skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference in quality and customer service of a small local/regional ISP that truly does give a shit vs a giant nationwide-scale ISP can be amazing.

If the small ISP has a sufficient amount of network engineering knowledge and acumen to build small-scale things at very high quality.

More along the lines of the custom wood business referenced in the original post, I am familiar with a few small welding/steel fabrication and custom carbon fiber CNC cutting shops in the metro Vancouver area that also give a shit.

They aren't trying to scale up to some huge size or go for economies of scale, they are perfectly content to serve a mid sized local market with not cheap, high quality products.
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I think you are entirely misunderstanding what Krugman is saying.

*The aim is to avoid a deflationary collapse, not to cut wages.* Let's say you have a typical economic cycle in an apple producing economy with real growth and a fixed currency. Since you have real growth, you're producing more and more apples with the same resources. This is great! Apples are cheap! Except you now have created a behavioral problem.

Since the price of apples decreases with growth, a farmer needs to cut costs to remain profitable. In an ideal world, this would mean cutting wages. In a real growth scenario, the workers should be able to purchase more apples despite the wage cuts since the price drop in apples should exceed the wage cut. In the real world, this farmer would lose his head for cutting pay--wages are sticky. So instead of making the optimal choice (paying people less in nominal, but more in real terms), the farmer will fire people. This is BAD.

Again, I'm going to keep pounding the table that the only reason inflation has gotten this out of hand is due to the *immense size of the stimulus.* The central bank raising interest rates would have only deferred that inflation into the future.
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Yes, "pauseless" is another keyword I forgot to mention.

Azul uses a read barrier which I guess makes it so slow that noone uses it (and the same ideas haven't made their way into JDK collectors). The previous version required hardware-supported read barrier, now AFAIK they only require a Linux kernel extension.
Mmm I had some French regions in mind, which typically don’t get translated in my own language at all (eg Côte d’Azure), but I just realized we do translate Pyrenées to “Pyreneeën” and there are probably many other examples as well.

We also translate Paris to Parijs, and Lille has an official translation to Rijsel but nobody uses that.

Sheesh if this were a codebase it would raise some serious questions about variable naming standards.
> each function call must consume at least N bits of memory

This is going to be a problem for any long-running recursive program. Why would we mandate this?
I went back to that pain a few years ago after many years away from it. After a few months I got right back in the swing of things. Spending my days arranging and solving little memory ownership problems.I got to thinking: "This is programming". And I didn't really mind it.

But every so often I had to be honest and remind myself of what I had noticed at the beginning: Thinking about and managing memory is a colossal waste of time, even with smart pointers and the like - The machine can do that and has been able to do it efficiently for most things for a long time.
I have spent the better part of a decade looking for legitimate uses. By which I mean legal, value-creating activities that aren't served better by some other technology. The very best I've found is that it's good for some light financial crime. Some money laundering, some ransomware, various sorts of scams and fraud.

When I compare Bitcoin's paltry real-world use versus, say, M-Pesa and Venmo, which target the same initial uses as Bitcoin, I think it's especially easy to see that the legitimate problems were long ago solved pretty well. So a decade in, I'm comfortable saying the actual value is near enough to zero that it makes no practical difference.
If you can elaborate on (or show, but I realize that's legally hazy) the decompiled source, I think this should be possible to discern. I'd probably start by looking for anything in the source that looks like it's making any kind of network connection, then narrowing it down from there.

Typically, the response to authentication is a yes/no plus a token or other piece of session state for the authenticated app to store. You might poke through the structure of the in-app storage to see where the authentication information lives, and then go backwards from there to where it is set.

Edit: On a cursory google search, https://github.com/ryanseys/node-jawbone-up looks like it might help you.
> But 40% of non-obese Americans are sick with metabolic syndrome.

40% of the non obese adult population in the US? More BS dude.

It should be easy to point to some relatively reputable public health agency or peer reviewed publication where this is substantiated.

Among non overweight individuals I’m going to peg it more around 5%.
Yep, I may have forgotten about that. Shame on me.
I have been wondering,

how does the scale of color shifting relate to the red-shift present in deep-field subject?

Idly wondering: are the furtherest objects being captured, so red-shifted, that the translation for human viewing done in these images more or less balances that out, so what we see in the translated images for some thickness of distance-bubble, is what we would see from a much closer perspective with the naked eye, akin to "true color." (I.e. so close that the relative red-shift would be insignificant...)
> writing has to be among the worst ways to make money

It’s being a musician, actually. Most writers have the skills to maintain good side gigs of some kind or another. Musicians have to dedicate more of their time to musicianship, and often end up on the lower side of the pay scale. Sure, there will be a few with a profitable clientele paying for private lessons and tutoring, but that’s far more rare.
Go read "Against Intellectual Monopoly". It's free. The history of IP law, patents and copyright is quite surprising.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/against-intellectual-mo...
No thanks.

I’m already annoyed that UI on iPhone is too “busy” and there’s no way to turn off the lyrics display.

If they want to add extra crap, they should put it in a new app.

Even more so now that libspotify is gone.
It could also be a case of the Abilene Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox

"In the Abilene paradox, a group of people collectively decide on a course of action that is counter to the preferences of many or all of the individuals in the group. It involves a common breakdown of group communication in which each member mistakenly believes that their own preferences are counter to the group's and, therefore, does not raise objections, or even states support for an outcome they do not want. A common phrase relating to the Abilene paradox is a desire to not "rock the boat". "
I really don’t understand why generally people who hold this perspective don’t see the irony. You’re saying that everyone is literally being alive incorrectly. I generally agree, however I don’t constantly project that onto others. It seems more and more often this is just becoming yet another method of virtue signaling. If someone wants to spend 14 hours a day working on some shit, and they say it’s how they’d like to spend their time, how the fuck can you feel justified in saying “no you’re wrong, I know better”. This trope is just so toxic IMO. Live your life differently than others, but If you really need the validation of others so badly you have to constantly remind others that you’re really living your life differently, maybe just do the same thing as everyone else…
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I should have probably noted I’ve only been a fan of F1 (watching every qualifying, race, reading books and listening to podcasts) for the past 3 seasons so my sample size is small
When should you ask for help (as a junior developer)
Twitter sues Elon Musk, accuses him of [ ] 'trashing the company'
While this is highly unsurprising, I'm curious what information Twitter will have to provide in discovery.

It seems Musk torpedoed the deal off the number of bots on the platform. It also appeared that Twitter didn't have a number or didn't want to disclose it publicly. To me, it will be super interesting to see if we ever get a real answer on the bot rate.
Are you considering the speed of persistent data structures, that have the same big-O as their mutable counterparts? [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
You forgot "Victims - Incompatibility with human hegemony can be used to sell calendars"
Correct, no promotion at all.
I've been following Vale's progress with interest but AFAIK as of a few months ago, it's still vapourware.

Excited to learn you're nearing an actual implementation though! Let's hope it's practical!
Do people mostly vacation abroad from the UK?
1. Mainstream FP languages have modules and OOP support as well.

2. Immutable structures aren't immutable at the runtime level, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
This is an excellent view on how writing speculative fiction actually works. Amit's publication to Tor should be lauded as a serious achievement in his career and not something that an average person could reasonably expect to achieve/plan for. Congratulations to him.

Please consider reading the work itself here: https://www.tor.com/2022/06/01/india-world-amit-gupta/
I don't think I'd want to ever travel after that. How long did it take to get yours back?
The sliders break when page zoom is anything other than 100% :/
Yes, as example I'll use one of my friends, a mother. Several years ago, before smartphones, she bought a DSLR because she wanted to make better photos of her kids, in comparison to the crappy compact cams back then.

And as I saw her work with the camera, it's easy to see why the exodus to smartphones was so sudden and swift.

The truth is that a DSLR has the capability to create far better photos, and this is still true today, but it's not normie-proof.

They just want to point at something, push a button, and magically have a great photo. Where the subject they pointed at is in focus, sharp, correct colors, the like.

Next they see that focus is a massive problem, it's impossible to take a photo in the dark, some photos have weird color issues (white balance) and the whole thing just sucks.

Perhaps most depressing is that one of the key features, shallow depth of field, is pretty much seen as a bug: why isn't everything sharp?

They should learn how to use the DSLR, but they won't. Because they want high quality snapshots and aren't photographers for the sake of photography. The smartphone solves all of this for this particular goal.
The Sky article is actually worse quality. The original article quotes the full CEO statement, which is what I care about.
Of course. Luck will never find you if you stay at home doing nothing.

The individual events in one's life are luck, but the overall arch of positioning yourself where luck can find you is a choice one makes.
The article alludes to laser comms - NASA is developing[0] laser based comms systems (as opposed to radio frequency) which would allow gigabit speed downloading of data. Hardening this technology to send back more raw data is probably a lot more straight forward than trying to do image processing on board.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/lcrd/index.html
I'd be curious if short fiction writing was more lucrative several decades ago when literary magazines were a larger force. Was it more possible to survive as an independent writer before, or have the economics of writing always been so terrible?
no, the whole media type thing was a moderately-interesting-idea-turned-ridiculous-navel-gazing turn that, among many other pedantic blind alleys, turned everyone away from the deeply innovative aspect of REST: the uniform interface, and, in particular, HATEOAS

https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/

any idiot (such as myself) who has ever made a web 1.0 app has created a better REST API than 99.9% of all REST API engineers, so called
Plus, upgrading Hubble wouldn't get us close either. JWST is specifically designed to shield the sensors from IR/heat, and it's 1 million miles from Earth for a similar reason.
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It's hard to look at the Webb images without thinking that there must be life and technology out somewhere else in the stars.
Rats can jump. I stored some dog food in my garage and didn't think they could reach it, but they were able to jump across a sizable gap between shelves.
I think "appropriation" is when you take cultural ideas from colonised places of the world and use them in inappropriate ways.

Cultural appreciation = wearing a chinese cheongsam in a culturally appropriate situation because you think it's beautiful and you love the dress.

Cultural appropriation = wearing grass skirts and coconut shell brassiers and getting wasted at a "tiki" frat party.
Writing is a solid way to make money in specific genres, however, especially if one is self-published. A business-saavy writer can make a good amount of money writing romance (which makes more money than most other genres combined) or self-help.
Replacing it with the seat cooling subscription?
> Buddhist cults focus on fate, inevitability, acceptance, detachment. You are helpless against the world, which by the way, works the way we say, because we are the enlightened bearers of the great tradition. And because of this helplessness, here's a set of doctrines you should follow.

Reading this, it struck me how closely this fits with the popularity of Lovecraftian fiction in our current era. If we see corporations as monolithic, inhuman, malignant entities that trample humans simply for being in the way, with little concern for consequences for themselves (because "they" are too far beyond "us", too big to fail), and if we see the universe as ultimately not even apathetic towards humans, because there is no mind there at all, just incomprehensible vastness that swallows us all in eventual oblivion -- then this superficial Buddhist take makes a great deal of sense. An inevitable fate, nothing to do but accept it and detach ourselves to try to minimize the unpleasantness.

But then, accepting this perspective personally makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy for oneself.
Agreed! In the SMACS 0723 image, there is a red spiral galaxy near the top right which is effectively not present in the HST image because it was redshifted out of the spectrum. This implies it's one of the galaxies receding the fastest from us in the image right? And therefore also among the oldest and farthest away?

https://blog.wolfd.me/hubble-jwst/
Yeah, lots of scummy businesses out there that’ll never have profit, never do dividends (or its modern friend, buybacks), but businesses at least have assets to distribute to investors in case of bankruptcy
I would really warn you against thinking your intuitions are going to be a good sign for whether or not something is a good retail decision.
I was writing on Medium for many years building a small audience of 1300 followers.

While the posting experience is nice. Content discovery is terrible. Content monetization is even worse. I can't justify researching a post for hours for no reads and no money.
As we’re adding single data points, I like to submit that I’m fairly interested in seeing what this has to offer.

Just today I was pleasantly surprised I was seeing some music videos while playing Spotify content and I actually appreciated watching them while exercising, because frankly, there’s no other way I would ever watch a music video any other way nowadays.
It's worth noting that Tor's pay for authors is in the absolute top tier. I've had a short story published in a smaller publication, and they paid me $50 total - $25 for the first six months exclusivity, then $25 again for inclusion in an anthology. That is more typical for a starting out author.

OTOH, getting published in Tor at all is a much much bigger achievement - congratulations to the author!
> some standard being initially released under NDA or being proprietary (which ones do you actually have in mind?) is a terrible justification to not improve things. Or find alternatives just as good.

I think them being NDA / proprietary is a reason we can't improve things, not a justification for it.
> Medium is simply YouTube for written content.

They wish! Medium is Vimeo.
We have a fence around our property. That fence is not on the property line.

The previous owner needed a level place for a swingset for his kids, so the next-door neighbor let him use a bit of the neighbor's land. They built the fence so the swingset was on my side of the fence, even though it's the neighbor's land. The fence doesn't change anything. (Though I suppose if I wanted to be nasty, I could claim squatter's rights or some such legal concept, and maybe take that bit. But I don't want to. Ripping off people that were nice to someone isn't how I want to live.)

Some people like to have a fenced space, especially in their back yard (no neighborhood dogs running up to the small kids). Some don't (extended sight lines, more of a feeling of neighborliness). But the fences don't matter. The property lines are still where they are, even if you can't see them.
If you made me choose between having a raccoon or a bear in my attic, I might choose the bear.
My brother writes Sci Fi for a living. He's self taught and self published. He does well, he's sold over a million books. What many people don't know is he suffered from severe tendonitis that really narrowed his career options. He started writing because he could write using voice recognition software. Now he writes with a keyboard, as the pain is more manageable. I'm extremely proud of him for how well he's been able to carve out his own path in life, in the developing world, against adversity.

https://www.amazon.com/Jasper-T.-Scott/e/B00B7A2CT4%3Fref=db...
You could in the past have made a career writing exclusively short fiction. Over time, however, short fiction became understood as a stepping stone towards novel writing where the "real money" was. However I would never call writing short fiction lucrative in any sense, not even if you're Ted Chiang.
Yeah I don't like your solution. Not everyone has plenty of money like HN commentors tend to have. Some are fine with ad supported channels. They just want youtube to cut the funny business and require those who are claiming "copyright infringement" actually show real, concrete proof of their claims.
Has anyone produced meaningful benchmarks on real world websites? If I go to arstechnica, or NYTimes, or gmail — what will the difference be between JIT and non-JIT for page load and common operations?
Yes, but even then you can answer the question of what it would look like to the human eye if transported closer and/or back in time.

They would look different, have different colors and features. Galaxies would look more like andromeda as viewed via telescope.
Decentralized social networks of the past: UseNet and IRC.

No one owned all the servers for either of these. The problem came with moderation versus spammers and trolls.

The problem still exists with the centralized social networks, although theoretically it should be easier for them to deal with due to centralized identity management. It isn't.
Did you A/B test the matching algorithms?
For the machines that will replace us.
From what I've read, people did make a living writing short stories at one point. You probably still had to write a LOT.

There were many more pubs to publish to and more people bought short story anthologies.
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Yes, especially recently. My motivation/goal is:

- Saving some money

- Reducing digital usage and increasing spending more time IRL/AFK

- Reducing media consumption, addiction and FOMO (movies, shows, albums)

- Reducing number of service I use and manage

- Reducing digital footprint, attack surface and
shared personal data

- Other minimalism and anti-consumerism related reasons
If WASM and JVM Bytecode have a goto, then the compiler can use it.
Anyway, if you've never read that paper i linked to above, i do believe you'll find it mind-blowingly cool stuff. not kidding.
You're missing the fact that it is actually real people behind the concerns usually attributed to bots.
I think there's two common usages of the term arena, I might call them homogenous and non homogenous. Is there much reason to use a non homogenous arena with something other than a bump allocator?
Right, that didn't occur to me at first, but is just obviously true when you point it out, thanks. Though I didn't know that hubble is actually higher resolution in that comparison.

Then, in some sense, the first part of my explanation is most of the story in the case of comparing MIRI(mid-infrared instrument) to hubble in the near-infrared.

But in comparing NIRCAM to Hubble in the near-infraread JWST would in fact have greater resolution, no?
If you're upset about internet retail, I hope you're also upset about milk being in the back of the store to get you to walk through the whole thing, because this has been merchandising's bread and butter for a very long time.
Our “societal system” does no such thing. If you wish to acquire something, you have to either trade for it (trade, for example, work), steal it, or acquire it from nature (as in hunting/gather thing). This is just nature, not a human system.
There was never a real world exploit that did anything like that. They were all POCs that read data from themselves under ideal conditions.
Yes, they absolutely do.
Estimates vary (because benchmarks and use cases vary), but it's generally faster than 50%. That number was seen here,

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc19-jangda.pdf

(I assume that's what you refer to?) It's a good measurement, but it's from 2019, and it's just on 2 wasm engines. There are other estimates, like here:

https://kripken.github.io/blog/wasm/2020/07/27/wasmboxc.html

That tries to measure the fundamental overhead of wasm's sandboxing as opposed to a specific wasm VM, and it finds just 14%.
REST was the term Roy Fielding coined as description of the original web architecture. The big distinguishing feature of REST-ful systems vs. non-REST-ful systems was something called the uniform interface, where clients had zero knowledge about a given server's API surface beyond a URL entry point. Everything after that was encoded in hypermedia, giving us the term "Hypermedia As The Engine of Application State" (HATEOAS).

Here is an article I wrote on it:

https://htmx.org/essays/hateoas/

RPC-style APIs require shared knowledge about a given end point: what arguments it expects, what data it returns, etc. Unfortunately, for historical reasons, we've come to call all HTTP JSON APIs "REST APIs". It's actually pretty funny.
Hive to pull the plug on smart home gadgets by 2025
Costa azzurra in Italian, apparently.

Pretty sure we had several posts on HM related to the weirdness of translations for names.

But there are cities like Denver. Luckier than others, in that respect ;)
I have enjoyed using Actions. The GitHub integration into VSCode has been a huge productivity boon for me as well.
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