skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have said "scope", because I don't mean just by pure numbers. I mean that our current treatment of billions of animals is worse than it has ever been due to factory farming. As in, it's not just the sheer number of animals, we have somehow regressed and are more cruel to each individual animal in the name of efficiency. I think the only reason there is a higher percentage of vegetarians now is how widely publicized that information is, not because the average human has evolved and can be expected to have a moral framework which incoporates non-humans. There wouldn't be as many vegetarians if some people weren't currently being so obviously needlessly cruel.

And then there's the impact that our activities have on wildlife that we aren't intending to harm. We know we are causing harm, though, so much so that we regularly drive animals to extinction. We also know we are currently driving a mass extinction event but that seems to barely register on our list of concerns. I don't see any meaningful action right now towards addressing this. I honestly hear so, so little about it, even when we are discussing the impacts of climate change. I kind of forgot about it myself during this discussion.

So in summary, I see us as being willfully cruel to some and fully indifferent to others and ultimately I think we have gotten worse over the years, not better. If I were an animal, I would much rather have shared the planet with humans from 1000 or even 100 years ago than with humans from today, and I believe the trend continues.

Hope that clears things up.
The sun has a power output per volume of a compost. Quite literally.

We need more :-)

Edit: Saw another comment explaining this now. The sun is really very slow. But it has been around for billions of years.
> There has to be a word for this invisible ledger that lives in our heads.

It’s called a hidden competing commitment. The book “Immunity to Change” by Kegan is all about it.
Dogs Trained to Sniff Out Coronavirus in People with Impressive Results
And we're also guilty of this when we use multiple ghz/GB computers with advanced GPU firing excel to make simple computations, or a multi-ton car to drive one person half a mile.
> Those social media contents you've listed there is nothing anybody wants to keep.

I do. It's a chunk of my life. These are memories. Much like a paper journal and paper letters I may have been writing instead.
I think we are already in full agreement. We should not politicize the issue. We should find its origin.

I don't disagree with the statement that we should try to find the origin despite that there's politicization. But my concerns are practical in nature. Doing anything in a politicized environment is like mopping the floor during a flood. We need to address the flood first.
The top comment used https://www.statista.com/statistics/370618/spotifys-cost-of-... as the source for the claim. Do you have anything else than "because I said no"?
There are some things that I don't really like about WebDAV, including the use of XML.

However, the HTTP directory listing specification that I made has been described as being like a simpler and better (in some ways) version of WebDAV by some of the other people who have seen it. (It does do a few more things than only directory listings, but directory listings is its main intention.)
In vivo partial reprogramming of myofibers promotes muscle regeneration
I actually went and found the code. It wasn’t JPEG after all, it was Targa, but it still had to be turned into HAM8.

At that time, I had already worked with JPEG on the Amiga, for loading and saving images to/from the GVP TBCplus product. As I recall, it took about a second to load a JPEG image at SD video resolutions, but that was likely with a 68030 or 68040.
There are copper to copper connections in between dies.
Expectations: The Loss It Brings
It has also taken a whole subfield, GIS, which was seen as difficult, expensive, and specialised, and made it possible to easily include geospatial functions in all sorts of projects.
I've read the opposite from gwern - that nicotine is safe, and the carcinogens are mostly in the burning of tobacco products. He tested nicotine as a nootropic, apparently has significant effect.
Intel works on developing Mesa, together with AMD and VMWare. Intel graphics work quite well on the open source graphics stack.
I agree that it's bullshit, but a boycott is not going to accomplish anything. To many devices work like this (phone home else brick), and too few people care enough to allow this failure mode to influence their behavior. Most people just want the shiny thing.
If you like reading about this stuff, Rand Corporation has a fascinating analysis that I recommend reading. Long story short is the US wins in almost all cases except a short violent war with severe losses up-front, but that is very unlikely and it may actually result in the US engaging in a long-term violent war. China knows this too. The longer it takes for this war to happen the better China will do, but the U.S. geographic situation is too good. The U.S. east coast is permanently protected which means supplies come in, planes can be built, etc. and the U.S. can indefinitely attack and harass Chinese forces.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1140.html
Gaza conflict: Instagram changes algorithm after alleged bias
You are missing the point here by seeing only the technical aspect. You are misleading technical description with abstraction.

A database is hardly if not accessible to the user. The files are an abstraction that enables the user to owns its data. Once you have a file, you can do more than opening it in your app. You can store it wherever you want, edit it with any software you wish, arrange it the way you are confortable with.

As a user, you can’t do that with your SaaS database, you must rely on the « export / share » function of your SaaS provider, hoping it will export all data, in a readable format and that the import function exists and is reliable. You don’t own anything and as soon as you stop paying your subscription, you are stuck with nothing.
People are realizing mixing private and work communications on the same device is a bad idea. The kicker is, this isn't even some kind of corporate conspiracy. It's just human nature - if you hook up your business e-mail to your private phone, you are going to be checking it after work hours, you will start responding to e-mails, and your work habits will shift to account for that.

That's why I just don't do that first step. The only connection between my current smartphone and my work is some TOTP keys in the authenticator app, to enable more convenient login to some cloud services the employer makes us use. I talked with a co-worker recently, who made the mistake of installing work communications on their personal smartphone, and they very much regret it - not because the company is exploiting it, but because they can't discipline themselves to not check business messages after work.
Show HN: Base field class for form generator
Pedant here. The quote is

> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Maybe it's a reference to the compiler or the plethora of internal and paid tools out there in the enterprise world.
They downsized because they have less money coming in now. So? They might well be overspending on execs or whatever, but that doesn't make much difference in the face of the existential threat they're facing from Google.
Correct. An SDF is basically an acceleration structure for an "omnidirectional" raycast. A "sphere-cast", if you will. If you are extra careful, you can also approximate a cone trace. Unreal Engine 4 has used it as a way of doing shadows for objects that don't animate for a long time [0].

But it's now a pretty standard staple of VFX and other sorts of industries to do a cheap approximate raycast on the GPU.

Lumen simply uses the same data structure to accelerate bounce lighting cone tracing.

[0] http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/DynamicOcclusion...
Acer say global chip shortage to slow laptop production until at least next year
Forking also happens because of the license.
I am curious if people would generally consider an editor / IDE a productivity app. If so, VS Code's popularity seems to be more than "many people do", in certain segments, it's the leading development environment [1].

And oddly, if we consider it an IDE (I would, if the relevant extensions are installed for whatever you are doing), it seems to use less resources than most of the others I use on a regular basis, while seeming more performant. It's really an odd app.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
How I Became the Honest Broker
There is a really fantastic movement of people creating "digital gardens", collections of notes and ideas and posts that can be much less formal than a traditional blog. They're very fun to create, tinker with, and to explore. Check out mine here: https://mtsolitary.com as an example, or see this great curated list: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners.

There are some tools being created in this space but a lot of it is still roll-your-own. Github Pages and Jekyll (or even better, Hugo) is a good way to get started, there's plenty of simple tutorials that can get you a site up and running. And in terms of control over your future: everything in the end is just Markdown files that you can pick up and take with you wherever you go :)
Nvidia Introduces GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, 3070 Ti GPUs
Separating SRAM cache would improve chip yield so possibly decrease some cost, but I don't believe it make SRAM "very cheap" or "at near no cost".
Depends, I always used my desktops for so long that when it to replace anything, I just had to buy a new one anyway due to cascade effect of updates.

There were a couple of exceptions, I just got lucky that old stuff was still around to buy.
The genius of Google search was leveraging hyperlinks to add semantics. The only way I can see something somewhat equivalent happening is by exposing all my interactions incl. e.g. the juggling and browsing of other documents beyond the one worked on to search. I would find this scary.
I can't say I've found that hard. The party isn't the people, and usually if someone is not in mainland China, they aren't all that favourable to the party
Making our own executable packer
There is indeed the “welstandscommissie”, no clue how to translate that.
It’s meant to keep everything looking “nice and neat”. Depends a lot on what city/village it is but basically I think they try to avoid people painting their house purple or something.
analogous to hash collision? what4words would reduce it. But you can't stop english language pluralisms (for instance) and if you start to make all plurals synonymous, you reduce the wordcount massively.
How a Berkshire Hathaway company is quietly disrupting the construction industry
The rewards basically encourage you to help some PM hit their KPI metrics for career cred.

Complete BS imo, and I work at MS.
Intel aggressively pushes their chips into Mesa, likely since they use Linux as the testbed for unreleased chips in development

AMD is something like 10% of the total Linux kernel size now which is ridiculous. But their commitment in recent years is admirable as hell

NVIDIA need to pull their fucking head out and just start working on Nouveau
So:

- you don't know whether the code is correct or not

- code is being modified on regular basis... and logic is changed

If someone knows enough about the code to regularly change it, then they should be able to provide some documentation? How else are they able to modify a "correct" function and know that it's still correct?

Can I guess that the code modifiers are quants, or something?
Yeah definitely 'multi-touch attribution' ad tech is a lot of crap a lot of the time especially for big brands stuff. And lol got to love advertisers selling advertising it's like one of the launch websites you see on Show HN sometimes that just have a bunch of #words that have no meaning ;)

it's the flat out 'ads don't work you can't know they worked' stuff which bugs me that is evidently hard to simply explain
This article says that there is this huge value in the IR code database, but what's to stop a new entrant from just buying a harmony remote and paying someone to go through all of the possible devices and recording the IR codes? IANAL, but I don't think that this would be covered by copyright.
https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/index.asp if you want to read the actual draft proposals
Could this trigger an expanded exodus from California?

We’re fortunate enough that we don’t have to contemplate sending our kids to public school but if we weren’t this might be a push factor in those kind of decisions.
What are the scenarios where you know the 3 words but not the lat-long?
> You either own something, or you don't.

If you really want to break the laws of nature down, you either have the capacity to take and defend something, or you don’t.
There is a wheel of life story here. Everything winds up being used as an IP protocol carrier. Working backwards from USB-C I can't think of a modern-day plug which hasn't wound up having a MAC address, bootstrap-to-IP path added to it.

NVMe to ethernet is simply making the SSD the endpoint with a functional NFS/SMB and IP stack. Soon it will move out of the backplane into a stand-alone cage, and be a NAS...
The Eudora Email Client Source Code – CHM [2018]
For mobile (the cash cow) the extra power of off-die communication kills it before it's even out of design.
What’s hard about saying “fuck the CCP”? It’s very specific; I don’t understand how anyone could conflate that with asians as a whole. Perhaps that’s their own skewed biases showing through?
That's likely confirmation bias. You'd also want to look at places where crime skyrocketed, as well as other factors likely to have an influence, like alternative support systems
Here’s an interesting example of an app that runs in browser and opens/saves SQLite GeoPackage files on the computer running the browser instead of a remote server.

https://ngageoint.github.io/geopackage-js/
I don't envy the team. It's a great idea but falls short once it leaves the lab. Everything gets really dirty in the real world especially during high stress or emergencies.

Moving to four words could really help remove the need for plural and words that sound similar. Accents really do make things tough.
The Parrot King (2020)
Somehow this kind of writing irritates me a lot. Maybe it is because they present their view as ideal for everyone's use cases? Then again, I am also quilty on the same thing. As I curse the modern design, when it hides technical information.

<Random rant>
Operating systems and boot messages. Why these need to be hidden? It does not require any user action, but provides valuable information when things go bad.

And those freaking spinning progress indicators, that do not tell if the progress is actually happening or working thread has crashed or got locked.

Everything is connected to some company's server and dark patterns are everywhere.

And it feels like all the sites are designed for showing no actual information only full hd carousels with stock images.

</Random rant>
In my head requirements only provide an overview, but don't dictate specific structure e.g. class/function structure.

A majority of test suites require knowledge of code structure (and thus to write the tests).

To write the code before tests you either need to dictate some strict form of input/output, and test based on those only; OR, use a test suite that is very flexible.

BDD seems to cheat by writing "tests" that aren't fully executable until you fill in the functional specifics later.
It's a little weird the algorithm doesn't ensure minimum edit + soundex distance between all cell pairs.
For a criminal charge, you're also likely to be beaten or otherwise pushed to submit a guilty plea, no?
Not sure where you are going here.

Apple is known to make its accessories highly incompatible with existing standards and charge an exorbitant price for it. Security is one of the reason they cite for it.

Apple’s USB C cables and chargers are ordinary, standards-compliant devices

That's good to hear. But does that mean that non-Apple USB-C cable also work fine on USB-C Apple devices for both charging and data transfer? I am curious about this as Apple's lightening cable all include a chip and the iDevices won't work with a lightening cable with an unapproved chip in it. Do Apple's USB-C cable also include a chip?
That has nothing to do with how districts are drawn.
You must have enormous will power to taper nicotine.

I'm addicted to nicotine, though not cigarettes (though I do smoke on social ocasions, but the nicotine in just one cigarette available in the EU does nothing for me), and I've "quit" numerous times for months, but my (undiagnosed) ADHD brings me back to it.

It is such a perverse stimulant.

I've taken hardcore stimulants and never got addicted, but nicotine has such a small half-life that it's impossible to not get addicted.

While I'm on more powerful stimulants I don't need nicotine to do my work(in fact I can go without if I don't have to work).
According to wolframalpha (Log2(surface area of earth / 9m^2)) about 46 bits of information.
The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM is optically just fine if you stop down slightly, and the RF version is even better. It’s not much more than $100.

The Olympus 25mm f/1.8 is absolutely fantastic, and smaller. As are all the Olympus fast primes. You can get it for $250.

More expensive fast primes are worth the price for me. But the entry-level ones are optically pretty great these days.
You only need a lexicon of about 700 words to get a resolution of 50m with four words, which I reckon would be good enough for rescue work (i.e. the one niche w3w has managed to establish itself in).
Impressed that it actually works on mobile with nice speed.
I sometimes get the impression that the last time "decisive" battles worked was during the Napoleonic Wars. And even then the Russian campaign played as much a role as did Waterloo. After that everybody trying to force decisive battles got wars of attrition wich were ultimately lost.
That sounds like no one knows what the correct result is.
The plugin Vimium is one I use a lot for exactly this.

I just press T, fuzzy match any tab title across all my windows, then switch to it instantly.
Yeah the general idea is OK, but the practical usage just doesn't pan out unless you remove all plurals, all words that sound similar (including if spoken with different accents), etc etc. Then you end up needing 4-5 words, most with multiple syllables, and you're back to it being just as easy to tell the lat/long or using some other system.
Could also be interesting if they do not pay the ransom and data gets released.
W3W is a proprietary algorithm that has threatened people who published analyses of their algorithm. They got whatfreewords.org censored for publishing an independent open implementation.

It's also not well designed, as plurals and homophones are not accounted for.

Avoid using or promoting this system.
Building more prisons?

I know it’s not in line with current thinking but there is evidently enough criminality out there to justify custodial sentences and current prison capacity should not have to be a consideration when sentencing.
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GP is saying disregard for the population's interests (plural "you") is equivalent to intending to harm many individual "you"s.
If the file roughly maps to a table, the filesystem and filemanager would be the query? To get access to the data, you must first find it.
You should envy the team. They've raised tens of millions of dollars for licensing of an algorithm that people RE'd in a day.

Their business now involves lots of bizdev droids and threatening open source implementors with baseless copyright lawsuits. It's nice work if you can get it.
Create web UI for a python script in a few clicks
You can do all that with modern multi-effects, and even more.

I'm running a hybrid setup, using a Line 6 Helix in front of a Soldano SLO 30 (and on its effects loop as well). Each effect can be adjusted (with all sorts of knobs, more than 12 for some), moved around and triggered individually or together. You can even use the Helix to toggle channels in the amp, manually or as part of presets.

It drastically eased up my workflow to experiment with and mix effects. No more tinkering with cables. No more wondering which pedal is plugged in wrong or doesn't have enough power. No more velcro strips. Plus, selling my hoard of pedals felt nice.
And its proprietary coding scheme :(

At least wiki brightened my mood : The site has been parodied by others who have created services including What3Emojis[29] using emojis, What3Birds[30] using British birds, What3fucks[31] using swear words and What3Numbers[32] using OpenStreetMap tile identifiers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What3words
This W3W system relies on the correct English spelling of 3 words, in the correct sequence to identify the location.

Can't help but feel that this is a bad idea. From writing code, we know that the more code you use, the higher the chance of bug entering the code.

Also felt that the authorities are trying to extend the UK postcode system to the rest of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdo...
Locating carriers to day? Easy, satellites and radar. Tag the group leaving port, track it 24/7. Or sonar. The days a surface fleet can hide are gone.