skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just South America. It's even in places like the UK

>Most of the UK and Ireland’s grass-fed cows and sheep are on land that might otherwise be temperate rainforest – arable crops tend to prefer drier conditions. However, even if there were no livestock grazing in the rainforest zone – and these areas were threatened by other crops instead – livestock would still pose an indirect threat due to their huge land footprint

(and those "grass-fed" cattle are also fed crops too)

>Furthermore, most British grass-fed cows are still fed crops on top of their staple grass

https://theconversation.com/livestock-grazing-is-preventing-...
This is part of Israel’s playbook to justify genocide. UN special rapporteur’s report on the ongoing genocide described this practice as: “Humanitarian camouflage: distorting the laws of war to conceal genocidal intent”[1] (chapter VI).

Of course you cannot use alleged warcrimes of the enemy—be they real or fabricated—to consistently strip rights of live from a civilian population.

1: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies...
Once a company like Boeing is put on the slippery slope, it keeps going down south, until you make radical changes. Notice that in most of these engineering driving businesses, the culture was built bottom up, right from the birth of the company. You are now trying to restore that top down. Its not really possible.

People don't realise how hard it can be rebuild the organisation once sufficient corruption has set in. If you do away with top talent, processes and promote regular career managers to run things for you, they will do everything in their power to ensure no right people will ever rise to a position of power. This is for a simple reason that they feel a threat to their jobs.

At that point in time, there is no way a company can resurrected bottom up. Your only options are getting some great talent and then tearing apart the whole company and rebuilding it over time. This is not even possible after a while.
one of the best articles around DX philosophy I've read all year.

also, love the attention to detail – tapping "D" and "X" keys toggles the animation in the hero :)
exactly :-)
The article got one thing wrong. Life expectancy of 45 doesn't mean that people drop dead at that age. High infant mortality is one main reason for low life expectancy. That's why you have many people of old age even in the middle ages when life expectancy was abysmal. So I am not convinced that great-grand parents is such a recent thing.
Huh, anecdotal as heck, but my great-great grandfather (the only one I know about) had the line that led to me in his 50's after his first wife succumbed to Spanish Flu. I buried his youngest daughter at the foot of his grave 154 years after he was born; she lived to be 94 and so did my grandfather.

Thinking about it even more, the women on that side of my family also had no problem having kids into their 40's.
In the Alpine regions of Europe, you see this a lot - areas in the valleys that can be used for crop farming, are farms (at least if they're not built up) and the cows graze in the summer on the higher-up slopes and meadows where you mostly couldn't grow wheat at all, and even if you could you wouldn't get a combine harvester up that kind of incline to harvest it efficiently.
Yeah. In lower grades in Germany you'd raise a hand or just get up and leave, depending on the policy of your teacher. As students turn 16-18 nobody cares about where they go anymore. At that point school becomes optional and students are there because they want to, not because they have to. Controlling their bathroom breaks would be ridiculous.

At university level nobody is checking attendance anyways. You go to classes/lectures if you think you need them. There's no points awarded for the mere fact that you showed up or for anything occurring in the course of them. Here controlling bathroom breaks would be beyond farcical.
Not necessarily false, but the author jump a bit quickly to the conclusion with the data it takes for granted. It’s well known that life expectancy was far lower before due to high rate of child mortality. This means that the main cause of the life expectancy is more people reached adulthood.

All the more, great-grandmothers always had far less chance to die early by being turned into a cannon fodder or driven to suicide through toxic masculinity social pressure (though it’s not like having more chance to be raped by invaders or beaten/abused/repudiated by your own relatives was much more fun). Still to this days, on the average women have generally a higher life expectancy in most countries.
As the happy owner of a C64 Maxi, I can say I want to wait for a full-sized Atari 600 XL (or 130XE).
My point is: why you should change hashing algorithm in GIT ???
Let's elaborate:

1. Do SHA-1 put a security risk in GIT ?

2. Is that practically exploitable in any way?

In some application, for example password hashing, SSH MAC, etc, you have good reasons to change hashing algorithm when it became obsolete: because an attacker can be computationally advantaged to crack a password, to compromise the integrity of transmitted packets, etc.

But not because an hashing algorithm became obsolete for some application is obsolete for ALL possible application. Moreover, in some specific application could be DESIRABLE a fasted hashing algorithm.

So why You should change SHA-1 in GIT ?

>> "But a few more of these tricks and I can see those "garbage comments" collision happening"

I don't think so, is computationally astronomically difficult whatever tricks yo u invent.
The point here IS NOT to generate a collision adding "garbage comments", again, is to alter the behaviour of committed code in a functional way.

>> "Even without language models you could use something like a language's EBNF grammar as a token generator for source code which would probably pass any glance checks, but definitely not dedicated inspection like a code review. That is probably something that IS PRACTICAL TODAY for SHA1"

Yeah, prove it!
I think this again comes back to the idea of thinking of it as some sort of digital town square.

We don't seem to have an issue with the government requiring businesses to check ID for alcohol, tobacco, porn (in the physical world), and firearms. Movie theaters check ID for rated R movies if you appear to be under 17. In fact, a lot of online retailers of alcohol and tobacco now require ID to be verified at purchase instead of at delivery.

Facebook/Twitter/TikTok/etc are not the digital town square; the most charitable analogy for them is they they are merchants in the town square. And the rules should still apply to them.
everyone gets old. boomers didnt choose when they were born, and they can't change that. same for a lot of things like skin color.

MBAs required a lot of choices, on-going, regular choices, to get that degree. conscious choices, that cost non-trivial amounts of money. you chose to be there, and you can suck it up and take (some often deserved) flak for it.
If this is a Socratic question, well, you know the answer.

If it's in good faith, yes, certainly. Every privilege is abused sometimes. I fully expect to break the speed limit on the way to work today, because my car doesn't have a governor installed. Turn me in, I beg you.

To address what I perceive as the issue you raise, so what? If someone needs to hit the head (nausea, diarrhea, something) they need to go. If an act of elimination takes longer than what some uptight school administrator decides is necessary, so what? We as a society tolerate some small abuse so that everything else functions well.
There's a free documentary on Youtube called "The Queen of Trees" which goes over the lifecycle of an African Sycamore Fig Tree and follows the crazy amount of life that it supports over a year, including the lifecycle of the sycamore fig wasp. It's unbelievable, and deserves a watch by all who are interested in ecology.

https://youtu.be/xy86ak2fQJM?si=CVL23tMUSEa28aBr
thanks steven!

you found the easter egg :)
>Just saying "R1, public land grant university" isn't relevant.

There are 146 R1 universities in the United States. There are about 35 in the western half of the United States. There are no R1 universities in Alaska. There are 105 public R1s. R1 universities are widely considered the top tier for PhDs. In my field, I had a once in a lifetime opportunity to get hands on training with a new, otherwise inaccessible technique. I did well, and like I said, was recruited heavily. This included turning down a job at the premier institute in Germany where this technique (cryo-electron microscopy) was basically developed. My PI was prestigious and well respected in the field. His previous students went on to ultimately take director positions at places like Pfizer.

Yes, I could have taken $30k/year to go a school on the California coast, but it'd have come out to about the same once you adjust for cost of living.

>That was your problem. Not "H1Bs" or "foreign" researchers.
$16,800 is not significantly less than what other PhD programs I looked at were paying. Low 20s was pretty common.

From what I remember, Cornell was paying like $24k/yr at the time.
No, two unrelated things (one is Google Image Search, one is Gemini), and you didn't read the post. (n.b. not Gemini)

I did predict on this forum about a year ago that the DEI excesses people complained about at their own companies would become "Google" because people were assuming Google was doing what they were doing at their own companies, because their own companies thought they were following the leader with their own weird stuff.

I'll even share the real inside scoop with you, which I'm told has leaked widely at this point. Gemini was failing evaluations miserably for "picture of a smart person", and over-eager leadership decided "DAMN THE TORPEDOES, PAPA SUNDAR NEEDS US TO RUSH OUT A CRAPPY LLM DURING THE SLEEPY HOLIDAY NEWS CYCLE. CRANK UP THE PROMPT INJECTION"

(source: I worked at Google through October 2023, sourcing for inside scoop is yet another Google flunkey run over by crappy management)
> I'm pretty sure that's where the line begins

Based on what?

From my perspective, the easiest way to design such a system would be to create entries for every 'actor' in the system, feed in as much data as you can get your hands on, and then let the weights sort themselves out. So for example, if you're hanging out with ISIS members obviously your weights would be higher, but even if you're a server at Applebees you'd still be in the system somewhere.

Doing it the other way necessitates some kind of bright-line division, and any such boundary, once defined, becomes susceptible to exploitation. e.g. I won't hang out with the White Nationalist Militia because that puts me "into the system", but I can hang out with insert radical right-wing group where I can talk to 80% of the same people without being flagged. In practice, I imagine that the gradient of extremism is rather gradual and with blurred boundaries.
This is what we have attorneys and judges for. And no, obviously Thanksgiving isn't "hanging out". But going to the same weekly meeting and practicing lynching minorities? Yeah, that's a little more than just mashed potatoes and gravy, isn't it. (These contrived "whatabout" gotchas are exhausting. It is abundantly obvious who is and who is not involved with white nationalist militias.)
That is true.

But it also can be faster than people realize.

Everyone says "it takes millions of years".

When really, you can start seeing genetic differences in just 5 generations.
Good thing I wasn't teaching physics ;)

I actually deliberately varied my teaching style during office hours to account for just this. I got great feedback from the few students who actually came. But by the end, I just felt all the extra effort I was putting in to be a good teacher wasn't worth the psychic damage I took from bad students.

All this to say, being a good teacher, or trying to be a good teacher, in a university setting is extremely unrewarding. Your department chair and peers just want you to publish, and the good students just don't make up for the hoards of unappreciative and entitled students who have all the tools in the world to make your life hell.
Maybe people manage to segment off what it means to be a defence contractor in their own heads. But I figure if you produce and sell the means of killing people, you would be fine with killing people.
A tiny broker to experience trading with fake money
Tape didn't work for me. What did work were nasal dilators:

https://www.amazon.com/Rhinomed-Snoring-Solution-Reduction-C...

I don't understand why, but in my 30s, it's like my nostrils aren't big enough to get the airflow I need, especially when sleeping on my side where a pillow might compress one nostril.

Disclaimer: they are not very comfortable, but far more comfortable than a CPAP mask.
Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90
What about the wealthy assholes that think climate change is fake, pay thousands of dollars to have the catalytic converter removed from their own vehicle to deliberately increase it's exhaust emissions, eat hundreds of pounds of top-grade beef per year, are flying around seemingly constantly on their private jet, but have zero children?

Are those otherwise-horrible people comparatively cleansed of their sins solely from their decision to not have kids?

Is it not classist to hold more contempt for the poor rednecks in some flyover state with the traits you describe than the conservative millionaires and billionaires hiding among us?
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The Web Component adds the current year to a copyright notice.
And for its cows and cheese, I take it?
Good points to think about. One I consider is that traditions and family roots are often good for people to feel connected and find meaning although traditions should be questioned from time to time.

I think having family members of varying ages alive at the same time does help people feel connected, safe, and confident in having meaning and purpose. (Not that people can't have those things otherwise, it's just without that support)
We should not be punishing people for what we think they might have done.

I suspect the SEC may now be taking a deeper look for other surprising trades that might be linked to him, and if it finds anything he did not disclose in the course of reaching the current agreement, it will not go down well.
What was and still is wrong with it?
There is a Discord server for the OSSU computer science cirriculum that is pretty active. https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

It's not strictly mathematics, but obviously there are a number of mathematics courses in the cirriculum.
I felt the same way. The realistic complexity of the show feels dumbed down and is an immediate turn off and even cheap. Let’s say compared to the movie The Martian, the way they show and not tell is a great example for keeping realism engaged.
I think so too - it must have been a great learning experience for him though, but for me, the idea of "The best C64-like computer that ever existed" died pretty quickly.

He also did run into a similar problem that I ran into when I tried something like that as well: Sound Chips. Building a system around a Yamaha FM Synthesizer is perfect, but I found as well that most of the chips out there are broken, fake, or both and that no one else makes them anymore. Which makes sense because if you want a sound chip in this day, you use an AC97 or HD Audio codec and call it a day, but that goes against that spirit.

I think that the spirit on hobby electronics is really found in FPGAs these days instead of rarer and rarer DIP parts. Which is a bit sad, but I guess that's just the passage of time. I wonder if that's how some people felt in the 70s when CPUs replaced many distinct layouts, or if they rejoiced and embraced it instead.

I've given up trying to build a system on a breadboard and think that MiSTer is the modern equivalent of that.
I can't tone this better. And a request about tone - while completely forgetting about the real problem - explains exactly what I mean with engineers not being listened to.

Non technical people are always talking about themeselves.
Between my flatrate usage and companies paying for additional API quota, I'd expect them to at least be in a position where they could be profitable if they slowed down new trading. When if that wasn't the case though it just shifts the obvious answer to the expectation of future profitability. There is clearly massive demand for this tech.
> typically found in the terms of service for a platform or service provider like Vultr

> showcase user-generated content

What? Am I unaware of some service they offer? I don't want an infrastructure provider doing anything with my content. They shouldn't even have access to anything that's not publicly accessible unless someone needs one-off access to help with a support incident.

It's not "content" for a lot of customers. It's private, proprietary information. What if someone is using Vultr to host an app for a company that requires an NDA from the webdev? Are they stuck in limbo as of right now?

The Vultr account owner might not even be the owner of the data hosted in the account. The whole thing is crazy. How are there people here defending this as "normal"?
Definitely too on the nose. 402 probably sits in the same boat lol.
That's system memory, not unified memory. Unified means that all or most of it is going to be directly available to the Apple Silicon GPU.
You've successfully been dealing with a sand problem with shovels. Then the new boss tells you about these amazing forks that they've used in the past to address any and all issues and wants you to start using them too.

Quitting is not you being difficult. It's just opting out of a bad developer experience. Contrary to popular belief, you're entitled to also be happy as a professional programmer.
And then emit higher methane in the process even in areas where it could theoretically work out largely due to lower slaughter weights and longer times to raise them

>If beef consumption is not reduced and is instead satisfied by greater imports of grass-fed beef, a switch to purely grass-fed systems would likely result in higher environmental costs, including higher overall methane emissions.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad401
Zero-days exploited in the wild jumped 50% in 2023, fueled by spyware vendors
> Buckminister Fuller addresses this ... in ... "Critical Path"

Wow, OG Solarpunk?
Those victims probably don’t have as much money.
So you're saying that for a VC, where a common approach is to invest $1 million each in 100 different startups and if just two of them turn into $50 million then you break even, a fine like this is already factored into the game?

I wonder what the ROI difference is between the two gambles. 100 $1 million dollar bets returns $120 million? 20 $100000 insider trades returns $5 million - $1 million fines?

A 20% return is pretty good. But if it takes 2-3 years per startup, it's not as good. And it ties up $100 million.

A $2 million investment that pays out $4 million within a year is much more spectacular.

Edit: I am not accusing anybody of having made 20 insider trades. I am just musing about potential business models.
Thank God they added a toggle and not an on-by-default fuzzy matching where "MARCHF1" would still yield "March 1st". What a pity if the genes had to be renamed again and again, playing hide-and-seek with Excel.

I am not usually sarcastic, but can't help it, sorry. Also, I do think this is a very much a possibility.
On android there is a way for apps to initially provide a barebones package, that downloads and installs quickly, but that then fully downloaded itself afterwards. So I guess there already has been some engineering effort, just not in making sure apps are small
Take a look at the wealthier kids with stay at home moms. Zero privacy. She knows where you are and what you are doing at all times. Tracker in the phone, surveillance cameras at school and more often in the home, the school issued laptop logging every keystroke.

We had our own cash money. Parents wouldn't know specifics or "help you with budgeting". You earned it mowing lawns it was yours to spend. Getting a allowance on a credit card (in case he buys drugs!) isn't the same.

One last thing. Every night around 9 o'clock, the TV would ask parents all around the country "It's 9PM, do you know where your children are?" beacuse sometimes they would legitimately forget and not notice they haven't come home yet.
Yes, but gangs mostly hit normal people and normal people don't pay big bribes. The entertainment industry does.
The technical claims (that some optimizations could be better) appear to be correct. But the author seems to seriously lack interpersonal skills (trashes projects and people and then is surprised when he gets hostile responses), and the theory of deliberate sabotage is complete lunacy.

What interest could Apple and Microsoft have in sabotaging their own compiler performance? (Intel would at least have a theoretical motive, but their compiler is quite good). As for gcc, the past has shown that the community is perfectly capable of forking the project if they perceive it to be neglected / mistreated. So the more likely explanation is that these optimizations are not that easy to implement correctly.

If it were that easy, nothing stops the author from forking gcc and putting in the optimizations themselves.
Zynq is deeply annoying to work with, though. Unfortunately the hard ARM core bootloads the FPGA fabric, rather than the other way around (or having the option to initialize both separately). This means you have to muck with software on the target to update FPGA bitstreams.
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That little nation is not in the EU for many reasons, but higher average salaries than surrounding countries is arguably one of them. Zurich regularly features at the top of lists of the most expensive places in the world to live.
This is exactly what I've always wanted, hope it grows!
I know the M?-pro and ultra variants are multiple standard M?’s in a single package. But so the CPUs and GPUs share a die (like a single 4 p-core CPU 10 GPU core is what come in the die, and the more exotic variants are just a result of LEGO-ing out those guys and disabling some cores for market segmentation or because they had defects?)

I guess I’m wondering if they technically could throw in their gauntlet and compete with nvidia by doing something like a 4 CPU/80 GPU/256 GB chip, if they wanted to. Seems like it’d be a really appealing ML machine. (I could also see it being technically possible but Apple just deciding that’s pointlessly niche for them).
I agree with your general point, but world population is still visibly increasing on that interval.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/population-and-demograp...

Perhaps "global mean temperature in Kelvin" would be a comparable example.
It's hard to think of any public intellectual whose career was on the peak of its trajectory as his was, and at such and advanced age. Usually someone has a few ideas and they fade with time, but not him. The neoclassical assumptions had crashed after 2008 and this guy comes along with his books and upends the whole economics establishment.
Yeah, in theory, there's not a lot about an engines running direction that matters, its all the stuff that's hooked up to it.

As you start getting into more complex engines, where you have fuel injection, timed spark plugs, oil pumps, transmissions it becomes untenable, but not because a v6 can't run backwards but because you'd have to rebuild and time all the support systems.
> Surely the prettiness of the source that you actually edit is even more important than the final result?

A pretty final result can help with all sorts of future scenarios, like piping curl into grep for quickly checking if something exists. Similarly, I despise CSS preprocessing since figuring out a solution in the browser then has to be backported, hopefully with a source map to assist.
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