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dj_gitmoon Cats kill a staggering number of species across the world

Cats also devour New Zealand’s indigenous ground bats.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_lesser_short-tai...

> The bat roosts are very vulnerable, as they contain more potential prey within a single area. If these roosts were found by a predator, they could experience mass mortality events; in one incident, 102 lesser short-tailed bat deaths were caused by a single house cat in central North Island.

dj_gitmoon An update on Twitch in Korea

I think protectionism is probably the reason.

According to this article, on of the proponents is SK Telecom, of “SK Terran” fame. https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-netflix-under-scru...

dj_gitmoon An update on Twitch in Korea

Why are Korean network costs so much higher? In the aughts Korea was famous for its internet infrastructure. How do other streaming services survive there?

EDIT: I’m guessing this is related https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-netflix-under-scru...

dj_gitmoon Humane AI Pin

I agree. This looks like a gadget, which means I probably won't rush to buy one, but I'm glad people are trying to push the envelope.

dj_gitmoon We made a fork of the Rust Playground

My corpo firewall is blocking because of what seems to be a TLS issue.

dj_gitmoon Ask HN: What phone model do you currently own?

iPhone 8. Most apps still work fine although it's getting a bit slow. I am going to get a 15, mostly for the better camera.

dj_gitmoon Bun v0.8

From https://oven.sh/

> The plan is to run our own servers on the edge in datacenters around the world. Oven will leverage end-to-end integration of the entire JavaScript stack (down to the hardware) to make new things possible.

So how does oven-sh the company make money? It sounds like you release Bun open source, and then sell access to your edge infrastructure to enterprises?

Is these edge servers basically a running a smarter version of NPM with a CDN? Can you say more about what this may eventually do?

Will individuals be able to use the edge servers via some free tier?

Does Bun in it's current form use this edge infrastructure already?

dj_gitmoon Disney’s Taylor Swift Era

> I had friends who went to the first show, and I think she played 45 songs — it was 3+ hours ... She’s sold out 6 straight shows here in Los Angeles

I'm surprised it is physically possible to sing for 3 hours, 6 nights in a row.

dj_gitmoon How to run a miserable code review

By CR do you mean meetings where everyone talks about the code? Or a github-style pull-request? I personally find meetings where we talk about a pull-request to be a poor use of time. I want to have time to read, reread, and interact with the code.

dj_gitmoon Italy approves 40% windfall tax on banks for 2023 as profits soar

> AT&T, Verizon and T Mobile.

These are mobile providers. For home internet with a physical connection you usually don't have a choice and it is not outlandish to consider them a "natural monopoly" like you would electricity and water.

dj_gitmoon Richard Scarry Collection: Archive.org

This morning my child insisted that he was Huckle Cat and I was Grocer Cat. I think he will appreciate this.

dj_gitmoon Spy Kids

I was just reminiscing about the days when every random website had a “games” section. We got to bring that back.

dj_gitmoon The concurrence of three climatic events

very poor taste IMO.

dj_gitmoon Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft

Even if it doesn't work, it's more noble to work on this than say, Juicero.

dj_gitmoon FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup

This is pretty mainstream. The problem isn't even necessarily that they were trying to recruit these guys. The problem is that they covered it up.

dj_gitmoon FBI agents accuse CIA of 9/11 coverup

Well it's a legal defense and IANAL. I think what they are getting at is that the US gov and these groups have a long history and they are allies more often than not.

* 1980s Afgan-Soviet War: Allies

* 1990s Balkins Wars: Allies

* late 90s attacks in Africa and Middle East: Enemies?

* Post 2001: Mortal Enemies

* Post 2011 Arab Spring: Allies in overthrowing the Syrian state.

dj_gitmoon Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech

This is perfect for a "ripped from the headlines" episode of Law and Order. They basically already did one like this https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/LawAndOrderS14E... The second act could hang on a chorus of techie bum-haters.

dj_gitmoon New make --shuffle mode

I wish this existed a few years ago when I was regularly working on large Make projects. Excellent work.

dj_gitmoon Ask HN: What’s a Platform Engineer Role?

Platform engineering can mean adapting something for a platform. For example a platform engineer may take an application and ensuring it works on Linux, Mac and Windows. That can mean coding, as well a deploying the CI/CD that ensures it is built, tested and published across platforms.

dj_gitmoon Why Not Mars

I’m not sure, but traveling to mars would be a little different if there were already human beings living there.

dj_gitmoon Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

There would be less emphasis on symbolic politics, such as this project, if we could make material progress on social inequity. It does not cost any money to change language. It would be difficult and costly to seriously reinvest in people who have been left behind.

For example, if it was politically possible guarantee schools in poor neighbourhoods were funded just as well as schools in wealthy neighbourhoods, do you people would organize around education equality, or would they organize to change language?

Also the website doesn't work in Firefox.

dj_gitmoon Tips for analyzing logs

No worries. It's a great tool and I'd be very happy to make reports and share crash logs.

dj_gitmoon Tips for analyzing logs

I love lnav and use it constantly, but it crashes a lot. I do wish there was something like lnav that was a little simpler to use, and written in a more resilient way that crashed less. I can cut lnav some slack for the crashes because identifying and parsing arbitrary log formats seems like a messy problem. Still it shouldn't crash 1/3rd of the time I use it.

dj_gitmoon Wikipedia Is a Source of Political Propaganda

I am not British and don’t know who that is. FWIW I was not editing anything related to British politics.

dj_gitmoon Wikipedia Is a Source of Political Propaganda

For an example of a biased and probably state-backed Wikipedia editor, see the example of Philip Cross. I very casually edit Wikipedia, a few times a year, and I within an hour of certain changes ran into this "individual". Cross is almost certainly a team of people, and they didn't fully remove my edits, but it was very clear that certain topics are heavily monitored and shaped.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-44495696

> Political analyst and former UK British ambassador Craig Murray described the scale of Cross’s activities:

> Philip Cross” has not had one single day off from editing Wikipedia in almost five years. “He” has edited every single day from 29 August 2013 to 14 May 2018. Including five Christmas Days. That’s 1,721 consecutive days of editing. 133,612 edits to Wikipedia have been made in the name of “Philip Cross” over 14 years. That’s over 30 edits per day, seven days a week. And I do not use that figuratively: Wikipedia edits are timed, and if you plot them, the timecard for “Philip Cross’s” Wikipedia activity is astonishing if it is one individual.’

https://www.mintpressnews.com/phillip-cross-the-mystery-wiki...

dj_gitmoon Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG

https://archive.ph/1NNZr

That looks like a Web Archive (WARC) and a PNG screen shot. I think you can make a screenshot with CasperJS. The WARC can be created by wget.

dj_gitmoon TCP Connection Repair

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of workload requires this kind of "high-availability shenanigans". Sounds fascinating.

dj_gitmoon Many scientists see fusion as the future of energy

In the third image you can see it's built with Python.

See "The tokamak hall at Culham"

dj_gitmoon Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured

Maybe HTTP/3 with QUIC would help since there are less round trips?

dj_gitmoon Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices

The US healthcare system is wildly complicated and inefficient because it is a double-bureaucracy; pubic and private. The government bureaucracy makes a bunch of rules and also provide healthcare through Medicare/Medicaid. The private bureaucracy compete with each other, and hospitals, and pharma companies, ect.

Many of the private health providers are for-profit and lobby against rule changes that would reduce complexity and save the system money. It know this may sound glib, but if you are trying to understand the US healthcare system and something seems strange, usually it's because it makes someone money and they'll fight hard to keep it that way.