skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I can tell, gharials mostly eat fish. The narrow jaw is likely adapted for catching fish underwater, says 'The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus): A review.' (1982) p535. While they have been observed to eat frogs, they did not eat a peacock nor rats, p536. "[V]ery large individuals are reported to eat other prey" besides fish [2].

"It is predominantly a fish eater, but occasionally takes turtle, birds and small mammals and is said to feed on corpses (Was it a someone’s observation or just a hearsay, if this declaration is based on some literature, please do cite it here)." [3]

I'm not saying they don't eat monkeys, only that catching monkeys on trees seems rare enough that it would likely be of scientific interest.

There's also only a few hundred adult gharials.

They share a habitat with mugger crocodiles. The latter have 'a broader prey base than the gharial including snakes, turtles, birds, mammals and dead animals' says the Gharial Wikipedia entry. However, it "has the broadest snout of any living member of
the genus Crocodylus"[2] so doesn't match faangguyindia's description.

Though the only other Crocodilia in India is the saltwater crocodile, which is 5x heavier, making muggers light-weight by comparison.

Finding information about gharials is complicated because there are "false gharials" in Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra and Java, which definitely eat monkeys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_gharial

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Romulus-Whitaker/public...

[2] https://www.iucncsg.org/365_docs/attachments/protarea/17_C-f...

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prasanta-Saikia/publica... . See [1] where p537 cites Smith (1931) for the corpse eating comment, though the bibliography only has Smith (1935).
Is there an indicator on progress on this and related specs (WASI)? It is hard to get a good feel from the repo's.
Re Lars as a drummer, my first encounter with the band was both late and epic. It was via a double disc dvd set of their live symphony and Metallica performance. Watching Lars drum himself to exhaustion was goosebump inducing. 10/10 would love him again for his performances.

That said, I’ve watched some comparison videos of his drumming vs more expressive and I can understand where people are coming from :,)
> which I believe might be the main reason why all conlangs from the past 100 years have failed to reach widespread adoption

Given how much people hate learning much more basic things—new programming languages, new operating systems, new tools—it seems hard to come to any conclusion about conlangs based on popularity! Languages are hard to learn, have immense cultural significance and are dominated by network effects. The potential advantages of a constructed language are, at best, illegible. What would push anybody to learn a brand new language well enough to actually use it?

Whether or not a language becomes popular tells us little to nothing about the language itself.
Interesting, I wonder if it would be pedantic in construing modern marketing being drastically different than marketing pre 1800s? It doesn't seem fair to to me to classify a shopkeep from antiquity shouting they have the best wine in a bazaar to be equivalent to a marketing job in Meta.

But the examples in your wiki page show just that, really neat stuff. Thanks for sharing.
While it's true AM radio is very easy receive, I imagine it's a much less effective use of bandwidth compared to the amount of information (the shannon kind) modern digital communication can cram on there, no?

Wouldn't it be better to repurpose those frequencies for country wide digital broadcast that could also send other data during emergency situations?
What UE sorely lacks is a good scripting language. It's clear to me that Tim Sweeney wanted to offer a C#-like experience, but using C++ - IMHO UE failed in any possible way to accomplish that - Epic made a sawed-off shotgun in place of a precision weapon. There are just a gazillion ways to introduce concurrency and memory issues in UE, but most of the time it's "fine" because for a videogame some aspects (like proper memory management, safety, ...) are less important than CPU cycles. A game often behaves as if it's the only application running on a machine, and if it gobbles too much RAM the usual answer the developer gives its users is, "buy more". Thankfully this has been changing in the last few years due to mobile gaming and freemium, which forces companies to target not top-notch machines but cheap laptops.
When I was tutoring music theory, some students who had a similar experience had "aha" moments when we tried to focus more on how the harmony of a piece of music is linked to the meter.

So I wonder, how much do you hear harmonic changes in a given piece of music? Maybe a better way, for you, to develop an ear for rhythm is to focus on the regularity of those harmonic movements, which are what really "suggest" a meter in the first place. In most music, rhythm really is just the subdivisions of those larger "beats" implied by the harmony, and discussions like the OP end up being more or less "Oh, this is interesting because it doesn't line up with the expectations that accompany rest of the surrounding music"
The Romans are said to have used war pigs against elephants.

They set the pigs on fire and sent them towards the elephants, who panicked and trampled the people around them.
Honestly I would be happy if I just got paid as a 100% FTE. I'm literally in the lab all the time, this 50% nonsense is BS. They say it's because international students are restricted to 20 hours per week, so okay just double the pay then and still call it 50%. The salary for my current work is super low anyhow, I'd be making way more if I got a job at big pharma with my current degrees
Well then, can I use it to make cheese? How is the fat content, can I skim it for cream, maybe make some butter? Can I make Sourmilk? Yoghurt? Can I at least foam it up for Cappucino?

For most of those things that aren't milk, the answer is "no". So they aren't milk alternatives, are they?
> Because that's not how games work - they don't run "at minimum capabilities" and they run their game loop constantly,

Unless you VSync?
I appreciate your viewpoint but strongly disagree. Children today suffer vastly increasing rates of depression and suicide. I link most of it to social media. My kids talk to their friends just as kids have done for generations. If social media is playing any sort of a critical role in a kids life it's because the parents are not doing it.

YouTube is absolutely social media no different than Instagram or TikTok. Even something like Mr. beast who is generally a good guy can warp and expose kids to a suddenly transexual and borderline pedophile character who abandons his wife and child. Anyone can post anything. My goal is to limit what my kids are exposed to in much the same way parents did before social media. It just means I have to be involved which is something we should all strive to do.
The same could be said for teen drinking, smoking, casual sex, and drug use. Those who are dead-set on doing it will always find a way, that's the energy of teenage rebellion at work.

Whilst I do agree that it's a failure to parent to a large extent, locking things behind restrictions can also make people want it more without them understanding why they're being restricted from having something that clearly makes a lot of people happy.

I go back to my teenage self, and if instead of treating me like an idiot, people explained the pros and cons to it, and helped me to understand it, I might just not want it for myself. In the same way that I had teen pregnancy and accidental overdoses explained to me, I understood the risk-to-reward ratio and why people were concerned enough to try and educate about it.

FWIW, whilst I don't take drugs, I do believe in legalizing them because punishing users makes precious little sense instead of helping them kick the addiction and get their life on track. However, legalizing of drugs equally doesn't mean I think people should seek them out, but those who are going to take them are probably going to take them anyway, and that should be something we can deal with in an appropriate and compassionate manner.
I would like to see this, and I would also like to see an expansion of the FM band (with support for it in cars also mandated). Low-VHF TV channels 4-6 are adjacent to the existing FM band and are not really suitable for digital TV broadcasting due to the type of noise they experience (there are very few TV channels which still use those frequencies, and the most of the ones that did post-digital transision used channel 6 to broadcast as pseudo-radio stations since most FM radios could receive the analog audio of channel 6). That's 18 MHz of spectrum which would nearly double the size of the FM broadcast band which is getting quite croweded in many markets with the FCC allowing AM stations to broadcast low-power FM translators to try to help their market share.
A happy paying customer. Depot is great and their docker drop-in replacement GitHub Actions are working perfectly, highly recommended. Thanks folks!
Well I am pretty sure elephants were used as mounts of war, and they were not unstoppable for opposing armies. Terrifying yes, but not an auto win.
I don’t think people’s brand loyalty for Uber is very high these days, is it?
AM radio is low frequency radio, right? Good for long distance but you can't pack too many bits into it.

Perfect for finding lost objects / dogs / cats.
Weather announcements.

What else??
I don't know, can the admins stay afloat without making 200k+ per year? Maybe give some of that to us grad students
You never played any online MUDs/games with votekicking enabled, I take it?

This always ends with a power clique banding together to vote everyone else off. "Just for lulz," of course.

There is no solution to this except mutiny. Ban the corrupt leader and elect someone favorable. Delegating rule to the mob is tried-and-failed.
> Clickbait article makes it sound like actual tech graduates are going to Wall Street

Is this not still the case? Investment banks and hedge funds were full of EE majors back when I was there, and most banks have significant software operations.
I dont really think them not being on social media is akin to 'Isolation' from their peers. Thats really overblowing the situation. There are hundreds of other ways to meet your friends.
... and you don't need any more than you'll just stumble on for free to advance in the game, and if you're a seasoned RPG-item-hoarder you'll beat the game never having used any of them, anyway, "just in case you need them later".
I think everyone just means something different by dead.

I personally wouldn't use the word until Evan throws in the towel, but he's clearly still onboard. For example, https://gotoaarhus.com/2023/sessions/2529/elm-on-the-backend (yesterday).

I don't think we handle these kinds of oddball cases very gracefully which is evident in basically every HN discussion about Elm. If a language gains traction, then we demand a certain shape of expectations from it, and we're not very good at walking away with just "well, it ain't for me". It's not enough for us to just say that. It's like we have to linger around and ensure everybody else washes their hands of the tool, too.

I'm pretty sure Elm is past the point where anyone who doesn't like the glacial BDFL approach doesn't use it, and those who choose to use it don't care.
The unemployement rate is around 3%-4%, and at least 99% of people don't have degrees from elite universities.
Purism already do this.
Most supply chain attacks rely on dependency confusion or typo-squatting, which PGP signing doesn't solve. An attacker can PGP sign their typosquatted package, and the package manager won't know to alert you because as far as it can tell, you intended to install that package. (This is before even considering whether the packages are signed with strong keys, or users are actually verifying them against any public trust store.) That's one reason supply chain issues are so pernicious - they're more of a human problem than a technical one.

That said, I do agree with your premise that the limited usefulness of PGP signing doesn't necessitate removing the feature entirely.
That is correct and not in contradiction to what I wrote. Not absolving any corporates here that willingly partnered with the Nazis.

What it doesn't say is that those heads of those corporate entities could go against the political leadership when exercising their power and autonomy (very late stages not so sure, never looked at that in detail) - their power come from an alignment of sorts. You can of course say, if everything is political in a system, then maybe the flip side is everything is corporate - but that didn't hold for the sources of physical violence, for example.

Purely military leadership possibly a little bit (more), because that was "below" political leadership in a way.
This is like asking "Why should I worry about a UDP interface that I send 100 bytes of data too, and it sends 10,000 bytes back"

Async affects outside of current power dynamics and upset entire systems and cause rapid collapse. In the case of internet DDOS it's a botnet sending out a few MB/s of data and generating GB/s of attacks. In the case of a superintelligent AI its _______?
That's how businesses are run in 21st century. Lol

I bet US gov will go after binance/coinbase at some point this/next year
Knife skills make such a difference. When my partner is helping me in the kitchen, I normally give him one vegetable to dice, and I dice everything else.

I can give him a bell pepper, and by the time he's finished with one bell pepper, I've diced two other bell peppers, the onions, the celery and the chicken.

Or if we're dicing and roasting potatoes, he'll dice one potato in the time it takes me to dice 3 or 4.

Most of the time he just cleans up after me or sets the table and we find that a better arrangement.
README is also available in english: https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer/blob/master/README_...

Also, Google Translate works quite well on GitHub: https://github-com.translate.goog/w-okada/voice-changer/blob...
In nearly every practical scenario, the scaling bottleneck lies in network throughput. Trying to scale by putting network I/O between computation and storage is a bit like trying to separate a rocket engine from its fuel tank with a garden hose.
>the general public is under the impression that you deposit money and it stays there

After decades of reruns and annual 24-hour marathons of "It's a Wonderful Life" I don't think the general public is unaware of this very basic aspect of the banking industry. I knew by the time I was 8 that the money was in Joe's house etc., and I didn't grow up in a household that had any particular knowledge of the banking & finance industry.

If you asked most people "Do banks keep all of the money everyone deposits in one big vault, or a bunch of little vaults, all of the time?" I think most people would at least have some vague notion that the answer is "Um, No?"
Just shave the beard for the interview. I've seen that a lot.
Sometimes I dream about writing my own secret coding language that no one else knows so I can have this personal/private connection to the digital products I build. I would make all my code open source, but no one would understand it.

But that would take a lot of effort, so I just use Elm instead.
Yet this act is a staple of Indian cuisine. The key is knowing what spices in what forms can take how much heat. Whole pods of cumin or peppercorns for example can benefit from browning without the entire structure burning.

Or as I like to say (especially when a friend is apologizing for serving slightly charred food): More colors more flavors!
Mammoths were exterminated with stone age technology.
https://archive.ph/CME2a
CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless
I built a mini journal that can get you emotionally unstuck
"Reinforce" is a mini journal that unblocks you emotionally.

Here's how it works: you consistently mini-journal your values/insights on the platform and review them a lot. Then, whenever you face a problem, you enter it into the app to get advice from your journal of insights. It uses intelligent search to find fitting values.

The idea is to "reinforce" your values in all sorts of domains and keep your connection strong with them.

If intrigued, you can try it out here: https://reinfrc.com.
Substitute "AI" for "nukes" and suddenly I don't think people want the populace to have them to maintain freedom.
First thing on their page (on mobile) is "start free trial". Github is also all-text and seemingly no demo. Not really attractive to new users..
Was curious as well, so I looked up their last investor report. In 2022 they had 24% profit growth, with $32.8m on $215.3m revenue.
They invest alot in AI image generation as well, and already offer a commercial product.

For their big customers their product might be the best of both worlds: AI-generated images based on prompts, with full legal clearance on use.

I doubt a marketing department of i.e. HP wants to risk a legal dispute about some image they used because it was generated by a model which was trained on unlicensed content.

Once this scenario is legally solid though....yes, I wonder how well Shutterstock will do...
The reason they don't say is because they don't know.
music theory is not for writing music, it's for understanding it.
I was interested in seeing the kind of job opportunities this would create. Especially after reading Chip War [1] which goes into the history of the offshoring and globalization of Fab processes.

Here are a few of the openings Broadcom's openings at the Fort Collins, CO site [2]:

- Material handler, Manufacturing operator: 12.25 hour shifts, 3-4 day work weeks, ~$19-25/hr. Night shift in higher demand

- General Mechanical Technician: $20-37/hr, alarm response a big component of role

- ASIC Digital Design Engineer, Fab Quality Engineer, R&D Software Engineer, Cleanroom facilities project manager: $78-150k + equity, BS/MS + related experience requirements

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Chip-War-Worlds-Critical-Technology/d...
[2] https://broadcom.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career?locat...
Surv_AI: An AI Agent Framework for Modeling and Comparative Analysis
You might get away with not responding immediately but losing that green status means HR will be asking you to leave or sending you a box for your equipment by the end of the day. Managers (project, product, people) are notorious for demanding always green status icons.

Fake meetings are fine until it is discovered you did a fake meeting. Then you get told not to do that again. They want the appearance of productivity -- they don't want productivity.
> Then you are either older, lucky or never introspected.

That sounds a lot like when kids say "you just don't understand!" to parents restricting their activities.

The reality is that the parents usually understand fully, but also understand other aspects that the kids don't yet.

> that they can potentially miss out on "group events".

I doubt this is a common or inevitable consequence. First, kids spend a great deal of time in person with their peers at school. Even if something is only planned online, they can still get the details by asking in person. Second, they can use a home computer to do that stuff. A phone isn't mandatory.

> not having a phone also means e.g. not having a camera

If that's important to a particular child, give them a camera. They do still exist.

> it's better to control it in a careful and reasonable way.

I agree. But you can't really do that if they have a smartphone. You can do that if they have to use a computer at home to go online.

I fully understand that kids will consider the lack of a smartphone to be essentially social suicide. They'll feel like it's an existential problem. But it's not. Good parenting often requires parents to do things that kids think are abusive, but are actually necessary to give them the best shot possible at having a good, healthy adult life. One of the main jobs of a parent is to gradually introduce children to reality. Emphasis on "gradually".
I worked in a research lab at a university for 10 years. It was grant funded, so my position could get canceled at any time, but so is working at at a private company. While the pay was about half of what I made a year after leaving and working at private companies, working in the research lab was WAAAAAAY easier.
Those users would have been running DR-DOS, meaning they would assume THAT software is buggy.

Which was the entire point and intention, as we saw in an email chain that came out during court.
And tool usage, turns out articulated appendages with articulated grippy sausages are effective, energy efficient, and can apply both power and precision.
Human children, boys especially, often appear to be actively trying to get themselves maimed or killed.
No, we need them more than we used to.

Back before the National Labor Relations Board unions were unregulated and collective action was unprotected. Unions were more like activist groups (think if BLM had a leadership structure and memberships). During strikes unions had to build solidarity and convince every worker to join. Strikers had to physically prevent scabs from entering the workplace, often with violence. Now it is simply illegal to scab. With today’s militarized police there is no way we could return to the era before NLRB and hope for success.

We can, and we should organize outside of unions, but the goal should ultimately be to form a union, and benefit from all the protections you get from having one.
Money is just a number in a database. Who cares if that number is over 1 account or split over more. It is equivalent.
> The right answer is to work on fixing that culture.

Indeed, but that is something that will still take many years to change (assuming it will ever change). And in the given moment, we must do our best within the current scenario.

Also, it can be difficult to fix a culture when cultural norms vary quite significantly from region to region. It's not even one particular gender who is resistant to change depending on the region or the norm.
Do you offer integration with docusign or Adobe? I failed to understanding the signing process.
I am not the target demographic but I toyed with the idea of such products as this field is a total mess.
I enjoyed the discussion. If you gave some semblance of acknowledgment that the opinion piece wasn't so great, and those same sentiments could be expressed in a more constructive manner we could have moved on. No worries, though. Cheers.
> middle managers,

If you think middle managers stand to lose due to remote work, you have no clue why middle managers exist in the first place. Remote work increases the importance of that role, in fact.

> Pure software dev jobs are very easy to do remotely

Have you actually done meaningful software development? For a specific example - designing a complex system is definitely hard to do remotely. Put 3-4 key people in that project in front of a whiteboard and you will get a much better outcome. I have been managing remote teams for >3 years now and have flown in my teams from all over the world to a single location on multiple occasions. Every single time, the feedback was that whiteboard sessions were awesome and helped move the project forward significantly.
It's not just OKRs. That $75m/year consumes attention all up and down and across Google. Lots of things that are slam dunks at a small or medium company are just more trouble than they're worth at most really large firms.
They didn't prove to be that important in pre-modern warfare, though. Much less impactful than a horse. So maybe they're actually not that hard to deal with.