skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When birds run into windows killing themselves, is that an expression of reflex or cognitive bias? Are birds capable of the rational thought to avoid running into windows or is their brain only wired for impulse? Clearly birds are smart enough (at least some species) to be able to mimic human voices and perform complex tasks (carrier pigeons). They learn where the food is and hang around boats or people (seagulls / pigeons).

So maybe this is not a solely-human characteristic?
Not sure why this is on HN, but it is indeed a good game. Top-notch writing--really evokes the old-school style of point-and-click adventure games like Gabriel Knight or Planescape.
Nope, You're are not a real emacs user unless you use real emacs with real emacs key bindings.

(uEmacs is okay too).
I'm pretty sure lots of textual and pictorial arguments can be found that Toy Story holds that honor. Which is about as much canon as this is.
I think you gave a great example of how it's fuzzy at the boundaries, because infertile women are still women. I'm not saying this whole gender thing is made up, any alien would notice gender if they landed in central park, just that you can't get too metaphysical about it.
I stopped using GMaps and I still don't think they are worthless.
Some companies buy fake reviews, some use shady techniques such as free drink/appetizer for a review. In my experience so far those are exceptions, not standard. I think corelation between quality and GMaps average review score is quite high - at least for restaurants.
What Is the Rashomon Effect?
This is surprising, is this intentional?

If so, what would one search for?
I don’t know about fancy mikes but just using a phone as the webcam made a profound difference for me. And my AirPods seem to work well as microphones for me.
Not on desktop Safari, either. Can see and move the brush but can't actually paint. I assume it's something with the drawing process itself, as I can't imagine someone managed to write a click handler that's not cross-browser, so surely that's firing correctly.
After many years I’ve come to the simple conclusion that those who over engineer are not suited for this profession. It’s like accepting that hardcore Trump supporters are just too far gone.
I trust Vim's official website more than Wikipedia's interpretation of Vim's official website.
Do people like lightboards? You have to be careful what you wear, how you stand, how you move etc. so that you don't cover what you have written (see the video by the inexperienced USC professor where she wears a white shirt). As a result, most of the time you can only use a small part of the screen, like here: https://youtu.be/6I48J7Lf4_Y?t=173
Bad for people who are watching your videos on a small screen (phone, old tablet,...).

Or you use low lighting and then walk behind the board, like here:
https://youtu.be/6I48J7Lf4_Y?t=266
Which is a bit annoying because then you have things (i.e. you) moving in the background all the time. Not good for visually impaired audience members and people with low-bandwidth connections.

I will keep my $50 drawing tablet, although I have to admit that it's much easier with a lightboard to point to things (on the other hand, with a drawing tablet, you can just circle the word that you want to draw the audience's attention to and then undo it when you continue).
We aren't. We are merely in a buyers market for labor and a sellers market for housing which is squeezing workers.
Like I said - if you HAVE A CONCERN, VOICE IT.
Charge your battery to 40%, so that it will be able to charge to 100% for more charging cycles...

I know you're joking, but I've seen this logic at play elsewhere.
Security departments are there to protect against threats to the company. Bad publicity is a threat for companies. So never expect some company official to admit that there is a glaring hole in their security, until they are very, very sure that they have fixed it. Fixing a hole likes this can take a lot of time because you need a lot of testing. Apple is not going to tell the rest of the world what they are doing exactly because of possible bad publicity. When they have fixed the problem there are very good reasons for Apple to downplay its importance, which implies that they should pay some money but not too much.
Bitcoin and all proof of work systems can barely replace the transaction processing of a small bank, nevermind all of the other operations, while consuming more energy than many entire countries.
Come hike with me in the Rocky Mountains.
But...are they, for my domain?

Do they care? How would I know? =(
To kind of expand on this, I actually like doing on-call and operational work. I find it very engaging and rewarding in the right context. The last company I was at, lower management had so little power, and the company was so unwilling to move anywhere (fairly old ISP) that it resulted in nearly all of the senior developers being either frustrated or jaded. It was a really toxic environment.
I don't like it, it's just a rotated Save icon. The floppy one is much more iconic and representative imo
If wages become a smaller portion of COGS, then there’s no contradiction. Eg if you buy equipment to make the process more efficient, you can amortize that equipment into COGS and the labor component can remain flat or even decrease even with higher wages for staff.
In order to bring the job market closer to "perfect competition", thereby making it more efficient. One of the features of perfect competition is "perfect information":

"In economics, perfect information (sometimes referred to as "no hidden information") is a feature of perfect competition. With perfect information in a market, all consumers and producers have perfect and instantaneous knowledge of all market prices, their own utility, and own cost functions."
Imagine being such an apple shill you make logical fallacies to try to prove your point. I have ZERO freedom to not own an apple device when someone gives it to me for free. Nor do I have any freedom to not own iOS toys garbage when working on it for work. Please fuck off with your bullshit. Apple is already flagrantly violating right to repair laws with shills like you cheering them on.

You are literally standing in the way of progress and you're NOT more secure on iOS. If anything you're a bigger and easier to break down target.
Animals That Asked People for Help Hindi
This scenario is a little different than a car but a Swiss company is experimenting with a Komatsu Dump Truck that basically recharges its battery using regen braking on it's trip down so it has enough power for the trip up. It actually generates a surplus of an extra 10kwh because the truck is carrying a full load down.

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-e-dumper-world-largest-electri...
I guess it depends on your organization, etc. but on most of my conferences, it's rare when a participant even has the webcam on.
All of the other ones in similar style (like "upload" and "download" on that page) have obvious problems with localisation where translated words might not be based on up/down.

I think the ultimate value is in them staying the same: iow, they are learned.

I like the style of this one, and as "save" it's generally ok ("save as" is even great once you know save, though not sure about languages not using ellipsis).
Yes that is what I thought. They have developed a style, icons, colour scheme etc for the app. To show you the data in a visually pleasing for that they think is good.
Wow hey there, let me counter that opinion with my opposing that is very fitting. Sure the word might look a bit crazy to non-nordic people (it is kinda crazy, hard to disagree there) but the meaning of the name is imo really well chosen.

It comes from the fairly well-known norse myth of the world-tree spanning all realms. So a overlay P2P network based on a global spanning tree feels like a very fitting name. But hey, you are free to dislike it for personal reasons if you want :)
It's not. They made it all up.
Attending a Foo Fighters Concert at Madison Square Garden Post-Lockdown
As someone who recently had to debug obscure uefi boot issues in embedded systems, I think this is an excellent idea and will result in more secure and smaller boot code.
Context Free: a program that generates images from grammars
https://archive.ph/vFqQK
I think OP meant winding and not windy, but even if not, Teslas (and any other car) are designed to be aerodynamic, not the opposite, so it's quite impossible to yield more energy than it cost in that scenario, even ignoring motor efficiency, regenerative braking efficiency, and every other real world inefficiency.
yep.

there was that time a woman walking her dog ran into a couple of giraffes protecting a baby and the male did a one-hit kill.

when i was a kid I never was able to hang out with a peer group of other kids but I did run with a pack of dogs and I realized that was why I was much better with dogs than my wife despite the fact that she is a professional animal handler (teaches people to ride horses.)

There was a time when I wasn't sure what it was I lived for and realized I get limitless joy from experiences with animals be it my pets or seeing birds, deer, battling with the beavers that try to plug our culvert pipe or otherwise.
> Is that so?

Yes, it is. The definition of "clearing an orbit" isn't precisely defined, but it doesn't have to be since there appears to be a large natural gap in how much orbit clearing an planet does vs. a dward planet.

> A large body that meets the other criteria for a planet but has not cleared its neighbourhood is classified as a dwarf planet. That includes Pluto, whose orbit intersects with Neptune's orbit and shares its orbital neighbourhood with many Kuiper belt objects. The IAU's definition does not attach specific numbers or equations to this term, but all IAU-recognised planets have cleared their neighbourhoods to a much greater extent (by orders of magnitude) than any dwarf planet or candidate for dwarf planet.[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood
Of course emacs supported remote editing since mid 90's ;)
More research needs to be done looking at the interactome between commensal bacteria and mitochondria, given their prokaryotic genetic overlap, current understanding of lateral gene transfer, and what the overlap, if any, they have with endogenous CRISPR/CasX biomolecular motifs.
Or: how to waste cycles and make your codebase run slow as shit on a networked computer cluster.
Don't see why Amazon gets singled out for drivers peeing in bottles. UPS drivers, which are members of a very powerful union also do this. Their official forum is completely filled with posts about urinating in bottles. They're not even complaining, just casually discussing, because it's an every-day part of the job.

https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/what-do-you-do-w...

https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/urine-bottles.36...

https://www.browncafe.com/community/threads/urine-bottles-le...

I guess public restrooms aren't exactly the most common thing in the world on suburban delivery routes. Don't see how this is the parcel company's fault.
Neurally driven synthesis of learned, complex vocalizations
I love this as a business concept.

I wish I had had the foresight to get my own dragon hoard. It seems like anything I was ever interested in (and I'm not young) has become a 'collectors' item' in the last few decades.

It's a bummer to get bid out of everything over time.
Facebook researchers say they can detect deepfakes and where they came from
Google is therefore an accomplice to FRAUD . . .
For me, switching to bike route mode froze my phone. Not going to use this I guess.
Isn't the hair stuff mostly explained by running on two legs and thermal regulation ?
As a native French speaker I don't see the problem with the prononciation of libre :)

I understand the arguments for using English as a universal language but in this case the word libre brings an other nuance (meaning) "libre" != "free"
Thought it was a StarCraft reference at first, but learned that it actually stems from Norse mythology.

What commercial application will this have for an average consumer that isn't tech-savvy?
> Amazon has a similar focus on the customer which is centered around customer support

Except that for AWS, paying for the service(s) doesn't get you any support at all. So this idea about Amazon's behavior on its marketplace doesn't really map to AWS. Customers there have to choose to receive customer support, and pay for it separately.
I sympathize with what you're saying, but IMHO "Bureau" invokes thoughts of authoritarian institutions.
Really?
I find browsers as a software that recognizes fewest number of image formats.

ImageMagick is just few keystroke away and you can convert to almost any format you like.
Yeah, I'm ready to pay for an excellent maps experience
You can be perfectly unhappy, sure. My point was just to go a little deeper than just rant and talk about the economics of why companies choose electron in spite of all the disadvantages it comes with.
Since I can't reply to the OP post which was quite reasonable but has been inexplicably flagged because we're apparently not mature enough to have a discussion about polarizing topics in good faith, I'm going to respond here.

OP post:
"In the U.S. we have an emerging cultural convention that someone who believes that they are a different gender should be treated as if they were that gender. I believe that is generally a positive thing, though it can be taken too far with biological males competing as females, and the removal of true female-only spaces.

Should we do the same with people who have the puppy pregnancy delusion? Accept their viewpoint and wish them luck, rather than attempting to dissuade them? I suppose in both situations it should be case by case, offering help where the psychological stresses become unmanageable."

I think its not hard to allow people to identify as whatever gender they desire. The difficult part is affording gender specific privileges. How "far" does a trans person have to go to be able to acquire these? (Bathrooms, sports inclusion, etc). Speaking in terms of changes they are willing to undergo (Srs, hormone replacement, presenting, etc)
AWS Console Dark Theme Support
About a year ago Jeff Bar announced support for dark mode on AWS docs! But the people wanted it for the console! Well it turns out you can have that right now with no additional plugins! (disclaimer: it needs some polish)
You can set it by changing a key-value in your cookies.
Bloomberg managed to interview a former NK cracker who defected, it's pretty interesting:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-07/inside-ki...
If it's someone's FIRST and ONLY house then no taxes.

Take the concept of a homestead exemption and make that for everyone's first house so people have shelter once they pay off their house that's not constantly threatened to be taken from them at the whim of government property assessors.

Investment land and whatever else can be taxed.
Random piece of trivia i found interesting, the dash shows a watthours/mile used view while towing.

There's a good bit of variance as the video goes on, but there's a couple periods where it seems to top out at -1200 watthours/mi. 54 mi/h * 1200 w*h / mi = ~65kW watts (87 HP) charging, which is a common rate from superchargers.
The full version for Android was about 12 bucks. The major difference, at least to my understanding, is the unlimited download of maps.

For me that's the killer argument and absolutely worth the price.

I think it really speaks for the developers to make it available for free to F-Droid users and personally I think it's a low price for a - for me - great app.
Improved Photo Feed with iOS 15
That really depends on what the 65 kW being displayed represents. If it’s the AC power from the regenerative breaks that should be extremely efficient, post AC/DC conversion things look worse etc.
Wouldn't a computer with 18 exabytes of RAM be totally impractically massive, even with maximal possible miniaturization? I agree with warehouse-scale "thinking machines" going beyond 64 bits, but standard hardware is hard to believe.
> Then again, no real computer is Turing complete because they all have finite memory so they're strictly speaking only big finite state machines (though we do typically consider them Turing complete anyway).

Memory is only finite if it uses absolute addresses like RAM, e.g. "load 0x12345" refers to the same piece of memory, regardless of where in memory that instruction appears (ignoring complications from paging, etc.). Computers can also have external storage that's addressed relatively, e.g. a tape which can move forwards or backwards.

I like to think of Turing machines has having a "tape factory" at both ends of the tape, which appends new cells whenever the read/write head gets close. We can do the same thing with a real computer, by pausing the computer and splicing on new sections on to the tape as needed; or by extending the rails and racks of a tape robot.

Of course, our factories are ultimately limited by raw materials, even once production expands into space. The key is that relatively-addressed memory is infinitely expandable, whilst absolutely-addressed memory has a predefined upper-limit.
Sounds great - if you have the names of some of those youtubers with a low-cost high-quality setup, that would be awesome! ;)
I recall buying some parts for my Atari Falcon from Best back in ... 2000. It was ridiculously difficult then, and I'm amazed it's still exactly the same now.

But I do recall that I had email exchanges where he seemed quite friendly. Looking through my archive I see that I had an interaction with him in 2014, and it was cordial, but slow. (1 month delay in reply).
I'm a bit surprised too, as I assumed that is VERY proprietary.
The article claim is pretty clear:

> putting back electricity into the batter[y] at a rate of 65 kW

The article could be wrong, of course.
This meme is just foolish and overly repeated. If we just printed money forever we’d be like Germany or Venezuela.

Do you really think that at large scales the need to watch spending just dissolves? Why do you think nations have budgets? Do you think it’s all a fun game?

If what you’re suggesting doesn’t work, people don’t just go back to work longer hours.

Some people die, some people lose their homes. Incredible.

But hey, just rows in a database. Tell that to families scraping by.
Show HN: I created a simple open-source Kinetic Sand Art Coffee Table
C wasn't a mistake. It used to be very popular for a reason. Just like steem locomotives, they served their purpose very well in their time, but the world has moved on.
I used to use this distro on a 486SX. Then moved to Slackware ‘96.

Those were the days.
How hard is it to copy and paste?
South Korea's Nuclear Research agency hacked using VPN flaw
I posted a comment on libraries vs frameworks yesterday[0], here's the relevant section.

> Frameworks are easier to setup initially, but they do not scale. Why is it that Microsoft Windows has 13 different dialog generations? Because each is a framework on top of a framework on top of a framework. It's amazing that they can even get that done.

> On the other side, OSS is generally built on libraries. When the 2 UNIX devs were in a basement building UNIX and were able to out-compete Multics[1], they did it because they were building libraries that could talk with each-other using pipes around the boundary. Applications that communicate based on input-output with no internal state behave just like pure functions do. Pure functions compose. When Linus built git in 10 days, he was able to do this because the core idea of git isn't actually that much work. The library is built out of composable blocks that neatly come together. Microsoft's TFS Source Control is a framework that acts on your behalf and therefore the bigger the project gets, you need n^2 people to work on it.

Amazon's API mandate is the same exact unification as UNIX's pipe effect was to Operating Systems. Amazon's internal teams are building libraries whereas all other companies started at the same time were building frameworks. Jeff was brilliant to see this at the time, and I expect that this memo will be seen as just as pivotal as the Toyota Production System, and it might already have that prestige to some. Unfortunately for other companies, you can't retrofit into it and rewrites are always a terrible idea[2].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27570917

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ea3pkTCYx4, thanks to this HN comment(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27494671) for this reference.

[2]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
> I think the point is that gradual phase out instead of cliffs does not require UBI.

Yeah, UBI is just “gradual phaseout” plus “eliminate duplication of function between the multiple welfare bureaucracies and between th aggregt of them and the tax bureaucracy”.

You can in principal do the first without the second, if you have a strong ideological devotion to government waste, but since switching to a gradual phase-out, ceteris paribus, increases the cost for any given level of support for those most in need, realizing available efficiencies at the same time is kind of important for practicality.
Your example illustrates the point perfectly, though.

Infertility in someone who is of childbearing age is a problem. A bug, not a feature.

Intersex conditions are similar. They don't diminish that person's dignity as a human, but the condition is unfortunate and anomalous.
Least useful in terms of the actual curriculum. At most schools, even (or perhaps especially) top ranked ones like Yale, the classes trace the substantive development of law by reading appeals court opinions. That's a fun intellectual exercise, but you don't get much hands on experience working with real contracts or writing pleadings unless you do a clinic or an internship.
Another cheap solution is buying a used router and then installing OpenWRT on it. Get one with USB.
I can picture the scene. The owner demands a certain story or angle. Nobody wants to take the glory individually, so they decide on 'by the editorial board'.
We could let them build housing like the Chinese do but houses need more than just labor. They need materials. Wasting the materials to build a ghost town can backfire.

Subsidizing salaries for private jobs may backfire through corruption.

So digging the hole and filling it back it is.
10% of Americans have a negative networth so you're not doing terrible.
Self-hosted, Self-healing, Self-updating, Self-patching Kubernetes madness
Anything newer than 1975 generally happens on Facebook Marketplace now. Even a lot of the enthusiast forums have been dying and seeing their traffic move to Facebook groups.

Probably half of the rotary Mazda parts/car sales happen on Facebook now.

Sucks for those of us who choose not to have Facebook accounts.
Hits home for me. I've had a lot of weird jobs, but working in a pizza restaurant was probably one of the best. Mostly for the weirdos, care-free attitude, and trauma bonding.
According to IrfanView, the Lossless JPEG XL one has 167959 unique colors, while the original one has 233263.

For me it looks different in Firefox, the same in Brave (the uncompressed one in Firefox is the odd one out)
A hacker gained access to a Bay Area drinking water facility
Because many of them said so to me. A lot of people aren't that religious, the vice police literally beats people if they don't conform.
So much for Bitcoin being a Chinese weapon against the dollar. Thing is while Beijing wants to displace the dollar they want to do it with their own fiat money so they can pull the same exporting of inflation shit the US does.
Is unvaccinated sperm the next Bitcoin?
Tech in Africa – an introduction to the continent's ecosystem
>”You don’t work, you don’t eat”

Tale as old as time:

> For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule:“The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Thessalonia...
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