skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primates first appeared around 65 million years ago.

The earliest dinosaurs arose over 200 million years ago.

Therefore, it is possible that by about 130 million years ago, the dinosaurs would have reached our level of development. They could have detected the oncoming asteroid, built space ships, and left this planet. All while mammals were barely getting started.

This extremely likely scientific theory is explored in Hibbett, MJ's "Dinosaur Planet"

http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/dinosaurplanet/nindex.php
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To me it was obvious that's what "Implementing Order-Independent Transparency" would be about. No other possible subject crossed my mind.

Out of curiosity, what did you think it would be about?
There are good written man pages.
I'll bring the portal gun.
I personally don't have a problem with this, but this really made me feel like I don't understand the community of this forum sometimes. HN every day has multiple posts which drive so many comments about how privacy is lost and everything needs full E2EE, trust no one, etc. Then there is this post which is also a breach of privacy (much more than some things complain about), and yet the reaction is "wow, this is so pure and amazing to view into these candid moments". It feels like some cognitive dissonance. Still, personally I thought this was a cool post.
> The issue is being able to let go of workers for no reason, not the notice period itself, which BTW, every EU country has, Austria is nothing special here, quite the opposite. Do you feel this imbalance of power that you can be let go at any time for any reason is a fair to the workers in a so called socialist country?

I don't think of Austria as a socialist country and I think it's fair to be able to let people go without reason, but with a notice period (and unemployment benefits and social healthcare).

In practice, it won't be much different than with the requirement of a reason anyway: If you'll want to fight it, then you'll need to go through legal ways and contest the employers decision anyway. In Austria there's a 2-week time limit to bring in a lawsuit on unlawful termination of an employment contract if you still want to work there.
What rubs you the wrong way about the video? Does it being this lighthearted make you question their engineering talent? Why are fun and skill mutually exclusive? I would like to know since I am working on a B2B project, and contemplating wacky marketing.
LLMs turn computing on it's head.

Instead of reliable results at low cost, they produce unreliable results at high cost. And they can't do math and logic.

The really scary thing about all this is the number of seemingly intelligent "leaders" who are convinced that an AI apocolypse of some sort is imminent --- from something that fails 3rd grade math.
Hi, Chip, what a neat device!

I ordered one to use secretly. My dad’s 90 and was a working musician since he was 15 or so. He’s always wanted to make recordings of his playing but gets distracted by the technology, even something relatively plug and play like Garage Band. I’m looking forward to plugging this in and just capturing his playing without distraction.
This is cool, but feel like a microscope museum should be small enough to fit on a single pane of glass that you can zoom in on.
Worms are also up there in terms of "large amounts of soil moved by tiny creatures"

https://www.natureswayresources.com/earthworms/
> Google has proposed a placeElement method that allows you to render HTML and CSS into a canvas

I've just read it. Oh, dear ... what an awful proposal!

My initial thoughts, reacting to the README at https://github.com/WICG/canvas-place-element

> There’s a strong need for better text support on Canvas. [...] This includes not only visual features but also the possibility of supporting the same level of user interaction as the rest of the web

Agreed, but ... adding HTML/CSS to a raster (or WebGL etc) image is not the way to do it. I much prefer your idea of incorporating HarfBuzz-like functionality into the canvas/text APIs - especially given that HarfBuzz is included as part of most browsers' code base.

I've played with mixing HTML/CSS with canvas in my canvas library. The results are ... interesting[1][4], but (probably) not the ideal solution. Making it easy for developers to build canvas interactions with HTML/events anywhere on the page is much more productive and useful[2].

> There is currently no guarantee that the canvas fallback content currently used for accessibility always matches the rendered content, and such fallback content can be hard to generate.

My thinking is that directly reflecting the canvas text back into the DOM is often not useful for people using screen readers. They don't need to hear every number on the chart axis when instead they could be presented with just the measure and range of the axis. If the HTML element rapidly/repeatedly updates its content, it's going to be a very unpleasant experience for the user. I've experimented with this sort of thing in [2], but need feedback from real screenreader users to understand if the solution meets their needs.

> Access to live interactive forms, links, editable content with the same quality as the web. This will help to close the app gap with Flash.

Flash is dead. Please leave its bones in the crypt.

> A limited set of CSS shaders, such as filter effects, are already available, but there is a desire to use general WebGL shaders with HTML

I only work with 2D canvas, but I can understand the desire here. A different approach might be to convince browser devs to work on improving SVG (and CSS) filters to support WebGL shaders, which can then be used by the canvas? Though Safari still doesn't support using SVG filters in the canvas so maybe convince them first?

Playing with filter effects is one of the joys I get from working on my canvas library[3] - but that's got nothing to do with text layout ... except when applying the filter to text, of course![4]

[1] - Use stacked DOM artefact corners as pivot points https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/dom-015.html

[2] - London crime charts https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/modules-001.html

[3] - A gallery of compound filter effects https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/filters-103.html

[4] - Editable header text colorizer and animation effect snippets https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/snippets-006.html
Replacement migration doesn't really have to do with the absolute numbers in the world but admitting immigrants from countries that have well above replacement rate. The world population is so large that the countries who desire increased population have a loooooong runway.

The only problem, exemplified by the Windrush Generation in the UK, is the rampant racism towards the people who are immigrating to help you.
Biden admin to support controversial UN cybercrime convention
To be able to spend multiple cycles for processing a bit. Or process multiple bits arriving at the same time. Also it might be necessary to measure signal multiple times. May be 100 GHz is too much... For example I wanted to bit-bang FM radio by measuring antenna signal, that's around 100 MHz, so I need to probe around 200-300M times per second and perform at least minimal processing, I guess.
This is also pretty heavily explored in Voyager's Distant Origin episode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Origin
Based on the percentage of young people who got Covid (very high) and were disabled (very few), this doesn’t seem significant.
Maybe I'm cynical, but after 30 years in the open-source community, I think the true ethos of open-source is self-interest, and the disregard open-source maintainers feel for their users reflects this.
Technically one of the points in the first example with the different ways of describing C E G isn’t quite right. C, while enharmonically equivalent to B#, indicates a different function, and potentially a different tonal center/tonic. This change is tough though because it ~triples the number of note values you can have I think.
I like Fisher time for long multi month games on https://online-go.com/ Basically it means that I always have one spare week to think or do something else and never run out of time. For 2 days live tournaments, one minute Fisher time means that a game could last plus thatn 5 hours (300 moves -> 300 minutes) and that would make the tournament fail to complete. With a short base time plus 30 seconds Fisher time we are back to a duration comparable to 1 hour each plus byoyomi: one turn every 3 hours.
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After working remotely for 5 years and running into a bunch of problems such as burnout, eye problems, loneliness, and no promotions, I decided to write an article on how to make remote working better. Hope it helps anyone.
Thanks, I will for sure take a look!
Fire = automation
Didn't think to, but that looks very slick!
Maybe. Or my edition is old or something. He does have a few books. “music, imagination and culture “ is also excellent
Ah yes, how silly of me. Writing two config files in fucking JSON of all things is absolutely better than writing one config file.
Under $100:

A sleep blindfold with Bluetooth headphones built in. It's helped me become a deep sleeper.
Travel to a secluded part oft he world with plenty of sunshine. Bury a time capsule containing a Rasberry pi with a long antenna and solar panel sticking out of the ground behind a big pile of shrubbery.
> And honestly, with the reactive programming approach ... a related UX for IDE should not be that hard either.

I think that's what Apple is attempting with SwiftUI previews in Xcode; given how long that took to not suck, I'd say it's probably harder than it seems.
Yes, and memory palaces work this way. People remember 20-50 items (or cards) at once by simply placing them at a familiar location. “A racoon sits near a red vase at the entry with his legs crossed and a rhino spilled half the bath on the floor”.

It’s strange that UX overlooks space so badly and uses same-{shape,color,font} elements everywhere. I guess it’s due to that Bob meme, what else.

There’s “Raskin”, but it also isn’t perfect in this regard.
The author didn’t seem to address how cephalopods would be able to develop civilization without demonstrating a similar aptitude for highly coordinated complex social behavior or the transference of ideas (complex language). These both seem necessary for development of a complex civilization as ideas can improve and spread much faster than biological information. It’s somewhat ironic, considering the opening salvo was related to an improbable language hypothesis.
The fossil record is incredibly fragmented and incomplete.

There are weird structures that we discovered and haven't yet made sense of as well.

The known unknowns in science vast outnumber the known knowns.
This website isn't a breach of privacy. The original upload process wasn't privacy preserving.

The videos are already public on YouTube.
Surely the scudo[1] memory allocator, which was implemented in Android 11 has helped here as well?

[1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/06/system-har...
Renting is not capped, unless I'm reading your comment wrong and you mean that the city's government influences it. Vienna does not have an explicit cap. Newer flats and houses are index-bound and rents are raised depending on a certain inflation threshold. Older buildings are usually cheaper and there are strict rules on how much rent can be raised. What Vienna does to make renting an apartment affordable is build social housing. Lots of it. 500.000 people in Vienna live in social housing and the Gemeindebauten are actually nice to live in, priority is given to young Viennese still living with their parents, and you can stay in your apartment even if your income increases. The city can therefore bring down rents in the market as not only the poorest can live in these apartments, but they are a valid choice for many.

There also isn't a ban on Airbnb. As someone else already commented, you can still stay at Airbnbs in Vienna. You cannot rent out apartments in social housing as Airbnbs anymore and there are areas in the city where you would have to get a special permit and other inhabitants of the building would have to agree.
I happen to be in Antarctica right now employed by the Australian program that you linked to.

> There's perks, bonuses etc on top of that.

No, the 150,000-170,000 pay range for most of us (everyone but the station leader and doctor) is inclusive of all our allowances. There are a few extra duties like deputy station leader and fire chief that get an additional allowance.

> I wonder if they pay for their own room and board or if that's one of the perks; given they have a cook I suspect they have communal food at least.

All food and accomodation (and utilities, internet, phone calls, recreational equipment and trips, cold weather survival clothing) is provided to us. I have essentially zero expenses.
You'd think after a decade of writing forms and form validation on the internets I'd get better at it, but nope, have to reinvent the wheel every time for every framework/form library because nothing is ever finished or good enough. I had hopes HTML5 would fix it but it didn't.
People have always loved to gamble.

But why are scams, rug pulls, pyramid schemes and outright Ponzis so wildly popular when relatively legitimate gambling like blackjack and roulette are available?

Why do people flock to skeezy finance when they can easily play less exploitative games where the house takes just 1% to 5%?

Maybe it's because deep down they know it's fraud, they know it will collapse, they know the people on the bottom will get wiped out, and they think they'll get out before the collapse.

On some level, the thrill is being in on the grift.

I think W. C. Fields said, "You can't cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump."
> anything with an arbitrarily complicated grammar

But that’s the thing about F#: the grammar isn’t arbitrarily complicated. It’s really quite simple, which is why mentally inserting lispy parentheses helps me reason about it.
I should make clear that corroboration from independent sources seems to be the only foolproof way of validating an image. Today, AIs will give us people with 6 fingers, unnaturally shiny cars, etc. And we can still rely of those cues. But that's not going to last long. AI will only get better, so corroboration is the only foolproof way of debunking an AI generated artifact.
Me too, I produced a lot of work with it. Lingo was a gas.
Pro-level (1D) Canons let you set the three prefix letters.
Vienna was also the primary neutral ground meeting point during the Cold War between soviet and western interests
There's much real adoption happening, especially within the Ethereum ecosystem:

https://ethereumadoption.com/

There's also many non-financial uses. Here's a non exhaustive list:

https://gist.github.com/hanniabu/32b0f933618a3229efe3fbc01cb...
OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations
"need to accept the fact that blockchains will probably never become the backbone of everything. Instead, blockchains will continue to serve as a major hub for grimy low-finance; stuff like memecoins and ponzis that can't make the jump to official venues"
OR wicked.com might have been blocked on that person's computer. They may have thought the website is down under load or something else or that their companies URL filter is stupid and keeps blocking harmless/new sites anyway.
When talking about aliens people often use the word "civilisation" to mean just "intelligence" and perhaps that's what you're doing because you're thinking about something that doesn't resemble a human civilisation. I agree with you that an alien intelligence might be very different from a human civilisation. Also, an alien intelligence might not even qualify as a form of life (it might be an artificial intelligence).
As a wise man once said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"...
> Based on my comment's negative score it would seem you're not alone.

It's because you didn't finish it with a positive.
It's also historically been very intertwined with organized crime, as it's pretty much the perfect business structure for money laundering.
Came here thinking it was containers for Seriously Small Trucks myself
It's long for HN and framed in a way that smacks of clickbait. I would have skipped right past that title, but this one works well.

The submitted title is also part of the original title anyway. A lot of publications have a less clickbaity version as a subtitle that is meant to work equally well as a title, and it's pretty common on HN submissions to see people submit that other title because it usually represents the content better. That's pretty clearly what happened here.
It's similar in my part of the US. Few people use it anymore. The days when you could reasonably assume someone pays attention to Twitter are long gone.
> Some pastoral societies have taken serious issue with this view

Where is the evidence the Mongols took issue with this view? They certainly seemed to recognise the value of cities.

To my knowledge, the practice of falsely conflating intelligence and civilisation to be offended that not every society formed a civilisation is a modern occupation.
Even a cursory look at its history would resolve these questions
At the population level that could result in millions of additional QALYs, big if true and should be trotted out more in the RTO debate. Did BBC link to study?

PS. I don’t see a link to the study; I think there should be some sort of punitive tax levied against journalists / news agencies that write about something but fail to link to source(s).
Not for emergency calls.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lucille-ball-fillings-spie...
Where did you get the idea that Austria is a socialist country? It used to be to a certain degree, but those times are long gone, except for strong unionization, the social safety net and worker protections. Austria is a deeply conservative country and has been for much of its history. Vienna is a bit of an exception, as it has actually been ruled by social democrats for ~100 years (with a violent break during the 30s and 40s).
building HTMl pages with LLVM would certainly be interesting
Wait, wait, I thought mud was great for preserving fossils? Eg that Albertan Nodosaur fossil that turned up recently. And if they're working stone, the evidence won't even need a preservation step, because it was never organic - just a mudslide or a storm.
What if the packaging is designed before the website is live and the URL shortener link is something random off the internet? There's a lot of things that can go wrong still.

I did see for a while that instead of a website, adverts would show a search bar and the search term to use. Since that's how a lot of people interact with the internet, filling in e.g. "wicked.com" into google instead of the URL bar. Which is also why Google just combined the two in Chrome.

edit for completeness: do not go to wicked.com, it's a porn site.
Blog post (6 Jun 2024):

https://spreadprivacy.com/ai-chat/

(they updated some models since)
You need to post a mirror when there's a paywall article.
Between using Bing and now OpenAI, is DuckDuckGo just a middle man for using Microsoft products? I wish they would use their capital and resources to build a novel product. It seems their main selling point is they have my payment information instead of Microsoft.
> Cypherpunk's frustration with memecoins understandable. But I don't think the cypherpunks should be complaining. Guys, what exactly did you think your zero-rules financial substrates were going to be used for?! Memecoins are the point.

I expect it to be used for saving, and it mostly is. The market cap of Bitcoin is surly a million times that of every memecoin put together.
Any writing that says all cryptocurrency is one thing is likely touching only one side of the elephant and missing out on all the other use cases and perceptions. The idea that something has to be built on top of a cryptocurrency to be useful is a very etherium sort of ideology. And by the time the etherium memes had come into play the traditional finance speculators had hijacked things off-chain to their normal markets domain and made it so nothing new could be created in the cryptocurrency space (post 2015).
You are right - it's a balance and definitely a matter of taste.

Although not-ornate doesn't necessarily mean dead-simple or bad. For instance compare the following:

> The reverberations of the trumpet stirred the knights from their deep repose, igniting a tumultuous awakening.

With a very similar sentence from Tolkein:

> At that moment, among the trees nearby, a horn rang out. It rent
the night like fire on a hill-top. Awake! Fear! Fire! Foes! Awake!

This is much less ornate, with simpler language, yet easier to parse and the image is much more vivid.
> I'm probably stating the obvious, but any human stuff is definitely flammable.

It is also very dry.

> What do they do for heat anyway?

Waste heat from the diesel gensets providing our electricity, supplemented by additional diesel burners.

> big logistic challenge away from any ports

It is, we (Davis station) have storage for about a year and a half worth of fuel, and refuel via icebreaker bunkerage once a year.

> Anyway, I'd imagine they mainly get oil/gas fires or electrical fires, for which it'd be better to use foam or whatever is best for electrical. If they use water, they'd keep the hoses dry and warm and use a de-icer like glycol.

We use dry chemical extinguishers as a first response. Most buildings have sprinklers and sensitive areas have hi-fog. We have a Hagglund (tracked vehicle) with a water tank and pump and can hook up to the ring main at hydrants around station.

Unlike McMurdo we don't have dedicated fire-fighters so we all got a week of firefighting training before departure and a third of the station is on call at any time as the emergency response team.
We use words because they have meaning and we communicate ideas through them because we've built a shared understanding of that meaning.

If we abondon meaning, we're abandoning reason.

It's worth the fight.
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