skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've seen quite a few at protests with signs saying "abolish the police".

The abolish/disband faction is a different faction from the defund faction, sharing with the other that both believe the reform cycle where police problems are dealt woth by increasing budgets for retraining or other reform measures, reducing resources for other services, which results in police roles expanding, resulting in new police problems from inserting armed law enforcement into nee and inappropriate roles needs to be broken.

The “defund” crowd says, lets wind that the other way and drive non-core roles and the funding to go with them to agencies outside of the police departments, so that the police department is focussed on roles that require armed law enforcement.

The “disband/abolish” crowd says lets go further, and redesign community services without an all-encompassing centralized paramilitary law enforcement service, with enforcement arms where necessary within agencies with focuses other than “law enforcement”.

(There's a fringe within the disband/abolish faction that would eliminate armed law enforcement as a local government function entirely, but they aren't typical of the disband/abolish movement much less the defund movement or an umbrella including both defund and disband/abolish.)
Single page version: https://www.zeit.de/wissen/2021-07/thai-cave-rescue-thailand...
I suspect they train the network on a sample size of one and then ask it to generate something, or at least that's the idea. The project seems like a fairly obvious rag on Copilot.
Is this not a sign that humans in a region are hitting the carrying capacity of the local environment?
Yeah. Not a lot of sympathy, there's plenty of water to go around, stop trying to grow corn in a desert.
Show HN: A freelance toolkit built to kill feast and famine work cycles
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Billion_Americans

I don't know why ecological stress is so rarely traced back to population size, outside of "debunkings" of Malthusianism.

Edit due to rate limit: One of the replies claims the US has a positive natural growth rate. This is false - US fertility is currently at 1.78 births/woman. The last time it was above the replacement level of 2.1 was in 1972, 49 years ago:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fert...

Edit 2: As dragonwriter pointed out, I was mistaken and both are true - fertility is below replacement, and natural population growth (birth - deaths) is positive. I think this is due to population aging, and due to immigrants skewing younger (i.e. childbearing age): https://cis.org/Report/Birth-Rates-Among-Immigrants-America
I would rather re-implement `filter` in a way that is specific to `Foo`, than to attempt to use an array method on my class.
Ah I don't believe it does but they are normally bundled under the "complicated macros that add features or significantly change how C code is written" category which is what I thought you were referring to.
So many GCP products are surprisingly terrible. Certainly not all of them, some are really good, like GKE, Cloud Storage and Cloud Load Balancer. But Cloud SQL is pretty weak, and products like Cloud Logging, Cloud Metrics and Cloud Tracing are legitimately terrible. Cloud NAT is pretty sketchy too, and can lead to a lot of egress issues if not configured perfectly.

My current workplace uses GCP, my last workplace used AWS, and personally I’ve found AWS to have much higher average quality. At my current workplace we’ve stopped using Cloud SQL, and moved our Postgres usage to Aiven (with VPC peering). Aiven seem to do a much better job operating Postgres than GCP do.
Something like the Minneapolis Skyway? It has it's good points and bad points. Like a mall, it's sort of a public space - but not really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis_Skyway_System
Thanks for the info. I have never been to Bihar or know about the situation there. My dad mostly worked in SECL and WCL (2 of the 8 fully owned subsidiaries of Coal India). They don't have any mining operations in Bihar or surrounding areas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Eastern_Coalfields
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Coalfields
Analysis of Covid-19 vaccine death reports from VAERS
Has anyone proposed nuclear reactors on the coast, that use their fuel rods to exclusively desalinate ocean water that can be used by coastal regions so those areas aren't pulling from the fresh water river systems?

*edit, I just mean use traditional desalination powered by a dedicated nuclear plant. (If fresh water is that scarce)
Most of European cities are people living in flats and these are known for pretty good quality of life. Shops, cafes, schools, all nearby this way. I don't quite get the American urge to own houses even in the most populous places
Some doctors claim that during the first wave ventilators were used too much and too early (instead of just breathing masks). Ventilator can actually damage your lungs.
At the same time, cortison treatments were banned, another decision several doctors criticised (including a relative of mine).
During the next waves cortison treatments and a reduced use of ventilators decreased the mortality rate a lot.

Doctors didn't dare to go against the guidelines, even with their reservation (they could be held responsible if they did).

Some people I know wrote a book on the subject and are claiming we should held governments accountable for those dead in the first wave (and they've been promptly censored and facebook-banned out of existence). I tend to err on the side of incompetence more than malice.

That said, there is plenty of ignorant people claiming ventilators kill based on statistics - but it's usually the other way round: once you need a ventilator you're either dead 100% or you can get a 40% survival rate with a ventilator.
falkTX maintains a fork of Non-Mixer that adds LV2 support;

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/non-mixer-lv2-git
Fixed. Sorry!
Albeit unlikely, I'd still prefer straws that are less threatening in cases of tripping while sipping or some other thing.
You have what you want
Can you provide an example of such a synthetic chemical, that would be present in levels that would be detectable on Earth from across interstellar space? CFCs?
Golden eggs and better telescopes (2018)
Or TaskbarX: https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX
I've had people email pitching me on embedding crypto-mining programmes in the games I sell on Steam. It's intensely sinister stuff.

I got an email just yesterday pitching me on a special 'credit card for gamers'. I was meant to push a special credit card to my customers. The website has zero information on what % interest this credit card has, but even if it's totally normal and above-board: eww. I make computer games, I don't want to push credit cards.

It's all so slimy.
Related:

A History of Clojure [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23418699 - June 2020 (374 comments)
Yes! I don’t have a link handy, but they patented battery technology and kept it off the market, including buying companies that could have become competitive.
> This is assuming that the code it produces is a derivative, which I don't think would be much of a stretch

I don't think that's easily settled. Is the code I write a derivative work of all prior code that I've learned from? The difference (IMO) is that Copilot has a much more precise memory than I do; I couldn't recall the exact text of a code example that I've encountered repeatedly even if I wanted to.
libreav.org is my site, and that's an edge-case artefact of the github release feed for the new-sm project and/or the way I have configured the aggregation so far
easy solution: license all the code you write with copilot under AGPL or GPLv3, and you're good.
One small past thread:

Addition on Turing Machines (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9075475 - Feb 2015 (2 comments)
I agree with you, it's definitely a trade-off between developer ease and perf.

I get around that in js mostly by avoiding classes and `this` entirely unless I'm sure I'm going to have a large number of instances of something. But there is the mental overhead of "Do I need to wrap this function in an arrow function before passing it around to avoid getting an unexpected `this`?"

So yeah, not saying I have a great solution -- just that none of the existing solutions really seem ideal.
Or Kate with language server plugin ;)
> In the car is rather clever,

I'd give them credit but I forgot where I got that idea from ;) but I don't even encrypt mine because it has a higher chance of recovery that way.
This is how it is done in ClickHouse. It has Nullable(T) type. The functions of non-Nullable types will return non-Nullable types (except some specific functions).

https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/sql-reference/data-types/nul...
Night Ripper is my favourite album by Girl Talk.
Freedom takes work, doesn’t go to the lazy. Funny, that was a political and (in the USA) a patriotic adage. But convenience is easy to get enough people hooked on that it becomes the expectation. Try finding a manual transmission on a car now.
Yes, for example https://mapy.cz/cesko or https://mapy.cz/textova
Cistercian Numerals - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26523363 - March 2021 (66 comments)
Reminds me of this other thing from years ago called “sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!”

https://youtu.be/eRlhKaxcKpA

It splits music videos into small portions ahead of time and then later it reassembles them on the fly according to audio input.
Years ago, as a kid, when the only computers I had access to were cobbled together hand-me-downs and machines people would throw away I used to do this kind of thing. Like the author, I settled on IceWM after trying Fluxbox/JWM/FVWM/"Window Maker" and all the various forks with minor variations.

It was fun to tinker, but it's questionable if I learnt anything useful other then how to get hobby DEs working on ancient hardware. I guess tangentially I gained an intermediate knowledge of Linux command line tools and some networking concepts.

PuppyLinux [0] ended up being my choice for easy defaults after DSL [1] stagnated. I'm glad to see it's still going and has developed its own ecosystem. Even after I could buy reasonable computers, for a while I took some pride in squeezing performance out of budget computers but ultimately, now that I need to be productive to get paid, it's nice to have computers that "just work" with modern software.

[0] https://puppylinux.com/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn_Small_Linux
How would that work? I’d imagine salt and mineral buildup would impede heat transfer and wind up melting the reactor down.
The membrane consumes pressure, so you need to provide some pressure to get the desalinated water the full 100 m back up to the surface.
It’s a good heuristic. You don’t have enough data to make good generalizations, and can quickly acquire knowledge from people who (evolutionarily, else the heuristic would not be instinctual) in general won’t lie to you.

And then at around six you push the reset on experiential learnings, but now with a pretty good base dataset.
fascinating fractals make me stop what I'm doing to look

fractals make me look

look...

yum, cauliflower!
I remember a post a few months ago, on a similar topic of companies wanting their SDKs (really user tracking code so they could resell that data) included in extensions. So this is definitely a widespread experience.

As an aside: The justified text here looks awful on mobile (and I checked Chrome, same result): https://i.imgur.com/AZl06K9.png
I've probably not played q3 for well over 10 years now ;) probably more like 15 years ago. Man I'm getting old.
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This right here. I am fairly new to driving, and Apple Maps has been great for my driving confidence. Such crisp, ahead of time, clear directions in major metro US. It also does a much better job at rerouting than Google Maps. I avoid rush hour highways right now, and Apple maps does a good job of figuring out an alternative route once I head on it a bit.

Google Maps has given me directions that just increase my stress level on the road.
This is also fixed in ClickHouse - you can set and reuse aliases in any expressions in the query.
I remember when that came out, it blew my mind! Did anything public ever materialize from the project?
I'm no fan of Musk's shitty and arrogant behaviour. His treatment of Unsworth was truly disgusting.

But that's like saying after a rugby game that the left wing deserved far more of the credit than the coach or captain, since they were the one who ran in the winning try.

The thing is that Musk makes things happen. Not in some lame and purely money driven field like crypto or ad tech - but genuinely moving the needle in combating climate change.

I feel I have to cut him some slack and laud his achievements, even though he comes across as a person you would involuntarily punch in the face for his hideous behaviour.
I go to sleep and wake up 22 hours earlier than I used to. I should be seeing immense benefits.
Correct. But the thing to remember is that we're going up by 2-3 PPM/year, and the arctic permafrost is almost certain to release its methane long before we get to 1200. Civilization is all but certain to collapse after that.
I find it pretty disappointing that these type of articles and the resulting comments like yours often can't seem to praise something like IceWM or AwesomeWM without also bashing GNOME or XFCE or something else because of "bloat." Who cares? Do you even care? I don't think you do, you'll just delete that desktop and move on and use whatever you want, and that's the whole point.

Also, your characterization of GNOME's rationale is totally wrong. The goal was never to make a desktop with no features, it was more to make a desktop that is streamlined towards certain functionality. If that's not for you, then use a desktop that's more streamlined towards what you want. There's plenty to choose from. What is the real problem?

Edit: I also want to address another common misconception that I see -- the GNOME Foundation does not direct development in a top down fashion and does not impose any rationale on the project. If some feature was removed, it was probably because an individual volunteer working on it decided that it wasn't worth spending time on that anymore, possibly because the need was better filled by a different project.
One past thread:

Why writing software is not like engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1207721 - March 2010 (72 comments)
I had a similar experience but I was still bothered by the government restrictions.

I was working remote before covid so daily life didn't change much.

But they also closed my gym, my kids' school, cafes and restaurant I used for fun and prevented me from travelling.

Sure, I'm lucky my job is safe, albeit I'm not as lucky as those who were furlough in the UK and got 80-90% of their paycheck without having to work for months.
Incidentally, I'll have to pay for this massive spend with an upcoming massive increase in taxes and delays to when I'll be able to withdraw my private pension.

Overall, not having childcare available and no fun didn't make me very happy and caused to lapse again into depression.

I stopped training for 6 months (Even though I bought a home gym), got fat, miserable and angry, had problems sleeping and burn out at work.

And I still count myself to be one of the lucky ones.
Oceans provide a huge amount of food. How long can humans manage even a partial collapse of the ocean ecosystem before there's a cascading collapse of civil society?
THP is a net loss for many workloads, including PG https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/03/06/settling-the-myth-of...

For workload using forking and CoW sharing like Redis or CRuby it negates the entire benefit of CoW since flipping a single bit copies the entire huge page.
Also when the very last of my respect for Musk died.
They closed nuclear plants because of strategic-level corruption: Former German Chancellor Gerhard Shroder accepted a senior position at Rosneft as soon as he left politics:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54462311

Germany replaced nuclear power with Russian gas.
I haven't seen others talk about this but given that I received these emails with a relatively small extension that doesn't surprise me at all.

Also, you're right about the text, just re-designed my site so I'll take a look at that.
Yeah, but nobody listens to the guy that calls JavaScript coders "not real programmers" because JavaScript is a 'scripting language'.

The point is, it doesn't seem like a useful distinction.
I was thinking this at first too, because if there's no reinforcement or punishment, then the instructions to sort the figurines based on whether or not they will activate the music box is ambiguous — should you sort them such that other people will think they're sorted correctly or so that they actually are?

But now I'm less sure. The adult giving the instructions to sort the figurines is the one who was presented as not knowing how the music box worked. They were the only adult in the room and remained in the room while the child performed the task, which would suggest to the child that they would be the one evaluating them. Since the person evaluating the child's performance was not the one giving the misleading testimony the two possible interpretations of the goal of the task shouldn't give conflicting behavioral prescriptions.
But 60-70% of the kids didn't even use the music box when they could have. Not a great reward.
Yes, and if the authorities become more ineffective, it mutates into warlords controlling territory. Really controlling, as in "de facto government".
> 7) why not using material that Life developed during 4 billion years. mushrooms are promising for instance.

You can't just leave that there!

Mushrooms as a building material? I really hope you were not joking, because that sounds unbelievably cool.
I edited my comment a while ago, I'm not sure your reply is really relevant to the updated version.

But what you described is just being a CTO. That's an important job, but is still separate from being chief engineer.
Deserts are excellent places for agriculture for the same reason they are good for solar power. There is an abundant amount of solar energy, the growing season is long and consistent, there are few pests, and reversing desertification has numerous environmental benefits.

The problem is an engineering problem: We need to build more reservoirs, encourage rainwater harvesting, convert agriculture to more efficient irrigation, and build out desalination. The Earth has no shortage of H2O, in fact it’s one of the most abundant things on the planet.
That's a solid insight (the bit about 7 years), thanks for finding that.

More detailed excerpt for other HN readers stumbling on this comment:

> Ethiopia, one of Africa's fastest growing economies in recent years, insists the dam will not affect the onward flow of water.

> But Egypt fears its supplies will be reduced during the time it takes to fill the 74-billion-cubic-metre capacity reservoir.

> Egypt considers the dam as a threat to its existence and Sudan has warned millions of lives will be at "great risk" if Ethiopia unilaterally fills the dam.

> A decade of negotiations have failed to result in a deal.
Sounds like you probably should be implementing those new features.
You don’t seem to understand the power that a platform like Musk’s has. He put forward his idea. He built a prototype. He did initial testing. He put out a lot of work (or paid/persuaded others to do so). He was mocked and criticized and rejected. We don't have to play what if on your scenario. We can see the real world results.

If you want to play what if... What if he provided dive robots and body submarines and mapping experts? What if it took him a week to map the caves, find a workable route, and save those kids? What if just one kid had his mask scraped off using the technique they actually did use? What if one kid got stuck and the helper got killed trying to get them unstuck?

The what if game is fun for me with optimistic what ifs. It's a terrible game with pessimistic what ifs. It's largely pointless either way. But sometimes the optimistic version is useful. Sometimes somebody develops dive robots after the fact because the what ifs capture their imagination in a good way.

More people should reject their limits and reach for big things. I don't think Musk is the most amazing person in the world. I realize he has a downside (like we all do). But I hope he inspires people to dream big and accomplish big. That requires optimism. Sometimes even naive optimism.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
people do, but companies don't.

projects like openwrt would not exist if it weren't for copyright enforcement.
There's little need for nuclear for this when there's surplus solar power in the West these days during the middle of the day. Desalination is the perfect kind of load for this suprlus power: flexible, its output can be stored, water demand is highest during the day when there's sunlight, irrigation demand is highest during the summer when there's more sunlight, etc. (In the coming decade there's going to be too much solar power production but only during the day, and not enough renewable generation in the evening.)
Those countries have other sources of fresh water besides the Nile
>as to why the pfizer is effective against the delta it's probably just picking the right sequence that is slightly closer to the delta by chance.

The encoded spike protein in Pfizer and Moderna is identical,[0] so it's probably not going to be that.

It could be a difference in the mRNA encoding leading to better transcription by our cells, or something to do with the nanoparticles used to smuggle in the mRNA.

[0] https://twitter.com/adamjmacneil/status/1407019597757390850
Love the whole rasp eco-system. Major victory for for FOSS/nix minded people.

I don't think people selling it as a daily driver are doing it a favour though. It isn't meant as such and selling it as such is a disservice to the wider *nix universe.

(and yes I understand that rasp as daily driver in rural africa is literally the projects original goal. that's different though from silicon valley crew attempting to daily drive a rasp though)
Could it be that children lacked the knowledge of how to determine whether or not the figurines worked, or believed they were not allowed to touch them? Neither interpretation seems plausible. Recall that children had just seen the naïve experimenter place the figurines on the box, and were asked to sort the figurines by this naïve experimenter, not by the apparently knowledgeable experimenter who told them about which figurine worked. In principle, the fact that the person who asked children to sort the figurines had tried them out on the music box as children watched, and also implied that exploring the figurines would provide information about how the music box worked by saying “I don’t know how it works, but it looks like you can put these pieces on this thing here [placing a hand on the center of the music box]. I wonder what will happen if I do that!”, should have primed children’s exploration if they conceptualized such exploration as informative. Furthermore, the naïve informant left the table and sat faced away from the child during the task, attempting to remove potential social pressure not to question the informant’s testing. However, given that testing the figurines would have been audible to the nearby naïve experimenter, future studies may be useful to assess whether additional children would have tested the figurines if left in total privacy.

I think that children might well have felt they weren't supposed to test the figurines on the music box itself, and this explanation doesn't completely satisfy me. The setup makes it seem like some kind of game, and testing directly on the music box might intuitively seem like cheating.