skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the obvious strategy of not having any cats at all doesn't work well because cats are the most/only easily-available HUNTS_VERMIN creature, so you need some around to protect your food stockpiles.

A somewhat effective solution is to use male cats for stockpile protection, and keep female cats caged (which IIRC stops both adoption and breeding) and only let one out at time (cage any resulting (female) kittens immediately). There's not (yet) any simulation of evolutionary pressure to adopt a owner quickly, so you can just prefer kittens that do so for the next breeder when the current one dies of old age.

Gelding (neutering) the male cats also works, but is less sustainable if you don't have a reliable source of replacement cats from migrants or trade caravans for when the current ones die of old age. Spaying is not supported AFAIK.

You can also just remove the ADOPTS_OWNER token via raws editing.
Database modeling comes to mind, especially EAV.
DragTimes: Tesla Model S Plaid vs. Porsche Taycan Turbo S 1/4 Mile Drag Race
I think option 2 is a non-starter. If you're going have newspaper-like liability, I don't think anyone can afford to do that.

That leaves option 1. I suppose such a thing could exist, but it would be very different from social media as it exists. It sounds like a mash-up of twitter (accounts, follows, retweets) and 4chan (minimal moderation). Which would be interesting.

But you're still talking about basically making anything resembling current social media sites illegal.

You're also probably making any niche forum illegal too, unless it's niche enough that the operator can reasonably subject every post to prepublication review to try to avoid liability.
What would you choose to build this same feature set? Would it be feasible for 1 person in 6 months? What if C++ isn’t an option?
> So having .1 s (not .1s!)…

What does this distinction mean?
> Google has safe harbor so long as they are a neutral middleman between the two parties with conflicting copyright claims.

That might be what you’d like the law to say, but the safe harbor law is very explicit on what it requires, and being a “neutral middleman” is not it.

Not sure why people like to pretend DMCA and Section 230 include neutrality requirements that aren't actually there.
For the same reason the Wii remotes didn’t charge via inertial capture.
I’m a longtime Thomas Sowell fan but I only just recently started reading his most celebrated work, Knowledge and Decisions, first published in 1980. In one of the early chapters there is a reference to the old physical mailbox systems of pre-networked offices, and how the cost of distracted attention from hundreds of employees never seems to deter managers from dumping all manner of low-value correspondence into said boxes.

Email and Slack may have kicked this problem into overdrive, but managers’ inability to efficiently organize knowledge work appears to be a long-standing open problem.
Because they often represents fundamental flaws in the overall social design of your service.

Twitter allows anyone to reply-to or quote-tweet anyone else, for example. That has a huge impact on how abuse works on that service.

The abusive-ex persona Jacob describes is super-useful for avoiding making bad design decisions early on that end up being too hard to fix.
I think it's mildly offensive to some because they view utility software as a tool that's meant to be invisible. You don't want your hammer singing Christmas carols even if it's harmless. It just feels out of place for this item that's supposed to have a single purpose which otherwise would do one thing and only that one thing. I understand the argument that it's fun, but I think the "it's fun" people are a little too quick to react when others say they don't want it. No one's trying to ruin your good time, it just feels weird. Sometimes I'd rather my tools be impressionless and predictable.
"Do more of it, then. :)"

If it's not working, they why continue? At levels where it does work, you will just disadvantage the less wealthy as the people who can afford it will choose to buy it.

"Agreed, but I still think there is value in even higher standards for larger vehicles,

Also consider that more onerous licensing requirements will (hypothetically) deter people from buying the regulated vehicles, meaning there will be less of them on the road, meaning it's less likely that one will be involved in any given collision."

If that's the case, then why not remove commerical trucks altogether since they are disproportionately involved in fatal crashes (11%)? I don't really like the concept of restricting people for the purpose of reducing their freedoms. Boths sides use it on issues they feel should be abolished but are protected (abortion, guns). I'd rather see progress that addresses the real issues than tries to restrict people for the sake of restricting them. It just seems lazy.

"If the restrictions are "you cannot advertise them" then I think it would be very effective in slowing or reversing their proliferation. Surely there is some happy medium."

How many people actually buy their type of vehicle due to advertising? In my experience, people know they want a sports car, SUV, or truck.

"I'd probably look at Europe as an example."

To my knowledge, they still allow larger vehicles, but they just aren't as popular. Is there a specific regulation?

"practical and reasonably sized cars"

This is highly subjective. A truck is a reasonable and practical size if you live on a farm or participate in specific activities. Using this type of language makes it seem like you have bias against larger vehicles.

"It would be expensive data to gather, but what's a human life worth?"

Why not just ban vehicles altogether if that's the basis?

"We also might consider simply banning certain kinds of modifications, e.g. those that significantly change vehicle geometry relative to stock and/or remove safety features."

There can be areas where higher ground clearance is required. Many people still live on dirt roads that can be rough. There are also areas with significant snowfall that this can be useful for. Should we also make handicap vans illegal because they're modified. Even then, what if the geometry change is actually beneficial (rebuilding older cars with modern suspensions, or lowering a truck)? I don't think bans are really going to make a difference and would just be a ham-handed "fix".

"Roads are public infrastructure, not a private playground, and the onus should be on those who wish to modify their vehicles outside of regulated configurations to prove that they are safe."

States do require this. They have safety regulations and many have safety inspections. Again, I think safety mostly hinges on good decisions and I don't see any data suggesting that specific vehicles or modifications will make a significant difference.
How I store my files
It is really a fact. It's a provable fact. It's a fact that was proven thousands of years ago. Here's a whole-ass section on Wikipedia with evidence[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#Effects_and_em...
Ultra-Wideband Spread-Spectrum can be undetectable, as the signal can be well below the noise floor in any given frequency band, and only knowing the right key will allow you to perform a convolution to lift the actual signal above the noise. Without the right key, all you'd see is noise, and you wouldn't even know there was a signal.

see https://www.itu.int/itunews/manager/display.asp?lang=en&year...
A retroid is an off-the-shelf quad core CPU running android and an emulator. The playdate is an actual custom console platform inspired by retro designs.

Modern consoles are so powerful that an indie dev is rarely limited in what they can do, which might sound like a good thing, but there's a reason Orson Welles once said, "the enemy of art is the absence of limits".

Think of it like a film maker spending more money to use old film/lenses. Yeah, using the phone in their pocket and windows movie maker would be cheaper and higher quality, but that's not the point.

I am also very curious what MP experiences will be possible with the WiFi/BT on a retro handheld.
Can't respond to the first, but it's pretty clear that those groups that think they are the single source of truth would probably include any self-proclaimed "fact checkers", which seems to now also include Facebook itself -- and would normally also include the CDC (excepting the ironic title of this thread, of course!)
Chromium plans to remove alert(), confirm(), prompt()
Hypothesis: The accompanying text in people's posts sharing the link got flagged, but Facebook's system doesn't differentiate between that and flagging the link itself. It just sees the link being repeatedly flagged and failing whatever fact-checking procedure they have.
The ID of this video starts with "dQw". I'm not falling for this because I've fallen for this way too many times in the past.
Considering they know it reduces their lifespan, costs more in healthcare, etc, I doubt getting in and out of a car will motivate them to take better care of themselves.
A full commitment is what I'm thinking of.
How much income would this generate for Astley?
We got a 3% COL increase.

I went permanent WFH and that has been a gigantic reduction in expenses so we're doing pretty good now.

I haven't noticed inflationary effects in the stuff we buy. Food seems a bit more expensive but everything else we buy hasn't really jumped in price, or at least enough that made us notice it.
There's a global pandemic killing thousands of people and there's a sizeable portion of the American population spreading misinformation that's causing a significant number of people to not get the vaccine, in turn endangering both themselves and others.

It seems obvious to me that there would be people researching how to either stop this misinformation being spread, or educate people enough to stop believing it. This isn't some conspiracy theory - this is just sane people doing sane things in response to a very real threat.
One problem may be that building specific units of product functionality is considered junior-level work. Doing so quickly and with high quality can get you a nice $20,000 bonus, but not the $200,000 RSU bump associated with promotion to the next level.

A higher level engineer is meant to "scale her impact" by owning the architecture, the platform, the playground in which other engineers live. In backend world there are opportunities to do this in nearly any business domain or sufficiently complex problem. But a company only needs so many UI frameworks. As such we see very good, long tenured mobile and frontend engineers simply cranking out feature after feature. There's no career progression that way.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6lzVY3WYAEe4gP?format=jpg&name=...

End of argument.
>Give me an app, mobile or web, and I'll find a glitch or two in the first few minutes of using it

I find that a very strong claim, is it rhetorical or meant literally? If the latter, what can you find in (say) whatsapp* ?

(*: aside from messages delaying or appearing out-of-write-order, which are probably backend bugs inevitably arising from its distributed nature)
$HOOD stock down on the first day of trading
The only winning move is to censor everything.
Show HN: Gofu – a Go scripting language toolkit
Maybe gumby is talking about the difference between 0.1s as a time duration vs the concept of time durations with tenths of a second precision?

I have trouble parsing it too.
non paywall please
The antivax movement existed long before COVID and Facebook was a huge contributor to its spread. There is nothing scary about someone researching that.
Given he never mentions bleach, or even suggested disinfectant as anything other than a quizzical aside to an aide - if the rise in bleach poisonings were to be attributed to anyone, it would be media outlets propagating the claim that he wanted people to drink bleach.

However, the rise in bleach poisonings seems to have predated his statement, and pundit's subsequent interpretation

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/38-rise-in-bleach-po...

There are plenty of exceptional reasons to have a low opinion of the man, and call him irresponsible with the platform he had. No reason to make up more.
Honest question: who's fact checking the fact checkers in FB? No offense, but those fact checkers are not necessarily smart or knowledgeable in every subject. They don't necessarily know the difference between DNA and RNA, allele or gene, second international vs third international, and the list goes on. The fact checkers may be ideologues themselves. They fact checkers may not even make it through college courses. So, I really don't get why they think they know the truth of everything and can tell FB users what is misinformation and what is not.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/trump-says-he-takes-hydroxyc...
Galactic Algorithm (Wikipedia)
There's a third pattern forward, which is that you rehash the entire password database with a more secure (specifically, slower) hash plus new, secret salt.

This also means you have a chance to crack any improper salt/secret storage, such as provisioning into memory only.

You will still need to do a password upgrade on login, but you at least have now made it a requirement that an attacker not only grab your database, but also a memory snapshot or disk snapshot.
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It's a legitimately hard choice to base on real world statistics, more due to availability than anything else.

IIHS does present some basic detail for occupants [0] [1], although only as recent as 4 years so statistics can have some time to build. That's okay, it's enough to put some perspective on new cars as well. It's at least a partially objective look at what safety by pickup vs sedan vs minivan vs whatever looks like for the people inside your vehicle.

[0] https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...

[1] pdf https://www.iihs.org/api/datastoredocument/status-report/pdf...
GlobalVPN is a great vpn client, now on opera, coming soon to other platforms
If I had to hazard a guess, minivans look to have a higher center of gravity than SUVs, so it is easier to lose control. And for whatever reason Porsche/BMW/Mercedes have performance-oriented SUVs with sports-car-like handling and braking, whereas nobody seems to be doing this with minivans, so this may skew the results in favor of SUVs. Why trucks fare better than minivans though, I have no idea..
Has "vaccines can cause blood clots in rare cases" been flagged as misinformation? I don't think it has. I get the impression that the misinformation filter is 99% accurate.
This is marketing with a clickbait title
> What I don't understand is this obsession about the vaccination status of strangers.

Herd immunity. It's an important part of the efficacy of the vaccination of highly contagious pathogens. It's why smallpox is now just a page on Wikipedia, rather than an existential risk to your life.
Nope. Circle of confusion is smaller.
> via podcasts put out by various DJs/producers.

any recommendations of podcasts?
OTOH, an extraterrestrial civilization can use this method to detect other civilizations - they'll be able to detect when someone attempts to eavesdrop on them. cool.
Are you saying that people who check facts believe they are the single source of truth? Why would you need to check facts if you were the source of truth?

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the fact checkers believe that there is an external source of truth (i.e. facts) which they are checking?
An irony here is that Facebook is now censoring the CDC, when it previously claimed that it was censoring using the guidelines of the CDC.

Another irony is that the White House said that it was flagging comments for Facebook fact-checkers just last week:

“We’ve increased disinformation research and tracking within the Surgeon General’s Office. We are flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.”

Apparently this now includes posts from another part of the executive branch.
You lost me at pack it out. Do other animals pack it out?
What's the pros?
The console is rich with features that would be impossible to do with forms and basic input.

If you want a slim, performant and functional UI to AWS, just use the CLI.
Seems like just the other day when Psy overflowed the int32 counter.
And keeping people who have decided not to get vaccinated out of the workplace is first and foremost a method for protecting oneself and one's family.

I'm sorry if someone's decision not to get vaccinated costs them their job, but I have to protect myself and my family.
I think The Phoenix Project does a pretty good job of diagnosing the problem: in knowledge work, the WIP is generally not visible. Not only that, the WIP often consists of simply entries in a database or files on a hard drive, so there is effectively an infinite capacity for creating and storing more WIP.

Even with well-defined processes, poor instrumentation for revealing the true scale of the backlog at each stage can lead to this “always firefighting” mode of operation.
On Windows I mount it as the "A:" drive. It works but the port is not yet released.
Those predictions are only "failed" because they were too soon.

We're good at seeing the signs of things to come, but we're bad at predicting the when.
Not any choir, but choir! choir! choir!
> Fixing the hive-mind is going to be a billion dollar industry

Cal Newport was one of the inspirations for https://inboxwhenready.org. At this point, people have paid me over $100K to make it harder for them to read their email.

I've made some effort to persuade the Gmail and Superhuman teams to take this issue seriously, but to no avail, yet. If anyone here is building an email client or popular Gmail extension, I'm happy to talk about this stuff whenever.
> the fact checkers believe that there is an external source of truth (i.e. facts) which they are checking?

Ah, yes. I believe you are referring to the CDC.
Not surprising to me. Tons of gigs I’ve had the corporate browser was locked to IE. mainly because of internal site compatibility. Those poor few IT folk I bet are using AWS for their “voodoo computer magic” they provide those uncaring businesses for everything technical.
Rick Astley headlined a festival in the UK over the weekend. A couple of nights before appearing on the main stage he randomly appeared unscheduled in another tent to do a small set. I choose to believe this counts as rickrolling.
No, it’s the other way around: the wheels are driving the propeller at the front of the vehicle. And it can outrun the wind.

If the turbine at the front of the craft was driving the wheels, it would stop working when it got up to the speed of the wind (since the wind speed relative to the craft is zero at that speed)
I was with you until you said that Python is largely intended for system administration automation.

Python is used in a wide variety of application environments, especially the web. For example, early versions of Youtube were nothing more than a Python application. Many websites run Django, or other web frameworks. Python is heavily used in scientific computing environments, in data retrieval and visualization, as well as fintech (ie hedge funds).

Its use in system administration/configuration management is real and significant, but represents a smallish proportion of its use.

Certainly some static analysis would be beneficial here, especially in areas like science or financial technology, but much of your original point remains completely true- much of concern raised speaks more to system design around passing strings as objects of reference, and security design, rather than language issues.
The size/capital of the insurers is potentially irrelevant with smart contracts, as a small insurer with a small amount of capital can be just as reliable as a large one -- open source code enforces payouts so it likely won't matter.

This doesn't apply to all industries, and I agree about your example of crops. But specifically in finance, there will be a lot of 10x's.
these were literal lifesavers
I'm not buying any of this junk. More like ROB in a hood...
Really cool! I signed up for your newsletter. Excited to see where you guys can take this.
Of all the answers here.... I think you gave the right one. Children should never be allowed near tools without close adult supervision.
I found the scene (pg 74 beginning of ch 10)

> She was gorgeous. When she undulated down a corridor, boys followed in swarms.

> She started to learn farming from Greg but Mum put stop to that. While she was big and smart and willing, our farm is mostly a male operation--and Greg and Hans were not only male members of our family
distracted; she cost more farming man-hours than her industry equaled. So Wyoh went back to housework, then Sidris took her into beauty shop as
helper.

Its not precisely as i remember it, but i think its still strongly suggestive that some things are "woman's work"

> In The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, any man who laid a finger on a woman uninvited would find himself on the wrong side of an airlock without a suit.

I didn't mean distracting in the sense she was going to be sexually assualted, but on that score, despite what the characters claim in the book, the society depicted seems to have a very questionable definition of what consent means and ignores issues of coercion.
Ads.txt File Implementation
Exactly. The copyleft side of me says you can't copyright instructions on how to bake a cake, or a fast route across a city, or a beautiful way to display colored pixels in a grid, or an efficient compression scheme for video data... because it's all intellectual, and not physical, "property". But society disagrees so a nice hack on copyright that perpetually keeps any of the above from being stolen and locked down by profit seeking psychopaths just early enough to the scene to make a buck, seems like the best interim solution.
If they want to isolate themselves into a room with no contact whatsoever with other humans for five years while we perfect the vaccine, then I would support their right to do that.

However, I suspect they’re not going to like that alternative.
At this point we don't even need clinical trial data because their safety and efficacy have also been proven in the real world.
Also known as the Canadian tuxedo.
Al-Bīrūnī (a Persian scholar in the 11th century) computed angles on minutes, seconds thirds (60ths of a second), and even fourths (60ths of thirds).

I believe he suggested time could be divided by these units as well, although I can't find the exact reference, so I could be wrong on that count.
I feel like I definitely had Safari on Windows after that but I believe you
Seeing the unusual strength of this one, it'll be interesting to see if there's a "quake-walk" around the 'ring of fire' like the clockwise one a few years back.
In case anyone is interested in trying out DF, I recommend using the "Lazy Newb Pack". It provides a nifty GUI that lets you use different texture packs and change some settings that can improve enjoyment (cap population, remove aquifers, etc.)

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126076.0
Shh, don’t tell people this - we’re trying to keep the other programmers out. ;)

In all seriousness embedded feels like the last safe place for a programmer like me, who grew up in the [redacted ancient decade] and has watched with befuddlement the tumescent froth of abstractions in other programming disciplines. I just can’t do web programming, for example. I did for many years but it broke my spirit and made me really dislike programming.

The “aha” moment was when I realized I like programming computers. Not browsers, not VMs, but actual computers. When I think about that old quote about computer science and telescopes, well... it turns out I really do like telescopes.
Substack makes first major podcast investment
> While development teams spend time documenting, versioning, refactoring, and curating web service data models and APIs, data goes largely ignored.

I stopped reading at this point. A data model is mother-fucking data. Web servers just, well, serve it.
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