skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bobcats are wildly outnumbered by stray cats. If anything it’s strays that are out competing them.

Here’s a 2010 estimate of 2,352,276 to 3,571,681 bobcats in the US: https://meridian.allenpress.com/jfwm/article/1/2/169/206731/...

Even low ends of the estimates for US stray cat population is 10x that. The majority of them need to hunt life prey to survive vs handouts, which is mostly small mammals but anyone that’s been around outdoor cats notices the birds are on the menu.

I’ll turn this around what percentage of a wild cats diet do you think are birds? 5% or 15%? You can work out the pounds of meat they need to survive a year and work back to number of birds needed.
Thanks. Addressing these issues:

> You can clearly see images even through a mesh.

> You don't need 100% of the light to reach you to have a clear image of something. Even a small portion of the light is enough to get a clear image.

You can see something that's relatively large (in your field of vision) through a mesh. Something that's a tiny point seems like another matter.

Even if you can't see something directly, you could see emitted light indirectly, that reflects off something else. But that doesn't get you a direct image of it, like the ones the astronomy teams publish.
Then I have no idea why my consistent kernel panics are not addressed since the last few releases (major and minor).
Excellent. Today you might have to work a little (ok a lot) harder to get a job than a year ago but a developer who has a portfolio has a chance, I think the project management experience is worth something too, particularly in a startup. You might take a pay cut though.
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Show HN: Trusty – Dependency Software Supply Chain Security
Trusty - Search for an open source package to understand its trustworthiness based on activity, provenance, and more. Brought to you by the founders of projects such as Kubernetes and Sigstore.

Hey, Luke here the CTO of stacklok. This is an early experimental preview of Trusty. We use statistical analysis to observe millions of packages and found that Malware typically follows certain patterns. We found this tool really useful to help understand the packages we our pulling into our software and wanted to share it with others.

It's still early in and we have a lot more features that will be landing weekly.
Yeah I had a situation where I had an offer for Job A, but really preferred Job B (Job A required me to move which I really didn't want to do). The recruiter for Job B gave me the impression that the interview process was going to be quick enough that'd I'd have time time to take it before I would have to accept A instead. Instead, I hear nothing, assume I was ghosted until fucking weeks after I moved and started Job A, Job B calls asking me to do a final round.

Even worse, im just now getting interviews/rejections for jobs I applied to months ago.
I meant in terms of perspective and writing style, but fair point.
New 'GootBot' strain of Gootloader malware stokes ransomware fears
The claim that game culture has become sexually repressive doesn't pass the smell test for me.

In 2023 I can play mainstream "AAA" games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3. These games have non-trivial systems designed to gamify human sexual behavior, including such features as "configure your genitalia" during character creation and choose-your-own-adventure-style romantic coupling complete with nudity, intercourse and full voice acting. I would guess that these games would have been banned or classified as pornography for being too sexually explicit if they were released when I was growing up (90s kid).

If anything, the trend I've noticed over time is a reduction in the conspicuous objectification of women in mainstream game titles. But even still: there seems to be an ever-longer-tail of borderline-pornographic content entering mass-market outlets like Steam.

All of this just to say: I don't think "sexually repressed" is how I would describe the relationship people have with games in 2023. Then again, I never found Lara Croft's outsized, rectangular bosom to add much to the story.
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Research Triangle Park in North Carolina (USA). It sits between 3 cities, Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill which each contain very well known universities, NC State, Duke, and UNC Chapel Hill. Lot of tech, bio/ag, and research hubs here.
The registration requiremenet may not be Twilio's doing, but there not being any significant guidance on what transactional senders should do for their particular set of processes is.
Agreed. I think it should be taught, but taught from the HISTORICAL perspective, not from an arts/culture one. "This is an example of low brow comedy from a certain era" rather than "This is the greatest set of plays ever written". I got nothing out of Shakespeare culture wise, and mostly was just quite angry at having to read it.
What if the user "initiates the thread" by taking an explicit action on a website? The carrier has no way of knowing that, so what should they do? Just block everything? Not workable.
I'd be interested in some fake airpods if they lasted twice as long and sounded 80% as good. Literally I get perhaps a year out of a set of genuine bought at Apple Store airpods before the case gives up or one airpod goes muffled or craps out. After a year Apple don't want to know or care unless you have AppleCare.

Decided I wasn't going to fish out for a fourth set, so I bought some Sony ones for £20 with a wire between them. Seem to work ok and for that money, meh!
I think it's any industry which is a very common childhood dream that doesn't have a high barrier to entry. I wanted to be a game developer - I was briefly too - but I'm not anymore. It's the perfect environment to get 20 year olds to work 80 hour weeks for close to no pay - because it's so cool we're making video games!.
>If you're Mass. and you created those articles for a reason then I wouldn't find it surprising if you didn't want to help Maine throw them out after they've already violated your will at least once.

If you created those articles, you were probably dead by 1870, and definitely dead by 1967. Any generation of lawmakers would have been willing to renegotiate the terms if it benefited them.

>find it quite silly to extend such extreme benefit of the doubt to the state government that we already know wanted to escape those treaties and successfully did so before, during, and after passing this amendment.

I said that the US at that point cared so little about honoring treaties with Native tribes that I doubted they'd bother formally amending a constitution to do so. That's not giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I’m not sure why that’s ideal when we can imagine things like “the car knows if you feel too hot or not” or “the car knows if the windows are frosted up.”

To me, the ideal “Jetsons” climate control system never needs to be interacted with.
> I'm not aware of any act of Parliament being struck down in recent history for violating the Magna Carta

No. What happens is that successive acts of Parliament overrule more and more of Magna Carta, until there's only one or two clauses still in effect.

When we say "The UK doesn't have a constitution", we mean that there are no laws governing what legislation Parliament can enact, other than international treaties; and those can be repudiated even without any act of Parliament - a treaty can be revoked by stroke of the executive pen.
How about replaceable and rechargeable batteries that can charge in their vehicles? They can keep their phones charged, cameras should not be an issue.
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Sure it might be faster but in context it doesn’t feel like a significant improvement. The base M3 and the M3 Max have fairly large gains over their predecessors, but the M3 Pro doesn’t have nearly as large of a gain (this is all mentioned in the article). It stands out and it’s pretty clear that Apple wants people to “upgrade” to the Max which comes with a +$800 margin.

I’m holding judgement until I see real world performance benchmarks vs synthetic but I fully understand everyone’s reservations with the M3 Pro.
Of course, and yet it turns into the same thing when your advertisers are based in Dubai.
Yeah, Kotaku was either a firestarter or a SEO chasing dogpiler way too often.

> Mass Effect Andromeda was the straw for me

Always good to see a fellow Andromeda appreciator/semi-appreciator.
Async is a huge wart and I try and avoid it wherever possible. It's simply not useful in a lot of cases that I encounter. However, if a library uses async, you have little choice but to make your whole project async. This adds to its horrible reputation.
Most people would love a four-day workweek. But it doesn't work for everyone
... it's a plug-in hybrid?
But even with gmail, they give you the option to use your own apps because they support standard protocols that you can use to sync your emails.

For E2EE email it's a bit different because most of the standard protocols don't work out of the box but it's very clear that whatever system Tuta uses works locally or they wouldn't have anything but a web app.

I'm not saying don't prioritise your apps, I just want to be able to mutt and send in patches easily. And my grandparents want to use their outlook because it's what they know how to use.
In most capitalist countries, only a small proportion of that that $18 + $4 paid in tax is used for welfare and the $15 is much larger than that. A lot goes to military, policing, law, prisons, etc. which serve to protect the profits of the ruling class.

It also assumes that profits are actually correctly accounting for the value appropriated by the owners of capital, which often hides various other ways in which they extract value from labour.
> In general, AI is data hungry and college kids in their dorm room will always be at a disadvantage in that regard compared to large companies (many of which locked down scraping on their properties, even if "their" content is mainly generated by users, i.e. non-employees).

It's a two-way street too. The big players have more data to start with and they're already the "place" that you go to add more data.

Google's ML/AI stuff (the behind the scenes stuff, not the consumer facing chatbot type stuff) in gmail/calendar/etc is already useful because of their vertical integration. They "see" everything and can add new records in any part of their productivity suite, then make correlations / recommendations across the entirety of their offerings in a way that ChatGPT wrappers outside of their walled garden will never be able to replicate.

Now with OpenAI, MS has the same opportunity. Issues on github? Code? Emails? Teams conversations? Calendar appointments? Bing search history? It's all just part of the same bundle to them and it's all read/write.
> The claim that there are some safe programs in the world of C is categorically false.

I don't like the article either, but this is just as bad. It's using hyperbole to counter hyperbole. Of course there are some safe programs in the world of C. It's ridiculous to say that there doesn't exist even one program which is safe.
I doubt it. Zero profit (since I charged the going rate) and a real waste of time/gas to drive to my house to pick up a single pair.

The fake sellers must buy them by the crate for cheap to see any real profits.
Shorting this one as soon as possible.
The nature of the market makes it impossible to not have a cartel. The previous situation with a bunch of regional cellular providers building their own towers and establishing a patchwork of roaming agreements was clearly untenable due to customer demands for nationwide service and the enormous capital expense to build a 5G network.
> "Put it to better use. It's ridiculous. $1.7 million for a stupid bathroom," that was a resident interviewed in Oct. 2022.

Wow

Apparently it went down in price. But my only comment for the "put it to better use" would be that if a toilet is 1.7m, then anything else will consume 1.7m for just the meetings on what the alternative would be.
The fair share is proportional to your use of the service. That’s means the USPS model, not the income tax model. Many people are against adopting the USPS model for other public services because they do not want to pay their fair share.
Slightly different idea but currently I'm working on C + Assembler Compiler to prototype and run such 512B games / apps for retro CPUs.

https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler
I agree that I'm playing kind of fast and loose with the terms. I think you could definitely make an argument that Gorsuch argues the position from a small-c conservative "rule of law" perspective. In my view the dissent is operating on a very different rule-of-law, one that Gorsuch is happy to dabble in with most other issues:

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

It's satisfying to raise issues above the partisan or ideological divide, but if the people that call themselves conservative consistently find ways make the law protect their own while restraining others, as four of them try to do here, then its naive to assume that the issues are really transcendent of that.
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Almost certainly the latter
Dated memes are uncool, therefore memes are alive.
Show HN: LemonSpeak – I created a Podcast Copilot that generates content for you
The app is very simple from a user perspective. You upload a podcast, specify the language and the names of the speakers and click start. Then you get a diarized transcript with VTT, show notes, summary, SEO-optimised titles, tweets and a blog post.

It's not just a GPT wrapper, though. The architecture behind it is more complex because I have long running tasks (speaker diarization) that require GPU and that I have to queue, audio file preparation, token limitations, and I also want to ensure a high degree of quality to have a certain level of style and reproducibility. I only offer English and German because I can control the quality.

My headline is "Grow Your Podcast Right" rather than "Copilot" because I think that's what podcasters struggle with the most and what they're looking for.

I've been working on this app for seven months. I'm not good at marketing though. I've tried building in public, but that's not really my style. Wish I could grow it better.

Appreciate any feedback or advice!
At least here signs do that. Safety is the reason they are put in but drivers use apps to avoid police. The best way to avoid fines is to follow rules, but I hope users will follow apps more than signs.
The only reason I can see you not being taken seriously is that you might seem too expensive or that "stepping down" into more of an individual-contributor role may be seen as incomprehensible and scare people away.
> significant differences that have implications for performance and safety

This seems to refer to charging safety, but the thing that makes me fork out for genuine headphones is ear safety - I _assume_ Apple tries to protect from damaging sound levels and frequencies, and could be held to account in a way that counterfeiters could not.
Man, you hate Americans, why do you live here? Honest question.
Motorcycling. Didn’t expect to love it so much getting into it later in life.

Love the speed, the acceleration, braking, leaning, the sound and the smell of it and getting over that second-guessed fear of death every time I get the bike out.

Also love the dynamics, physics, maths of it and the skill and absolute attention it takes to control.

Actually my job is just a means to support my motorcycle addiction now.
Yes, agents don't really work yet, I agree.
Which ballot question is that? I haven’t found it in a quick search, and I’m intrigued.
Plenty of journalists have joined Substack, started podcasts, etc. They quickly realize that’s a business as well, and there’s no escaping the hustle and grind.
Cool to see the mention of Andrew Thomason! He was my supervisor/tutor for several undergrad courses, as well as lecturing a couple of the courses I took over the years. He had a brilliant Yorkshire accent, and if I remember rightly he enjoyed eating Walkers crisps and making good use of Fellows' privilege to ride their bike on college grounds. I actually had no idea that he had a seminal result on Ramsey numbers, and in the same year I was born no less.
I'm in Philadelphia which is definitely a coastal city in the US and $200k would be way above market here unless my understanding of the local market is dramatically wrong.
Still a long way to go to catch up to Geneva.
But OP is correct; the name of the document (and the law it encodes) is Magna Carta. No article is used.
What Waze needs is a proper zoom function, especially on Apple Carplay.

Waze is almost unusable in that its auto-zoom doesn't work properly, and I'm forced to switch to manual zoom, which also doesn't work when I want to see more precise directions to places that I've never been before.

Apple Maps gets this right, in that it properly zooms between long distances when I'm on the highway, and short distances when I'm on the streets. I don't know why Waze doesn't get this right and I've moved to Apple Maps entirely for new locations.
They will, but it depends on previous work/level. The range is because they’ll hire you in for a position at your ideal level, not necessarily for the position you actually applied for.
I've found it very interesting that there are no stable isotopes with 5 nucleons. This article got me looking at a chart:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/NuclideM...

And now I see there is no stable isotope with 8 nucleons either. That kind of makes sense, as that would probably be most stable as 2 distinct He4 atoms.

I still hold out hope for some kind of physical model of the structure of a nucleus that might explain some of this.
The difference is that people report that the potato diet is /easy/. No cravings, no endless hunger & having to force yourself to calorie count and stop eating when you hit your target. Eat as much as you like, when you like.

That’s radically different from other diets.
Why maintain a perfectly good and profitable business when you could suck every possible resource dry and be the CEO that boosted profits by 3%? /s

Silicon Valley, VC culture, American industry in general, has all jaded my view of "business" people.
Hey! Im josh. Russell summed it up very well. If anyone has more technical questions about the site I would love to hear them! This is something we are both extremely proud of what we have built and want to hear from you!
This is my experience with almost every topic on HN...
> But instead the city and its residents has always fought against new housing.

Isn’t that how a democracy is supposed to work? If the residents don’t want the changes, where does one derive the (moral) authority to override their desires?
That site has been dead to me ever since the gamersgate fiasco.

Leading up to that fiasco people were already frustrated with game media for being in bed with game publishers. And no, I don't care if they have a right to sleep together, I care that the journalistic integrity was so missing they couldn't be bothered to have someone else write the piece or be open about it. And then the entire war on gamers as misogynists for wanting game journalists to have some integrity.

I've never even opened their website since.
Just had fun summarising the keynote using one of the new GPT-4 models (the 128K token model).

It produced a pretty impressive blog post - not the kind of thing I'd normally post, but certainly good enough for most "tech" publications... https://www.atomic14.com/2023/11/07/open-ai-dev-day.html
>you have to move mountains in order to get a plumber, electrician, carpenter, etc to show up.

Watch the latest South Park episode:

https://youtu.be/RcoGzT9QrTI?si=m95_pQ9H203hcfuW
That’s not really the same thing though because your ISP doesn’t gain a usable IP while you’re rebooting it.

The only way ISPs would, would be if their customers routinely turned their router off while they’re not using any electronic devices. But even the older generation I know (80+ years old, no “smart” devices apart from a Samsung tablet or a laptop, depending on the individual) don’t turn their routers off. It’s just not something people do.

In fact if anything, the kind of people who might want to are likely the same kind of people who would get scared to in case it broke something.

The only class of people I think who might, would be ultra tin foil hat paranoid people. And that’s certainly not going to be a large demographic.
"instead of some presenter talking non stop for ten minutes."

Nothing i love more in Youtube videos when the person showing their idea/what they made/ their guide etc opens with "anyway lets get into it"
Thank you for this, it's super interesting! My admittedly much less informed view was that Brand and people like Leary weren't so much informing, more so shaping culture. Probably along the lines of their personal ideas but also possibly in conjunction with the US government to defang the anti-war and civil rights movements. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that if you have any.
Do innocent people ever get stripped out, because that's a heck of an indignity too?
In practice, this can get dubious.

You'd be surprised how many companies will simply pull you out of the candidate process and decline the offer. Companies you would probably work for, to be honest.

This works when you're pitting say, Netflix vs Meta or Apple vs Microsoft, or Google vs Amazon etc. but if you go down the ladder just a little, you'd be shocked at how much this doesn't work, is all.

I feel like its too general of advice to say you can simply play two companies off each other.

There's other tactics too, like setting a high minimum acceptable amount of compensation upfront, that one can use.

Its all a little risky in a way
We might be splitting hairs a little bit.

> "A juror is free to infer that you are guilty when you plead the fifth"

Indeed, but they are _not_ supposed to do so only because you plead the fifth, but presumably because of other evidence. In a civil trial, AFAIK that is not the case, the jury can infer you are guilty because you did not testify in your defense.
I’d like to hear more about this. Do you have any links?
I'd use pass if there was an easy way to use it on mobile.
Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet [video]
That assumes the market is free. Zoning in the Bay Area is pretty much the exact opposite.
As I posted in the Aftermath/Kotaku thread[1], I worked as a contract writer for The Escapist from 2005-2009, and it was literally my first job ever. Yahtzee resigning is what I consider the end of the publication, as he's been the most consistent contributor for nearly two decades and most likely the primary revenue generator. It's very sad to see a huge part of my past coming to a close.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38176053
It's still for a ways to go though. Much of the documentation I've read (2D physics) is incorrect or outdated. It also kind of assumes you already know everything, which is somewhat annoying.

Still, it's making good progress.
I mean, I’m sure they’ve implemented some logic to avoid “over-suggesting” a 1-lane shortcut from a 4 lane highway, but I have taken shortcuts where I’m clearly in a line of Wazers.

I feel bad when it sends me toward a difficult unprotected left (in the LHD world) and there’s a bazillion cars behind me waiting to turn right but can’t until I can move.

I do think Waze and the like have effectively “added” 10% more roads out of thin air. Departments of Transportation should be paying them.
Shein and Temu are scams. Go right now and check prices - same Chinese crap is on Amazon, usually same price or only a couple dollars more, except with next day shipping rather than 2 weeks. They have paid for a lot of PR in NYT and WSJ, but these are frauds.
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