skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that there's the "5x rule" -- BOM cost is supposed to be 5x less than retail.

Is there such a rule for fulfillment and delivery?

Of course, 56% seems monstrously high to me, but then again, so did 5x BOM cost before I had that explained.
I love curry but can't help feeling that meat as delicious as good lamb or fish is wasted in the strong flavor of the curry - better to have a vegetarian curry and enjoy the curry flavors on their own, cook the lamb separately.

Well cooked lamb is so delicious it - in my opinion should be eaten only with gravy or a tiny dab of mustard or tiny dab of mint sauce.
The design of io_uring has nothing to do with the language the Linux kernel is implemented in. And safer languages really can't provide guarantees when the issue at hand is designing a shared memory cross-executable (kernel⋄userspace) API.
I suppose throwing dynamite from helicopters is a choice, but I still see Philadelphia as more of a living with risk place than a place that benefits from intelligent risk taking.
Why shouldn't they? You've arranged to have product you didn't create shipped to a warehouse you don't operate to be stored by a system you don't maintain to be sold on a storefront under a brand you made up and that you didn't create to be fulfilled by a shipping apparatus instead of you going to the UPS Store. What exactly are YOU doing here that merits a payday? Mediating a relationship between Amazon and a Chinese manufacturing firm? They already have tons of those.

The entitlement these entrepreneur types exhibit is the economic equivalent of wind-drag. If buying stuff from random AliExpress sellers and charging 300% markup to sell it to people who don't know better on Amazon isn't working out for you, maybe you should find a way to contribute to the economy instead of just inserting yourself between existing profitable businesses and demanding money for sending some emails.
For the most part, I think firearms purchases are fairly price inelastic; people know what they want, and are either viewing it as an investment or are purchasing it for fear that the government is going to regulate it later.
The antigen tests definitely seem to be much less effective than they used to be. There are so many false negatives, it's not clear that the test has any value. Many people have covid symptoms, test negative, and then figure they're good to go visit grandma in the nursing home or whatever, when the symptoms alone are probably a more reliable guide.

We use molecular (Lucira) home tests, which are much more sensitive, and even those have given us very inconsistent and confusing results on two separate occasions.

One thing that has helped anecdotally among my family and friends of mine is to do use a throat swab, and first thing in the morning before you eat or drink anything. A number of times, many other tests were negative, but that one was positive.
Generate secret messages in images with ControlNet Stable Diffusion WebUI
I made a quick step-by-step guide on how to run ControlNet using the Stable Diffusion WebUI (AUTOMATIC1111). Make cool QR codes, alter logos, or hide secret messages in images like the images that are going viral on Twitter/X right now.

It's fun to play with. Curious to see what you make!
I do a few things:

Before joining any job I get some background on the executive team. That will tell you a lot about the culture, and let you know if the current team still has the founder or not (which can make a big impact on company culture).

That will tell you a fair bit, if you brush up on their background you can get some approximate sense of how it may influence company culture. I also look at where they are in life, as this can often indicate where they may lean into their philosophies in decision making. You can find patterns here sometimes.

Then, I do similar for the immediate time I'm working for when I'm hired. That will give you a sense of their personalities, at least.

Next, I really dig into how the company presents itself outwardly, and the general tone they carry. This one is harder for me to describe, but I have noticed that more "stuffy" companies tend to have a certain vibe to their presentation, for instance.

Finally, try to estimate where in the company lifecycle the company is. Is it new and unproven? Is it new yet has product market fit? Is it an older company climbing its peak or has it hit peak and is now largely to the point of being as big as its going to get or may even be plateauing?

these questions usually get me a good enough sense of company culture I haven't felt I've ever been surprised by company culture once I arrive at a given job.

Extra credit you can simply have an off the record conversation with your potential co-workers on LinkedIn or something, but not everyone answers cold questions about what its like working at X
Is drop shopping the kind of business to fight for supporting? That’s all this is.
US Retailers Pare Store Locations, Hours Due to Increase in Theft
I wonder if there'd be fewer abuses by the TSA (especially theft, but also assault and harassment) if they had the resources to hire better people. Maybe there is still an opportunity to reduce staff if the quality of the staff still increases.
I do not think that resemblance to "Thinking Fast and Slow" is a thing that will necessary happen. Human mind is "designed" that way to overcome some limitations of his substrate, of a brain made of very slow neurons. AI on the other hand relies on "neurons" that are several orders of magnitude faster. The situations when such an AI could benefit from snap decisions, while having an ability to decide by slow thoughtful process, still could pop, but it will not be like with a human mind. Chess engines have something like that: they can propose a move by a "snap" decision without trying to search all possible developments of a game from a current position. In real games they limit the depth of analysis by time they have. It resembles to some extent "System 1" and "System 2", but there is a gradual transition between them, from depth 0 analysis to depth of infinity.

With AI designed for real tasks, not artificial games, it will be probably the same story. They will do a search of depth N in any case, but in situations of time pressure they will keep N very low.

Historically attempts to replicate high level understanding of a human mind to build an AI didn't work. Simulations of low level understanding, like neurons and suchlike did work. We can draw parallels between AI developments and human mind traits as we see them, but they are very shaky constructs. At least as shaky as all these psychology "high level" theories, which try to refine naive human understanding how human mind works.

> We react to situations and then rationalize why we reacted that way at leisure, and those often turn into excuses and not reasons.

I do believe it is not because of limitations of a human mind, but due to training peculiarities. I believe that reasoning itself was "designed" with a goal of communicating inner states of mind to others, by getting an "explanation" that fits the current social situation and helps to reach current social goals. I agree with the idea that politics was a driver of evolution of human intelligence. And it probably still the driver. Humans learned how to apply these new abilities to other kinds of problems, like engineering ones, but it was when their intelligence evolved a lot under a pressure of natural selection driven by politics.

Probably people can do better than that, and could understand themselves a way better, could explain their anger by real reasons, but we still learning to seek excuses from the very young age. We are punished when we have "wrong reasons" for our behaviour and reinforced for "good reasons". The idea of such an education is to eliminate wrong reasons and remove their power to influence a person's behaviour, but the unintended consequence is person's preference for excuses over reasons.

In other words, it is a cultural thing I believe, not some genetic limitations.
Ok, so what, apple can still claim you have the same protection if you use just our app store. And I have the ability to use the alternative store where I can download a game without paying apple 30%. It's great.
> I don't think many people really regard it as an especially strong flavour.

For some reason the lamb available in the US is much more strongly flavoured than what I was used to in the UK, which was usually from UK/Aus/NZ.
I’ll second this advice, and add that he recently released a new book, “The SaaS Playbook”. It has a lot of concrete advice for the kinds of issues OP is asking about. Never met Rob and not getting anything out of the recommendation; I just really enjoyed the book.
Now apply this argument to PCs in the 90s and you can probably see how dumb it is.
Avalara (https://www.avalara.com/) does tax calculations for SaaS - you give it a list of prices, the address of your customer, and the type of good/service each item is, and it tells you the correct amount of tax to charge :)
see, we're not targeting these use cases at all :)
it is the fucking article. or "featured" if you're feeling classy.
No, it really isn't. The closest is the bit about Alexander Hamilton favoring consumption taxes because they're politically harder to raise than income taxes.

None of this articulates why I should pay tax on both earning and spending money.
In the western US there were some pretty violent confrontations between sheep and cattle ranchers, with the cattle folks seemingly coming out ahead in a lot of cases.

For instance: https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-rec...
"If you see a Homebrew maintainer walking down the street in your direction, find the nearest wall and bury your face in it in shame and deference until they pass."
I fully agree. But I also think it's a sign of something broken. It's deeply sad that a generation of talented people have to go home and face a choice: crank out even more hours of work to have an outlet for your creative/professional ideas... or don't, enjoy life, but fall behind and feel appropriately guilty for abandoning your creative impulses.
Databricks acquired it if I recall correctly.. so maybe.
> What are you gonna do with a positive anyway, call out of work? They don't have sick leave.

This is why I don't do indoor dining when community spread is high/climbing. I'd love to give local businesses more money, but since they don't let their workers stay home when they're sick, I can't trust that the restaurant workers aren't diseased. If I had faith that employees could call in sick without risking losing their job and/or getting evicted I'd feel a lot more comfortable having a night out.
Different cuts of lamb do differ in flavour. In fact I'm often disappointed when I order lamb and it's not... lamb-ey enough.
Every time a new MacOS version is announced the 1Password staff must be all sitting around praying Apple doesn't add any more bells and whistles to Keychain.
Maybe people would simply like choice? I know I know, Apple doesn't really offer any choice on their phones, but the point is they should.
A 2-5× performance hit is also a 2-5× CO₂ hit, and I wouldn't be willing to let myself or other people take that hit. We're throwing enough heat into the atmosphere already to make cats dance on our portable supercomputers as is.
I love lamb too but my love for it is heavily tempered by its extreme environmental impact :(
Hm, all of a sudden the seemingly outrageous fees don't seem so outrageous anymore.
It's open for legal migrants, not for illegals, same logic applies for developers vs hackers.
No. I don't think tooling is included in this.

I assume many people are hard at work to get a free version of something like the xcode build system stood up. It's mostly there already, but I haven't seen anyone put the parts all together in a way you can self-host.

I think iOS hobbyists these days usually use a SASS build system with a free or cheap lower tier.
this is a small personal nit complaint, but increasingly I see "Linux command-line" used to refer to things which have nothing to do with command-lines per se, which to me suggests some cli-fu with p|pes || other tricky \\&\\&& if-fi $(things).

Perhaps we need some better vocabulary to separate these ideas, but the world of unix includes "shell" ideas, and their interplay with cli, there's ascii text ttys, there's ansi tty control and TUIs, and what this article is about, traditional unix userspace process-space, system calls, C-libs, compilers vs interpreters got skipped, but C-vs-Rust, just all without the overhead of GUI frameworks which brings a bit more clarity to timings but they don't absolutely, to do timings could be better to write a program to launch all these things and make sure that program is "sticky" in unix space-time.

This is a good article, but because I like to search for things again later, just as a headline I wouldn't really call this exploring Linux command-line space or time
> Following process/thread creation is done via netlink(7).

shouldn't ptrace with PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK (etc.) be enough (and much easier)?

the high overhead of strace the author notes is due to it doing PTRACE_SYSCALL, which is not needed here.
Interesting re: kiwi fruit.

I agree too, we are one marketing campaign and health fad away from mainstreaming something like mutton or rabbit.
Control center is responsible for drawing a bunch of the ui on the top right of the menu bar, things like the clock (many comments here seem to be saying this is related to showing seconds), Wi-Fi, sound settings, etc.

It also shows the annoying overlay bit when you accidentally open it :D
This is a solid attack. I wouldn't call it beautiful, it's more like a well-considered thorough engineering tour-de-force. I'm horrified but applaud the team.

Here's how it works: a stack of SVG filters is created. These filters are constructed so that they will tend to be faster processing a dark pixel than they will be processing a light pixel.

An iframe is loaded up by the attacking site, pointing at, say, a banking site or some other target of interest. I couldn't find exact details, and my HTML skills are rusty, but I assume the iframe is a 1x1 pixel iframe, and given a pixel offset.

The SVG stack is loaded onto the iframe using CSS, then unloaded, then loaded, etc. a whole bunch of times, and average timing results are assessed. Based on these average times, the pixel is marked 'dark' or 'light'. Repeat for each pixel.

Average time per pixel is in the 1-2 second range. Per pixel. So, this is a slow attack. It could probably get an order of magnitude faster with a sort of combo of zooming and greyscale heuristics that resolves over time, though.

They have a number of cool graphs showing the broad spread of times, and it does look easy to distinguish; their success varies by architecture, but it's over 96% for almost every architecture they test. They show it works while multiple videos and other things that tax the GPU are playing.

Proposed fix: let browsers tell the GPU they need some variant of constant-time processing for an iframe. Which is super, super gross.

Safari and Firefox don't currently allow cross-site iframe injection, so the attack only works on Chromium-line browsers.

Again, eww. And, wow!
People don't generate exploits using popular ROP compilers.
SQMY is my fav SONY 'tribute brand'
> Privacy and security are OS functions

Naive take. Network sockets, remote servers, and data brokers don't care about local file permissions and an OS won't be able to tell me if corp-surveillance.justbuyme.com might be a domain hosting a privacy-disrespecting service without some sort of human-mediated reputation service.
Was Microsoft preventing people from installing firefox on their PCs? Am I misremembering this era?
What do you mean by network costs?

Fewer cell towers per user is surely cheaper assuming each user is consuming the same amount of content.
It's among the things Gatekeeper does, isn't it? As configured with PPPC?
What is needing is FOSS that you can use a separate program for encryption and for communication (which do not necessarily need to run on the same computer; the service need not care about that, nor how they are sandboxed (on the same computer) or connected (on different computers), nor what ciphers are in use, what language or character set it is written in, picture formats, etc).
> Or, more likely, tech people pay attention to Amazon and not the myriad of suits occuring in the retail and grocery world.

We're listening. Feel free to toss some examples of these myriad of law suits against brick and mortar stores for their in-house brands.
He is old like in his 90s, in mental decline consistent with his age, and has little to loose because extradition proceedings take long time. On the flip side, he was given celebrity reception in the Parliament and he got his 15 minutes of fame.
There's already a clear winner, docker compose. Podman is barely used in prod and podman compose is barely used in dev. Docker also has buildkit and rootless configs so I'm not sure they are just letting it decay.
It was Netscape at the time, and yes. Yes, they were.
A lot of times mutton in Indian subcontinental recipes is synonymous with goat
Have you written up anything about htmx with lisp? My last CL webapp used MithrilJS and parenscript, but htmx looks like a better fit.
It's not so much taste, but texture. Americans like steaks and boneless skinless breastmeat. Lamb is not very amenable to that.
This is the kind of question that doesnt need to be answered with certainty. "The fucking article" is definitely the most fun interpretation of "TFA".
This is in a thread that's about various CPUs INCLUDING Alpha.

Good job ;)
Is it any more serious than flu/rhino/other corona/strep/RSV/noto/rota/adeno/etc?

Why are there no tests being offered for all the other airborne viruses?
If the sandbox can be imposed on an OS level then apps on alternative stores will have to conform to the same baseline of security restrictions.
People are less likely to be irrationally exuberant if there's an up-front cost to trading, no? Having to write a check (to to speak) to the government feels like real money, as opposed to the fantasy of sure-thing future profits that naive margin traders and property flippers may kid themselves into.
No this is normal. When you introduce a new diagnostic test, part of the approval process is that you have to run an aging study on the reagents/test cartridge.

The normal procedure is to set some of the tests aside when they first come off the production line. Typically every six months, you run a new study to validate that the tests you set aside still work. If they do, you can file an amendment to your approval to extend the expiration date. If this weren't allowed, you'd have to wait to bring your test on the market for two years or however long you wanted the shelf life to be.
It's a constitutionally recognized inalienable right. Try taxing every social media post and news paper article and see how that goes.
This looks amazing, and I really hope it gains some traction.

That being said, one of the biggest annoyances I had trying to switch to Godot from Unity is that their Scene view doesn't reflect the Game view at runtime (you can see the hierarchy, but there's no visuals, no gizmos, no debug raycasting or colliders)[1]. It seems this engine has the same missing feature?

[1]https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/7213
I'm actually rather surprised that we're still using qwerty layouts on touchscreen devices.

Of all the possible ways to input text with your thumbs, this is undoubtedly one of the worst.

I'm sure plenty of people have tried to come up with alternate keyboards, maybe a radial layout or something, but when I look, I don't see a whole lot of activity in this space.

There's got to be a better way, surely.
According to the book Breath by James Nestor, humans did not always have wisdom teeth problems: today, modern humans have small jaws because, during our youth, we spend less time chewing our food, so the muscles and bones in our skulls are stunted. Old skulls, like those found in crypts of old European cities, had larger jaws. (I'm going off of memory - my apologies if this explanation is too reductionist.)
There will be side-effects of well-intentioned, feel-good policies of supporting multiple app stores:

- Malware including ransomware, password theft, and identity theft

- Lookalike, counterfeit apps

- Software piracy

- Lowering of curation standards by Apple

Certain other software bits cannot be open sourced, including specific cryptographic keys. There is a great deal of Darwin/XNU that is already FOSS.

What would be helpful for r2r would be the availability of schematics and Apple-proprietary custom variants of third-party chips. Certainly, T prefix chips can't be too freely shared without weakening the integrity of the security baked into Apple products (no pie puns intended).
Stupendous in going after key deals and closing them.
You don't know how many websites you're using do totally different things under an if (Chrome) though, or will in the future.
Over 40 and never seen star wars or lord of the rings or probably any marvel movie
Its not that they're supporting buggy code, they just downgraded the quality of their implementation significantly. They made the compiler a lot worse when they swapped to rocm

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime/iss... is the tracking issue for it filed a year ago, which appears to be wontfix largely because its a lot of work

OpenCL still unfortunately supports quite a few things that vulkan doesn't, which makes swapping away very difficult for some use cases
Wow! That's quite impressive. Meanwhile there was a latent bug in the Homebrew formula for Rust that affected 10.13 for a year until I finally spent a few hours to investigate it.
Also direct email addresses harvested from GitHub (sometimes) and apparently also investor relations.

In some countries, if you're part of a retirement fund that owns stock in a company, you might get away with calling yourself an investor in a letter / email / phone call to investor relations. Nobody wants investors to be disgruntled, so if one asks for something and it's not a terrible imposition (think actually looking at a flagged customer instead of bouncing them from bot to script-following employee) many companies actually go for it and fulfill the request without much checking.
I am having trouble believing that the environmental impact of a running a server from 2002 is lower than buying a machine that is 2-3 orders of magnitude more efficient.
OpenAI could be valued up to $90B
> But if that's the case, your thoughts aren't about reality; they're just a result of reality, a result of whatever state you happen to be in.

According to my premises (materialism being the key one), thoughts are the result of the combination of (a) what happened before and (b) the laws of the universe.

So thoughts can be both: (1) a causal result (previous paragraph) and (2) _about_ reality, from the point of view of one's consciousness.

Any disagreement here?
I'm rather indifferent on the matter, but this doesn't quite hold true. It's possible (likely?) that a someone big - one who ordinary folk would go through the jumps for - would only publish their app via side loading (or alt app store) and use this to bypass some of the policy restrictions wrt privacy on the App Store. This then becomes a slippery slope and would act as a platform to allow other apps through.

The tough part of "just don't side load" is when we have a somewhat contemptious relationship with some of the services you use, and they only offer their apps via alt methods.

Worth noting that Epic Games couldn't get this to work for Fortnite (for a period they only offered Fortnite via a sideloaded apk), and I don't believe Facebook as tried this.

There's also the finer details - if alt browse engines are allowed, will non-web browser apps start bundling and shipping their own browser engines (similar to the electron situation on desktop)?