skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to regarding my comment, which was effectively addressing the non-comparative examples of hunter-gatherers killing for pure survival versus modern humans killing out of annoyance or so-called sport, where food is just around the corner, except in extreme cases of poverty and such.

It's also not clear whether the last bit of your comment is entirely accurate. Is there not plenty of evidence of ancient humans overhunting fauna? That was my understanding and a quick search seems to verify that.
This is marginally "on a commodore 64" if it requires a 16MB memory addition
Ask HN: Do we need to revisit Agile/Scrum?
Everybody is using Agile/Scrum in one way or other. But at times this in on paper in agreements. Do you think if a new process is need in this new age. Do we need to sketch out new framework.
Ah, thanks. It sounds like the logic of short term disability insurance from Social Security works similarly in both countries. The main difference appears to be that in the US the onus is on the worker to expressly make the claim and do the paperwork to receive payment from disability insurance, while in Spain the process is transparent for the worker, who superficially continues to receive payment from their employer even though the funds are ultimately coming from SS.
Cool(?) to see XHTML (the XML serialization) becoming dead enough for people to use this name in some other HTML-related thing.
1. Avoiding sugar, processed foods
2. walking whenever possible. steps over elevator
3. gardening.
4. maintaing lawn without power tools
5. Meditation
6. Light excerises. Squats and push ups
For many it is opposite. Going to school means meeting with their bullies.
Ask HN: Underrated music, books, movies?
Underrated music, books, and movies that you'd like to share? This thread may be highly biased, but I'm confident that we'll find some great discoveries for a lazy Sunday.

I keep two eclectic lists of "interesting" stuff:

https://www.slowernews.com/s/underrated

https://www.slowernews.com/s/timeless
First things I'm hit with are: site wants my location and after that I'm hit with a pop over ad. Not exactly a great first impression.
I agree. Maintenance work is hard. Writing new code from scratch is easy.

At work we put the smartest most experienced people on maintenance work. Because it is the lifeblood and cash flow of the company. It directly pays the salaries of people working on new software that might never make a profit!
Hearts of Akureyri
I would agree, the whole point was to enable conversation without the distraction of the ad sounds. If you're gonna watch the damned things anyway I'm not sure it helped
Completely off topic but: decennia. Never heard of it, had to look it up (though I guessed correctly what it meant), will now be using it! Cheers.
The Dark History Oppenheimer Didn’t Show
Remember, app authors, pin your cert roots! :)
It's hard to acknowledge the massive cultural imperialism the PRC has engaged in with regards to Mandarin without getting "corrected" by people with an agenda. It's amazing how "fun facts" like "Everyone in China speaks a dialect of Chinese!" (they're vastly different languages, like how German and Italian aren't dialects of European) and "Everyone in China, no matter what dialect they speak, can pass notes!" (because everyone is forced to learn to read Mandarin no matter what language they actually speak) implicitly support that imperialism.
> nobody ever asks "hmm what could the establishment be doing wrong that causes this"

Because nobody likes accountability for themselves or for their favourite political establishment.

And because fixing mistakes involves admitting them first, and that’s not something “the establishment” is ever keen on doing.
I am blown away at the support these kind of laws seem to have among the populace.

But I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. The Nazis that burned books were average citizens too.
A problem with paying is that you have to be logged on so you can’t avoid being tracked and having every video you ever watch linked to you for all eternity.
Outdated. I need sync for my contacts, notes and email. 2G is no longer possible to use in my country.
How many BLAS libraries have this error?
Because that would not be Their Vision™.
Au contraire, I am seeking precisely theories that actually modify existing frameworks without merely begging the question. The approach of "oh, must just be more matter but it's weird that we can't see it" is going to be seen as ether or geocentrism is now. It's just grossly unimaginative and ironically doesn't actually modify existing modes of thinking, i.e., assumes that gravity is still a fundamental force if only we could describe it as a quantum field.

MOND is a change to the existing framework that makes predictions from the basis of a theory that actually explains the data "discrepancies" we're seeing vs typical assumptions. The discrepancies are testable with MOND. It's not merely a post-hoc justification of some detailed maps of where matter "isn't". While with dark matter all one can try to do is detect particles that we are already blindly assuming are there. Dark matter enthusiasts love to espouse the "shoulders of giants" thing with their tiny incremental modification to LCDM but they're taking an approach that fails to learn from the historical blunders of physicists before who wanted to assume some substance exists and then try to back-prove its existence with increasingly elaborate and specialized theories of origin.
Nothing, but that doesn't stop people from not liking it. Turns out, when women have the option to turn off their reproductive capacity, people opt for "hmmm nows not a good time I think I'll do it later" often enough that the population goes extinct. It's never a good time to have kids. That's why evolution ensured we don't have a choice, made us irrationally horny and ensured that it happened by accident.

But people still see the drastic change within a single generation and don't like it. And you can't blame them, if you started settling white people in some African country by the million a year you can very much expect the same from the people who already live there. They'd call it colonialism. And they'd be right, and if they were facing a fertility rate crisis like the west is they'd be screwing themselves over, but you still wouldn't be able to convince them that they have to do it.
So having perused the comments here, most of which seem to suggest EU in decline/decay, can I assume there might be some benefit to Brexit?
> Adblocking Google is morally right.

All ads should be blocked. I do not consume ads, and am not interested in paying a ransom to hide them.
Singapore government definitely made smart moves and had a strong vision. But you can't omit that its geographical position gave it a tremendous advantage with regards to trade. It will be very hard to replicate elsewhere, others will have to find similar stable streams of income.
On top of that, Singapore has access to a very large low-paid workforce in the neighboring countries, which eases offloading necessary but low-value activities.
One day Zulip will take over everything. Probably the same year Ubuntu beats Windows as the majority desktop OS.
Factorio is arguably way, way more popular than Kandria, however.
In Denmark we have a government agency called The National Consumer Agency. Citizens can complain here if a company treats them unfairly, and they will take the fight on your behalf. Just knowing that is an option or threatening with reporting a vendor acting in bad faith is often enough.
> I probably learned most when dealing with Helm,

My opinion is that helm does the completely wrong thing: patching text. It should instead patch objects, so that we don’t have to deal with indentation and other silly things.

I don’t think it’ll ever change though :(
> I try to work on my skill portfolio and think about jumping ship to some other European nation.

What country in Europe doesn't have the same issues?
> In my experience, semantic analysis is only about 2X as expensive as parsing

Can you elaborate? Semantic analysis might cover anything from simple type checking to full program data flow analysis, and I understand the latter can be very expensive.
> A major point in this is that C also has a fairly big runtime library that should be factored into the comparison!

But libc will be there anyways, unless you are rewriting absolutely all of userland.
Red Hat's Source Code Lockout Spells Disaster for CentOS Alternatives
I wonder, if instead if requiring REU, it could work by using a few dozen floppy discs as RAM, prompting the user to swap discs as needed.

I’d be interested in watching a time-lapse video of that on real hardware, if someone has a couple of months/years to spare. ;)
they don’t need to. One of x hundred humans approached by the AI needs to… or a program written to serve humans but being queries by the AI
On top of that, in my experience both CuriousityStream and Nebula's search functionality is pretty bad: I got fed up of the number of times I searched for something mentioned in a spoken "advertisment" by users like Mustard on youtube who said they have extra content on those services and then I can't find it or find out how to list all videos by those users, I stopped my subscription to them...
A faster, persistent implementation of direnv's use_Nix and use_flake
ARM being a simple instruction set hardly makes it match say 286 or 386 asm as it was used in the era primarily for the fact it is not intended to be coded by hand but be compiled.
Some would view disabling the cars which are interfering with emergency services as “get that taken care of”, and attempts to roll out additional cars without fixing the bug as “intentionally make things worse”.
The crux of the matter is from where these "bodies" will arrive. There are relatively few problems with immigrants from Vietnam or Ukraine. They don't feel entitled and work hard. There are others, however, who just create problems. That's all.
Prisoners of Google Android development
TLDR; Written an article about a real-life case-study about Android app deployment/development problem where production version has a critical problem and update has been "in review" for 72h+ and there's nothing else we can do.

If there's some (ex)-Googlers who could help to speed up update approval process then I would be really helpful, if not then let it just be as a warning for anyone else being involved with mobile app development.
There are many unofficial efforts to bring OpenBSD software to other systems. For example, there are at least two maintained ports of OpenBSD ksh, https://github.com/dimkr/loksh (Linux) and https://github.com/ibara/oksh (cross-platform). There are also at least two of doas, https://github.com/slicer69/doas and https://github.com/nholstein/OpenDoas. I wish they were catalogued somewhere, like an "awesome list".

I would love to see portable OpenBSD cron. Features like random ranges with steps (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230507122935) and `-s` (https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-7.2/crontab.5#s) put it ahead of almost every other. It could replace many uses of systemd timers on Linux.

Edit: Added doas ports.
> All of a sudden you have people who are moving to more remote places, who will likely be driving instead of using public transit,

There's a whole spectrum between a huge city and a place so remote you drive everywhere. There's lots of smaller towns where everything is walkable or very close. For example, I'm using the car ~once a week to pick up big shopping from 3km away and for daycare runs on rainy days / when I can't cycle. Apart from weekend trips, it's basically unused. So no, not being in a big city doesn't necessarily mean you're replacing public transit with driving.
Yeah, the article reads like a “late stage capitalism” vs nasty nimby localism.

On one hand I don’t like the idea that a lot of land end up in hands of a small group of people, but on the other hand the accusation that they are tearing apart the community is a little weird, given than they have not started building anything yet. And most of land around Travis AFB is prairie, so used for grazing.

On top of that the lawsuit they filed against farmers is weird. Did they try to intimidate them into selling or got screwed by an alleged price fixing?
Wow! I didn't know about this initiative.

I like the idea of using a $1 tax to incentivize right holders to consider and reconsider whether to hold on to their rights. Encourages some self curation of long tail content, rather than rewarding content hoarding — you never know, might become valuable, or quantity is always good mindset.
>There is no “better” or “worse” social media. It’s like calling it a less harmful cancer.

The difference between less harmful and more harmful cancer could be the difference between life and death.

I think any steps towards a more human friendly platforms are welcome. Kind of like the "boil a frog" thing, but in the opposite direction.
Parts of CW are ok at night. It's improving. I went there for dinner with an old friend the other week and it was buzzing.
You have privacy controls in your Google account. I have web & app activity off, location history off, YouTube search off and YouTube watch history auto deleting after a few months. https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy

If you're talking about them building a secret extra profile about you with those things turned off, then they wouldn't need you to login for that.
> They make a lot of sense for languages with lots of homophobes.

I think you meant homophones. At least I hope so.
Ever since Google started pushing HTTPS I understood that non-encryption would be a future privacy problem.
> I hope that US Gov has greater humility

Humility from the US? Surely you jest.

On the other hand, the US is highly resistant to government regulation, because our politicans are bought and sold by those who would be regulated.
It's funny, you know, to compare the marketing and policies of different types of ISPs.

My ISP is a Cable TV provider. Of course, they've expanded beyond that, but at their heart, they offer Home Entertainment Packages for the Whole Family, and every package they offer tends to emphasize that angle, no matter what it is.

Of course, a home entertainment-oriented TV provider has a conflict of interest with streaming services. Now, my ISP is quite tame in their policies, and I've never detected them opposing, discouraging, or throttling any sort of streaming audio/video service I've used. But others are not so scrupulous.

On the other hand, you've got "telephone companies" who've expanded to offer every manner of service as well, including really good Internet services. Despite offering pretty much exactly the same service, albeit delivered with a different Layer 2 technology, the "phone company" ISP began as a communications provider, peer-to-peer style, and more or less remains in that role, and therefore, their attitude toward audio/video streaming should lean more on the side of "do whatever you want with your line, as long as it's legal."

Of course there are other types of providers, particularly the mobile ones. In fact, I've seen mobile providers offer special unmetered or all-you-can-watch deals to specified streaming services, while capping the others. Even though, theoretically, these mobile providers are "phone companies" without skin in that game.
What he's saying is incentives in these countries are just not aligned to creation of families and rearing of children. And it's true, when you expect women to go to school til they're 25, a home requires two incomes and then some, everything is taxed to the breaking point, and birth control is ubiquitously available, you can expect a decline in fertility to the point that you eventually have a demographic crisis.

Our countries resolve this by importing people from countries with more people than they can handle, but if you look at the situation globally, as countries become richer this appears to happen universally. It's a matter of 100 years until we can't play this population shuffling game anymore and we will experience a global fertility and demographic crisis. And what's more, it appears that it is unavoidable and it's not clear if humanity will stabilize to a population level or if these fluctuations are inevitable. See https://fractalfoundation.org/OFC/OFC-6-1.html
Slime Molds: When Micro Becomes Macro [video]
I imagine that creating a fork on your own instance, you just provide a url. UX-wise it isn’t as powerful as the one-click fork of a centralised platform, and I think we’d need a browser plug-in because of the missing implicit assumption of where to fork it.
From my understanding, there are some words that are usually written in Hiragana anyhow (which always confuses me when that word contains a は). I don't think it would hurt to replace usage of Kanji by introduction of visible word boundaries, where necessary.
Except if your 'wait' operation is doing the same computation (add, multiply...) but won't use the result. I often do that in some real-time/low-latency things where you want things constant-time (or can't easily define the worst-case execution time, just make all paths the worst). Then you still need to blind the speculative execution mechanisms so that they don't 'see' you're not using the result.
Does anyone know if this changes how much your view is worth to creators?
The problem is that while it's an impressively close approximation for an off-the-cuff guess (at least if we charitably translate his "dozens"/"dozen" to 12), to the extent it was pre-planned it's a terrible approximation. ~50 years as a lifetime is the right order of magnitude (and thus a very good result for a guess), but is too far off to be any good if precalculated.
I like fish. It's good to have on my machine. I can see myself using sometimes. I'm used to bash. Bash for scripting definitely. I'm not sure what makes me look more like a "hacker" using bash, or using fish?

I don't really care, but...ha! Just wondering.

I guess fish is like, you feel like you're living in the future, but also like "this is a past that should have already been available" then you find out it has been available, for 18 years, and you wonder, "Was it me that was living in the past?"

It's the kind of thing I'm scared to get burnt on, when it fails, because I already like it. I don't want it to disappoint me, because I just feel like: "new fangled, it's always gonna break." But then, it has been around for 18 years...so...hmm.

So, I don't know. It looks pretty! I like to use it. But bash is, feels, more stable.

Worth exploring! I'm not gonna config-it, as much as possible, but for interactive shell? I think it's good! :)
And if you believe Google is not storing that information anyway I’ve got a beautiful bridge for sale.

If you don’t use an account you can create a fresh container every once in a while and start the game anew and you can choose to not associate it all with your identity.
If I recall correctly, getfirefox.com was the de-facto site because an individual blogger had owned and been using firefox.com. Mozilla was finally able to acquire the firefox.com domain and for a time, offered a free redirect to the original blog. I also tried to find a link to corroborate the history but was unable to do so, just the WHOIS data below. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

WHOIS data for firefox.com says it was created in October 1998, four years before the Firefox project was started in 2002, and six years before the 1.0 release in 2004.

WHOIS data for getfirefox.com says it was created in April 2004, seven months before the 1.0 release.
Reducing flour (bread) as much as possible can work wonders. Just ask any farmer about fattening cattle. My dad lost 12 kilos in 3 months just doing that.
I just have no sympathy for the ad industry. I wouldn't have gotten into ad blocking if ads were non-intrusive, non-deceptive, and purely contextual. I used to even click on them more than a decade ago. But no, the ad industry wasn't satisfied with the money they were already making. They wanted to stalk you across the web and shove endless amounts of junk ads to uninterested people.

The ad industry brought the current situation on to themselves.
Yes, indeed.

I think you can prove that one can't just map the edge weights (so that edge's new weight only depends on its original weight) to make all weights positive, and also preserve all shortest paths.

You may try something more complex, i.e. where the new weight of an edge would depend on some more edges around it. But then the cost of doing so may be close to Bellman-Ford algorithm itself.
Well, for the field in question, I imagine that it should be easy to distinguish meaningful content from whatever it defaults to when the field is missing.
Why WhatsApp Was Able to Support 50B Messages a Day with 32 Engineers
I hear the Apple Vision Pro has a good implementation. If this were Microsoft, you'd be able to find the details in the Microsoft Research website.
Yeah I dont believe you. Theres no way fixing potholes every few years, which is 99% of road maintenance, is more expensive than building a whole new road.
Add cache misses, bus interference, SMT woes and it quickly becomes harder and harder to write (and check) constant-time (or WCET) properties. Even modern micro-benchmarks are a huge labyrinth of architectural traps.
workspace-indicator@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com

Basically multiple desktop applet.

Gnome is pretty useless to me without that
2023-07-18 : https://archive.is/D7LF8
Lol, thanks for spotting :)
Eh, you massively underestimate road maintenance if you think its just a few potholes every now and again.

https://www.governing.com/now/the-u-s-needs-to-fix-existing-...

Some information from Aukland specifically because details are hard to find on my phone for the US;

https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2013/05/26/roads-arent-ch...

https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/08/01/escalating-cos...
Maybe it's just my bubble, but it is often I hear that "Our Nebula subscribers fund this show, we couldn't do this with youtube revenue alone" or "Signing up to Nebula with my link gives me a steady source of income that youtube just cannot provide".
> When I like my land and I don't want to sell, than this is simply my right, no matter how much you think I have no excuse.

I guess in this case they do want to sell it, they just know that the ‘billionaires’ having already bought a bunch of land in the area don’t really have a choice and will have to pay significantly more than the market value was previously.

It’s not exactly a case of some mega corporation trying to rip off some poor farmer and “steal” his land…

> build a city for the rich on my land.

Not that I’m saying that the government should get involved but the only reason you own that land is because want to make as much money from it as possible.
In this case since he mentions it's a "tree" of data (he means a "message"), it would be a sub-object that would become an initialized default. So there would be an "object" there, but it would have no "ads" array in it, or what not.

Protobuf does this so you can do `deep.dotted.paths` and you won't get null exceptions (probably a side effect of starting partly in Java). The leaf fields end up as empty strings, `0`, `false`, or an empty array for repeated fields.

It's a neat trick to get it to ignore a field, just not a "flaw." It's actually a compatibility feature in disguise.

(So it might be pretty hard to detect, versus the potentially-legitimate case of just not having any ads to show.)