skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This alternative scenario of extinction is even more relevant in areas where climate was the only plausible driver of megafauna extinctions—in areas where there was an absence of temporal human-megafauna coexistence such as in Tasmania

Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna extinction patterns

Nature Communications, 22 November 2019 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13277-0

Discussed by authors: https://theconversation.com/did-people-or-climate-kill-off-t...

A better paper than your find that directly addresses the gap|overlap in Tasmanian megafaune|human record is:

Man and megafauna in Tasmania: closing the gap Quaternary Science Reviews (Jan 2012)

https://sci-hub.ru/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.013

Some megafauna were still present when humans arrived (at least two taxa) .. but most had already disappeared from the record and (IIRC) no megafauna bones found in human sites (indicating Mmmm, lunch).
Sort of related, friends and I were talking today and the subject of AAA (American Automobile Association) came up.

I recalled I had joined back in 1990, in preparation for my spontaneous trip to Canada. I had just left my job and had two weeks before my new one. Some how I got it in my head to drive from So Cal up the coast to Canada, across to Calgary, bounce off of Yellowstone and home via Utah.

I joined AAA and got not just a bunch of maps and guides that they’re famous for, but I also got a “TripTic”.

The TripTic was this custom route plan in a spiral bound book. The book is, roughly, 7-8 inches long and 3ish inches wide. And the way it works was you opened it up, starting on the first page, and followed it by going “up”. The driving direction was always up, but not necessarily north. Up was forward. Each page was a chunk of interstate highway and the surrounding area mapped out.

If you took a larger map and placed rectangles end to end along your route, and orienting each map section appropriately, then bound them all in a flip book, that was a TripTic.

My book was probably 20 pages long. My route was 4500 miles. I imagine they made mini maps for all of the major highways and interstates, going in both directions, for the US and Canada. Honestly you could probably do it with as few as 100 map segments, if that many. They had a lot of cubbies in the cabinet, not sure if there were 100 of them.

I only used it once, but it was a great to navigation for my trip, and thought it was a really clever system.
As another comment mentioned, this website does look like Time Cube at first sight.

However, the explanations of the second law of thermodynamics on the second page are quite decent and written in a humorous way. Of course it is not fully accurate because it does not use any math but I think it does a good enough job of explaining it to the lay person.

The explanations about human life at the third page are analogous at best. The situations that the author describes are similar to the workings of the second law but not a first principles outcome of it.
No doubt most valuable elements do end up in landfill and most will ultimately be recovered, but we still need to have a good handle of what's actually lost or doesn't make it there, and or how much leaches out before recovery. (Here we don't seem to have decent figures, if anyone knows of any authoritative references please post them.)

Hopefully, as you suggest, we will eventually be energy rich and can afford mass separation techniques to recover these elements. Nevertheless, unless some very cleaver as yet uninvented techniques are used then the amount of energy involved would likely be enormous (but I'm almost certain such techniques will be available in the foreseeable future).

Incidentally, for the same reason, I'm not overly worried about the necessity for having inordinately long-term storage for nuclear waste (hundreds of thousands of years), as in an energy-rich world there'd be enough energy to enable the use of transmutation techniques (along with fast breeders, etc.) to ensure these dangerous byproducts are 'burnt' to harmless materials. Basically, whilst nuclear waste is a big problem it's a comparatively short-term one.

That said, we're doing a pretty poor job of repurifying recycled materials now and the reasons are multifold. I'll give an example I've come across but there are hundreds more. Batteries of any kind should never be thrown away because of the valuable materials they contain. To my knowledge, with the exception of lead-acid batteries, an unknown amount of used battery material is recycled annually, but the effectiveness of what is actually recycled is limited due (it seems†) to the difficulty of repurifying said materials.

For example, recycled reagents and other components, depolarizers such as manganese dioxide, are (often?) insufficiently pure to ensure a battery's long-term storage life. Instead of say an alkaline cell having a nominal storage life of about six years, impure components contain unwanted ionic/conductive materials that lead to a much increased self-discharge rate that shortens shelf life (I've seen such cells become discharged in only about one third the time of those with well-purified materials).

No doubt higher levels of purification would be achieved if more energy were inputted into re-refining these materials. That said, this re-refining problem isn't just limited to batteries but is intrinsic to many recycling processes. Probably the best known and most problematic is that of separating used plastics together with their cracking/depolymerization. Again, it's almost certain these problems would be eliminated if enough cheap energy were available.

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† Obviously, repurifying recycled materials is different to their original refining from ores etc. as repurifying processes would be required to remove unwanted materials that were never present in the original refining process. I am unclear about what this involves and or the extent of its deployment as there seems precious little information about it in the public domain.
And even then it is bullshit. US cops have dogshit training and the majority of them are cowards. Sure they got more guns than cops in other countries, but the population has even more.
I imagine the CIA is analyzing the climate, although they don't publish their analysis, since their role is just to advise Congress and white house?

I really believe that climate change can threaten global stability and security, and thus the military should be interested in learning about it to anticipate.

I guess they already know, but maybe there is just no gain in letting the public know about those dangers.

India and Brazil are two countries that will probably see a lot of nasty heatwaves and climate refugees.

Soon or later, the climate will have real economic and geopolitical effect, and that's when things turn from worrying to interesting.
It starts to get complicated with more than a single author. I'm not associated with L402, just mentioning properties of the system.
More South Koreans want Seoul to have its own nuclear weapons
Why an SD card? It may be more bulky to mail a flash drive, but at least it wouldn't get lost inside an envelope...
The "kids tool" comment is so weird.

I could do pretty much whatever I wanted in (DOS) user space with Pascal.

I can do pretty much whatever I want in a modern OS user space with whatever lang I prefer. "Oh but you might need C bindings" because the OS was build that way! (And with Windows/COM you might prefer a C++ bindings - just saying ;) )

> If C was a toolbox it is a limited number of essential tools

C is an old toolbox where 1/3 of them is a rusty finger-remover, 1/3 is a clunky barely do nothing metal crap and 1/3 of them kinda works

I'm all for a simplified set of essential tools, but not one where it's sharper on the user handle than it is on the business end

bUt C iS jUsT hIgH lEvEl aSsEmBlY no it is not
there is an entire category of comparisons that take specifically dissimilar things and highlight their similarities

and Peter’s complaints were recognized for their similarity by Congressional hearings in that age, and the White House eventually
Can't say for this camera specifically, but expensive lenses and larger pixel sizes usually do what they are worth in cash. There's no viable way around paying more, like trying to milk phone cameras with AI enhancements. At least for the glass.
It's not just the contents; it's the tag itself. The only thing that is special to my knowledge is that the HTML 5 parser understands it and applies the correct XML namespace.

...

Ah, but thinking about it while I type these lines tells me where I'm wrong: It is an HTML element that's by default rendered as a block element, takes part in all the typical layout stuff. I can apply border, border-radius, background, etc. to it and it behaves like a div. Just that I can also put graphics inside.
Beyond Euclid: An Illustrated Guide to Modern Machine Learning
Wired basically underwent the same kind of Channel Drift as the Discovery Channel. Eventually all niche media will simply become mass media as they attempt to appeal to the biggest possible audience.
Don't think about it too much. There are so many choices, that you'll end up trying to learn them all but master none. Start looking at the job descriptions for jobs you would like to get. Look at what they require for the jobs they post. Then look at the list of the most popular languages and decide by considering both the job descriptions and language popularity. Java and Python have been popular for a long time. You might want to start with those. The great advantage of learning those is that you'll get plenty of support online due to their popularity. Your initial goal is to understand how to put a program together that solves a problem. That's your most important goal at the start. I can tell you that no matter which you pick, you'll eventually wish you'd pick another. But the reality is that you can only pick one. Be a master at what you pick and you will get a job. So pick one and start.

Oh, pick a project too. Anything as long as it's challenging and it interests you.
I have to presume that the trafficking victims did not feel like calling the police was a viable option. Does anyone know why? What happens if someone calls 911 and says “I’m at a hotel and this guy is beating me?”
I know so little about this world, my imagination can’t even fill in the blanks.
> Unless this is a lone, unstable individual, it is more evidence that our system needs more balance.

When is it ever not? A lot easier to believe than a bunch of handwavey "across the aisle" garbage
Can you give a specific example?

The white house apologized and acknowledged Tuskegee, I did not read that they eventually recognized it was comparable to the holocaust. Did Clinton affirm that? Did he give a specific example how it was similar?
It would help to know the FEN. I can see the picture, that there seems to be more black pieces on the board than white, but I don't know what pieces or where on the board they are; the picture does not make that clear.
the economy is a mode of organizing aggregated needs and desires, but it has never been total, and it is only capable of accounting for needs and desires that can be expressed financially.

the past couple centuries have seen a great advancement in application of the economic mode to greater areas of life. there are both clear and nominal benefits and downsides. its advance doesn't necessarily mean it's satisfying equivalent needs and desires, nor that it is more effective or objectively preferable.

it's well-documented that often it has advanced by threats, dispossession, and violence. and it's certainly possible that could continue, or that it might lose ground on some externality, or sustain hegemony by those same tools.
"Line must go up" is a very, very tired trope around here (and many other places). But it often feels like the primary thing which drives soooo much destruction of value.
In 2016, Imgur raised $40 million in funding from investors, valuing the company at around $500 million. In 2021, Imgur was acquired by the media company, MediaLab, for an undisclosed amount, reportedly around $200-300 million. Alan Schaaf, the CEO and founder, reportedly owned around 40% of the company at the time of the acquisition, which would have netted him a significant amount, estimated to be around $80-120 million.

why does everybody here think that imgur is a failure in light of OP's stated goals? His stated goals are the same as imgur's stated goals. The imgur outcome is the stated goal of most of the people here.

Think a little bit more inside the box.
They said it was a bullet 20 mins after it happened, no idea what you're on about
Thanks for the great support <3
Do your blog posts have individual URLs? I would like to share a specific post, rather than the cumulative log.
> she kitted out her home PC with a terabyte of memory and an Nvidia processor so she could play Counter-Strike and World of Warcraft.

I wonder if anyone bothered to proofread the article.
A lot of things were better in the mid 20th century. Wealth inequality for example
"If you went to Costco, he went on to say, the cost was $97, so the plan didn’t recommend patients go there. If a patient went to Walgreens, which the plan did recommend, it was $9000. And if a patient chose home delivery via the PBMs own mail order pharmacy, it was $19,200."

They must be joking right?
It's a very bizarre site, with the ads and rambling text, but I've always found that it has very good info on things like polar vortex formation/breakdown and summer heatwaves, and pretty accurate longer term (up to a few months ahead, say) forecasts. You never feel like linking any of the articles to anyone though, because it feels like a spam blog. Very strange.
Could the way we built our world be the reason that the climate we built it for no longer exists?

I did not read the article so I may never find out
I know it's subjective style-wise, but I feel exactly the same.
> the social benefit is huge

It will be interesting to see if this is the case in the long run, assuming "huge" has a positive connotation in your post, of course.

If AGI comes to pass and it winds up being a net negative for humanity, then the ethics of any practice which involves freely distributing information that can be endlessly copied for very little cost must be reevaluated.
My comment was responding specifically to the parent comment about the impact hypothesis, not the overkill hypothesis in TFA. The title is a bit sensationalist, but I get the impulse for gimmicky titles.
Internal Disney Communications Leaked Online After Hack
What you are saying is not what they are saying at all.

Many of the Nazi medical experiments talked about were in the same ballpark of what was disclosed here. They occurred along with the euthanasia and genocide but weren't the euthanasia and genocide itself, they were different.

As for your last sentence, of course not - it would fall under a completely different type of law that war crimes... I don't know if they were charged with anything but they should have been charged with crimes under US criminal law.
I love it! These are the awesome kind of projects I like seeing. No hype about "what could be" but a case of "Here it is! Go for it!"
I think article lack of research, and shows EU as less hardware friendly that is in reality.

1. You can do self-certification for CE.

2. You can find many companies that will do assembly in EU, so you can controll quality.

3. If you are selling kit as DIY, you don't need any certification at all (look at first years of Prusa)
I was looking at the pictures of their thumbs trying to figure out which thing was being struck against which other thing.
Not to mention modern mobility
I don't know about that, I worked on the React team full-time for several years and just got to 86 before getting tired and stopping. I imagine most of my former colleagues also know more than 1.
Copper had the advantage of already being directed 100% at the war effort.
I vouched for this comment, because I feel it's imperative that someone tells you why you are wrong.

That blog post you reference isn't a "source", but a "helpful link" to a post about a past event that will, hopefully, help people better understand the stratospheric warming event that is happening now.
The full extent of Nazi medical experiments was not limited to mass murder and included things akin to what was done with Tuskegee so your question seems either deliberately in bad faith or something you could answer yourself with a bare minimum of research

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation

It’s worth pointing out that the U.S. also protected and employed Nazi medical researchers as part of Operation Paperclip.
> Everything is political in some way.

No. If someone posts a link to code or an article that's strictly about code, nobody actually considers that political

For example, lobster.rs actually censors political content. People only try this "everything is political" argument when they want to proselytize
>”I really believe that climate change can threaten global stability and security, and thus the military should be interested in learning about it to anticipate.”

Both the CIA and DoD have published a great deal of information about the potential military and related geopolitical consequences of climate change, over at least the past decade.
That's specious reasoning at best, and for multiple reasons. The bulk of software development platforms standardized and uniformly built their services on FLOSS, and version control ends up being a tiny version of the whole offering. In fact, the bulk of their business model is based on providing version control services as a loss leader, as none charge for it. They charge for ticketing, CICD, package hosting, Docker image registries, etc.

Also, some of them offerer Mercurial as well. Somehow Mercurial still failed to gain traction.
I guess that works because Linux power management is almost as bad as Windows so not a lot is lost. I'll never understand how people pick mobile devices with such short battery life. I further don't understand how literally no company other than Apple is able to deliver decent battery life. Even Microsoft's first party offerings which aren't infected by OEM bullshit are garbage in this regard.
Seems like an edge case
In the DOM, comment nodes are not elements, they're their own type of node altogether. Their .nodeName is `#comment`, for what it's worth.
I've sent you my resume
In particular, there is also another library for task scheduling named go-quartz: https://github.com/reugn/go-quartz.

Naming is indeed hard.
> I explicitly wrote "[same] limits as what these free databases offer". So there is no additional entitlement by taking payment.

I honestly believe that's what _you_ would expect for your $2/month.

And if everybody in the world was like you, it'd make sense for them to do it.

But...

You've met _people_, right? Enough of them are way too insane and over entitled, and ruin it for everybody else.

And I think you misunderstand the credit card fraud risk here. It's not "abusive users" trying to buy your service at $5 or $2. It's _because_ the monthly price is so low that you become a fraud target for proper who were never interested un becoming a user. Criminals intentionally find and use low value purchase options with real time card processing, so they can "test" card details they have are valid right before making a big purchase if the small one succeeds. I've been on both ends of that, I've seen purchase of a dollar or two on one of my cards right before an attempt to buy a thousand bucks worth of electronics (which my Visa issuer blocked). I've also been involved in a website that mostly dealt in 50+ dollar purchases that without thinking/knowing added a $1.95 novelty sticker pack - and a few weeks later had several hundred purchases using stolen credit cards overnight. It happens.
Do you do all the design/UI/UX yourself?
opdualag? I know someone who took it with lasting side effects.
What a big experiment giving money to parents reveals
Something I think should be said more often: the root cause of decades-long ongoing camera data exfil mess must have to do with 802.11 Wi-Fi standard.

Technically it could be just as painless and usable like Apple AirDrop; it might not be readily implemented in products, but technically it's shown possible. The reason why it remains massive pain has to be in the Wi-Fi standard that can't be kicked from client or established in split seconds.
So, I'm kind of confused about what you expect to happen.

You've got a pile of images with no descriptive text. What kind of query do you think would make a search engine include one of those pages in the result pages? They need something to work with.

At most it sounds like it could be people using your site name in the query. But that only happens when you have users, you can't bootstrap your popularity like that.

And if there is no set of reasonable queries where your pages are likely results, what is the point of of indexing them?
Right, see my reply to ars.
I’ve used <base> a lot, but it breaks so many things. It was one of my first couple guesses
I didn't say walking the earth, I said that I've encountered. Can you please not reword what I've written and then dismiss it. It's not showing a good faith effort.

I find it hard to believe you're more of an authority over who've I've encounter than I am.

It's a really good example of the point I'm trying to make. Which is folks who dismiss Marx tend to conjure a fantasy and then dismiss that fantasy and then claim victory. Just take what I write at face value. I'm not trying to trick you or anything.
I used to be excited about running models locally (LLM, stable diffusion etc) on my Mac, PC, etc. But now I have resigned to the fact that most useful AI compute will mostly be in the cloud. Sure, I can run some slow Llama3 models on my home network, but why bother when it is so cheap or free to run it on a cloud service? I know Apple is pushing local AI models; however, I have serious reservations about the impact on battery performance.
I keep telling people marijuana is legal and they don't believe me. I'm so tired of explaining it to people.
I've never understood why people have such a hard-on for the digits of pi.

I've met more than one pi braggart who expected me to marvel at their ability to recite digits, but couldn't answer 'what is pi though? Don't use numbers, use words'. And they just didn't know.

It's one of those weird domains we're people can possess deep knowledge and no understanding.
Opposite: 250k households in the US do not have running water.
> Flashing the SD card correctly is pretty challenging even for me. I can’t imagine a customer figuring it out. So I will flash it for them!

From the post he links in the first sentence, about "how [he] decided to [...] mail SD cards to [his] customers"
I love that the Linux solution to a problem is just have this additional hardware to overcome it. I've run Linux as a desktop OS for years, so I'm not at all unfamiliar with all the hoops you have to jump through. Hoops that die-hard greybeards will deny exist because their personality is tied up in an operating system of all things. Surely 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop!
I designed mockups in Figma, and then realized them into code. At first, there weren't any fancy animations, so I enlisted the help of my friend Rens (info linked in the footer) to help bring it to life!
If you are going to apply for a programming job, I suggest you start by learning JavaScript. If you want to work on some personal projects, you can mention that. However, Python and JavaScript are always the top choices.
If you are going the "open standard" route, SYCL is much more modern than OpenCL and also nicer to work with.