skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The time scale for new species adapted to a completely new climate is many millions of years, not a few thousands. What we destroy today won’t be replaced while humans as a species as we know it today even exists.

It will always be many orders of magnitude easier to terraform Earth, even after we screwed it up, than trying to terraform Mars.
One of my friends is a writer, and his take on the problem is that the seasoned writers Netflix used to have (a few years ago) are now all getting fairly "old". Aka around their 50's.

So, they were let go, and a new generation of young, unseasoned writers has been doing the writing.

But unlike previous generations though (heh), many of them are not even slightly interested in learning from the previous (seasoned) writers, whom they view as inferior for some reason.

Thus, the extremely low quality (idiot level) of writing in recent years.

No idea how accurate that is, but it seems like a reasonable take at first glance.

Mind you, I don't really watch US origin tv/movies any more myself due to their crappiness. :)
Canada Media Fund YouTube Encore+ archive to explore new avenues (2022)
Sometimes you get really old, like the 94 year old woman they stole from.
Curious how views on the Password policing differ by culture
mot that bloated, empty app is 1mb, definitely better than electron in terms of bloat
There's such a thing as a tax lien, so if you sell or transfer, the government can get its taxes then. Or, you know, refunding the excess value of the property, if the government forecloses on it.
Look at the plots, there is one huge outlier in the small number of overall samples which is driving a lot of the results. I don’t even disagree with the conclusions, but this is not strong evidence for it.
To be fair to the backers (such winning personalities as Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, ugh), it wasn't a case of 1M DAUs when they wanted 5M. It was more like 5k DAUs when they wanted 5M. The idea was dead on arrival, no amount of money and effort would've saved it.
Whataboutism is a powerful drug.
It seems like checking for malicious URLs without revealing the URLs to a central authority is a long-solved problem. https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4#update-api-v4
Are there any other possessions subject to an unlimited amount of tax? Arguably you don't own land, you just rent it from the government. However, logically speaking, you should only be paying tax based on the value of the ground and nothing else. The current scheme is rather perverse. I do work, earn income, pay income tax. Buy a house, pay transfer tax, then pay tax on it again as my property value goes up. Buy tree seedlings, pay sales tax. The same dollar is taxed for income, taxed again for sales, then taxed a third time after I plant them thereby increasing the value of my property. No wonder our society is dividing into people who own nothing and pay nothing and people who own everything and do everything they can to pay nothing.
If i'm in nature and i hear a drone, its annoying AF, and it just makes me want to throw rocks at it.
> I'd even argue it's a prerequisite.

You can know how to do something without being able to consistently do it.

Maintaining velocity is something that I've never been very good at. I always struggled as a junior and mid-level developer with having periods of very high productivity followed by periods of very low. I've been fired for it.

On the other hand, if you measure my output on a monthly or quarter time horizon, I'm very consistently at the top of the class.

My strong suits are around helping others get through tough problems, quickly switching between levels of abstraction (including within a single conversation), understanding how a part of a process fits into the whole, and in guiding/limiting architectural discussions by managing the scope of the problem space under consideration.

This fits very well with my current "staff level" role, but was a real struggle getting to this point.

> This sounds almost Dilbert-esque. It seems like a lot of people here want to be a pointy-haired boss (or pointy-haired tech lead)!

I can see why you'd say that, but I think there's a big difference: PHB was incompetent in addition to having a different role from his team. I've found a sweet spot for myself where I can fill the parts of the "PHB role" well that actually do help the team, but I'm also more than capable of switching contexts and knocking out some tickets when there's a crunch. When I'm especially "in the flow" I work on that sort of stuff and do well. When I'm not, I run interference and keep my team from having to deal with the organizational stuff that doesn't directly help them get their jobs done.

The best functioning teams I've experienced all have one thing in common: they set people up for success by allowing them to do play to their strengths. As a team grows, you can find gaps in those strengths. I see hiring as an opportunity to find someone who is strong in the areas the team is weak. Let the new person come in and do the things they like to do and are good at!
Benchmark for Audio Feature Extraction Libraries
New cities should be able to leverage technology to create large buildings as public reconfigurable infrastructure. Especially if you think of them as megastructures that are there to help provide infrastructure and shelter for smaller modular buildings inside. This makes it less likely to end up with a very large building that becomes unusable as society shifts.

For existing cities, I wonder if its possible with at least some of these office buildings to change them to residential or mixed-use.
> There were just as many, or more, that died out, but my point is that measuring how many people have heard of a thing is not a great metric.

For a social network, it's kinda important.
Yuan overtakes dollar in China's cross-border transactions
> What's the use of arcane knowledge about prime numbers if you are not mathematician, and even then, one should question its importance?

Because learning for its own sake can be intrinsically rewarding, and even fun?

> I often watch those kinds of videos, but I feel bad about it because I know it's procrastination.

Don't feel bad about it. Give yourself permission to enjoy just learning stuff that you find interesting.

> Learning and understanding abstract concepts won't make you more successful, ...

As someone else has already pointed out, not everything has to be a hustle.

> ... increase your SMV and give you access to better mating opportunities.

OK. Not everything needs to be seen through that lens either. If that's important to you, sure, work on it a bunch. But surely it doesn't have to be only thing you ever work on?

Plus, you never know - knowing about a few areas of arcane stuff you like to geek out about might end up making you a more interesting person anyway.
Heh, the state/county will just find a way to add a $36k filing fee most likely if it doesn't go their way
> The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world

The US used to the largest. I was wondering if we should stay the largest, and most importantly the best. Case in point, the average age of workers in our shipyard was more than 55. The number of shipyards in the US has been decreasing over the years. I can see how that will help us innovate on and build better and cheaper ships, for military or not. Another data point, Intel can't compete with TSMC when it comes to manufacturing chips. Plus, if the so-called "low-end" manufacturing is gone, how could we possibly train the next generation of engineers? My assumption is engineering will be like writing software, a person who can only draw boxes will not be a good software engineer, and the person could not even learn draw boxes well without years of programming experience.
https://archive.ph/KJmAr
Did he do something criminal or was this a bad accident? Would you prefer if your government could just decide who to toss in jail (which is what the CCP does). I'd prefer I had the right to a trial. Also a judiciary that is separate to from the rest of government to protect the population from politically motivated prosecutions.
Progressively cheaper subscriptions to reward loyal customers would be great. Like a $10 per month subscription becomes $9 per month after a year and $8 per month after 3 years - as an example (ignoring inflation etc).

I toyed a bit with this idea when I was working with subscriptions, but there are no systems that accommodate for this unless you make your own.
Maybe there's a legal argument in the Constitution, I'm not a lawyer. What is baffling me is the idea that if you must pay a tax on something you don't own it. It seems like more of a philosophical claim than a legal one, but I can't imagine any basis to claim that it's true.
This is very ahistorical. There's long been consumer non-geek friendly online services. The typical AOL user in the 90s wasn't a geek by any means. They used chat rooms, instant messaging, and mailing lists via the user friendly AOL interface.

Facebook has long provided a user-friendly interface for non-geek users. It's filled with non-geeks generating content.

While the Internet has always had a geek contingent it hasn't been the exclusive domain of geeks for nearly thirty years.
FYI midjourney is also based on stable diffusion
github was 5 years ago linkedin was 7. Times have changed, the techno skeptics are in control. Microsoft didn't acquire openAI so didn't face regulatory hurdles.
> Math education in the US is pitiful.

No arguments there.

> The last attempt to fix it (common core) mostly emphasized memorizing arithmetic facts

Did it? My understanding is that it uses a few different approaches to build basic intuition about numbers, and that parents hate it because many of those approaches don't make sense to them, because that's not how they learnt math.

Which makes it an incredibly convenient punching bag.
Seems like quite the claim. I could conceivably see the argument against federal taxes, but state taxes? There’s no right to be free from taxes enshrined in the bill of rights.
There's an old joke in math/physics student circles that covers this.

Student goes to see the prof in their office hours to try to understand something the prof said is seen to be trivial. They spend 4 hours working on it, and the student returns to their friends in class. They ask how it went. The student says "yeah, it was trivial."

For those who don't quite get the joke, 4 hours to show something is trivial, tends to not support that the thing is trivial to comprehend.
I think a lot of things use calculus concepts, even if calculus isn't explicitly invoked.

A whole lot of finance and pharmacology are about exponential functions and their derivatives and integrals, for instance. A whole lot of fields use optimization, even if "just asking the computer to do it", etc.

I admit I am weaker now in calculus and linear algebra because I lean on CAS and simulation a lot... but at least I know how it works so that I have an idea of what I'm doing.
> Minnesota is among roughly a dozen states and the District of Columbia that allow local jurisdictions to keep the excess money, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is representing Tyler at the Supreme Court.

https://pacificlegal.org/property-rights/home-equity-theft/ (contains map of states that allows this practice)

https://pacificlegal.org/case/mn_home_equity_theft/ (case story)
The undergrads are more involved with research than at most other schools (huge range in quality/difficulty/etc, but the option is there). The teaching quality doesn't really suffer from the focus on research. Blackboard style classes probably aren't much better than any other school, but lab classes were quite good.
Like another commenter mentioned, using archive.today bypasses most paywalls and blocks.

A trick I always use is to just append the url to archive.today[0] to get a page with no ads and bloat. You could also make a bookmarklet to make it a 1-click thing. Sometimes it might not be archived so you will have to click 'archive this url' to make one, but people are usually quick to archive articles that are posted here

[0]: https://archive.today/https://www.wivb.com/news/colorado-bec...
Is part of what makes companies like this horrible the fact they WANT to get bought?

The one company I have in depth knowledge of going through an acquisition tried to drive employees away where possible, and fire others, down to a skeleton crew of overworked disgruntled employees because it makes them look REALLY good in the short term for being acquired.

If you couldn't count on acquisitions by larger companies being approved easily, the only other way to game companies can generate profit is by maintaining current games (at least to being playable, without terrible reviews from bugs), and /or develop new games...
What's crazy is that they sell waaaay more configurations of the Fit for the Japanese market [1], even a "Crosstar" trim level with 4wd + hybrid! [2].

A real shame they discontinued the Fit in the North American market, I would have easily bought one but ended up with an HR-V because it's basically a Fit on steroids (same chassis, still has magic seats until 2022), but it's a big percent price jump: $17k (2020 fit) -> $21k (2020 hrv).

[1] https://www.honda.co.jp/Fit/webcatalog/type/list/

[2] https://www.honda.co.jp/Fit/webcatalog/type/crosstar/?from=c...
Bullshit. Germany is still a decade or two away from needing energy storage to even out renewable power peaks. Until then, all the capacity provided by renewable sources reduces the overall emissions, which is the reason we are doing this at all.

The purpose of building up renewable energy sources right now is NOT to sustain peak loads entirely from renewables. But such simplifications are convenient, right?
>Netflix it's power is innovation. Think Bandersnatch.

A one-off thing from 5 years ago that hasn't been replicated since and nobody really cares about now?
Like how Vinland Saga is literally a critique of "might makes right" patriarchal culture and its viscissitudes.
Looks like the Malibu driver gets out, and cusses out the splattered remains of the Belair driver, who is removed from his car, with a teaspoon and a sponge.
I still got one running, from the software side, its effectively an i586:

vendor_id : GenuineTMx86
model name : Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800
cpu MHz : 800.023
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 sep cmov mmx longrun lrti constant_tsc cpuid
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs itlb_multihit mmio_unknown

But you can't do much with such a machine nowadays.
You're asking the wrong questions here.

Wasn't it clear in the article that the issue was not whether the county was justified recouping the unpaid taxes, interest and penalties, but whether it could keep substantial gains above and beyond the amount of the unpaid taxes, interest and penalties?
Was there ever a compiler that targeted the Crusoe architecture directly without having to go through the translation layer? I remember there was a big deal about how the thing would translate your code the first time you ran it and keep the translation in a cache, but I always had the impression that the translation layer was a bit unoptimized because it was a step away from the original code. Also, everybody ever who has tried to make a VLIW architecture for general computing has ended up with a slow and expensive processor that can't compete.

The article makes a big deal about CISC vs. RISC, but in the end all of the CISC architectures ended up being RISC under the hood with front end instruction translation for the more complex CISC instructions. The transition to 64 bit should offer chip manufacturers a golden opportunity to ditch old disused complexity, like multiple addressing modes and variable length instructions.
You can get a locksmith to come pick the lock
Automobiles, boats, airplanes, essentially most large capital assets are potentially subject to a form of property tax depending on local law.
Quibi was interesting - the more I think about it (I work in this space) the more I think they actually might have had something.

The reason they failed is mostly because they went too big too fast. They spent almost a billion dollars in content at launch and expected to get a ton of people subscribed quickly at $8 a pop. Had a bit of a chicken and egg situation there. They needed enough quality content to justify that amount per month. But it was all new, untested content. When they didn't get the subscribers they had pretty much zero runway to ride it out and iterate.
Vehicles.

Taxes paid when purchased, taxes paid on maintenance, taxes paid on fuel, yearly personal property tax, yearly registration (tax), insurance (tax)
A fascinating read, including the Nat Geo article OG link; but couldn't help chuckling at one of the quotes in it .... ..Sucking up carbon from microbial crusts would [make large fruiting bodies] possible. fnar, fnar. But seriously though, Mind. Blown.

That is all :)
Is it not totally normal and OK (and not a violation of any kind) for Microsoft to share user data with Microsoft? Fighting for user privacy is a laudable goal but in this particular case what, if any, ethical breach has occurred?

As others have commented, it's like being upset that Google Search is aware of websites you visited in Chrome. Is it unethical for that to be the case?
Landing SpaceX Booster Rockets with Artificial Intelligence
In one of my businesses, hotel booking, i also sell gift cards and market them agressively in festive seasons.1 year validity. 45% goes unclaimed, its now 20% of total profit (all legal here, expiry date in a large font)
This still exists in the games industry, where you can start in QA and move to design or production.

I've seen it many times and continue to see it.
There is property in east Texas. No water, no roads, no electricity, no police nor fire department. You are truly on your own. You pay for nothing and you pay for everything.

You don’t pay property taxes to own the land. You pay taxes for all those services modern civilised society wants.
Ever-changing requirements, client influence in software development that ultimately leads to unnecessary and often disposable code.
Why are wealth taxes unconstitutional?
How do you define social networks, then? This site here has user accounts, posts/comments, upvotes, and a profile description feature. It's 100% a communication platform/network. What's missing in your eyes?
In this case yes. Not in every case. I don’t know if there’s a rule
>So, was Cleopatra Black? We don’t know for sure, but we can be certain she wasn’t white like Elizabeth Taylor.

Seems like a fair point. I'd take this outrage more seriously if the same people were also protesting about the innumerable portrayals of Cleopatra by white actresses.
As another old grouch, it’s on the experts to explain. They’re doing a piss poor job of it so far. “Just trust us” is deeply problematic.
The capabilities based software architecture was pretty interesting too, particularly in the light of security problems, ubiquitous distributed systems, and the adoption of OO. See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AS/400

Of course Java provided a similar architecture in many ways on a mainstream architecture the same way that Common Lisp made Lisp machines obsolete. Java never really got a universal architecture for serialization and persistence the way the AS/400 did.

That said, I find AVR-8 pretty interesting in that it is the last 8-bit architecture and is, from the viewpoint of the assembly programamer, technically superior to all those machines I had or craved in the 1980s.
Activity pub federation is much easier than email. Most of the ISP's block email ports on our home connections which requires us to setup mail relays just for the email verification of account setups. Then you have to do all kinds of work to make your email seem valid and not blocked by all the gatekeepers. Activity pub is just running over HTTPS, and we can control how we federate and block unwanted content with the great tools built into most implementations.
Except that Gradle constantly releases new versions with breaking changes. You need to install your own trusted version for each version that you use, and know which one to use for each project.
The Dutch Rijksmuseum keeps a large portion of their collection in high-res freely downloadable format, this is one of the pieces discussed in the article: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/my/collections/1836509--artpro...

Would be great if other museums would follow their example.
Just my experience, but I think it might also be the type of users/instances.

Haven't had much trouble now (perhaps my current instance blocks pleroma), but a few years ago I dropped Mastodon because I was getting the same amount of attrition than on Twitter. And every time, is was a Pleroma user. I even voted on a ticket to create 'local-only' posts, because I didn't wanna handle Pleroma users...
NYC has been slashing its budget so much for the past few years that the community had to raise a stink to keep the libraries open on weekends.
Fast paced networked games typically solved that by running a local simulation ahead of the server. The button you clicked looks depressed the instant you click it, not once the server knows about it. In FPS style games your character typically starts walking forwards the instant you press the forwards key, and you shoot the instant you click, not when the server finds out about it.

This has weird effects. Each player is actually playing in a slightly different world. You might see yourself hitting something and they might see themselves blocking the shot, and only one of you can be right. The different worlds will retroactively correct themselves to be consistent in some form or another (depending on the game it might be that the person shooting is always correct, or it might be that the person blocking is always correct, or it might be that whoever's packets reached the server first is correct, or really some complex combination of all of the above). The weird effects are worthwhile because people are really sensitive to latency in response to their inputs.

Even in slow placed games that use simpler networking models, I'm pretty sure the UI is basically always local. For example you might press the button that says "do the thing" and see the button style into it's "pressed state", but the server decides that the thing doer is dead before that button press reaches the server, so it ignores that button press.
What sob story? Are those immediately adjacent roles physicians - no, they're making almost double nased on median hourly wage. There are many near that level that do not require extensive training, including ones that have sizable representation (look at all those manager positions, and FYI magistrates are near there and require no law degree, etc).

Had that person used nurses, PAs, etc, then they would have been correct. Those do have training requirements and make similar money.

FYI, that's the mean annual income. I'm talking about median (use the median hourly wage column).
The appeal of reddit and tik tok is the content, not the fact that everyone is here.
This is worrying.

Daily Sea Surface Temperature tracker:
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
Yeah, just take a look at Hearthstone.

It was developed by a small independent team within Blizzard who iterated like crazy and created prototypes with Adobe Flash. At one point they transferred basically the entire team to work on finishing StarCraft 2 temporarily and left the two principal game designers to continue iterating for 10 months.

Hearthstone ended up being a smash hit and their first properly new game since they released World of Warcraft. All because they gave a small creative team the freedom to explore those ideas.
While I agree that governments shouldn't buy Microsoft products, it's not really a competition when nobody there aren't any companies trying to develop or sell linux as a client os for end-users.
Disney sues Florida for ‘government retaliation’ in escalating feud