skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that birds can modulate their signal strength based on noise level seems very crazy to me. But what exactly are they transmitting? It seems like the information content must be something more than 'basic' calls for mating partners, threat management, and perhaps nutritional information? It makes me wonder what else birds may care about.
same goes for many other places in europe aswell. (netherlands, germany, france etc).

just look at football rivalries to get the idea.
Just replace gambling with alcohol. The small minority of addicts shouldn't fuck it up for the rest of us.

I dove deeply into it this past year to extract some value out of promotions the books are running, and have continued to bet because it is fun trying to find lines that have positive expected value and it's been a nice stream of extra income.
The current ruling party in Poland came into power after publishing eavesdropped recordings of previous government officials from a restaurant with strong ties to Russian intelligence. I don't know whether they're Russian pawns, but they're certainly stupid enough to be unwittingly realizing Russia's interests even if they're not.
No one goes to a physical bank anymore, right?

Wrong. If you happen to get to a branch at 8:55 am to use the ATM (assuming they open at 9:00), you'll see a line of people waiting to get in. Are they all just old people who don't know any better? A quick inspection will show that they're not.

One reason I've gone to one was to get a bunch of $100 bills to pay for my puppy at a breeder. For some reason, breeders tend to insist on cash. I suppose there are less legal reasons to want $100's, but I wouldn't know about those :)

Continuing with "choice of denomination": if you operated a retail business, or you were having a garage sale and you wanted a whole lot of variously sized bills to make change, you might go to the bank.

Turning in coins? Lots of stores have coin machines, but they take a commission out if you want cash and not store credit.
I believe that the blade he shows early was made in a previous episode from bog iron.
Twitter Asks for Musk to Turn over Texts from First Six Months of 2022
IDC: Worldwide Shipments of PCs and Tablets Forecast to Decline in 2022 and 2023
I'm still perplexed at how casinos are all over the US now. Growing up in the 80s, the story was 'gambling is bad and thus illegal everywhere, except horse tracks and for some reason Nevada'. Then of course casinos on reservations started opening all over, close to and even in the middle cities (Fond-du-Luth in Minnesota, for instance, is directly in downtown Duluth).
I have flagged this because the title is clickbait
I guess that Phoenix LiveView is going to blow B2B apps up at some point. I'm thinking of ATM / smart vending machine / smart ads board. Yes, those that are 100% internet connected.
Wait you guys don't have online taxes yet?!?
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I read this as a prophecy of Foam (https://github.com/foambubble/foam), Obsidian.md (https://obsidian.md/), and the like. See this thread on Foam from 2020:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23666950

Despite ”design for knowledge based organizations” being the title of the article in the PDF, this is perhaps more about approach and capabilities for organizing flow from capture to use to pruning of knowledge, more than the organizations working on knowledge.

There is one aside about the organization itself:

> Engelbart sees every organization as a collection of interacting knowledge domains. He has focused his research on designing support structures for knowledge collection and refinementwithin and across these knowledge domains.

But then that jumps down into a given domain, and goes on to propose a knowledge management approach within that (and each) domain.

This is where it gets interestingly predictive of the recent coalescence in knowledge management tools emerging after the two dark age decades of style over semantics.

The first idea is a concept of bringing knowledge in, working it, and keeping it. He calls this Concurrent Development, Integration, and Application of Knowledge (CODIAK) process.

To make this workable he proposes a time-relevance layered approach very similar to the (perhaps easier to action) “PARA” method adopted by many KM tool users today:

https://fortelabs.com/para

After this, he goes into functional implications, and describes almost to a T capabilities in the latest round of knowledge management tooling “systems” such as, say, Obsidian.md, built on standards (markdown, wikilinks, front matter) and extensibility enabling journaling, querying, views, as first class citizens.

When hypertext markup iterated into a page style description advertorial tool rather than linked semantic knowledge structure, that left an opening for the tools we’re seeing now. Today, Obsidian.md is close to the mark, except, of course, for approachability by casuals. For casuals, consider e.g. Craft.do (https://www.craft.do/).

If you’re doing a comparison before jumping in, it’s worth diffing the tools against Englebart’s take.

I’d argue he’s dead on.
I know what you mean but these setups are complete messes compared to the ones at https://www.workspaces.xyz/ that someone else mentioned below (typical example: https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/177-carl-barenbrug).

I mean in most of these you can even see cables!

Although workspaces seems to be designer heavy so maybe that explains it.

I get what you are saying though. It would be fun to see if they look this clean when they don't know a photographer is coming over or if you and I are just slobs.
Speaking from experience, if you're not into the semiconductor engineering side, consider looking for maintenance personnel positions with fabs. The work is interesting, your boss will probably hold a PhD and be competent, and you won't be stuck behind a desk all day.
Very ambitious! Good luck!

A small bug in the call-to-action at the bottom of the page - If I upvote only "Stripe" in the "Connect your Shops" section, the call-to-action reads:

> Want to know when Stripe, Stripe, and more integrations are ready?

Voting for greater than one shop resolves this repetition error.
Interesting. Where does one go to buy usernames for social networks?
Most of that info is already public and easily searchable. There are data brokers that gather public records (like real estate) and resell them to marketers, sales people, other data brokers, etc. It's an enormous business. Privacy is, sadly, an illusion.
Seemingly massive editorialization going on here.

Money shot from the article:

>However, new research indicates that the current disclosure regime is insufficient and provides limited information regarding the quality of price execution across brokers – largely due to the difficulty in comparing the actual retail price execution quality of different brokers.

>“Self-reporting is haphazard and inconsistent across brokers,” noted the paper. “All brokers claim to provide ‘price improvement’ over the National Best Bid Offer (NBBO) price, a benchmark that is easily beaten, albeit often narrowly.”

"The data that would be required to make a measurement is not available in our current reporting regime" is a hell of a different thing to say than "the data is in, and 'paying for order flow' has no adverse effects or indicators that the order flow information is being used to modify the order in which transactions are executed by brokers."

Given the insane level of technicality and jargon in the space it may not be off in exactly the way I'm thinking, but I know a report saying "we ain't got sufficient metrics" from "all data indicates" when I see one.
What nonsense. I was in Berlin last month, the ticket buying experience is abysmal. The machines don’t work. Sometime (don’t know when) you can only buy tickets on the train since they don’t have ticket machines at every station. When you do try to use the machines it’s some ridiculous combination of zones and unspellable names you have to type out to get your ticket that isn’t intuitive at all.

In NYC, buy ticket on machine -> works for one trip wherever you’re going in the city. Outside the city? Just talk to the person at the ticket window and they tell you what to get.
Yeah I value a few branches around. I'd hate to rely my finances on some startup with an app that could stop working any time. A branch gives some idea of permanence. Maybe its an illusion but I just dont trust virtual only banks.
Photopea is amazing, but for more complex edits on Mac OS I started using Pixelmator Pro and it's miles better than Photoshop's increasingly bloated and slow experience. I genuinely don't understand how Photoshop has gotten worse since the CS3 era, it's baffling.
I've found that the good cables that I've got all have a PD wattage label at least. Except for the Apple cables, but I can recognize those on sight and I'm not buying USB-C cables I could confuse for then.
Detail at the beginning of the video, but if the metallic sand is heavier, why not wash sand and collect the bottom? Is the sluice helping much?
MetaBrainz Foundation: Open Encyclopedia of Music and Arts Metadata
Seems peat and repeat for the US these days in all environments.

People forgot why Sports Betting was first outlawed (Black Soxs).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal
This will not end well.

In the 1930's, Finance Law were passed to reel in abuses, since the late 90s, these laws were whittled down and we had 2008. New, weaker laws passed and as of now most are gone.

So seems to prove, if people do not read and understand history, they are dommed to repeat the past mistakes.
I've lost track of how many different USB standards exist now
Musl-based DNS resolution will break on v1.25.0 in certain configurations
starting a networking company (except consulting) is extremely hard.
Building an ISP is even harder and requires insane amounts of money.

Most of my friends in the network engineering field either work at companies that are large/complex enough to have challenging environments with proper networking hardware, or work as a freelance consultant for said companies.

The problem with career growth in network engineering is that, to grow in technical skills, usually larger networks are require to get access to gear and systems that can pose a challenge. Not a lot of those companies exist.
Also, making a screw up in suchs an environment is far more detrimental than in a small network, because of the increased scale/complexity of the network.
If you know how to build the binary from scratch, could you teach the npm package's continuous build to do it? Sending a pull request fixing the npm package would fix it for everyone, not just nix users.

Also, I wonder if nix would be a suitable tool for generating npm packages that contain binaries? Maybe this is a way for people to benefit from nix without actually using it.
Definitely echoing this one, the light novels are incredible for anyone looking for something fun and casual to read. It deviates a bit more into the fantasy and political drama arena as the series goes on, but you still get fun references to reinventing products from our world all throughout.
This is the worst process I've probably ever seen. Only one person (or pair) can work on the code (in main) at a time for this to work. It's more effort than just making a branch and merging it to main, and it buys literally nothing.

What is wrong with just creating feature branches and PRing them to main? It's literally the default workflow.

Then when you merge to main you run the CI/CD just like this, but without having to go back and create a "snapshot branch" of main before you started. Also, as you scale you almost certainly have commits from multiple people in main by the time you do this breaking the whole "reverse PR" process.
The laser is on a mechanism that moves in and out from the center to the rim of the disk. You can see a picture here: https://gametrog.com/playstation-1-one-information-specs-ver...

I don't have a Playstation myself on hand, but from memory, these mounts usually had a certain amount of play in them - if you touched it, you could press it a bit lower, for instance. Whereas the clamp that grabs the disk on toploaders tended to make a very secure connection. So it's probably not bringing the disk closer to the laser, it's bringing the laser closer to the disc.
heck yes I do; it's the only way to keep up!

however, i don't reference them as much as i did when I was starting out. stack overflow and the like (along with _good_ man pages) have reduced the need for that
Are you suggesting that other men should be punished for the same crime, or that no crime has taken place?
How exactly is it still "pairing" if you are doing it asynchronously?

My understanding and experience with "pairing" is that it pretty much has to be synchronous because generally at least two people should be looking at the same screen while generally one is providing inputs (mouse, keyboard) and the other is providing high level guidance and looking out for low level mistakes.

Doing it asynchronously seemingly would not dispense with sharing the screen and one person handling inputs which seems like it would be even less efficient.
If you have an M1 MAX with 64GB of memory you can make your images bigger. 512x512 only takes 13GB :)
Can anyone dumb this down? Also is it a big deal?
Isn't the whole "prohibition was bad" pretty much a just-so story? Being the drinker I am, I don't want it to come back, of course. But does having a few seedy speakeasies run by the mob really amount to much compared to this sort of thing:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1088683/death-rate-rate-...

That's one disease. Booze causes all kinds of problems, and I wouldn't be surprised if (as another example) wife-beating sharply declined during prohibition.

(ED: Looking again at that graph, there's something a little dubious about it--but it was the first data I could find.)
Can Amazon's CodeWhisperer Write Better Python Than You?
I think they meant the charge lasts for 4 years, not the phone itself.
The loans they are proposing do not require any down payment, have no closing costs, and do not factor in credit score. There are a couple things here that are predatory in the same way that the loans in the 90's-00's were.

First, the no down payment means that the borrower would have no equity in the home. Most mortgages are very front loaded with interest. If something were to happen in which the borrower had to get out from the house/loan they would be in a very precarious financial situation since the seller is responsible for the agents' fees and commission.

Second, and I may not be sure how this works, but no closing costs means that presumably there isn't an escrow account set up with any prepaids such as taxes. The article doesn't really touch on this but worse case scenario this means that the borrower could be surprised by huge tax bills?

Third, if the bank is not using credit score, and is taking on all the risk by issuing loans that are 100% LTV, I can't imagine the interest rates are going to be favorable to the borrower which kind of exacerbates my first point above, where the borrow is going to be making huge interest payments and not building any equity.

Bank of America is not stupid and they are certainly not a charity. To me this seems kind of predatory. I am sure they have run the numbers on what the risk is, how many borrowers they expect to default, what they anticipate making, etc. If this isn't predatory towards black or latino people, they should release those numbers.
you can run the phoenix app locally, i guess?
GitOps for Tailscale ACLs
The 9 Euro ticket was super easy to buy for me. I bought it in the airport. Not sure why it was so hard for you. I don't speak a single word of German either.
Pacific Northwest region of the US uses that honor system on public transit
By "miss" I wasn't implying you can't read or something, just that this national news item wasn't something you've seen yet. A common way to express that is "you missed it" or "i missed that".

Let me rephrase my first sentence:

You many not have seen this yet then...

[snip some unnecessarily stuff in light of edit below].

edit: I just realized and maybe you also hadn't seen yet, the linked article is a summary of a video story. Additionally, the summary has been updated to include more information specifying Jackson and the title has been updated since I first looked, I suspect there is much more info now than when you first looked..
Berlin sucks. A bit confusing and then they pay guys to walk around and check for tickets.
Isn’t that like a limited time thing? Try starting at a random station and navigating from there. I was at seegersfeld trying to get into Berlin and it was ridiculous. Also getting back there at the end of the night. It also had nothing to do with speaking german, everyone I spoke to in Germany seemed to somehow know English.
Temptations of empire: a conversation with David Bromwich (2014)
The Mexican cartels are notably wary of messing with U.S police agents and police/military/border security agencies. There are isolated cases of very foolish sicarios or smaller, more irresponsible organized crime cells playing at threats against U.S border agents or at U.S agents inside Mexico but it's rare and often discouraged brutally by the larger cartels. The simple reason why is they know that with the U.S government, the subversion they regularly practice with pathetically corrupt Mexican authorities works much, much less and goes completely out the window if a U.S police agent dies by their hands. The U.S government strongly underscored this with the cartels by spending decades and God knows how much money diligently pursuing every last person they could find who had any connection to the Kike Camarena murder. The lesson hasn't been forgotten by the bigger cartel bosses, even today.
HW is also far more capital intensive to build compared to software, so usually far less companies have to resources to build HW based solutions.
But nothing was really done to stop it. But seems every US President will declare something and all it does is blow hot air to help warm the earth even faster :)
I never said this organization is neutral. Merely that if you criticize this organization you should also criticize the ACLU for the same lack of neutrality.
Is there a book that explains all this dbus, glib, gstreamer mumbo-jumbo? Despite knowing a lot about classic Unix stuff and Python, I don't think I could write something like this by cobbling advice from a bunch of random webpages.
I have a question, can I use tor as a middleware? for example, can I build a social network with Tor embedded into the client as the network layer?
I think the (unsatisfying) answer is "it depends". There's a huge amount of diversity in database workloads, even among the workloads served by SQLite as we mention in the paper.

For read-mostly to read-only OLTP workloads, read latency is the most important factor, so I predict SQLite would have an edge over PostgreSQL due to SQLite's lower complexity and lack of interprocess communication.

For write-heavy OLTP workloads, coordinating concurrent writes becomes important, so I predict PostgreSQL would provide higher throughput than SQLite because PostgreSQL allows more concurrency.

For OLAP workloads, it's less clear. As a client-server database system, PostgreSQL can afford to be more aggressive with memory usage and parallelism. In contrast, SQLite uses memory sparingly and provides minimal intra-query parallelism. If you pressed me to make a prediction, I'd probably say SQLite would generally win for smaller databases. PostgreSQL might be faster for some workloads on larger databases. However, these are just guesses and the only way to be sure is to actually run some benchmarks.
Why England was deforested.
The comment complains about the device itself, and not any specific components of it.

> Any chance we can get a nuclear-powered iPhone which lasts 4 years?
Most good ideas don't require guns to enforce them.
A lot of small startups don't have a mat/pat policy yet, maybe not a well developed vacation policy either nor a generous one, and the employment may be "at will" meaning they can let you go for no reason, just because they decide "why keep paying?" I know there are exceptions in law for parental reasons, but whether they apply depends on the type of contract.

On top of that, the startup may find it difficult to pay someone else while still paying you. If you're an early employee, there may also be financial incentives to the company letting you go, such as not having to pay out the higher rate or higher equity you negotiated as an early joiner.

You can take the time off but in some cases are risking losing your job by doing so for long. If you need the money, that's a tought spot. Even if you're good at getting new jobs (many people aren't), getting a new job can be a full time job in itself which you don't have time to do if you're seriously on mat/pat, and anyway few companies will hire you while you're still unavailable.
Kinetic Energy = .5 * mass * velocity^2

EVs are a lot heavier, so it makes sense that the energy dissapated during a collition will be higher, resulting in more damage.

If the battery pack is damaged, that can be a very expensive repair, likely totalling the vehicle.
Biden did nothing except appoint a czar that did nothing.
38% of the MTA's operating budget comes from train and bus fares. As much as it would be nice if it were free, the money needs to come from somewhere.
If pervasive garish ads are criminalised, only criminals will see pervasive garish advertisements.

...and I'm fine with that.
Gods, yes. I've been trying to get various kinds of deepfake-related projects to work on M1 (or even just on Mac—the Intel Macs haven't come with Nvidia cards for years now) for some time now, as we're trying to generate video stimuli that present different people doing the same things, or the same person doing several different things, for psych research.

It's been an exercise in frustration.
ThoughtWorks, San Francisco. Sold me on the job by showing me how they work and the principles that guide the work. Still a fan.
what about a company building housing for its employees.

This is something that happened a lot in the netherlands in the city of eindhoven.
Phillips had its major manufacturing located in the city, and build massive housing projects to house its workers relatively close to the plant.
I'm curious if this also applies to credit unions. I understand they are structured and regulated slightly differently but it seems like they're subject to a lot of the same pressures.

I use credit unions pretty much exclusively and have never done much business with a bank, but it seems like they are mostly the same from an end-user perspective. Is the anecdote about "being ambushed [by a salesperson] upon walking in" a common occurrence? This has luckily never happened for me at any credit union.
Welcome to the end of times. Same here, I remember a society that was fair, hard working and not filled with crazies.
> hiatus

He was writing a book which he now sells.
How much speed increase can reasonably be expected? I thought bottleneck to Tor is just all the IP relays that occur ?
Development of WPF was abandoned more than decade ago.