skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you live near San Francisco, the Bay Area or Silicon Valley there is a Monarch Butterfly overwintering site in the Ardenwood Historical Farms, Fremont.

The season is from November to February.
I would agree with you but, from my limited observation, there seems to be an awful lot of pumkins left over after halloween has been and gone. Maybe what already happens isn't the best way?
I don't think what you said is all that different from people who want to be a successful writer but don't really want to write.
They are ramping up everything, solar and wind included. It's not clear to me that they regard nuclear as a panacea.
The chart shows that 25% to 50% are not "capable" of being sold. I think this refers to losses in the field, such as unripe, overripe, insect or animal damage, etc.

However, the article ignores the fact that many of the ones that are capable of being sold are never sold.
That’s interesting because my only experience with the Icelandic medical system was the opposite: a relative needed an ER trip & the experience was faster and far cheaper than they’d experienced in the U.S. (their copay on MIT’s insurance was greater than the total).

The thing with U.S. healthcare is that it’s very unevenly distributed. If you’re in something like the upper 10-15% income wise and live in a major urban area, you can definitely get quite good care but many people have worse coverage, especially given how much more they have to pay and the time required to wrangle insurance and providers. I’ve known a number of people from outside the U.S. and they’ve generally commented on the greater cost & much greater inconvenience compared to Europe, Canada, Israel, Japan, etc. but a few who needed specialists mentioned that was easier as long as you could afford it.
> DCF is still perfectly applicable, nothing fundamental has changed. You can easily include growth into a DCF valuation.

You know what makes the price of an asset? Whatever is going on in market participants brains who are bidding/asking it.

DCF works somewhat because there is a certain % of market participants which uses it to determine whether to buy or sell.

It doesn't work per se, it's a signal, like a sunny day NYC or the Yankees winning the night before.
Good point, I was perhaps too focused on how the story is consumed (a computer vs a book vs a screen) but that may not be the most important part.
Video games with its interactive possibilites possess a unique mechanic device which books or movies simply don't have. So, in a way stories in a game do not serve the same purpose.

And if you delve deep into literary theory itself; "stories" do not exist without its form. This dichotmoy is frankly quite misleading.

I personally prefer to use another vantage point for examining "video games" borrowed from the strucuralists: What is the difference (to other games)?

This quote from Viktor Shklovsky, a Russian Formalist, can be easily translated to the art form of "video games":

"And so, in order to return sensation to our limbs, in order to make us feel objects, to make a stone feel stony, man has been given the tool of art. The purpose of art, then, is to lead us to a knowledge of a thing through the organ of sight instead of recognition. By "enstranging" objects and complicating form, the device of art makes perception long and "laborious." The perceptual process in art has a purpose all its own and ought to be extended to the fullest. Art is a means of experiencing the process of creativity. The artifact itself is quite unimportant."
Show HN: Give, Then Ask
https://xkcd.com/1732/

Look at the graph and share your inferences on those questions?
Brilliant comment. And yet we as a barely intelligent emergent species will play with politically dangerous fire/energy.

Let do it more as a basic science challenge and work 10X harder on the fusion chimera that is beginning to look real!
And all that money is for a VR that doesn’t fully replicate normal vision - the number of pixels is just not there yet. I doubt even quadrupoling the number of pixels in current vr systems would get there.
> When one of the core concerns of using a technology is to prevent it being used to create weapons capable of obliterating entire cities, we are not as a species mature enough to use it on a wider scale.

Just wanted to point out that stone (trebuchets), wood (arrows), bronze (swords), and steel (guns, bombs, tanks, etc) fall into this category too. Silicon is probably there already as well, but hasn’t been used yet.

Mankind has used everything as his disposal to gain the upper hand over another group of humans since well before history began. I don’t ever expect it to stop.
Reading the article:

Last week I set up my tablet on my new laptop. As part of installing its drivers I was asked to accept Wacom’s privacy policy.

And this is where I stopped. You're doing it wrong. Drivers belong to the kernel. You should not have to manually install it. You should pressure the vendor to correctly support their devices.

I have a Wacom device, tried it in different recent distros, different computers and never needed to manually install a driver.
> Russia Has Four Potential "Killer Satellites" In Orbit, At Least That We Know About

As opposed to the operational ASAT system that the United States operates?

> space isn't safe for blue team anymore

'Blue Team' that's the good guys, right?

Besides the fact that space is inherently unsafe, it is the United States that has taken the lead in the militarization of space. Heck the US Space Force even has a website: https://www.spaceforce.mil/ , I'd assume they have some actual capabilities as well.

> something China is also doing in artificial intelligence research (not bothering with "frameworks" and "guiding principles for responsible AI")

Which of course doesn't happen anywhere else.

Really, I think your comment could use some balance. From the point of view of an inhabitant of a small nation that does not have its own space capability it sure looks like the United States is a very large part of the problem.
whether or not it's consumption in particular it's undeniably human activity that's the problem

business as usual leads to a pretty bleak future and if we refuse to confront this how will we even begin to adapt to a planet rapidly growing more difficult to inhabit
… which is perfectly acceptable because there are customer facing features enabled with this account. Which is shared in the marketing for said mice. And then there are mice which don’t require accounts.

And technically, the mice do NOT require you to create an account.
Definitely. It’s most of the time fait to say that it will be available some day, but there always are a lot of kinks to iron out between the scientific idea and the useable implementation.
>Energy is a fundamental need for society to flourish.

Energy is needed for basic modern services.

Humans have survived a long time without electricity. It could be simpler to 'go without' or 'find a workaround' for a lot of conveniences if we were serious at combating climate change.
In South Korea today, you can be imprisoned for five years just for having any drugs in your system (follicle test) no matter where ingested & South Korean citizens can be punished for consuming drugs abroad where they would otherwise be legal:

https://medium.com/@alexjanmaat2/recreational-drugs-in-korea...

In Taiwan today, manufacturing, selling, or transporting Cocaine is a mandatory life (or death) sentence:

https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=C00000...
Yes and No ... they specifically say that while it was originally planned for PC-BSD, it was ultimately made OS agnostic:

... He started working on it in his free time. He wanted to design a small lightweight desktop for PC-BSD that didn’t come with the challenge of dealing with Linux-isms. However instead of designing a desktop that had BSD-isms, he decided to design the desktop to be as OS agnostic as possible with as few dependecies as possible ...
What about the rate of improvement in launch costs we are observing is linear?
> however, it's also completely ethically valid to not boycott such a company and simply pick the best product

that would rule out anything recent by Blizzard then
Guarantee they just want us to shut the fuck up.
'More than three-quarters of the unarmed motorists were killed while attempting to flee.'

Maybe that's why?
That might not be a bad thing per-se. We are getting a bit addicted to our future selves bailing out our past selves from various fuckups, it might be nice to have a millenium of contemplation to deal with the fall out of previous messes so that we can learn how to be proper stewards of planet sized eco-systems. Once we manage that we are possibly ready to take off the training wheels.
Do you get “intellisense” on the injected services?
I see! Thanks for the info. One of my concerns is more about extendability & language-bridging;

eg my app needs to access a bluetooth module or uses opencv: would it be easy to plug in an existing Swift/Java libraries that has deps on these low-level stuff (without mingling too much with the build process like enabling or turning off some flags, hijacking some of Capacitor's own build processes, etc)
This article was written more than a year ago and received significant attention at the time. I suspect Wacom may have made some changes since then—at least, I hope they did. I can’t be sure because the official drivers aren’t actually open source.

This article’s analysis took place on macOS. The drivers to which you linked are for Linux. It’s not unreasonable to assume that official closed-source drivers, especially when bundled with other software, might be more intrusive. For example, many Wacom tablets have buttons that can be remapped, but only if you install Wacom’s software.

Dismissing it as the user’s choice really isn’t fair. I’m not going to berate my mother for failing to use Linux, but that doesn’t mean she wants all her activity sent to Wacom.
I thought iron and possibly phosphorus were already known to be very promising for this idea?
John Oliver had a great bit on retirement plans [1] if you're interested in passive investing. I've pretty much only followed this advice since 2016, with minor changes accounting for my personal situation. My Vanguard portfolio has tracked the market, which means my annualized rate of return is about 12%, at an expense ratio of .1% (how much I pay in fees of that original 12%.) Of course that won't last forever, but it's a good balance of risk and return. A bank account usually pays around .25-1% a year.

Active investors, on average, do as well as passive investors, but incur greater costs. [2] I only "actively invest" for fun, and as a way of connecting with my friends and family who also enjoy the stock market casino.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvZSpET11ZY

[2] Warren Buffett's side of https://longbets.org/362/
IIRC correctly we'd need to overprovision by more than 100%, and huge storage too. Is it less expensive then? Also what has the least impact on the environment? On space and material requirements given the required massive overall of the grid (to move power across continents)?
I think it's slightly worse because I seriously doubt the majority of users are simply unware of something needing to be cared about. So they aren't just dubiously doing something, they are doing it knowing that most people won't know it is being done.
We Made a Watch for the Metaverse
There’s so much more than UI: back ends, database, IO layers and so on. You might even look into physical network and telecom. Those still require a lot of configuration and logic, which is essentially what all CS grads have been trained in.
There's no ethical issue. Recruit 40 bad sleepers. Ask 20 of them to change their habits to generally recognized healthy habits. Ignore non-blindedness.
Read 'A random walk down wall street' and 'the millionaire next door'
Can’t a similar thing be said about Christmas, Easter, etc?
Careful. You’re getting a bit off narrative there.
The games I care about enjoy native Metal and DirectX, and when I code anything graphics I don't use Khronos stuff, only on the Web, where there is no other option.

Any game dev gems have basic examples on doing an API loading layer.

Vulkan is mostly a Linux thing, and even the Switch has its own native API, NVN, it is not Vulkan nor OpenGL on the driving seat.

Here enjoy, https://www.ogre3d.org/
The lower orbits are fairly resistant to this because of the residual atmospheric drag. Any piece of debris whose orbit is under 500 km will burn up in the atmosphere within 5-10 years or so. That is known as orbital decay.

For something to stay up 1000 years, even a small object like a lost nut, it must orbit at least 900 km away from the Earth.

https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/debris/orblife.htm
Exactly. We tend to underestimate the power of compounding wrt learning from your mistakes. Two things that are important here: honesty (you can't fix what you don't know) and consistency (tight feedback loop = faster compounding).

This extends far beyond software programming. It applies to any form of self-development. I actually developed a habit formation program framework [0] built off of these principles (and a couple others, e.g aligned incentives, bias towards action, writing is thinking).

Here are examples of programs using it:

* https://themoai.org/work-life-balance

* https://themoai.org/intentional-technology

[0] https://themoai.org
https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/why-is-it-cal...

Y'all needy to either be way more pedantic, or back off a bit, but staying at the level you're at is completely missing the point most people have taken to referring to with the word ’monopoly'.
I don't think they were suggesting getting rid of the the car parks, but rather putting solar over the top of them. Which would also reduce the amount of petrol used to AC the car when you get back in it too (though this effect is probably negligible)
"Officers, trained to presume danger, have reacted with outsize aggression. For hundreds of unarmed drivers, the consequences have been fatal."
> * don't disturb the neighbours (not met reliably)

This is a false dichotomy that’s always bugged me. I’d sure find living near a nuclear plant a lot less disturbing than living near a coal plant. And with nuclear plants, far fewer people would have to live near any power plant.
What happened to olivine?

https://www.projectvesta.org/
The Lumina Desktop was started in 2012 by Ken Moore. He started working on it in his free time. He wanted to design a small lightweight desktop for PC-BSD that didn’t come with the challenge of dealing with Linux-isms. However instead of designing a desktop that had BSD-isms, he decided to design the desktop to be as OS agnostic as possible with as few dependecies as possible ...

It is there in the front page, along with a link to its history - https://lumina-desktop.org/post/2021-07-01/
It sounds like this should have a date attached to it as the numbers are quite outdated for todays world. This did have some good data for back when it was written of course.

* An efficient EV will do less than 12kWh/100km these days.

* Utility scale solar pv cost declines have been dramatic. It is now the cheapest form of new energy to deploy.

* Developments in deep water off-shore wind have led to much larger turbines which are capturing more wind energy for longer periods of time.

* Large scale batteries are now viable as a storage mechanism for renewables and are going to rapidly replace things like peaker plants.

* Lots of new research is happening with Nuclear like thorium/molten-salt reactors which will still be important for baseload generation.
Only the "finally". We've been talking to other humans and then killing them for resources for a very long time.
As i said to another commenter, you are right, i was thinking of Gen III+ like EPR.

When we started out building nuclear plants the where much simpler, much smaller designs and a lot of designs didn't work out the way hoped.
Nuclear is hard, it's hard on the materials and often you problems appear while building or running it.
Try this old idiomatic phrase:
“beating the boundary”.

Once you have made your guess as to the meaning, then and only then link to Wikipedia for a marvelous explanation from a not-so merry old England.
Advice for Upcoming Conferences to Attend
Hey Everyone! Wanted to get some advice from the community - I'm currently a platform engineer and want to move into a more software development focused role and then into app sec in a few years. As part of my career dev plan, my manager approved me to attend 2 conferences this year, so long as 1 is developer/app dev focused and 1 is app sec focused.

Are there any conferences that you'd recommend from your experience?

Thanks!
Debris breaking up could create many smaller objects.
Yeah so the problem with that response is that you can say the exact same thing about Facebook, so it now doesn’t make sense that that’s being made as a point in favor of Google.
Working on https://bruzu.com

It's an API to generate images on the fly.
Or just read the fingering of the masters?
I'm sure macOS supports hid devices out-of-the-box. Users should pressure Wacom to correctly support it. They do it correctly on linux, it is a shame users from other OS's are not treated as first-class citizens.
With the supply chain disruption we might lose digital technology, too. I say good riddance. We'll still have the mathematics we figured out (Graph Theory, Matrix Math, AI).

Our food supply is still mostly human powered. Tractors will get better.

We'll have to do something other than surveil people and shit-post on the internet to fill our time. Oh well.
It’s actually an alternate model, not an interface. Models are picked up and loaded by the brain, substituting the ‘normal’ model we run when conscious. Eyes, ears and spatial orientation feed the normal model. Faking these inputs allow for building alternative models, but neither is an ‘interface’.

Not disagreeing with your main point of evil possibilities, however. Any model that diverges from ‘hardened reality’ will have accelerated means of propagation of evil.
That’d be inconceivably far in the future. It’d need to be more economical to transport goods through space…
I can't tell you whether the below is accurate, but this was why they said it is novel.

‘Tephra is cheap, not limiting, and all the required tech already exists. Bentonites – altered tephra – are already regularly mined, so we don’t need to develop new approaches,’ Longman says, adding that tephra would only require sieving in preparation for use. This, he added, ‘is unlike other ocean fertilisation approaches, which use processed iron oxide liquids.’
which is why i included 'or [support] changing the narrative'

i appreciate your language as well.
People don't live long enough to plan for the future over such vast timescales.
Where do your get all this info from? This shit is fantastic. I’ve been scouring the wasteland of the internet for decent plant knowledge and seem to go from oasis to oasis in a vast desert of seo garbage
"Amped" is a quick sci-fi romp that explores brain implants, politics, possible futures.
They are renewable and compostable —both things are often not possible to achieve in other activities.

Those not used can actually be used for baking pumpkin pies —though probably slightly different from regular pie pumpkins, but good enough.

So all things considered, this should not even register vs things like other festivals where there are tons of trash left over.
It’s smart, the same way Google made alphabet. The rebrand of the name is not the point at all, it’s the fact they want to avoid the appearance of monopoly like power and all the regulation that comes with it. Having separate companies that aren’t under you primary brand name essentially gives the illusion of less dominance by that brand and makes it easy to split off should the government require them to be split at some point. Just saying Facebook now controls devices with cameras in your home is worrying - versus saying, Facebooks parent company owns another company that controls cameras in your home makes people feel the illusion that power is not too centralized by Facebook.
Has Jacobson stopped suing people though
Why would they ignore that, but include losses in the field? Without more information, I assume the "not capable of being sold" number includes unsold units too.
It is an interesting language, but it is very low-level and it lacks many functions that you have to implement from scratch. For example, as I remember, there is no filter with custom response curve. Or there is a low-pass filter but you cannot choose its type, rolloff slope or modulate it with an oscillator. There is no spectrum viewer.

So you will have to reimplement functions that are built-in into modern DAWs. And it is not an easy task, for example, to implement filters you'll have to deal with equations with complex numbers.
> move our most polluting activities (factories, refineries) to the Moon or Mars

The delta-v required to move objects between planets is measured in thousands of m/s (e.g. just getting to low earth orbit requires about 10000 m/s), and the fuel required goes up exponentially with delta-v.

As Elon Musk put it: "If you had crack-cocaine on Mars, in prepackaged pallets, it still wouldn't make sense to transport it back here."
It's not that you're being a downer, you're just not presenting things in a fair or accurate manner.

Google didn't merely "ship a feature someone else didn't". They keep shipping new features as they wish, whether others even agree. They have in fact accelerated that attitude with Project Fugu. Some of them are quite complex or consequential APIs.

They do not deserve a free pass for it because Mozilla once shipped one or two relative minor features before Chrome did, or Apple added some weird CSS visual property for their latest iPhones without consensus. We're talking orders of magnitude of difference here.

The problem isn't who is first to ship. It's the casual disregard for even reaching consensus on the basics before shipping something, the sheer rate of output, the interop issues left in the wake, and the anti-competitive tactics being applied. Those are not "hypotheticals" in the slightest.

What is hypothetical is acting like anyone else could just magically compete on those terms. Microsoft couldn't keep up with them. Opera couldn't. No new engine has even come close to breaking into a general market yet, though a couple are feverishly trying.

Is that really ok with us? If so, then let's just be honest. Let's just say "new APIs are more important to us than engine diversity, and we don't mind Google being as evil as possible to kill the other engines off." As a webcompat worker, I'd love to see that honesty.
If only there were a way to capture all of that energy.
I agree with you, what I was opposing was more the reductivist view of things like "Half life is just ...". You could do the same with the Three Body Problem series and it would absolutely fail to explain what's great about the series. First book: detective story mixed with historical events. Second book: smart guy vs other smart guy. Third book: history through the eyes of one person that was here at pivotal events.

The comment I replied to mentionned:

> There were some cool extra details - the G Man, the marines entering as a third force, the diversions to do things like launch a missile into space - but all of those things were additional to that same, basic story.

I think it's wrong to separate a story between "a story" and "the details", all stories are the same if you boils them down enough.
Of course interconnection is a big help, but transmission isn't "free" or unlimited, the flows between individual European countries is typically a small fraction (less than 10%) of the national consumption and generation.

And there are cases like Ireland which has its own grid - with very limited external interconnection - and yet achieved 42% renewable share last year.

Techniques/engineering/theory for integrating intermittent sources has advanced considerably in the last ten years.