skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes it's just fascinating thinking about the evolution of why some birds mimic - for instance one could spend a lifetime every time a flock [1] Sulphur crested cockatoos that have decided to roost and feed nearby listening to them screech for hours and not hear any other variation of trying to mimic other bird species - but infrequently I and others will note a few when perhaps they've noted us, try to imitate phrases of those well meaning folks who set out bird feeding stations for them.

But I consider myself blessed that about 35 years ago when certainly there was a larger amount of birds species as well as general bird population, one year (unsure of season) I witnessed one particular nondescript brown bird about the same size as a magpie that had an amazing range of bird differing bird calls. I could recognise about half I thought at the time, and over a few days wondered what it's own call was. More often it made an incredibly raspy call, that was similar to both the (nocturnal) native possum and (nocturnal) flying fox species that inhabit the region. Since it could mimic so well, and the rasp was quite distinct to me from either possum and flying fox, I eventually assumed that the raspy call was its own. Why blessed - I witnessed something clever on the birds part, being chased out of a tree by another small flock of similar sized birds, it looped up high above, coming down imitating a whistling kite [2] with the flock scattering leaving the shady tree all for its own ... well ____ me, down the rabbit hole and it solves a 35 + personal mystery where when I tried to identify the bird and was made to feel stupid by those I asked for perhaps not being familiar with what either a possum or flying fox sound like and of course told I was mistaken in what I'd observed. Most likely what I'd seen was a spotted bowerbird [3] ... I haven't to my knowledge seen once since in all that time and I used to bush walk around the tropical scrub at least once a month up until a few years ago -- now less frequent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur-crested_cockatoo
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistling_kite
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_bowerbird

> When approached by humans or other potential threats, males at bowers and females at nests often mimic the calls of predatory birds such as the wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax), blue-winged kookaburra (Dacelo leachii), grey-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis), grey butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus), pied butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis), Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen), Australian raven (Corvus coronoides), apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea) and honeyeaters (Meliphagidae spp.) among others

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The entire reason there was a famine was due to absentee landlords who demanded absolutely everything but the bare minimum from farmers for the "right" to work on "their" land.
It's based on a Feb 10th interview as part of the América Móvil Q4 presentations and "going forward" annoumcements conference, more details emerged on the 12th.

The best you'll get, outside of the shareholder webcasts, is, say:

But the prospects of this type of collaboration with América Móvil, announced in October 2024, were put on hold. Carlos Slim, honorary president of the company, said that the alliance with Musk “is going backwards.”

“It is better to put our towers, plants and optical fiber to link them,” said the business magnate in his press conference held on February 10.

Two days later, Daniel Hajj, CEO of América Móvil, confirmed the decision in a conference call with analysts, where he announced an investment of 22 billion dollars over the next three years to expand its infrastructure. With this move, the possibility of a collaboration with SpaceX was ruled out.

Hajj clarified that América Móvil does not work with any satellite company on messaging services and that they are only evaluating the viability of the satellite for coverage in rural areas.

“We are still reviewing whether that service makes sense for us. But, for now, we do not have any ongoing negotiations with satellite companies,” he said on the call with analysts on the fourth quarter 2024 financial results.

from: https://expansion.mx/tecnologia/2025/02/28/america-movil-cor...

( and other sources, this appears balanced ).

But it's all speculative w/out details - AM may or may not actually invest $22 billion, whatever they invest may or may not go with Starlink, this may or may not be a play to get a better deal.
you could also normalize (divide all components by magnitude) both vectors and simply take the dot product?
Unfortunately curing a lot of cancer cures a lot of healthy tissue too
I am building a DevOps home lab using old devices [video]
"it’s arrogant for foreigners thinking they’re responsible for another country’s problems and should be the ones solving them, not the locals." - I agree with that but, to me that isn't an argument against providing targeted, life-saving aid to those in a terrible situation, whilst try to be mindful that the locals should be listened to and often in charge of it, and that aid can have negative effects if done badly. To give an example, I'm sure no-one in a disaster zone worries about arrogance when they see a doctor arrive from Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). But hopefully MSF once they've dealt with the initial problem, are trying to help locals train up in medical techniques that they themselves want and work in the local environment. From what I've seen, I believe they do just that.. probably not always perfectly.
"Kissing", "contact", and photos of objects like Arrokoth are too misleading.

The Earth/Moon and Pluto/Charon situations started with extremely high speed collisions (plenty of kinetic energy) between separate bodies. Those collisions were spectacular sideswipes (vs. head-on), so there was also a huge amount of rotational inertia. That's another must-have, to end up with two bodies orbiting each other.
> I mostly leave location services disabled altogether

how do you get around using navigation. that was the only reason that prevented me from turning off location permanently.
British Empire has on the UK National Curriculum since 1988 and was taught in history classes before the introduction of the National Curriculum. This is conveniently forgotten by people looking to make a point. My impression is that a certain type of Brit likes to play this "I'm one of the good ones" role where they admonish their compatriots' ignorance as a strange virtue signal. It involves collecting damning factoids about the worst aspects of of empire (bengal, irish conflicts, slavery etc) with little interest in the subject as a whole.
Obviously vandalism. He was putting stickers on random people's vehicles, damaging their paint.
That is a minor one and probably only warrants a warning or a misdemeanour. There is significantly more serious actions going on and they are becoming more frequent:

https://news.sky.com/story/tesla-charging-stations-set-on-fi...

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250303-dozen-teslas-...
There are two part to the bill. One is about preventing food products from being created using cultured animal cells.

The other part is about marketing and labeling, and it also include plant based food products and insect based food products. Similar to trademark, it limits things from being called meat.

Out of those, the article only brings a rationale for the second part. It is similar to the EU discussion around oat milk being called milk, or stuff like vegan butter, vegan cheese and so on.

On a personal note, I am sympathetic to limit labeling of alternative meat as meat. Just the other day here in Sweden, I noticed in the supermarket that next to the ground beef there was a new product with the product name "household ground beef", with a fairly reduced price. However after looking a bit closer I noticed a small fine print at the bottom, barely visible light white text over a white-yellow background, that said 70% beef, 30% plant based material. It is a very obvious attempt to mislead consumers, and given online reactions, many have been.
You had this on IRC and the good old phpBB forums back in the days too.

Definitely remembering the appearance of the "morning crew" looking for whatever recent stuff they had missed out on ;)
> template mechanism is 100% pure

Let's say 99.99%. You underestimate the resourcefulness of C++ (meta-)programmers and their ability to leverage implementations or specification bugs for "useful" purposes: https://b.atch.se/posts/non-constant-constant-expressions/
And having a single IP address, with one ISP at home isn't a SPOF?
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The “real” EST means “Eastern Standard Time”. The top commenter thought it was “European Standard Time” which could for instance be equivalent to WET (“Western European Time”). What your parent comment is suggesting is a joke to come up with other definitions which would fit EST to other time zones. E.g. MST (“Mountain Standard Time”) could be EST (“Eagle Summer Time”).
I was literally just reading about how the guy mostly responsible for MIME regrets screwing up a header that is no mostly irrelevant but still included in most emails:

"Luckily, Borenstein says, “there’s never been a need to advance the standard.” However, one could still argue that the space used to indicate the MIME version in each e-mail is unnecessarily sucking up bandwidth and storage.

“You could make the argument that it’s a total waste of space,” he says. “So that’s something like a dozen or 15 bytes, probably reproduced 100 billion times on this planet. That’s how much space it wastes. That’s why I’m embarrassed by it.”

https://www.networkworld.com/article/719139/uc-voip-the-mime...
I mean it's right? He cannot create it, and the way he went about it might not be legal either. It was very odd.

The EO renamed USDS, to DOGE, but USDS still exists, and then created an organization under USDS called DOGE. But that the DOGE organization doesn't report to USDS, but to a new USDS administrator just for DOGE.

Source: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14...
It was also mostly already conquered by the Mughals.
I guess it could either mean “the patch will remove access to those commands” or “the patch will add the ability to disable those commands”.
The Cybertruck was an attempt to pull "rednecks" and sales of the popular Ford F-150
Yes, what if instead of the computer being an Internet Communications Device (as Steve Jobs called the iPhone), it would just pretend to allow us to communicate with other humans while actually trapping us in a false reality, as if we were all in the Truman Show?

It might work, as indicated by the results in your link ("Human raters are only slightly better than random chance at distinguishing short clips of the game from clips of the simulation."), but the result would be a horrific dystopian nightmare, so why would we do this to ourselves?

Anyway, there is one aspect where the STEPS work is similar to this idea, in that it tries to build a more concise model of the system. But it does this using domain-specific languages rather than lossy blobs of model weights, so the result is (ideally) the complete opposite of what you proposed: A less blobby, more transparent and more comprehensible expression of what the system does.
> ...and pulled back on the one attack line which was working: that Republicans are "weird".

Isn't the Democrat brand supposed to be that weird is encouraged? When did they start being against weird people?
Relatedly, I remember reading that it's unrealistic to build an open-source 2D printer because of how much research and very specific manufacturing that requires. But, what if someone designs an open-source replacement motherboard for some popular commercially available printer model? How much of the "secret sauce" is in the firmware, if any? How easy would that be to replicate independently?
and of course generational poverty
Yesterday Trump was begging MAGAs to buy Teslas on Truth Social.

He called it an “illegal boycott” that Tesla’s sales are collapsing. At this point nobody’s surprised that the president has no idea about how laws work.

Myself I got a “Happy Teslaversary!” message on their app that turned out to be a survey. I was happy to give them a bit fat zero on NPS. Fraud company selling expensive features that will never work.
Yeah, these protests will lead to a reactionary downward spiral, leading to protesters storming the Capitol building trying to hang the Vice President, 4 years in the past :)
I cannot downvote. But I wish I could now.
Thus immediately killing anything good about the project. It’s barely been announced and we’re already brainstorming the shortest path to enshittification.

Things are allowed to exist for fun, most things don’t have to (or should) be concentrated on profit.
> doesn't care if humans all die

His last slide literally says “best hope for a long-term future for humanity”. That’s literally the opposite of what you’re claiming.
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1h streaming is 0.5g of carbon.
Take that by 6h per day x 365. = 1095g per year per person.

Lets assume 2 billion people stream. Thats 2.000.000.000 * 1095 = 2.190.000.000.000

Thats 2.190.000 tons of unnecessary carbondioxide. Piracy is one time, piracy is green, save the planet.
You are demonstrating exactly my point. If violence is normalized then it justifies more violence on both sides.
Susannah Clarke's glorious Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell has some footnotes that exceed the typical page count of some people's short stories. Not as many puns as Pratchett, but suffers the same UI problem on Kindle.
It is used as a distance function, so the important thing it is not that it is an angle, but that it is a similarity function.

And I think today it is preferred to call it "similarity" instead of "distance" because it is not a true distance function (15 years ago we called it "cosine distance").
What an great looking tool.

Amazingly generous that it’s open source. Let’s hope the author can keep building it, but if they need to fund their existence there is precedent - lots of folks pay for Superwhisper. People pay for quality software.

In a past tech cycle Apple might’ve hired the author, acquired the IP and lovingly stewarded the work into a bundled OS app. Not something to hope for lately. So just going to hope the app lives for years to come and keeps improving the whole way.
They are playing the long game, which is what has always been: wait until the silicon enables that for most users. The Apple Silicon track record suggests that... wait a couple of years and we'll get M3-Ultra-class capabilities in all of Apple devices. Some day the lowest bar will be above running state of the art LLMs on device.
Is this some sort of really old online training catalog they have?

I worked at a place that bought into some sort of online training and I used it one day and it began to explain what a word processor was…
OK, what is the fix ?

If a child is not meeting the requirements, they use to be kept back. But there have been times where school systems have been sued and had to make a payout, never mind legal fees.

Private Schools can just expel the student, but if the parents are very wealthy, that can make a "donation" to avoid this.

In reality the school system is in a tough bind. The honors thing is odd, but not the first time I have heard about this. I wonder if honors placement is based upon a curve and/or an average of all classes.
>>I don't know why the momentum stopped.

There was no momentum. People never started, it was more of a marketing campaign.

Almost everyday I see people throw garbage around street corners, if you ask them not to, they gang up and go after you like its their birth right to be dirty and you are being evil by keeping clean.

You need to tear down the whole shebang and rebuild it from scratch, much of this also about income levels of the ordinary Indian, and being so poor, keeping clean isn't any where in the list of priorities.
Democrats’ mistake was putting up a woman in a leadership popularity contest, even after the previous woman lost to the same

> racist, homophobic, sexist, rapist, felonic avatar of Hitler

And a black woman at that, to further reduce Democrats’ chances.

I’m basing this on the anecdotal evidence from many people who I spoke to, who have zero problem telling me a woman cannot be a leader. Including my own non white immigrant grandmother, who grew up without rights.

Many people don’t like to see people of a perceived lower socioeconomic status pass them up. It makes themselves feel inferior.
I meant F-4s, but you are right, Iran also has F-14s, and it turns out F-5s too [1].

> when were F-14s built, and when were F-35s built, and has anything changed between those times?

I'm guessing that you're trying to say that new technology is many time more complex than old technology, so it is easier to place kill switches. If, for example, the CPU in my computer has some sort of hidden fuse that one day blows, my computer is dead, and there's nothing I can do to fix it. But since the F-4s, F-5s and F-14s did not have chips, or if they did, they were much simpler, then it follows that they can't have kill switches, while the F-35 can.

There are two problems with this argument (maybe that's not the argument you are trying to make, but your question is a bit oblique, so I'll go with this interpretation).

The first problem is that the F-4s, F-5s and F-14s were extraordinarily cutting edge machines for their time. They continue to be even today. They are all supersonic, and they all exceed the top speed of F-35, two of them by a lot (Mach 2.2 vs Mach 1.6). The kill switch for such a machine is the engine itself. The turbine blades in an engine that can reach Mach 2 are some of the most advanced pieces of technology ever created. If one such blade develops a crack, it is probably as good as gone. Somehow Iran manages to maintain the jets in working condition.

The second problem is that you did not consider Israel. Israel operates F-35s. Their situation in the Middle East is so dangerous that they would not tolerate a kill switch. I am not privy to what they do, but I imagine the contract with Lockheed Martin and the US was that there should not be any kill switches, or if there are, they should be disclosed. I'm sure they did their due diligence and found whatever kill switches were placed in contravention of the contract, and they have contingency plans just in case they are activated. Germany can negotiate a similar contract, and develop similar contingency plans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Air_F...
For some time my personal moral philosophy has been:

Help people help themselves.
Then help those who can't.

More recently, I've been dabbling with:

Just listen.

(I'm not a very good disciple of my own rules. Baby steps.)

Thanks for sharing your views. I'm going to chew on it for a while.
Native Americans in the US also practised cannibalism. Evidence has been found in coprolites.
A Hong Kong firm sell its Panama port stake to BlackRock, shifting U.S. control
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Yeah. Calling it an illegal boycott is going too far. It is not even organized for the most part just a natural partisan reaction to extreme partisan behavior by the very prominent/vocal face of the company. This was 100% predictable and has actually been growing since the Twitter takeover.
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Sorry, being pedantic about spelling here: it’s “would’ve”, not “would of”.
You mean that didn't exist in India before the British? Or it is a British thing that we imported to India?
On the topic of the colonization of India, "Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India" is an illustrative book - especially if you want more context to draw conclusions about the scale of wealth taken from India.
>>I know China liberalized in the 80’s and India in the 90’s. So you could say that’s a 10 year difference.

India never really liberalized. It was more like one trick pony with affluence and progress centered around IT industry.

You can drive 30 kms from Bangalore in any direction and apart from mobile phones and two wheelers, nothing much has changed since 50+ years.
It's the only language allowed in the browser as a "first class citizen". WASM lets you use other languages now, with a performance penalty for accessing the DOM.

This creates a situation where loads of developers are forced to use it despite the deficiencies and weirdnesses which cause problems in large applications - but other developers see those as features for small simple uses of Javascript.

See also https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
I don't know, I'm asking.

Only want it for some code so it looks like it can be fully offline, but it's worth being paranoid about it.
The country’s citizens who aren’t part of the two personality cults are becoming violently opposed to the extra legally acting billionaire who is high on ketamine cutting up the 80 year old system that made him extraordinarily wealthy?

Greed brings Americans together. That’s what makes America great. Only a small market correction and no official Q1 data and swing suburbia is starting to notice. Any further erosion of wealth or actual recession and Republicans are fucked.
From 1999:

https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA?si=NfKEtIYpvZYbFDuM
I recall reading about this and the end mark was n/m, no message, or n/b, no body.

Above there was a comment suggesting to duplicate the subject in the message body. In which case I think EOM would be appropriate.

Interesting diversity for the same idea.
In many cases Earley parsers are linear though.
Mozilla hasn't tried to get users to pay for or donate to Firefox. They can't complain users don't pay for it when they haven't once asked them to.
You could also just use a different time zone each day.
TIL I am Dutch!
as the developer of ossia I must say seeing it listed as a technology by someone in this thread really makes my day :) were you at the C-LAB workshop in november?
> I would guess that the British Army et al. killed at least as many people in India as were burned alive as part of funerary rites.

Interesting. What is this based on? When it comes to killings done by the British forces in India one of the most renowned, bloody and regrettable incidents in colonial history in India was the Massacre of Amritsar where British forces lost control and fired on a crowd of protesters. This resulted in around 400 deaths (many more injured). The reason this was such an infamous event is because of how uncharacteristic it was of British rule in India.
Do they? Pay in Europe is lower, but life is a lot nicer. If you aren't chasing the numbers and you aren't host to an American strain of brainwashing that makes you think it's the only free country, life in Europe is better.
I am not so sure, but from my understanding it is that if you are a professional or a business and are offering those courses, you can opt to be subsidized. I'm not sure anyone is offering these types of courses in 2025 so I understand the budget goes to more modern courses.

The sad thing is that this goes to show no one has reviewed the technologies, and it's an incentive for fraudulent stuff. Like, create a fake course, nobody opts but your 20 friends, and you get the subsidy.
Good question! Feel this is just a vague way of referring to formal compliance requirements for software rather than technical functionality supporting large scale operations.
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The political views of flags is a instant stop for me. I wonder what radobank thinks of that.
Keep politics out of tech, and especially if you are in the dutch market, it's such a small market, that you would not want something like that to stop a contract in the future, especially seeing that you user to be a zzp'er.