skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife and a few friends were into helping feral cats. I did a few stints. Built a shelter, helped bake cookies for sale to generate funds etc.

I remember doing predator-prey models at uni. The issue is that the population will just grow until it’s at some kind of capacity. Cats are easier to capture and spay, but an issue there is that for every cat that lives longer, many thousands of native animals are going to die. But the cat is cuter and visible, so we help it.

For eg pigeons, what limits the population? You can’t capture and neuter every bird, so population restriction is environmental. If you add food, rather than 1000 birds you now have 1100 birds, etc. Ideally we’re being kind to a balanced population of birds that play some part in the local ecosystem, rather than one that we created and out-competes other birds because we give it a hand.

Not an expert. Experts, what’s the best outcome here?

Edit: emigrated to Sydney. Took 3 moggies with us at great expense but they’re now inside cats so we don’t annihilate the local wildlife and irritate all the neighbours (who are rightfully very protective of their native animals). Cats are happy. A friend’s mom looked after about 17 feral kittens. Now 17 grown cats that eat a lot of food made of presumably gentle cows. This is not well-thought out. But kittens are cute and have utterly hacked humans.
> Ruby is slow

We're talking about code that calls external commands here. If one wants performance it is already doing wrong by calling external commands. Don't think it is relevant here.

> encourages an esoteric convention over configuration style of OO code.

I can't see that. Its OO is not so different from other languages. Perhaps you are thinking about Rails (as I said in the first paragraph).
This is "the solution" on what time scale?

This all definitely sounds like a great way to meet all our energy needs without carbon emissions ... in like 30 years? maybe 20?

We haven't invented "fusion SMRs" yet, let alone commercialized and scaled them. We're still in the extremely early stages of commercializing geothermal at scale. I'm curious what "peaker industrial processes" you're thinking of that can be profitable while running only during high power supply periods?

I think if we build a bunch of batteries, and then they turn out to no longer be useful after all this other stuff scales up, that's totally fine, far worse things have happened!
> I’ve experimented with Asahi Linux on my iMac, and while it offers a generally great experience, the ARM Linux ecosystem, especially with 16K pages, doesn’t quite meet my daily needs.

I would be interested in hearing more - I was given to believe that most open source software was fine on any of the major architectures[0], and I've not heard of the 16k thing at all (is Asahi doing something nonstandard with memory pages?)

[0] Albeit with POWER somewhat weaker and SPARC mostly lost. But I thought ARM was in good shape, and MIPS has been weirdly resilient.
That was a god read, thank you.

Do you have any insight into the economics of this in general compared to other disposable solutions. Are manufacturing old school magnetic stripe tickets, or just optical scanning/barcodes a lot cheaper?

I imagine magnetic stripes have a higher failure to read rate at the turnstile causing issues, while both them and optical scanning requires the ticket to be inserted into the machine, adding complexity and moving parts.
I have a 3.1 system and it's still terrible on many movies made after 2010ish.

P.S.

Even properly mastered content will not work well in a noisy environment (e.g. a car or if you have a dozen fans going because it's summer). Here's my ffmpeg filter for such situations (including a stereo downmix, for those without a center channel):

aformat=channel_layouts=stereo, compand=0 0:1 1:-90/-900 -70/-70 -30/-9 0/-3:6:0:0:0
Beyond personal needs people want what others have, what they see in films, and what they see marketing for. The price and general availability impacts all of those things. Car companies will push what makes most economic sense and consumers will to, which helps create trends people hop on to.
It's too bad that the portable display mode doesn't support touch. That was what stopped me from getting one.
Both were basically small border skirmishes. Yes there’s trivia claims that “nukes almost flew between each state” but in reality no one was anywhere near nuking each others cities.
Agreed. At the same time startups that develop really meaningful technology struggle to get funded. Short term greed rules.
> Avoiding PKI and post-quantum security correlate very much. Even under plausibly post-quantum assumptions we only have a couple of assumptions from which we can build public key encryption.

These statements presuppose an overly expansive definition of PKI, i.e., distribution of keys for public-key encryption. A more conservative definition is PKI = availability of trustworthy publicly verifiable signatures (i.e., public-key certificates). Post-quantum signatures can be based on target collision-resistant hash functions, like XMSS.

The paper assumes pairwise private and authenticated channels. While in practice this is not necessarily a good substitute for PKI, in theory it is a strictly weaker setting.
> If you can thug your way into Tuvaluan waters, so can anyone. At that point you get into a conventional arms race with everyone else who wants to get into a race for empire in the Pacific.

Yes, that's history of mankind in a nutshell. That's what nukes put a stop to, at least between the nuclear powers themselves[0].

Ironically, auctions are a non-market solution to the same problem you mention: tragedy of the commons and arms race are fundamentally the same thing; they're solved by having an external entity that's more powerful than the players involved set the rules and enforce them. If you follow the recursion, the buck always stops at threats of violence.

Also worth remembering that for any set of rules you want everyone to follow, the rules tend to benefit the winners, and the losers have a lot of incentive to tear the whole game down.

Ultima ratio regum, and all.

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[0] - In my books, only nuclear powers are truly sovereign nations; everyone else is at their mercy. For politicians and diplomats, it's not something you bring up in a polite company, but the implied threat and order of things is always there in the background.
My back is aching just looking at it!
Perhap that wouldn't need us. "AI"s could already link through their web slop.
I fear that people will eat less corn syrup but only because they're eating less overall. I'd love to see people put the money they save into higher quality food, but history suggests otherwise.

The corn syrup based foods are cheap, tasty, and really easy to eat. It's too bad they have no nutrients besides calories.
Yes.

And for the six year old subsistence farmer in India.
The limits in pharma aren't production, they're figuring out which 10% of drugs will get through all the clinical trials.
Ah right, a product with AI that doesn't work.
Yup,Electric cars aren't quieter at all compared to movement I.C.E cars. Speeds need to be lowered to 35km/hr or lower.
The pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
50+ and spent many hours, days, weeks, months playing these as a kid.
I'm very glad to learn Andrew Braybrook has a blog.
Looking forward to slowly digesting each post.
I believe Singapore's public transit does support tapping a credit card directly at the gates now, but there's an annoying step of having to register your card in advance on an app before it actually works.

My guess is this might be because on-the-fly credit card authorizations still take too long. Waiting 3 seconds for an EMV contactless verification would seriously hold up the line at rush hour in a country where most people live by public transit.

If I were to guess, the registration is probably what enables them to pre-authorize a credit line and allow you to tap in in a fraction of a second.
The entirety of the Netherlands used to look like the US in the '60s and '70s, albeit not at Super Sized(TM) scale. Look up their urban design in 2024, it's quite pleasant and human-friendly.
Love history? Explore this interactive collection of old maps
Some text files, email, and an old ircII script from August 1997, some PGP encrypted data from '98, and an nmap-2.03.tgz from early '99. Happy days.
I have been a proponent of electric cars but the way it has panned out has made me less enthusiastic. Really it is just about showing you have a six figure salary and nothing to do with being kind to the planet.

My new phrase is 'active travel' and this means walking, cycling or using a wheelchair. The opposite of 'active travel' is car dependency.

For the car dependent person, walking is something you do after driving to the car park in the beauty spot, to get the boots out the back of the car and do 'hiking' as a leisure exercise, to not actually do anything of purpose. Cycling is the same, a bicycle is just a toy for leisure, with a piece of polystyrene having to be worn on the head.

In the world of 'active travel' the walk is to the shops or to see a friend. It is the same with cycling, rather than pointlessly ride on a 'toy', it is a trip to work or the shops, a journey of purpose.

With 'active travel' there is community. You meet people old and new on the journeys you take and you can stop and talk. Car dependent people can honk their horns and wave, but that is quite primitive communication compared to saying hello. Just today I met someone on the canal towpath that is cycling coast to coast, having met him a couple of days ago too. It was great to see him again, and that was just one interaction on my journey. I had to get somewhere so I did not stop to talk for too long, but you just don't have those sorts of interactions if trapped in a tin box, electric or otherwise. Yes there might be cup holders, air conditioning and massaging heated seats, but I prefer the community aspect of 'active travel'.

When people go car dependent they take themselves out of being part of the community.

A huge part of this is noise levels. Sometimes I use turn by turn directions on my phone, and, if I am on towpaths, the volume of 'after 200 yards, turn right' is embarrassingly loud. Yet, if I have the same volume and I am on a normal road, I make wrong turns because the noise of cars, even at a low speed on quiet roads, is too loud for me to hear the turn by turn directions.

Only if spending hours on canal towpaths and former railway tracks turned into cycle paths so you realise how absurd the noise of car dependency is.

Another phrase is 'livable neighbourhoods' and the idea is to put active travel first so there is a return to community and health. Sadly, electric cars are a folly. I don't hate on them, I have just discovered 'active travel'.

Incidentally, 'active travel' depends on health, and that means either being young or eating for nutrition. You can't walk your way out of a bad diet, or cycle out of it. There is a whole lot we need to work out and electric cars, sadly, are not it, not even for people that live in the countryside, have a dozen kids and a job a hundred miles away.
> Something that makes this even more insidious, is that trying to change roads to be safer often triggers many studies about the impact of those changes. These range from studies on traffic congestion, to safety itself, local business impact, etc.

I thought you were going to say they spend all their effort on studies to appease every special interest group instead of actually fixing things.
The puzzle is to figure out which parts are billions of years old, and which parts are 10 years old, and which parts are false reads.

In any case, astronomy has that beat hands down, as with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisie's_Galaxy ("Maisie's Galaxy (also known as CEERS J141946.36+525632.8) is a distant galaxy located at z=11.4 that existed 390 million years after the beginning of the universe.")
250lb bike? Wtf are you talking about. The heaviest e-bikes are like 50lb. Bikes are so safe that they require none of these extra steps that cars require, because cars are much more dangerous. It’s simple physics. There have been dozens of pedestrians and cyclists killed by cars in my city this year, and none by bicycles ever, to my knowledge. More evidence that cars require more strict licensing and safety measures.

Not safely interfacing on existing roads — that’s 100% true. And cyclists would love parallel infrastructure. Problem is, in the US, it’s seen as anti-car (and therefore anti-american), and so is much less common than it should be. But in the Netherlands, this is how they make biking one of the primary transport modes.
This is not how artists work at all. I don't think any school of art has done that, other than for very rough composition (where objects go in space). Most schools of art from deep history all the way to today train with copying/sketching from life (training the eye to go where you want it), while also teaching general truths about light, color, proportion and anatomy.

People who draw out of thin air usually have these trained references in mind, so when they draw a pose they're not so much simply copying from their imagination, but from facts and past experience, about knowing about anatomy, light, and proportion. You draw as you go and see what's on the page, and you can build out a world that didn't exist, but not so much from mind's eye, but somewhere in-between the page and prior experience.

None of the above training or sketching would be needed by someone with a photographic memory or an imagination that can hold that level of mass detail (they'd only need to know practical techniques their medium depends on). There have been people like that such as Austin Osman Spare, but in the main the vast development in art has to do with learning about anatomy, proportion, light, color, and technique as taught by all the great masters.

Cartoons are a good example how a style comes not so much from the imagination, but how one very naively and simply draws characters and then builds off that natural style into something refined. This comes from playing on the page, not imagining what one wants. If you copy other people's cartoons you can also learn different lessons, and that has to do with training the eye and technique.
Yes, that struck me, as well.

I think he does a lot of cribbing from Wikipedia and does not acknowledge it.

Online a few people have pointed out big holes in this story. Small ones, like the Organizer IIXP did not have a backlight: no Organizer model had a backlight, nor did the MC or the Series 3 or 3A.

No mention of the Odin or Crystal phones.

https://www.oocities.org/epoc_32/odin

No mention of the RIM lawsuit (the Canadians though they'd invented email on the move.) No mention of Charles Davies, employee #1.

https://www.theregister.com/2010/06/25/charles_davies/

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10270209...

No mention of Psion Xchange running on other 68000 OSes as well as QDOS, and on MS-DOS. Little mention of the award-winning Psion games and some of the superstar developers.
> should cater to

you bring in the word "should"... there's plenty of things that corporations shouldn't be doing that are far, far worse than not depicting some minority in an ad

Like apple, nike, etc relying on borderline slave labor for manufacturing. Or literally anything nestle is doing
The entire culture of the country is much more oriented to being a fast follower though. They do not innovate.
I certainly don't see any decrease in the EU on my side indeed, if anything it's still increasing at a relatively low rate.
I've updated this, so that the gain is the same for all waveforms now (before it was half for sine and triangle).

However, sawtooth and square are still louder because they're made of three osillators (spread based on touch surface).

Another reason for the difference between waveforms is multitouch, this is also something that sounds different for different waveforms.
It's a shame that John N. Shutt is no longer with us.

He created a very Scheme-like language called Kernel that seemed to walk the line between lexical and dynamic in a much more controlled way.

https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html
The 4:3 thing as you say. I've been wanting a tablet just for displaying sheet music. I asked some forum once but was told pretty much the same, only Apple. Why?
Maybe a receiving chute? Small, portable, and a clearer indication (cannot be confused with a yawn), plus it'll open up the variety of comestibles you can purchase just s mouthful of. No more forks, no more spoons, just a little sloped thing to slow and guide
Sarah Paine says that the Kremlin asked Washington if Washington was OK with the Kremlin's nuking China -- during or right after what you dismiss as "small border skirmishes".

According to Paine, Washington responded with a firm no. Paine didn't specify the targets the Kremlin wanted to nuke: I'm guessing Beijing's new (and consequently small) nuclear stockpile and nuclear production facilities rather than cities.
"no one wants to buy salmon riddled with tiny weird jellyfish"

A really interesting article, but I'm not sure if that statement above is really universaly true.

In Japan they'd probably make sushi out of them... 8-)
Great piece of software that I basically use for scripting/notebooking. Been writing C# so long it's my lingua franca and this tool lets me do pretty much everything (except actual shell scripting for use on e.g. build servers and deployment pipelines) in C#.
Feedbacks:

The gif is very slow to get to the interesting parts, and then speeds through them faster than I can understand what's happening, especially at the end.

It could really benefit by being a few screenshots instead.

Additionally, it'd be nice to show or clarify the intended use cases. I was expecting it to be an LLM to make querying SQLite easier, but this doesn't seem like the purpose. I'm still unclear on why one would want this or what it is appropriate for.

Cheers.
> Disingenuous as heck. I've literally never seen a modern non-commercial regular cab, standard bed F-150. Far more likely the people in question are driving massive SuperCrew cabs.

These start at about $44,000. I was responding to the parent's claim that you can have a normal sedan or a pickup for "$15,000", so consumers choose the larger car sort of by default.

In reality, they pay a lot more for pickups because they want pickups, not because of some lopsided pricing incentives.
To be fair, peer-reviewed publications are not what they used to be. For example, the conference reviewing process is not designed to validate correctness of the submissions. (Obviously wrong papers are filtered out most of the time, but this is a welcome side effect, not - apparently - their main objective.) See, for instance, recent Carlini's experience of reporting a demonstrably flawed paper to the chairs of a major conference: https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2024/yet-another-broken...
You can fit like 50 people on a bus, and maybe 10 in the equivalent space taken up by two SUVs. Seriously, how is this a question?
Yes, that's a favourite of mine, too, and was before I worked there.
The lure and convenience of modern IDEs is too much to let that happen at least in my case.

The trouble here is that even though the productivity will eventually increase, the learning curve will take too much of a tool. Yet I'm determined to give vim a solid chance soon once my current projects are over.
I'm pretty skeptical of the SMR thesis, but I think there are plenty of examples of modularization and miniaturization being economically advantageous.

For instance, I just the other day came across an article about how in the first wave of electrifying the textile industry, they replaced big centralized steam engines with big centralized motors. But then they realized that motors made it possible to mass produce small machines and put one at each station, and they turned out to be an advantage.

I think there are a number of specific reasons to be skeptical of SMRs, but I don't think the entire concept is per se flawed.
> how most people use the word

I don't know about "most". The very first meaning (1 a) in your reference is "having monetary value", which is how I have been using the word.

> Artists do not provide valuable work...their work is of (very) low value

Maybe not in your subjective judgment (and both of the definitions you cited for "valuable" are subjective), but other people's subjective judgment might differ from yours. Many people pay significant sums of money for the work of artists. Maybe that doesn't make the art "valuable" in your eyes, but it apparently does in theirs.

In any case, if you're going to talk about "society" as a whole, you can't just help yourself to your subjective judgment. The definition I just cited above of "valuable" is objective: people pay money for it. And people do pay money--in many cases significant sums, as I noted above--for art in our society, so I don't think you can say artists "do not provide valuable work" for society as a whole.

Yes, if push comes to shove, people will stop buying art before they will stop buying, say, food, clothing, and shelter. But in such a hypothetical, society is much poorer, so people are forced to focus on bare subsistence. But I don't think anyone would say such a society had a lot of valuable things in it--indeed, it's precisely the fact that such a society doesn't have a lot of valuable things in it that makes it poor. A rich society has many more valuable things in it than just what is needed for bare subsistence; that's what makes it rich. And people generally prefer a rich society to a poor one. Art is one of those valuable things that people in rich societies like to have. Not everyone, but people's tastes differ, and one of the nice things about rich societies is that it's much easier for people to satisfy their particular tastes, even if they're not common.
That's the whole purpose of mass layoffs, right? Some of it seemed unnecessary; it seemed to be something everyone did in solidarity because salaries were going up unchecked.
Have you EVER tried to bike for commuting, grocery shopping, transportation in general, on those bike lanes?

If cyclists aren't using them, they're not doing it to spite you. They're doing it because there's no network and 500m of bike lane doesn't take them somewhere useful or because they're badly designed and dangerous or very unpleasant due to heavy car traffic, pollution, etc.
Corn syrup is kind of a bogeyman in some circles because it contains a slightly higher fraction of fructose than sugar produced from beets or sugar cane. There might be a little something to that as fructose is metabolized through a different pathway than glucose and there is some correlation at the country level between consumption and diabetes rates. But with sugar it's really more the quantity that matters rather than the composition.

https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2012.736257
I stand corrected. The FAQ mentions appearing as two LUN's but only in the SAS version.

https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/migrated-assets/...
Node seems to be partial to whether one has a .mjs or not on the filename.
This comment is known to the State of California to contain text that may cause you to ignore warnings which may lead to cancer, reproductive defects, and some other shit that I can't remember because it's been almost a decade since I lived in California and weirdly I can't easily find the full text of one of these online through a quick search (emphasis: quick)
I like the already present "Repair Scanned Document", it's not always perfect but in many case cleanup automatically enough without spending a minute more.
Was the previous test Done with massive amounts of structured input which would be incredibly time-consuming for the doctor involved? I think the difference now is that we’re talking About making diagnosis with minimal extra work or time from the clinicians