skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Birds flying into windows kills up to 1,000,000,000 birds per year

>[2] https://audubonportland.org/our-work/rehabilitate-wildlife/b....

That seems like a very high bound. Another source says there are 7.2B birds in US and canada[1], so 1B birds would be 14% of all birds, which is really high. I also feel like 7.2B dead birds would be very noticeable in the form of dead birds on sidewalks, which I'm not seeing.

[1] https://www.denverpost.com/2019/09/20/bird-population-decrea...
I am more impressed that people would confess to thinking of leaving their position to an internal survey. I have no confidence that a company sponsored survey will be confidential and 'worrisome' results would not be shared with my direct management.
Wrong. Solar + batteries has been built in the Mojave for $40/MWh, about a fifth the cost of nuclear.

https://www.energy-storage.news/news/developer-8minute-says-...
It’s an inexact measurement to give you an idea of how little waste is actually produced.

I used to feel very anti-nuclear, mostly out of fear and lack of information. Then I read more about it and learned that taking point.

Other sources I find from a quick google use different comparisons, like this one[1]:

> In fact, the U.S. has produced roughly 83,000 metrics tons of used fuel since the 1950s—and all of it could fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards.

> Used fuel can be recycled.

> More than 90% of its potential energy still remains in the fuel, even after five years of operation in a reactor.

Or this measurement[2]:

> a typical 1,000-megawatt nuclear power station, which would supply the needs of more than a million people, produces only three cubic metres of vitrified high-level waste per year,

1. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...

2. https://world-nuclear.org/nuclear-essentials/what-is-nuclear...
Awesome, can't wait to be irreversibly put on a blacklist because a black box algorithm has decided something doesn't look right.
Our earliest childhood memories begin from the age of two-and-a-half
I don't see this as much different from "sure, if you don't have a million dollar mortgage and 2 car payments to cover!"

Having a family is partially a financial decision. People should make the decision with eyes wide open, having planned for it. Achieving a financial position above sustenance before having the expensive family is generally a good idea. Same as buying the house and cars.
I never too time off. Even not between from job to owning a business.

During the early Covid lock down was the best time. Had a really good sleep. Learned cooking. Biked with my son everyday. Walked in the evening everyday.

Right before the covid-19, I visited my parents for a month in India and didn't do anything. Screen time reduced to 1-2 hrs a day - hardly any emails, no business calls, no Reddit, no HN or no news. That was the best time. Slept from 10pm - 6am everyday.
This is my experience too. The impact on career progression is very minimal when it done intentionally. There are of course people who think it's a lark, but before 2020 there were many folks developing skills that will catapult them forward after they graduated.

I've moved to the US and can see how things are very different culturally with regard to travel. Others have mentioned that the US is not into backpacking. I think it's less about that, and more about travel being a prize for retirement.

I've seen this changing a bit in my time in the US, but it's still the norm for a lot of people who then end up being unable to travel. The US has many more people who are skilled and equipped for a backpacking lifestyle than I found in the UK.
If this is your standard for terrible posts, you can't have been on either HN or the internet long.
Mosh+screen+irssi is way more usable in terrible network conditions than any of the more contemporary options
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The cybernetics community was very aware of the limitations of command and control. If anything, ahead of its time on that philosophically as well as having the maths to prove it. Read some Stafford Beer (the father of Viable System Model).
See, here's the thing. I have had plenty of interactions with the police. I know police officers and through them, I know of both good, bad, and mediocre officers. As I said, demonizing the police almost guarantees that the good ones will leave and the remainders will have a "us vs. them" mentality. That's how tribalism works and it's a human behavior as old as time.

I have actual experience. You have an ideological position with zero basis in reality. Sorry. The stats simply don't add up and emotional appeals aren't evidence.
I think it's a pretty constant insight that more money isn't what generally motivates people to quit, it's work environment.
Then again, France is unable to get their EPR design implemented in time and on budget in their own country, let alone in the UK. Even in France, there's a growing trend towards renewables.
I can see combinatorics relating in the sense that exploring the space of potential compositions can be approached as a ‘combination of’ type problem for different elements.. chords as combinations of notes, chord progressions as combinations/orderings of chords, likewise for the order of notes in an arpeggio.. rhythms/grooves can be thought of as like combinations of emphasised beats (emphasis on 2 & the and of 3 vs. emphasis on 1 & the and of 3 for example) at different levels of beat-subdivision.. then the sounds each emphasised beat can take come from a discrete set (kick, snare etc.) so can be thought of as another combination-of type problem. many possibilities.

Perhaps this is not what the GP meant though, I’m curious about however it applies. No idea about where linear algebra could fit in, I have yet to see those parallels myself yet but interesting to think how it could relate
The wind conditions would have been different?
I wonder how many agency-bots you crashed with that...
Unfortunately both projects really try hard to hide what they actually do, so to save you time:

1. Like Electron but uses the platform web view API - Edge on Windows, Safari WebKit on Mac and GtkWebkit on Linux.

2. Same but I think it uses GtkWebkit on all platforms and possibly bundles it (if their claim of zero dependencies is not a lie). Not so sure about this one.
> Foods can be associated with a religious/cultural tradition

These may correlate, but are different and not alternative.
IMO travel insurance sometimes makes sense. Circumstances like high altitude trekking that may require expensive evacuation. Expensive non-refundable trips, especially those that a broken ankle before or during the trip could put a rapid stop to.

That said, I've only purchased travel insurance maybe a half-dozen times out of probably hundreds of trips.
I'll likely already know the answer (jail time?), but what if you were to "forget"?

I have some long passwords that I keep out of password managers for private stuff that I don't want to be leaked from a password manager leak or w/e. I can remember them, but had a really hard time remembering even the start of most of them after not using them for a few weeks.
Counterfeit manufacturers generally care less about their reputation
In their TOS and Privacy Policy it’s made clear they are also data controllers. Unless you contribute to the breach it would almost certainly fall on them.
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Landlords have pretty powerful lobbies, once they see the writing in the wall, and that they can chose between writing those assets off or lobbying for mixed zoning, I hope they will lobby for that.
Well... a man can always hope
> The very best engineers often have a mix of technical excellence, courage / nonconformism and loyalty / optimism.

You are absolutely right. I'd like to point out, that as one person, I've been both depending on the role.

If I'm in a new space with new tech, I need to learn before I have the technical excellence. If I don't feel safe, I won't have courage to challenge leadership. If don't have hope, I won't have optimism in the future.
How do you figure you have a 65% tax rate in Sweden? Are you including social security contributions?
Diseconomies of Scale at Google
It is amazing that these lower than average skill level people make companies that earn the highest profits, and have the highest wages.
I want to learn D3. I don`t want to learn Observable. Is that ok?
Get kinda had when you buy 10,000 and a dozen different types.
"clairvoyant muscle memory" hahah - that made me chuckle. It's the second, it's hard to describe but when someone is talking and I'm listening my mind is continually queuing up memories, be it things I've heard or people I've had conversations with, it sorta gives me that information(I can literally hear them saying it to me)...? I don't really know how to describe it I'm afraid. It's useful, but useless when it comes to super fine things, books are not good ways for me to know things later, written words/numbers etc generally are pretty much useless for me. If I want to remember something I've read I have to tie it to a lot of other things to be useful, and almost never can I recall where I read it or whatever, just something is sorta there... usually results in googling. Not sure that makes any sense whatsoever.
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If this even reduces 20% of having to call up a human to verify my account because 'our systems have detected that you have accessed your account from an unknown location' then, yes please and thank you!
Also interested to see what form of IDs it will accept!
Only negative: Expensive...but I guess it's fair for it doing all the heavy lifting.
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Mostly this.

Maybe it's more lax in the more worker friendly socialist regions like France or Scandinavia but in Austria you only get healthcare coverage if you work or are unemployed and registered as a job seeker which means staying in the country and proving to your local job center on a regular basis that you are looking for work.

Traveling abroad for leisure while unemployed automatically disqualifies you from receiving any healthcare coverage and unemployment benefits until you return.

Doesn't mean there aren't people cheating the system and taking vacations abroad while receiving unemployment but the rules are strict and being caught cheating is really bad for you.

Also doing courses on your own dime during unemployment, that are not on the job center's curriculum, like a boot camp in data science, automatically disqualifies you from unemployment benefits during that period. I tried explaining to my case worker at the job center that a data science certification gives me the opportunity for a better paid job afterwards and I need the unemployment benefits for that period and her response was "sorry sir, that's the law".

Yeah, the system is extremely stupid and archaic in some cases here and if you're an ambitious high achiever it can screw you over sometimes more than it helps you.
There is no UK wide education system - first degrees in Scotland are usually 4 years.
Pretty sure dishwashers use far less water than sink washing.

> Getting them clean in the sink can use up to 27 gallons of water per load. An Energy Star certified dishwasher can use as little as 3 gallons per load (around 11 litres), according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. [1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/how-much-wat...
It's interesting reading the comments on HN because, although everyone isn't making say $300-600k+ TC/yr here, I think it's safe to assume the TC distribution shifts the median earner here safely above the median US earner, perhaps by even a multiple of two. This, in theory means if you lived a lifestyle akin to a median labor earner, you should only need to work about half the amount--part time, every other year, FIRE / retire early strategies and so on.

Most the advice is quite the opposite (and I would agree with them). To me, this really shows just how toxic the control is across the labor force. Job mobility is about the only vote or voice you have if you're in the labor force and if empty positions can be readily filled, you have no voice. The only reason things are interesting now is because the mass layoffs and turnover haven't been well stagged due to the pandemic so labor has more leverage. When true unemployment returns to norms, positions are largely re-filled, and attrition begins to follow traditional rates, the voice of the labor market voting will their feet will again fall on deaf ears and your voice will again disappear in the noise. It would take another global catastrophe to change this balance and give labor a voice again.
They are just two examples of things we need. Did you expect an extensive list of all the things someone needs to do? What is the point of your comment?
I imagine there is some trade off to be made between increasingly surgical disabling of components and avoiding a menagerie of franken-SKUs. Presumably the fault rate is low enough that tolerating a single GPU core drop takes care of enough imperfect parts.

Perhaps there is fault tolerance hidden elsewhere, e.g. the neural engine might have 17 physical cores and one is always disabled. Although this seems unlikely as it would probably waste more silicon than it would save.
I understand how "clever law hacks" like warrant canaries are not clever when faced against actual law enforcement practices. I say this to try to explain that the following isn't meant to be a clever trick and instead is meant as a reason why I worry about these kinds of law.

I have a very long passphrase that I only have to enter at machine boot up time. After entering the pw once the password manager remains open in cache and can be opened with a much shorter and easier to remember password. Because I do not restart my phone or devices frequently I don't need to enter my password often and so my very long complicated password isn't used often. My practice has been to automatically restart my phone whenever I am approached by a police officer. This has happened maybe once in the last year or 2.

If I live in Ireland, am I screwed when the stress of being detained causes me to forget my very long, complicated, and infrequently entered password?
As someone north of New Hampshire who just had several 30+ C days, some hit 35 C, with high humidity, AC is necessary.
You may be unfamiliar with the activity that takes place in slaughterhouses, then.

The other notable difference is that humans are directly responsible for slaughterhouses, and it's not a nutritional requirement.

We don't lecture lions on any sort of ethics, now do we?
Good point. That said, in many countries employee protection is solid enough that people would not need to worry. If within the EU, then GDPR regulations could also lead to pretty massive fines if a supposedly anonymous survey turned out not to be.
The Minneapolis police department is beyond redemption. That department needs to be dismantled and replaced with a new system. In Minneapolis this was the goal with the initial "defund the police" mantra. A better term should be used because it's easy for opponents to use that term to mean something that was not originally intended.
I interviewed at a large range of companies and was pretty picky after my previous experience.

I wonder, realistically, how many people out there actually get to be "pretty picky after my previous experience"?
Not sure I follow. The following certainly does not work:

1. Install Chromium from https://www.chromium.org/

2. Go to https://discord.com/ and click "Open Discord in your browser"

3. Discord can read files from ~/.ssh

You mention "Electron," but Electron is a local application. So it doesn't satisfy my request, which is that I want you to steal my SSH private key when I visit a website in a web browser.
Well that depends on whether you're defining middle class as an income or a lifestyle. If the latter, I would certainly not consider any shared living arrangements as "middle class" in the US. Even if your income band puts you in the top 1%. Now, it's quite possible that they're choosing a lesser lifestyle now in order to save and transition to another lifestyle elsewhere. That's what my brother did -- two years in SV saving as much as possible, then moved back to Seattle and bought a house.

This is why any of these definitions get really murky, fast.
This is on the less expensive side of alternatives and doesn't require a minimum annual spend quota. They nailed this for startups, which I imagine is a combination response to / anticipation of regulatory requirements in Web3 apps.
Identity isn't available in India today, but that anchor link is indeed broken (we'll fix this now—thank you!).
Please check out some up-to-date information about nuclear waste storage. We've gotten to the point refinement has taken reactant levels down to acceptable levels for low-risk storage and can even re-use them in other reactor designs.
Yup. Most of our cities continue to be terrible for walkability despite significant progress in the past decade. Pedestrians are still killed on side streets due to vehicles travelling well beyond 40km/h, for instance.

Living in the city with children can be very desirable. You may have a small (or no backyard), but the city is your playground. Public parks, pools, trails, and so much more.

But the lack of people-focused planning for generations has put us in a long tail of catchup, leaving the burbs as a preferred choice for many.
Most gap years happen in the early 20s where most Americans can be on their parents coverage. Even if they're not, it's pretty cheap with subsidies for a young healthy person to buy insurance on the marketplace. Possibly even free depending on income.
fair enough :) good luck with it :)
I remember having some issues the year when I switched schools and states in 3rd or 4th grade (not sure exactly). The school district we moved to had kids memorizing all their multiplication tables and would do 2 min tests to ensure they were memorized and not thought about. I did terribly on these tests because I had not memorized them the year or a half year before like the other kids since I was at a different school. My mother got upset that I was being failed in math because she knew I was good at math. So she took me with her to parent-teacher day made me do double-digit multiplication in my head in front of my teacher. This was something no other kid in my class could do and made it apparent to my teacher that I should not be failing math.

As an adult, I have mixed feelings about this experience. My mother used to brag about this she had me do it in front of her friends, other parents with kids my age. I distinctly remember during this in a Perkins while trying to enjoy my breakfast. For me, this was simply a trick involving a larger “working memory” as opposed to “rote memory”. Being that it was still a matter of being a “trick” that required practice albeit a different kind of practice it becomes something I thought of as a trained monkey scenario.

This has come up a lot I’m my life. I worked in construction for a while out of high school and my boss would treat me this way as well. He would have me be his human calculator to help him figure out measurements. One time this was going on in a complicated octagonal room where we were trying to lay out brackets for a projection screen. He asked me to run some numbers for him and I refused. I did this because I understood what he thought he was doing but knew that his method was flawed. So I refused to give him the wrong answer, even though it was the right answer to the numbers he gave me. It caused I really big fight where he began talking down to me and tried to put me in my place.

Another Forman was there who witnessed the whole thing and I ended up doing a job with that other guy like 6 months later, but he had not forgotten the incident. He brought it up and gave me a long speech about how I should have just given my boss what he asked for instead of the correct measurements. Something I, to this day, steadfastly disagree with. Fast forward a year or two and my boss was fired due to his incompetence in measuring and ordering the materials that cost the company many tens of thousands of dollars.

Intelligence and thinking skills, in general, are practiced and exercised. However, they are not trained-monkey tricks. It is a method of living well and garnering fullness from life. And to no other end is it acceptable to waste such a thing.
There's more than enough thorium to go around, though, something like 40,000 years worth.
Vancouver BC is quite an outlier in those qualities, which is reflected in its land prices.
> [...] we see this here in the US as well.

This is only true when the revealed information is a "foregone conclusion", specifically when it "adds little or nothing to the sum total of the Government’s information."

Here is a good treatment on the subject: https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/04/state-v-andrews/
I'm really enjoying thinking about all those electrons interacting with a magnetic field. Not sure why I've never tried to simulate that in my head before.
So how "cheap" is it to store nuclear waste for the next 50 Thousand years in a secure place? Or should we do it as always and just dump in into the ocean?
I have the impression you didn't read my comment till the end.
Nope. But if those animals ever develop advanced societies with agriculture, the ability to reason about morality, and ways to live long healthy lives _without_ eating other animals, then I'll expect them to.

Right now, that's only humans, so I only hold humans to this standard.
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Nope, but your example nails it.

It’s fairly straightforward to guess someone’s age, gender, race and maybe some cultural markers from a photograph.

Those demographic factors are correlated with people’s political views: old white men tend to be Republican, folks with rainbow hair tend to skew liberal, etc.

On a group level, this seems to let your predict political views, but there’s no mechanism that lets it work for an individual.
They mean progressive web apps, and they exist in other browsers. Firefox, eg: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

More info: https://web.dev/install-criteria/
Heh, this sounds just like the global event system I made for my D window manager: https://github.com/weltensturm/flatman/blob/master/common/ev...
(which has some extra jingles with method annotations and event filters for convenience)
Nothing wrong with reading biased news sources. I think the difference is one should read sources that: 1) are upfront with their bias and 2) argue from a more neutral perspective.

You’ll learn something reading a liberal or conservative argue why their position is correct versus then other side. You can usually distinguish these article because they fairly state the other side’s position.

You won’t learn much reading something whose basic premise is “of course our side is right, let me tell you about all the bad things the other side is up to”.