skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Good take on what is quality vs function and form.

Art of War. Good example of a creature to last a damn long time.
Ask HN: Your browser tab count
Interested, how many tabs you have .

For me:

- 213 on desktop

- 83 on mobile
Nice one, this is not intended to provide security. You'll have to build that on top yourself. Its a lightweight bare bones framework after all.
Correct!
This book has nothing to do w Java.
Almost everything was unclear to me, but then I'm not familiar with the Game of Life lingo. Perhaps it would make sense to write a version that the educated public can understand, even without any Life background?
A pattern with 21 live cells in any bounding box.
But you can put the regulator in the bag and keep it there for free.

You need to do the subscription just before or you end up paying more.

It's a thing that has to be done last minute… so it's way easier that it gets forgotten.
Curl has been part of the base install of Windows 10/11 since the December 2017 preview release. Bsdtar was added at the same time.
Just wondering what he finds so delicious to eat that he couldn't stop. I find the food in UK absolutlety disgusting, fast food, desserts, breakfast, all of it.
I think the point is about many engineering orgs adding "minorities" for the sake of PR rather because these "minorities" are great resources.

It is obvious that there's terrific engineers and professionals regardless of sexual orientation and we have countless proofs behind it, last but not least the linked article and many of the other asahi contributors.

But when the likes or Google or Facebook are obviously hiring because you are a minority it's when the solution to gender or sexual discrimination is simply...reversed.
> The absolute majority of people WANTS to be healthy, happy and safe.

"Wanting" something is completely meaningless, if you want other conflicting things more. I can say I want to lose weight, but if I also "want" to eat a whole pizza every night after eating my normal meals that's probably not going to happen.

For me and probably a lot of people, the first step towards getting my weight in control was to decide that losing weight was one of my top priorities, and not just something I think about once in a while.
Go further upscale and there's some pretty good food.
Thanks. It's a really difficult balance, isn't it? It's not kept me relapse free, but at the same time I've never been closer to ending it all since before I started them, and they absolutely calmed my mood impulses (at the cost of more or less knocking me out). I'd previously had discussions around changing meds only to be told I can't cross taper, so I just resigned myself to them.

The difference is night and day though. My wife has really helped keep me on an even keel, but already I'm starting feel more awake and eat a little less.

Glad you made it off them, though, and hope that means things are looking better your end.
> When you are 35+, job stability is super important. You might have a family, a hefty savings/retirement account, etc. Whats most important is that work/life balance and not that RSU grant next quarter

My work life balance is much better now working at $BigTech than it was being the de facto dev lead at a company that was on an acquisition spree where I was responsible for leading integration efforts or at a 60 person startup where I was responsible for making them “cloud native” and introducing AWS to the company as they were pivoting to selling access to micro services to large health care companies especially right after Covid hit.

WLB being worse as pay increases is more of a myth than anything else. I haven’t gotten paid more Obed the years because I was expected to work harder.

I got paid more because of the value I bought to the company.

I felt a lot more “stable” after 35 no matter where I worked because I knew I had the skillset and the network to throw my resume up in the air and get another job quickly when things went sideways and I did change jobs six times over those years.

Before 35, I had been at a job for nine years and let my skills atrophy.

I also had a decent “oh shit”/“go to hell fund”

> Then you realize money isn't the most important thing in your career. You learn that the difference between a total comp of $150k to $250k

This is definitely not true. I bumped around as your standard corporate dev until I was 46.

I stayed at my second job for a decade until 2008 and became your stereotypical expert beginner. I job hopped 5 times by 2020 and I was making $150K and seeing offers locally for about $165k - $170K based on my experience with leading projects, “cloud”, and just regular old C# development.

But I liked my job and my wife and I had “enough” with her working part time making $25K in the school system.

Then I fell into a remote job at $BigTech in the cloud consulting department making in the $200s in mid 2020. The difference is night and day. There are a lot more ands than an ors.

I can now “retire my wife” at 46, rent my house to my son and a couple of his friends who we have known for years at below market cost to help them get started while we travel the country staying in mid range extended stay hotels, flying everywhere, afford a winter home/investment property (more of a lifestyle choice than an investment), max out my 401K (including catch up contributions in a year and a half when I turn 50), max out my “after tax 401k at 10% of my base salary, and still have a decent amount of fun money.

Even if I were living a normal life, it would have meant the difference between having to choose whether we wanted to refinance to a 15 year mortgage (we did in 2021), go on multiple vacations, cash flow our son’s (my step son since he was 10) college education, or maximize retirement savings. We could have done all of those things and not choose.
19/30

Interestingly, I'm not experienced with AI art, but I am a photographer and used to do 3D graphics. I focused on composition, interest and "overhype" - yes you could add a glow / halo effect here, but does it look right? Would this photo be interesting to a photographer, or is it a bit meh?

So while my hit rate is lower than others mentioned on this thread (and not inconsistent with 50:50 guess really, so p-value of 12%), it feels like there are some non-detail aspects that aren't human.

But even then, distinguishibility doesn't mean it's bad. For the most part, these were all very "accomplished" pictures - if you could make them as a human, you would be pretty pleased with yourself.
35+ ain't that far. For all. Damn.
Is that fewer than 2-3 chances for huge economic outcomes?
I logged into a gambling site and saw that you could make $5000 individual BlackJack bets. $5k a bet is a lot of money and gone in a second. This is not well regulated and needs help. With crypto you at least have some sh*tcoin left, with online casinos nothing.
This is because a) windows is truly general purpose, anyone from your old grandma to a corporate scientist is the audience b) It is an emergent system, it was pieced together after supporting many features over decades to meet a wide range of needs. In other words, it wasn't architected to meet the needs of a specific subset of users. Like with MacOS it is the graphic designers and consumers that want a simple pc (wasn't alwayd corporate friendly, still isn't compared to windows) and nix, I hardly need to describe that on HN.

You must remember, Windows was at its core made for the PC! Which meant random manufacturers get to shove it on their PC and random devs get to write code on it and it was closed source. This meant a lot of apis and the burden of supporting them long term. It was made in the era whe se purchased software in CDs.

The more I learn the internals of windows (it's a hybrid kernel but I mean the stuff close to the kernel not userspace) the more I am finding our a lot of fascinating design decisions that others can learn from. But even in user space, COM and WMI alone would be amazing to have on nix (I think KDE sort of tries for COM).

But from curl's perspective I can see why he'd be frustrated but I truly wonder what the problems are. If you use openssl and basically the same libs as on *nix, could it be the build systems and runtimes (Visual C++?)?
I've always wondered how this escalates to death threats. I can vaguely understand it in the political sphere, there's a lot at stake with everyone believing the other side is pushing the city/state/nation/world towards certain destruction. But pictures of a snow leopard that may or may not be authentic?

How do people get from seeing a picture of a snow leopard to sending death threats? Are they just trolls who jump on to the case du jour to send threats to people? Is there a super hardcore competitive snow leopard photography scene where the stakes are high and the people are super invested?
> a real distinction can be drawn between human and/or physical chance as part of music composition, and software random numbers

That's a good point.

> weird fascination with randomness among “generative” artists, which might be tied up in popular narratives about free will

A lot of modern art has a more "didactic" than aesthetic function. Once we assimilate/feel those (intellectual) lessons, they aren't of much use anymore. But the weight of habit/legacy/prestige lives on.

> each new neural network is magic for a short while, but then everyone starts to notice it’s producing the same thing

I don't agree. Deep learning is indeed lifeless/unconscious. It is also more akin to a complex system [1] than a random one. The way such systems create order out of randomness is fascinating to me. We don't know what life is (yet). So, we really can't say what a "lifeless" complex system is capable of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system
> what places are actually worth staying at?

I think that's the more important question: what attributes of a place make it likely to retain employees willingly long term?

There does need to be alignment with the employees values/wishes here, but a lot of those can be pretty generalised.
This was where I found my passion for graphic design. Making signatures and userbars in a cracked version of Photoshop started me on a journey that included me getting my degree in GD, working for major international clients, starting my own business, returning to an inhouse position, and then leaving the field after 5 years to get paid 25% more as an entry-level web dev with no relevant qualifications.
Quoth one of the pages of the Secret Network <https://scrt.network/about/about-secret-network/>:

> Every validator on Secret Network runs their code inside a TEE so no one—not even the nodes operating on the network—can access the information being decrypted and processed.

How could one possibly verify that a secure enclave is being used?
> companies will pay more to hire someone than they will to retain

It's painfully true very often.

I worked on a team where I was one of the most proactive people on the team and was one of the top performers (well, at least IMO).

I joined the company with an already relatively low salary because in the middle of covid shutdowns, the the startup I worked for didn't look stable enough, so I joined the bigger company even if their offer was the same as my previous salary.

After almost two years later, I asked what can I do and what's the process for salary increase, they told me that "sure, we can raise your salary"...

BUT:

* the company only raises salaries once a year, and that comes next year April, so I'll have to wait 7 months

* usual increase is 5%, if I'm very lucky, I might get 10%

* this increase is not given every year, so if I get it this time, I'll have to wait two more years for my next 5-10% raise

* I'll have to go through a long evaluation process with HR, which means lots of extra meetings spent begging and explaining that I'm actually pretty good

They think this is all acceptable while I had multiple offers with very little negotiation, all offering me 20%+ increase.

In the end, I got a 50% increase and on top of that a significant amount of stock options from a company that really has a potential to grow and go public.

Yeah, I can't be a lifer with those conditions.
Let me check! I don't our approach to be significantly more compact than DWARF's. DWARF is very compact despite being so much more expressive.

Funny that you mentioned perfect hashing, I thought about this, but didn't go for this approach as it would have too many drawbacks for our use-case:

- It would further increase the complexity of the unwinder, which is already not trivial. Ideally, we would like to reduce the surface area of things that can go wrong.

- Implementing perfect hashing in BPF might be tricky for several reasons. First it might take quite a bit of precious instructions, but also, it would force us to ship a compiler to generate the BPF code in the fly rather than shipping it pre-compiled. We really want to avoid this.

- Last, it would force us to generate entries for every program counter, while thanks to using binary search we can omit redundant entries. DWARF expressions would suffer from a similar issue.
This wasn’t an anonymous tip.
Not necessarily true! I've found that as TC has gone up the level of respect for workers has gone up as well. When companies don't pay well they generally treat workers poorly. Now of course, some mission-based companies are an exception to this!

My most stressful job was my first, and it required a lot of late nights of crunch time and writing proposals which I hated. Now at a big tech company, I am making 3-5x more than before, more opportunities to lead projects, more respect from management, and more interesting and impactful work.
aww, you don't get to see your mistakes? I got 80% right. Always interesting what where the clue can be found (fancy mirroring, subtle but correct things, small text, textures, eyes, hands...)
I think it's controversial not because it's false, but because calorie density variation in food is huge, a full order of magnitude, so only reducing quantity is not the best strategy in most cases.

100g of fries is about 250kcal, 100g of cabbage is around 30

You can quite literally eat 10 times as much cabbage as fries to have the same amount of calories

And eating less triggers a feeling of hunger (at least at the beginning), which makes following through harder.
Professional File System
Still applies. It's still a "sale" on Twitter. On HN. In forums. To colleagues. Etc.

Where to pitch is the easy part. Getting the pitch right. Well, that's where things go wrong too often.
I agree that there is a good market in serving NoaCAwDIs like us. There are definitely a few products available in this niche already, e.g.

https://boingboing.net/2016/09/07/retroconnector-makes-tiny-...

https://shop.minimuseum.com/products/first-super-computer?va...
That's the page I'm talking about. It doesn't mention anything about preview environments and comments, at least at a skim. Videos are great for details but not for figuring out what a service does at a glance.

And FYI Vercel already offers built in commenting in the precise environments. I think it's in beta but we have it enabled on our preview deployments.
of course he is a close friend of mine
Show HN: Localslackirc – Lets you use IRC to connect to slack
I made this because I can't stand the slack interface.

IRC clients are fast instead of slow, and do not display GIFs and memes automatically (I can still click to open them).

I can configure notifications.

I can configure it to not mention me when "@here" is typed by certain people or on certain channels.

It's just much quieter and easier to handle overall.
Thank you :) Though I should say, most of the code is by the original author Brian
Little period details:

- strobing CRT monitors that don't line up with the frequency of the TV camera

- PCs in the internet cafe, Macs in media, Acorn Archimedes (with ARM processor!) in schools

- first thing to do with the global communications network is send a dumb message to the US President

- indexed-color images; you can see in one case when she changes windows and the colours go wrong in the background as the palette is swapped.

- very early HTML without even a DOCTYPE

- "all secondary schools are to be linked to the internet by the end of the year" (I would put money on that not having happened for several more years)
I REALLY love this idea. The way that this could combine the tactile nature of physical games with the benefits of digitization is awesome. The example you gave somewhere of the vampire card is so cool.
Weird, I'm also mid-30s in the UK and stone is my native person weight. As well as pounds and ounces for babies.

That said, I have a reasonable intuition for the conversion factors. Enough that I wouldn't have to run to Google to understand the jist of the story.
> 99.99% of the world's population don't live in San Francisco, so it's probably geared towards them

Is the situation any better in other big IT-cities in the States (Seattle, NYC) or in Europe (London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Munich)? Some of these are slightly better than SF and some are even worse IMO.
Are you reading Le Monde Diplomatique in French? If so, you might enjoy Courrier International.
What exactly is Machine Learning?
In the real world, we are surrounded by humans who have the ability to learn from their experiences, as well as computers or machines that work on our instructions. Can a machine, like a human, learn from past experiences or data? So here comes Machine Learning's role.
Machine Learning is defined as a subset of artificial intelligence that is primarily concerned with the development of algorithms that allow a computer to learn on its own from data and previous experiences.
Global Water Monitoring for a growing planet
Most likely yes, as it is also done by many electronics companies.

It's called "planned obsolescence" [0].

There's a particular video from Veritasium [1] that comes to mind regarding this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE
Tried to do a similar thing with an old thinkpad (x250) a few months ago, basically just removing the screen so you have a computer, keyboard and trackpoint/trackpad in one. Turns out it wasn't just as easy as removing the screen, and I after a lot of messing around I only just managed to get it to boot, though the display ports didn't work and it kept beeping out error codes.
> "Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for"

Opening a socket and issuing a GET call is somehow too difficult on Windows?

Will you entertain the possibility that CURL's architecture is to blame?
This article focuses on DNS and AS numbers. Which are very much related to actual data plane. (i believe OP only looks at AS of authoritative dns servers, but it's most likely a good first approximation of the actual size and behavior of ASs)

> address allocation and infrastructure operators are where the real control is.

Most of them are also dns operators (at least for themselves), which is why it's a good proxy to study the state of the internet.

Also: in theory dns isn't that much needed (as you say, just use tcp/ip directly), but you'd be surprised what breaks when you blackhole dns packets on a network.
The Content Machine Revolution
She isn't a journalist, it is a side project. As she points out, misleading photos are common in all kinds of publications without a disclaimer.

Does she deserve death threats? It is responsible to post a "debunking" article without actually reaching out to the artist to ask?

I consider the "journalists" who wrote this article to be far more lacking in ethics than the artist who posted these photos.
Does it needthe power source and logic? Could you have some kind of pogo pin or contact on the base and make them thinner/cheaper?
Interesting. I don't see any requests to ads-api.twitter.com at all. Maybe they started rolling out changes to fetch the ads differently?
That would be a different story. Imagine its parents trained it or trained itself on data derived from the environment mixed with other bits we could already call its experience. Imagine it then went to some kind of kindergarten with others, then school, them started to look for a partner then a job and so on. Yeah, in that sense we’d be going full circle replicating the life of humans on silicon. If I were still around Id be befuddled as why we went on this track
I think what Musk is trying to do is turn Twitter from a left/far-left into a moderate playground. I don't think he's far-right. He's just crazy.
I can recommend the recent book "Conway's Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction" (downloadable free at https://conwaylife.com/book/), it starts gently and builds up to these kind of constructions (minus what has been discovered in the last year or so).
Thanks!

As @brancz mentioned, Delve uses DWARF unwind information to produce backtraces (they are stored in the .debug_frame section for Go).

You are right, Go enabled frame pointers for all architectures as of 1.17 [0]. This is enabled to allow profilers to work well, without having to use to techniques such as the one we describe in our post.

When it gets funny is that there's `gopclntab`, a 3rd option in Go to unwind stacks, used by `panic` and I believe other parts of the runtime. If you are interested in more details, Felix Geisendörfer's repo contains way more details [1]

[0]: https://go.dev/doc/go1.17

[1]: https://github.com/DataDog/go-profiler-notes/blob/main/stack...
Is it? An adblocker blocks content.

Controlling invasive technologies like camera use or file browsing cannot be realistically achieved by an adblocker.
If you don't want to understand (calling that conspiracy) that the biggest shalerholders, and to a certain extend major shareholders, of a company get to decide on CEO/board members/Management teams, then do decide where this company is going, I cannot do much about it.
Like many others, Not books but writing my thoughts made me a better evaluator of them.
While I don't think that wanting is completely meaningless, the last bit rings very true.

Ultimately you have to reshape your life and environment a little bit.
Maybe a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names ?
Windows was made in the floppy era, not CD era. I still remember picking up my release day copy of windows 95. It was on several floppies.
Curious, I agree – I don't think it's that strange that someone would object to the spread of manipulated photos as a photographer. But I do think there's a pretty big gulf between "curiosity" or "objection" and the sort of… wild-eyed, frothing-at-the-mouth tone of this poorly-written article.

I think a good example of this sort of analysis was that piece from earlier in the year about the "fake pro cyclist" Nick Clark https://cyclingtips.com/2022/04/exposed-by-a-strava-kom-the-...
Also what we eat affects hormones in complex ways, so while the CICO formula may be true in some narrow technical sense, even physiologically it doesn't explain the phenomenon to a useful degree.
First batch of Lordstown Endurance EV pickups leave Foxconn plant for delivery
I think the biggest prerequisite for getting good at "advanced GoL" is just an unreasonable amount of patience.

Probably I'm a good case in point. I'm definitely not a particularly clever mathematician, but it seems like it's possible to understand any new Life technology just by tinkering with the pieces for long enough.

If anyone wants to follow along with that kind of learning process, just start working through the Life textbook that kryptiskt mentioned. (Full disclosure, I'm one of the authors.)
Jesus guys. The problem isn't the guy doesn't know what to do , it's that he's not motivated to do anything . In most cases you get motivated by doing, thats true, but know this : it doesnt matter, because you are Sisyphus, we all are. Find a struggle and embrace the suck cause that's all there is. Everyone has their delusions. My only recommendation is reading books you'll find that you re not alone and sometimes that's enough to feel just a little better to do something about however you feel.