skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an overlap in size between the biggest arthropods and the smallest vertebrates, but neither arthropods can be as big as the bigger vertebrates, nor vertebrates can be as small as the smaller arthropods.

Some arthropods could reach greater sizes than today during times when they had less competition from vertebrates and when the air was richer in oxygen, but that has become impossible later.

Arthropods have been the first terrestrial animals and then the first flying animals. In each case there has been a long time when they had no competition from vertebrates, so they could be significantly bigger than later, when they had to regress to their smaller optimum size.

A very big arthropod would become much slower than a vertebrate of the same size, due to difficulties in respiration and circulation that would not be able to supply the muscles with enough oxygen and fuel for sustained effort and due to the need for requiring very thick nerves for an acceptable speed of propagation for the nervous signals.

Molting creates problems because reaching a great size requires a very large number of moltings. Each molting is a time when the animal is extremely vulnerable, being unable to move or defend itself. Many moltings create many opportunities for being killed by some predator, and for a bigger animal it would be more difficult to find a hiding place during molting.

Arthropleura was very long and thin, which alleviated the respiration problems, but even so it must have been a slow animal. Fortunately for it, at that time there were few terrestrial predators and they were still small. When that has changed, nothing approaching the size of Arthropleura has ever evolved again.
I wouldn’t call it a scene, but there’s a small handful of people and the occasional meet-up or event. I’m near Exeter after working in London for ~10 years.

Hi to anyone else who’s down in Devon :)

(Hit me up via my profile if you’d like to grab a coffee)
On an older iPad I get "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.whatsit.today (see the browser console for more information)." neatly centred on an otherwise blank page.
Biologist whose innovation saved lives wins $3M Breakthrough prize
Do they really talk to you about it directly? Last thing I want is to feel guilty even going out to a meal
If you take a photocopy/scan are the dots detectable in the copy? Asking for a friend.
> You can say would prefer to just pay full price for it and avoid the ads, but most people clearly would not like to when given the option.

Truth is, you pay the full price anyways, because the money earned through ads is also paid by you.

Even worse: you additionally pay the advertising industry

> Businesses still need to get their message out, so what do they do? They hire YouTubers to play talk positively about their product, they wine and dine journalists and publications for favorable coverage, which becomes easy because without ads they are hurting for revenue. If ads were banned this would get worse.

No, we wouldn't see it at all, because that's advertising.
The productivity gains come from:

* You get unstuck faster.

* When the passenger does background research/slacking stakeholders meaning that the driver doesnt have to context switch. Sometimes they even just know the answer to something you would have to spend 30 minutes researching.

* When the passenger spots something you didnt (antipattern, bug, problem) and they spot it quickly before you dug yourself a hole with it.

* When it makes it easier to take bigger decisions and bigger risks as a pair - risks/decisions most people wouldnt feel confident about taking solo.

* When those decisions are better - fewer rabbit holes are jumped into, more landmines are averted.

* When your respective coding philosophies developed over decades hit one another and you try to synthesize something that accomodates the best of both (this is next level pairing).

Mostly I find the productivity gains come from the quality of decisions being higher, which is invisible short term but overwhelming long term.

It doesnt help much if the person is very junior and needs to have everything explained but if theyre junior pairing is the best way to train and mold them into something better, which is probably what you want, right?
Of course the order matters, that’s why the file names have numbers in them.
I always set it just the opposite, close the lid and it shuts down completely.

Untying the sleep state to the lid can still be the advantage even if the full power state takes it place.
With water? Like, hose it down? It's mostly ammonium phosphate anyway and afaik it's water soluble.

Edit: yes it moves it around, and just like the cleaning person at the office does you move it into the water table or drainage system. Or do you separate your dirt when you mop a floor or wash your clothes?
I understand you think it is obvious and no docs are required, but it is a bit ambiguous ”you can move or clone to a separate server with a single click” and ”Full instance migration is in development but not yet released.”
> Lead content in the samples was wildly different, from 7 micrograms to 800, indicating that the sampling procedure itself was unreliable.

That isn't the only possible explanation for the variance. That much variance could have been in the product itself, e.g. if the suppressant was supplied by different companies or by the same company that has sourced raw materials from different mines for different batches.
Murder is illegal, but still happens. Therefore, by your logic, we should legalize murder.
Protesting against Israel's carpet bombing and mass starvation of civilians, targeted missile strikes and sniper strikes on journalists (more than any other war in history and there might not be any left by now) and so on is considered to be supporting Hamas. Because if you weren't a Hamas terrorist, you'd support everything Israel says it does to get rid of Hamas. That six year old girl and the paramedics trying to save her? All Hamas. The flour massacre? Hamas. Journalists? Hamas. I'm skeptical that you haven't seen this rhetoric constantly since Oct 7 2023.

Are you aware that people were chanting "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", because it rhymes, and they were not chanting "from the river to the sea, let's gas all the Jews again"?
That isn't actually removing anything, it's just spreading it around.

Removing dirt from the carpet and washing it down the drain is fine because ordinary "dirt" (i.e. soil) is made of non-toxic or biodegradable stuff. By contrast, washing toxic materials or heavy metals into the water table is the place you don't want them. There's a reason it's illegal to pour used motor oil down the drain.
That is how Russia sells lots of its oil, how the US got titanium supplies for the SR-71 from Soviet Union and will most definitely happen. But it is also very inefficient and will drive up costs.
Breakthrough Prize 2025: Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics
I love the 88x31 buttons to friends sites the most. From this blog post, I was able to follow ~10 links and end up on my own homepage. I think that’s beautiful.
What's crazy is that MkLinux was actually Linux-on-Mach, not just a baremetal PowerPC Linux. The work they did to port Mach to PowerPC for MkLinux was then reused in the port of NeXTSTEP Mach to PowerPC. Everything was very intertwined.
Ground News doesn't sound too good to be true.

How they're affording all these ads, though - if it's not a legit business through and through, then maybe the next possibility is that they want to be paid to hide or promote certain stories once everyone trusts them.
I’m over 40 and I think banning advertising is perfectly reasonable and should be done. I have been certain of this since at least my 20s, and since before the emergence of the current fully formed hellscape.

I have long thought advertising is the new smoking. One day we will look back and be amazed that we allowed public mental health and the wellbeing of our civilisation to be so attacked for profit.

I also manage to fairly easily live a life in which I see remarkably little advertising.

* I use a suite of ad/tracking blockers

* I don’t use apps that force ads on me

* I watch very little TV, and never watch broadcast TV

* I live in the UK which has relatively little outside advertising, and I mostly get around by walking/cycling (thus avoiding ads on public transport)

* etc…

It astounds me when I speak to friends and travel just how pervasive advertising is for some people, and particularly in some places.

The US, for example, is insane. I can see how some people used to living in such an environment may think it’s not possible or reasonable to get rid of advertising, and for sure there will be edge cases and evasion, but my experience is that it really wouldn’t be so hard to dramatically reduce the amount people are exposed to.
> Eating at a restaurant seems like a subpar experience now compared to my own table.

Also most midrange restaurants I have been to lately are just so _loud_. Not sure if it is all the hard surfaces that are so popular, or if people just have less social awareness anymore and yap away at such high volumes.

Seems wild. I’d rather just make something at home, hit up a good food truck, or go somewhere fancy.
openEMS – free and open source equivalent-circuit (EC) FDTD simulation platform [pdf]
You must be lucky. I've wasted hours or tens of hours diagnosing sleep issues on my mac. What's infuriating is that this used to "just work" and was a major selling point for MacOs. It was one of the reasons that made me abandon an experiment to switch to using a Linux laptop. Windows was even worse.

I now avoid leaving my MacBook unplugged overnight because I fear the battery draining to zero will cause it damage. This has happened a number of times when I've had some heavy Safari pages open when closing the lid. Some other process wakes the OS and now Safari stars chewing up power.

I tried systematically dealing with each cause and eliminated most of them but am still plagued by a few issues including some mDNSResponder stuff that is ungoogleable.

Nothing that the Macbook has done while "helpfully" waking from sleep has EVER provided any value to me while on multiple occasions, it has caused issue by draining the battery - which, long term, is actually damaging to the hardware. I wish I could have the old MacOS Sleep behavior back.
Super interesting seeing comments on the 2012 post from folks working on Path of Exile, particularly given that they’ve stuck to their guns with the economy design for the sequel.
> But in politics it does, which is that the right says yes and the left says no.

That’s not accurate, tax deductions for the poor is an obvious example. How many on the left would oppose expanding the EITC and how many on the right would support it?
Yeah I spent 2 hours in commute to attend Teams calls.. yay?
The fear of death is a strong motivator (or demotivator), so that could be it.

Ever since I truly realised how I feel about dying, I have had to willingly put myself to take a break and play games once in a while. It gets better!
Same here, but if this is because of Firefox mobile, then reader mode is the answer, at least it was for me.
yeah, having grown up outside the US I kept wondering why exactly there aren't local, independent restaurants in that price point. do the economics just not work out over here due to disproportionately higher rent and labour costs?
This is one of the downsides of an excessively litigious society.

Being afraid of potential risks, even if there are none, reduces transparency.
Please recommend some games
Figure 3 is really nice!
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Discussion in 2017 - URL also 404s (144 points, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14838203
Everybody is different. When I visit the office sometimes, I do it to socialize and talk about things not related to work mainly. And then I get back to do the actual work. If I need to communicate with someone, I simply ask them for their time - they can get back to me whenever they are free. This system serves me and my coworkers well but it's obvious there are many people who prefer synchronous in-person communication for most tasks.
Theoretically, this is impossible.

There is already a concept called surrogate advertising. In India, promoting alcohol products is banned, but companies advertise packaged drinking water instead. Everyone knows what it really represents, yet nothing can be done about it.
> If it is, your new license doesn't matter, they may use it. If it isn't, your new license doesn't matter, they're lready acting illegally. Is this argument wrong?

Well, yes. "It hasn't been tried in court yet" is not the same as "Precedent says this is explicitly allowed".

Add in the fact that the main AI players are negotiating commercial agreements to use publicly available content from the main publishing corporations tells you everything you need to know about how they think the lawsuits are going to turn out.

From the PoV of the main AI companies, they've already indicated that they know what the outcome is going to be.
Try booting in admin safe mode, looking in Device Manager, Show Hidden Devices, and manually uninstall the phantom old wifi device that's not really there any more.

No guarantees but that's what I would do before expecting great progress otherwise.

The theory is that Windows is lying awake at night wondering if their old familiar accomplice is going to ever be seen again or not ;)
How come the full movie is available at https://archive.org/details/true-romance-1993_202312? Did someone smuggle a pirated version into Archive, or is it legit?
It starts the timer before I can understand what it is. So annoying.
I like the direction but some things are difficult to imagine happening at all without extremely large companies.

I have wondered before about restricting a company’s diversity. Effectively giving a time limit after a company over a certain size develops a new line of business by which it must be spun off into a new company. Say 12 or 18 months.

For example, Apple would have been allowed to develop and launch Apple Music but it would have been forced to spin it off.

The rule would need to be carefully crafted, and would need regulators to be active in enforcement as it would require interpretation to be applied (similar to how anti-trust works today, perhaps).
Cool - it's nearly a subset of Jumble, which I prefer because of the secondary mechanism of solving a pun to guess backwards.
The other guy checking in here. No problems with FF on Android for me either
Dominion Voting Systems Corporation sued Fox News for defamation and then Fox News settled for nearly $800M before the case got to trial. Why do you say the legal system singled out Dominion here?
I am a bit confused by not talking about the salary right away, I have seen advice like yours and in this article about not giving the number fisrt but the opposite in other articles saying to leverage the anchoring bias by giving a high number first. That would help raising the following offers. Both approaches seem to make sense so I am not sure what to choose.
At this, the me was enlightened
> So not FOSS?

What makes it not FOSS? After all, FOSS comes with restrictions too, you know, like the GPL.

Does the restriction on using the licensed content to train models in any way deter you from using the licensed content at all?
I called it pieces of flair: https://quarters.captaintouch.com/blog/posts/2024-04-26-how-...
AFFF is being/has been phased out pretty much everywhere in the first world. There is still plenty of it around though - disposing of, and then filling with fluorine free foam can be an expensive process.

Personally, it’s about $10/litre to dispose of. Regardless of concentration. So properly rinsing out old equipment is expensive. But I know the situation differs by country, and what’s deemed “acceptable” varies too.

Powder doesn’t contain fluorinated compounds, at least to my knowledge. The role of fluorosurfactants is in increased wetting and emulsifying with hydrocarbons. Not really applicable to a dry agent.

Phos-check doesn’t contain fluorinated compounds.
I don't like these systems where configuration is built from a million separate files. They're unpleasant to work with.

The best reason to do it this way seems to be that files are the unit of package management. Perhaps we need a smarter package manager.

My nginx.conf life got better when I deleted sites-available and sites-enabled and defined my sites inline in nginx.conf.

The only thing worse is when the configuration is actually a program that generates the configuration, like in ALSA.

And the only thing worse than ALSA style is Xorg style, with a default configuration generated by C code and you can only apply changes to it without seeing it. Xorg also has this weird indirection thing where the options are like Option "Foo" "Bar" instead of Foo "Bar", but that's a nitpick in comparison.
You misunderstood me, I think. I'm not calling doges actions fake, but the reports about how much money they saved. And I call into question the pretense that the projects they defunded were all complete wastes of money, as the head of that department is known to be a habitual liar.
When given the range, overshoot the max so they can negotiate you down close to the max.
> because things like this are not naturally equal.

Really? Seems to me like no one has the singular line on reality, and everyone's perceptions are uniquely and contextually their own.

Wrong is relative: https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

But it seems certain that we're all wrong about something. The brain does not contain enough bits to accurately represent reality.
>is a valid and desirable function

No I don’t think so. I would genuinely guess that 97% of the ads I see are irrelevant garbage or, more commonly, bids by products I know to raise awareness to increase the probability of their sale. I discover the vast majority of what I care about through word of mouth and I suspect I’d be fine without ads. There are so many negative externalities that it’s actually ridiculous.
I believe EU could think of making adoption mandatory among merchants (UE-based or not) doing business with UE citizens.
I watch crowd here since 2011, and asking cowards not to downvote will probably have opposite effect :)

if you disagree with the tribe, you will be punished by the tribe. Some of the tribe can down vote you and so they will use this terrible power to silence anyone who might shake tribes life view :)
For the restaurants mentioned in the article, I fully agree. Especially because you're not losing much quality. A pizza hut pizza will be just as bad at a pizza hut as it will be 15 minutes later at home or in a park. The same goes for the mostly deep fried or microwaved food at Applebee's or a Wing Joint.

But I will still opt to eat in at nicer establishments, where I'm paying for quality and don't want to suffer any lose of it. A nice plus is they usually have a nice atmosphere and a selection of cocktails/cocktails that I wouldn't make at home.
> capitalism was never reviewed or updated according to new science
about anthropology, sociology, and economics?

If taking a human-science view, then one interesting take on
capitalism is that it isn't a thing at all. It's the absence of a
thing. It's a positive freedom. There can be no "science" of
capitalism.

It allows the direction of excess human psychological energy. It is
the absence of regulation of anti-social criminal behaviours, by
creating an allowable "grey area" between moral and wicked behaviours
- what so many business people like to call "amoral". But that same
energy is innovative, creative - the destruction of what is old and
weak is part of any finite-sized system. The need to destroy, dominate
and exploit is strong in a significant percent of the population. Any
decent study of criminology is continuous with "business".

William James, in The Moral Equivalent of War [0] suggested that we
coped with this in the past by having every few generations of males
kill each other in wars - and of course implied that it's mainly a
gendered issue. During frontier times, as the European settlers
conquered America and other lands, there was ample "space" for
exploitation as that energy was directed against "nature" (and the
indigenous folks who were considered part of "nature" as opposed to
"civilisation"). Now we've run out of space. The only target left for
that energy is each other.

Social-"ism" etc are projects to try controlling that nature by
reducing "individualism" (and insecurity-based consumerism is an
obvious first target). It's major fault is that the anti-social
criminals tend be want to be the ones doing the controlling - just
wearing the mask of civility and preaching the primacy of "the group".

If we cannot change human nature we must find a new outlet for that
energy. Space exploration as a new frontier always looked good, but in
reality it's something we are unlikely to achieve before
self-destructing the technological civilisation needed to support it.

That leaves little else but a kind of cultural revolution. The
pharmaceutically catalysed version of that in the 1960s is worth
studying to see where and why it went wrong. See Huxley.

Any realistic systematic change would need to address this "problem"
of the individual ego, creating some new focus that is the "moral
equivalent" of war.

[0] http://public-library.uk/ebooks/65/5.pdf
A cookieless, cache-friendly image proxy in Laravel
This is precisely why I try to see as close to zero advertising as possible, and also why I will always actively avoid buying something when I do see an ad for it (if I realise this).

I do not trust my in-built protections, so I’d rather not be exposed in the first place.
Focusmate is probably the most popular tool in this category. I don't like the other ones, I am more comfortable in a 1-1 video session rather than multiple people. It works really well when I want to force myself to get something done.

For the most comprehensive and effective solution, medication is still the go-to. Disregard any stigma and misguided fears around it and just get medicated.
The blob keyboard was never publicly shown (at least not until Kocienda's book in 2018) and was quickly morphed into something else internally.

So Swype probably reinvented the idea independently (as others did too I think)

Apple did patent some swipe behaviors for keyboards at the time of the first iPhone: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8059101B2/en
2.8k-3.6k for a 64gb-128gb mac studio (m3 max).
Are Small Teams the Future?
We are entering an era in which companies can be scaled by very small teams of A* players. It marks a clear shift from companies operating as 'brigades' to becoming elite units. What do you think? And how will this affect the future of venture capital?
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But you never find out that the actual range was 180-250k.
I'd hope the consumer experience ends up improving.
Makes sense. A PEG would probably be the same length as the original json format.
I think Gemma 3 is marketed for single GPU setups https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-3/
there are people who disagree, they are called communists. and yes, they can ban agriculture, no agriculture for you my friend.
Yep, it's hard. Let's deter it in the first place with imprisonment for the CEO if convicted. Ads will be amazingly informative.
I do not know of his blog, sorry. Only the book.

https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/ADAfaEPoV/
Perhaps. I read about horror stories of servers chasing leaving customers and harrassing them for not tipping or too little.

But of course GP was deliciously ironic, so take all with a grain of salt and a dash of black humor.
how sad, pointing at hypocrisy met with downvote button :)