skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know the shrooms giving people this gateway experience are not alien bio-tech that got to Earth via panspermia?
I just installed this the other day on my phone! I was hearing a bird I had never heard before and just had to know. I've been meaning to identify all the local birds, and I had never heard this one and also couldn't see it. It turned out to be a gray catbird. It was wonderfully chatty. I was never a birder but am quickly becoming one after moving out of the city.
Merlin is an extremely radical development -- the biggest since I started birding 35 years ago! It is a huge change to be able to get quick IDs on calls and songs, unless you are already very expert on the bird vocalisations in an area. From what I've seen so far, it works very well in North America (tested on Eastern deciduous forest birds), and well but not quite as well in Portugal. It will be a good excuse/motivation to do some birding in other countries (e.g. South America) when the models are trained well on those species: the fact that individual locations in the tropics have larger species lists (making ID harder in general) and that vocalisations are a large part of tropical forest birding make it pretty exciting to have it working there. And I'm also looking forward to the app evolving a bit, e.g. confidence scores, labeled sonograms, etc.
> So far, our definition of intelligent alien life has just been: we will know it when we see it.

Where is this discussed?
My guess is what you say here, and where the plan is AI/Robotics will take over. That in itself will be unprofitable for a while until it is very profitable and like Google with search, hard to displace.
It doesn’t feel like a vague request so much as one whose answer is very personal.

You could maybe characterize what you’re saying as that you’re feeling directionless in your career. You like it, but it feels mature and like you’ve reached a summit. You’re craving a new peak to try climbing but can’t find one that’s appealing.

Maybe somebody will throw out an idea here that will inspire you directly, but my sense is that you may need to shake up how you’re looking at the possibilities. You’re thinking in terms of languages and styles and (rightly, for where you are professionally) feel like those are trivial additions to your repertoire rather than peaks to climb.

So maybe you need to think in some other terms. What do you want to be doing professionally at Year 30? What were some things that inspired you at Year 1 or Year 5 that circumstances pulled you away from — can you revisit those? etc

The second of those questions is on my mind because I felt similar to you last year and was coaxed into refocusing on a fun specialty that my career had long ago pulled me away from. It’s a rich and interesting field and tends to draw in storied people with personalities I enjoy, so it’s been really rewarding to dive back into it whole-heartedly. I feel refreshed in a way I hadn’t expected.

But you might be moved by a different question entirely; my
emphasis here is just on maybe asking yourself some different questions than you have been.
Huh, you’re right it’s not. My FTP client does expose it, maybe that’s what I had in mind
441877

Mostly left it at 0% except for two inflation events where it went over 7%.
This whole thread has been about legal immigrants. You’re referring to undocumented immigrants.
One thing I've learned over time is that absurd and even naive-seeming sci-fi premises can and do become reality. I remember watching The Net with Sandra Bullock and laughing at the stupid representation of a website with sound and animation. How naive! And I also remember reading about "online" money that could be stolen like gold and held on a drive. How silly these sci-fi writers were back in the day.
Maintaining anonymity is hard, but similar to security, you can take steps to make it harder for your average police officer to use it against you.

State level actor? Well then yeah, you’re screwed.
Efficiency doesn't matter nearly so much as is usually assumed. What matters is cost. Exactly, cost per Wh stored, and per W in and per W out.

Mineshaft storage is very, very efficient, but has an upper limit on energy per mineshaft determined by its depth and how much weight fits in it. The cost of the winch apparatus is amortized over that amount. More mineshafts means more total storage.

Pumped hydro has very, very low cost per Wh stored, but kinda high per W in and out. But thousands of pumped hydro systems were already built, almost, so seem free; they just needed pumps added.

Synthetic H2 and NH3 are very, very cheap per Wh stored. W out uses existing turbines, so seems cheap. W in depends on your electrolysers, which are improving fast.

In batteries, cost per Wh stored has been large, but is different in different chemistries. In a better chemistry it is lower. Flow batteries have lower cost per Wh stored, for any liquid chemistry, but higher per W in or out; and need plumbing and pumps.

Details matter. Numbers matter. Dumb choices make dumb designs. Dumb designs can be improved on.

Drawing conclusions based on dumb choices is just dumb.

Musk is dumb, but just barely smart enough to hire smart people and, sometimes, let them be smart. So, Hyperloop was just dumb, no matter who works on it. Starship is kinda smart, depending on what you can think of to do with it. Mars colonization is dumb. Starlink could possibly be smart, depending on a lot of details.

A wholly new capability, like radically cheaper mass to orbit, can often enable smart ideas. Super-expensive mass to orbit was good enough for weather satellites, planetary probes, and geosynch COMSATs.
TFA suggests Bartholdi may have made the changes after Eiffel left the project to fit more with his own artistic vision. That's not poor engineering, just maybe change of leadership and direction of the project.
> there is nothing inherently centralized about spam prevention.

I'd say there is. You could crowd source moderation, but that's susceptible to the same manipulation seen with bitcoin miners.

Culturally speaking, we seek out trustable sources. I'm not sure technology can surmount that.
It needs a top 100 and fancy charts so that one can review how players did it.
https://pernos.co does something similar, except that instead of searching for watchpoints/breakpoints we're building a database of everything that happened. That involves replaying different segments of the execution in parallel and also applying different kinds of instrumentation to the same segments, also run in parallel. It's great, we can saturate the biggest boxes AWS has :-).
> Why would I want an unregulated currency, free of consumer protections or government oversight

And why would I believe that it has value compared to gold, or a cow? And while the value of a dollar is an abstract of those physical trades, at least it has the backing of the nation’s resources, its people, and its military ability to plunder. Bitcoin has all the backing of …
There's The Climate Game¹

1: https://ig.ft.com/climate-game/

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31106819
How do CEO recession expectations actually relate to and motivate the actual state of the economy? Do we have quantitative theories which make forecasts with error bars? Color me dubious.
> This is what adults do

TBF, the behaviors they are complaining about are so far away from "what adults do". Honestly, tma lot of people could be having a better inagine of SpaceX now that their letter is on the open than during the awkward silence phase.
All the GTK4 apps I know all exclusive to their specific platforms. Most of them are being made exclusively for GNOME. Some of them have been made exclusively for elementary. I'm not interested if it's technically possible to create DE and WM neutral GTK4 apps. I'm interested if neutral apps are being made, which they aren't, whatever the reasons may be.

I doubt it's a good choice for cross DE and WM apps on Linux, let alone cross platform apps.
You are mostly right. USD (not USDC) deposits are insured by FDIC up to $250,000. Crypto assets are (I believe) not insured.

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/other-topics/legal-pol...
You seem to think limitation means flaw or falsehood. It means any limit.

I criticized the article. Not the study. The study authors believed the limitation was so important they put it in the title.
The DMV experience sucks because of political motivations, not technical limitations.
I don't think people are stupid, even though they certainly came come across that way.

What I've come to realize is most of those people are playing a different game than the one I'm playing. They are optimizing for other things.

One of those games is the status game. Buying a used car would put them a step below their peers on the social ladder. They can't have that, so off to the dealership they go. These are the same type of people who project an image of everything is fine no matter what. Status plays a large role in their life and they must look good.

The other thing is fear. They're afraid they'll buy a lemon if they go to CL. Maybe that's justified because they don't know jack s** about cars or have friends that do.
Poured concrete, or whatever you might do that is as close to thick, airtight, poured concrete barriers as possible.

Eliminate all holes, and it just becomes a question of mass.
Parody piece? I can't imagine anyone thinking this is good UX -- because it isn't.
Seattle woman convicted in 2019 Capital One breach that impacted millions
You can legalize drugs and not let losers camp on public property and openly operate bike chop shops. The states that legalize drugs just happen to be the states that let human garbage … garbage up the city. I don’t think there’s a causal link.
To really be perfect, you need to be able to stop holding the checkbox at any point before the 'pop' and the animation and sound transitions seamlessly back to neutral (and if pressed again while on the way to neutral it should transition smoothly into the beginning, etc).
The generally accepted definition of a low level language is a language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture. In actuality, C is a lower level functional programming language than Ante, because C functions are first-class citizens.

I like the lack of GC! What is the method for always incremental compilation? The benefits are obvious, but isn't it problematic to have two authoritative representations of the same source? It would be fantastic if you get that to work well!
I can't see why. People won't stop hiring elite university grads, or being impressed by them at parties, because they hear the university social life has become less enriching.
Looks like we're at an impasse as we just fundamentally disagree. Indiscriminate should be federally legal and fortunately is in many states. I believe he every bit has the moral right to fire indiscriminately and burn his company to the ground if he wants while he retains majority ownership.
This scope seems to be out of reach of hobbyists.
> milk is loaded with cholesterol and saturated fat

Neither of these are bad for you, just don't be obese

> kombucha with sugar

Every bottle of kombucha I have ever seen has at most 16g of non-added sugar from fruits, the same as a banana

> fermented vegetables like kimchi have shown to increase prostate adenocarcinoma

Fake / trash science. More studies say the opposite than agree with this
We should consider a lot of this to be zero-sum.

Creditworthy demand for loans doesn't magically increase when rates change or the Fed buys bonds.

In QE, like with accounting, you debit one side and credit the other. Netting to zero.

The effects it all has probably are real in terms of steering where people park their money. And that matters in the long run.

But that would mainly amplify whatever underlying incentive structures exist for investment.

If you steer people to stocks, and the economy has only ponzi schemes to offer, it might be because they haven't figured out a policy framework that promotes actual production.

But you can't magically add production by rewriting the knobs so that they all go to 11. Printing is differently zero sum, but the analogy works there as well.
After a rather dismal first couple of runs I read the blog post for some hints. The best I found was to try to raise rates during the good times so there is wiggle room during downturns. I was able to get 443,904 by raising to over 10% during the initial prosperity period and was able to cut rates in half as soon as there was a crash. Ultimately I stabilized at around 3.5%. As of the time of this post I think that is the highest or close to highest score, only slightly higher than those that did a constant -0.5%.

I’ve always been apprehensive of how low interest rates dropped around 9/11 and nobody had the political courage to raise them after that, leaving little room for leverage. What I have learned from racing games is that in order to win, it’s not all about holding down the gas pedal the hardest. Its about keeping on the track first, which requires lower speeds to navigate complexity, and only using max speed in straightaways.

Or to quote the eminent Charlie Sheen, right after his infamous ’banging 7 gram rocks’ he said, “I only have one speed, I only have one gear: GO.” History tells how well that worked out.

That may work on a straightaway, but in this world, there’s people and there’s pandemics and wars and politics. Had rates been at a higher level they could have been slashed at the start of the pandemic, but there was no room to drop at that point.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/09/mastercard-to-buy-blockchain...

Lets assume Monero is untraceable. Did MasterCard buy a company that cannot deliver on its promise of Monero tracing. In 2020, it was announced that American tax dollars were paid by DHS to CipherTrace for "tools" to trace Monero transactions.

Thought experiment: What is the financial incentive to keep transactions "untraceable". Is it greater than the financial incentive to make transactions traceable.
> Firstly, "they" is not commonly recognized as plural. While "they" has been used in certain instances as plural for at least 700 years, those cases are generally isolated and are considered poor uses of the language not standard usages.

Sorry? ‘They’ is universally recognised as a third-person plural pronoun, and as such it is the standard way to refer to a group of people in English. That it is additionally used as a gender-neutral singular animate pronoun does not change this. If you consider ‘they’ to be non-plural, I would be very interested to know exactly what you do consider to qualify as a third-person plural pronoun in English.
There are no GMO strawberries
Seen enough bubbles? They’ve only known one type of monetary policy and rate environment (essentially zero). This is uncharted territory for all crypto.
Answer to click-bait headline:

> Berenson thinks the drawings may nail down something that historians have long suspected but not been able to prove: that Bartholdi disregarded Eiffel's engineering plans when it came to the statue's upraised arm, electing to make it thinner and tilted outward for dramatic and aesthetic appeal. Several drawings appear to depict a bulkier shoulder and more vertical arm—a more structurally sound arrangement. But one of these sketches (below) was marked up by an unidentified hand with red ink that tilts the arm outward, as Bartholdi wanted.
Despite this new revelation that it's possible to rephrase a sentence to avoid using a word, that's completely orthogonal to my point which is that "they" has been used to indicate the singular person of indeterminate gender for at least 30 years.

I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to demonstrate.
Why Do I Sneeze at the Same Time Every Day?
You might be right but that isn't even what I'm saying here. Your description could apply to many sectors of the economy, most of which they have a some amount of presence in
2) this assumes there aren't any third parties on your friend's machine. You're trusting not only your friend, but likely Apple/Microsoft, Chrome/Firefox, and any browser extensions they might be running, which would definitely become more aggressive and pervasive if this scheme became common practice.
Two thoughts:

(1) You write "effort spent was comparable to a mediocre sci-fi film script". I hink it might possible have been significantly less. Prometheus had a budget of $120M, so hiring a dozen writers to come up with ideas, then hiring another dozen writers to re-write and clean it up is probably not how it's done, but possible given the budget. What do you think the budget for the Human Interference Task Force was? So in a way it's even worse than you state. Such things are just not a priority. (Cough... climate.. cough)

(2) I agree that some are really fantastical and most likely useless at the stated purpose. The way out, to me, seems something like creating a "hierarchy of abstraction", and keeping your message as low as possible on that hierarchy. The lowest level of warning you of some action is making it impossible for you to do it. If you want to keep someone from digging, make it harder for them to dig. (There was an idea of a very large basalt plate or a concrete slab poured over the site) If you want to keep someone from doing agriculture here, make it harder for them to do agriculture. (Salting the earth, irregular terrain, soil is full of large rocks, ...) - Don't just do scary stuff, do stuff that is extremely inconvenient.

(Edit: stupid typo, thanks autocorrect)
I love your product and have been recommending it to everyone who asks.

Now, I'm not so sure. And I'll definitely have to caveat it with this event. Was that worth it?

Word of mouth is highly influential for how startup founders pick products and I feel like this will be super damaging for your brand.
This is an open secret in the US. It's used to fire people constantly for employee churn. This ensures by the time they are unhappy at the job, they are close to being fired.

It also ensures only the super dedicated or those without families are the ones to stay.

High turnover jobs known for this are telephone agent jobs, sales employees, or reallly anyone they can sucker into accepting crazy quotas.

Some places, especially those with several lines of business, will do this because they get laid $X/agent to graduate a class.

I don't know where the idea came from or why but I've seen it over and over, especially as a LOB (line of business) is being closed. They will rush to push through as many classes as possible, knowing full well they will be graduating into a non-existent job with little to no chance of moving to another LOB.

The US has really gone insane.
Maybe read up? When you just make shit up as you go along, you say dumb things.
The post works hard to normalize the term "Narrow Waist" to the point that's it's burdensome. Using nondescriptive terms to define a wide range of services, languages, and protocols only alienates clients and serves to differentiate academics from the rest in the development talent pool. Development over time should become more relatable over time, not more academic unless we're talking about the machine level perhaps... It's why employers are having a really hard time trying to find angular, python, C, and rust devs despite PHP and .NET still dominating in most web based apps and sites.

It would be interesting to know exactly how many no/low-code solutions are deployed in comparison to custom code solutions, and what type of business cases they serve currently... I think the results of that study would really make a lot of devs switch fields of expertise. Almost every employer is calling me about DevSecOps positions, while app design and development are an afterthought due to prevalence of low/no-code solutions because langs have become so convoluted and specialized in hopes of creating a monopolistic work dependency... Sorry to vent, but solutions simply are overcomplicated too often now, and most of the people making technical decisions are non technical, and not equipped to keep up with the ever-changing terminology and jargon used in the dev world, much less knowing the differences in languages and terminology.

Over complexity and tech jargon are some of the most painfully alienating detriments to development in my experience. I think we would do a lot of good if we really got back to breaking down use cases and their individual (right-fit) solutions rather than sticking to redefining entire disciplines and forcing new terms that aren't properly descriptive frameworks, tools, and methods onto the industry as if one great new shoe fits all feet... You know, simpler jargon is better.
At MIT in early Physics courses TAs are other professors, not the usual graduate students. Definitely atypical.
Somehow I remain skeptical that the dairy (and meat) that humans have been eating for literally tens of thousands of years is causing depression and widespread health concerns. I think it's a wee bit more likely that when you're morbidly obese with diabetes, like in that study, and you feel better after eating a controlled, healthy, low-calorie diet, it can be attributed to factors more relevant than veganism.
And to think that the central bank of central banks is a private company... makes us think right? https://www.bis.org
I was a longtime NYT subscriber who cancelled a few years ago. I switched to the WSJ & have been pretty happy with it.
It's a very thorough comment, iterating very specifically a dozen 'medical solutions' down to a 'weighted rating out of 10' (!) of the value each one of them.

Again - I'm not doubting anyone's intentions, but I'm fully doubting the veracity of all of this.

'Self Medicating N = 1 Belief' - is extremely common among people.

Even among diligent, intelligent people who actually can and do 'research'.

But with a single 'blind spot' in self awareness, it goes awry with these kinds of 'beliefs'.

Everyone who works out at the gym consistently has a 'belief' about a lot of things.

There are dozens of magazines and quasi health magazine's offering these kinds of solutions.

It's frankly as old as time and probably more common than not.
Apologies for the weird formatting of my previous comment, not sure why HN removed the line breaks.

[Cmd+Z doesn't work either here]: Now, that's surprising. Can you please check app version (show the app → menu → About)?

[the future power user likes to see the best options first]: very true. Pixelmator is a bit of an overkill to my taste (after all, Shottr is not a graphic editor), and I'm still striving for an unobtrusive UI, but even with these constraints a more intuitive interface is possible.

[with lots of "must-have" features missing, is freeing]: oh yes! I'm pretty upfront about it being a niche tool, and that's exactly the reason. Many of those missing "must-haves" shave off 10% of the potential audience, but also improve experience for those who don't need them, and help to fight feature creep. In the end I have an excellent tool for myself and, hopefully, a nice app for the users with similar needs. I wouldn't be so excited about this strategy if it was a commercial product, of course.

Having said that, I happily accept all sorts of feedback, including complains and suggestions : )
Yes, but the first sentence of that article reads, "Singular they has become the pronoun of choice to replace he and she in cases where the gender of the antecedent – the word the pronoun refers to – is unknown, irrelevant, or nonbinary, or where gender needs to be concealed."

According to your article, because the name of the actual person, Gustave Eiffel, is known the correct form of address is "Gustave Eiffel". Otherwise, no reader really knows who or how many people "they" references.
We also only just discovered a city of 1.5 million penguins!

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/03/a-previously-unknown-....
The steam engine stuff is great too