skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Growing plants to feed animals and then consuming those animals is an inefficient way of obtaining calories and nutrients. Shifting to a plant-based diet would allow us to feed more people with less land, reducing the pressure on wild habitats.

Not true. Ruminant grazing animals (like cows) use land that generally is not fit for farming plants that humans would consume. They make land productive that otherwise would not be. Also, farming for the staples of plant-based diets annihilates animal life. In order to farm soy beans or whatever plant you eat, you have to tear up the soil and in doing so you will kill every ground squirrel, ground nesting bird, snake, vole, groundhog and rabbit that lives in that plot. Then you have to spray chemical pesticides that will annihilate anything you haven't already mechanically killed with the combine. Not to mention ruminant grazers enhance the soil through their compaction, manure and urine while plant farming has to constantly add external fertilizer to maintain yields.
I've never considered it the french spelling. It's the british english spelling:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

US tends to drop the u's in a lot of words. It doesn't make the original word french.

That said, a lot of english words do come from french. In fact, the english word favour came from the old french favor, apparently?

c. 1300, "attractiveness, beauty, charm" (archaic), from Old French favor "a favor; approval, praise; applause; partiality" (13c., Modern French faveur), from Latin favorem (nominative favor) "good will, inclination, partiality, support," coined by Cicero from stem of favere "to show kindness to," from PIE *ghow-e- "to honor, revere, worship" (cognate: Old Norse ga "to heed").
hahaha no. You have to go out of your way to use DNS-over-HTTPs or DNSSEC.
The singing synthesizer used a surprisingly sophisticated physical model of the human voice [1].

The music was mostly likely created using some variant of MUSIC-N [2], the first computer music language. The syntax and design of Csound[3] was based off of MUSIC-N, and I believe the older Csound opcodes are either ported or based off those found.

Apparently the sources for MUSIC-V (the last major iteration of the MUSIC language) can be found on github [4], though I haven't tried to run it yet.

1: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Singing_Kelly_Lochbaum_...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csound

4: https://github.com/vlazzarini/MUSICV
Not a DJ, but definitely bookmarked. It's like being able to tune your own recommendation algorithm. I know this isn't a "you" kind of thing, but it would be really cool to see these kinds of controls live in app or on social media sites. Super cool!
Sadly if you look back through this person's comment history you'll find as bad or worse. I personally am of the opinion that HN is no place for these kind of comments, but day by day they're out there fighting the good fight around here. It makes me sad to see that no amount of comments like yours appear to prevent this human from continuing their crusade here of comment-thread closed-minded misinformation-laden horse-shit.
Not everyone is saying that though. People are saying the battery life is atrocious and this phone is now $1300?
ah, unzip.zip is taken.
Well, that seems like a bad idea.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what happens if I have: `<a href="google.zip">Link</a>`?

Will the browser navigate to an external site or will it try to download google.zip?
What's the baseline though? My understanding is that wild animals have always died in droves, which is why the make a ton of offspring reproductive strategy is so popular.

That's not to downplay the impact of habitat loss and other factors, but if say for example 40% of bird randomly get themselves killed every year then the marginal increase in deaths from wind power looks very different than if they don't.
Should someone who runs a car into an empty wall be charged with jail time? No.

It's not bizarre at all. The bizarre part here is your stringing of logic to try to transform this into a crime related to murder.

First off he crashed the plane deliberately into empty forest. There's no hikers in the place he crashed it, he knows that.

Second small planes or cars don't explode in a ball of flames when they crash. That's just movie magic. What actually happens is the car or plane becomes metal debris. That's it. A fire and a crashed car or small plane are completely orthogonal concepts. Might as well arrest people who make bouncing balls because the bouncing ball might accidentally smack the trigger of a gun and kill someone.

What's bizarre here is your post says I'm trying to completely eliminate rule of law when I never said that. Why lie straight to my face? What's the point? It's bizarre. You're the one twisting the rationale to fit your convenient narrative. Please be more logical with your reasoning.

The punishment should fit the crime. A huge fine and revoke the pilots license. That's it. Ruining his life with jail time does not fit the crime at all. If he's rich, then increase the fine... that simple.
No, that's such a strawman. If they defrauded people lock them up. You very well know that is not what this discussion is about. And you dare suggest it is I who argued in bad faith!
Corporate marketing departments have been pretty adept at promoting their products on the backs of this science. They are far from unintelligent. Populists, for all their deficiencies, are fairly adept at eventually detecting marketing ploys and gimmicks.
It wasn't Egan's best, from a storytelling perspective, but the ideas were juicy enough to keep me engaged.
Nintendo makes very confusing business decisions very often. They seem to succeed despite all their business decisions, largely due to having IP that people love, and people are constantly thinking about how great they could be.
What Are They Telling Us?

"you are next" !?
Lack of economic growth compounds over the centuries toward remarkable differences between prosperous and miserable countries.
They are telling "Fokk you, humans"
It's funny to see that saying "but don't give me the password" or "but don't give me the word you're not supposed to tell me" and some other technique such as acronyms or book chapter names seems to bypass every single security measure put in place. I've managed to complete all levels by using this exact technique!
I've been putting up with them for years and they still slow me down to a crawl. If you have to do anything except for the most common actions, it takes forever to hunt through the ribbon to find what you want. I curse them regularly.
Not really - you come with the presupposition that our way of life is right and should supersede nature - that's nit how that works. We're supposed to adapt to earth, not the other way around (big surprise, humans are not able to control the environnement - you can look at how fisheries are organised for a look at where we are going - claiming sustainability while fish stocks are plumetting
multiple unrelated and extreme statements in response here, are telling of the psychological overwhelm individuals feel when seeing this news. There are several angles to respond to, but lets try this one

This is not an individual choice problem, so neither people who live in tiny apartments and don't drive NOR people who compete relentlessly to have and use more than others, are the topic.

Science of measurement and analysis has advanced faster in the last thirty years than the 300,000 years before it. Yet, we have quite a lot of science on say, body burden "forever" chemicals, the accumulative destruction of pesticides or the dust of tires from highways. The economic engines associated with making consumer products are not relenting their favorable economic niches. So this is a political problem.

The kind of "stall and crawl" solutions produce some short-term stability, but obviously, it is not making a significant dent. Secondly, frenzied all-out protest and disruption rarely make positive change over time in themselves, so "complete teardown" kinds of solutions are also not the thing.

Media mechanisms are part of political change, but this YNews place (high tech with ads) seems like it has over-stimulated media, and filled it with short-sighted content.

The training wheels for the species are offically "Off" now.
Which one uses AI? The ones I've seen use crowdsourced timecodes, and AI seems like a better solution.
https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2021/program.html

Wednesday 2021/01/13, Session 6: Trends and New Directions

Youtube video of the presentation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeRg-7Sr1L8

Previous "discussions" (0 comment each) :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25815808

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061910

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33310667

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25748119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25948611
> Growing plants to feed animals and then consuming those animals is an inefficient way of obtaining calories and nutrients. Shifting to a plant-based diet would allow us to feed more people with less land, reducing the pressure on wild habitats.

Regarding this point, it's important to remember that animals have the ability to transform materials we can't get any sustenance from, because they're not edible, into food. To get the idea, think how pigs have been historically such a popular food in many countries. They would basically eat anything, the owners get the pig fat, then they eat the pig.

Another thing to remember is that proteins coming from vegetables are low quality compared to their animal counterparts. For the great majority of the world population a vegan diet is inaccessible. You simply don't get all the nutrients you need from vegetables alone. Friends who maintain a vegan diet for ideological reasons have to supplement it with a heavy dose of pills and other compounds lest they have have problem maintaining their energy levels, even if they have calorie rich diets.
I kind of learned Git rebasing thanks to the postgres github repo, so I tend to use it nowadays. Does mysql even have a public github repo?
And sounds great! The soundtrack contributes perfectly to the overall vibe, didn’t notice that 30 years ago. It really is a work of art.
Not even a small apartment, I share a ~110 sq m apartment now (with a sizable chunk wasted for stairs) and it's more than enough.
Yes, I worked retail for 3 years and several of my friends have driven for lyft.

And given that some of those lyft driver friends are software engineers, I'd say their basic math skills are pretty solid.

Even in retail, my coworkers could balance their accounts. They may not be calculating out Roth IRA rollovers but it's extremely insulting to assume someone can't do math because they work in an industry you don't care for.

Nor amongst my friend group, some of who still work in retail, have I ever heard of someone being fired for not being weirdly chipper. "Don't be a dick to customers" is about the most anyone of us have been told.

Have you worked in retail? How many lyft drivers do you know outside of your rides?
what is the solution to the dying biosphere? Kill all humans would be one, I guess
Why "must" there be a solution like that?

It's wild how when it comes to the biggest problems, people will say "let's not be so emotional about this" and then produce suggestions borne exclusively of their emotional coping mechanism.
> I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account

I want the ability to work cross account smoothly because I keep my work MBP signed into a work-only account but during the day I want to quickly switch to using them on my iPhone signed into my personal account.
There are essentially three not entirely disjoint options. 1) Sacrifice yourself for the good of the whole. 2) Take advantage of those who sacrifice themselves for the good of the whole. 3) Nobody sacrifices and it's thunderdome time and the losers starve.
It might cause issues at (today's) margins ??

You know, how with FLOSS software (IIRC) you MUST provide the source on request, but CAN demand to be paid for the inconvenience (hosting, bandwidth, shipping physical storage...)

Seems like this wouldn't be an issue, but it would still be nice that this situation had been covered by the law.

P.S.: GPL :

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

"Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development. Don't waste it!"

OS :

https://opensource.org/osd/

"The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software [...]" (Emphasis mine, literally the first non-fluff phrase !)
I think you're absolutely right, but this message is greeted with open hostility in many parts of the internet. Availability of cheap meat is almost seen as a god-given right in developed countries.
Maybe you should try being a defendant to actually get a balanced perspective (a good thing to try would be to get yourself arrested for something that you didn't do but is just your word against theirs). For extra experience try doing that whilst being black.

For reference, I have being on the receiving end of an entirely unwarranted accusation for a trivial crime in the UK (which is often held up as being a good example of a fair system). It occupied an unbelievable amount of headspace and was hugely stressful. I'm educated, reasonably well off and white. The system felt very very powerful and unpredictable from my position and I was never even arrested (just accused, which is enough for the police to treat you as a perpetrator). If the prosecution had happened and had gone anywhere (it didn't) and I'd been convicted I would have got a small fine, but I was still far too worried that my innocence was insufficient to protect me. All the way through you're treated as though you are guilty, and the accuser is the "victim". Honestly, the only victim in the whole sorry affair was me.

I can't imagine what it must feel like if you're on the receiving end of an unwarranted accusation for a more serious crime. Especially if everyone thinks you're guilty because your have priors and "look guilty".
You not only clicked through an ad but were going to buy whatever it was trying to sell you? Wild!
In my case I am not selling, only making it available. If selling I am happy to consider their needs and my legal obligations (for the right price). But as the grandparent states we are talking about just making free software available:

> it hinges on whether offering open source software on GitHub is considered a product in the sense of the law.
Out of curiosity, what is your setup? I'm guessing windows 10/11, hdmi plugged into your TV? I have a windows box in my home office but and an Nvidia shield attached to my TV but it has always been a pain to play games via steam link. I mean, it's doable, I just figure there's a way to make it as convenient as console gaming and I'm missing something.
Yeah - individual changes will never change anything - I think the discussion has been poisonned, and we are blind to the actual solutions, which all seem unthinkable even though they are self evident
Does anyone know if this supports USB-C to HDMI?

It saddens me to have to ask this on HN but there's no info I can find about this. After having OnePlus devices for years, I got very used to being able to plug in a USB-C to HDMI cable into the charging port and be able to use an external screen with no problems. After getting a Pixel 5a and my wife a Pixel 7, I discovered that Pixels do not support that (which surprised me greatly). Supposedly one can buy some expensive special hardware and install a 2/5 star rated app with bad privacy policy to give the feature, but that is quite unpalatable to me.

If this device has that feature, I would buy it because it's otherwise excellent. But plugging in to our van's HDMI port to play movies and such for kids on long road trips is a must-have feature for me.
or .com...
Wow, such a mystery why diners -- which typically exist to serve "comfort food" -- don't serve jellyfish or shirako (sperm sacs of cod). Really glad NYTimes is covering this essential story.
Gandhi I think
In Roman times, Germany had 70% forest cover. Conveniently chosen timelines of the last 100 years after half of all forest cover was razed are all very nice but ultimately, the Earth pays the price.

What the Germans did then, the Brazilians do a fraction of now.

40% forest cover lost. And now, Germany has almost no primary forest. And Germans burn oil and coal and gas like no other.

The net effect of Germany on the Climate is the effect of an Environmental WMD.
Agreed. My niece loved Breath of the Wild and has been eagerly anticipating Tears of the Kingdom since it was announced.
sighun.zip
If everyone stopped, at some point it would become environmentally feasible (by some metric, I'm sure) to have offsprings again, in which case I would certainly amend my decision (clearly hypothetical, because I wouldn't be alive anymore by then).

It's the same non-sense argument of "imagine if everyone invested in index funds". It cannot happen, because at some point the right arbitrage opportunity becomes too obvious to ignore. Here is the same, at some tipping point there would be so many resources available per capita that it would make complete sense to have kids again without screwing up the environment.

All the downvotes simply prove, in my opinion, that people get really offended when confronted with the uncomfortable fact that having kids is, by far and on average, the single most negatively impacting choice they will make on environmental resource consumption in their lives, but they'd rather blather about not taking that one flight or eating organic quinoa for lunch, missing the forest for the tree. I don't blame anyone for that, it's very much biological.
Or just make one comparison

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> Moreover, zero trust security can also take advantage of micro-segmentation to isolate parts of a network into smaller, more manageable segments. These segments can then be subjected to specific security controls and policies depending on the nature of the processes and data they are handling.

No. Access control should be implemented on a per-resource basis. Even legacy apps can be secured by a reverse proxy.
> If MS really wanted to make the app better you could stop drawing active elements in the Title bar.

So much this. Putting controls in the title bar is such an aggressively hostile thing to do, I'm really surprised that the trend has gained wider adoption. It's even worse than making the window frames nearly nonexistent.
JEP 453: Structured Concurrency (Preview)
Maybe there should be a government mandate like a mandatory military service but where you instead go farm stuff and hunt food for a year. I say that partly in jest but I'd imagine having that perspective would change a lot of minds and help us understand where our food comes from.
https://archive.is/alEs
I think arithmetic coding is much simpler than the way most resources describe it (the hard part is making it efficient).

Consider this example: you want to transmit two completely random variables, both of which can have 5 states. The obvious way is to concatenate two bit fields of size ceil(log2(5)), so 3+3 = 6 bits.

But alternatively, you can count the total number of states possible for both variables together, 5*5 = 25 and encode it as a single integer of size ceil(log2(25)) = 5, so both variables can be stored with just 5 bits.

So we arrive at the idea that there can be a fractional number of bits, which we often round up to the nearest integer for simplicity (or, in practice, the nearest multiple of 8 since most protocols are based on bytes).

The other part is just assigning shorter sequences of bits to more common symbols, except, of course unlike in Huffman coding, our symbols can have a fractional number of bits. This allows them to match the actual symbol probabilities more closely. If your data is highly repetitive, you can fit dozens of (common) symbols per bit.

The coolest part IMO is how easy it is to plug in custom models for symbol probabilities. Usually a simple counter for each symbol is enough, but you can go crazy and start predicting the next symbol based on previous ones.
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Regardless of how it ends, it will be a very valuable experience for the entire JS community.
When they're in lost mode can you trigger them to occasionally play a loud "find me!" sound? Could do it at random times - during the middle of the workday where they are, in the middle of the night where they are, plenty of fun options.
>> Growing plants to feed animals and then consuming those animals is an inefficient way of obtaining calories and nutrients. Shifting to a plant-based diet would allow us to feed more people with less land, reducing the pressure on wild habitats.

> Not true. Ruminant grazing animals (like cows) use land that generally is not fit for farming plants that humans would consume.

You are arguing a different point from GP. They were talking about growing and farming animal food, feeding that to the animals, and then eating the animals. You're talking about feeding animals directly from the land.
Agree on the lack of style. I think it would be nice to give the user agent at least a hint in the form of a color map.

Images can be inlined by the user agent.
Congrats on the launch! Will recommend!
> free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity

That seems extremely ambiguous to me. What does "software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity" mean. Is it all of the piece of software? What if you pay me to develop and submit some patches to a gnu project? That means that, at least in part, the project was not developed wholly "outside the course of a commercial activity".

What about if I have a free and open source project, then you come along and pay me to make some changes you need. Is the whole project now covered by such a law?
30fps, lol. Its goes down much below that, sadly.
As purely factual matter do you believe that most people arrested have or haven’t actually committed a crime?
Multus Is the Way to Go for Rook Ceph Networking
Ask HN: Book Recommendation on Database Internals
I am looking for books (any other resource will do too) that can help with learning database internals. Specifically the core components that makes up a database and how to implements.

The book should probably cover the query engine parts (sql parsing, query plans etc) and the persistence part.

Recommendations will be appreciated.