skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I recall correctly, the article in question was just "we have now dumped the firmware from all known SNES co-processor chips".

The first SNES co-processor chip, the DSP-1, was based on a weird NEC DSP architecture, and if I recall correctly the part-number was figured out from markings on the chip die, and digging through NEC spec-sheets looking for things that approximately matched the chip's known capabilities. The instruction set and encoding was puzzled out by hand.

Luckily, DSP-2, DSP-3, and DSP-4 all used the same NEC DSP core, just with different firmware, so the same emulator could be used for all of them.

The ST010 and ST011 used a slightly different NEC DSP core, so they required a little more work, but after handling the DSP-1 they weren't too difficult.

The ST018 was incredibly daunting to begin with, since its firmware was much larger than all the other co-processors, and there were no identifying marks on the CPU die and no product sheets to dig up. As a last ditch effort, somebody just opened up the firmware in a hex editor and tried to figure out the instruction encoding from first principles... and eventually they said "that looks familiar", and sure enough it turned out to be the most popular CPU architecture on the planet.
To further clarify, I have been a dev for 30 years, mostly the Microsoft arena, and more recently, Linux. I also run a service business for small business clients, and eat my own dog food. In so doing, I have off and on again been an MSDN member, which included licenses (for development) of the Microsoft technology stack, which until recently included their Small Business Server product. That is how I got my start.

I have run my own Exchange Server(s) since 1995. And DNS, DHCP, etc.
I was 175 and have been trying to lose 5 pounds for 8 years. In the last 2 months Ive lost 10 pounds. I hit as high as 180

I started doing brazilian jiu jitsu about 7 hours/week. My body was sore for the first 1 month. I also did a low carb diet (moderate adherence)

Keto generally reduces my hunger so I would skip dinner because the exercise would kill my appetite. I would then not be hungry until lunch the next day. This ended up turning into intermittent fasting.

I hit 170 after about 1.5 months which was a huge milestone. The intermittent fasting was really easy (which was strange) to the point where I am only eating 0 or once every 24 hours. This last week I started losing about .4-.5 pounds/day and so I lost another 4 pounds in the last week.

I believe it was the keto which kills hunger spikes, the massive exercise in the evening which killed nighttime eating which transitioned me into fasting.

If you had asked me if a year ago if I could easily not eat for two days I would have said no way. Once your body is burning fat, then it is easy.
I understand your position, but giving someone a reward to post a review will strongly bias them in your favor. This has been very well known, for a long time (there are many examples going back decades, Amazon Vine for one.)

The thing is, reviews (in general) are usually biased towards the positive. Even more strongly so when you consider that (in the case of a coding bootcamp) you've just spent an enormous amount of time, money and energy there - nobody's going to want to trash it.

I think we'd agree that in the case where someone had a great experience with your school, they'd post a great review, and when someone had a truly terrible experience, they'd probably post a terrible review. But what about when someone has a merely "meh" experience? In that case, someone will likely (with a bit of a push towards the positive) write a simple, positive review. Maybe they thought they'd have learned faster by themselves... but there's a gift card? And my friends will see the review? Hmm... I'll just write something short and positive.

In general, I think there are a lot of things that are a careful balance, easy to tip in one way or another - politics, public opinion, social issues - and reviews are certainly one of these things.
Attenuation?
I've succeeded in improving my health through diet and exercise.

A few months back I started weight training and I've managed to build enough discipline to become someone who works out regularly. My longer-term goal is to try and exercise at least 15 minutes every day, because currently I can only manage between 4 to 6 days out of a week. The number of health benefits I've experienced already is so crazy that I feel incredibly foolish for having waited so long to start doing this.

My dietary changes have been gradual and they generally feel sustainable. At the beginning of this year I was overweight and today I'm a normal weight. I never would've imagined this of myself, but I've learned to love salads and have started eating them regularly.
At the risk of being a bit off topic, it cracked me up that "DMT Breakthrough" is listed as one of your monthly goals.

Since I'm already off topic, I've always found the binary "either I broke through or I didn't" notion to fall a bit flat. I've talked to friends who described a "breakthrough" experience that to me literally sounded like a very low strength DMT trip. And people have all these weird criteria like "oh if you saw beings it was a breakthrough".

Anyway, despite disliking the arbitrarity of the term, speaking personally out of 30-40 trips I would describe about 2 of those experiences as a breakthrough. For me the biggest recurring motif is watching a new type of space being created in my mind's eye, composed of twisting/interlocking hyperdimensional fabric of sorts. Everything is made of these fibers. On another trip, I was "tapped" on the head by a floating orb that proceeded to direct my attention to a hypercube in which it felt like I could see what felt like an infinite number of lower-order spaces (but still >= 4D if I had to put a number on it).

[/off topic rambling]

To bring it back on topic, I find your 12 daily habits really inspiring and much more "focused" and actionable (yet still flexible) than some of the more "standard" list of habits I've come across. Thanks for sharing :)
>Apple barely needs to advertise

Apple has a $2B marketing budget and has advertising everywhere, all the time.
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DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer
I was writing a series about ecoterrorist sorcerers but then I started a tough contract at work that took all my energy away

The MVP was promising tho
No one is going to remove Richard Stallman. That would be akin to removing God from Mount Sinai. Who are we to criticize the Prophet of Free Software?

His belief that children can give valid consent for sexual acts and his "skepticism" of "the claim that voluntarily [sic] pedophilia harms children" has been documented and well known for years, no one cares.

If anything, his pro-pedophilia views have probably helped normalize a general lack of concern over pedophilia and sexual abuse in programming and internet culture, and might have contributed to the acceptance of people like Epstein at MIT.

He's Richard Stallman after all... if he thinks sexual assault isn't a big deal, it's probably isn't, right?
I learned as much playing sports in highschool as I did in classes. They helped me mature greatly and were a great fit with my adolescent frustrations and anger. My mom tried to keep me out in 7th grade because she thought I'd get hurt. In 8th I had grown so she let me play. She says this was by fat the best decision she ever made, change was marked in weeks. For context had pretty heavy ADD (still do) and was pretty large and had a temper. I was able to channel and leverage those in sports and figure out how to be productive and not just an angry ass.

In college sports (D3, which is a different ballgame and likely closer to what most people would imagine as "clubs") I learned a bunch as well, about leadership, organization, time management etc. We actually did much better in class during season because we had -5 hours a week of free time due to sports.

My university's sports are all funded through a calculation they did on alumni donations. Those who played sports are most likely to give money, so they keep the sports going as it has a marked impact on donations.
I don’t know how it is in Norway, but in the States sometimes these organizations like to “get out ahead” of something for fear of being blamed later.

In the US we have an average of 7 cases of EEE (Mosquito born illness) in humans per year, but if you get it it’s often fatal. This year there was an “outbreak” in MA of 7 cases. There are 36 communities which are claimed to be at “critical” risk.

The problem with this nonsense is that they close the town fields and they don’t let the kids outside before school starts or even for recess. This apparently will continue until the first hard frost hits.

It’s tragic that a few people have died. I think it’s insane to respond by effectively canceling fall outdoor sports.

Humans are just really bad at evaluating risks of extremely low probability events.
This exists:

https://www.nextweeksplaylist.com/
I guarantee you I was hydrated. Maybe over hydrated. I went through about 12 fl oz of water an hour, maybe more (I brought my own water bottle).
Jack Ma's gift to Alibaba staff for the company's 20th anniversary
Surely it has aspirational merit?
Sure, that's an excellent point. In case you read late replies: we recognize this, and parameterize the burst energy [1] by a beaming scale factor, \Delta\Omega/4\pi. (It still drops off as the inverse square, though, as long as you're not in the near field.)

The problem is, while you can reduce the energy requirement by making the beams narrow, that increases the total number of sources by the same factor. When we say that there are between 5000-10,000 FRBs all over the sky every single day, we are referring to FRBs beamed towards us. If you apply a 10% beam, your energy requirement drops by 10x, sure, but the source count goes up by 10x.

Right now, we don't have a large enough plausible progenitor population, even at 1x, for these FRBs. It's a really fun problem.

[1] See, e.g, the Methods section in https://www.nature.com/articles/nature20797 (or https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01098)
>Centipedes and other many-legged critters can move very fast.

Can they?

Humans have legs too, but they aren't very fast at all. I can easily outrun any human on my bicycle.

The main advantage for legs is dealing with rough terrain. I can hike over/through extremely rough terrain that I would never dream of taking a bike on. But for speed, nothing beats wheels on a smooth surface. You can't have both.
My first career was welding. MIG welding to be specific. I learned shortly after MIG welding machines were first being produced back in the mid-1970s.

I made good money doing it, but the work was hit or miss and it wasn't really the welding I was getting paid for, it was knowing how to cut up vans and modify them for severely handicapped people and I'd learned how to do that by building "custom cars" with my father who was a "bodyman" by trade and went on to become a "custom car builder".

By the time I quit customizing vans for the handicapped the State of California required you be a "certified welder" to do the work I did on the vans and cars they purchased for people who were in wheelchairs so you had to pay to go to a "welding school" to get a certification.

But none of those welders I met who did that actually knew how to weld. How to lay down a bead that penetrated the steel. They all did what those I learned from called "bird shit" welds. A cold weld that laid on top of the metal and didn't penetrate all the way through, and were thus prone to fail. And none of them started those jobs for much more than $5-$7 an hour.

That's when I decided to learn how to code. It was only a few years after that when the Internet started taking off, so I learned HTML and Perl by buying books written by the likes of Steven Brenner, "Selena Sol", Lincoln Stein and Randal Schwartz and there were no college level classes that taught it. I got invited to teach some after hour classes at SMS because they didn't have any at the time.

Now, more than 20 years later companies want to hire someone with a CS degree, and really they often don't know any more about it than those guys who took those welding classes did about laying down a bead that stuck.

But in both cases those who sold the classes lobbied their State Reps to make them mandatory and raked in the cash afterwards.
> but that doesn't mean we stop tomorrow

Sure, sure. So trying to enforce it doesn't mean you'd argue for it? Sorry, that doesn't compute. It's fine to argue for it, btw. But claiming that "nobody does that"? Come on, that's nonsense.
I'd think pointing out uncomfortable truths about our world play a big role in that too
> You need a minimum of about 4-5 independent voices in order to facilitate civil public discourse.

Has this been demonstrated through mathematical/statistical models?
AirPods becoming a screenless iPhone is much different than AirPods having cellular connectivity.

A screen provides significant bandwidth to the human. Simply reducing the bandwidth to pure audio is likely insufficient but for only a few use cases.
Tel Aviv is quite secular.
> The first three pages are all sites with extremely watered-down content and little to none of the cross-referencing links that make wikipedia a good exploratory tool (and a natural fit to PageRank).

Those pages are littered with Google ads. It's no wonder that they're prioritized over relevant and information rich results like Wikipedia.
Really polished UI!
> "I hate it too, but its clearly profitable"

That's not clear to me. Google tells me there are nearly 800 university football teams in America. Alabama is obviously top-tier and is doubtlessly profitable. But how many of the other hundreds are profitable?
Valuations based on investments that have liquidation preference are meaningless. It's analogous to me offering to give you $100K to own 1% of your house, but only if am also guaranteed the first $200K out of any sale. In some sense perhaps I just valued your house at $10 million, but in my perspective I just bought in at half-off the actual market value. I can still lose money if the house sells for less than $100K, but I could still be perfectly happy with my investment even if it sold for a 1/50 of the "valuation".
Yes, the segment in which he comments about his experience in Africa during the ethnic conflicts is VERY impactful. This movie is a must see for any human being.
> I'm struggling to think of an equivalently bad play in poker

I think you have to include the element of changing strategy. Something like you open with possibility of strong pair(s) bu t don't flop them, now you are going for an unlikely straight against betting that suggests you shouldn't. The EV on pot doesn't make sense but you stay in?
California's state administration is considered a failure ? by whom ? By constituents who continue to send supermajorities of the same party ?
I saw that Lockheed was not selected by the Army for their next round.

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2017/12/14/four-companies-a...

I guess I don't see delivering prototypes as selling well, but arguing opinions is boring, so whatever.
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The difference in the grandmaster situation is that their extreme focus on chess completely displaces their hunger, hunger which needs real estate in your attention to be effective, just like any other felt sensation. And this focus lasts for the majority of the tournament, months.
This is different to most people. When you have an immersive job you can get in the zone for many hours of the day, but you do stop working, and your hunger returns.

The closest thing I ever experienced to what they are describing was when I played the game Civilization for the first time in ‘93. I was so obsessed I played it for three days straight, night and day, before I took my first nap. The fluid drained from body, I looked like a skeleton with black holes for eyes. I also did not eat, I remember literally running to the store to get a single can of coke otherwise I just drank water from the bathroom faucet because it was next to my room. Within five days I had easily lost a couple of pounds of bodyfat.

Having played chess competitively throughout school, it’s no surprise chess Grandmasters have this total level of focus in tournaments.
> It's that in 11 years we likely are doomed to watch our own extinction.

This is precisely why I find Greta and her crowd insufferable. I don't think even the IPCC suggests we're going to watch our extinction. The report says we'll see somewhere around 5% global GDP reduction in 2100, in a world that's vastly wealthier than today. That's anything but extinction.
Brilliant strategy, making a young autistic woman the face of the climate apocalypse movement.

Now any disagreement with the movement can be dismissed with allegations of discrimination instead of discussing the issue.
You said the motivation was "profit" which means that the owners of the organization make money that they can go spend on themselves as they please. This literally does not happen for the vast majority of universities.

What you are describing is more like "growth." And maybe the kinds of growth universities are investing in isn't great right now. That's a fine conversation to have.

This isn't just a semantic distinction. The profit motive and the kind of empire building growth motive are two pretty different things. You can see this because there ARE for-profit universities in the US and they act in dramatically different ways than the non-profits.
Easy. She is the perfect figure (young, a girl, autistic) with the perfect message (science based climate disaster destroying life for her generation) to induce a sense of guilt in typically middle aged men. You know – the kind that goes online and write about how environmentalists are not consequential enough and how they are really just hypocrites and not true environmentalists.

The mechanism is simple: What Greta does, feels to them like she is holding a mirror in front of their faces. They hate what they see. They cannot bring what they see together with their self-image. So instead of going to the bottom of their own feelings and exploring why that girl enrages them so much, they rationalize it: "she isn't a real environmentalist, because she didn't do X or Y propperly" etc.

The world however still thinks she is on the right side of history and then they realize that just rationalizing it to themselves won't cut it. So they open the browser, log in, ...

To their defense: most probably don't even realize it works that way. Many men are quite bad at understanding their own feelings because they never learned how to do it. But sadly lying to themselves will likely make it worse..
> You can safely pay $5.99

Minor correction: It's $4.99 per month
In almost all cases I recommend various free to inexpensive online options for people interested in learning to code. I taught myself web dev a few years ago and spent in total less than $200 on books, udemy/online courses and am now 5 years into my career.

I can see that a mentored, fine tuned curriculum would be beneficial to someone not sure where to start but it feels crazy to charge someone more than a couple grand for what is essentially freely available information. I think this type of school is preying on people's conditioning to think a traditional college-like environment is more serious or worth it somehow.
I love stuff like this. It’s awesome to think about all the things that were different than we imagine.
Is interesting that cats don't have it. Points to something that is not present in the outdoors and environment. Cat food have also a lot of salmon and other fish.
> Because people will horde their inventions to themselves and reduce the rate of progression of civilisation?

I bet someone else who isn't silly like that will rediscover likely within twenty years of the hypothetical hoarder.

Also, you can hoard it under the current regime anyway:

> WD-40's formula is a trade secret, and has not changed over the years, according to historian Iris Engstrand. To avoid disclosing its composition, the product was not patented in 1953, and the window of opportunity for patenting it has long since closed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD-40
I'm not quite a vegetarian, but I understand where OP is coming from. There's a very significant difference between animals behaving like animals and humans treating animals like elements of a factory production line, to be mechanically separated from their lives and "processed."

We have no control over what animals do, and part of being a good steward of nature is allowing animals to be animals. But as a human, it's difficult for me to accept that the intensive factory farming of chickens, cows, and pigs is necessary for my welfare.

And since I'm aware of other protein sources than meat, I feel that I have a duty to use those protein sources instead of meat. And if I can't use plant proteins, then I also have a duty to minimize the amount of animal protein that I consume, and to ensure that it doesn't end the life of the animal where I can.

This doesn't preclude me from hunting or from eating hunted meat if I need to, but hunting is very different from factory farming. My prey has a fighting chance. Rabbits, deer, bears, elk, mountain lions, etc. all have evolved in an environment where they may be hunted. They all have tools at their disposal to counteract my cunning. And to hunt a wild animal also means that I have to butcher the animal myself, meaning that I come face-to-face with the fact that I've ended an animal's life to stay alive.
As humans, we have the means (in most, though not all, parts of the world) to thrive on a vegan diet, and ethical frameworks to understand the implications of our diet. Those traits distinguish us from almost certainly every other predator on the planet. We therefore cannot project our ethical obligations onto them.
Good point, I didn't think this comment through as well as I should have.
Thank god you are not running any companies. Uber and Lyft's 25% of their revenues come from California. They will not exist without California.
Neither can be scaled to power the entire human civilization. Not even close, in fact. Seriously, do some research.
There were 2,062 operational satellites as of March 31; Satellite Database
Wait.. Where does the weight go? Apart from water - sweated and breathed out, which you say isn't all that's happening.
> Who?

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/445898-fox-newss-greg-gut...
At least they're decently well indicated as ads. Go to bing.com and search for some tech company. It does the same, but the ads are subtly labeled, making them seem like natural search results.
Also, NFL career average is something like 3 years. They take a beating and I don't think the NFL would take people who had taken a beating for a few years after college. In fact lately there has been a trend of top talent sitting out their college bowl game just to avoid any risk of injury.
It's important to also recognize that I often see sentiments on HN (not that this is a majority, but often enough that it isn't ultra-downvoted) that journalism as an industry is dying, as it should be because journalism is fundamentally flawed. That is to say, yes, people do believe journalism should die.
Why is 0.05 so common to begin with. Its an arbitrary value ain't it?
This is very interesting; thanks for sharing your experiments!
The author is Norman Maclean, who wrote _A River Runs Through It_.
There is currently a post on the front page of HN about Michelson, for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20962592
This absolutely has nothing to do with Tel Aviv having a high concentration of vegans.