skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is very little good scientific evidence that it is important to breastfeed.

American scientists in the 1950s pushed all manner of highly-processed food products on the public because they had "figured out" nutrition.

Except for micronutrients, probiotics, most of what we understand now about biological pathways, etc.

Barring overwhelming evidence from replicated experiments -- "peer review" is and has always been garbage -- I bias hard to "what we have evolved to do by instinct is probably the best course of action".

That'd be breastfeeding. It's counterproductive to shame mothers that use formula for any number of legitimate reasons, but "prefer breastfeeding if at all possible" is an entirely reasonable statement.

It would also help if infant formula in the US wasn't absolute garbage by law, compared to what's commonplace in Germany and Japan.
Unfortunately I picked something from my day job with a bunch of proprietary data.

It was essentially a large list of pretty-printed objects with about 20 attributes each. A few of which had multi-paragraph string values.
https://subnettingpractice.com/ip-address-allocation-by-coun...

The allocation of ipv4 addresses are not fair. These developing Countries deserve the right to host and develop their own tech industries.

Already India is mandating the use of ipv6 by the end of the year.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...

China too

http://www.cac.gov.cn/2021-07/23/c_1628629122784001.htm

The rest of the world should enable ipv6 if they wish to easily capture this growing market.
That's true in the software industry in general but games industry QA is very much different from that. The bulk of games industry QA is largely untrained, non-technical personnel manually executing test cases written by others and therefore wages are low and they are treated as completely fungible. (I'm not defending it, just describing it.) The article mentions hundreds of testers, so it's far more likely they're that type of tester rather than SDETs.
How would that work as a broad industry practice though? If a dev wants to change companies, they would have to start all over as a QA somewhere else? Most people would rather find another industry their skillset is compatible with than do that.
I really don't think so. It might be true for sandboxes which draw players in by letting them create new objectives for themselves, or competitive games with high time investment requirements, but it's definitely not true for linear singleplayer games, and in my experience most games are like that.
Can anyone yield some insight into the process of producing x/y/z web mercator .png DEM map tiles from Jonathan de Ferranti's [1] data? His data is in .hgt format.

[1] http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html
Yeah babies are different.

My kids didn’t scream or cry much at all.

Friends whose kids screamed all the time were astonished and tried everything to figure it out.

But we had opposite experiences with kids sleeping through a the night, I’m tired just thinking of it.
I don't know about number of games, but I owned a C64 and my friend a Speccy, and I liked C64 games way better. They simply looked and sounded better.

I do find the Speccy charming though!
Chronologically starting with children's:

Swallows and Amazon series.
Stranger in a Strange Land,
The Man In The Maze,
Tau Zero,
Asimovs Foundation series.
All Jane Austen's work: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Northhanger Abbey.
I do pretty much the same thing. I own a Quest 2 and I play Pistol whip, Thrill of the fight and Moon rider (a free VR game which is played in the browser where you need to hit blocks with your hands synced to music).

The only issue I have with Thrill of the fight is that when I get into it, I hit hard, but find no resistance as I would hitting a punching bad or sparring with someone, so my elbow tends to overextend and I feel some pain for a couple days after playing for about 30 minutes. That’s something that will probably get better over time as I gain more control, but as of now, that’s something I need to be careful of.
Just because they're trying to ban or control something doesn't mean it's good for society.
Yes, I have been backing up my email regularly for the past 25+ years, just like any other important data. I have 3-2-1 copies of everything I have ever done on a computer during that time.

I cannot understand why anyone would tolerate the risk of losing important information.
I think they ordered regular ones that are already installed and they also have some high-NA machines coming later.
Linux disagrees with you. A process is a core thing to the OS, not just "another abstraction". The terminal is an extremely shallow/direct interface to the OS, in a way distinctly more clear & certain than most other abstractions.

There's no better way to see real truth in computing. The shell exposes the base truths of the OS abstraction directly: processes, environment variables, stdio, signals, pipes. This is the fundamental toolkit of computing, and what higher-level abstractions we see (from language's stdlibs, to things like Kafka or SQS queues) are better understood in terms of the base computing fundamentals. The base unix tools define a clear set of capabilities we should be familiar with, & to call them just another abstraction, to focus on our own local platforms, ignores the base root that all computing so far eminates from.

This abstraction-relativism you present is highly dangerous. Arguing we shouldn't care about anything because there are abstractions everywhere ignores a realer truth, that some abstractions have been around & underpin nearly all systems & likely will continue to do so. We're only barely starting to play around with alternative conceptions, in projects like Fuschia. But this is a rare, novel, & just-emerging break from our common frameworks of computing. One that would behoove people to gain some competency in.
Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes
Why learn Racket? A student's perspective
In particular, that quote mixes up freedom and power: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.en.html

Being allowed to choose a license that denies freedom to others isn't freedom, just like being allowed to own slaves wasn't freedom.
A safe operating space for humanity (2009)
Is this because video files are very large and store them will be very expensive? I honestly have no idea how large they are, but I would be surprised if it will become a significant portion of the cost of a serious business.
What's hard about it? There's plenty of money to go around already.
I was thinking about this today when I was interrupted mid-conversation by an emergency weather alert on my phone. The cause? A snow flurry that was expected to last about an hour. It ended up lasting for about half that.

Now, it's New England. These kind of things happen and I am prepared for them by virtue of living here. When I resumed my conversation the topic turned to why they felt the need to send out an emergency alert for something so mundane. The only reason we could come up with was that if they didn't and someone got in an accident they could probably sue. Reading this article really makes me feel like that's the case.
“You’re free to use this however you like! And by however you like, I mean a very specific set of things”
Eh, I think it's a bit much to say "never quit at anything" is some kind of American folk teaching. People have to find what they are good at, and part of growing up is realizing that leading at something in one pool doesn't mean you'll lead at it in a bigger one. Americans wouldn't have managed to do well if they didn't have some recognition of this.
There is a more modest wall in Newcastle:

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

I just measured it on Google Maps as 979 metres long (the Fermont Wall is 1.3 km). Also, i don't think it has continuous internal corridors and extensive commercial space, as Fermont does. It's just an unusually long block of flats. I'm also not sure it's continuous - i think there might be breaks around the swimming pool building.

What the two walls have in common is that they were built to protect an enclosed area from an external hazard - in Fermont, it was the wind, but in Byker, it was noise from a proposed motorway which would have run round the estate.
Have you, or you and a partner, had a child and dealt with people's opinions about breastfeeding?

I don't mean this in a hostile way, I just want to know if you're talking from experience or not.
Wasn't de Gaulle banned from Canada _forever_ the one time he came to visit Quebec?
> There were always operations that required hacks. With git that doesn't feel the case to me,perhaps with one exception

I think the way Git handles renames is ugly – it doesn't actually record them, it just tries to guess when they occur based on file contents (inevitably imperfect). I think Subversion handled this better.

The problem is that a Git tree object only contains file name, file mode, and blob/subtree hash. If it also contained some kind of "file ID" (such as a UUID), then you could track renames properly – renaming a file would change its name but not its file ID, so you'd track the rename properly, even if the contents changed at the same time.

Given they didn't do that... maybe create a file-id Git attribute? (Alas, "git mv" doesn't update .gitattributes, so renaming a file forgets the attributes; but it could learn.)
> > I guess "we" have decided that driving, and self-driving, is worth a number of deaths.

> If I shoplift from a store and I'm not stopped, that doesn't mean that "we" have decided that my theft is okay.

Those aren't equivalent, though. Stores _have_ decided that _some_ theft is okay in the grand scheme of running a store.

Conversely, I think most of us agree e.g. that the incident where a woman was killed by an Uber self-driving Volvo[1] was _not_ okay, and that multiple negligent factors were at play that contributed to her death.

This doesn't mean that society thinks self-driving cars are _all_ not okay.

Similarly, the royal/societal "we" _absolutely_ have decided that collective driving is worth some quantity of deaths. We seek to minimize them, but there are extremely few people seriously advocating for the abolition of cars today, and they've been around for over a hundred years at this point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg
Zelda: Breath of the Wild art shows early concepts [...] (2018)
> Our ancestors from 50M years ago are all extinct. So a civilisation spreading through the galaxy would have evolved in all kinds of different ways. It's not obvious to me that these diverse evolutionary strands would all still be interested in Dyson spheres, or space travel, or even astronomy.

There is no need for all, or even most, of the civilizational variants to retain those characteristics. As long as some variants do, civilization would continue its inexorable interstellar spread, it would just end up being lumpy rather than a relatively even wavefront.

Indeed, survivorship bias would seemingly tend to conserve the required characteristics and possibly start constraining the ways in which civilizational offshoots can vary. And it isn't hard to imagine stay-at-home variants succumbing to the influence of later arriving spreader variants to become spreaders once more.
I've been using Beat Saber as a cardio mixup, though I agree with the sentiment that the headset gets a little stuffy. My bigger issue with VR in general is that the tethered PC experience has a lot of friction. The Oculus has more "pick up and go" power, but Facebook is a hard pass, so I'm patiently waiting for some other company (anyone, really) to come out and compete with a similar form factor.

VR doesn't replace exercise for me; my regular routine involves weights, but it compliments it nicely on my off days. I think it's good to mix in, but wouldn't want to rely on it as the sole form of exercise. Maybe that's just me; I can't do the same thing every day, and since weight training requires a strict routine, cardio is where I mix things up for spice.
I believe this is partially a result of a societal shift away from personal responsibility for individuals towards "social" responsibility of the collective.

This shift has its benefits (I, for one, am glad that it is "hard" to unintentionally starve to death in the developed world, regardless of how poorly you planned for winter). But I do think it is important to remember that this does not mean the trend is universally beneficial.

IMHO it is better for individual responsibility to be the default and for society to take responsibility only for specific, carefully defined, aspects of life.

Seat belt laws are a good example. Perhaps regulations involving children and vulnerable adults makes sense, but I am a long way from being convinced that our society is improved by forcing all adults to wear seat belts. (Even though I think it is pretty foolish to ever drive without wearing one...)
> I think that if your manner of speech makes you sound like a B-movie villain

I imagined the poster above you having his five-year-old child come home from school with a fresh painting of Mommy and Daddy and the poster snatching it out of their hands, "PATHETIC!" rips up painting
> Ethereum has been unsuccessfully trying to do for over a decade

Won't waste my time with the back and forth, just letting the reader know this is flagrantly false, to the point it damages the argument.
Reinforcement learning gets ignored again... :/
The stock headset definitely needs to be upgraded for this kind of application.

I own a BoboVR headband with an external battery, which helps balance the weight of the headset. I had the elite strap with external battery and the BoboVR is much more comfortable for me. It’s also leatherette instead of foam, so much easier to clean.

I also have a fan (BoboVR F2) attached to the face mask in order to prevent condensation and overall I get a great experience even when I drip of sweat after exercising.
Here's one that always worked for me from about 6mo to 18mo: If she was crying and I played Hamilton on my phone, she'd immediately stop crying. Then I'd figure out that had been wrong and solve the actual problem for her.

This was a 100% thing, it felt like magic, but of course I'm not gonna dole it out as even remotely likely to work with another baby.
"Axiom Verge" comes to mind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_Verge
> Looked at Canadian news lately? I am not even talking about those blocking a major bridge or anything like that. They are ceasing bank accounts of people they politically disagree with, or supported "indirectly" those they politically disagree with.

Yes I have. You're ignoring the relationship between these two things. A group of protestors has occupied a city and created a massive public disturbance in the process for those that live and work there. People have a right to live in peace, undisturbed by others, do they not?

What's even more bizarre about this situation is that now, the leader of the movement has been arrested and now wants out of the entire thing because he didn't think the authorities would actually take action.

When you look back at history, you see leaders of real movements like MLK getting arrested because they lived under actual tyranny, and they weren't afraid of it because they spent their entire lives under oppression.

MLK was arrested multiple times throughout his life, and anyone who's serious about participating in civil disobedience knows that arrest is always on the table, and has been since the founding of the country.

The leader of the truckers buckled after a day in custody, what conviction he has in his rights.
Heyo,

First off, sorry to hear that this has happened to you. It's never the for tools to be abused like this and for support be to be so unreachable.

I've gone ahead and sent you an email so I can get some details and we can work to recover at least some of the content.

Q.

Disc: Googler, but I don't work in YouTube.
This is the reason why Google stopped demoting sites in a lot of cases. SEO hackers do not only promote results. They try to demote the competition.
What on earth happened to Italy? The po plain is even more featureless than the Netherlands!
Do you have a source for the claim that breastfeeding is no better than formula? I don't have a study to the contrary off hand, but everything I've read/studied has agreed conclusively that breastfeeding is the preferred option and has tangible developmental effects. Multiple books and a couple of college courses on early human development.

The conclusion that formula is for sure just as good as breast milk would also be shocking given that breast milk was designed by evolution over millions of years to be exactly what the developing baby needs. The human body does a lot of miraculous things that our technology isn't yet quite capable of matching (or even fully understanding).
we had a child, was breastfeed for a long time but also had to supplement with formula very early on.
yes we dealt with other people's as well of each of us' differing opinions on every matter under the sun related to how to raise a baby. I still want to know all the information available, so that I can make informed decisions.
To soothe the baby the author forgot:

1) pacifier. Holy hell those things are life savers. As my kid got older he would sometimes lose the pacifier in his sleep and start crying. We just bought 10 of them and sprinkled them theoughout his crib at night

2) driving. Driving your kid around will often soothe them. I had a particular route I would take down the highway that would guarantee put him to sleep.
> There is very little good scientific evidence that it is important to breastfeed.

I wish you would back up such a strong statement. In medical school we were taught the complete opposite. From my notes:

- there's a x36 decreased risk of Sudden infant death syndrome if the child has been breast fed a single(!) time compared to no breast feeding.

- no breast feeding vs only breast feeding: x15 risk of pneumonia, x11 risk of diarrhea

- x14 lower risk of premature death compared to no breast feeding

Other pros include: optimal composition of nutrients, doesn't constipate, creates a connection between the mother and child.

While formula may be nutritionally complete, it does not include immune component. Breast milk literally contains antibodies that a new born is able to pick up and use.
/years/weeks/ right?
Is there any legal significance to "clean-room" reverse-engineering? I hear this term a lot from engineers who seem to think that they're entitled to claim ownership over distinct works created by people who read their source code (and in extreme cases their documentation or even disassembled binaries), but that's not how any other form of intellectual property works.
It is great to see commercial companies starting to recognise the value of automated reasoning and other formal techniques. In my view, the difference between programming as a craft, and programming as an engineering activity, is the usage of formal methods. The same way formal models are used in other engineering disciplines when building bridges, cars, aircraft etc.
I don't really see the issue to worry about IPv4-only hosts that are not IPv6-aware. Virtually all TCP/IP stacks connected to the Internet have IPv6-capabilities.
Please name it here so that those of us born a bit later can study the things you did (insofar as they have made it to the web).
> https://whynoipv6.com/country/us

What a strange layout - the sidebar, which cannot be manually collapsed, covers up page content at moderate widths, until the page is quite wide. When the window gets narrow enough, some of what's in the sidebar can't be accessed at all.
what do you mean invalidated? the point of proofs is that they will be still be as true today as they will millenia into the future. pythagoras' theorem is just as true today as it was millenia ago.
I don't like this take at all. Copying is always easier than creating no? A lot of times the things that make or break or game are fine tuning the mechanics in order to balance difficulty/reward etc. Once this is done it's trivial to copy.

Games are more like music than food IMO. It's trivial to copy a song once you hear it. That doesn't somehow mean it's not a worthy song.
No, you save that for the essays they write throughout high school.

Joking aside, children are not tiny adults, and how you deal with them changes over time.

A five-year-old gets rewarded for just doing work, because that's the baseline. A fifteen-year-old must demonstrate some degree of competence. They are not developmentally identical.

A grown adult obsessed with safety over all other concerns is childish, pathetic, and ironically, dangerous as all hell to others.

Those that prioritize safety above other concerns are the first to use violence against any and all perceived threats to that "safety".
That site says reddit.com is IPv6 but I'm not able to resolve any AAAA records for it.
I'd love a world where the "powerless" have the same ability to leverage surveillance as the "powerful".

I'd love it if we could achieve that balance by eliminating surveillance, but I don't see that as a realistic outcome (at least initially).

In the absence of eliminating surveillance I'll take full public transparency. Maybe such transparency would even drive the elimination of surveillance.
30 years of evidences - the game companies who don't see things like that all disapear, and the graveyard has an impressive size
What your econ 101 analysis ignores is that wages are very often not determined by productivity or the value they are generating for the employer, but by bargaining power. This is particularly so at the low end of the labor market.

In the real world, there's plenty of evidence that minimum wages have a positive influence of employment, wellbeing, and allocative efficiency.

To the extent that they eliminate jobs in truly low-productivity sectors, that's actually a good thing, as those people can be moved into higher productivity sectors - you just need a welfare state that handles the income instability and retraining costs for those involved.
Babies only have a single mechanism of communication and it takes a while to debug it.

Imagine you had a computer that would crash every time something went wrong. You would develop a checklist for that computer to help with debugging it. That’s the exact same thing with kids.
Last year Stockfish attempted to enforce the GPLv3 version of the clause against ChessBase. I'm not sure how it has turned out so far.

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/our-lawsuit-against-che...

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27896386
Yeah, even if you're having a custom home built, you either need a really diligent prime contractor, or you need to visit it every day, because nobody cares about anyone else on the job site, and very few companies have all the trades in-house.

Definitely have an independent home inspector do an inspection before the sheetrock goes up. Issues are cheap or free to fix before that step.
Lorenzo Colitti is Google's IPv6 czar but when supporting IPv6 costs (hundreds of) millions of dollars, "input" is not enough. There needs to be a business case which there really isn't so far.
puts on tin-foil hat

I always like to "follow the money" and the cynic in me wonders how much influence the health care lobby has on seat belt legislation. I don't have any stats on this, but seems like there is a lot more to bill for when car accident victims are not declared dead at the scene...
Except floods do happen, and are going to happpen more due to global warming, and the prognosis is that half the country is under water by 2100 (I live about -5 NAP myself).