skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correlation, but close to zero causation, I would guess.

Causation, I guess would go:

- Cheaper cars have smaller engines of lower quality

- Really expensive cars have larger engines, but in many cases those engines are optimized for acceleration, not longevity. Also, those cars may get crashed more often
I could agree if this was a study on college students, but this is on 4 and 8 grades students. Basic mathematics is somewhat important in my opinion.
An Occam's razorish answer is that there are fewer bugs nowadays in whatever area this phenomenon is observed. So a better question could be why are there fewer bugs?
Corporate strategy consulting. 1 day to write 5k-10k words on a topic you have to research from scratch is not uncommon. It's all within a broad field of expertise and a sector you're familiar with, but could be products / companies / deals you'd never heard of.

I think the point here was that the ghostwriting is of really low quality. Overnight 10k reports are never groundbreaking or enlightening additions to human knowledge, but they need to be 90%+ accurate and polished enough to inform.
The Harry Potter audiobook is great, too. Fry has very good, very different voices for even minor characters.

He is also speaking Sherlock Holmes. At some point I will probably give in and simply buy every audiobook with him.
> where insect populations SHOULD be thriving.

Oh, I know. It's not looking good for bugs globally because of a lot of reasons.
You are suggesting a workaround instead of solving the original problem.
Insomnia: Have you heard Andrew Huberman’s podcast episode on sleep?

https://hubermanlab.com/sleep-toolkit-tools-for-optimizing-s...

There are so many small things you can do, and they get summarised here. Drugs are just one dimension.
This will be equally true of the next trillion dollar accident and the one after. Circumstances that defeat defense in depth are necessarily unique and convoluted.

My guess is the next one will involve at least one set of forged documents about components and some manager pushing past a boundary to meet ever tightening cost targets.
Check out this process: https://tucson.com/news/local/watch-now-ua-lab-casts-mirrors...

There are some other videos shot in the pandemic--it's a bit of good fortune that safety controls against silicosis are also super effective against respiratory pathogens.
Can you be more specific? which ‘different group’ has an ‘emotional need’ that prevents learning math concepts?
I think you grossly overestimate how much space does car infrastructure hold in relation to literally millions of km^2 of free space around it. Assuming your observation is right its impact would be minuscule.
At the moment I'd teach one on Node.js backend performance optimization.
Recycling is a scam anyway for plastic. It was traditionally just sent to the developing world (Africa, Asia) to be thrown at landfills and considered "recycled".

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-...
It's one tutor, Michael. How much can it cost, $100,000?
It's part of a technical series, very sporadic. I remember one on resolution.

The two greatest Captain Disillusion videos are "The World's greatest Blenderer" and "Flight of the Navigator", of course :-)
> Same goes for the argument that bugs have evolved to migrate away from the roads

There are many studies in all kind of environments, even in the middle of the woods, in natural reserves; insects are going down both in term of diversity and numbers everywhere

They're being evolved away by pollution
On what planet is being blind to attempts the same effect as a massive reduction in hits or logon attempts?
GameFAQs? Fandom/Wikia bought them out along with Gamespot, Metacritic, TV Guide, etc. I get the feeling they could get merged into Fandom proper at any moment, or shut down because they're not making the kind of money that Fandom expects once a ton of ads have been stuck on the site.

I'm also worried about quite a few older gaming resource sites that seem like they could go away at any moment. Like VG Maps (the ads are already ridiculous, and I suspect it's not making a ton of money anymore) ad VG Music.
DRM support was added in Firefox 38. You're a bit late to the party.
Using binwalk, you can extract the zip file which in turn contains various rar files which when uncompressed give a 6.8M .html file containing the works of Shakespeare.

$ nix run nixpkgs#binwalk DqteCf6WsAAhqwV.jpg

DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 0x0 JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01
182 0xB6 Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract, compressed size: 64512, uncompressed size: 64512, name: shakespeare.part001.rar
65575 0x10027 Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract, compressed size: 64512, uncompressed size: 64512, name: shakespeare.part002.rar
131112 0x20028 Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract, compressed size: 64512, uncompressed size: 64512, name: shakespeare.part003.rar
...
I was in SF last week to attend Cloudflare Connect. My first in-person event since the pandemic.

I took BART - there are hardly 10 cars in the entire parking lot by 8AM. The lot used to be full. There were three people in the train car I boarded, which used to be pretty full.

I walked from train station to the venue, there are very few people overall in the city. It used to be usually busy on workdays people trying to get to their workplaces.

I felt less than 10% of the people who used to commute are now going to the city, I am not sure if there are any official stats published.
I'd be interested in that! Any links you can recommend ?
Well, if people don’t actually invest any time and effort into consuming the books they buy, then perhaps it is an inevitable adaptation on the part of authors to also not invest any time and effort into creating them.

(The rise of Blinkist et. al. seems to support the idea that many people value being able to say that they have read a book much more highly than actually reading it.)
This looks really interesting.

Can some kind soul please upload (at least one) of these books to archive.org? That seems a much
better place for Public Domain works than google drive.

I understand that the people releasing the books may not be tech-aware enough to realize that many
people will not download them from google drive (this is not for technical reasons).
Geez the first few responses of that forum thread is just an exhausting read of "We've relayed your message to $SOMEWHERE_ELSE and we are waiting for a response.".
That or the fact that insect population has been proven to decline over and over pretty much everywhere in the world including natural reserves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations
Having super quick evolution cycles, could it be that insects evolved to avoid roads?

I remember the story of a species of moths living in German industrial cities.

These were normally brown like tree bark but evolved to look like sooty brick in a few years.

Insects have ears (although highly varying in capability) which could lead them to avoid dangerous zones.

Anecdotally i would say i see fewer insects circling around lamps too.
Why would camouflage be used by military, or even animals in nature if obscurity is not a useful tool?
Do you have a graph that overlays test scores with pesticide use? Because I'm looking at the one in the article and I'm not sure how they would match up.
Yeah there are so many hidden patterns and causes. It is almost impossible to say for sure what causes it!
The only thing that is really a red flag to evaluate the other side is this attitude of trying to find dumbed down solutions to evaluate situations that are full of nuances, and that cannot be analyzed with a series of simplified rules.

Sort tenures, resume holes, etc... do not matter in isolation and you don't always have to try to be the judge of the circumstances of someone else. Evaluate knowledge and attitude and past results, the rest is not for you to judge.
Thanks . Love Huberman. Done almost everything to no avail! One thing I haven’t done is sauna and I just got one.
Making Rust attractive for writing GTK applications
I don’t think there is a definitive book which represent exactly what I have in mind. It would depend a lot on your background. If you have a mathematical background with some formal logic, you could read the introduction to the Homotopy Type Theory Book, but it is aiming at something different. This video and accompanying paper could also help https://math.andrej.com/2016/10/10/five-stages-of-accepting-.... If you have no logic background, it would require a bit more.

What is your background and interest? I could perhaps help if you want to learn something like this
I was bullied, but find it hard to believe that not interacting with kids was the solution. The root cause of the bullying (from my side) was because at the time my social skills were lagging behind my peers', and I don't regret not being taken out of that situation.
the book has 4 stars at Amazon. Positive reviews. It highlights another rabbit-hole: The fake reviews
+1. I have had my ASSERT defined to 1) signal the program to pause it, 2) start gdb (or ddd), 3) attach to the pid, 4) tell gdb what the binary is, 5) wait on me most of my programming life. No idea why this is not the default.
open-floorplan with music where people from marketing, hr, sales talk loud while going to infinite smoke breaks
Looks like a DBus API for FIDO2, so it would let any browser or non-browser app to authenticate via FIDO2. It looks pretty neat!
Scary thing is how many people don't consider this to be scary.

If we were to blame anyone, we should blame ourselves. But I'll return to that in a moment.

We live in a complex system, so we can blame the political/financial system for providing wrong incentives, loans and subsidies to the big agriculture, based on profitability alone.

We can blame agriculture companies for sprayng millions of tons of poisons all over our countryside to keep profits up and costs down. When you're planting monocrops, and spraying it with pesti/herbicides, you're propagating environmental equivalents of deserts. Deserts leaking poisons not only on itself, but through whole nature (through wind & water cycle).

Both pesticides and herbicides are inbelievably poisonous not only to plants and pests, but also to other bugs (we all know at least about bees), to all other animals, the animals we feed with the produce, and in the end, even to humans. Those poisons' bioaccumulate and their neurodegenerative and hormons-altering effects are causing havoc not only in bugs, frogs and mice, but also in humans (parkinson, etc.).

The solution is something we're actively killing with our current agricultural practices. Biodiversity.

For example, we don't need to kill the mice with poisons. We can interplant trees into our fields to provide living space for predators (e.g. owls and foxes) to manage the mice population and not use the poisons to keep those predators alive.

We can't reasonably expect the return of an army of small farmers, providing local communities with poison-free grown food, not in a reasonable time frame we have until environmental collapse and/or extinction of key animal kinds (no pollinators, no birds, no small predators, more mice, more bad bugs and diseases, famines ...).

But what we can do, we can change our habits. We don't have to eat meat/dairy, which is incredibly land/resource/poison intensive (we would need 4+ earths to feed the world's population same diet as americans have). We don't have to feed other animal 20x more food than we would need only to eat its muscles. We don't have to cut down forests to grow meat (we would need 1/4 of the land to feed the population if everybody were to switch to a plant based diet), if we eat the plants ourselves and let the nature be and let it repair itself.

We can then change the political/financial/agricultural system through our own actions (buying/cooking/eating). When enough people do, there won't be the pressure to produce a much as we currently do, then we can legislate the change in the agriculture , forbid use of poisons, protect the ecosystems, reforest the earth, live in sync with the nature, stop exploiting everything (and living beings) with our need for financial gains.

Sorry for my bad english. Also, I'm in the system, it's monday, no time to write shorter comment, and no time to incorporate everything-that-is-wrong and everything-that-should-be-done. It's a complex system. But it can be solved in our own kitchens.
'This Windows bullshit' is merely the Windows equivalent of a veritable zoo[0] of Unix/POSIX/Linux headers and functions including unistd.h, sys/types.h, sys/socket.h, fcntl.h, sys/ipc.h, semaphore.h, stdarg.h, signal.h, pthread.h, and so on.

Just because you aren't used to it doesn't mean it's 'bullshit'. Might I provide a counterexample to the 'simplicity' of Linux? Developing video games natively on Linux is such a pain point that the industry has standardised around simply translating Windows syscalls and Direct3D shaders to their Linux equivalents, because the latter is so heavily fragmented to develop natively for. Also known as Proton.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_POSIX_library
The thing I don't understand is the concept "majority" in the crypto space. There is no way to prove that one person doesn't control the majority of the voting power.
If I own a large portion of the supply split across several hundred wallets and I vote one way, smaller owners may be influenced by the appearance of hundreds of votes being cast one way vs the other. We see this in the real world, where some people are willing to just vote for what they think is the majority sentiment when they don't have strong opinions on a matter.

I've heard arguments along the lines of "those with more invested into the project should have more voting power" but that to me just sounds like an incentive to centralize.

If I'm a small player, I either go with the majority or see my investment become worthless, or in a fantasy world where crypto is used for anything other than wild speculation, I see my utility greatly diminished as I'm no longer able to interact with the "majority". Sure, I might still be able to interact with those left behind, but the pressure to move over to the majority fork is going to pull more and more people towards that.

I see federation of content as a much more approachable means to re-decentralization of the internet.

We still rely on centralized DNS. As we still rely on ISPs to make sure our packets can leave our local networks, and on international treaties to make sure we can communicate with networks in other countries, but unless you want everyone to start developing and maintaining a decentralized physical computer network for free, we'll always need to trust a number of institutions to do this thing where we can communicate with someone on the other side of the world within a few milliseconds.
This is one thing that I appreciate in the Rust culture, back to the days of Object Pascal/Modula-2, or the managed languages, where we do a working solution first, and only if it doesn't meet the performance requirements, we go through the optimization phase, with possible somehow hacky code disabling bounds check and such ({$R-} on TP since forever).

C++ culture was also a bit like that on the early days when we discussed about safer abstractions to C code on Usenet, somehow that got lost along the way as more C folks migrated into it.
Possibly, as an absolute last resort. Not before. It's very unlikely, and at that point it being "more effective" than ketamine is barely germane, since I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel anyway.
I really only know Gnus; it’s been a decade or two since I used anything else. I am also not really sure how to judge user–friendliness in this case. Now that I have customized it to my liking, Gnus displays exactly the information I want and has exactly the operations I want bound to keys that I like. That makes it very friendly to me, the only user I _really_ care about.

I think the design goals of Gnus were not about allowing the user to get started quickly by having the same buttons as every other email client, but instead empowering the users to extend Gnus so that it does what they want. As a result, it may take longer to learn how to use Gnus but the ceiling is much, much higher.

However, for bulk sorting of email I should actually have mentioned Sieve. It’s a standardized configuration language you can use to tell your server how to sort your mail, so that it is already done before your email client even logs in. Most IMAP servers support it, and it is pretty easy for email provide access to it.

You can write simple rules like this:

if address :is "From" "bugzilla-daemon@mozilla.org"
{
fileinto :create "INBOX.Bugzilla";
}
elsif header :contains "list-id" "emacs-devel.gnu.org"
{
fileinto :create "INBOX.emacs-devel";
}

and so on until all of your mail is sorted how you want it. It’s not a full programming language, so it cannot do everything, but it’s quite capable and pretty well standardized so you can take your filter rules with you if you change email providers. I use it even for simple rules like this so that all I need to do is paste them in when I move to a new provider. One doesn’t need to do that very often, but it only takes seconds to do instead of minutes or hours to reenter every filtering rule in a new UI.

My current email provider is Fastmail. I discovered after I signed up that most of their mail–filtering settings get turned into Sieve rules that are shown to you when you go to add your own rules. I really like this because you can see exactly how spam is handled, how your vacation responders are implemented, how email from blocked senders is discarded, etc, etc.
Can you add a URL option so it goes straight into self driving mode, without any need to click anything?
But it shouldn't be. Learning in theory should be a highly personal experience.
Maybe his ideas are not for you - at least not for now. This should be the a priori expectation anyway.
What Does OTA Mean?
> 1: Commenters don’t compare like-for-like energy production, instead they often compare using the nameplate capacity e.g. compare construction cost of a 1GW nuclear plant with a 1GW solar plant. The right thing to compare is GWh produced. Capacity factor converts GW to GWh, and the capacity factor for nuclear is about 90% and for solar is about 15%[1]. Therefore the equivalent of a 1GW nuclear plant is 6GW of installed solar

This is captured by net capacity and LCOE.

LCOE of new solar is rapidly approaching MCOE of existing nuclear.

> Commenters ignore the cost of systems needed to provide power in winter on windless dark nights. The real cost of wind/solar needs to include the necessary energy storage (batteries or pumped hydro or stored chemical energy or whatever). Some of that can be overcome by installing overcapacity (e.g. install 3x as much GW solar to cover aircon usage in early evening in Texas). Nuclear is very good at providing power at all times. Storage is very expensive - usually doubles or triples the cost of the wind/solar installation. The need for storage goes up as our dependency on wind/solar power increases.

This is captured by total system cost. While they're about on par (or favouring nuclear in europe) right now, today's optimistic renewable price is tomorrow's pessimistic.

Storage is about to do what PV did in the 2010s, and anyone being forced to pay for a half working AP-1000 or EPR in 2030 rather than 2x the net production in PV panels made of sand and a battery array made of rust all hooked together with aluminum for their utility money is rightfully going to be extremely angry.
In BASIC, a wrong POKE could also kill the machine and a reboot was required.

The big difference is that most of these mistakes are opt-in, while in C every line of code is a possible source for problems.
smart and necessary. Japanese companies must divest from China as the US steps up it's economic attack
social networks are hub-and-spoke? which of us is the hub?

financial hubs don't _host_ financial institutions and their assets?
>We are blessed with a lot of public spaces in Berlin.

And cursed with a terrible housing market, especially for newcomers.

>Public spaces are so incredibly important, but I don't imagine the political class as people who go to parks a lot.

So much this on both fronts. In many countries, like Austria and others I'm sure, the political class really has neglected public spaces that aren't for tourists, as they're not the users of it. Public parks have mostly been relegated as places for the "poor" and "working class" to hang out who can't afford a house in the green suburbs with a nice big garden surrounded by forests. Which is ironic since the rich kids are always driving their cars from their suburbs to the parks downtown to hang out as that's where the best parties are. :)
It kind of goes around to the same point: developers are sloppy and assume that ~ or %USERPROFILE% has full read-write permissions, and treat the corresponding home directories as a free-for-all dumping ground.
You're saying it's the two years when kids almost entirely paused schooling to any notable degree because they had no local oversight, and not the participatory trophy nonsense that boomers have been complaining about for the past 20 years despite them being the ones that made it a thing in the first place?

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
Noooo don’t you know a content moderator should be paid like an SRE?
> 2) In hiring any software engineer, the organization needs me to have a 1/10th chance of hiring a future manager, 1/50th chance of future Director, 1/1000th chance of hiring a future VP, and 1 in 25,000th chance of hiring a future CEO of the company. A job hopper is unlikely to become anything but an IC.

I'm sorry but this is simply a laughable idea. I encourage you to check in your company how many directors+ were hired externally VS were promoted internally. I guarantee you 80% will come from outside.
Is this statement not a bit overrated? I'm running on same computer since 2011, at the time of building it I 'beefed it up' with 24Gb of RAM with option to upgrade to 64Gb (which I had not done yet). Installed Arch Linux on it and am still using it actively after 11 years of service without any problem (here I must say thank you to OSS community since it's the software that 'just works' allows for this). Now my kids use it too, and they don't put as much care as I do.

When I was buying my thinkpad p53 so I can work while travelling I 'beefed it up' with 128Gb of RAM hoping it will last me at least a decade...

Unless you meant servers in data center, and even those I know from first hand experience are serving for much longer than 2 years and are still far from being obsolete..

On the other hand I guess this might be true for gaming rigs.
I wonder if you ever entertained the thought of short tenures being driven by the company environments (hard to find a good fit, a place where you want to stay more than a couple of years) and by some characteristics of the industry as a whole (job hopping=more money). And I'm saying this as someone that has never worked less than 5 years in the same place.
Can we just enjoy the code and not bring politics into it?

> Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable.

https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/