skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a linked article (https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/duck-sex...):

A female duck’s vaginal barriers cannot shield her from physical harm. On an evolutionary level, though, they protect her in another way—by allowing her to choose the father of her offspring.

By using her vaginal barriers, she is able to maintain her sexual autonomy in the face of sexual violence.

Our observations also revealed that when a female duck solicits sex with a chosen mate, her cloacal muscles dilate to allow uninhibited entry.

The result is that, even for species in which nearly forty per cent of all copulations are violently coerced, only between two and five per cent of ducklings come from extra-pair matings. As a method of contraception, ducks’ vaginal barriers can be ninety-eight-per-cent effective...

Is there an equivalent mechanism in human females? Why yes, there is. As one would expect, it's framed as a 'disorder': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginismus

No one has seriously examined this as a natural defense against coerced sex, but maybe it's time...
IP blocks are changing every day, especially in that region. If you can accurately slice IP's by geoIP you'll be a billionaire.

Maxmind sucks at it, regularly reporting IPs from Australia as Austria and Germany, and they're the best in the world.
reMarkable generation one owner here, that at some point sang praises. You are right that the whole cloud integration stinks and was introduced in a shady fashion. Yes, those of us that bought it early get the cloud service for free, but I have just halted my device a few versions prior to when it was introduced and will never again connect it to any WiFi. My personal pet peeve is the touch swiping feature that frankly 9/10 activates when I do not want it to – introducing it was a regression. Needless to say, I am not buying another reMarkable despite loving the hardware and having been promised that the second generation is accessible via SSH.

It is not fair to compare it to an iPad though. The surface and pen has a feeling of resistance (in part thanks to the replaceable tips) that makes it feel like you are writing on a surface rather than sliding on a piece of glass.

While the first generation has a budding pure Linux port [1] and is somewhat hackable [2]. I am holding off any purchases or changes until the PineNote [3] becomes a reality and hopefully my old reMarkable will survive until that point. Note taking on a digital device has become essential to me to scale with more people and projects in my work, so I need a device like this. The PineNote also rocks Wacom technology for that matter. ;)

[1]: http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm

[2]: https://github.com/reHackable

[3]: https://www.pine64.org/pinenote
Indeed, but is the human mind truly advanced enough to understand parkour?
Yeah, if you're looking for workflow tutorials with specific tools, it'll be a bit more difficult since a lot of really big shops will roll some of their own tools between big commercial offerings like Lightworks, Resolve, Blackmagic Fusion, and the handful of very prominent open-source tools like Natron and Blender. Every project is going to be both chaotic on some level, and kind of protective of specifics.

Pixar in the past has been pretty open about their workflows, but those workflows are also full of their own tooling and technologies, a lot of which they've open-sourced: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios (cf. this 2020 interview with Nick Porcino, which calls out some things about open source: https://www.aswf.io/bts/nick-porcino-pixar/ )

Oh hey, speak of the devil, ASWF just put out a report a couple weeks ago about open source in entertainment: http://report.aswf.io/ (PDF)
Google Search’s new highly cited label helps you get to the source of a story
I've been waiting a dozen years for this post! Did you like Sagan's book "Contact"? I'm a big fan. Check out the work I did to show pi as a series of images, and a cool "easter egg" I might have found buried in pi.

And yes, my web site looks like it was built 20 years ago and then allowed to rot ever since, since that is in fact what happened!

https://whiteis.com/whiteis/personal/programs/Pi/pi_images.s...
I literally ran into this 3 hours ago and couldn't figure out why. That explains it! Thanks for the insight!
This assumes that having empathy for one person means actively working against benefiting other people— that is to say, funding someone’s wheelchair individually somehow also causes one to maliciously go against benefiting starving children in an exploited country. I don’t think this is the case; you can both give to someone with a wheelchair and also support a program that distributes medicine or food or something else.

I am heavily against this notion that giving to someone is bad because it isn’t the most efficient giving. Giving to someone, anyone, in need is good.
>programme

It's not a programme, that would make it eugenics, which it's not - there are no centralized decisions, there is no hiearchy with beings at the top saying "we want this trait but not this one." You would have to believe in a Lain-esque intelligence directing every cultural and biological movement from a central location, and in that case...stop taking acid and go to the club if you do...
The cogniscenti will know this, but its "Erwin Otto Marx" who designed this type of machine in 1924 not groucho or karl. It's happenstance that its an instance of high voltage generator of a type designed by Mr Marx, in Russia.

Peter Kapitza went back to the USSR from Cambridge in 1934 and couldn't get out again. Rutherford sent all his high-energy equipment to him, which considering the state of politics at the time, I thought was very generous and noble.
If you need HA databases and something like s3. If you can just run docker compose and have it all running on a $1/mo vps, I am happy to pocket my extra profit thank you very much.
Right? How is Wacom considered an acceptable option after that, especially for FOSS people?
Yea it's just sitting in the shallows of the Chesapeake near where I live likely destroying the ecosystem
Is this Position based or impulse based?
It sounds like you bought a product not sold by Amazon and got transferred to the company in question.

Don't buy 3rd party products sold on Amazon. I always tell people this. They ignore me and then stories like yours pop up.

NOTE: This applies to prime items as well. Amazon's vetting services for 3rd party sellers is nonexistent. I could literally sell you dog shit right now; with no verification I even exist. I've had a seller account for over a decade, and I've not sold a single item. The Amazon Marketplace is an anonymous Craigslist. Please don't forget that.
You left out Houdini and Nuke!

I just think these two are too big to leave out.
I can shed some light on some of your questions for you.

> most of the documentation talks of gopath

Historically go used a GOPATH env var. Go code had to live under there under `$GOPATH/src/<module-path>`. When doing an import, go would look at the import path, and find it in GOPATH. This wasn't flexible enough but still exists under the hood as it's where go saves (caches?) packages globally. If you have a go.mod/go.sum file in your project, in general, you won't have to worry about GOPATH.

Worth noting that go, while widely used, was created to solve Google's problems (I guess at least initially?), where (from my understanding) they have a huge monorepo. At that point, having everything live under such a GOPATH somewhat makes sense.

> why are go mod vendor and go mod tidy different commands?

Go mod vendor puts all the dependencies in a ./vendor directory. Often used to commit your packages directly into git. There might be other advantages, not sure, but personally I don't use it. Go is able to pick up the packages in your go.mod directly from $GOPATH.

Go mod tidy ensures your go.mod matches your used package. E.g. if you remove usage of a package in your code, go mod tidy is able to pick that up. In addition, it also ensures your go.sum matches go.mod.

> the lack of “one true way” is very strange. some projects module. some projects check in dependent source code

This is a historic issue. Prior to 1.12 (I think), go modules didn't exist, and there were different community projects that attempted to solve go package management.

> do i download with go get? or go install? or go get -u?

Again, historic issues, iirc go get -u forces an update of a package, meaning this updates your go.mod file. Go get without -u does not force update the package. It update your go.mod file if you haven't included the module previously. Go install is used for go main packages. It fetches the code, builds it (so it must be a main package), and puts the final binary in $GOPATH/bin. Assuming you have that in your patch, you can use it straight away.
That was fun. Here's a good bit:

Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot—the telephone book?

Or this:

Sometimes I’d have an actor so stubborn that I’d say, All right, let’s do it two ways. We’d do it my way, and I’d say to my assistant, Print that. Then to the actor, All right, now your way. We’d do it his way with no celluloid in the camera.

Or this:

Sometimes when you finish a picture you just don’t know whether it’s good or bad. When Frank Capra was shooting Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, after the last shot she said, Will that be all Mr. Capra?

We’re all done.

All right. Now why don’t you go and fuck yourself. She thought the picture was shit, but she won the Academy Award for it.
One of the most obnoxious part about NFT's is that this idea is never going to die. Itcs undead forever, someone will keep saying they'll make a buck on it. Few tech gets infinite retries, but even mighty Samsung lowers itself to partnering up for a dubious, probably obnoxious partnership that will probably actively degrade most user's experience.
No, I am speaking of the creation of a simulation of a working brain from the atomic level, Which is impossible.

The brain works fine because it is made of real atoms in the real universe. It is not a model. It is physical.

Chaos theory does not say that the outputs of a system cannot be bounded by physical limitations.
Our courts and legislative bodies have not grown in size linearly with the population, but the modus operandi of these institutions has also not changed. The distortion of too many people per representative without a change in how representation functions explains a lot of our issues.
Yes, among others. Not golang though. I've used it and it feels lower level than those and less productive
High schoolers create filter to remove lead in water
On calculating a “mathematically correct breakfast” (2014)
And we don't do this because of unions?
> then they were simply wrong.

Sure, point is that every definition we come up with gets beaten and then we were wrong with that definition in the first place; defining what agi means seems hard.
I am totally fascinated by this idea, well done!
Time and money are zero-sum.
> With no evidence in either direction, why assume that AGI is in the second category, rather than the third?

Because we have GI examples in nature, therefore it is possible. We just don't know how to do it, yet. The same way we saw birds flying, so we knew flight was possible, but we could not, at that time.
Touche'

that's hadn't been good enough for me because its too broad, that one means anything that results in reproduction gets passed on, and assigns no agency to the individuals reproducing
Language is the missing key, in my opinion. I'm working on solving natural language understanding: https://lxagi.com. Just a landing page for now with an email sign-up.
Totally, but it depends on the story you're trying to tell. I'm still early in my career and my resume is broken up to provide a summary of key parts of my work/ career to date, the most relevant/recent experience first, then highlight skills, education, and finally a brief list of other positions I've held. I've definitely dropped jobs from that last section, so it's not a full dump. I'm listing these because that additional experience is relevant and both substantiates the summary/ skills section, and shows experience where I lack formal education.

In interviews, I've had people read that far down and it's worked, they got exactly what I wanted them to out of it. In other interviews, it's clear that they didn't care, but the resume still got me in the door. They still got the most important parts up top.

And of course, it depends on who you're interviewing with and what you're applying for. The rules aren't so hard and fast, esp. when you're sending over digital copies.
How much control do you think they had over these incidents?
That "yum" no longer exists. dnf has a "yum" alias so that scripts still work, and a lot of the commands are named the same and accept the same arguments, but that's basically where the similarity ends.

And yes DNF is much faster.
>In some cases, the female genital tract prevented the penis from fully inflating, and was full of pockets where sperm went to die.

I think this is what they mean. Not offspring dying per se, but still an evolutionary pressure
odd nitpick since that word is there for grammatical affect in direct contract to centralized decisions
Weird then that HN doesn't jizz its pants over Boox devices. Android OS, backlight (remarkable doesn't have a backlight), even color screens available.

Edit, as noted by another commenter, they seem to be violating the GPL, and possibly engaged in shady logging practices: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/hl09g7/onyx_boox_chi...
All: I realize the topic contains triggers and the article plays on them, but please contain yourselves.
Seattle and Portland will find themselves in a Detroit situation in the coming decades. Remote work means people start to realize they don't need to step over human feces in their city to earn a wage. I don't foresee this decay being stopped.
Oh and here is the page right above that one, that introduces the images:

https://whiteis.com/whiteis/personal/programs/Pi/index.shtml
generational woes such as more aggressive males with stronger penises, in this case.
Not to mention, how many bits of salt can you transmit by voice in this context without this turning into a whole song and dance?

> That would prevent using a pre-generated lookup table

Only for a healthy pinch of salt, not a couple grains, right?
It’s mainly this and it’s normal
for spacecraft (especially in deep space) to have orders of magnitude more datarate on downlink.
Would you mind sharing how you abstract the applications? I looked in your repo but I'm not fluent in React.

I ask because I have a very barebones Application concept in my WebXR environment and am curious what sort of issues you ran into supporting many different types of apps.

My current system is kind of like a Entity-Component system, once you start considering 3D elements and dependency resolution. My hope is to one day be able to allow users to upload script bundles as apps into their environment, with the environment being just a minimum viable VR desktop metaphor.

At this point, I only have a teleconferencing system and an "annotated Google StreetView exploration app" as Applications. I recently added support for YouTube video streaming that I did not do in my App abstraction, but now think should probably be done that way.
Voidtool's Everything is one of those things I pretty much can't use a PC without. It's just stunningly useful and performant. MSFT's file search is so slow in comparison it feels almost like a malicious prank.
I think there is an independent pressure towards aggression and physical size, considering the violence inherent in the animal world.

So you get multidimensional optimization of a single quantity - become too aggressive and your sperm won't pass, but if you're not aggressive enough you might not eat.
Fedora hasn't used "yum" in 7 years (although the alias still exists). I'm curious whether you've ever actually used Fedora.
All tech companies have provided an interface for the law enforcement. No need to verify warrants, no need to show warrants, as long as one is from the law enforcement.
> This often leads to a violent struggle, in which males injure or even drown the female. In some species, up to 40 percent of all matings are forced.

There is no indication of the rate of drowning, but it would be a constant risk across all females, so no real evolutionary pressure would be evident (aside from a risk to the species as a whole). That is to say: the rate of drowning for females would have to be very low, otherwise the species would fail. If the rate was too high, you’d expect to see a counter pressure to have a higher rate of females born versus males.

The point here is that as reproductive structures evolved, the female developed equally complex structures. She might not a choice in if mating occurs, but she does have a choice in whether a particular male fertilizes her eggs. That is the evolutionary pressure… not in response to death from forced mating.

> Whatever the females were doing, they were succeeding. In ducks, only 2 to 5 percent of offspring are the result of forced encounters.

So regardless of if the mating was forced or not, female ducks are quite successful in choosing who fertilizes her eggs.
Flint is an hour East of here. They are still having problems with lead in the water there. First they replaced all the water mains. While it reduced lead levels it didn't completely fix the problem.

Then they replaced the pipes running from the mains to the house. That helped a lot (entire sections of the city are lead free) but those still having problems believe it's in the pipes in the house. There isn't a will among state government to tear up the houses to replace all the pipes. If this works it could help those still suffering.
Was harassment by exploiting this ever a big problem? Seems like you could call someone and if they pick up, you now control their phone line... indefinitely?
If only XP-Pen tablets had touch functionality. :)

After using a smaller sized Wacom (with touch functionality) for ages, I wanted to move to a bigger tablet. The XP-Pen tablets are much cheaper than Wacom, but none of them (nor the other clones/alternatives) seem to have touch functionality.

In my case, I ended up getting a good medium sized Wacom 2nd hand on eBay due to the previous owner having lost their pen (I had one anyway).

But having touch support in XP-Pen/Huion/etc would have made them possibilities too. :)
There's got to be clear advantage, or at least no strong disadvantage across the morphological choices they are constrained to, in the forms. Isabella Rossolini aside, there's no dance here which is pure beauty, its form-follows-function all the way.

Ducks are savage. York University where I studied, in the 70s had a huge shallow lake and it had a regrettable sexual population imbalance which caused fatalities. Randy drakes drowned the decreasing number of ducks. I think they had to do culling to fix it. You think nature would right itself, but in human time for small local populations sometimes it doesn't do a good job.
The fact that you’re saying “from the outside” is literally the point. Outside implies an inside implies dualism. Hence the thought experiment. If there was no outside the thought experiment inherently wouldn’t be.
I always forget the exact semantics, but the parent's description of them as "recursive" is not the same as Cargo; Cargo determines the full tree and writes out its own lockfile, if dependencies happen to have a Cargo.lock inside the package, it's ignored, not used.
From my experience working with it: in short, it is just a fancy name for shared memory between machines, with software libraries on top to manage synchronization, distributed transactions, et cetera.

From a sysadmin perspective it behaves less like a "single system image" and more like multiple images with shared resources.
WizTree has been my go-to for a long time
I had a professor similar to you in college, and he was a real life saver for working with us on reducing textbook costs. I really appreciated his and your efforts to provide quality, affordable books and learning materials.
He sounds insane because the media you consume tells YOU he should sound insane.

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”

― Kurt Vonnegut,
Newsweek and Rolling Stone are the only other mainstream media publications covering it.

The Intercept does as well, but I don’t feel that it’s mainstream despite the good reporting.
But we don't have to comprehend the scope. We just have to implement a genetic algorithm with the appropriate inputs and resources. Have you ever written one? It's not terribly difficult. There's really nothing special here.

I can't conceive the scope of the majority of software projects I've worked on. So what?
> You think nature would right itself

Why think this? Populations and their environments constitute complex systems, not magical ones. They can self-correct, or not, just like how humans don't always manage to not develop cancer.
The universe has three main optimizations to combat exponential compute problems. The speed of light, accepting desynced particles and gravitational time dilation. Lazily handling desyncs means you can run computations and just occasionally check for interactions (quantum mechanics), greatly reducing exponential explosions. Same thing with speed of light. And lastly, those two would still break down if you accumulated enough particles in a small area, in those scenarios the computer will just run that part of the simulation slower, until it becomes so bad that the computer just skips computing those areas entirely and it becomes a black hole that is very simple to compute the effects of on its surrounds.

Those three basically ensures we wont ever have problems with lack of compute for the simulation.
Thanks for the insight! I imagine there must be other costs, such as secure storage and transportation of cash? Also a bank might impose handling fees? (The latter in particular is pure guesswork on my part.)
Yes, that is where I just saw this book mentioned.

Absolutely love these kind of books.

I became fascinated as a kid when I stumbled upon the unfortunately named The Boy Mechanic [1] at a friend of the family's farm house. I later found that there were a whole series [2]. Popular Mechanics did a newer version in the 1940's as well [3].

I discovered the two volumes of the mazing German set: The Way Things Work [4] (not so much DIY, I guess).

I think there is just something about the older texts.

Then there was the amazing 700 Science Experiments [5] put together by UNESCO (who knew UNESCO did books?). I suppose a poor community could put together a kind of school laboratory from such a book, teach real science.

I seek out these kind of books now and am happy to now be able to peruse one of the oldest.

[1] https://archive.org/details/theboymechanicvo12655gut/page/n5...

https://archive.org/details/boymechanicthin00cogoog/page/n8/...

[2] https://archive.org/details/boymechanicbook200chic2/page/n7/...

https://archive.org/details/boymechanicthing03unse/page/n5/m...

https://archive.org/details/boymechanicthing04unse/page/n5/m...

[3] https://archive.org/details/boymechanicbook100popu/page/n3/m...

[4] https://archive.org/details/universalencyclo00lond/page/n5/m...

https://archive.org/details/waythingswork02newy/page/n5/mode...

[5] https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780385052757/page/n3/mode/...
Trust, but verify, I guess?