skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a pretty decent article and good on Vox for publishing it. There are some figures showing how antibiotic use for meat animals had decreased but are starting to tick up a bit, wonder how much (or lack of) media coverage has an impact on this trend.
I grew up in an area known for dairy production (in the u.s.a) and have heard from dairy staff when a cow used for Organic product gets sick often (not sure a percentage) their only choice is to "take the animal to auction". It's a catch 22 because if you treat the cow they may no longer qualify for Organic standards.
From my experience working on lettuce farms there are still a ton of things you can spray on the crops while qualifying for Organic labeling.
It's complicated to say the least.
Interesting! I recently wrote about this in the context of Google and Apple ecosystems and did not know it had a name. [1] I called in offline-first vs. online-first design.

[1]: https://twos.dev/apple.html#offline
It was apparently possible, although 15 years late. http://maccessibility.net/2010/03/24/adobe-announces-flash-a...
Re abandoned buildings: it’s likely due to the inheritance laws for Portugal, which are unique in the way things are automatically split upon deaths and require official signoff from all parties that are inheritors for sale. If another death occurs, then their own more inheritors for that individual.
Because there were fewer of them to start with (predator:prey ratio is low at the apex), so it would take more generations (which are relatively slow) to appreciably increase, even under population growth-promoting conditions.

Start doubling 10 vs 100, and see where you get after a few rounds.
It's nice to see code written in such a professional manner. Thank you for sharing.
On nine servers (each 512 GiB RAM) I have access to one experienced an ECC error back in november. My local workstation (64 GiB RAM) logged two errors back in december.
Unreal Engine can (or at least used to) compile games to WASM and render on canvas. There used to be an excellent demo based on Infinity Blade.
I have long held that a good night's rest, a long shower or a walk in nature are some of the best debugging and software architecture design tools that developers have at their disposal. We've all been pulling those late nights and long hours banging our head on the desk just to figure it, only to step away and figure out what we want in that Zen like moment of the morning shower. You absolutely need to put hands on keyboard to get your work done, but generally the amount of code pounded out is (usually) inversely proportional to the amount of thought I've given to the solution.
I thought they were fried in Greece
Only by accident. I figure if I'm seeing a story so much that I'm sick of it, I'm using HN too much.
You can find both in the same area for mixed areas like Yellowstone, where there’s a blend of grassland, rivers, and forests.
> Locus allowed live Unix processes to migrate not just from one machine to another on a network, but to a variety of machine types.

My personal take on this is that need to make the data layer in computers transparent.

Files are currently opaque sets of bytes which need an application specific parser to interact with them. And when you have programs that can interact with a file, the only operations are read and write. Realistically, you can only have one program editing a file at once. Even having multiple programs reading a file at the same time is often a bit broken.

Instead, what if files were structured (think JSON or SQL). And instead of overwriting the file when you hit save, the application could send granular updates to the files’ content as edits happened. (Eg update Foo.bar.baz = 22, or the sql equivalent). And applications listen for changes in the data model, so another application (maybe on a different computer)! Can edit something in the file, and the changes get propagated live.

There’s all sorts of benefits to this:

- We can enable collaborative editing in all applications for free

- It’s super easy to make plugins for applications - just make another program which interacts with the data. No plug-in api needed.

- The Unix philosophy is strengthened because multiple small programs can work with the same data at once. We can split out IDEs into a lot more small tools.

- Users have lots of devices. This sort of thing would make data able to move between their devices in a way that’s transparent to the application. Like live collaborative editing Dropbox.

We need CRDTs to do it properly. But the technology behind that is more or less solved at this point.

Honestly I think the hardest thing will be getting OS people on board. I think it’s about time we shook up how the filesystem works. open/read/write basically haven’t changed in 50 years.
Yes, every now and then to hide topics that I find depressing. Usually the ones that deal with loss of habitat and other human-inflicted issues affecting animals. Or around mistreatment of children.
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/18592/what-does-t...
I’m actually seeing the Tesla engineers do some positive things since Elon has been distracted by Twitter. Holiday update was solid and didn’t upset the apple cart, the return of a real steering wheel option for S/X, etc.
> is a more precise term for looking back at Rome and thinking we'd be better off with an Augustus

Ha! Did that unintentionally.
Good news for Elon that all his crimes will be forgiven one day.
Dutch Apple pies are made in a Dutch oven, not the Netherlands
Yes, I use it on links I’ve read, or to hide topics I’m not interested in. Makes skimming the front page faster.

Please don’t take it away dang!
Given the symptoms you most likely have a problem with PSU, not with BIOS.

Well, at first. Now you have more problems..
> We go to meditation for relief, consolation, and wonder.

We do? That’s not my experience.

And this isn’t the only sweeping generalization in this essay that doesn’t jibe with my experience… though I’ve not spent time jamming on Zen Buddhism, so maybe I’m missing the point.
Quantum entanglement discovery could enable futuristic comms tech
Humans? We tend to hunt competing predators (and animals that prey on us) to near-extinction, because that's our bloody bison/sheep/cow/goat...
Visualizing $65T in Hidden Dollar Debt
I ate at Tojo's years ago, 2 points:

1. It was the best sushi I've ever eaten. I love sushi but I'm not really a "sushi snob" - I'm more than happy getting some premade sushi at the grocery store (usually). But the quality at Tojo's was like nothing I'd ever experienced.

2. After I ate there, I wanted to research the "California roll inventor" story, and I remember finding a whole bunch of chefs that had claimed to invent the California roll. Too lazy to re-look up that info, but I distinctly remember being wary of the "California roll inventor" claim after that, mainly thinking it was quite possible a bunch of chefs came up with similar ideas independently.
The idea of a nature preserve with automated killer robots is pretty ethically dystopian.

Parent bison: "And then occasionally, son, a flying death machine comes and murders one of us."
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actions...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170617075857/http://www.adobe....
Fyrox engine 0.29 is out
Much of this outcome I believe traces back to Mozilla's decision to drop support for embedding Gecko in non-XUL apps.

Outside of Safari, WebKit's popularity is largely owed to how easily it embeds — regardless of UI toolkit, platform, or language you're working with you can probably embed it, and so WebKit has shown up in countless embedded applications for over 15 years now.

And while Blink isn't designed to embed as cleanly as WebKit does, Chromium can be pared down enough that it in itself can be used as a platform, which we've seen in Electron. While XULRunner was similar in spirit, it was cumbersome and clunky, which is why at one point one of the more popular Gecko browsers (Camino) was instead written with AppKit. Electron isn't exactly an elegant swan itself, but it's considerably more responsive and is arguably easier to write a passable application with.

Embedding being killed also meant that there can only be one Gecko-based browser, because lack of embedding means being chained to XULRunner and prevents other Gecko browsers from being significantly different. So now if Firefox fails, Gecko is dead. If browsers like Camino still existed they could carry on the torch, but now those are gone.

I know that embedding had serious technical issues but I think they were worth solving. By dropping embedding support they threw out the baby with the bathwater.
Oh boy, right again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271948

(In brief, a prediction that AI would negatively impact the voice acting industry within the next couple of years, which received a frosty reception.)
Trolling is not allowed on HN
Loads for me from multiple endpoints. Are you using Cloudflare DNS? If so, the site in question blocks DNS queries from CF.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cloudflare+archive.is
_"The problem is that [disengaging] does not work outside of a sheltered monastic community because you need to face your problems constantly in the real world"_

Not so! The problem is that disengaging is much more difficult outside of a sheltered monastic community, not that it is impossible. It becomes a balance engaging and disengaging; you spend as much time as necessary engaging so you can set up your environment to allow as much time for disengaging as possible, and find relationships which will be able to support you in this. Stopping the process of disengaging to deal with something like dealing with a difficult social interaction or rearranging your finances can be very painful and frustrating. But in the end, dealing with these interruptions is a part of the process of awakening.
If they called it a Vancouver roll, nobody could afford one.
Clinicaltrials.gov is where those are recorded.
> Or they use macros

Dark magic is still magic...
> was never a thing like "privacy" in Apple roadmap

Uh [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
You can totally force the state of wakefullness and falling asleep by just staring at the wall too. Lots of creative ideas. No bed required. It is how I face planted in to a marble table early in 2022. New lesson learned: Check your surroundings before you do this.
I Ctrl+F'd for GitUp based on the title, it deserves mention here. It's all-in on Mac, unfortunately.

https://github.com/git-up/GitUp

> GitUp is built as a thin layer on top of a [Mac-only] reusable generic Git toolkit called "GitUpKit".
There was a post on HN a couple years ago I think that was about "things you think are named after places but are not" that was really interesting.

My favorite was German Chocolate Cake, which is not from Germany but was invented by Samuel German.
Somehow that is also French Tacos.
Read up about the precision LIGO needs. Pretty mind boggling.
It just sounds to me like North America is well-suited to supporting large bovine populations, whether that's in the form of domesticated cattle or wild bison.
Enjoy your freedom
> Unreal Engine can (or at least used to) compile games to WASM and render on canvas.

So does Unity and Godot.
Kindle had this for how long before they got cold feet at disrupting/killing a whole industry? That was, what, 10 years ago? Oh, more[1][2]!

I'd love to know the chronology exactly. I had mistakenly been under the impression that Kindle had actually removed the feature entirely for a long while after it's late-2000's launch, but based on what I found it was only disabled for some content, I don't see much evidence that the situation has changed much since.

Initially this felt like a great shift in the tide, that Apple was deciding to re-open this can-of-worms & unabashedly go up against a trenchant & defended industry. Given where ML is today I expect much much higher quality (see: Microsoft's VALL-E for example), but whether Apple makes similar compromises to Amazon or not is very much To-Be-Determined (TBD).

[1] https://chasingperfection.co.uk/post/2013/01/14/text-to-spee...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon/amazon-to-allow-di...
At your level as a college student, go for it. It shows initiative I would say. Once you graduate and need to be an FTE I would either focus entirely on managing your ventures, find a way to pretend you are a silent partner, or leave them off your resume at least til you are established.
I’m not suggesting the hashes themselves are illegal to possess, but that transferring the bytes corresponding to those hashes is problematic: if both sides are lowly trusted, that puts you at risk as a hoster of that content. This is indeed an issue with IPFS, for instance, where I believe the solutions are “pinning” content that is already vetted by another party, or denylists of “bad bits”. I assume it’s similar to any other clearnet hosting. Btw, I make zero value judgments about all of that.

Off topic: I see downvotes on my parent comment, please let me know if I said something bad to help me improve.
The California state legislature nas since abolished diminished capacity as a defense.

At the federal level, diminished capacity is not a defense. However it is a factor that can be considered in sentencing.
yes agree and, simple statements certainly do not portray complex systems.

this topic calls for a substantive response. I will note quickly that the ability to measure and compare over vast areas, is increasing dramatically in the Information Age.

There has to be a civilian, science-based and impartial component, along with the diligence and readyness of dot-mil participants, to steer away from the worst outcomes. No one should take political statements or partial information at face value -- critical thinking, checks and balances, trust and verify, are crucial IMHO.
Really good to have google etc busted wide open by superior products and innovation. Company just seems like a black hole for talent attached to a huge money printing machine.
Directionally correct, but maybe not the best example:

Pentagon report: China amassing arsenal of anti-satellite weapons (2020)

https://spacenews.com/pentagon-report-china-amassing-arsenal...

(this is not actually intended to be a criticism, just an interesting tidbit)
the [physics package]
(https://ctan.org/pkg/physics) provides for differential with a \dd command with a roman d, it also has several other useful macros
I'm with him on Rob Burbea being a great teacher.
You can get an old device, wait until it fills up with caches/logs/other opaque data that just can't be deleted for whatever reason, and updates will fail due to insufficient free space. Or just download a large file to the same effect probably
You're not covered for all types of errors, only single bit flips.
This is how every herbivore lives in the wild: they do their thing until they are eventually murdered for their meat by predatory death machines. It's just that most of the predatory death machines are falcons or owls or wolves or lions or tigers or bears (oh my!)
There is a whole dispute of whether it was France, Belgium or Spain. I think most people settle on Belgium, some France and a minority point to a really old account of fried potatoes (uncertain of cut though) in Spain before they were even grown in France.
Hitchens didn’t really address Buddhism in any meaningful way. He made a quip once about the Buddhist saying this glass of scotch isn’t really there and Hitchens’ response was something about how he rejected that take because he enjoyed the scotch.

He seemed to dismiss it because it was a religion rather than address any of its positions in a substantial way. Probably because he couldn’t give as forceful or witty a counter argument to it as he could Christianity.
Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams – The Hood Maker (2017)
After watching Frozen Planet II - they only got brown bears on film killing musk ox calves, no adults, (edit:also reindeer calves) and it took what are called super packs of twenty plus wolves to take down one bison, it took that many to first get one separate from the rest of the pack of bison and it was not that many bison. The wolves also had a low success rate.
(Not OP.) You got downvoted, but you motivated me to at least run it through an OCR scanner.

if anyone wants it here you go -

https://github.com/robss2020/OCR-furby-source-code

This is just the PDF run through OCR. I did not manually correct anything, and the results aren't great.
Agreed. You can generally tell when a track was from PC-98 because of that distinctive... tinny? synth.

My personal favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kqyLNJiqFA
That sad thing is that SF is a very liberal and compassionate city. Voters perennially approve increased taxes to fund homeless, drug, and housing initiatives. By any standard except the extreme radicalism of today's culture warriors, achieving a workable, productive, and liberal consensus should be trivial.

The majority of SF residents are renters. And a good number of homeowners would be happy to relinquish some control regarding zoning to improve the bureaucratic situation--certainly anyone who has owned property in this city for any significant length of time has come to appreciate the excessive cost in both time and money of doing anything to their properties.

But national politics has completely overshadowed local politics. Renters oppose easing development costs (even when they come with extraordinary dislocation protections, such as mandatory, multi-year rent cost reimbursements) because the national political ideology of the left has daemonized any and all development as gentrification, which is intrinsically evil. It's a sister phenomenon to anti-corporatism--corporations are intrinsically evil, and therefore anything which might benefit corporations is to be rejected. No wonder politics on the left has become performative--that's exactly what the ideology and its advocates now demand. (The same is true of drug policy--precisely nobody in SF, or perhaps most of the U.S., IMO, opposes "harm reduction" as a primary consideration and target for drug and homelessness policies. But the left has transformed "harm reduction" into a rigid set of performative policy mandates.)
I guess my feeling is that I'm surprised he hadn't read all those books long ago.
Ask HN: Is “microservices” a bad word on resumes for small/medium companies?
Although microservices used to receive a lot of hype, there's a steady increase in hate of them. Not just on HN. They are still widely applauded for gigantic companies, but smaller- and medium- scale companies are noticing that SOA isn't for most of them. Modular monoliths are making a comeback while SOA advocates are increasingly met with criticisms with undertones ranging from "you don't know what you're talking about" to "you are actively peddling snake oil".

When applying to companies that consciously prefer their modular monoliths, should words like SOA and microservices be avoided in resumes and cover letters? Or, does using those words when describing your experience still convey a sense "this person can work at scale" without leaving a bitter aftertaste in the mouths of anti-SOA people?
The logic of this study is typical of many modern statistical studies:

1. the authors fit a certain model, adjusted for certain covariates, and observe that a certain effect of interest is statistically significant.

2. therefore, if (a) the model is "correct" i.e. sufficiently well approximates the observed data distribution, and (b) the regression coefficient and structural coefficient coincide i.e. the true generative DAG is compatible with the chosen set of covariates, then a causal association from the predictor to the outcome exists with high probability.

3. the authors simply assume (2) and therefore imply that a causal relation likely exists.
Interestingly feral goat and camel musters are good business and pull in what are essentially 100% "organic" animals that otherwise run wild and breed out of control to the detriment of the environment:

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-18/the-lucrative-busines...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJGvqmKsApk

( potentially geolocked to Australia vido )
I am sympathetic with anyone whose livelihood and investments are threatened by external realities or evolving social expectations. But that has nothing to do with what I was saying, which is a realistic assessment of whether farmers will voluntarily alter their water usage. Most won't, and most won't even admit that their usage is a major problem that needs to be fixed. And it's for the reason I quoted: almost no one is able to see themselves as the problem if their livelihood or personal self-respect is invested in their not being the problem.

This isn't an abstraction to me. My parents were basically forced off the farm I grew up on, and their homestead made nearly valueless, by neighboring farmers whose hog-raising facilities and manure management made the place uninhabitable due to stench and dust. Their neighbors never saw their practices as a problem, at least until they retired and moved to town. I don't believe they were disingenuous in this. They simply were not equipped to imagine that their farming practices, on which they were dependent for their livelihood and self-respect, could be a terrible problem. It is precisely because they were deeply invested in them (both in $ and personal terms) that they could not see it.
Most food sources are more efficiently produced through deliberate agriculture rather than just letting them grow wild.
31 light-years away. Proxima Centauri b is about 4. Don't think I'd like to visit either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b

I'd like to visit Kepler-452b but it's 1,500 light-years away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-452b
Alan Kay has been thinking & talking [1] about a game engine based web for more than 20 years called Croquet and they are just now launching into the open WebXR world because, like James Cameron waiting decades for the film tech to catch up with his vision of Avatar, the delivery of open 3D Immersive experience is becoming possible. And that will affect all the old underlying design assumptions for things like the Dynabook required by real world physical constraints.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQTeWJNkylI

[2] https://www.croquet.io
Almost all dairy cows get turned into meat for humans after their milk production drops.
Canids hunt on the prairie, wolves and coyotes. Bears aren’t usually found there, preferring forested regions though you see them in the boundary areas between forest and grasslands. Pronghorn are stupendously fast — second fastest animal, and they can maintain that speed over long distances — as an evolved defense against very fast predators, like the American Cheetah, which disappeared around the last ice age.

Pronghorn tend to follow bison, only feeding after the bison have eaten the tall grass. This greatly reduces predation on pronghorn from ambush predators hiding in the grass; if they can see the predator with sufficient time, they are nearly impossible to run down.
I thought they were from Belgium originally.
AWS CLI Builder
Tojo is a legend! He was already the in-the-know place to get sushi when I was kid in Vancouver in the 80's. Nice to hear from people here that he's still kickin' it. :-)
Can someone parse the readout at the end? How many errors did he actually experience? It looked to me like there was one non-correctable error. IDK how the OS decides which errors are fatal and which are non-fatal.