skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very good point, thank you.

Conversely, nowadays that is less and true though. Currently, getting a latest Ryzen 5000 APU laptop can very easily last you 10 years or more -- until something physically breaks inside. The machines themselves are very energy-efficient and fast enough for everything except special work niches.

So I suspect we're witnessing a culture shock: what used to be the best strategy no longer is, and the players (the producers) haven't adapted yet.
Now that you mentioned early 2000s, at the time I was shopping for a LCD display. At the time Eizo was the go-to brand for good screens, and they used Samsung panels. As a poor just graduated programmer I bought the Samsung with the same VA panel that Eizo used, and it was awful in ways I would never expect a display could be.
Translation

https://fm4-orf-at.translate.goog/stories/3023561/?_x_tr_sl=...
I’m sorry to hear that. Planet is a company I admire quite deeply. I think they are well aware of the difficulties folks like you have had working with them in the past and I’ve seen firsthand the lengths they’ve gone to remedy that once made aware. Their new product organization is very focused on taking things in a new direction that I have high hopes for.
I have come to view religions as organisms in an eco-system. The behavior is very analogous. The goal for both is survival and propagation. As within an eco-system, organisms evolve and adopt survival strategies. Religions do the same too. Organisms evolve due to genetic aberration, Religions evolve due to social aberration. In any eco-system, the young organisms are known to adopt harsher survival strategies, in religions you find the younger religions (Abrahamic, at this point of time in history), adopt strategies of violence and coercion. The more tougher to get out of a religion is directly proportional to how young it is. The principles are hard wired for survival, hence more emphasis on mandatory daily/weekly rituals for all in the religion, unlike in older ones where rituals in general are more often than not a domain of the priests. The older religions on the other hand are less virulent and more susceptible to younger challengers. Some organisms in nature beat this challenger possibility by adopting a more distributed structure, there by surviving in spite of assault from challengers. Young religions on the other hand prefer a centralized control structure which helps in keeping the line discipline. As within an eco-system, strategies of some organisms might be damaging to the eco-system as a whole. When it comes to religion, the ecological balance can be obtained only when damaging survival strategies are identified and discarded by the said organism, in other words it just needs to grow up...
I'm working on a similar project for pollinators. We've got a bumblebee identification webapp up (https://beemachine.ai/), and I'm working on a tool to automatically monitor pollination activity. Have been working on running quantized versions of my models on a Jetson Nano, and I would love to build something analogous to BirdNET-Pi if I can figure out a satisfactory camera situation for the Pi. There's a lot of exciting conservation potential in this space, but a lot of research is constrained by the expense & difficulty of getting decent sample sizes. Decentralized data collection (citizen science!) is the answer.

If there's any others working on similar projects, please reach out, I'd love to chat!
I once wrote an inkscape plugin to actually reduce precision. This would shrink the svg filesize quite considerably in some circumstances. This was particularly useful as some of the SVG's were modified by theming large sets of icons to particular branding colors and would take up quite a lot of space.
Not in Afghanistan. Not in Korea. Not in Vietnam.

That was all the US deciding to give up and go home. There wasn’t really a negotiated settlement.
Disney does the news?

Today in Agrabah, dissidents upset at Aladdin’s monkey are protesting in front of the palace.
Tried nexe but had better experiences with pkg.
I think this is a fair summary. Don’t sleep on GEE, Orbital Insight, and Descartes Labs, though. All three have incredibly impressive platforms that can spin up new custom models and deploy them at scale very quickly. And Microsoft is starting to make a major push into the space with their Planetary Computer initiative. Early innings yet, though, I agree about that.
"The Monopoly On Your Mind, Part 1: Consolidation Craze & Illusion of Choice"

I don't see what context this adds.
Jeff Lynne is getting into some esoteric things to make music for.
is it possible you can paste some more of the article, please? i could not figure out how to read it around the cookie banner and other playful page elements. thank you
Infrared Neural Stimulation can be used without modifications: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26157967/

It's somewhat cheating though, since it uses a thermal mechanism.
I think it very much depends on how the "failing out" is done. If its just a standard grading scheme and there is the potential for 100% of the class to pass (if they all do well on the content), then I think its actually great to give as many people the chance as possible.

But, some of the classes I took early on in college had extremely difficult grading curves based on the middle/top students in the class, which I didnt think was fair at all. Trying to weight each individual class so a certain % of people pass is a terrible act imo, as it will vary year to year. I passed all of the classes, but I still feel sorry for the kids who failed just because our year had more smarter students that the previous/next years.
Ask HN: What was your seed capital deal? How much cash for how much equity?
Question for startup founders who have raised capital.....

I'm curious to know for anyone willing to share - how much equity did you give, in exchange for how much cash injected?

And for context, approximately when?
There's actually pretty solid archaeological evidence of at least the cognitive capacities which would prefigure in civilisation through toolmaking and their complexity.

This is a long but highly informative presentation by Sander van der Leeuw from 2012:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=pOyQqPi28ug

Relevant segment begins at about 8m30s.
Having a divine revelation that the dhimmis are plotting to murder you (and therefore should be forced pay you a 50% tax in perpetuity under threat of expulsion or death, of course) can hardly be considered a purely political, non-religious reason. Or a trope.
Dell and Lenovo (laptops) have been so bad lately, my company has stopped supplying them. HP seems solid for enterprise and Asus is decent for SMB.
A `.deinit()` function could also run some arbitrary code that does weird and unexpected things. The point is that reasonable people don't abuse functions like that — if they do abuse, don't use their code. Neither Rust nor Zig is a sandbox that could stop actively stupid/malicious code.
I'm just wondering why NPR (!) is so political.

You'd hope they'd be a better source of news that better serves all political parties. (And avoid those that seem partisan.)
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/12/more-than-e...

>86% get their news from digital devices

>68% get their news from television

The death of TV news is being overstated by the above poster but it's certainly no longer the dominant form of news media. Among the younger age demographics on Hacker News I really can't imagine many people are willing to tolerate the insufferable cable news format with massive and frequent ad breaks.
> You are mistaken that there are different versions of the bible. There are different translations.

There are different versions of the sources, as well as different trabslations; most recent versions of the Bible are based on some scholarship which incorporates and makes some effort to reconcile the differences, rather than simply choosing one set as authoritative, but the differences in the sources contribute to difference between translations.
Agreed. I’m biased, but keep an eye on synthetic aperture radar. The physics of those systems allow for monitoring with a pretty different theoretical limit on price-per-revisit from their optical companions: https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/why-im-leaving-azavea-to-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis claims that the most recent fossils are about 50,000 years old. Without more recent bones, we have no reason to believe that they still exist.

That said, myths about both small human-like animals and large ones are practically universal. We have another universal myth that was fairly recently dated to be much older than you'd expect. https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-oldest-story-astronom... shows that the myth about the Pleiades, aka "seven sisters", likely date back 100,000 years. Given that, would it be surprising that myths like the Sasquatch date back to folk memories of Neandertals? Who our ancestors knew much more recently than that?
iSH is mindnumbingly slow and will chew through your battery in hours. My slow Pinephone with an Ancient Allwinner SoC that wasn't great when it was released runs circles around anything on iSH.

Also if the screen turns off it kills your sockets so you get to start things like git clone over (which can take tens of minutes on a normal sized repo and will make the phone hot enough its uncomfortable to hold.)

Also you can't multitask at all.

And most importantly: The interesting thing about compilers is that you can generate native executable for the platform. gcc on iSH is generating executables for an interpreter which is no better than just messing around with javascript.

>complicated File transfer stuff

I can literally just scp things back and forth between my phone and computer, the UI is exaclty the same, no extra wires, no extra software and it doesn't matter what device I'm sitting in front of. On my Girlfriend's machine running Gnome I can even type the IP into the graphical shell and everything shows up like a local disk. If I had an MDNS responder set up it would be 100% point and click. If I had a Windows or OSX machine in the house it would just work with those too, no extra software needed (now that Windows ships with OpenSSH.) The UX for this is unbeatable by Apple and Google.
A huge difference between Taiwan and China is that Taiwan does it voluntarily.

By the way, prisoners in Taiwan can still voluntarily donate their organs to their close relatives.

Trying to mix Taiwan and China together is quite a word salad.
No, being a British citizen did not protect Matthew Hedges from being sentenced to life imprisonment on trumped up charges of espionage (he was eventually pardoned and released):

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

Western governments are as craven in appeasing the UAE and Saudi kleptocracies, because of their wealth, as poor countries like India or Pakistan that hire themselves as mercenaries for the emirs dirty work (like kidnapping princess Latina of Dubai). Calling them medieval would be a grave insult to the Dark Ages.
Original author of password-store was Jason Donenfeld (of Wireguard fame), and it was indeed well-written.
Okay, what you've done here is you've responded to a criticism of a particular type of study by linking to two examples of that kind of study and a Wikipedia section that cites one of those same studies. Forgive me if I feel like the article's criticisms have not been addressed.
https://antler.co has a similar model
Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banu_Qurayza

FYI: there exists many other Jewish tribes, this ones killed for the reasons stated in article.

Please read a bit before you talk, it is embarrassing!
Ask HN: How do you know if a market is saturated? Especially e-commerce and SaaS
One aspect of basic biology that is almost invariably neglected when discussing the possibility of the continued existence of cryptids like Homo floresiensis is that there must be an isolated breeding population.

Plate tectonics puts a limit on the size and depth of caves. So how do you hide a breeding population?

The short answer: it is impossible.
I had a very bad experience with a mid-range Dell. And so did many other people I know.

Ditched that and switched to a low-range HP. All my work was on the cloud anyway. Worked really nice and exceeded all expectations. Linux worked just out-of-the-box.

Then I owned a high-range Asus, and it was the best laptop I have ever seen or used. Loved the product.

I use high-range Asus from that point in my life. Great experience. Linux works, has NVIDIA GPU w/ CUDA, everything just works great! Couldn't complain.

Made two friends switch to high-range Asus for life, as well.
3M, Johnson Johnson, Church Dwight, and a bunch of really householdy name companies are all smack in the middle of NJ. It's a sweet spot if you want to hop a few big corporations in your lifetime and work your way up the chain.
Yeah, but you need to pay $39 to find the source.
Values concerning sexual purity, obscenity, drug use, the transcendence of the almighty God, the material and immaterial parts of mankind, and the complementary roles of men and women are inherent in Biblical teaching. Some of these can be present among atheists, and they may be regarded as good. The difference is these values (and more) are present and regarded as good in varying degrees in every Abrahamic religion.

Sure there are atheists who are altruistic. But fundamentally there is little common ground, because an atheist does not believe in a divine being who is the source of all morality.

The question I would ask an atheist is: what is good and who defines it?
Be careful with "there were 15% of adults in the US who said they only have smartphone data for Internet access" - it means that's how they get the internet, not where they use it. Due to broadband availability / quality there's going to be a non-trivial number of people relying on tethering either through phone or dedicated dongle.
Sorry to break it to you but you already have access to this. It’s called MODIS, and it’s free ;)
>However, there is only one Quran

Nope. Although the Quran is very well preserved for such an old document, there are multiple variants. Muslims often claim it's perfectly preserved, but it's just not. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYwwX5lc_ww (start 8 minutes in).
As someone who had to sadly use one of the butterfly switch keyboards for a while at work, the new 14"/16" Macbooks both have the "old school" feeling keyboards, finally brought Magsafe back, and have ports for SD card and HDMI again. I feel like the thickness is so close to allowing an ethernet port that they should've just bumped it up a little more, but maybe they felt the average consumer wouldn't know what that is in 2022 (kidding, haha!). Sadly, still no camera shutter which is definitely a bummer, but I road my 2013 model into the ground hoping they'd bring back Magsafe because that's a must-have feature for me, hah.
Huh I never thought of that, but that’s a great observation
Yes! Actually I remember now being surprised to find out Jason had written it. His git repository is full of neat and interesting projects.
While I don't condemn such snitching, I'm not sure how the responsibility doesn't fall on the social media user for publicly advertising their search or "professionally friending" prospective employers. Neither action is necessary.
there's usually a simple apt-get behind that, but this is not the case. clearly they went through a we-dont-need-apt-just-for-this phase and things got out of hand. there's like a dozen scripts to handle installation of scripts, crons, services and to handle their lifecycle.

check this uninstall script https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/blob/main/scripts/...

they need someone to do their apt packaging like yesterday.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing that!
Not sure if I like this better.

It seems even more complicated to track 3 context points in time rather than 2.

I'm open to changing my mind, but would need reasons. Botched rebases aren't a common issue for me (though merge conflict resolution can be unpleasant).
I wonder if they’re using a steerable parachute to put it on a predictable heading. In the rocketry hobby we use the drogue/main deployment to keep from having to walk so far to collect a rocket. Naturally, someone put an acrobatic parachute, gps, microcontroller, and some actuators in an airframe to fly a model rocket back to the launch rail. It worked pretty well.
https://youtu.be/4ac-VFPAqIo
Yes, I had to frequently check my profile and removed such accidental likes. After a while I just deleted the LinkedIn app and stopped using browsing LI in the mobile browser altogether.
An article in Aeon discussing the proposed connection:

https://aeon.co/ideas/investigating-homo-floresiensis-and-th...
The Māori, natives of NZ/Aotearoa, have legends of wild men, the Maero [0], who were displaced by the Māori, and accordingly angered. Their version of Ireland's Tuatha Dé Danann, I guess.

It's always been fun to tease tourist hikers with stories of the Maero when you're in a remote backcountry hut hearing the godawful screams of brushtail possums.

Speculation is that the myth derived from one or more of the "lost tribes" [1], Māori who fled into harsh wildernesses in the face of invaders. Given we've so little knowledge of archaic Māori culture following the extinction of the moa [2], maybe there were "lost tribes" back then that the Maero is based on.

Amusingly, as a redhead under the Southern Hemisphere ozone hole, they have a myth of a white skinned and red haired people [3] who find direct sunlight lethal, which is pretty correct if you look at melanoma rates in NZ Europeans.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maero

[1]: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Gov10_09Rail-t1...

[2]: https://teara.govt.nz/en/moa

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patupaiarehe
I think it's a bit vague now. I consider a lot of things to be sys prog as well aside from os/compiler/editor/embedded/db engine/other "classic" sys prog gig:

- Writing operators for Airflow (extending frameworks)

- Write editor plugins (extending editor functionalities)

So yeah maybe I should give more thought on the question.
I guess one can leave then? lol. In this market if they have a single digit cohort size they’re gonna be dealing with really good founders who have other options
http://web.archive.org/web/20220419010736/https://www.scient...

https://archive.ph/W2oZC
Thank you for sharing that, I find it very validating. Sometimes it’s nerve racking to publish an opinion piece like this when I know I am extrapolating from very limited and biased information. Sounds like you worked at Orbital Insight, Descartes Labs, or SpaceKnow (in order of likelihood)?
> Recently, I decided it was time for an update.

I recently bought a refurbished x270 from an IT supplier outlet:

- 1TB SSD

- 16GB RAM

- IPS display

- A keyboard you can _actually_ use

- for about 500$

I still have a desktop at home for heavy duty lifting, but for light tasks or doing some work sitting in the garden or at a cafe, it is the perfect form factor. It is running Debian 11 + KDE plasma 5 with no issues.

Don't underestimate the upgrade-ability of old thinkpads, they are sort of modern Theseus ships.
I think unfortunately Elo is misapplied here.

Elo is appropriate for chess, where there is no initial game-state variance, and no built-in advantage for either competitor except who goes first; that can be addressed by averaging, by using the results of tournaments where the competitors swap colors, or simply by maintaining a separate Elo as white and as black.

Similarly for Starcraft you can track Elo separately for Terran/Zerg/Protoss. (Technically you would also need to do the same by map, but anyway...)

With MTG, you have a huge effect from the quality of the deck. Unless you have each player play with each deck, there's no way to de-convolute the quality of the deck vs the quality of the player. And if you did have that data, Elo couldn't leverage it -- you'd need a more sophisticated model to account for that statistical effect.

Then there's the game-state variance you allude to... Regardless of how good you are at MTG, and even how good your deck is, you're going to lose a lot of games due to mana flood / mana screw / etc. When that happens to either player, the outcome of the game does not contain useful information about skill. Of course if you sample enough games, you can still figure out what is skill and what is chance, but using Elo with low-count datasets is bound to be misleading because it is designed for games of pure skill, where game outcomes contain information about relative skill levels 100% of the time. Maybe you could establish some rules about what games are appropriate to use as indicators of relative skill, and which ones must be discarded?

Anyway it's an interesting idea. Here's related reading for the MMR score used in Magic Arena:

https://hareeb.com/2021/05/23/inside-the-mtg-arena-rating-sy...
How to Mint NFTs on Solana Using Rust and Metaplex
On Anti-Crypto Toxicity
What? it says Romans lost, then they gonna win after. What it has to do with anything?

Also I don't believe Rum means Roman Christians, it simply means Byzantines.
> This will continue to limit its opportunity for wide adoption.

I don't see this having any practical effect. Unlike other services, you aren't locked into one app. There are others, and perhaps more importantly, they were here first.
> Is there a distinction between government and religion in Islam?

No more or less than there is in Christianity.

There are Muslims who distinguish the role of each, just as there are Christians who do.

> In the west, there is this distinction

Not largely from within institutional Christianity, where both theocracy (wherein government is viewed as subordinated to religious institutions, rather than the two being separate) and caesaropapism (wherein religious institutions are subordinated to government rather than the two being separate) have been common institutional power and legitimate government power is frequently portrayed as having a divine religious origin.
I do recommend reading the piece, it's not what you might immediately think given the headline (the author is a crypto-skeptic, as am I -- in fact the author is also the creator of web3isgoinggreat.com)
To be fair, the FedGov doesn't know all of the transactions that you do that affect your income. At best, it knows what a legal employer paid you.

FedGov doesn't know the basis of your stock (or crypto) transactions so even if it knows the proceeds, it doesn't know how much tax you owe.
Y'=SSK(S(K(SS(S(SSK))))K)=X(XX)X(XX)XX(X(XX)(XX(X(XX)X(XX)(X(XX)(X(XX)X(XX)XX))))XX)

X(XX)X(XX)XX [ 0, 1 ] == {(, X}] Binary Combinatory Logic Truth: 1101111
How to Start a Blog with Hugo a Static Site Generator Written in Go – Part 1
Yeah what’s wrong in wasting a couple years of a students time and a bunch of their money when you could have saved them the trouble.
Oh wow. I definitely relied on that when a window didn’t act right. I don’t even know if the Win+Shift+arrow keys would move it, with a single window? You could pane it, obviously, but that’s not really the same.
Peter Beck (Rocket Lab CEO) has explained in a few interviews that maintaining a fleet of boats is incredibly expensive, and that this cost is one of the major reasons why they didn't go this route. Operating helicopters is much cheaper in comparison.

He has quoted actual numbers in the past, such as in this December 2021 interview (https://youtu.be/gcuOSXjevGs?t=751): "Do you have any idea what it costs to operate a ship? It's way way cheaper for Electron to fly it with a helicopter than it is to put a ship out there for a couple of days. It's just ridiculous. Marine assets are SO expensive. […] The Bell 429 that we operate is like $3,000 an hour. […] It's a 2.5, 3 hours flight. […] It's like $60-70,000 for the ship just to sit in the port! Not even going anywhere, it's $60,000 a day. And that's just a tiny little ship."
But you can just have both -- or is it the existence of decentralized social media that you find dangerous?