skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are buffalo on Catalina Island. About 15 head were brought there to film a movie and they've multiplied.

Like a lot of island species, they are smaller than their continental counterparts and when relocated to the continent, they gain on average about 100 pounds and grow thicker fur.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2004/12/16/Catalina-buffalo-ret...

Humans who live at altitude for any length of time can see their lung capacity increase. Human sub populations that have lived at altitude for generations also have other adaptations, such as thicker blood, more small blood vessels, etc.

That's in the current world for just a couple of species.

As far as I understand reality, dinosaur physiology is not adapted or suitable to current conditions on planet earth, including but probably not limited to the way their lungs work and differences in atmosphere.
My partner has similar struggles and after several years together, I think it boils down to how we orient maps. They use Google Maps' default "map turns around you" mode while I always orient my maps with the North pointing up.

Spatial navigation boils down to learning to position and orient yourself relative to your surroundings. I feel like Google Maps' approach of having the map rotate around you is deeply counter-productive: it puts you at the center of the world instead of emphasizing your movement in the fixed world. It can also mislead you because the phone's virtual compass might be completely wrong and pointing you to the wrong direction.

I have had a small compass on my keychain for more than a decade. When I get off the subway or start a trip, my first task is to determine where the North is. If I don't know it already, I'll check my compass. When I plot a course from the subway station to my final destination, I'll use either a paper map or an app (maps.me, or gmaps) in fixed orientation mode, and determine:

- what direction the A->B vector is (East-Southeast for example), so that I can check it regularly with my compass while walking and detect when I veer off course and need to re-check the map

- landmarks (shops, monuments, boulevards) I should pass by during my trip. If I don't see them, I re-check my position

- turn-by-turn directions (third street on the right, then a left at the roundabout...), with regular direction checkpoint (I should be facing South on this street)

Written in long form, this looks like an arduous project, but I usually perform this in a few seconds, before my partner has finished doing the figure-eight compass calibration dance on their phone. Before I had a smartphone, I used to position myself only with street names and landmarks on a paper map, but I do rely a lot on the GPS position now. I just never trust it for orientation, because my whole system relies on me keeping track of it.
I think the tiny amount of power goes to people's heads. Power-tripping moderators of small subreddits are a dime a dozen.

The larger problem is that most subreddits are moderated by a handful of people, whose interest is expressly _moderating_. They don't care about the community. How could they, they have so many? And the power absolutely goes to their head.
> IMO I think the fact that the numbers are so low shows that people should stop giving a shit about death by guns by civilians

They are usually zero in many developed countries and usually non zero in others(I mean one here).

So giving a shit about it actually have an impact.

It can make the difference between your kids coming home from school or not.

Gun violence in US kills.more people than soldiers at war.

Should we stop giving a shit about war too?

I think it's shows that the average US mentality is cynical about other people's lives exactly because people don't give a shit.

Obesity is a problem of quality of food, if McDonalds cost less than vegetables and poor people often can't afford healthy options of course there are going to be consequences. But the solution is not throwing money at the problem (food stamps) it's in a shift in culture, which US society is apparently not able to do, because nobody gives a shit. They are good at campaigning to deny abortion to women, but not to make healthy food available to everybody regardless of the census. Maybe it's too a socialist option for them.

> Guns are flashy, but infinitesimal compared to the actual causes of early death.

That's completely untrue.
And, again, it shows the cult around guns that some people appear to be sucked in.

Guns Became the Leading Cause of Death for American Children and Teens in 2020

https://time.com/6170864/cause-of-death-children-guns/
Oh come on. That's certainly not what Walter was implying. It is any project that may have a potential current or future overlap with the company's plans or products.
The first quarter hour of this lecture has some good stuff on Permian sharks (technically almost-sharks). Some of them look very shark-like indeed. Others are like eels! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfPLv4oc7PM
The thing is that people can feel it themselves and see it in other people. It would be great if it is studied but there is something there.
You don't have to like it. This is literally the system we suffer.
I quite liked your version. Seems a bit more robust but I know nothing about this space and perhaps it was just that your presentation was fascinating
If the parliament passes something that you don't want, you can collect 50'000 signatures and challenges the decision. If you managed to collect these signatures, then the law will voted by the whole population in the next votation (we have like 3-4 votations per year).

On the other hand, if you want to propose a law, you can collect 100'000 signatures and create an "initiative". After evaluation of the feasibility of this law, it will be the subject of a nation-wide votation.
Strange comment. Who doesn't admit it? Everything can be a distraction.
> Now that app makers have realized we're muting our phones and disabling app notifications, they're doing them within the apps... It creates dependency and anxiety.

This is so true and so widespread that I haven't even realized it's happening. I disabled most push notifications on Android and have the phone muted almost all day. Still, I'm fighting with attention fragmentation, decreased memory etc. Nowadays most apps/web apps you open have a 'notifications' tab, menu item etc. creating yet another inbox for us. (Which we probably don't need unless it's work related or something.)
Its symptoms are particularly nasty in a low humidity environment, like air conditioned vehicles, buildings and desert environments.
I think online shopping has also taken a bite of that traffic.
It reminds me @DDOS-Attacks and some at the same time a type of Kybernetic to solve a work-around, um maybe ?!

So to bind at real problems, my sanity and reasoning say, i do and by doing i am treatin (therapy'ing) myself. P-:

?!
> The difficult change I've seen in the past few years is the rising number of hate and harassment subs, and Reddit tolerating them. If you scroll through the top of /r/BanFemaleHateSubs or /r/AgainstDegenerateSubs you'll see how bad things have become and how unsafe the general environment is.

The r/BanThisandThat subreddits are little more than morality police. Many of those posts will take statements out of context or regard any "cis-het" sexual fantasies as threatening to women.

> It's not that discussion has become worse in an Eternal September way, it's that discussion has become openly threatening, with innocent women having their pictures and social media links shared for strangers to discuss rape and murder fantasy, and this gets 10s of 1000s of subscribers and Reddit routinely ignores reports about it.

Firstly, social media accounts aren't secret. Anyone who publishes to a Twitter or FB account cannot claim a retroactive right to privacy. The other contention I have is that Reddit should not punish a written expression of thought merely because it's unpalatable to a certain section of its userbase. Pandering to a moral minority sets up a precedent for the most loudest performing "victims"-of-the-day to decide what everyone else is allowed to say, hear, or think.
Yeah... usually the 'worst' that could happen is their specific account being shaddow-banned.

Being _permabanned_ suggests that they've done something particularly egregious. Either that, or their behavior is indistinguishable from a spam bot.
(2020) needs to be in the title
In case someone wants to read more - a person who did this with their cat recently gave an AMA on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uupphp/i_cloned_my_la...
It's also a poor tool for very tall people, since it divides by height squared, even though our bodies are obviously 3D objects. I see some research that supports using height^2.5 as a divisor:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265215
Zap Energy shows first plasma in next-generation fusion device and fresh capital
People need to realize that “woman who might need an abortion” is not necessarily a healthy 16-18 year old with poor impulse control but is also likely to be a married, working mother of 3 barely keeping up with mortgage payments who wasn’t told that the antibiotic for her sinus infection could make her birth control pills ineffective, or a woman with a dearly wanted pregnancy that is now causing her to bleed and have a weird pain on one side, or a 12-year-old girl who didn’t understand what her big brother’s buddy was doing to her.

Happy to see the country I live in overturning that Nazi law that aimed to produce more Aryan babies in favor of acknowledging that women are rational beings. The counseling restriction is still infantilizing, but at least you have a lot of discretion in which organization you get it from - ProFamilia allows that you have better knowledge of your life than they do and have made your own decision, and will just help you implement it.

I am angry and hurt by the place I'm from and still have most of my family, because a situation that was handled rationally and kindly in Germany (an ectopic pregnancy - no “counseling session” aside from a doctor at the hospital factually advising me of my medical options) would make me hesitant to even go to the emergency room in Texas. No one really knows that they have an ectopic pregnancy until an actual doctor examines them, and the only treatment option is which manner of termination you and the doctor choose. Otherwise, it’s probably a normal miscarriage, which is treated with painkillers and encouragement to try again in a few months in reasonable places, but looks to be a legal risk in Texas.
Meanwhile on late stage capitalism they stickied a post with home addresses of judges, encouraging people to arm themselves and generally being hysterical. And that’s OK because woke.
I had a profile with 500+ connections, 3rd degree to 95% of Silicon Valley. It had no use because you would normally have zero engagement with contacts. You didn't want to change anything unless you did so constantly because companies were monitoring for sudden changes. And then there were the recruiters and bloggers. I swiped it to the trash can and haven't looked back.

Anyone use an alternative?
I'm only somewhat certain that the singularity is inevitable (and obviously my predictions aren't worth betting on anyways) - sorry for using poetic language.

I'm a machine learning engineer, amateur researcher and open source contributor. Before that I was a software engineer for 8 years.
I fully agree with jotm based on my more than a decade on Reddit.[1] I firmly believe that the average mod of /r/politics, /r/worldnews, etc., and authors of the posts that make it to the top (or, more accurately, are allowed to), is a 19-year old who a) hates himself and b) is desperate to prove himself as smarter than his parents.

[1] Unfortunately, there is no better alternative.
Nothing you say is credible unless you tell me you have tried copilot. Without you having tried copilot and seen its capabilities we have no common ground. So get back to me once you have used it.

I claim copilot is capable of creating. When copilot writes an amazing lodash one liner in my code --that isn't regurgitating an existing lodash snippet, it's creating something new to fit my use case. This is undeniable and there is nothing to argue here. Copilot regularly looks at my code and writes new code that is highly specific to my existing code. It's honestly better than me at languages I don't know well (like C).

And yes, 0.1% of the time copilot is spitting out existing code verbatim; the other 99.9% of the time copilot is not overfitting and is synthesizing new code. Luckily most companies don't needs clean room implementations.

Copilot writes code that is adapted to my existing code base. This is quite obviously and undeniably not just regurgitation because my codebase is unique to me.

Lastly copilot is a better programmer (locally) than many of my peers. It can write better lodash one liners, amongst other things, and while that's embarrassing it's true.
My sister used to draw pedestrian maps of the Paris metro, to discover the “One way” paths that you can take upstream (can, but may not!). Sometimes a 100m walk can become 5m. Very uncitizenly of her, but very amusing.
It easy to say that in hindsight but it wasn’t that unusual of advice in the early days of the web (which is when the GP is describing).

The web (and internet as a whole) was a very different playground to what it is now. In fact you only have to look at how trusting early internet protocols were and all the bolted on hacks we’ve needed since to see the change (eg SMTP, FTP etc all have security as an afterthought).
I personally think it's a bit strange that rape and incest are always put into the same category as harmful to the mother- especially incest.

Assuming the child isn't a danger to the mother, it just seems like punishing the child for who their father was.
they allow as many operations as you need, just pass in a "method name" :)

const p = Point(3, 5)
p('getX') // 3
p('up', 11)('toString') // "Point(3, 16)"

const Point = (x, y) => (method, ...args) => {
switch (method) {
case 'getX': return x;
case 'getY': return y;
case 'toString': return `Point(${x}, ${y})`
case 'up': return Point(x, y+args[0]);
// ...
}
}

(unfortunately statically typing this statically requires... some work, either sth like [typescript overloads + literal types] or full on dependent types)
what are some of these libraries that are written in C but don't have python bindings if I may ask. Genuine question the once I have seen have python binding and that's why they are super popular and widely used.
Why have a patent system when it doesn't even take any responsibility for ensuring the patent is valid? Whether or not this patent is allowed to remain depends entirely on how much money the open source guys would be able to put up to take it to court.
In terms of warehouses there's a fair bit of automation which replaces quite a few jobs - at my former employer's warehouses the pickers had robots drive all the stuff to them, and they were trying out robot pickers (they were able to handle ~30% of orders due to limitations in agility, SKUs had to be specifically whitelisted). You still need people to handle e.g. dangerous goods and handle the various fuckups in the system (e.g. due to poor master data), but when I was leaving they were not planning on any new "classic" warehouses.

I don't want to disclose where I worked, but you can take a look at Ocado, they are in a similar space (although focused on a different target market) and expanding from being online grocer to making those FCs for other companies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKrcpa8Z_E
>The system runs a downsized version of Doom that requires less RAM.

You could even say it's a...light-weight DOOM.

I'll see myself out.

(In all seriousness though, super impressive work! It always amazes me what computing power actually resides in what we deem to be "simple" devices these days - in some ways it feels like computing power gone to waste.)
> Yet now I am unwelcome in your home?!?

One time I had to gently tell a friend that he was exceeding the weight limit of the IKEA kneeling chair he was sitting on.

Really awkward for the both of us.
Given this is goods and not people the more relevant metric is not the average speed of the carts but the volumetric flow rate at each of the nodes in this system.
The charts in the article are PNG images. Yet the text in the charts is separate and is superimposed on the chart in precise position.

How is this done? Is the journalist manually CSS-positioning the text? Is there a library? An internal Economist tool?
Are you volunteering to be a part of that 1/2 or 1/4/?
People always talking about reducing population usually don't mean white people in the USA.
> none of the PEPs for type annotations do a great job of supporting it

Except for protocols.
>Of these, the following are important today: Barley, Corn, Goat grass, Millet, Oats, Rice, Sorghum, and Wheat.

What about Buckwheat
It literally cannot be answered with certainty, barring some passing ancient aliens giving us the DNA sequences they took last time they were in the neighbourhood. But as a matter of speculation, dinosaurs seem like they were pretty adaptable. Penguins can live in the Miami Seaquarium – I don't see why a dromaeosaurid would do so much worse.
Again, the key is block vs allow by default, not whether it's per application.

But yes there's real world use cases for per application filtering -- you want Facebook messenger to reach Facebook.com but probably not any other applications.
Maybe it's just me and the job I do (not really low level stuff), I use [] array access much more frequently than bitwise shift operations, so for me it's quite the opposite. Having worked with dozens of other developers doing similar things I guess it's the same for them.
I know there are those who do bitwise shift everyday (my firmware devs coworker do a lot), but at least in my experience we are talking about 1 to 10 ratio.
I’ve been using SuperMemo for 16 years, do my cards every day (just finished today’s cards about 20 mins ago). Super useful for obvious stuff like languages, but also very useful for more subtle stuff you want to keep in your brain; you basically have a “remember forever” button in your life, which you can use for useful information you encounter online, facts about loved ones, jokes, scientific concepts, cognitive biases you are prone to, basically a little bit of everything. Spaced repetition is a very effective tool, but it’s overall usefulness depends on the self discipline and willingness of the user to recognize their own memory related shortcomings. You can live an entire life without spaced repetition and be just fine, but once it clicked in my head how effective spaced repetition was, I couldn’t not be obsessed with it. The feeling of being able to know what you know, and to rely on that knowledge being there, it feels like when Thor reaches out his hand and Mjölnir just flies into it with no effort on Thor’s part. It feels so great!
> The Reddit admins forced the idea of communities as a reason to start banning.

The admins also started actively policing subreddits, and shuffling uncooperative mod teams.

Perhaps Reddit was never a bastion of 'independent thought', but in the beginning (after subreddits came into being) there was an understanding that communities were independent.

But eventually they started getting bad press (e.g. /r/jailbait) and the 'jannies' started refusing to work for free (e.g. blackouts), so they decided to quash anyone causing them grief.
In my experience, if you rely too much on GPS that tells you exactly where you are and where to go you'll have a much tougher time actually retaining that information. When I first moved to a larger city than I'd lived in my whole life I had to look up how to get anywhere, but after I forced myself to stop and take wrong turns and figure it out I had a much easier time remembering where I was and how to get places.

I also learned a lot about my city/neighborhoods by walking in them for pleasure. I feel like I know most streets in a 5 mile radius because I spent so much time in them casually walking without the stress of missing a deadline.

Like most things in life, it ultimately comes down to mindful practice in a non-stressful environment.

Train stations are a little different, because often they look the exact same and you have to rely on small things like signs and very slight differences to figure out where you are. They're tricky and I think just require repetition.
Great post. There are lots of parallels here with technology creeping into real life.

Automation replacing human contact (ticket counter closures). Convenience replacing experience (empty high streets)

Change works both ways.
I only skimmed through the article, but noticed it is complaining that `&mut function` is not `'static`. This is easily reproducible with:

fn foo() {
let _: &'static mut _ = &mut foo;
}

And it is because while `foo` is definitely `'static`, `&mut foo` needs to be able to mutate something. The hidden secret is that `&mut foo` is desugared into something like

let mut __temp = foo;
&mut __temp

And so it is not `'static`.
When I had this outlook on life, I just called it depression. It's really just a crazy hall of mirrors, twisting and distorting every thought you have. I never got out of it by myself. What finally, truly helped me was a relationship and the accompanying sense of responsibility.
2004 - 2012 it was used by professionals in-lieu or in-addition to business cards.

Bump! was also a thing for exchanging contact info by using geolocation and accelerometers. It unofficially died in 2014 after Google bought them and killed them for acquihiring purposes.
> EDIT: ah! it looks like CLAP has delivered something i've been after in an audio API for some time: it appears to allow for dynamic parameters. i'm surprised it took this long!

What does this mean? I can imagine it being reasonable to have, for example, a wet/dry pot for a thing that's "not present" if you didn't enable the thing, since that pot is useless. Whether you want to reflect that as the pot magically "not existing" or just "disable" it or something so that user knows it isn't important is a small matter.

I'm way more dubious about genuinely dynamic parameters. If I can't look at your plug-in and decide it has 24 parameters, but must instead reason that it could have any number of parameters and those might change (every sample? every bar? On reload? Once per week?) then automation becomes unmanageable. If you say, but some of the parameters are not automatable - too bad, somebody will want to automate those parameters too anyway and they will fight you to do it.
People think that hackernews is productive won’t admit it.
I wonder if this is evenly distributed? $500,000 may seem like a lot but that comes out to about $500 per maintainer. This doesn't appear to be an ongoing subscription either. I personally would rather Microsoft keep the money and spend it on open sourcing their own products instead of trying to find more ways to exploit others.
You see "hate" where there is none.
Did you try writing to the HN mod(s) asking about that? (At the address given on the guidelines page) Sounds like a good idea.
correction: It's a referendum (oppose a law enacted by the parliament), so you need to collect 50 000 signatures. For a petition (changing the consitituion) you need 100 000.
However, the vote in the parliament was quite clear. For example, in the Ständerat 43:0, so it would have been a surprise if a referendum were launched. Swiss politics is not consensus-based. However, you don't have just two parties that oppose each other. As most parties somehow play part in the government (some more, some less), destructive behavior is frowned upon unlike in other countries. That's why maybe some think it's consensus-based. Furthermore, due to the strong federal system and general culture, minorities need to be considered. Moreover, Switzerland is a small country, which makes some behavior difficult (see also destructive behavior above).