skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> adaptive survival tactic

While evolving to trick others into looking after your young is on a relatively straightforward evolutionary trick, evolving to look after others is not a straightforward story.

Child care is incredibly resource intensive and hard work. Evolving an instinct to care for creatures other than your own young is almost entirely negative from an evolutionary point of view, unless there's a big benefit that isn't obvious.

The suggestion higher up the thread is that perhaps that trait lead to humans keeping animals that provided a significant evolutionary advantage. It's an interesting idea, but it doesn't seem terribly likely since other mammals have the same trait but don't keep pets.
You seem to be convinced that Tailwind can be used without CSS knowledge. I just hope I'll never have to manage a project that took such statement serious.
One option would be to use a setup similar to offshore sailors and cruisers:

https://www.cruiserswiki.org/wiki/Email_at_Sea

or, more generally, amateur band based radio links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winlink

The radios themselves get less and less expensive each year, especially with software defined radios, but unsure how easily/quickly one could get their hands on the required gear in Addis.
Developers at that time were great. But is harder to be great today when complexity is 1000x.
I said the same a few months ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28219660 ). Maybe if we keep repeating this the idea can gain some traction.
Ah, I see: he meant the 21st century as opposed to the last 100 years.

A major distinction, obviously.

But my point still stands: if you believe crypto and/or PoW is the most evil thing invented in the last <X> years, you need to get more exposure to the real world, whatever X may be.
It's impossible to plan anything further than 2 weeks ahead with a relative certainty that things will go through. How is that 99% normal? The uncertainties around things considered "normal" is extremely high. Wearing a mask is not normal, yet still very common (and mandated again as of today in The Netherlands).

Going through extensive testing and requiring proof of vaccinations for a thing as simple as going to the zoo is also not 99% normal. I have two trips abroad planned in the next 3 months, yet chances are high that I won't go to either due to external circumstances.

People with potentially life threatening health issues such as brain tumors are seeing their treatments postponed. Excess deaths are still very high in many countries, even with high vaccination rates.

Things are 1% normal, not 99% normal.
Interestingly enough, this actually isn't always the case! For example, install scripts provide the unique ability to affect build machines, which often don't run the code, but do run install scripts. Build machines can still have sensitive keys though, and will often automatically start building in response to a PR being submitted. So in these cases, the attack targets a part of the system that is inaccessible to attacks that require importing or actually running code, and only requires submitting a pull request, not even having it accepted!

Another example is when npm is used for front-end code (which is a lot!). It's true here that the code will eventually be imported or required, but in the browser sandbox. Install scripts in this instance do meaningfully change the attack surface to not just be whatever cookies you have set up or whatever, but the entire contents of your filesystem.
This generations beanie babies.
I can't find a source, but I have read that it is trucks which do the bulk of the wear and tear of roads.

Making these trucks electric won't help.
Looking at the breakdown numbers posted by the White House, seems like a lot more than 10%:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
Come on, let’s stop this bullshit about systemd. It was goddamn voted on multiple times by debian maintainers, in a system that is markedly more democratic than anything we have in a country, and won with huge margins.

Also, previous incarnations were hard to maintain, had no logging before the mount of filesystems, had ill-defined service life cycle, etc. Booting is a hard problem. Having it all around the system in million shitty bash script is a ridiculous idea. Make it declarative as much as possible and have it handled by a single core program. And systemd does these perfectly, my only gripe with it is that it should not have been written in C, but such is everything in linux land.
When I was growing up, (all?) laundry detergent /was/ powder in a cardboard box. I recently remembered that as we tried to move to powdered detergent again - and found it really difficult to find locally, and at a reasonable price per load. There are some online retailers (like "Meliora") which offer it (but then you're adding the small-scale shipping into the environmental equation), so we've just been buying it in bulk that way. And it works perfectly well. They ship their refills in a small brown paper bag - not sure if it's recycled, but the overall impact has to be minimal compared to plastic tubs.

Same with dishwasher detergent. It /used/ to be powder. There's still powder now easy to find, at least, and it works perfectly fine.
> we'll run out of it in less than 40 years.

This isn't a reason to not do it. That gives us 40 years to figure out alternative processing patterns or alternative energy production.
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I would agree, but that’s why it’s the wrong group to look at; if you’re going to claim that the language lacks theoretical foundation because the people who use it don’t have one, that’s a category error.
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yes, I though about an sms solution (receiving text messages) triggered by an sms send from Ethiopia, but I stopped once I realized the privacy issue: I have no doubt text messages are under strict control.
> Discord has never been a particularly good bit of software

I really don't see how you can say that. How?
For what it's worth, the first Google result for "class statistics US" [0] contradicts this.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-america...
While it's nice to believe that through the magic of the market, everything just evens out, a simple thought experiment easily shows this isn't the case.

Take the simplest case and ignore CO2 and carbon tax for now. The base power stations have to be sufficient to supply the whole power grid when the wind doesn't blow, and the sun doesn't shine. Ok, so now imagine what happens if we simply remove all the solar panels and all the wind turbines. What happens? Nothing happens. The grid still works normally. In other words the cost of all those windmills, solar panels, their construction, their maintenance, etc, it is all extra cost that the consumer has to pay somehow.

So isn't the magic market supposed to fix all this? Why doesn't market dynamics take care of this? Because government regulation doesn't allow fixed power plants to charge a fixed yearly fee. If the government did allow this then the market would indeed price everything correctly.

Now if you add a carbon tax, having a number of windmills on the side does eventually become advantageous, but never compared to non-intermittent sources of renewable power like hydro or nuclear which could also charge this fixed yearly fee.
> The $1trn headline makes me expect something to excite the imagination

A country running out of money and going into hyperinflation via money printing ?

Exciting enough for you ?
Apparently this is real — fascinating! (
The relevant text of the bill is here:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684... )

This builds on an NHTSA-funded pilot program called Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADDS; https://www.dadss.org/).

DADDS advanced two technologies for passive impaired driving detection: non-contact breath sensors (exhaled EtOH near the driver), and touch sensors (embedded into the steering wheel).

The bill adds this as a requirement on top of existing distracted driving prevention systems, which have been expanding but don't always get much press (e.g. Subaru's driver-facing cameras).
This article [1] has some good points about it.

- [1] https://medium.com/dcspark/why-urbit-410d32961031
> But to deny that anything is or can be true

Where exactly did I deny that? I was merely noting that the an impartial encyclopedia (which is there to document everything in existence) is impossible, as there are indeed issues of controversy in existence. Even in trying to represent the controversy, as opposed to one of the myriad points of views, is a stance in itself and subject to false balance, selection bias, and I guess a few other fallacies.

We're not talking about a collection of mathematical formulas here.
Pre-Columbian farming in South/Central America was substantially less labor-intense than in Europe and Asia because maize has an intrinsically higher yield in terms of calories per unit labor.

The downside is that maize isn't as nutritious as wheat or rice and needs to be more heavily supplemented with proper protein from meat or pulses - or the human being becomes malnourished.

>Easily obtained, what is more, for maize has always been a crop that demands little effort. The archaeologist Fernando Marquez Miranda has given us an excellent account of the advantages enjoyed by peasants cultivating maize: it required them to work only fifty days in the year, one day in seven or eight, according to season. They were therefore free, perhaps a little too free. The maize-growing societies on the irrigated terraces of the Andes or on the lakesides of the Mexican plateaux resulted in theocratic totalitarian systems and all the leisure of the peasants was used for gigantic public works of the Egyptian type. (It is arguable whether the cause was indeed maize, or irrigation, or the dense population of societies which became oppressive from sheer weight of numbers.)[One]

[One]https://archive.org/details/BraudelFernandCivilizationAndCap... p161
yes, I mean wind, thank you.
BMWs actually use a dial that you can rotate in the centre console of the vehicle. It's actually very intuitive and easy to use, and a _lot_ less distracting than a touchscreen is.
Sounds like maybe a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) banks have always had to file.
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The head internist at my local hospital participated in a news story about how everyone that works there is sick of it all just last month. This is at a small hospital that usually deals with a few patients at a time. They've had periods where they had limited space and couldn't make transfers since Delta hit.

But maybe the media called every hospital in the state to find her or something.

We are scraping by with the measures we do have in place, we can't use the fact that we are successfully scraping by as evidence that we have too many measures in place.
This doesn't have much to do with fusion reactors. It's not even the same nuclear reactions.
It is so wrong to desire to return to handwritten Javascript and libraries like jQuery?

I don't do much fronted today and the reason are the frameworks.

I still do it but I use Blazor to generate web assembly.
I had my heart set on a Toyota RAV-4 hybrid, until I actually sat down in the thing and saw the touch screen. Drove it around, other than the touchscreen it was nice, thought I might just have to suck it up and learn not to change settings while driving.

On a whim, I checked out the Mazda CX-5. I'd never considered buying a Mazda before, but I found out they had institutionally banned touchscreens in their cars. And the CX-5 was so much more of a joy to drive than the RAV-4 that it made for a pretty easy decision.
I got started in the 8-bit era. You had no option but to get down to the metal. Even then you often had to rely on “tricks” or quirks of the hardware to cut down the work required. 3D graphics and point and click GUIs in 1985:
https://micro-editor.github.io/
> "All models are wrong, but some are useful."... It is usually considered to be applicable to not only statistical models, *but to scientific models generally*. The aphorism recognizes that statistical or scientific models always fall short of the complexities of reality but can still be of use.

Emphasis mine. Human behavior is not physics. Even in that domain though, Newtonian physics is still useful - we just happen to know its limits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
> In Europe, people have no problem building nuclear cheaply and on time

Very much no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...

"The main contractor, Areva, is building the unit for a fixed price of €3 billion, so in principle, any construction costs above that price fall on Areva."
[...]
"The total cost of the project, therefore, is estimated to be €11 billion."

Since it's hard for me to track the scandals surrounding Areva and the different ownership structures of it, involving EDF, Framatome, TVO and who-knows-what-else, take this with a grain of salt, but I think the cost overruns may ultimately have to be paid by French tax payers?

"The construction of the unit began in 2005. The start of commercial operation was planned for 2010,[19] but has been pushed back several times.[20] As of August 2020, the estimate for start of regular production is June 2022.[21]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

"EDF estimated the cost at €3.3 billion[4] and stated it would start commercial operations in 2012, after construction lasting 54 months.[5] The latest cost estimate (July 2020) is at €19.1 billion, with commissioning planned tentatively at the end of 2022.[6][2]"

And there were also problems with the EPR reactor containment vessel EDF/Areva/Framatome delivered to China.

This is all from the foremost "experts" at fission plant production in France.

To my knowledge, only China has successfully (that we know) built new reactors lately.
I think there's some romanticization going on, which is fine to an extent.
I think it is more likely it's just a side effect of being wired to find our own babies cute. The traits that we key on for that just happen to also be the traits most other mammals key on because we're all descended from a common ancestor that was wired that way.
Still can't tell...
BMW is quite good about this; they have physical controls for almost everything, and voice controls for the rest. Our 2018 3-series wagon has a touch screen, but you don’t have to use it ever for normal driving functions.
> Obviously the solution would be "just learn vim already" but I'm lazy.

Vim keybindings are great. :) But I'd rather people learn vim keybindings out of curiosity rather than necessity.
I agree. I was affected by drunken bicyclist once. They hit my stroller and injured my baby.

It's high time we mandated this kind of system on all human piloted systems.

Bicycles, golf carts, roller skates, etc.

They should require a full breathalyzer test and full ongoing facial motion detection to ensure safe piloting of the vehicle.

Safety first, always.
Calls to end section 230 have come from across the isle. Note that without section 230 Twitter could have been sued for allowing Trump to post some of the things he wrote over the past 5 years. I recall a New York Times oped from last summer that advocated for such a policy. The trouble is government regulations of speech generally have serious implications, and every attempt to limit free speech struggles to replace it with anything better. Chesterton’s fence comes to mind here. The motivation for section 230 is to let the Internet operate as a publishing medium for small voices. Free speech isn’t always pretty. A more general curtailment of the law would have chilling effects that would likely hit small/medium businesses more than Facebook or Twitter which already have content moderation policies.

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster emacs."
Your plan would be to call up someone to ask whether or not they are a serial killer? Or do you mean to check their references? Because that could do even more damage to this person’s reputation. Imagine calling up this guy’s top references, asking them all if the dude they know is a serial killer. They go and look up the wiki article, and now may or may not have a giant question mark in their head as well.
This article correctly assigns the key to success for all major technology paradigms — a “VisiCalc”

VR, AR, and Blockchain currently miss this value by a wide margin. If you think about it, that’s absolutely bonkers. Take VR/AR - a tech literally meant to create new worlds, remove the need to physically mold space into form a la Disneyland/world, and has become ultra portable where the supporting infrastructure is now all in headset…

But where is the absolute vital need? VisiCalc wasn’t just convenient (by replacing literal square feet of paper with a digital screen - removing the time to draft a new sheet), it was essential to financial survival for basically everyone (one error in a 100 cell, hand calculated budget could kill a company or lop net worth, or being able to add 100 cells in 1/10th the time could reveal opportunity , this is the age of “balancing a checkbook”).

So even with VR/AR’s infinite space, how does it keep companies from dying and create new possibilities? The current state of the art as described here was Disneyland and extreme training environments — but how do those things make or break companies? Oil and gas literally uses an MBA four grid system to triage accidents… they already have a relatedly equal solution for training: handle the errors.

Long winded way of saying I love this article and look for opportunities like this in everyday life.
It's hard because buyers (midsize+ company executives who can spend 1M+/yr) who are good at software don't need outside help, so you're really looking for buyers who are not good at software and they hang out at Medicaid summits, not Javascript meetups. To fix this you need a "rainmaker" and that person is the CEO. Since you don't have that person yet, you need to either market yourself to try to attract that person to you, or become that person yourself which is a career change. Of course this is hard, because obviously nobody is handing out million dollar contracts for free. The lifetime value of being a rainmaker is in the 100s of millions of dollars of cashflow, so to beat your competitors you might expect to invest quite a lot even to just get the first few small contracts (which then feed back into your qualifications and help you grow). Also note that the contracts may be unpleasant, the buyers with the money are not hot startups with best practices, but rather lumbering enterprises with decaying systems who have done everything exactly wrong (they don't understand software, remember?)
FWIW, I had problems with the buttons on my Saabs.

I get the touchscreen hate. But honestly, I prefer them.
@dang, remind me not to submit blockchain or NFT related links ever again.
"the problem with cell phones is that they've never provided a full 64kbps digital audio channel like the landline PSTN did"

omg!
It's like a database, but imagine making it slow, expensive and wasteful, for no reason.
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Unfortunately I think it's more driven by cost motivations. As noted in the Mk8 VW GTI review [1], the interfaces are often straight up awful, this being a particularly bad design.

The car producer could save even more money if they released the non-security critical user-facing parts of the software as open source and let car enthusiasts fix the bad user interface.
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This is just a terrific question and discussion all around. Game dev is a hot topic on HN. And the world needs a dedicated Game Forum to discourse on topics of the moment ;)

I don't have any answer. But I am interested in the transition that took place mid-90s from 2D to 3D. The latter SNES era pseudo-2.5D sprite animations are masterpieces of digital art. And then: discontinuity. Low-poly first gen 3D game design arrives. And no one knows where to put the camera.

One thing I have noticed is that dev cycles are roughly the same. It takes roughly the same time to create a game for N64 or PS5: 18 months. But one is 50 megs the other 50 gigs. They took the time and care back then to get things right. Although many releases were still unplayable disasters

"What were the worst video game excesses of the 90s?" It's another question to learn from!
This is my greatest fear and has lead my life into a completely different direction. From a promising young CS graduate working in tech in US to someone who’s had to leave many opportunities to family members unable to travel with me, it is very debilitating.

I have tried exposure therapy, learnt a lot about flying, used sim games, and no amount of statistics has helped so far.

Maybe the fear stems from underlying unresolved issues about life and the fact that I haven’t done well relative to peers despite being promising early on.
Wait, Saabs are still around? They made it to the touchscreen era?
Born from jets.
Did you have stimulating parents, or a teacher, or was it purely on grit? I’m interested!
Isn't the problem with these marketplaces that most projects are for like $5/hour, while rates for "real professionals" are more like $100/hour and (sometimes way) up?
Maybe they don't keep pets, but there are many documented cases of domesticated and wild animals adopting other species' infants.
I would like to know more about this. Can you point me to sources of tell a little if your own personal experience?
I had an uncle Robert who was an airline pilot. He was the epitomy of prudence and caution. He had seat belts installed in his car in the 50's.

I figured if this man chose to earn a living by flying, that was good enough for me safety-wise.

He rose in seniority to the point where he could choose any route, anywhere in the World. He flew Vancouver/Chile to minimize time zone difference.

One time my 90-year old grandmother (his mother) came to visit me. On the way back, Robert was going to take her home on the flight he was piloting. I sat with the frail old lady in the airport departure lounge. As her grey-haired son, a paragon of authority resplendent in his captain's uniform, strolls through the terminal, she points to him and proudly tells a flight attendant: "That's my boy!"
Don't forget Power Wheels.
China is building the most nuclear plants. How many years until they are wagging the finger at us?
I find it ironic that the Spanish get a bad rap for “colonizing” the Mayans, but all the evidence suggests the Mayan civilization was committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Modern day countries participating in human sacrifice and mass murder would similarly be invaded and the history of their actions would be altered. See: Germany in WW2.