skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In ecology context is everything

Some years are different than other. Last five years were particularly hot and 2020 was the hottest year registered.

Not to mention the wildfires, or the speeding deliberate destruction of the rainforest in the last four years.

Removing trees will remove the rainclouds created by those same trees, and removing the rain means that the place will dry and eventually become arid. Not surprises here.

In both cases we can expect some effect on an animal that breeds on temporary rain pools and lagoons.

Thus, the alleged effect of modified mosquitoes can be zero, or much lower than we think. This effect will be temporary, because mosquitoes are facing similar problems and dry spells for millions of years and they still somehow survived.
You can't see the difference because you're conflating the terms seller and vendor. There are no third-party sellers at Costco.

The difference really comes down to three things: the layer on which the competition occurs, whose data is being used, and whether the competition is fair (which comes down to risk/reward).

At Costco, the competition occurs between manufacturers. Costco uses its own retail data as a retailer. The risk to the vendor to sell at Costco is marginal (even if they have to pay for shelf space) compared to being in the market at all. Costco can compete with a store brand, but if they want to sell the vendors products they have to go to the vendor. They can't undercut the vendor with an equivalent product unless they make an equivalent product for cheaper. The risk is spread out and Costco owns a healthy amount of it.

At Amazon, the competition occurs between retailers. Amazon uses its competitors data, which it gains by being a 'marketplace'. The other retailer carries all the risks associated with being a retailer. Amazon takes a piece of it, the size of which depends on what 'services' the retailer uses through Amazon's marketplace. If the retailer fails, Amazon loses nothing. If the retailer wins, Amazon can use the retailers' data and begin selling the same product. It can use its size and the retailers' own numbers to get a better deal with the vendor and undercut the other retailers price on the same exact product. (Store brands are also an option and an issue, but if you're focused on that, you're missing the forest for the trees.) The retailer takes the vast majority of the risk, but Amazon can, at its option, swoop in and take the majority of the reward.
...with an enforced ACL.
You get slack by not delaying on the things that can be done immediately (with no or minimal planning), and then planning the rest so that you tackle it in an appropriate fashion. If you don't plan it, you'll end up creating additional work on top of the desired work to fix the issues produced by skipping planning.
I suspect it's also a nod to the prejudice of the father, if he had been real.
Although I agree in principle with you, no action against citizens was actually committed. The jet didn’t do any spying.

As for your “worse than theft” comment:
“By your logic I could steal $10k from your bank account”

That’s you, equating this issue, with theft.
OP that I was replying to was specifically talking about the feasibility of manually checking the 120k account bans, so I'm not off by an order of magnitude. I'm not suggesting all automatic checks are replaced with manual checks anyway, in fact the suggestion was a manual system for appeals, which would be much lower than the total number flagged.

I think your message pretty much gets to the same place though:

* Could Google do manual checks for appeals? Yes - absolutely. Even if it costs them $30 million to review, this is still tiny in the scheme of things (c0.01% of app store revenue). Never mind the fact that these developers had to pay to be on the platform in the first place.

* Would it be best for Developers if Google did it? Yes, it would give developers a chance to appeal and lower the number of absolute horror stories we hear.

* Does Google want to do it? No, because Google only cares about profit and doing the minimum it can get away with.
I think not, what he describes is really the way some of these tools work.
Every time I've updated the BIOS on my Dell laptop it's been done on the next boot, before Windows starts.
Sex Work Is Work – Why It's Time to Decriminalize
Very few people in Belgium speak both French and Flemish natively. It's one or the other, depending on which side of the language border you live on. In Flanders you have compulsory French classes while in Wallonia you don't have compulsory Flemish classes, but the compulsory classes don't get you anywhere near native proficiency. His last name doesn't sound very Flemish so his ancestors probably moved to Wallonia at least a few generations back. To me it even sounds like a Flemish version of a French name. The parent should correct me if I'm mistaken of course, deducting where someone is from based on their last or first name can be quite tricky in my experience.
I guess I was hacking at a young age then. Obtaining the pak1.pak file from a friend who had the CD automatically turned the freeware version into the full version of the game. The tough part was transferring it over a 28.8 baud modem. Took all blasted night on my dads "borrowed" Pentium 90. Oof...kids with broadband these days don't know how easy they have it.
Imagine if Google partnered with Valve to bring your steam library to Stadia. That would have instantly won over millions of gamers. I would have bought into Stadia so I could play my games while traveling.

To me, someone that has been playing games for 30+ years, Stadia couldn't have been handled worse. They tried to pull a Microsoft and enter the gaming world, but forgot to have the killer app like Halo.
With the way apple is leaning in terms of making life harder on advertisers, if they were to release a value phone ($200) with all their consumer privacy protections soon after a revelation in the news about how pervasive advertising companies are / how much they know about you, I wonder if it would make a dent in google's only real line of business.

I'm probably projecting too much of my own privacy-mindedness onto the general populace, though.
I poked around a little, there have been a couple of court cases involving reaction videos and copyright.

So far, it seems that reaction videos with original commentary, especially if they are aimed at a different audience, do count as transformative.

So the problem here is less Youtube, and more the confusing mess that is cooyright in the US.
Yellen says rates may have to rise somewhat to keep economy from overheating
It would be trivial to follow copyright laws to the letter if authorship and user identity were trivial and fair use exceptions were trivial to determine.

None of those things are trivial, and that's before rights assignment.

YouTube's system is built primarily to placate rightsholders and avoid human labor paid for by Google.
Waymo has certainly been given a lot of latitude especially as fully autonomous has gone from "right around the corner" in the minds of many (admittedly in part because of what organizations like Waymo were saying) to something that may not be fully achieved for a long time.
Apple is 99/year

Google is a one time payment.
uBlock does detect this automatically, without reverse engineering your setup and adding it to their lists.

This assumes you self-host analytics.js and proxy GA API requests through your domain without changing path/query. If you manage to reverse engineer analytics.js and change the path/query AND proxy through your own domain, then this likely wouldn't be detected. But there's a chance that Google will make changes to analytics.js that aren't compatible with your reverse engineering it, and your setup breaks.
Hmm, but by the time Google could afford to buy YouTube, they were already very popular and had a well liked search product. Ask Jeeves didn’t buy YouTube.
> the vast majority of these M&A destroy capital

Even if true, it's irrelevant. The vast majority of VC investments also lose money, or as you put it "destroy capital" -- that's just high-risk investment generally. Nobody knows in advance what the future holds, which is why you spread your risk with lots of investments (or acquisitions).

But as long as you have enough runaway successes, then acquisitions are an overall profit-making, not profit-destroying, strategy. Even if the profit only comes from a small minority of them.

And that's only if you're counting the direct future profitability of an acquisition. Many times, the acquisition is also for key expertise or employees that may otherwise be prohibitively difficult to get, patents, the only way to compete in time, or is even strategically defensive -- to prevent your main competitor from acquiring the same critical technology/team.
J. R. Dobbs approves.
It's weird to me that Confucianism is listed. That one is more like a philosophy?

That's like listing cynicism/stoicism/utilitarianism/or-whatever-else-ism as a religion.
I used to like putting fish sticks in my mouth

It's the only animal seafood that doesn't smell like sea silt to me.
We've replaced secretaries with software, and now we have people making $150k+ a year busy working on things that they should be paying someone $40k a year to handle.
Democracies have throughout history conducted plenty of assassinations, and started wars of aggression. Some of them have even killed a few hundred thousand people with firebombing and nuclear weapons.

Any country with ASW capabilities would find it prudent to shoot this thing down, because there is no defense from it being used against it - with exactly zero warning.
If you care about latency, not performance, I think it's fine? You can do a Cheney semispace collector in which it's safe to allocate in interrupt handlers if you have control over the ABI (and you've got a few registers to spare) or if your instruction set provides an "increment this memory location" instruction.
Gitlab's 2021 Survey uncovers a new DevOps maturity model
Can you help me understand your distinction?
V2EX GameDB: an 8/16-bit retro game database
My advice would to think about the idea more for the next month or 2. I often get ideas that sound awesome, but after a week or 2, the interest either evaporates, or it didn't really sound as mind-blowing as I thought.
He didn't have any choice in the matter.
If, like me, you have no idea what eBPF is - http://www.brendangregg.com/ebpf.html
The author makes Kubernetes sound like it's a technocratic regime controlled by a political class of anyone who's ever held the title SRE at Google. They do control the means of production. Me however, I'm just a member of the typing pool.
Just speaking from first-hand experience.
Not if the soil is being farmed. Plowing, cultivation, etc. will fill in any small hole.
Where would the tax money go? /s
The point is that its fucking stupid and a corporate mind game that is trivial to see through.
I like the unstructured/structured boundary as it mirrors the "do you use a library" (some Rx) or "do you use a client" (like Kafka).

I'm writing a programming-language ( http://www.adama-lang.org/ ) which is reactive, and I'm currently looking at how do I optimize (prematurely, of course). I believe a combination of static analysis and a good runtime working together are the future (at least, for me).

For instance, I currently statically optimize "iterate _table where id == x" to "_table.get(x)", and this was a good optimization. I use the same analysis to introduce some limited indices.

The paradox for my use case (board games) is that going further isn't really needed, and the overhead of optimization starts to cost more than brute force table scans. However, I'm excited about this approach beyond board games.
Amazing what a more user-friendly interface will do... Looking at you, httpd.conf.
One of the quotes suggests that DeMarco (the author of the book under discussion in this post) himself views 'slack' somewhat negatively:

> “Slack represents operational capacity sacrificed in the interests of long-term health.” [emphasis mine]

Quibble it might be, but nevertheless: surely if the goal is to appreciate the value of 'slack,' it would be better to describe it as an investment in long-term health, rather than a sacrifice for it?

To be fair, I suspect he was trying to implicitly refer to "opportunity cost" - every investment implies a "sacrifice" of the alternatives. But it seems to lead the blog post author into a similar dissonant frame of thinking:

> Slack consists of excess resources... Slack is vital...

Here I quibble with the use of "excess." Excess compared to what? Presumably, excess compared to the resources one might assume were necessary to guarantee a healthy operation - but as the author then notes, these resources are not "excess" at all, but indeed "vital!" In other words, they are fundamental to the continued existence of the operation. Why imply anything else?
Marketing is effective and NOVEL marketing is very effective. Would we be talking about a spam post PG made begging for more money to be donated to another charity? We are here doing just that right now precisely because he involved the NFT angle.
Stadia works acceptably even on low tier consumer cable internet connections. The biggest issue is usually weak or noisy wifi but even then it's surprisingly robust.

I don't know what it's costing them to do that, but in terms of technical capability it's there.
Healthy skepticism is good. Dev tools are hard.

There are hundreds of open source companies - many making gobs of money. Not all - many fail. This team has name recognition and a few successful projects already - Babel and yarn. I can see it working out.

JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages. Millions of developers. With solid execution, there are monstrous markets here.
Growing through acquisitions is not limited to Big Tech. Almost every big company has an endless list of acquisitions. Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate of acquired businesses. All big banks were results of M&A. Same with the oil companies.
> Apparently they offered laughably low sums of money to developer studios for porting games to the Stadia platform

The reporting from Jason Schreier is that they were paying tens of millions of dollars per game for ports of AAA games. The data from the Capcom hack corraborates that. That is the opposite of laughably small.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-26/google-vi...
A friend of mine lost the fist one so he had to go back the same day to the same shop :)
> One part I’m unclear on: if someone outbids him, do only they get the token and pg pays nothing, or do both pay and are the contributions etched into the NFT?

No, only the person who wins the bid gets the token.

I typically defend the tech behind NFTs but this just seems like it's riding the hype of NFTs more than anything.
I understand the point that preferences are not homogeneous across the population, and therefore there will always be a portion - often a significant portion - of government spending that any given citizen will disagree with. But I would argue that a significant amount of spending by the government is purely wasteful. Furthermore, one of the most useful roles of government, in my opinion, should be the efficient allocation of societal resources. Appeasement strategies for special interest groups are the furthest you can possibly get from that. Ethanol pledges that deepen dependence on inefficient and damaging businesses, zoning laws that create hard and increasingly intraversible class splits between property-owning Eloi and the forever wage-slaving Morlocks, and continued investment in an unreasonably sized military infrastructure are good for certain interests, but overall bad for society as a whole. If the government consistently makes decisions that are bad for society as a whole, I would posit that it is failing at a critical role.

If that is the case, then a certain portion of wealth going to actually good causes rather than the government would be a good thing, not an ethical violation. If the government cannot be relied on to spend the wealth of its people responsibly - if instead it fritters that resource away in power games and appeasement - then avoiding said taxes is not, fundamentally, immoral.

Off the top of my head for other bad and expensive government programs, there's the TSA and other Department of Homeland Security initiatives that fall under the umbrella of Security Theater; the support, both legal and economic, of the private prison industry; arms sales to ethically dubious partners; political vanity projects like the "Bridge to Nowhere"; ideologically driven propaganda (Reefer Madness, anyone?); and straight-up war crimes.

Representative government may be a good reflection of the people - I have misgivings about that claim, but I'll let them go - but the people should demand better than a reflection. I don't want my moral equal leading me; I want someone better. I want someone who isn't afraid to make an unpopular decision when it's the right thing to do.
I totally would say the same thing. That’s why I support all steps that make it easier for devices to be repaired and re-used.

My hi-fi system is 30 years old. My Squeezeboxes (audio players) are 15 years old. Laptop (running LXDE) is 13 years old. TV is 10 years old (only 720p but free of “smart” aka tracking features). The mobile phone is about 7 years old; this one is due for replacement and while I usually buy second-hand, I am considering a Fairphone 3. The most recent device I bought (a year ago) was an Apple TV which I’d hope to be using for at least another 5 years.
I thought they would create 100k tokens at $25 so everyone could donate, but also the value of the tokens could go up in the future. That would've been cool.

But... no. It's a single token worth millions of dollars, so no one an actually participate, except PaulG himself
Imagine working at a company.
Does government backed fiat harm the environment? Do the militaries of the nations protecting their government backed fiat have a net positive or negative impact on the environment? Does the infrastructure required by central banks, retail banking have a net positive or negative impact on the environment?

I am not arguing blockchain in various implementations do not harm the environment, only that there are many external costs and collateral damage by the current systems which is often ignored. What is a "normal donation drive" after all? Is it a bunch of celebrities and musicians jumping on private airplanes? Is it a $10,000 per plate filet mignon dinner indirectly supporting bigAG and bigAG animal farming? What external costs have you contributed to just to make a post, are there plastics in your device, was coal burned somewhere or fossil fuel burned to supply parts to your device or charge your device?

Certainly this NFT is not saving lives, the entity behind it was saving lives before the NFT, and certainly they would have continued to save lives without the NFT, but if the NFT generates $2.5M and they can save 1 life with every ~$1,200, then there is a number. Maybe someone who really believes in the argument that saving 1,000 lives is good but not at the expense of the environment which will result in killing us all can step up and pay this entity double ($5M) not to do it, sure its a number reserved for the 1% but its also a number that means nothing to the 1%.
So, what? Hire new people to replace the ones that left and then eventually have to do a purge again in 5 years? This appears more to me like a short-sighted easy-way-out kind of move.

Why not spend the time to build channels for constructive political discussion? The workplace does not exist in a vacuum. You cannot isolate work from politics these days.
Lots of people are embracing MicroPython and CircuitPython on microcontrollers these days. The computational capabilities of many of these devices exceeds what a high-end PC could do in the early/mid-90's. Many applications, especially hobbyist projects, are doing relatively mundane and low frequency work like turning things on and off and taking sensor readings at human scale intervals and then going to sleep. So why not?
What are you, a gay fish?
Maybe use with https://github.com/nwmcsween/tawk

sample index.html.tawk which can generate index.html

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<p> {{! cat /proc/cpuinfo }} </p>

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Exactly. Admittedly, fm19oc75hv feels much less 'friendly' than broken.turned.ahead, but it is significantly more functional.
And river meanders are doing just that, meandering to and fro, changing (albeit slowly) continuously. Modern borders need to be tied geodetic datums, which has been also mentioned are also constantly changing (although probably more slowly than most rivers) and need to be updated continuously. The new datums coming out of the GRAV-D project will address the need for continuous updating (https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/datums/newdatums/index.shtml).
> Does the artist not have a right to decide whether to license that?

They shouldn't have that right. No, let me re-phrase that - others shouldn't be deprived of their right to enjoy works of art, at the whim of the copyright holder.

Copyright's justification is the promotion of "science and the useful arts", not putting copyright holders in the position of censors on who may enjoy which works.
Blinkshell Community Edition
Music already has compulsory licensing.
> Sorry, I should have specified that only illegitimate ships would have a reason for doing it for the purpose of hiding from scrutiny.

That smells of "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
'Trust me, I'm an engineer' doesn't fly with me, and it sure as hell isn't going to fly with another country's government - for the same reason that an engineering firm using nuclear bombs to dig canals isn't going to fly. It's a dual-use technology that can be trivially repurposed for aggression, that cannot be defended against.
> (I'd argue that for many things the Apple ecosystem makes things harder due to its inflexibility)

Yes - many things are harder, but on balance the Apple ecosystem delivers better end user results.

But your point is important - there is huge opportunity for something better.

Apple isn’t standing in the way of that.

The belief that Microsoft or Linux as they stand are somehow better is. (I think Linux is fundamental to what comes next, but only if we people stop pretending it is currently better for end users and stop trying to make it more like an Apple product)
> The school had a zero tolerance drug policy and PHP was confused with PCP

This just shows that even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Nope. I dont want or need more shit.
Some good food for thought in the article. You want enough slack time and energy to be able to accomplish the high priority items. You definitely want to avoid low ROI busy work.

But also beware the easy seduction of the idea that you don't have to work hard to have a good chance of success.
The quote is overstating it IMO. Maybe for its time it was shocking but if you compare it to game of thrones for example, which has rape scenes, torture and murder it's nothing to write home about in its depiction of those.

I watched it as a teen with my family and it didn't shock me in the least. It's serious but not traumatizing.
When you manage a number of Dell computers, the Dell Update package is helpful. Dell Update will alert you when there are updates available. Not so different than Windows Update. Keeping up to date with drivers and firmware is a security-conscious thing to do.

I don't use any of the other Dell software/packages but I find Update helpful.