skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is incorrect.

Dogs don’t just survive, they thrive. In Romania the government resorted to mass killing of dogs because they bred so successfully. Also in poor countries and remote places where you wouldn’t expect there to be excess food for strays.

Dog ownership is very often slavery. The nature of the slavery is very explicit - the dog’s work is to sniff drugs all their life, or retrieve dead game, or guide people. In other cases you can read in this thread, a past owner has had a captive dog and abused them for who knows what reason.
I have a suspicion that was just a rationalization for his curiosity. There are many people who become addicted because they wanted to experiment and don’t understand what they’re getting into.
This is a tangent, but I recently spent some time trying to decide whether to neuter my cat. I don't know how different this is for dogs, but female cats tend to act as if they are in quite a bit of distress while in heat. They also tend to enter heat something like one week per month unless pregnant, and they go back to the same cycle a few weeks after giving birth.

So, a female cat in nature can either endure being in heat with no relief about a quarter of her life, or give birth about three times a year (wrecking her body). I'm not convinced neutering her was a less humane choice (neutered female cats also have the longest lifespan on average).
> Before you say much more, you should probably be aware that I was the #2 employee at Amazon.

You popping up to disagree about how remarkable Amazon's success was is the most HN exchange I've seen since "did you win the Putnam"![1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
This is about advertising services to kids tho. Cereal and its pretty logos still appear in stores, in actual ads (just not during Spongebob), on billboards, and more.

This story is more like forbidding kellogs from using mascots on cereal boxes. Which seems both nonsensical and ineffective. Seems like a huge climb to prove that web design is specifically addicting children. It's also a slightly moot point because most social media TOS require a user to be 13 years old anyway.
> 25% fewer bytes has only very marginally impact on a high-performance implementation

Instruction cache doesn't come for free, and is usually pretty small on most shipping processors. It's not a big deal for smaller benchmarks, but in real-world programs this can become a problem.
Most dogs I know will gorge themselves until they are morbidly obese or practically choking on their food.
Alternate link with more details:

https://www.cyberkendra.com/2022/03/microsoft-allegedly-brea...
Saying no to just block a public infrastructure project is just malicious.
As long as people are paid for a new property and inconvenience it's fine. Nobody should be able to block a project that benefits the society as a whole.
Communist party or not, a person should not be capable of blocking a project that benefits the whole country just because <insert random reason here>.

Romania does have a lot of issues with motorway developments because of speciments like this. After the first major one that blocked the Bucharest-Constanta motorway for years, the gov't passed a law that allows them to just take the property and pay market prices. As it should be.
I love the Hangouts animated stickers...I really wish Hangouts (and all its Easter eggs) would stay
Me too! Please don't leave, Hangouts!
Maybe I'm getting old - but how do people remember all these switches and commands? They aren't intentionally discoverable, there's no UI to see them, and there's no explanation of what they do.
The most amazing thing to me is how a deeply sleeping cat can go from comatose to actively engaging in a task in a matter of a second if it is disturbed to the point of awakening. It’s truly incredible. My anecdotal understanding is that the closest humans can get to this kind of feline state of ready alertness is in war time, but I think that has more to do with sleep deprivation.
I'm glad to hear they didn't wait longer to try to avoid wiping people's $HOME which they initially planned. Looking forward to seeing their release notes being updated as well.
I got "tunnel entrance street". There were two tunnels this might have referred to. I picked the one on the wrong side of town.
I am obviously aware and I'm here to tell you that the overhead of variable length instructions matters more. Arm agrees. M1 has a 192 KiB I$ btw.

ADD: had RISC-V just disallowed instructions from spanning cache lines and disallowing jumping into the middle of instructions then almost all of the issues would have gone away. Sigh.
What do you mean? I use fn left and fn right arrow for home and end.
Love it! As many pointed out, playability is quite dependent on where you live. Perhaps you could also use landmarks rather than streets, but I'm guessing OpenStreetMap POI data is not as robust as Google Maps... And Google Maps Places API is expensive :)
Show HN: A program that predicts the best Fantasy F1 teams
It always shocks me how many leaders struggle with what a strategy is in the business world. Typically, as the author mentions, they either present a goal, “XXX sales in Q1,” as a strategy or a checklist of tactics or actions. A strategy can be as little as a sentences or an entire plan, but it should be formalized. It is the “why” question. It answers the question of why you have people doing the things they are doing and keeps everyone on the same pages

A simplified example might be:

// Goal

xxx sales in Q1

// Strategy

Sell product at below competitor cost to capture market share and increase profit through efficiency of scale.

// Tactics

- decrease product price 10%

- promote price difference in advertising

- implement cost saving measures in customer support
I did the same, but got tripped up by clicking on the East side of the Island when it asked for "W 14th Street".
>But when you see the effects on society at large, you have to acknowledge that maybe it's something about our genetics / psychology that's being exploited unfairly.

people wanting to talk to other people? Yes, that's the great benefit of social media. in the 2000's this was kids using cellphone minutes to chat around on flip phones. in the 90's it was some early online game chats. in the 80's it was kids stuck at an arcade.

I don't see anything inherently unethical about social media. You just gotta teach kids how to communicate to others and express themselves without putting down others. Not an easy feat (the bully trope goes back millenia), but this stopgap of just holding the courier accountable doesnt seem to solve anything,
If that’s all the identifying data and it is discarded, then it’s anonymous.

We don’t know they’re using it. We don’t know they’re not using it either.

But the fact that it’s sent doesn’t mean it’s used.
I'm not saying the 'legal' books shouldn't be part of the bible because they have 'no theological value'.

I'm saying that when a hollywood actor in a film makes fun of christians and says something like "oh go sacrifice a goat like it says in your bible", they are willfully misrepresenting those verses as "cherry-picking your beliefs and conveniently leaving out the goat stuff", when in fact typically they're quoting verses of legal/historical significance, rather than of a dogmatic/theological nature.
Because trees and human crops use the soil very differently. (And trees just doing their own thing use soils far differently to trees being grown for a silvicultural enterprise, for obvious reasons, we want more timber faster)

Here's a very obvious example, the Amazon, there's reasons that slash and burn farmers there have to keep cutting down more forest, it's called "soil exhaustion". [0]

Another example from an areas I can speak more soundly on, look at the forest in this photo[1], lots of trees, right? Some of them are 100m high. But they're growing on a podzol[2]. Good luck growing crops in that without massive amounts of uneconomic inputs. You'd need huge amounts of lime to reduce the acidity, huge amounts of organic material to increase fertility, never mind the question of managing water retention - too much is bad, too little is bad. Oh, and of course you might need to add additional minerals like selenium or cobalt. [3]

Soil science is a separate discipline for a reason. It's complicated as hell.

[0]: https://www.dw.com/en/the-amazon-nutrient-rich-rainforests-o...

[1]: https://hikingscenery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/P105070...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podzol#Characteristics

[3]: https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/14187/bush-sickness

So sure, once you've cut down all the trees, and then spent millions remedying water retention/drainage issues of soil structure, millions adding organic material, millions changing pH, and millions remedying any mineral deficiencies, sure, you can grow food there.

Although, have you thought about erosion? And why removing trees can render soils far more prone to erosion?
It has replaced vim’s “open file” and “switch to buffer” for me. I occasionally use it in the command line, by expanding *. Not that often as in Vim, but very useful.

I still need to find a satisfactory way to do “find in files” with vim. I use a custom script to call ag and it’s enough, but a bit clunky at times.
are you suggesting that a few days of screen time at a bad day care is the screen's fault? Get another daycare that isn't shortstaffed. No kid is gonna be scarred for life over a few days of random youtube videos unless the day care is truly incompetent (which sounds like a good case to sue the day care over. Not Google).
> This task can be delegated to a „buddy“.

That seems to be a better solution. A new employee may hesitate to ask their manager questions that show they don't understand something. But they may feel less nervous about asking a co-worker. Also, a co-worker might have more relevant technical knowledge than a manager would.
Theer's a lot of technical details I don't understand.

What is "Messenger" and what is "message web interface" and what exactly is it that he desperately needs to sync?

Contacts? Aren't they already store on the phone when you sync against gmail?

SMS? Aren't they already stored on the phone? The same with call history, right?
PHP is now run mainly as fcgi server. For streaming data that needs some fix on the server side so that the http server doesn't try to fetch the complete page before sending that data to client. And I am not sure how to achieve that.

This wasn't a problem 12 years back as then Apache's mod_php had been the default way to serve pages. Your http server was the PHP interpreter.
Russian army truck logistics failure
This has happened since the first foss project.

Guess us foss programmers are a bunch of phonies
It goes all the way down to the naming of system utilities. Disk Utility has a distinct name and icon (and questionable functionality). You can easily find it in Spotlight and launch it with a few key strokes. The familiar icon appears and you’ve found what you want.

In Windows you search for Disk Management and you not only have to type the entire name but the result you get is not the program you’re looking for but some long winded description that makes you stop and have to decipher it. It adds friction and confusion.

At least since Windows 10 Start-X opens a useful list of utilities.
Cyclops Blink Sets Sights on Asus Routers
The problem is that it’s most likely never been built to allow overrides in the first place.

I understand the reason why they have the restriction in place - roaming costs money and is only profitable for occasional usage. An always-roaming customer would be a net loss for the business.

However, the system should be built to allow the customer to pay the true price of roaming and extend their stay if they need.
Well over a decade in my case. The new chat is an exercise in frustration.

My favourite bug (on Android) is when you paste a URL, hit enter to send, then start typing your message related to the URL. Because it wants to process the URL, look it up for a preview, it doesn't send straight away. However when it does, it also includes your absolutely not submitted and presently in draft stage beginnings of your next message.

Unreal.
There isn't really more details there though.
Now you’re moving the goalposts - I said a citation was needed that NATO was harvesting Serbian organs. You’ve yet to supply one and are apparently unable to do so.
You are not wrong about the local effects of it, but that can happen with conventional weapons too. The firestorm in Dresden and Japan were as horrific as you described and predates operational nukes.
I got dizzy just reading the article with all these flavours, dependencies, sources and differences.

And this is "just" talking about Mint & Ubuntu... How does a normal person decide what distro to even start with (I am stuck with Kali since forever. Does what I need for my job).
greater reminder that I need to set up a VPN in a town I know
This guy sounds like he’s gone off the deep end.
>But if these things are problems, then we should try to fix them right?

Preventative measures never work. Mitigative measures should be how you enforce lessons. But everytime it's all about banning content, because sweeping it under the rug means kids won't try to dig, right?

Don't just say "GTA is bad don't play it". Explain what is bad about it (in very specific details), and why they should instead play something else until they get older. Don't treat it as if watching one act of violence or one sex scene will scar the kid for life. If they are old enough to go behind your back, they are probably old enough to be talked to about these topics. At least enough for them to understand why you disapprove.
There's lots of RISC-V hardware these days, from embedded RV32 chips up to machines you can run Linux on. It's nothing at all like SPARC/POWER.
> It’s a bad thing because the enforcement is arbitrary and not transparent.

That's not an inherent issue. Sometimes enforcement must be opaque to protect victims, but otherwise it should absolutely be transparent.

> It’s also bad because once a set of evil personas was established it became trivial to expand each of those personas to cover more and more benign attitudes and opinions to the point that labels like “racist” have lost all meaning.

I'm honestly not even sure what you're saying here. Can you give some examples of "benign attitudes and opinions" for which people were found to be in violation of codes of conducts for espousing?

> Maybe if only people which caused objectively measurable harm were excluded this could be called a positive thing.

What, in your opinion, would constitute "objectively measurable harm"? Why do you feel that harm that can't be objectively measured doesn't matter?

> As it is, it’s a power game of censoring and bullying those that don’t bow before whatever the fashionable media/activist/political opinion is on that particular day.

As opposed to bullying those who have no power? I don't see how that's better.

I'm also not aware of codes of conduct being used to exclude people based on political opinions. Unless you consider "people who are different from me don't deserve rights" to be a political opinion, in which case... well, I will hold my metaphorical tongue.

Which sorts of opinions, exactly, are you referring to here?
I bind Ctrl-J to ":Ag " so I'll simply have to type in roughly what I'm searching for and then get the pop-up to refine the search and do selections.

I imagine you have a similar approach, what's clunky about it for you?
Popular opinion collected by Maxim Katz team

* https://russianfield.com/netvoine (end of the 02.2022)

* https://russianfield.com/zamir (05.03.2022-07.03.2022)

almost no changes. Yes, a lot of people decline but that's not the only evidence. People quite often share in YouTube comments that everyone around supports war.

I've mentioned Afghanistan because 3000 Ukrainians died in this war. I am Russian speaking from Kharkiv, I know what is Russian chauvinism and imperialism from the inside. I could also mention Soviet-Finland war (1939), Holodomor (1933), occupation of Ukrainian National Republic (UNR), same line by Kremlin imperialists.

I have no data on Ukrainians opinion of Afghanistan war, but times were different, we've got Internet now, so many ways to discover truth. That's why I've mentioned Ichkeria (1994), I had no understanding what was there until RF occupied Ukrainian Donbas. Clearly that was occupation and genocide by RF but what's your opinion? Do you enjoy RF troops song:

А мы береты на лоб надвинем
И автоматы удобней сдвинем
И с улыбкою веселой
Мы будем жечь чужие села
addiction brings harm, but addiction's meaning has been muddied over the years. There are very few kids who would be taken off social media and legitimately suffer withdrawal symptoms due to lack of access.

That language is important when determining how to sue a company.
They went out into a desert to record this. I don't think they used these sounds in the movie, but they were heavily inspired by the real world phenomenon.

They also buried mics in the sand, to record what that would sound like.
Years ago I got a tour of one of the Bunkers attached to the German Uban system along with the rest of my High School class. It was an absolute hell to see and we all agreed that we would prefer to stay outside should it come to that.
How to win friends and influence people, at an early age. It’s a manual for being pleasant to work with and seeking mutual benefit. Despite the title, it describes a very genuine way to act.

Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman. It inspired me to be curious for the sake of curiosity, and not just in my field. It made me a little more adventurous. What gripped me wasn’t the science, it was the ants and the bongos.

Grapes of wrath. It’s poverty explained to those who never experienced it. This book just sticks with me. I can see why they make students read it. It’s also a damn good book.

No more Mr Nice Guy. Plot twist: you’re not nice, you’re insincere and manipulative. Don’t shame people into giving back. If you want your needs met, ask for things. Be nice when you mean it, not as a tool to earn approval.

Wages of Destruction. This book doesn’t explain what happened from 1933 to 1945, but why. It added contextual clarity to a topic I’ve been reading about for years. It changed how I perceive other historical events too. It’s not a casual read though.
+1, Same here. Like, I'm not even happy about it, I could have done something very different if i didn't read that book. "It blew my mind at an impressionable age" is a comment I read online about this book, very accurate!
Interesting; a discussion would help about the core benefits compared e.g. to Sorensen's work like Impromptu, or ChucK, or OpenMusic.

> Melrōse offers a fully human-centric approach to algorithmic composition

Rather a "programmer centric" approach
Color Your Logs and Stack Traces
If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.
Assuming some location in murrica, you should actually be getting into work at some clock time between 23:00 and 04:00. There is only one time, and it's UTC.
Same with nature documentaries.

Didn’t realise until I watched a making-of, and it blew my mind a bit, that pretty much all noises are added in post. Makes sense I guess as it’s probably hard to get good sound when filming at extreme telephoto or with drones and things.

For example, a foley artist made the sounds of a polar bear playing in the snow by squishing a rubber glove full of cornflower.

Since then all nature docs have felt fake as my brain can’t get over the fact that none of the noises are real. They’re too distracting and it breaks the immersion completely.
I'm a reliable source of food for my wife. But I would like to think she also sees me as a companion xD

I hope I shouldn't be expected to starve her to test this theory!
At least they didn’t go on to describe in 300 words how their grandma’s homegrown DB engine was the best DB engine of them all ;-)
Maybe in Tokyo, but not out in the countryside in my experience.
Nice, another entry to the tiny list of musical computer languages that stick to notation level and don't go down the rabbit hole of synthesis only to never return.

notemap('!...!...!...!', kick)

Can't help thinking of this classic:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011204042933/http://www.spaz.c...
> A facetious example of the lunacy of the existing "Code of Conduct" brigade

This seems like nothing more that a textbook strawman argument, except you haven't even bothered to make the argument.

> A Sane "Code of Conduct", which would not be written down because it's implied by baseline civility and common sense

You underestimate the conviction with which uncivil people will cling to "but what rule did I violate!?".

CoCs signal to potential members of a project/community that abusive behavior won't be tolerated - they are necessary because some types of communities historically have tended to tolerate such behavior.
I couldn’t get far because I don’t like how he writes.

I found The Subtle Magic of Not Giving a Fuck to be a lot better. The sample is enough to get the point: you can apply Marie Kondo’s method to obligations that don’t spark joy.
> I don't recall comic book companies hiring legions of psychologists, behavioral economists, and data scientists in order to optimize engagement metrics by exploiting evolutionary bugs built into our brains.

demographic studies and market analysis wasn't invented in the 80's. Neither was clickbait nor color theory or other general psychology. There very much were psychologists to figure out what stories resonate with an audience, and economists optimizing the price per issue with the right cut-off point to engage you to buy the next one. Data scientists didn't exist the way they do now, but did the same thing; surveying a bunch of kids and figuring out what they liked and making content based on it.

None of this is new. advertisement is an art with centuries of refinement.
Yes. It might even be that what is tactical on one level is strategical on another. For example: an investment agency might have as a strategy: "we do arbitrage on different markets that have latency between them". A tactic might be: "We use AI to optimize our decisions". On for the people involved with the AI, the decision of AI is strategical, and the tactics are like "do we use NNs ? or statistical modelling, or both or ... ?"
Ask HN: How to properly set up an online business?
It’s my first post on HN so please pardon any mistake I might have.
I'm planning to start a small e-commerce business with a few close friends, specifically selling handmade cosmetics. Judging by our target market, we think the best initial approach would be selling through social network channels like Instagram.
However, our main concern is this road will be very difficult to scale later on, and maintaining the sales for a long time will be very difficult. The page will eventually die out sooner or later, like many similar business that only based on Instagram store in my country.
So right now we are stuck between 2 choices:

1. keep going with just an instagram page and see how it go.

2. kickstart an e-commerce site with our product listing, customer support, payment gateway,… I am thinking about using existing platform like Shopify here.

I feel that going with 1 would be very cost effective and can produce revenue instantly but 2 will be better for us later on. However I can not see any other obvious drawback to simply decide with just this, any insight would be extremely helpful here
Hangouts was great, used xmpp in the beginning and was available on most devices so would work across android, iOS, blackberry, Mac, windows and web. They screwed it up and WhatsApp won.
Thanks for the great links!
The articles a bit hammy, but the paper is fantastic - papers in evolutionary training always make evolution in biology more understandable (in my own mind anyway).