skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we are facultative carnivores, we can eat vegetables, but we are not predators.

No, we are omnivores, both behaviorally and physiologically. As I mentioned, predator is a functional class, but we are absolutely are predators - predation is killing something to eat it. Perhaps you mean we aren't obligate predators.

Regarding the trophic position of omnivores and the existence of multiple trophic levels of consumers, which I acknowledged in my first post, it doesn't really matter - you can calculate trophic position by the mean trophic level of the things you eat. Half grass and half cow would be 2.5. Humans are around 2.2 [1], because we are omnivores.

> at the zooplankton level you already have whales eating it.

Well, blue whales are krill specialists and yes have a fairly low trophic level - 3.2 - but it is a cherrypicked example of course. The equivalent is saying an African elephant is a browsing herbivore and generally aren't bothered by predators, which is one less trophic level than the whale example. In reality, both can be preyed upon especially when young or infirm or old [2] and in practice it may be better to not cherrypick.

> What's the difference?

The difference is in the pelagic ecosystem there are often more levels. The difference is due to trophic efficiency, energy gets moved from primary productivity up the chain faster and with less loss.

>but not because algae-Zooplankton--Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator

No, that's exactly why.

Extending Briand and Cohen (1987), we reconsidered which
class of ecosystems supports the longest food chains. Among
all 113 food webs of Briand and Cohen (Briand and Cohen
1987; Cohen et al. 1990), and also among the 28 webs in
three-dimensional habitats, ecosystems with one-celled plant
producers have the longest maximum food chains. By “pe￾lagic” ecosystems, we here mean those based on single-celled
primary producers (phytoplankton).
Among these 113 food webs, the 10 ecosystems with lon￾gest maximal chains all had single-celled (phytoplankton)
primary producers (fig. 1A). Of the 28 three-dimensional
webs, the 16 webs with the longest food chains also had
single-celled (phytoplankton) primary producers (fig. 1B).
In all, about half (56) of the 113 Briand and Cohen webs
and 21 of the 28 three-dimensional webs were supported
by single-celled plants.
The 10 webs with longest food chains were all aquatic:
eight were from pelagic three-dimensional ecosystems (six
in oceans and two in lakes) [3]

You may have misinterpreted the study from the abstract but full pdf available from googling the name.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1305827110
[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/mms.12906
[3] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/686880
>Allowing everything to accommodate the preferences of every person is not neutral.

What do you mean that is not neutral?

Not being neural would be either forcing everyone to get meat with their meals or not allowing people to get meat with their meals.

By allowing choice you are taking a neutral path.
Seconding. Doing anything "interesting" with the distinctive features of the prototypal model is practically always a bad idea. Unless there's some much-better implementation out there in another language, I'd regard the whole model as basically a dead end. One giant obfuscatory foot-gun with nothing particularly necessary it enables that can't be accomplished well-enough with some other model.
In which country are the datacenters?
Lots going on, `ra3.xlplus` having a problem in some regions.
I also personally know boomers who are definitely bisexual, but they don't really accept or understand the concept of bisexuality, so they round themselves to straight or gay (mostly straight).
We completely renovated our apartment about 3 years ago. We used Sweet Home 3D to help visualize our kitchen as we took out a wall and rearranged things.

Being able to model it and then “explore” it in 3D was really helpful to settle on our final layout. And especially since the designer we hired gave us one option that stunk.
Please explain how these two things are related in the slightest.
Nobody has "been used" to create those things. They do it knowingly and willingly, because they're paid huge sums of money in return.

Don't turn it into "we just followed commands" or "we were tricked", own whatever you're working on.
I share this opinion. Haskell was my hobby language for 2 years until Rust. I still miss the brevity of Haskell and point-free style in particular.
It absolutely is a form of corruption: paying money to influence our government. Being charitable: it definitely looks like corruption and we should avoid even the appearance of corruption.
I've used both in commercial products and I find Yocto to be more flexible than Buildroot, but the learning curve is less with Buildroot. Still, both get the job done and are reasonably documented and supported, so pick your poison. :>
from your response it appeara thst you have misunderstood my comment, which leads me to believe that you frequently misunderstand contracts that you sign.
Can a good philosophical contribution be made just by asking a question?
They must have some algo that rates domain quality. It happened to me recently, so it's not bullshit. They do front running, but they have some sofisticated scheme behind it.
Around 8-10 minutes at minimum. We do blue-green canary deployments, so most of the time the full deployment would take longer to shift over traffic in order to have enough time for metrics to be evaluated. But for a yolo deploy it'd be about 8-10 minutes.
FEMA isn’t the right tool for this job.

From another article:

> "Although FEMA is synonymous with disaster support, they’re most typically involved with disasters where there is tremendous home or property damage," Gov. DeWine continued.

> This would include situations like tornadoes, flooding or hurricanes, Gov. DeWine explained.

> "That is why we do not expect that FEMA will come to East Palestine."
They're asking for an OS their computer can boot into natively.
There's no register pressure - TEST EAX, EAX (or CMP, EAX, $0) // JNZ $ERROR_HANDLER is the instruction sequence we're talking about. Most error types are enums where 0 = "good" and any nonzero value is not good. This is the inverse of the "null pointer check" in C. It consumes no registers and a negligible number of code bytes.

There is obviously a sparsity of exceptional cases where error-handling code like this is worse than using exceptions. I would claim that it's a lot more sparse than you think. Many people use exceptions for things like "file not found" or "function failed for whatever reason," (my favorite) "timeout," or "bad input from the user." These cases are often not that exceptional!
People are often surprised by this, but healthcare and insurance systems assign an explicit numerical value to human lives and run with it all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
What about Mesa for OpenCL? Its support for AMD cards is pretty good in my (limited) experience.

The codegen stuff is all shared (formerly Gallium, now llvmpipe?), so Mesa's implementation of OCL should be great.
I think you're partly talking about the side effects of safety changes. An older car could feel like a "green house" with lots of glass and small frames. The cabin was also less protected, so the volume of empty space inside was closer to the volume of the outer skin of that section of the car. Thin doors, not much between you and the engine compartment firewall, wheel wells, etc.

But I also wonder if you were a kid back then. Everything seemed larger when we were small. I can look at the garage in my parents 50 year old house and realize that cars back then fit in the same spaces as cars now, and were roughly the same footprint as far as worrying about the exact position so that you could still open the door to get in or out of the parked car.
Google absolutely does have the capacity to log every search query, and does - and I say this as someone who has worked with that dataset, if only for training purposes.

6 billion SMS messages, at a max length of 160 characters, is 1 terrabyte of raw text. I think that the NSA has the cash to shell out $100 for a new 1TB hard drive every day... (not even including compression, of which it is highly, highly compressible)
The supreme court's opinion on political spending means you cannot just make the current system of lobbying illegal, because SCOTUS will just strike that law down.
Would you still agree if you had to deal with the externalities? Your suburban life is being subsidized heavily by that downtown area. At the end of the day if I'm tired the last thing I want is to get on the road-- I would rather arrive at my destination without putting the cognitive effort in to pay attention to the road
Also, when cells replicate, will the new ones automatically be of the edited type? Or is it not that simple?
> We do not get to decide what the future finds interesting.

That's factually wrong. If you decide to utterly obliterate something, the future can't find it interesting.

> Therefore, we must preserve as much as we possibly can so that those in the future have the ability to pick and choose. As it stands now, a lot of human history is just pieced together from trash and rubble.

That's a value judgement that will eventually succumb to its own contradictions. Preserving stuff, especially preserving "as much as we possibly can" is a luxury that many ages can't afford. It's all going to end up as "trash and rubble" eventually.

If you want make something to survive for the long term, make trash and rubble.
At least we know it. In the future, it will be "AI, rephrase that bill to resonate better with my voters" and no proofreading.
Your source being?
The world doesn't have unlimited resources. You have to make a call somewhere.
Heh heh, well maybe in some cases but since TS/JS is kinda the lowest common denominator in web development, it's just the most convenient choice. We humans are limited in our capacity to learn and take time to get good at things. So it makes a lot of sense to pick a tool that can be used to build the whole app with.

And for all of its faults, NodeJS can be fun compared to something like Java which feels more like doing taxes. Maybe it's the danger. Maybe it's the fact there are so many packages and libraries out there - everyone can contribute! Who knows, but I won't waste my time learning say Rails just to use a "better" backend framework. It's good enough even though I know better. There are way more important things.
Exactly. "Rust wasn't the right choice because we spent too much time and resources playing with it." is not an argument against Rust. It's an argument against learning a new technology while looking for PMF. There's nothing inherent about Rust that makes it a poor choice to build a first iteration of a product with.
> I hope notions of attractiveness in Western societies can normalize on just being healthy.

I believe this is happening, particularly noticeable for American women. "Fit/Athletic" is in, "skinny" is out. My wife has noticed that high-status/high-income American women tend to be much more athletic than high-status women in Europe and elsewhere, where they tend to be thin. In both cases, genetically inherited attractiveness also dominates (e.g. height for men, facial structure, etc).

> Another point, I don't think most people find hyper-thinness attractive.

Depends on the society. In Asia it's still by far the most popular aesthetic, especially for women.
This might solve a big mystery for me.

When I first set up my company's website it was hosted at GoDaddy. Totally static site. It got 'hacked' one day, with new php files and redirecting users to some nonsense. This was August 2016. The ftp server had a very long, random password. I changed it again after this.

It happened *again* March 2017, though different files were added. After this I moved my site to Digital Ocean.

I never found out how this happened.

Does anyone know how long this has been going on? The article didn't give a definitive start date.
I agree with your latter statement, but your choice of example feels weird to me… RSS was (and is) an open standard supported by an incredible number of both readers and publishers. How does it not meet your standards?
Colorado is experimenting with burning this stuff to create electricity and "biochar", which they then want to bury in defunct-but-uncapped oil wells, keeping it out of the air for potentially thousands of years. We could grow all this, then burn it, then bury the pollution. Also, it can be used for animal feed. A small amount of seaweed added to a cow's diet massively reduces the amount of methane they sell. Lots of options here, and it would be a waste of money to just... not use the seaweed for anything
Intel Open-Sources Its OpenCL CPU-Based Runtime
We should stop attempting to subsidize desired behaviors and punish bad behavior with taxes. It's dumb and purposely utilized to put holes in tax law for certain friends.
I switched out of Google Authenticator when they updated the app and all my 2FA just went away.

They did fix it with another update, but that was a seriously un-fun few days. Luckily I was just logged in to my AWS account so I could disable the 2FA.
That's a fair point - DC property is so expensive, there's a sort of Democratic senator "frat house":

https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/politics/real-alpha-house/ind...
So slow right now... looks like the server is getting a HN hug...
Next week, Biden will decide whether U.S. imports of the Apple Watch get banned
> Nethack allows selling items to shops. This means there's a reason to pick up trash items, which is annoying.

This seems subjective? I mean, sure, it's grindy to pick up cheap helm after cheap helm, but there are other ways of getting money for shops, or getting items from shops without money, or getting by without shops entirely if need be. You can adapt your gameplay to your preferences and/or what the game is giving you.

Similarly with traps: playing without much specific care for them (beyond maybe getting a helm and poison resistance as quickly as possible) basically makes them random bad effects. You can choose to play more carefully or experience them as "sourceless malevolence."

People talk a lot about nethack lacking tradeoffs compared to DCSS and while it's apt enough for the late game where lots of ascension kit gear and other prep have a strong particular shape, I think that's wrong for the early and mid games which offer a wide variety of options and play for reaching intermediate goals.
> Few times I searched for a domain, the next day I search for it find it already reserved by them and on sale for hundreds of dollars instead of the regular $10 it was the day before.

I can confirm this experience, on 2 occasions when I looked up a very specific (and definitely not common) domain, they were suddenly reserved by GoDaddy and sold for a premium price. Not hundreds, but like 50-150 instead of 12.

I can't prove it, of course, but after hearing about those problems with GoDaddy multiple times it just seems too convenient for them to be a coincidence.
This whole requirement to return to the office, when data shows that employees overwhelmingly don't want to - well, the whole story is super disingenuous. Not just from Amazon, but the entire labor market.

First, before the pandemic, employees kept asking for more flexibility - the ability to WFH a few days a week because of rough commutes or family/home situations. The response from management was, "Sorry, we can't function as a company unless employees are in the office. Productivity will nose-dive." Then, the pandemic happened and management's story changed, "That thing you've been asking for, WFH - you know, the thing we told you wasn't possible because it would destroy the company, well, now we need you to do it in order to save the company." People did it, started WFH, and guess what - the company didn't die, productivity actually increased (I've read this in a few articles; don't have citations). So now that the pandemic is basically behind us, the story from management has changed again: "So yeah, that thing you wanted to do, WFH, but we told you it wasn't possible, but then a crisis happened and we told you that you had to do it, and now that you've done it for nearly 3 years with no harm to the company - yeah, the crisis is over, so we need you to stop doing it because it's destroying the company." Wait, what? The thing that was gonna destroy the company turned out to save the company, and now it's destroying the company???
> you've already got a conclusion you like

> the real big secret is "it was Russia"
The problem is, when the majority rules, the result is inevitably a shitshow.

The founders understood that, which is why they set things up the way they did. Nothing has changed since then. If anything it's even more true, given the new and extensive ways the elites have to manipulate majority opinion.
It noticed people questioning an official story, and it referred to them as conspiracy theorists.
I wish it was "Becoming a demigod allows arbitrary code execution..."
Living in an RV or a mobile home is "bad behavior"?
I use Bitwarden for passwords only. I use Authy for the TOTP, although I should use something else.

I backup my TOTP seeds in KeepassXC. I also have an offline backup of my Bitwarden vault that is in a separate KeePassXC vault. I agree that I don't like the idea of one vault holding both bits of info.
Show HN: GWI, a web interface for your Git repos in a Go library
I think one spot where it is dicey is,

obj[dynamic_property] = /* … */;

… for which you must, rather unfortunately, be aware of prototypes.

(And if you can use Map, you probably should… it avoids the JS footgun here.)
> I don't think most people find hyper-thinness attractive

I remember hearing this years ago, and from my observations, it appears to generally be true in the US:

Men prefer women heavier than women think they do, and women prefer men lighter than men think they do.
I like how each of the toys has a name and a backstory. It’s a nice little touch that makes this a lot more interesting than just a used toy shop.
Meaning is not an easy thing to communicate. Each philosophy puts meaning in different places, meaning of words, meaning of an image, meaning in work, ect.

Corporate jobs don't often have the capacity to provide a meaningful role. I hazard the suggestion, an internal sense of meaning can better cultivated from other sources.

What worked for me internally was a lot of literature and imaginative study that resulted in a view that fits boring and exciting tasks alike in a larger, structured meaning.

Nobody can really answer or help properly, unless someone close to you, can see the real 'me' and meaning in you and what you might explore next.

Also practically speaking meaningful jobs arent always the best places to work. Meaning often (not always) is an end in itself that does not naturally create profitable business models.
If Bill Gates didn't illegally monopolize desktop computing, his customers would have that money to pay in taxes or donations to fund green energy innovation.
You can have the longest password in the universe and change it after every login, if you have a keylogger on your computer it doesn't matter.
The question was whether a corporation is legally obligated to maximize profit. I was pointing out that, as you also note, the actual purpose of the limited liability of a corporation is to promote the public interest. Economic growth is one aspect of that interest, certainly, but it's not the only consideration. So corporations that give up short term profits to improve the environment or the well-being of their employees or the community are not shirking their legal obligation, they are living up to it.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for something different here, and you can make any of your substantive points without that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Poor people may struggle to afford healthy foods. They may reach for processed or fast foods because they lack the time to prepare meals at home or have less time to exercise because low-wage jobs often involve working long shifts and can be less flexible than those performed by the “laptop class”. Or because low income is often a function of limited education, perhaps, so goes the thinking, that lack of education extends to a lack of knowledge about how to maintain a healthy weight.

Interesting how the author never mentions IQ as a possibility. Not all people are mentally equal despite having access to the same information via the Internet (assuming they can read and write).
I honestly think Swift nailed it. Swift's async/await is a pleasure to work with and has the required language/runtime/stdlib support to feel natural and empowering instead of ridiculous and suffocating.
With SSDs approaching 10GB/s reads, I think that’s negligible. Also, chances are high the binary is in RAM for a long time after first use.
TurboTax has already made it easier to file taxes, so the cat is out of the bag. Maybe Norquist didn’t know what computers are capable of.
Oh, yes we will.

Unless you want to move all the furniture out of place (even in-built one), all the heavy stuff blocking edges and corners from view etc. Good luck with that bathroom sink or kitchen counter-top.

And angles and inequalities (eg. top edge vs bottom edge), that gets funny fast.
I live in a geodesic dome and sweet home isn't really suited to buildings that aren't comprised of 90 degree angles.

Other than that it;s a great little program.
Sometimes I think it's like dark matter, it's just out of the public eye in, I dunno, art sales or cushy jobs for family members that funnel money to one another.
Apologies if I'm missing something completely obvious but I'm having some difficulties dredging up material that connects Hopf algebras and diffusion. Are there any resources that you would recommend in addition to your paper?
I didn't find a better solution for planning the layout of a house. It's basically like playing Sims; way easier to handle than e.g. SketchUp.

It can also export layers (or the whole building) as OBJ which is awesome for 3D printing or working with Twinmotion. I decorated my rooms in Twinmotion and did awesome high fidelity renders. You can even experience your building in VR!

Maybe one day there's an AI that helps you with planning a home.
I think everybody has a hard time starting with Rust.

Even when you get confident it is still a longer process writing code than C/C++. It makes you think very hard about what you do carelessly in C.

But having spent the last few years debugging a lot of Swift code, and a bit of Rust code, that time is worth it I say.

Where Rust shines is in the debug cycle. Less of it.

Once you learn to surrender to the compiler, you will find true bliss,....
> Have you ever been on a Zoom call where half the people are in a conference room and the other half are working from home and calling in individually?

Every day. Works just fine if everyone agrees to and follows a few ground rules. We name a facilitator for each meeting who tracks who has their hand up and if there are messages in the zoom chat.

But if you're in a call with complete randoms, then it can be a mess.