skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But one may well ask: Why did humans become smarter all of a sudden? What was the advantage of having a large brain ... To hunt small elusive animals humans had to become smarter, faster, more focused, more observant, and more collaborative."

So why didn't the big cats, larger insects, dogs/wolves, crocs n that, let alone bloody great 'awks 'n that etc become ... "smarter" for the same reasons?

"Just so" stories are lovely to read and so easy to digest and are just so much bollocks!

"And they had to choose their prey carefully, with preference for high fat content, to ensure a sufficient energetic return"

Total and utter bollocks: Predators pick off the easiest targets - sick, infirm or inattentive prey. There is absolutely no way they weight up calorific value. You grab what you can and try to survive.

I suggest that any numpty writing an article/paper like this tries to kill their own next dinner to discover why things are the way they are ...
If the outside temperature is lower than inside then single hose is at least as good, as long as you open a window somewhere else so outside air rather than some other apartment’s air is sucked in

Single hose portables are bad in countries where air con is practically essential, but are fine or even desirable for countries where only a handful of % of people have AC - the purchases will be for use cases like attics and top floor apartments where inside can be easily hotter than outside
Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
How else do you imagine that thing came into existence?
I don't interpret "met at the park, talked for hours, became best friends and fell in love" as all taking place on the first date?
About every 6 months there's one of these "new battery technology" will save the day articles (but the day is not right now) and often given as the excuse for why legacy auto isn't doing a great jobs with battery electric vehicles, see Toyota here.

I think that eventually one of these solid state battery technologies will work out and also will be able to be manufactured reasonably cheaply. It seems very likely that manufacturing existing EV models will be pretty easily convertible to use whatever new battery technology shows up on the market (changing out the skateboard perhaps - not nothing to change but not that hard). Toyota says they have it figured out but their new EVs aren't coming until 2028 model year (5 years!). But this kind of longer timeline also hides the failure of a lot of car makers to invest enough in the battery supply chain - they can't buy enough batteries or they are too expensive, so it's another excuse for what they want anyway, which is not to make that many EVs. They want to keep selling ICE cars while they can.

Look at GM and Ford, the GM ultium battery pack has unspecified problems with mass manufacturing, Ford has also slowed down manufacturing at times this cal year (to improve efficiency or something, specific reasons unclear). I still see the market dynamics being that (1) Tesla continues to take market share from legacy auto where ever they are on the market, and (2) Chinese companies will follow and be even more devastating, because they are making EVs in even larger quantities, decent quality and low prices.
I honestly don't think there was a conspiracy... but I wouldn't be surprised to learn there was more to it, at the same time. I never gave it much thought but one day I saw a documentary and its like "damn, there's a lot of weird stuff to this." However, I think it also shows just how bad people's memory is _or_ how bad people are at extracting details from witnesses.
Please explain? Mirrors seem to reflect much more, but maybe that's another effect.
" the massive deaths predicted by the IPCC will probably not occur."

250,000 deaths by 2050 is massive deaths? That's about 5% of what COVID caused, and that's not generally acknowledged as mass death.
Large Language Models for Semantic Monitoring of Corporate Disclosures
Not for any residential, standard 24" below the counter, dishwasher sold in the U.S. after 2010 and before October 2020 that I've seen, hence why it was a noteworthy change.
Running is better than walking, but walking a lot is probably better than running a little. This is not a fitness tracker specific observation and I'm sure it varies from person to person, but my experience has been that if I look for opportunities to just be active rather than focus on more strenuous exercise, I tend to engage in a lot more physical activity. In my case, I think the increase in overall active time probably balances out the fact that the activity is at a lower level, especially since I end up fitting the extra active time in where it's likely replacing no activity at all rather than replacing more beneficial exercise.

As I said, this isn't really a fitness tracker specific experience since I don't actually use one. But I think there's some interesting psychology at work here that a fitness tracker probably amplifies. Aside from people with certain health issues, "walk more" is a pretty easy task with a very low bar to entry compared to the health benefits. You likely don't need special equipment or a membership to anything or a change of clothes or a shower after and it's pretty easy to feel like you can fit into your day even if you're tired or busy. You could reasonably argue that going for a run after work isn't that much more of a heavy lift than going for a walk, but I'd bet good money that I'm not alone in feeling like it is a lot of days. And that ultimately matters in terms of how likely people are to actually be active.
> “We know the company is financially bankrupt, but it shouldn’t be morally bankrupt too.”

LMAO. Sigh

Factoid: One of VICE's original (ex-)cofounders later was a bearded hipster before it was cool and was one of the white nationalists who founded The Proud Boys.

Post Brooklyn move, the other hipster founders either got high off their own supply and/or mentally checked out, and failed at delivering quality journalism consistently. Then Bill Mahar exited, they lost HBO, and everything went down the drain.

Another tidbit I recall second-hand was their apparent unreasonable legal documents to speak to a potential source. "You want [person] to sign a lengthy NDA just to have a chat?"

Startups die when they cease to be businesses by routinely disappointing customers, over-expanding, or failing to monetize.
Man, look at those pictures. Fashion is so vapid.
But they reflect green energy.
I had same thought as your first sentence. But you lost me on the second.

Evolution operates by being fit for your environment. If that environment is dominated by ecosystem destroying humans. Adapt or be replaced with life that has.

Most have "opted" to die out. We are currently in the six mass extinction, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
I Made My Own Redis (in Rust) [video]
You, like many people, fall into the trap of seeing the events of 1963 through a modern lens, a lens that itself was greatly influenced by these events.

Presidential security in 1963 wasn't what it is today. For example, JFK would stop his car to go mingle with the crowd. There's a photo on this audio recording from Miami in 1963 [1].

There are parallels with 9/11. Prior to 9-11, people would generally go along peacefully with hijackers. Why? Because they knew the "routine". The hijackers would fly the plane somewhere, land it, make demands, make noise for their political cause and, more often than not, people would get to go home. Harrowing for sure. But the general public didn't conceive of planes being used as cruise missiles. We all know post-9/11 was so much security theater but it was also largely unnecessary because people were now aware they could be used as a missile so were less likely to simply go along with demands.

JFK's assassination changed the threat modelling and protection by the Secret Service of the president. In spite of that, Ronald Reagan was shot by an assailant [2] without any great planning or mass conspiracy.

Now it's all bulletproof motorcades with armor plating to survive running over a land mine. It's Secret Service vetting every audience member at a live event. It's mapping out and securing any potential sniper positions. None of that was true to the same degree in 1963.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep_NiYKrcC0

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ron...
You extrapolated a lot about myself from an explanation of what constitutes a machine's personality.

For starters, I wouldn't call the Golf cheap. As to my "old" truck, if had 30k miles when I traded it in. I used "old" as in "previous". As to the Golf, it has <60k miles on it. As far as Im aware, EVs still have steering columns that loosen overtime.

EV do have their own characteristics, namely low end torque and insane amount of engine braking. They're also heavy hogs. I am not the poster who said EVs lack a "soul", I just explained what "soul" meant to someone who snickered at the idea of a machine having a "soul"; I introduced the idea that the "personality" is better suited and explained why.

I have no bias against heavy, torquey, rear wheel drive sedans - my first car was a crown vic, and I loved it for what it was.

As to my interest in EVs, you're right, I don't like them. I think they are unconscionably immoral in their impact on the environment (by taking precious batteries from hybrids that have a greater impact on CO2) and the labor (ie Congo) market.

But I am not a tech-dinosaur for in transportation. The manual tranny is long dead, having lost any advantage twenty years ago. I believe that hybrids should be highly promoted, no matter how insipid Toyotas are.

Infact, if I'm being completely honest, I dont even like cars. If much rather ride a motorcycle, and I believe that, for environmental reasons, the wider the vehicle the lower its speed limit should be. Cars should be limited to 40 mph by the factory. Trucks to 30, motorbikes 90 :D

Toyotas are boring. BMW and Honda (the cars too) were fun. Cars are expensive appliances, and most people are terrible drivers distracted by their phones.

/rant
> It would be interesting to see what the corresponding figures are like for on-prem […]

You won't find any, not easily anyway. The world of enterprise SaaS follows a different business model that I refer to as «hiding the dead horse in the cloud» and holding the customer to ransom.

The premise: the customer is already locked into the wares the vendor supplies, and the customer can't easily migrate away from the product. Oftentimes, the product is also ridden with the technical debt, but it either has a feature critical to the business or there are multiple business (and technical) processes that have a deeply ingrained reliance on the product. It is either the data or the integration with the product. Regularly both.

The vendor repackages the product («the dead horse») as a SaaS, rolls it out into the cloud (the act of hiding the said dead horse), bumps prices up and slips the bill under the customer's front door (the ransom). Cloud costs are passed onto the customer at a markup. The product (and sometimes the customer) might get minor tangible benefits from the repackaged version, e.g. improved availability and reliability, although even that is not always the case. SaaS products typically do not use native cloud services, they run on EC2 instances (or their equivalent in Azure, less often GCP) and are cobbled together just enough to make them not fall apart.

SaaS, as a business model, is not about the engineering excellence most of the time. It is about squeezing the last drop of blood that there is left in a legacy product, now being offered as a shiny-shiny SaaS version («hey, lookie, we are also int the cloud!»). This is the reality.

The theory is somewhat different. In between 2000s and 2020 (approximately), vendors used to tailor their products to specific needs of each specific customer which increasingly became difficult to maintain, update and upgrade as there would be no single product titled «ABC», there would a «ABC customised/hand-rolled for customer 123», «ABC customised/hand-rolled for customer 456» and so forth. So the original premise of SaaS was to have a single version of the product for ALL customers that exposes simple data centric and whatever other technical interfaces that the customer would hook into. The enterprise world does not work that way, though.

There are positive exceptions in the world of SaaS, and almost all of them are in the startup universe and outside the enterprise.
Have you got the numbers to support that?
I'm very physically active, and I still feel driven to hit my watch's 10k steps and 10 floors goals to keep the streak going. Even though 95% of the time when I haven't hit the steps it's because I've been on the bike instead.
That's my point. It's not a single thing, it's not about making it add up trying to do one thing, but if you batch them together and say, use thr waste heat from one process to power the next, etc. One can find new efficiencies.

Of course I'm not saying we need to break the laws of thermodynamics, in my house we obey the laws of thermodynamics.

In this case, the work needed is defined by the features of the RO membrane. It's conceivable that we could develop a RO membrane that requires less pressure or energy to operate. In fact they have been.

In that case, we would gain a more efficient process, while still obeying the laws of thermodynamics
The authors wrote the GS paper
> the big cats, larger insects, dogs/wolves, crocs n that, let alone bloody great 'awks

None of them are able to make all their prey go extinct.
>The carrying capacity of Earth is approximately 4,000,000,000 humans.

You know what they say about extraordinary claims…
Interesting concept. I handled the bandwidth balancing by using multiple IPs in DNS, and latency-based routing.
> Does anyone here use instagram stories?

This is the most common social media for people under 40 in the US, very self evident if you have a social group of all ages and have used all major apps.
307 KWh/cycle would be over $30 in electricity costs, per cycle...
> But one may well ask: Why did humans become smarter all of a sudden? What was the advantage of having a large brain ... To hunt small elusive animals humans had to become smarter, faster, more focused, more observant, and more collaborative."

Couple of armchair thoughts:

- it wasn’t “sudden”

- we didn’t become smart in order to do x. Instead, natural selection favored certain variation in the context of the environment and we happen to have certain mutations and environments

- symbolic reasoning
The silence could have come from embarrassment at later recognition of what he'd done.
I always wonder how much saving water and electricity washing dishes actually matters in relation to everything else we do. In the US people run their HVAC basically 24/7 either heating or cooling for a lot of the year. Our televisions, video game consoles, and computers are giant electric space heaters that run all day long. So what's the proportional burden of warming a few gallons of water? And I do mean warming, because people who wash dishes by hand don't make the water nearly as hot as what dishwashers use.
See also sixth mass extinction event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Following this logic, the ship will be carrying every kind of small equipments.

And no, sequencing alone won't tell you what that specimen is .
China and Italy face similar structural demographic challenges, and there are stronger consumer markets elsewhere for Italy to pursue considering China's slowing economy [1]. I’m unsure more infra investment in Italy would pay off to be honest.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-economy-slowing-down...
Exactly. It's been around for billion(s?) of years having rain water dissolve land and run into it. Shouldn't it be as salty as it can be?

Perhaps it's deep sea flour shenanigans keeping it at some stable level.
I have roller shutters on my east and west facing windows, and my north facing windows (this is in Australia) get no direct sunlight because they are shaded by my patio. So no direct sunlight is coming into my house through the windows. Still in summer after ~2pm the house heats up. I think overall my house is decently insulated from the sun because in winter my house is extremely cold (what little heat the sun could give doesn't get in to my house). Recently in early spring there were days when the outside air temp was hotter than in my house.

I think reducing the absorption of the roof and the walls would help, but even then you have still have a house sitting in 34C+ air temps for at least 10 hours per day, so it gets hot. But when I consider my dads house, which has 2m eaves all around, high ceilings, and massive roof space - it still gets hot. His house might feel nicer without a/c during early summer, but by mid+late summer it is hot too.

Maybe better insulated doors+windows would help? My house is double brick walls. Maybe the "outer layer" needs to be able to get hot, and then the "inner layer" insulated from the outer as much as possible. That's a lot of change though. Instead I just run the a/c all day "for free" off my solar panels.
These blog posts and discussion usually pit one language against others and often attempt to restrict a language to some specific context, ignoring that each user's experience, needs and preferences may be different. A more interesting debate would be language-agnostic, such as writing one-liners versus writing lengthy programs.

In short, the debate might be something like: What does the computer user prefer more: (a) writing one-liners or (b) writing lengthy programs. Not everyone will have the same answer. Knuth might prefer (b). McIllroy might prefer (a).

Assuming one reading this blog post knew nothing about programming languages, it seems to imply Python is not well-suited for one-liners, or at least not comparable to AWK in that context. Perhaps the interpreter startup time might have something to do with the failure to consider Python for one-liners.
>Basically, the dating market available through dating apps is an infinite holodeck of available women, for men that have a reasonable enough sense of humor and specially, ARE NOT CREEPY AND NEVER, EVER, SEND A DICK PICK TO A WOMAN.

Your tips are irrelevant. The majority of men dont fit your criteria. How dumb do you have to be to send a dick pic? Very few men are that stupid. In fact this isn't even criteria women are judging you based on. If Chris Hemsworth sent a girl a dick pic, he won't be judged as a creeper.

Why? Because he's good looking, high status, over 6ft, rich and women would gobble up his penis no questions asked. There is never really a wrong thing to do or say to a woman, your worth is almost entirely derived from superficial features. Women just call the guy who sent them a dick pic a creeper because that guy had no chance in the first place. They reject and degrade men who make a move but aren't in their league. That's where the entire concept comes from. Women are kind of cruel this way.

Let me spell out the reality. The overwhelming majority of men do not have an endless supply of women to date. Maybe you do, but to be that way you are most likely white, over 6ft, very fit and very rich. Game is a factor here but from your tips you just dished out you basically have none.

You're born lucky and your circumstance is good. The advice of don't send dick pics is absolute garbage because it's blindingly obvious. Do you really think your the only genius who's figured out "don't be creepy"? Come on man. It sounds like you don't need any game and you're succeeding based on circumstance there's nothing insightful you have to offer.

Stay in the clouds bro. I'm serious.
Hmm. My kitchenaid dishwasher from that time period has an express cycle. Maybe it wasn't a new model at the time?
They forced Clubhouse (clubhouse.io) to rebrand to Shortcut, too.
Early cities were pretty undesirable places to live, so it makes sense,
A more dynamic software I/O TLB
This is the kind of pivot you have to do when you raised a hundred million at a four billion evaluation and what you've built is basically Skype for influencers. Thank God the Fed raised the interest rates
You haven't seen the shit I throw in my dishwasher every few nights. Seriously. It is jam-fucking-packed to the gills with the nastiest, filthiest, greasiest crap you can imagine. That it uses only a few litres of water to clean it is a miracle in itself, not to mention the countless hours it's saved me from scrubbing.

In my house, the dishwasher is orders of magnitudes more efficient than hand-washing.
Fujifilm also sells Instax printers (https://instax.com/printer/) that you can print to using smartphone apps. Note that the printers use the same film cartridges as the Instax instant cameras.
Same with myself. And I can say my best manager of all time was someone I wanted to have those talks with, because I learned so much from him. Half the time we would talk about work, the other half we would talk together on various philosophical subjects.

Because of those chats, he learned that I was a knowledge sponge and loved trying new things, and as a result he challenged me. I got to implement some really cool middle ware that became the bedrock of the middle office trading systems.

That said, I have had bad managers where the 1:1 is a forced chore. My experience isn’t that 1:1 are bad, but that they will quickly reveal the character of the manager. I do agree that if my manager is not great, it is often best if we interact little and I can go my own way. And yes, I am lucky to have had jobs like that where I can own my path.
Never forget how much a16z cheerleaded them and financed this whole fiasco
I doubt I'll remember this article in a couple of hours, let alone a couple of days.
Voice-only group chat?

All the kids I know are into visual social media.

A video-only group chat might be interesting. Voice-only sounds hard to browse, skim or market.
They use NeRF to mean a radiance field that can be sampled and trained using a differentiable process.
Where Have All the Girlbosses Gone?
You're right, but they're currently at what looks from the outside to be at pretty severe risk of losing their FCC spectrum license, much requires them to have a certain number of satellites by a certain date.

That, compounded by the fact that "their" rocket company (blue origin) is well behind schedule, makes it seem a bit foolish. If they weren't Amazon, trying to spend their money on another Bezos business, their absolute refusal to launch even their demo/pathfinder sats on a spacex rocket would look a bit suicidal...
Similar experience. I bought a Kia last month. The salesman was insistent that his "delivery checklist" needed to be complete or he'd be in trouble with his manager. It included sitting with me in the car to make sure the app got installed on my phone. Thankfully, my trusty Moto is too old and the Play Store said it was incompatible with the app (I'd be curious to know exactly why, but haven't pursued it). The salesman looked quite dejected.

To me the reasons for this pressure seemed quite obvious: to ensure that I was fully enrolled in the data collection.
There’s also https://prose.sh which is similar to bear blog.
> The awk program is not very readable

What do you find hard to read about it? If you know what make does, I think it is fairly easy to read, even for those who don’t know awk at all, but do know the Unix shell (to recognize ‘ls -t’) and C (both of which, probably the audience for this book knew, given that the book is from 1988)

> I think for something like this I'd prefer a bash script

But would it be easier to read? I doubt see why it would.
As does punctuation, or one may accidentally eat Grandma.
Modern cities are no different.
It's a huge benefit to the crowds at street level, and keeps the city cooler overall because all that concrete is not being turned into a heated surface. They're not generally there to shade the buildings, but the people and roads.
Having electric current hard to avoid in saltwater, assuming use of metal. See Galvanic Cell / Galvanic Corrosion.