skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There will never be a true way to "pirate a backend"

The original way to pirate is to bring your vessel in close proximity and then jump aboard the target vessel and have your way with it.

Something like that could be done with a back end.
I'm no expert either, but I imagine that high exposure times come with more motion blur. So just cranking up exposure time does not necessarily result in better pictures.
My quip with them is they never started the Partner Program in India. And were very dishonest regarding it.

There once was a time when I wanted to earn from my writings, but not any more.

But their dishonesty makes it unlikely for me to reconsider them.

They said that they would start Partner Program (MPP) in India once Stripe started serving India.

Then Stripe became operational in Beta. They said, once Stripe comes out of Beta, they would start MPP in India.

Then Stripe came out of Beta. They just stopped mentioning India. They can serve Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia- and not India. That made me frustrated enough to stop using Medium.

I do not plan to go back, and I don't need money from writing anymore.

I made some money from Quora (you just have to sign W8-BEN, which is a 10 minute process) running Spaces, but somehow Medium never started MPP.

Their dishonesty made me angry.

Edit: they put a paywall on my writings by default even when they didn't pay me a dime.
Wait, you telling me that you don’t sign post where your secret things are kept? https://i.imgur.com/Pm0AkqR.jpg
Honestly if it wasn't for the spam filtering I may we'll have stayed with them. I did configure Thunderbird's spam filtering and it did bridge the gap quite well but it wasn't ideal to have to sit it up and train it on multiple machines and then have less filtering on mobile when my computer was off. It also had some poor interactions such as setting the unread count for my spamd folder which I find very annoying because the message was moved there.
I do almost no editing beyond crops and occasional WB / color correction, but holy crap you're leaving SO MUCH on the table by marrying JPEG on the camera.
Twitter has vowed to sue Elon Musk
Yeah, I actually found a lot of great music from Spotify's suggestions that I wouldn't have listened to otherwise. However, their suggestions for me are now stuck in such a specific (and frankly kind of weird) musical niche that they've become useless.

A big part of it is probably because I try to only use Spotify for discovering new music. Anything that I know I actually like gets added to my local music library instead and is never played through Spotify.

edit: Is there a way to tell Spotify to forget what it thinks it knows about my taste in music? I think I'd prefer starting over from scratch instead of trying to feed it more information about what I already listen to.
> It gets rid of all the bad stuff.

That’s laughable. Who decided what “the bad stuff” was? The early adopters were people who rejected western religions but projected western, individualistic culture onto eastern traditions.
The migration part is interesting:

> Squirrels in North America used to migrate in massive numbers, following cycles of bountiful acorn harvests. When settlers first arrived in this country, they reported squirrels being so thick in the trees above during a migration that they nearly blocked out the sun. The best part — squirrels could do most of the journey from the East coast to Indiana without touching the ground.

> But as settlers started to clear the old growth oak forests, the great squirrel migrations became fragmented. Where squirrels had to cross fields, they were killed by coyotes, foxes, and other predators, including people who reported killing hundreds of squirrels (and getting three pennies a pelt). The last great squirrel migration was in 1968 in Wisconsin, when hundreds of thousands of squirrels were seen migrating (and dying on the highway and in lakes). One fisherman reported a wave of squirrels swimming toward his boat and nearly sinking it as they ran over him. Since then, this mass migration behavior has gone extinct.*
Because it's 3x more expensive.

I would _like_ to say because it's still dangerous, and you also have to commit to managing the waste for thousands of years, which is costly and dangerous, but that consideration is probably not paramount in US politicians' minds.
Good luck Tony.

I've been using Medium as a reader, writer, and subscriber for some years. And nowadays I am unconsciously not using Medium as much in profit of Substack and Ghost. My main draw to Medium as a writer was to reach lot of people. A random paywall means less reach. Not sure if max reach and paywall are reconcilable and solvable.
Not an expert, but one metric to demonstrate Webb’s capability is that Hubble’s deep field exposure took 10 days, and Webb did it in 12.5 hours.
> Byzantium would disagree with your analysis...except it doesn't exist anymore because it couldn't solve the problem.

Leslie Lamport commenting on the 1982 paper. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/byzanti...

> There is a problem in distributed computing that is sometimes called the Chinese Generals Problem ... the original title of this paper was The Albanian Generals Problem ... The obviously more appropriate Byzantine generals then occurred to me.
Greece is also Yunan in Farsi , this is a very old word in the Persian language.
you.com is more private in private mode, has more developer features including code snippets and AI code completion, and fights bias by letting you choose your preferred sources.

It also has a TikTok app - which you can up or down vote.
> It does because he committed a crime and is rotting in jail. That’s literally what that means.

The fact that he is in jail, or that it is a crime, does not confirm nor disconfirm that society considers his alleged actions unwanted; as the law is not a perfect or even approximate representation of society's preferences.

All it tells you is that it's illegal. It doesn't tell you whether or not society considers it unwanted. They are not congruent. There are literally thousands upon thousands of US federal felonies that society has no opinion whatsoever on.

Oftentimes laws are passed with the involvement of only a handful of members of society. They are largely disconnected from the wants and views of the wider world.
So what was the professor's take on it?
There's some variation even within North America. In my experience denser areas are more likely to have fences than rural areas. It even seems that in California people are more likely to have fences than on the east coast (given similar density).
You are confounding two subjects: a bump allocator and an arena.

"just increase the pointer" is a bump allocator.

An arena can be used with any allocator, not just bump allocators.
There are many things you can do to make reverse engineering more annoying, but the content ultimately reaches the user and somehow you can always mess with that.
Don't you just get out of the car and walk up the stairs and tell the pilot you are ready to go?

Protip: have your staff book a car for your luggage, saves having to wait for someone to unload your luggage from the plane, you can just get into the waiting car on the tarmac and go.

Super protip: have your luggage shipped ahead and unpacked in advance of your arrival.
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Nitrates are toxic enough that people (sadly) use them as a suicide agent, so this finding isn't surprising. But it is still surprising that something this toxic is so prevalent in food, even in minute quantities, though that's probably mostly due to regulatory capture.

I feel like there aren't nearly enough longitudinal studies on food additives like this, I'd like to think that would prevent more harmful things from being used, but probably not.
I found some info in a Reddit post by googling the name: https://reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/saydui/i_went_down_a_chi...
I believe the Hubble shot is more in the visible spectrum whereas the JWST images are in infrared so there are structures in each shot that don't necessarily show up in the analogous image.
You mean, the _failure of_ misinformation about the safety and environmental impact of nuclear power.
Oh, the antenna doesn't need to just point in the general direction of Earth, it needs to point to somewhere in the surface. That makes sense, having a narrower beam would save power and achieve higher bitrates

Does this mean it has only a 12-hour window to transmit? Or there's multiple antennas on Earth?
Squirrels are annoying as hell and anyone who loves them has never tried to garden.

Rats indeed.

On the other hand, survival youtubers discuss how they are delicious and don't taste like rat at all.
I make more than that and still think this isn't worth it. I understand flying business on a long haul but you're not exactly saving on traffic, etc. using this service.
How does that work on the JVM?
And the actual bird, in Iranian Farsi, is a "booghoolamoo", which is roughly the same idea as the gobbling noise a turkey makes.

In Afghan Farsi (Dari) the bird is a "feel murgh" which translates as Elephant Chicken.
Growing worker insecurity has been a policy since Reagan, I’d argue. They were much more honest about it back in the day[1]. Now it’s just how society works to all the younger folk.

They want to hand their kids the keys via no inheritance tax and recreate a top down monarchy.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...
It's an interpretation you can find a lot of support for in the dangscripture.
I have around the same - any setup of systems I am working on if will be gone I will just learn to set it up again.

Besides that code is in GIT and passwords are in password manager.
In the same way that we try to use semantic versioning to prevent unintended breakages in dependents of our public-facing APIs, I think we developers should start considering the UI/UX of our apps to be their public-facing API, and use the philosophy of semantic versioning accordingly.

When we rename or remove a function from an API, that's a breaking change, any dependent software will no longer work unless it's modified to take that change into account.

Similarly, when we move, rename, or remove a UI element, keyboard shortcut, or visual affordance, that should be considered a "breaking change" for our dependents, the humans on the other side of the screen. And in the same way, we should avoid making such changes unless the long-term benefit of doing so outweighs the short-term cost. Plus, users will know that moving from 7.x.x of your software to 8.x.x will require them to relearn some aspect of it.
> GPUs are getting better at handling thread divergence in the microarch

That is an interesting point, how does that work (especially with the dynamics of ray tracing)? Do they recombine under utilized wavefronts or something?
Cores can share cache. Cache leaks from speculation are a thing. So dedicating a single core might not be strong enough countermeasure.

There's of course little other recourse without a secure processor. I will be very saddened when a secure processor becomes required standard hardware because it will, no doubt, contain only phantom blobs that hinder ownership and promote corporate bullshit.
Assuming your US employer is OK with the move, look to your own knowledge of your second country.

How fast, reliable, costly is internet service? Can you get a second reliable service so you have 2 independent links? A second link that still uses the same local/monopoly provider to deliver is not a second link at all. You need to have communications as reliable as possible.

Do you have reliable power? Power reliability affects every country - no matter where you are going, get a minimum of some UPS power coverage and ideally some sort of generator backup. In the UK I had to run for 7 straight days off generator after a storm and my location was one of the very last to get brought back on grid.

Make sure you have a good money transfer provider to get funds to a local bank account, but watch out as many banks will refuse to touch you if you are a US citizen (search past HN for stories of that). Frankly, this could be your biggest problem.

Enjoy the move - it can be surprisingly pleasant to be in a different country. If you start earlier than the US, you can get a lot done before people come online and you will appear to be a miracle worker fixing problems while everyone else is asleep. Conversely, try to avoid coming online /after/ the US as you could appear like a slacker !
I'm not an expert, but from what I came across online earlier, the Hubble telescope sees more of the visible/UV spectrum than the Webb telescope. So it may just be a difference in what's captured.

This site has a diagram of the spectrum that shows which portions are covered by each telescope, as well as some video clips comparing photos captured by Hubble and Webb. The first video of the Lagoon Nebula (M8) demonstrates what I'm saying pretty well.

https://webbtelescope.org/webb-science/the-observatory/infra...
> On the Medium one, there are 13 unique claps, two thoughful comments, people saving my article to several lists.

Is a handful of additional comments worth the tradeoff?

Because Medium.com can decide at any time to tweak the knobs of their recommendation engine, and your admittedly low traffic could go straight down to Bear Blog levels. That is what happened to many people's Instagram accounts, as IG is now favouring organic posts from users that also pay for promoted posts...aka, servicing their real customers.
Excepting that AXV-512 is being removed or disabled from newer chip sets.
Which is exactly why backends need to be pirated!
Webb's physical dimensions are larger than Hubble's. The "collecting area" of Web is 273 sq ft to Hubble's 46, per Wikipedia. The two telescopes are sensitive to different (but somewhat overlapping) bands of light. Hubble worked through the visible spectrum while JWST is almost exclusively infrared.

To the "can Hubble do anything Webb can do but with more time", the answer is no, due to the lack of mid-infrared sensitivity, among other things like atmosphere.
That specific PoC page relied on performance.now() https://github.com/google/security-research-pocs/blob/d10780...

Chrome has limited "performance.now" to have a relatively low resolution: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/85...

Also, "2018 install of win10", you might have already been patched during install. The chrome patch was Jan 2018.

Microsoft also rolled out their first specture/meltdown mitigations at the OS level in January 2018.
Is there any kind of documentation of how modern religions are experienced by normal practitioners? A book [edit: or, more realistically, a book series] would be great, but some kind of film documentary series seems to me like an even better fit. I've gone looking for that sort of thing in the past and come up empty-handed. I'm thinking interviews and a combo of descriptions or footage of any religious practices or services that aren't considered too secret or sacred or whatever to allow outsiders to see it.

It's easy to find teachings and scattered accounts of some elements, but I'd be very interested in this kind of thing even for relatively familiar-to-me things like various Christian sects (to be any good, this would surely need a bunch of entries for every major religion, including Buddhism, because there are so many difference in how they're experienced by different traditions or in different cultures)

Material about priestly or monastics experience of religions is easy to find, but the experience of lay practitioners and their views on the religion (which may differ a lot from what the priests or monastics say) seems harder to come by, especially any kind of systematic or cohesive treatment rather than just scattered pieces here and there.
The general public is hard-pressed to support basic research with taxes, but they do support unlimited defense funding. This is one hack that the US system uses to do basic research under the umbrella of defense.
My solution to this is that "password" is the literal password of my guest WiFi.
> A million people with single dollars probably can't coordinate to build a consumer product.

yes they can, it's called banking and the stock market. Syndication like that is why the market does not reward diversifiable risk
This isn't true at all, many of the objects are not far away.

The Carina Nebula (imaged) is 7,500 light years away. It is still there.

It seems like people are going through mental gymnastics to avoid answering the question. If someone asked what a famous black and white photo like raising the flag would look like in person, would people give the same nonsense answers? e.g. "There is no "in real life", "the past cant be seen"

For the Carina Nebula[2] :

"Several filters were used to sample narrow and broad wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: Red: F444W, Orange: F335M, Yellow: F470N, Green: F200W, Cyan: F187N, Blue: F090W"

This is in comparison to the human eye, which sees 630 nm for red, 532 nm for green, and 465 nm for blue light.

That is not to say the Nebula isn't also observable in visible light, you would just be seeing different colors and perhaps features. probably something like this visible spectrum imagine of a different part of the nebula

For the other images, what you would see in person ranges from very similar to nothing depending on the image, and pixel in the image.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima

[2] https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/031/01G...

[3] https://esahubble.org/images/heic0910e/
I was about to say that but… Turns out TBH grossed 35 million dollars, more than its cost.
Webb reveals steamy atmosphere of distant planet in exquisite detail
My phone has this feature and now I know about it! :) Never would have noticed the little icon on the wifi settings page without knowing to look for it.
You can get long term results from AB tests long after the test has ended...

For example, you can see if Group A or Group B from a test are more likely to still use the site 1 year later.

You hypothesize that those ways to 'juice the metrics in the short term' hurt the user experience in the long term... Well if your hypothesis is right, these long term AB results should show it.
On average the equivalent of 0.05% of the UK population claims asylum each year [1]. Last year about 0.07%. That doesn't sound like an endless flood to me. The world unfortunately does have a lot of refugees in it, but we do not experience the consequences of that here, much as we may act as though we do.

I don't personally have a strong belief that refugees should have a blank cheque to settle anywhere. It might be fairer to permit refugees to travel further, as it's unclear why neighbouring countries should shoulder the burden. However, the only point I was making is that my understanding is that today they _do_ have that right, which is why countries make it so hard to arrive.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statist...
Yes true, wow really really true... I should publish everything all the time... oh wait a sec.. this is a marketing campaign for CoPilot! Splat
In the 90s there was a great sitcom called Spin City with Michael J. Fox and subsequently Charlie Sheen. The best line about this topic I've ever heard was on that show, "Squirrels are just rats with good PR".
I wonder how well that show holds up, doesn't seem like you can stream it anywhere other than Pluto which I don't have - maybe I'll get yet another streaming service...
Not sure whether I'd be labeled a purist, but I've been stdlib only for a while now, and tend to choose the open choice over the left hand path of the corporate capitalist patriarchy, I wouldn't call myself outright biased though ( I kid. )

However, all jests aside, being a relatively open source person, I haven't seen much in the git product of Github getting any worse after Microsoft acquired them. The social aspect, well, it is what it is, and I don't care for it, but I don't necessarily think my preferences translate well to a quarterly earnings call.

I do personally perceive the downtime to be more frequent now, but maybe only because it's more publicized, I do not have any data to substantiate that personal observation.
Rats are fine by me as well and I also had a number of them as pets over the years. That said, the rats in San Fran that I saw a couple of years ago when visiting were HUGE and I was not a fan.

I suspect some of the fear of rats is that they generally give off the vibe of "I'll bite you if you get close" vs. the skittishness of squirrels who will scurry off up a tree if you even try to approach.
I didnt realize we had a 3d map of dark matter. Something to be mindful of now.

Gathered the summary from the Royal Observatory’s website[1] regarding Hubble's major contributions

"
- Helped pin down the age for the universe now known to be 13.8 billion years, roughly three times the age of Earth.

- Discovered two moons of Pluto, Nix and Hydra.

- Helped determine the rate at which the universe is expanding.

- Discovered that nearly every major galaxy is anchored by a black hole at the centre.

- Created a 3-D map of dark matter."
Users have been complaining about Google Search being awful for a while now. It’s only a matter of time before a radical incumbent totally changes the game.

TikTok’s search solves the SEO spam problem, and the content feels more organic. If you want to find things like how to cook a recipe, or how to build a bike, nowhere is better than TikTok. There’s a lot of good, educational content on this app, and their search does an amazing job surfacing it.

I hope Google can compete with this, but I’m not optimistic.
The property boundaries are not always visible, but they are defined in government records (in the US, typically with the local property tax assessor’s office). It’s not uncommon for a lot boundary to be temporarily marked with stakes and twine during a construction project such as building a house on an empty lot.

Ultimately, if an object like a tree is on your property, even if it’s right up to the line, that tree is yours (but your neighbor also has the right to prune any branches that extend onto their property). Your neighbor could take down the laundry pole if they wanted to.
It’s as if they remastered an old video game. So much more detail!
Interesting report. As far as I understand in total no of the systems was really better in all categories (or did I miss something?). A summary would have been helpful. Also it would be interesting whether the neural network based or the traditional Tesseract engine was used. I did similar experiments for a project six years ago and ended up with Tesseract and a custom traineddata file.
But in the future, more and more things will be e2e. Some fields like messaging practically require it today. Any company that wants to use 'privacy' as a selling point pretty much has to do e2e encryption today.
Almost 50 years ago, I took a course in Fortran IV. Input was a pain, for the options were teletypes or punch cards. The class was interesting, in a puzzle-solving sort of way, and I got through it OK. I think the most interesting task was to create a craps-game simulation. The class was fine, but I was not aiming to be a mathematician, scientist, or casino operator. I lost interest.

Then some years later, I found that there was data over here that I needed over there, and that writing a program was going to be a lot more efficient that printing it out and typing it back in. I taught myself assembler, and went on from there.