skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How much of modern society is "cat toys for humans"?

None, with the exception of baby toys. Cat toys exist because humans are an order or two of magnitude more intelligent than cats. We have near omniscient knowledge of cat psychology and thus have been able to develop methods to placate almost any cat.

There is no intelligence differential of such magnitude between humans (again, unless you consider adults versus babies). While distractions do exist, there is no universal distraction analogous to cat toys that causes a vast majority of us to “chase worthless things to fritter away our time and energy, so we don't do anything real.”
"Acting correctly always requires brutality towards oppressors"

This directly contradicts a central tenet of Buddhism: ahimsa (or non-violence).
I think speculation... Is just not in the cards for most use cases.

Yes you can isolate cores and you can encrypt the data and use enclaves and all that with much effort and complexity and overhead might eventually fix the 90th percentile but in the end the core issue is simply the nature of speculation as a strategy to improve cpu performance.
WASM's version of a goto is a branch, it is constrained to a limited scope. This creates a problem for general tail call elimination but not for auto-recursive functions.

Auto-recursive functions can switch to using a branch or using another loop construct, and the compiler can generate that WASM code. The control structures available are described in the link below. Mutually recursive functions where only one is meant as the entry point could be similarly converted into WASM instructions but where the additional functions are, essentially, eliminated and inlined into the original caller (this may not be a good general solution, though). But general tail calls cannot be converted into gotos as you might with a more conventional assembly language since WASM branches cannot go to arbitrary instruction addresses.

The problem is that in a conventional assembly language, if you do TCE then the goto would go to (har har) the same (or nearly the same) point as a regular function call (maybe it skips the first few instructions depending on the calling conventions involved). With TCE and WASM you'd have to, essentially, inline the called function, or a variant of it, in order to be able to branch to the start of it. You cannot branch into a different function or to the start of a different function, you have to call the other function and then you have a single entry point. Which, in WASM as currently specified, means you have to use the current calling conventions which does not permit TCE.

https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-1/#control-instructions%E2%9...
So in the end it turns out there doesnt exist "a demo page you could use right now to check if you are susceptible" after all because browsers removed attack surface (precise timers).
Tangent coming!

This reminded me of the book "Up Periscope", which I read as a kid, about a frogman during WWII using a sub to infiltrate a Japanese camp to photograph a code book.

I remember it talked about the then-new diving technology. I thought it was SCUBA. It was Aqua-Lung; verified with a checked out copy at https://archive.org/details/upperiscope00whit/page/150/mode/... .

Turns out that book is based on the movie. ('Garner called the film "another piece of crap that Warner Bros. stuck me in while I was under contract."' says Wikipedia.)

And Aqua-Lung wasn't available until after WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua-Lung

Guess the book wasn't that accurate.

I enjoyed it when I was 12 or so.
I doubt that a century from now, eugenics and fundamental body autonomy will be spoken of in the same breath, despite the intervening efforts to conflate the two.
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Could you imagine if they finally made the Magic Mouse a decent mouse? Recharge from the front, more ergonomic, great pairing/switching.
Aren't warps still 32 threads, even though number of threads is skyrocketing, effectively making them proportionately finer granularity? Are things different in AMD land?
Well, I found my next set of ultrawide wallpapers for my 49" monitor :) Thanks!
My understanding is that flushing all cache and other state on every thread/process context switch has a big performance impact.
The market just thinks there's a chance he'll be forced into paying more than the company is worth. It needn't have anything to do with the company's potential.

If I made a credible $100B offer for the Campbell Soup company and waived due diligence, the stock price would shoot up, but it's not because they're wasting their potential.
I worked at Aol when Huffington Post acquired them for -$300M and the culture stayed mostly the same.
Nice! Purchased a copy. For those looking you need to add author name - doesn't show up with just title on amazon

Haven't seen this before:

>this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
I wish the trend wasn't for social network companies to rewrite web apps from scratch in javascript when they could simply in this case just hand me the video and my preferred local application would play it.

I get that they can display suggestions for what you should watch next and keep data on how much you watch or how often you pause it or whatever. But if we're going to create a decentralized social network, then maybe we could junk all the metrics that a centralized social network keeps on their users. Let it evolve organically, rather than in a way that best suits one particular small group of people, and give people back their privacy as well as their autonomy.

Edit: rewrote an awkward sentence.
This has always been my concern as well.

I wonder if there are any global standards, requirements recommendations about m the minimum retry count or timeout.
And Amsterdam, but TIL Rome is called Roma in Italian. :)
You can turn it into a loop with a case statement inside if you collect the connected component of tail called functions and make those the cases. But it’s gonna be a big function.

You can split it up a bit if you use a trampoline, but then you lose some efficiency.
>Their problem, not yours.

Until your get a call from HR, the twitter mobs decides to target you, or when that "woke" person gets promoted and starts dictating policies in the office.
I've been skeptical of similar potential fraud going on at stoplights in my town recently

Basically someone holding a sign with a picture of a child w/ a sad story and a cash app QR code.

The thing that triggered my suspicions was seeing multiple similar type campaigns w/ just a different photo and disease. Seemed too coincidental to me.
The Huntress shared her squirrel melt sandwich recipe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqo_GbzCjmg#squirrelmelts
https://www.google.com/search?q=huntress+squirrel+melts
Agreed, Tor is a very respected publishing house in the sci-fi/fantasy genres.

He’s joining company with works like Enders Game, Wheel of Time, Mistborn, and Stormlight Archive, and a dozen more I’m not able to remember off the top of my head.
> It's more that others shouldn't feel entitled to take away their profession for "reasons" when they very clearly are in demand...

Everyone is entitled to try to change fashion. If your profession is only in demand because of fashion rather than real value creation, you should make peace with the possibility that fashion will change, or find a different profession.
> There are only three stations and JWST is sharing time with a bunch of other missions including everything that's currently on Mars. Scheduling takes place far in advance.

There are 3 DSN complexes, but each complex has multiple dishes. One station is very frequently talking to multiple spacecraft at once.
He's been writing for about 12 years, and he crossed the million threshold at least two years ago - so about a decade.

I'm not sure about the answer to the second question, I'll ask him over a beer next time we get together. I would say that an important factor was investing in professional cover art, editing, etc. He also more or less timed the rise of Kindle books, quite by accident, and I think that also helped his career.

But there's no substitute for caring about his work and putting in the time, which he definitely does.
Well, there are a lot of open issues [0] with no outlook to get them ever closed.

We've had issues with branch protection rules (the same code works with old actors in the state, but new actors erroring out without any reason), organization secrets, etc.

[0]: https://github.com/integrations/terraform-provider-github/is...
Ask HN: How your regular day looks like?
Tell your Age, what is your profession and what is a typical day like?
What about warp bubble geometries?
Well, then, the reason why people hate A/B testing is because everyone does it wrong. People can write fast software in Python too but the reason it’s known as being a slow language is because it invariably gets used differently.
The title states that patent-free is the future, but the article only says that it should be the future. I don't see that happening, as companies would rather pool their resources and make a closed standard (where they each have both a stake and some control) than use an open standard where their competitors may have zero stake, and the governance is provided by essentially whoever shows up and wants to govern.
IMO it’s the reverse. Not having speculation absolutely cripples processor performance. For most use cases, it’s clearly better to have the performance but accept the risk of these vulnerabilities.

In the cases for which this is not true we need to selectively lock down speculative execution.
They chose to. It was a gamble that economic co development would bring peace but it seems to have brought coercion. Perhaps everybody really wasn’t as afraid of war as they let on?

And why did they let China (and Korea) take over the tech market? People wanted to pay less for goods and felt nothing could go wrong.
Really? I've never heard of transmitter or antenna being considered a consumable (and I work in the space industry). Any idea where you got this idea from?
I internally think this every time I bring my laptop to a cafe and the barista points at a 'cute' wifi password sign (or bathroom unlock code).
Abortion has a millennium-long history that precedes eugenics.
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Abortion legalization is an offshoot of the same early 20th century progressive anti-natalism as eugenics. Planned Parenthood was, of course, founded by a eugenicist. In most of the developing world, like my home country of Bangladesh, abortion is still justified primarily to avoid poor women having too many children.

There’s other justifications for it now, of course, but I’m not drawing a novel comparison here. In those hypotheticals of “what do we do that future generations will view as evil” eating meat and elective abortions are probably near the top of the list. (In both cases, I suspect technological and economic change will make us forget why we did it in the first place.)
It's not i̇, it's i. Also capwords only capitalizes the first letter in each word. Here it's a bandaid. For locale-aware case conversions in python use ICU:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32076177

https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/transforms/casem...
The aesthetic choices for those "not CGI" scenes rarely get the praise they deserve. That high contrast b/w film stock that looks like straight out of something Fritz Lang if you ignore the neon overlays, brilliant. That's why it's aging so well, it simply does not look as "1982" as it could have, it looks like the entire history and future of movies at once.

Perhaps the most important role of the CGI is that of a distraction, because aesthetic choices like that tend to work best when you are not aware of them.
It's a pretty terrible, hackneyed, non-story, now I've read it. Flag me down all you like. Seems like the author is more interested in the stats about writing than the actual writing.

Some simple advice would be to read some Neal Stephenson, Paul Auster, and China Mieville for starters, not Michael Crichton. Good writing is a serious art and craft. It's irrelevant how many hours a specific work takes down to the second. The author seems to think writing is hard and slow. It is slow, but after the first decade or two it gets quicker when the inspiration comes.
This is a great explanation:
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-spikes/
Wow, thanks! TBH I didn't even know Tor was selling it as a Kindle single for 99 cents.

And DRM-free! Cool. Feel free to pirate, I guess.
Ahh you are right
They appear to have been devastating to compact cameras in general already. Similar to the way the iphone also destroyed the standalone mp3 player market.

(Both of which I personally still use, particularly super zoom compact cameras and mp3 players with tactile buttons...)

IMO it's not a good time to be chasing cameras for the awesome factor unless they're really niche.

Instead, the entire process from shopping to purchasing to sharing photos reminds me of pen-and-paper journaling. Hopefully manufacturers will start to adopt that metaphor more closely, as I think they could see a resurgence of success in that way. But yeah, cameras in terms of broad & shallow industry-industry comparison over tech and common use are taking massive hits in the meantime.
Yes, like most of my friends Ive the cost of living (in Melbourne) rise so much I have far less disposable income, add to that the huge number of competing services each wanting their piece of the pie and now I avoid most subscription based offerings.

In the last year I've gotten rid of Dropbox, Amazon Prime, Amazon Audible, Netflix, YouTube premium, Evernote, GitHub Pro, several Patreon pod/vodcasts, A VPS, WhiskyClub and a few other things.

I've kept: iCloud storage, Fastmail, Apple Music, BackBlaze, Overcast

I'm contemplating getting rid of: 1Password, Bear.
Regarding Terramate - I've reviewed it, it definitely is a better reincarnation of Terragrunt not using templating but HCL, yet, it does not solve all of our issues, so, we chose CDKTF for the glue code.
There are more options than the past depending on genre niche and whether you're trying to entertain or write "literary works".

For various genres of the fantasy genre there's a fairly well trodden road nowadays of going from royalroad.com (with patreon) to Kindle/Kindle Unlimited.

royalroad.com lets people build massive followings and then translate them into patreon and other monetisation.

The audiences in the litrpg space right now are voracious and are fairly forgiving of typo's/grammar so long as they enjoy the story.

I'm not sure the same could've been said 10 or even 5 years ago. But again it's fairly genre specific.
I would say it isn't a stretch at all to say most people feel that way. I stopped including any Medium hosted articles in my HN newsletter b/c of complaints from lots of subscribers that they couldn't read them.

I'll have to dig up my analysis I did last year (using BigQuery HN data), but on HN there are more Medium links than ever, but they tend not to get voted on at the same rate as older stories which tells me at least for the HN crowd it isn't worth clicking on them.
Right. But how does that apply to Buddhism? Haven't noticed much blackface at the local Buddhist Association.
Well I mean the JWST is in orbit both around the L2 point and the sun. It's sensitive equipment must also be facing away from the sun. So there's a lot of movement going on out there.
Yes we should. We already took major steps in that direction with Obamacare. I hear it’s popular.
When would the $1B break up payment ever get triggered?
Or Cristoforo Colombo, aka Christopher Columbus
Within a project context?

Or do you have a more ~personal/meta repo where you're doing this more broadly? If the latter I'd be curious to see an example (but don't feel pressured if you aren't comfortable dropping it in a busy thread).
Good, realtors are awful.

Those companies have already failed though (Zillow is practically about to go out of business because they failed so hard), probably can never succeed because of the adverse selection effect, and "investors are buying all the housing" is a myth propagated by NIMBYs.
Aren't markets doing exactly what they were designed to do? There's no rule of markets that says everyone ends up with a good. I'm not sure what the problem is here.
I'm sorry but no no no. These telescopes are tracking the objects they are imaging specifically to avoid imaging issues from motion. This isn't some dude in the backyard with an alt-az scope bought from a Sears catalog.

I really hope you were trolling with this response
If you want to be a contrarian, you can consider right now to be the golden age of DSLR. That is, for the gear heads and bargain hunters.

The truth of the matter is that as it comes to image quality, a DSLR is in no way inferior to mirrorless, it's just that mirrorless has several features helping you to take the shot.

There's quite a few types of photography where those features are close to irrelevant, not everybody does fast-moving sports photography.

Given that baseline capabilities are still excellent, you can exploit this transition to get a lot of value (and fun) out of the legacy.

If you now take a high-end DSLR, preferably on the cheap, you can make stunning photos with it for as long as it lasts, and nobody can tell that it is "obsolete". Modern DSLRs have incredible noise performance, a huge dynamic range, very high resolution.

Specifically for Nikon, lens hunting is also fun. For example, I have a f/1.2 from 1979. It's a stunning lens, all metal, manual aperture, ridiculously fast. And it works just as well as it did back then.

Unfortunately, it seems the market recognizes that high-end DSLRs are still excellent, second hand prices are not coming down, I've been monitoring this for years.
Here's out exposure time works for JWST: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/understanding-exposure-times
You can write exactly the same about Blogger. Medium added nothing
A crude analogy is like this: Two cameras are pointed towards a wall. Camera #1 is good, but it is blocked by the wall. Camera #2 has a special trick, it does some magic that can look behind the wall.

Now both have resolutions and stuff. But no matter how big the resolution or how long it stares, cam1 is fundamentally blocked by the wall. It can take extremely high res photos of things inside the wall, but it can never see anything behind the wall.

Cam2 could have infinitely higher quality than cam1 — because who knows, there can be 100, 1000, million or a never ending world of things behind that wall that can never be seen or captured by cam1.

Cam1 is Hubble, cam2 is JWST, and the wall is infrared wavelength which is all around us. JWST can peer deeper into the _same area_ of space, and see more things behind the infrared wall, which Hubble can never see.
>“Note that Windows systems are not affected given that these systems use Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) by default which is also the mitigation being made available to Linux users. Intel is not aware of this issue being exploited outside of a controlled lab environment.”

hmm?

so, how is it?
I read a detailed interview with the person who does the enhancements a couple of days ago (can’t recall where a grrr).

He said:
A) there are two of them in the team doing the imaging
B) it doesn’t start with an image - it’s literally heaps of binary data that the scientists stitch together
C) he then does the colour overlay based on agreed norms (one colour per input frequency for consistency)
D) most of his “touch up” work is getting the colour gradient right between the brightest and dimmer objects - without this a lot of resolution would be lost (brights too bright, or dim not visible).

Hope this helps…
I don't understand why you would sell for that amount.
One suggestion I've seen (eg here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/unders...) is to distinguish between REST and OpenAPI designs.

Because you're right, REST is a specific thing, but we do need some name for what everyone is talking about, and just saying "RPC" is much too vague.
Scientists Cloned Mice from Freeze-Dried Skin Cells, Opening to Biopreservation
Can we have kick ass laptops again?
Right. After the initial "wow factor" has settled down, what's been most striking to me is the level of detail that's no longer obscured by gas and dust in these nebulae due to MIRI. I know very little about the study of stellar nurseries or planetary nebulae but I've seen enough pre-JWST images of them to know that astrophysicists just got a whole lot to sink their teeth into and I look forward to seeing further developments as more data is collected and existing data is studied.
Why does that only come from Webb images? You weren't getting that same sensation looking at the Hubble images before? If that's true, then welcome to the club! It took you a bit longer, but we're happy you're here now. ;P
> Because it means you just assume you know what their experience is like, or worse: you don't even care about it and bother to learn something.

A/B tests are not the only, or even the best, way of collecting user feedback.
Nature is healing!

And by that I mean everyone is just done with it all.
> My personal rule is just not to disrespect people and parts of their culture they find important.

What even is named by the word “disrespect”?

Is disrespecting me just any behavior that I call “disrespectful”?

Seems like bullshit to me.
https://equities.fyi/company/instacart

Uber / Lyft get a multiple of about 1x. DoorDash gets 4x. Instacart did $1.8B in revenue so even at a generous 6x multiple, it's only $11B...
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> 1. Protein takes more calories to digest (many people unintentionally eat more protein on keto, though keto is actually about fat intake and protein can break ketosis through gluconeogensis)

I'm pretty sure this is a myth, unless you're eating such a small amount of fat that you can't get energy anywhere but though gluconeogensis. Your body uses gluconeogensis to create glucose for the cells that need it. It's not an efficient way to produce energy for cells that can just use ketones.

> Your anecdata is likely accounted by:

I suspect it's mostly that I didn't store all of the excess calories I ate. E.g. I've seen excess fat in my stool.

When people say CICO doesn't work, they don't mean thermodynamics doesn't work. They mean that not all calories consumed (i.e. eaten) get burned or stored. If you limit "Calories In" only the calories that get burned or stored, then sure, tautologically, CICO is correct.
The root password hash is not sufficient to log in as root, but knowing the hash enables an attacker to run an offline brute-force attack to crack the password. Depending on the password complexity, this may or may not be feasible.

That said, this attack may be able to extract other information from system memory that would enable de-facto root access, it depends a lot on what's running on the machine.

> What can we do?

Install the patches and enjoy the reduced performance. Or run Linux on ARM, and hope that noone will find similar exploits in the ARM architecure.
Always be trying to develop multiple simultaneous income streams, so you can be confident you will not be too badly affected if one customer or project lets you down
Uthman famously collected and burned all copies of the Quran except the variant that he deemed the right one.

It's surprising the article does not mention this. The palimpsest likely shows one of the variants that did not survive the purge.
Our article on various tile-based game maps might give some inspiration: http://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/geoms.php

See also the catalog https://zenorogue.github.io/tes-catalog/
>I wanna see what this thing is able to do with a 10 days exposure.

Ever seen a solid white square? =)

As with all things, it totally depends on what's being imaged. Exposing the Orion Nebula for 10 days would result in a totally over exposed image looking like a solid white square.