skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A way in is better than no way at all.

A friend of mine was concerned about a similar (mis)use of psychedelics in the service of productivity. Except that neither Buddhism, nor psychedelics discriminate in the kind of insights you end up with. So as workers are encouraged to boost creativity through microdosing, employers might be surprised to see some employees quit after they got curious, took a bit too much Ayahuasca one weekend, like it's described in some part of the microdosing forum, and started reevaluating their life as a result.

Similarly with mindfulness, first you dip your toes with some guided stuff, organized twice a week by HR. Next thing you know YouTube is suggesting you check out this Osho guy and Thich Nhat Hanh, where you find out you've only been scratching the surface. Then one day you quit your job because it disagree with your conception of right action.

A way in.
Steve McConnell covered these common failure modes in his book series, which I recommend if your team is encountering them.

Paraphrasing, "you should be endeavoring to make unique mistakes…"
Also take into account many people got laid off/furloughed/etc... during the Pandemic, and have since found a new, probably better job. Why go back to making a pittance for a stressful, heavy workload?
Yes, I've been doing this for years with QR codes for WiFi.

Works for emoji in both the SSID and Password.
Does anyone honestly believe that only 5% of the Twitter accounts are bots/fake?

If it is just generally accepted that this is the case (and I've seen it mentioned everywhere) -- how does Twitter get away with using this figure to compute their DAU's.

The SEC should come down on them for this since it's material to their stock price, not to mention this deal?

I can't believe I don't see more scrutiny about this.
I work with images on the other end of the scale regularly, and amongst scientists it's probably 50:50 Photoshop or ImageJ for editing images like that.
Except there are already POC UEFI level rootkits that can't be detected by the host OS. Thus, such systems would appear to function normally to the common users, but offers zero benefit and may actually worsen the situation. Are you sure you are not confusing this with the TPM extensions?

Again, one wrongly assumes a supplier hardware comes into a facility clean in the first place, and historically this process has already proven problematic to secure (Acer, Asus, Lenovo, CISCO etc.) ;-)
The associated March 2021 blog post mentioned implementing multiple PoCs abusing different timers; the one chosen was verified "on Chrome 88 on an Intel Skylake CPU", which was released January 2021.

A cursory search did not find what further mitigations have been implemented since 2021.
If true isn't that alone a pretty strong signal?

That would mean a shrinking possibility of an already bungled acquisition going through is better than the status quo. Seems like Musk has kind of done Twitter a favor by shaking things up. Regardless of the acquisition, it has become clear that the market thinks there is a lot of potential here that's being wasted.
Anecdotally, a lot of people do fine in the 101 class up to the point where functions (imperative paradigm) are introduced. Thats the threshold for the level of abstraction where people start feeling frustrated. In college, I tried help some of my friends who got stuck here but did not have much luck helping them build the right mental model.
And now the spiritual successors of the Frogmen, the Navy SeALs, begin their training in full view of tourists on Silver Strand Beach, California.
Nikon isn't dying.

They were slow to make the jump to mirrorless but that's due to their giant legacy customer base, which Sony lacks. And in a way, Nikon never really is fast in releasing things.

Only now is the Z system really coming together and it's quite fabulous, worth the wait. The lenses are top notch, their second generation bodies very competitive and the Z9 an absolute beast. Further, they are aggressively pricing new releases, undercutting the competition.

So the true adoption for the Z system is still to come, whilst they're already doing quite well given the late entry.

They're not going to be market leaders anytime soon, maybe never, but they're not dying, far from it. Note that they also sit on a lot of cash and are part of a far larger corporation.
The biggest winners in all of this the lawyers, of course
Yup, especially when ones only exposure to computer graphics were things like Space Invaders and Asteroids. Definitely next level.
I have some recollection of a study I once came across (as a warning, it was somewhat disturbing) about the cognitive development of dogs, where the researchers took a number of puppies and somehow arranged things so that the puppies wouldn't see any changes in their vision while moving. Something like they were kept in a box with their heads secured facing one side of the box, with a treadmill that would occasionally run so that their muscles still developed. And what they found was that the puppies were rather severely non-functional when they were finally removed from their boxes. I think it was along the lines of functional blindness and a lack of normal canine volition to move around and do things, and the puppies weren't able to go on and develop normally afterwards. The conclusion was something about the importance of the visual field changing in response to their bodies trying to move around. Frankly it seems like a "no shit, Sherlock, was such an unpleasant experiment really necessary?" kind of conclusion, but it seems in line with your intuition about the crucial binding between vision and the motion of various limbs (and implicitly, that the environment actually produces different -- and to our visual networks, useful in some particular ways -- inputs as we move our limbs and neck around).

By the way, if anyone happens to know of the study I'm thinking of, I'd love to have a link. The last time I tried searching on Google / DDG, the results were drowned by unhelpful articles for dog articles.
Saying that about young people is also ageism

The real battle is class, the capital owning class wants to control the working class and that's why we get these laws

They spread propaganda and write legislation through think tanks in the US, I can only assume there are similar mechanisms in the EU
This is just an answer to one person's enquiry.

I have read another which I cannot remember the name for.

Buddha, with the help of ten directions, tells a layman to do his ten-fold duties.

One of them is keeping his wife happy, another one is about having friends, another one is about earning money and growing wealth.

Please read Walpola Rahula's "What the Buddha Taught".
Its like that elsewhere in the world as well. As with many other things, this seems to be a peculiarity of North America.

Also like I said, it doesn't have to (and often isn't) a huge wall. Often it is a low hedge or wildlife fence.

Not every place outside North America is a youknowwhat-hole. :)
That's a new claim not made in the comment I replied to (and arguably still not really answering the question, which is definitely not ill-posed).
"inferior technology"

.... I turn my head and look at javascript.

GWT had a place back when the frontend capabilities of browsers were very very badly balkanized and pathetic. Now it doesn't.

.... and don't look now, but server-side rendering, like bellbottoms is trendy again!

" spend a few weeks on the job learning about a new framework"

... um, have you seen React? and in the few weeks you spend learning it, the entire javascript ecosystem has moved onto a new micropackage manager.
I don't optimise for this lottery and I know exactly why my career is the way it is. I just don't care.
self-loathing is technically a type of sin… but that doesn’t mean peoples conceptions match the teachings (they often don’t).

CCC 405

“ Although it is proper to each individual, original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam’s descendants.

It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it, subject to ignorance, suffering, and the dominion of death, and inclined to sin — an inclination to evil that is called “concupiscence.”

Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ’s grace, erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.”
woot.com is not a good example of company culture staying good. The employees got so fed up, they left and started meh.com, which seems to be just “woot.com again.”
From the FAQ of ETH Zurich's "Computer Security Group" website:

> Are only Linux systems affected?

> We’ve built the proof of concept code for Linux. But, because the fundamental issue is at the hardware level, Microsoft and Apple computers with the affected hardware have this issue too.

--

[1] https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/retbleed/
It's not BSD: https://www.openldap.org/software/release/license.html
We had to admit the obvious fact that code review had become a useless ritual for us.

- people asking each other to "rubber-stamp" one-liner PRs

- breaking up changes into small PRs holding up progress, because a reviewer requesting a change on an earlier chunk would need to get propagated to all later chunks

- no one wanting to touch large PRs

Our solution was drastic: we abolished code review.

- Big changes, for some definition of "big," go through an initial design review in a Google doc.

- Each feature is owned by exactly one person. You merge code directly into main at whatever pace you choose. This removes the bottleneck of CR.

- All bugs that pertain to your feature come directly to you and you work on them as your first priority. This encourages us to write correct, appropriate, well-tested code.

- If a feature owner leaves the team, the feature is reassigned to someone else. In the rare case when the feature is too hard to hand off, we rip it out and rewrite it. It's obvious that the support burden of such a feature would have been too high. This encourages us to write clear, simple, understandable code.

We're pretty happy with this arrangement so far.
... and pigeons are just air rats :P
I'm not too clear on how one would implement a state machine without "spreading the transitions everywhere". Can you share a link to some example code showing the format you prefer?

Typically, we'd see the code that implements the logic for each state gathered together. Since this is where the outgoing transitions get decided, the transitions end up being distributed across their originating states.
Right, but we've built a world where people are loudly obsessed with issues they have (infinitesimal) control over because if they paid attention to issues closer to home they might look up from their phones, and the advertisers can't have that.
DeFi is holding up just fine.
If you were talking about an energy grid 100% powered by wind and solar, and it was a sunny and windy day to the point of oversupply, that would be true. Even then you could direct the energy to batteries for non windy days so it's marginal.

Maybe if energy consumption was way lower than expected, the baseload generation like geothermal and nuclear might need to dump free power. That would be an event though not a normal condition.

Otherwise you are really, really wrong.
That's the extent of the Hubble original

https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/34/2405-Im...
High crime areas are that way usually due to persistent intergenerational poverty and a lack of investment in the community combined with little to no local opportunity. That's how things are in the US at least, these conditions create desperation which leads some to desperate measures
Grey squirrels are invasive where I am, but hunting them is unfortunately legally dubious at best.
I love the movie, but just FYI, pretty much every scene with people in it is not CGI. It's hand draw backgrounds and tripled exposed live actors who were then physically hand compositied together

Watch a makng of movie to see

There's pleny actual CGI like the light cycles, the recognizer scenes, the MCP, the light sail.
Yes, you can still trade it. Foreign currency exchange is decentralized. Us and EU exchanges have stopped trading and ruble, but you better believe in the n in Chinese exchanges still trade it
Europe was Catholic long before the US, so it’s something else unique to the US…
I think the recommendations are still great, just this week I discovered Hällas for example.
US...so take that for what it's worth re: health insurance. :-/
born too early...
It does appear on the ISO list though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes
My impression is that Musk's defense is pretty weak. This is mostly based on Matt Levine's columns so I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem like much to me. He's a known BS artist with a strong incentive to get out of this deal so I don't give a lot of weight to claims he makes without evidence.
looks like they changed the lensflare from 4 points to 6... a 50% increase!
And I'd say that was a pretty good result overall.

For what may be more relatable to many here, publishing a technical (or tech-adjacent, i.e. more popular industry takes of various kinds) book may be career-enhancing, even significantly so, in various ways. But you still will likely just make a few $K in direct moneys.I did a book about open source history/business models/etc. and it's been good--even was asked to do a second edition/done book signings at event/etc.--but still only made single-digit thousands of dollars directly.
It's my favorite sitcom of the 90s. The jokes are witty and have punches to them, and the show doesn't try to pretend its social observations are philosophically deep.
> I remember the times when people whose pastime was to get offended at stuff were ridiculed by most of the society.

Which specific time period are you speaking about? The time period when the existence of gay people (not even speaking about married gay people) was offensive to the point of intolerance? Or perhaps the time period when interracial marriages offended the majority of the United States? Or maybe the time period when half the country was offended by a black person sitting in the front of a bus? Or by a flag hanging upside down?

People taking offense at stuff that does/doesn't affect them isn't some woke 21st century invention.
> So what holds for Medium holds for YouTube and vice versa.

I think the fact that YT hosts video makes it quite a different beast from Medium. Self hosting video is still quite difficult, and expensive. Hosting text is much cheaper and simpler.

This fact changes the game quite a bit.
Most games labelled as rogue-like on Steam do not feature a persistent progression. Examples are Slay the Spire and Spelunky.

Saying that it's a feature of the genre is definitely wrong.
Cybersecurity and quick software/hardware development are impossible.

There are plenty of much more secure systems.

They just iterate much more slowly, and are consequently much lower-performance or less-featured.

For an extreme example, see what IoT's recent "all features, quickly" craze has done to their security posture.
Unihertz Jelly. Look it up. You can install all the social media crap you want, but there is not much doomscrolling to be had on that tiny 3" screen. Same thing with internet - browser is there, but I only ever used it in dire circumstances. There are downsides (maps are not exactly great experience) but also upsides. Not least of which is poking fun at iphone owners about having 2.5mm audio jack in this tiny thing that their huge brick apparently is too small to fit :-)
You need to be able to run code on a machine. So server that you cannot log into isn’t vulnerable. This is for malware running as an executable or possible JavaScript through the browser (maybe web assembly too)
I can't imagine Putin producing much natural gas, at least not in enough quantity to matter for Europe.

I do wonder why did Europe become so dependent on Biden for tech equipment and software (since Biden is obviously producing all the Apple and Intel/AMD computers and Microsoft and Google software)?

I mean, it's obviously not dependent on Putin, but on another European country that has a natural resource in abundance and can produce it at the best price.
I'm not convinced that common sense or a common world ever actually existed. The mass cultures of the 20th century were certainly a valiant attempt at creating a common world or consensus reality, but that social reality was just a one-size-fits-none grid (in the Discordian sense) that people were encouraged to superimpose over their own subjective experience of reality on pain of ostracism.
You have missed the point. Scientists were the ones making it black and white. The consensus was the sun was bad for your health. They said stay out of the sun and supplement with vitamin D. As for salt, scientists got that wrong as well. Read The Salt Fix [1] for more on that.

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Salt-Fix-Experts-Wrong-Eating-ebook/dp...
It depends how it's defined.

There are obvious bots, and then also artificial/fake engagement, which is like smarter bots or low-paid humans
Minor changes to the satellite position? Vibration from some hardware? I dunno but the parent asks a question I ask too.

When you do long exposure, any kind of movement, even very small, can degrade your image.

How JWST handles movement during long exposure is a good question. Same with hubble.
Past a certain resolution, mobile devices automatically scale down images. This is hard to see in real-world images like pictures/galaxies. But try to open a really large image with some text in it and you will surely see how the text has turned blurry
Twitter takes Elon Musk to court
That's a good point. I guess most readers are like dark matter. It's a pity the minority who does interact tend to give a (presumably) biased perception.
Bank holidays are Very bad sign
The squirrels eat eggs and young birds. This is harder for the rats.

Rat nests are better protected against predators because they are underground.

Both will feed off of accessible food. Do not spill food and keep it in sturdy containers to avoid infestation.
> Employment for a lifetime is a thing of another historical moment

Not sure such moment has ever existed. If employment was lifetime, it was either slavery or exploitation of a workforce that lacked mobility. There was maybe a generation of baby boomers that got lucky with a generation of companies that grew up with them and is still paying for their pensions, but otherwise history is not kind to workers.
In my near 2-decade experience, I almost never heard of any manager getting laid off, including even the most incompetent ones.
Ask HN: I have $27k in my bank account, but I have constant anxiety about money
My money is spread out over checking/savings/high-yield accounts. I have more in an IRA, but am not counting it since it's considered off-limits.

But ever since I started working for myself, I can't seem to shake the anxiety I have concerning money. It never feels like I have enough. I can never relax. Is this normal? Before quitting my job, I had about $60k, which slowly dwindled down to $2k until my new business was able to give me a livable wage.

Savings are slowly growing again, but I still have constant anxiety about money, which I never had before. Having watched my savings dwindle so far probably attributes to my subconscious anxiety.

What can I do? Any advice?
And you would say that is typical for American employees?
Yup, we've been doing this in our office for guests for quite a while. Works great!
I can see some merit in advertising it, strictly to drive gambling activity to the above-board option. There are plenty of underground gambling rings, the more people are aware of and use the legitimate option the less underground gambling will thrive.
The substack model seems to be more focused on building and supporting individual brands. So I don't think of visiting Substack, I think of checking out what X, Y or Z said. The Substack brand is subordinate to the individual blogs/writers.
I doubt it. You'd probably end up spending more time training the AI than you would using it.

To be clear, people do this stuff as a passion project so nothing stopping someone from investing the time in training a ML model to assist here if that’s something that sounds like fun to them. they wanted to take on. So from a technical standpoint one “could” use AI. But I’d expect you’d first have to train the AI to play game before you can even think about training it to read the network packets. And the former is a far more daunting problem than the latter.

Sometimes problems are better solved with human intelligence, a lot of automation, and patience.
I don’t know… that’s a lot of power and heat that needs to be dealt with for an onboard GPU. Heat is probably the biggest factor, as it might be enough to affect the image sensors (speculation). Plus, needing a radiation hardened GPU might be an issue. Just for data reprocessing purposes, I’d want to have copies of the rawest data terrestrially.
For the professional (or former professional) astronomers among us, I will make my somewhat amused observation that what people are most paying attention to is not really the distinguishing features of JWST.

People seem most impressed by the apparent increase in resolution of the images, which is not from a certain point of view the hardest thing to do . HST might have done that if its instruments had been of different pixel size or imaging array size / focal length. Ok, the much larger mirror is an achievement. But anyway, the resolution of the images is often not what really is the limiting factor for photometric observations. Yes it is sharper/higher resolution, but that wasn't the key selling point.

The new thing is observations in the IR, which is somewhat a technical footnote in many gushing announcements of these images (or some discussion here too). And the general public knows little about that detail's importance, especially since the images are stylized / colored anyway to look just like RGB images that we are so familiar with. But everyone can easily appreciate a sharper image.

Anyway, still a momentous achievement. And thank god we have a scientific field where stunning images was enough to get the public to support a $10B project.

**

Edit to add: I did not mean to detract from or diminish anyone's appreciation of the images and accomplishment at whatever level they are enjoyed. And of course many here are technically knowledgeable about the IR aspect. I just write to point out that for the most headline-grabbing images and newspaper writers, the sharpness of the images over the actual IR frontier is what grabs the attention.
https://wiki.haskell.org/Do_notation_considered_harmful

This article discusses it further, down around where it says "Newcomers might think that the order of statements determines the order of execution." and then proceeds to give examples further down.

I have experienced this in the wild. I was working with a lot of data/csv parsing code along with some heavy computer vision work in haskell (3d reconstruction from point clouds using OpenGL and Repa, and custom algos) about a decade ago. It's been a while but I remember this happening quite well.
Being a huge fan of the origianl I hated the sequel. Everything that made the original unique is tossed asside for bland and boring in the sequel. As a simple example, light cycles that turn 90 degrees are interesting because they don't exist in the real world. light cycles that turn the same as motorcycles are less interesting beacuse we already have motorcycles in the real world. There's lots of that in the sequel where some artist didn't get that the limitations of the original add to its appeal.
Hopefully the cuts are in the Electron integration department.