that the only reason this regulation got off the drawing-board is that [Rupert] Murdoch viewed it as a way to shift a few balance-points from Big Tech's side of the ledger to Big Media's side.
Getting $1 million used to be f you money, it paid for a nice home for you, college for all your kids, etc. Now, if you make a cool million off the IPO, you can put in a down payment for a house closer to the office.
Effects of immersive videos and photos of forest and urban environments
But hey, how about the salt that is sweat out and used for a number of body-functions. On the Kontiki expedition, they calculated that if they did not eat any salt in the food, they could add 1/3 ocean water to they drinking water.
I don't know about revenue, but Chartbeat said a drop in total traffic of 13%

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-media-facebook-...
It's AWS Redshift in particular, in Berlin. My background in data volume and query optimization, along with compiler development, made me a particular fit. The Google job is actually a worse fit, focusing mostly on data volume, schema management and APIs. But I probably won't be in the same role indefinitely.

Why Berlin vs Zurich decision was hard: in part the cost of living (e.g. childcare) in Zurich, the fact it's outside the EU (e.g. very little consumer protection, less consumer choice, a hard border with customs), and the relative conservatism of society leading to a lot of things which make it harder for women to work: early closing of shops (not that different to Berlin to be sure), apartment living and limitations on running washing machines (if you don't have a housewife to do laundry during the day), school finishing early on Wednesdays and 2 hour lunches where children are expected to go home and eat (housewife again), etc. My partner half-jokes that we should get a housewife or maybe one each.

Oh and recycling religion which I don't buy into - I reckon there are very few things which it makes sense to recycle heavily - primarily metals - but Switzerland promotes it as a virtue. Sorting recycling materials does not make me feel virtuous; it makes me want to pay someone to remove the problem. This isn't that much different to Germany though.

I reckon the AWS salary in Berlin would have put me higher in the income distribution for the city than the Google salary in Zurich, but overall, even accounting for higher costs, I expect to have a lot more disposable income in Zurich. Taxes, for one thing, are lower - though where you live can make a substantial difference.

Lifestyle as in nightlife, restaurants, multiculturalism etc.: not such a big deal to me right now with a 12 month old kid. As a motorcyclist I like the idea of the Alps and less crime. I've had 6 motorcycles taken in London, including one bikejacking at a stop light and not including an attempted bikejacking where I outran my pursuers to help. For younger single people I think Berlin would be a better choice. We already had much of that experience in London before Brexit though.

Zurich is also much closer to western Europe. Munich, Milan and Paris (surprisingly) are 4 hours by train. Berlin is almost in Poland. From my EUrail trip in the 2000s, I recall acutely how pleasant it was to be in Switzerland after having gone through most of the ex Eastern Block countries, to Greece, then ferry to Italy and up over the Alps.
Its more like FB decided to go with the nuclear option, Z, instead of X or Y. This is reminiscent of mob-like extortion tactics, not of good-faith engagement with the legislative process of a democracy.

>And the drafters of that law very intentionally made the definition of news content as vague and broad as possible, to maximize the damage and thus minimize the odds of Facebook actually doing it.

Did you get that narrative straight from FB's PR department?
The problem is that the fed has no direct access to the economy. Imagine being an admin and having access to the bank accounts of everyone. You could hand out money exactly where it is needed and drive 2% inflation without unintended externalities. For obvious reasons, this is never going to happen and it probably should never happen.
Why not? I went vegan, it's pretty good.
> - A 1% increase in motor efficiency could eliminate 0.1 kg of batteries, which would let you double the weight of the motor.

Wouldn't it be much simpler to state that a 1% increase in motor efficiency could eliminate 1% of battery weight? (trying to get the theory clear)

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Obs: This is only approx. valid if efficiency is already high. If efficiency was very low, e.g. 2%, then 1% more (going to 3%) would enable eliminating 1/2 - 1/3 = 1/6 = 16.7% of the batteries.

An equation to describe this situation, assuming constant energy need, is Eb = Em / n, where Eb is energy provided by batteries, Em the work of the motor, and n efficiency.

Also, the energy need should indeed decrease with decreasing battery weight, amplifying this effect even more, but at high efficiency the correction isn't too large. Equations omitted because there are too many assumptions (acceptable battery mass fractions, energy usage vs weight, ...).

(A starting model would be: Maircraft = Mbatteries + Mconst; Mb = aEb; Em ~ Ma^p ; Em = ( k(aEb+Mc) ) ^ 1/p; Is p~=1?; Eb = kMc/(n-a*k); )

So in principle an 1% increase in motor efficiency gives even more than 1% of less battery weight!

A complication however is that batteries have power constraints as well as energy constraints (how power constrained . If the peak power only has to be sustained over a very small period, this would allow complementing energy-dense sources (batteries) with power-dense sources (capacitors). However, some power-dense sources do not last long enough to cover the peak-power intervals, so they would not fit.

If the following diagram is to be trusted:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Power_vs_energy_dens...

Then for my guess of 5 minute take-off constant peak power time lithium-ion still has the greatest power density, which means other sources should not be combined.

You can use variations in chemistry among Li-ion cells to achieve this tradeoff, but those limitations provide a slight negative correction (greater efficiency giving less mass gain).

Those effects would need to be combined.

Anyway, there is a lot of interesting performance and Operations Research (Linear programming) optimization here.
Because the media code set by the government should, in an overall sense, benefit the people of the nation. Clearly it's not the case, and the government deserves to be called out for it.
I don't think Caitlyn Jenner is gen-Z, or The Wachowskis.

I mean, maybe there is a link? It's not inconceivable I suppose, but I am not aware of any evidence, and purely comparing numbers of people is not a very good way of going about this. You will find there are a lot more gay people in the United States than in, say, Saudi Arabia too. But that doesn't mean there are environmental factors in the US that make people gay: they just don't feel free to declare themselves as such in SA because you will get in to trouble.
You can always buy a Porsche Taycan or Audi e-tron GT. There are already Tesla competitors that make beautiful cars.
Yeah a stimulus check is just a tax rebate for private individuals instead of doing a tax rebate for corporations.
Moreover, the fungus is spelled 'mould' in British English: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/mould
Image input! Like a practical version of the old bcd -d command...

$ bcd hello
________________________________________________
/HELLO |
|]] |
| ]]] |
| |
|111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111|
|222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222|
|33]]33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333|
|444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444|
|5]5555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555|
|6666]6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666|
|777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777|
|]88888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888|
|999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999|
|________________________________________________|
$ bcd hello | bcd -d
HELLO

https://man.openbsd.org/bcd.6
I think that statistic is a mistake, or skewed by high spec versions. The starting price of a VW golf in the UK is about £22k - no where near that £38k.

Cars are more expensive, but not _that_ much more expensive.

https://www.carwow.co.uk/volkswagen/golf/specifications#nav
Kolibri!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b-h8NgsieQ
A World Without Email: What I've Learned from Cal Newport's Books
Bitcoin is an asset that is designed to become a currency.
Right, synergistic effects are
prevalent everywhere in with chemicals, drugs etc. One of the biggest factors is that we're exposed to so many trace chemicals that figuring out the combination of effects and whether their concentrations are relevant is extremely difficult even with the best science.

I reckon we will all be interested to see what the EU evaluation brings. What worries me though is that the EU is known for its hair-trigger response in such matters. If the evidence isn't really solid then we'll end up with a long protracted (and unnecessary) war with the plastics/chemical industry.

As I see it, the chemical industry is the most vital of industries as it underpins just about everything that's manufactured nowadays, without it we'd be in deep you-know-what. The fact that it's had a lot to answer for in the past, pollution etc., cannot be ignored but demonizing it unnecessarily won't help either.

From my perspective as one who doesn't work in the industry but who's had training in chemistry, there are two major problems that need solving. The first is that the chemical industry, especially in recent decades, is essentially closed to outsiders. There are many reasons for this, regulations, worry about access to dangerous chemicals, industrial accidents such as Bhopal being bad PR, and the fact that the industry is afraid to say anything for fear the public doesn't understand or takes what it says the wrong way - not to mention that its own PR is terrible to nonexistent. The second is that the public is grossely under-trained in chemistry and thus it's easily spooked or frightened whenever the word 'chemical' turns up. This leads to situations where minor incidents get concatenated with serious ones and they all take on equal seriousness. (I'll refrain from muddying the waters here with examples but there are many.)

I haven't the time to go into the reasons why the public is so sensitive and twitchy nowadays - given that chemistry is taught in schools - but nevertheless it's a serious problem. The secrecy surrounding the industry only makes matters worse.

It's why I'm always worried about inquiries into such matters. Of recent times we see engineers and scientists being so noncommittal about so many things that regulators and politicians ban things by default before the science is set. I acknowledge that's a sweeping statement because there are obvious exceptions where both commonsense and incomplete science indicate that we should act immediately. That, I stess again, is why the public needs to be better educated in the subject - then more correct decisions would be made more often and without unnecessary drama.
Yes, it’s just old companies like IBM trying to ride a buzz wave. The whole point of a blockchain is that it’s public and verifiable.
A good question.

The disputable value is 'maximum possible perceptual hue difference'.

In color science, difference is usually understood in terms of 'minimum possible'. This is how the god-like Albert Munsell first mapped the perceptual color domain. Maximum possible has almost no presence in color science literature. I assume that this is because of the asymmetry of perceptual maximum/perceptual minimum.

Without solid empirical data, I can only support the validity of RYB pairs by pointing out that Leonardo (and everyone else who wrote about color prior to Newton), supported this pairing without knowing the relative position of these pairs on any color wheel. A weak argument, perhaps.

I know it is possible to design an experiment to prove/disprove the validity of RYB complementaries. It was on our to-do list before our computational aesthetics project ran out of money. However, I shall continue to assume its truth. My reason is simple: from a life time as a painter I know that RYB complementary pairs are true. An even weaker argument.
"Previous attempts at parallel online digital currencies, like e-Gold and Liberty Reserve, were shut down by the US government before even making it to $10 billion in market capitalization. Bitcoin now has a market cap north of $1 trillion."

I wonder if the different treatment is due to Bitcoin coming of age in the Obama era instead of the GWB era like those other examples? Forgive my naive question as I'm not into crypto, but is it even technically possible for them to shut down Bitcoin if they wanted to? I lived through the P2P file sharing era in the 2000s where ISPs were forced to block access to various things at the behest of the RIAA/MPAA, so it seems like they could just go after the P2P blockchain in similar ways if they cared. No consensus; no Bitcoin, yeah?

If that were the case then I also wouldn't trust Tor to provide any privacy from the US government considering NRL created it. My assumption is that reality is probably somewhere in the middle, where the existence of Bitcoin doesn't harm the government's interests too much while also convincing the occasional egotistical giraffe that it would be safe to stick their neck out.
Our understanding and interpretation of colors are very much shaped by the culture, such as which words we have to describe colors. So can you really say that it would amount to miseducation, just because it doesn’t fit color perception perfectly?
Exactly. “Canadian Amtrak” is VIA Rail:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Rail

Like Amtrak, VIA is a federal government-owned operator of intercity passenger rail services. And just like Amtrak, it operates mostly on tracks owned by private freight railways such as CN.
Prompto
Some time ago I realized that modern life wasn't that good for your health so last year I bought a farm on the country side with my gf and now we are trying to grow our own food and make our way into a more self-sustainable life.
I've used BER encoded ASN.1 at work quite a bit, and the reason you won't see it much are pretty much:

- HORRIBLE schema format.

- Very few FOSS libraries, most of which are terrible. I used Lev Walkins asn1c[0], which I patched slightly and coupled with some semi-generic code that walks the generated data structures to emit JSON (for debugging purposes).

[0] https://github.com/vlm/asn1c
Not caring amount memory leaks is not the same as not caring about memory consumption. The next line shows exactly why the choice is made.

> It is because most objects that are allocated during an execution of mold are needed until the very end of the program.

Using free would not affect that memory consumption much because most consumption would be freed at the end of the program.
I thought I had a decent knowledge of obsolete audio and video formats until I started watching his channel.

It's fantastic. Also nice to see someone doing that kind of thing on YouTube with a local (well, to me) accent.
Thank you, I’ve been looking for something more actively used than https://github.com/google/grumpy.
>That is nonsense and you seem to spread this misinformation in a lot of places. You should also add a disclaimer that you are part of the Arch team.

The AUR comment is unfair, uncalled for and adds nothing to the conversation. I apologize and hope our previous conversations have been more productive. It was meant more tongue in cheek then some grand claim about the quality of nixpkgs and stems mostly from the frustration of the entire vendoring issue.
The idea that RYB is somehow a mistake is a difficult one to defend.

> We know now that the correct subtractive primary colors are CMY.

It is not that simple. CMY is not "correct" by any sense of the word. Both additive and subtractive color models suffer from the same flaw... you cannot represent all perceptible colors by starting with three colors and mixing them. CMY is simply a choice from one of many possible choices.

CMY and RGB are both simply convenient choices. By choosing RGB primaries (and there are a lot of different reds, greens, and blues to choose from) you can represent a reasonably large subset of the colors present in the natural world.

However, if create a monochromatic (narrow band of wavelengths) light source which looks yellow, you won't be able to reproduce that color of yellow by mixing red and green. There are experiments that test exactly this property. RGB is limited.

In a sense, the choice of red, green, and blue is arbitrary. The primary colors are not derived from some property of physical light, nor are they derived from some truth about human color perception. They do happen to work very well--because the space of colors we can perceive is vaguely triangular.

There are consumer printers you can buy that go well beyond simply CMY or CMYK color models. Epson sells printers with six colors of ink, not counting black. Commercial printing services also provide "spot" channels for whatever color of ink you are able to source.
The primary mistake is that the return on capital is going up. Fed is pumping money which is mostly arriving in stocks and other assets. Rich people are betting on that money and thus although the PE ratio of the asset itself is going down the returns from capital gains keep going up fast enough to counteract the loss in yield.
Not just tiny cars, but scooters. I visited a friend in Beijing before the pandemic, and riding her scooter around town was the best way to travel. Cheap, faster than any alternative, and you can park it anywhere.
Well, its like in sports: there are some things that you could do to win, but you don't - because you are not scum and you know the game would be worse for all if everybody would do them. It's called fair play.
Environmental and emission norms don't apply to SUVs due to lawyer magic, so they just take 5000 pounds of steel and drop in a ginormous engine to make it go.
Sharing mutable state is still pretty risky; either immutable objects or byte channels (no pointers and no non-serialized objects) would have helped a lot.