skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easy to forget that blogging before Medium was mostly ugly & slow WordPress websites. I am grateful that Ev & team were able to push online writing in a better direction.

Unfortunately Medium slowly turned into a incredibly frustrating & hostile user experience. I haven't purposely clicked a Medium link in many years because of it. I empathize with how difficult it can be to generate revenue from online writing, but I wish they figured out a better way.
I've been reading about nitrates/-ites causing cancer for decades now. What causes the huge amount of time required for some of these studies?
I'd like to see some shots of Earth too.
Well yeah, but the prices for those have actually more than doubled in the post-COVID world. Makes more sense for bigger groups, but hard to justify for many individuals who’d have previously flown private.
Reminds me of Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work - where the author repairs broken motorcycles, and sometimes ends up spending more time than expected (without charging extra to the client) because he cared. A lovely book that is worth a read.

https://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp...
> Maybe there should be a context manager?

Even despite the:

> Absolutely.

My absolute least favorite response to this is:

> It's not that hard to write your own though:
>but it doesn't answer the OP's question

I think it does, otherwise OP's question is ill-posed. That is, if YouTube scaled independently from a scrappy startup to a $170billion behemoth, the changes in corporate governance and culture would have been equally as drastic as being acquired by Google.
> The Medium model is that you provide content, and they provide an audience.

This doesn't happen in practice. Like most marketplaces they have an incentive to market things that are popular or appear to be trending. That means in order for Medium to promote your article you need to do the marketing with your own audience or outlets to get eyeballs on the article and after Medium flags your article as popular it might get promoted.

This is a really big concept because it means if you're just starting off with no audience you might as well grow your own audience on your platform because most marketplaces like Medium (and others) aren't heavily promoting folks with no prior audience.

I remember putting some of my blog posts on Medium and setting the canonical URL back to my site. Out of the hundreds of thousands of visits my personal blog got I only had a few hundred total hits on Medium. That's because I didn't promote and drive my own traffic to Medium and in turn they didn't promote me.
Pocket gophers “farm” roots underground
What kind of game are you working on? I have managed to actually removing a lot of these bottlenecks by parallelizing or rewriting in C++. The ones I'm left with I believe are now more on the GPU side. I'm trying to use portal rendering / occludes for that.
This is just a fancy form of spaghetti code. Don't do it unless you actually need the performance.
Except the odds are never NEARLY as good as one in a million, and humans have a well documented inability to fairly judge odds and understand large numbers.

Would the lottery be nearly as exciting for people if they had a genuine understanding for the statistics involved? I don't mean that they've seen the math, but that you can feel in your gut just how impossible it is to "win" the lottery
> Yes they do. See: bittorrent and webtorrent-based streaming services.

No, people do not have crazy upload bandwidth. A private BitTorrent tracker group is immaterial. They're maintaining ad hoc infrastructure just by leaving a machine on 24/7 and maintaining favorable U/D ratios. Many groups also maintain seed boxes.

This doesn't apply to the population at large. Most people are on phones or laptops on WiFi. They're not running 24/7 and in the case of phones a background service isn't even viable. Many people are on CGNAT and can't "serve" data without some intermediary infrastructure.

As for retention, that's a pipe dream. A torrent more than a few years old may as well not exist unless it is extremely popular and maintains its popularity. There's innumerable dead torrents with no seeders.
And since there is no smashed window, insurance won't pay out either.

If you have comprehensive insurance (which is what would cover a stolen car), they'll pay whether or not it was broken into, you left the keys in it, or even if you left the engine running while unattended.

https://www.progressive.com/answers/car-theft-with-keys-in-c...

As long as you have comprehensive coverage, you can file a claim if your car is stolen while left running. Comprehensive can still pay to replace your vehicle if it's stolen while your keys are inside it or if you left it running.

Car insurance won't pay for any personal effects stolen from the car, that would be covered by homeowners insurance, but as long as you have a police report, they'll cover it. I had a bicycle stolen from my (unlocked) car while parked in a garage -- homeowners insurance just asked for the police report, then sent me a check for the bike. They d
OVH, Hetzner, Scaleway, etc? European clouds that don't gauge their customers.
Bitcoin is holding around $20,000. Plenty of believers remain, not that I am one of them.
I linked to his photos as a confirmation that he is an adept photographer whose opinion about a camera is valid. But, hey, the shots are—at the least—not worse than his pre-Z9 images.
Was J J Abrahams involved in Webb, because it really seems to produce nice lens flair
Over $1.75M USD has been transacted on the new GameStop NFT Marketplace (Beta Release) in the first 24 hours of public access.
My guess is you are better than the people doing the hiring. I have done a lot of interviews and the people in charge are out of their depth.

When someone with a three page resume comes in it makes them feel inadequate.
To be quite honest, the most responsible thing for them to do would be to shut down. This goes for other package repositories, as well.
For the most part that's all crypto
> I've known lots of tech workers who went as much as years without realizing how badly they were being underpaid, even by the standards of their weak local market

I agree that white collar jobs obfuscate salaries and that power dynamic overwhelmingly favors employers.

That isn't the situation with lower paying jobs, especially ones that aren't salaried, which was what the OP was about. Those low skill jobs (I'd argue baggage handler making minimum wage at the airport to be in that category) openly list wages on the advertisement. Thinking those folks stay in their jobs due to the same information asymmetry is what I'm questioning.
People making more than $300k/yr TC aren’t exactly a small minority on HN. While the VIP service at Heathrow is unusually expensive compared to other airports, it’s really not a crazy price to avoid some very stressful hours.
NumPy or Matlab. And it's possible the "original image" is multispectral (more than 3 channels), so you need to choose an arbitrary 3-channel projection.
Did something other than a thank you come out of this interaction?
The festival wristband that monitors your drinking
> Did anyone get rich quick overnight off this particular pump & dump? Probably not.

Most importantly it was also very risky. No way it was a sure thing the return would be higher than the investment.
You can still use the versions you paid for…
Then you send them back to the drawing board, presumably with better information this time. If this is happening regularly you need better training, etc. If they still can't handle it, let them go.

Not an unexpected issue in my experience, the price of doing business.
This is so true. The hardest bugs and usually the ones that can get caught with a good code review are misunderstandings from the developer or business analysts not making the expected behavior clear.

Tests don't catch that. Unless the tests are written by someone other than the developer, which honestly I haven't seen.

As a contrived example if a developer interprets that they need to multiply instead of add, their method and tests might work 100% but they will give the wrong result. Even worse, in certain cases 2 * 2 = 2 + 2 so they will give the right result with the wrong calculation.
Interesting. At that point it would seem it would pay off to simply create new content for the alternative WoW server... It'd be a massive effort, but whole new games have been created by a community that are completely free and open source.

(Though, of course, why not create an entirely new game completely unrelated to WoW then?)
Photoshop is actually more complex than the JWST itself. What makes it "unscientific"? The fact that it's a consumer product?
I don't even remember that.
I know it's a pyramid scheme, I'm just getting in early enough to make money on it!
I went with this instead of OCRmyPDF:

https://gitlab.com/kebekus/scantools/
As if people care what leaders in any country say anymore.
How to your two paragraphs go to together? Wordpress websites can be good if they’re set up right (and that’s why Wordpress powers such a huge portion of web content). Medium developed a nice platform and turned it into something completely user hostile and horrible. We shouldn’t be grateful they started with good intentions when it’s currently so awful. I’d says we should be thanking Wordpress and condemning Medium.
The iOS / Apple OCR Swift API is drastically better than the ones I’ve tried online (eg. Microsoft) or the open source ones (Tesseract). Highly recommended. You can get fairly high throughput with M1 chips. The CNN is accelerated by the neural chip and the language model is accelerated by the GPU.
Long followup periods are needed to observe the effects.
Hi! I'm one of the four formal maintainers of Bevy. I'm not particularly interested in convincing you personally, but I think it's important to publicly address some misunderstandings.

The scheduling rework that you're complaining about is extremely high priority, and I have personally invested hundreds of hours into redesigning and refactoring this mess (which is now in its third serious iteration). It's a challenging problem, and the volunteer who has taken responsibility for the rewrite has needed to step back for a while as they transition to a new job.

I have also personally invested hundreds of hours writing, editing and reviewing docs for Bevy. That's what got me involved in the first place, and the team has done a great job. A fully revised book is also in the works, but getting the subtle details right are critical.

As for serious projects: I've spoken with about a half-dozen commercial teams, including one with a team size of about 10 and a lifespan of nearly two years. Their feedback is remarkably positive given the immaturity of Bevy and the supporting ecosystem. While there are missing features that they want (hi bevy_ui), and annoying papercuts (yep, those scheduling concerns sure are annoying), they've over all been wildly impressed been how easy to maintain, reliable and performant Bevy has been for them.
There's also a compounding factor. There's some relatively low-risk, high-reward career progression to be had by staying in something niche. I don't mean a JS packaging system, something more like A/B testing. People who stick it out advance, and niches are (by definition) small. So you're either bouncing around fields all the time (which can work) or the people you've worked with over the last 10 years are going to make up a surprising portion of the most influential people in your field.
>Today, only 21% of US workers have access to paid family leave through their employers, even though, according to the Pew Research Center in 2015, both parents work full-time in almost half all two-parent families.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210624-why-doesnt-the...
Yeah, I fully expect people without easy access to u with umlaut to just write u (regardless of case), and those without easy access to capital dotted i, to just write a dotless capital I. And the pronunciation will be brutal, at least for the first few decades, but change is a process.
I'd recommend Fiji; it was developed within a scientific environment; and it is free (unlike PhotoShop).
Did you forget about cool and snappy Blogger (before it turned ugly and slow)? Or cool and snappy tumblr (before it turned ugly and slow)? Or even cool and snappy LiveJournal (before it turned ugly and slow)?

It's like the difficult part is not to initially build a cool and snappy web service, but manage to remain cool and snappy over a long period of time, when money seems to want you to build something not-cool and not-snappy.

Something Medium failed at. Yes, they managed to solve the easy part (start out cool and snappy) but they failed at the hard and valuable part (remain cool and snappy).
Irradiated involves radiation. People panic at radiation. It doesn't matter that only neutron radiation induces radioactivity, people are scared anyway.
I think in scientific satellites, the downlink is unencrypted and only the command channel is usually encrypted for obvious reasons.
They have not tested CPUs older than AMD Zen 1, but based on the similar branch predictors they suppose that Bulldozer derivatives and Jaguar/Puma might also be vulnerable.

Similarly, on Intel they have not tested CPUs older than Kaby Lake, but due to the similar branch predictors they suppose that Skylake, Broadwell and Haswell might also be vulnerable.

Older CPUs than that might not have indirect branch predictors or the indirect branch predictors might be too simple, so this attack method might not be applicable.
>I think there is potential in the emerging field of community authored software.

It’s been emerging for the past 30 years, it’s called Open Source. As opposed to commercial projects releasing a “technically open” source code, like with Chrome.
Hedge funds usually have an administrator who holds the money. This is a big, reputable organisation, usually tied to a bank and heavily regulated. it permits the fund to trade within a narrow mandate agreed with fund investors. If the HF managers disappear, the assets, perhaps with heavy losses, remain with the administrator. The administrator answers first and foremost to fund investors.

The article suggests, and it's not uncommon with crypto hedge funds, that funds were held in private wallets. So if Su Zhu disappears one day with his Ledger, that's that.

Having external administrators for classic HFs wasn't the norm until Bernie Madoff (who didn't have an administrator), funny that.
Airports can't unilaterally raise the fees, because there are existing contracts between them and airlines. The fees will eventually rise to a stable level, but that could take months or even years.

That's also part of free markets. Sometimes you simply fail, because you took risks and the risks materialized.
You really think he made no enemies along the way?
It was pretty obvious based on the ads I was seeing while looking at my mail.

They allegedly stopped doing this in 2017: https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email...
what I meant is that the initial call would be done by the cold calling service, and then, if the lawyer is interested, they would set up a phone meeting with the real sales person.
Programming turns many people off since it’s so unforgiving. There is no room for getting things a ‘little bit wrong’ like in art. Most art allows for small errors - errors sometimes add to the aesthetic even!
Medium or any blogging sites MUST prevent usage of Javascript (think HackerNews for blogging). JS is evil for websites like blogging or news.
exactly. same reason why phones sold in japan don't have an option to disable the camera sound.
This stuff, more than anything, is an argument in favor of Tesla. The trad car companies _still_ don't really understand software.

Some of them are learning -- I think VW management now understands the issue, although there are as yet no VW products demonstrating it.
You've just moved the landfill to your house, instead of somewhere else. Where do you think it's going to go when you are dead?

Waste is created at purchase, not at exit.
But how big is the impact and does that return compare to that of other investments you aren't making because you are improving performance instead?
Also, I recall reading that those stars are so bright because they're within our galaxy... so they're the foreground really
Based on the story, it helped the project not get shut down.
It's split second to read. It's all the other stuff they are potentially mandated to do. Checking no fly lists, police databases, taking scans of your photo for storage. Having crazy expensive SDKs that run "tests" on you passport to check that it's according to your country's specific passport format and unique fraud checks. Some run UV scans, etc.
Cheers for the doc!

That's different from other cars I've seen with heated seats , in that case I can definitely see the case of just including it into every car just incase.
The hard part aside...

Some cool optimizations are possible if the size of each row doesn't change.
* Rows could be done in parallel.
* The simplest method would be to copy the row to a scratch buffer, and then copy over data to their final position.
* Furthermore, with some fancy permutation, you only need a register of scratch space. Although, with more random memory access, that could result in worse performance.
Nebula is the competition, right? But it's used as an add-on, not replacement of youtube right now.
American products and services are also backdoored, yet the EU does not sanction US vendors. It has, however, strongly considered banning Huawei.
I wish they had not picked the price of paintings as their experimental test. Since the price of a painting is almost entirely subjective, i.e. if everyone else thinks it's valuable, it's valuable, it could be argued that "herding" to the average of what others think is the rational behavior. You've got more hard data about the value you're supposed to estimate, which is more or less "what do others think this is worth"; it would be odd not to adjust your estimate accordingly.
Providing a service that's actually a service... as a service.
IIUC on Linux you can enable CONFIG_SCHED_CORE/PR_SCHED_CORE to realize that idea. [1] Some caveats may apply...

edit: to be clear, I just learned about retbleed five minutes ago, so I'm definitely not promising core scheduling mitigates it. I do think core scheduling is a good idea in general.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/c...
Firmware vulnerabilities aren't necessarily used to target the firmware or to try to gain persistence - vulnerabilities in SMM handlers, for instance, can be used for privilege escalation at runtime.
The Vaping Industry Has Gone Rogue
You can run trusted code on one processor and untrusted on another. The untrusted processor must not perform speculative execution. It'd be slow but should solve the presented conundrum.
I was wondering the same...why not also share the boring originals that we can process through our own filters?
It's a shame that (if I remember correctly from the video?) the bug that allows this is restricted to single-player; if not, I suppose it'd be possible to start the "outer" map as a network game, and then use the second instance of the game to join the outer instance over the network (including the possibility to walk around and find the original player character).
the point is taxi companies been doing worse with govt sanction for years. ppl only care now bc govt isn't getting its $$$.
There is no "in real life." The size, sensitivity, and spectral response of human eyes is a response to the radiation conditions on Earth, as enhanced by evolution.

If the Sun had been redder or bluer and your eyes were the size of your head or much smaller, everything would look very different.

The Webb images are infrared so "in real life" you'd never see them as shown here. You'd see whatever was visible in optical wavelengths.

This isn't just a quantitative difference. Those science fiction imagined alien worlds covered in little tiny technological lights - just like Earth - are a fantasy. Aliens might see UV instead of optical frequencies, and Earth would look like Venus to them - an opaque planet covered by a thick haze. They might light their spaces with UV, which we wouldn't be able to see so their planet would look dark to us.

And so on.
There are a lot of people who already do this. Take a look at the MicroConf community started by Rob Walling. The middle class is growing in software, you just won't read about it (usually) on most of the social media platforms or news outlets because it's usually not a flashy story.
I wish the problem were my misunderstanding the process, because then I could fix it easily by learning more about the process. I do get where you're coming from though.
Debian has shipped with a signed bootloader since version 10, released over 3 years ago.
I feel you. There's so much shit-giving when you're poor. You can't afford to outsource maintenance. You must figure it all out yourself: car maintenance, appliance repair, taxes etc. There's always something you've gotta figure out. With a bit of money, you make a phone call and someone else is liable for any trouble that might arise.
> smart folks like us--who are not stuck in the past and want to get on with the future

The future has pointers and memory allocation, even if you want to pretend it’s to there and leave the complexity to other smart folks.

> You don't need low level details to program well--you need a good language like APL, to truly learn how to program

We’re not talking about a programming degree. We’re talking about a computer science degree.
Ah, another one! On the other hand, if you've already containerized your app and are not using buildpacks, the switch to Kubernetes should be fairly easy. Thanks for the link, will check.
What should those of us with Android phones do? As far as I can tell, you can use an Android phone to locate any random airtag nearby, but no way to hunt down your own tag unless nearby. Other tag systems won't have the Find My network advantage.
Vistor: Ok, I took a picture of it. Now what? Do I send it to you?

Me: Is it doing anything? What did you do?

Vistor: No. I pointed my phone at it like you said. Then I took a picture.

Me: What app are you using?

Visitor: The photo app I always use.

Me: Can you be more specific?

Visitor (showing where the icon is): That one. I always use it.

Me: That one sucks. Do you have any others?

Visitor: I don't know. There's photos in the Facebook app. Should I try that?

Me (grabs a piece of paper from the fridge, exasperated): Here. This is my wifi info. Use the 5ghz one. If that doesn't work, try the other one.

Vistor: Oh, ok, whatever. Thanks.
That was the whole point of the article - the process of <dealing with thing> was delightful because <thing needer> dealt with a <thing provider> that gave a shit.
You don't understand! Nadella's Microsoft open-sourced a few applications and created a popular text editor, which makes him basically the second coming of Christ in the eyes of a large portion of HN users.

Their numerous anti-user and anti-privacy practices are unimportant. Nadella's Microsoft is "cool" and that's all that matters.
Check out Bimmercode to see what you do have access to.
my recommendation would be to also just print out the password below the QR code and people can select the one they recognize.
Thanks! We merged the thread thither since that one has the original source.
Substack exists because someone launched a very different business model than Medium. They also have a program where they pay prominent people advances to switch (https://on.substack.com/p/why-we-pay-writers).

Greenwald's Medium is still up. He just never really used it. https://medium.com/@ggreenwald/almost-nobody-reads-these-pos...