skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. No money in it short of not just getting optioned for TV or film, but an actual released production. Even then, a hit or two likely won’t pay as much as you’d think. Some pretty damn successful authors have boring day jobs, or stopped after a handful of “successful” books that didn’t make them much money and went back to a normal corporate career.

The other option is to crank out (ha, ha) short romance novels like a machine and market like mad. The money’s in hard work at writing porn, or in big broad-audience grand slams, probably written at a junior high reading level, with a small niche supporting a handful of authors in writing based-on-a-true-story stuff (bonus if “true crime” connection) aimed directly at getting optioned for film or tv (but that one’s very hard to break into, studios have some go-to authors for that stuff and you ain’t one of them)
I tried that once. I fed a bunch of crows some walnuts while sitting by a river, and it was fine. The next day I came back, I fed crows at the same spot, and soon a murder of other crows came and attacked the crows I just fed. Not even just lightly nabbing them, but hacking down on them continuously until I broke up the fight.

Didn't try feeding any since then.
Meh just buy a new Voyager!
The output is not the problem here, it is the input. And, if you can get away with, accepting a small set of known-safe characters is much safer than accepting any character and hoping it will be properly escaped at every level.

When the user hands you a string and you then pass this down to other bits of code, you can't know if it will be used in an SQL query, a regex, in an error message that will be rendered into HTML, etc.

Ideally all layers of your code would handle user input with the utmost care, but that is often very hard to achieve. If you take user input and use it in a regex, it's easy to regex-escape it, but it's much harder to remember that now this whole regex is user input and can't be safely used to, say, construct an SQL query. And even if you remember to properly escape it in the SQL query, it may show up in the returned result, and now if you display that result, you need to be careful to escape it before passing it to some HTML engine.

But then none of this works if you did intend to have some SQL syntax in the regex, or some HTML snippets in the DB: you'd need to make all of these technologies aware of which parts of the expressions are safe and which are tainted by user input.

And this is all just to prevent code injection type attacks. I haven't even discussed more subtle attacks, like using Unicode look-like characters to confuse other users.
Why should it be different than Google and Android?

Google makes medium and high cost devices, but actually doesn't compete too much on margins.

If the OS catches up, meta will do the same move, allowing other vendors to proliferate.
I mean permanently disable all speculative execution on a specific core and reduce/disable all side-channels of the kind. If you're saying I can do through injection of fence instructions between every instruction, coupled with isolcpus... I might have a fun weekend coming playing with Intel Pin. But I'm guessing the performance hit might be worse than 'just' disabling speculative execution on a core - if it was possible at all - or that the fence instructions might not be enough there? Haven't thought it through.

But it would be a fun question to ask the likes of Daniel Gruss...
That would work but, I run no browser extensions.
Even when you “stop outsourcing and just do the work”, you’re just subtracting a ~4 bit integer from a ~16 bit integer.
That sounds great, happy it's worked for you. I've heard a lot about YNAB while i've been researching. It may be something i'll have to give a trial.
Will ActivityPub subscribers count against the member limit on Ghost Pro plans the way free email subscribers do?
I'm not concerned about trademarks. I'm concerned about what isn't trademarked -- language which instead we are all supposed to adopt and throw around as much as possible. As I said: * reality, AI, cloud, etc.
Haven't libraries already been a "Netflix of books" for millenia now?
KubeCrash is a super helpful day for anyone in the cloud native community that wants to see practical open source solutions.
Great writing. Great voice acting. Why the hell are all the non-pivotal scenes barely animated?

Like in one episode an alien spaceship blows up and a static gif of an alien goes spinning around.

Just compare that to the animation in Xmen '97 which has a similar episode count.
Seeing how gpt is excellent at generating articles, you could probably easily do that by building a crawler which follows all hyperlinks to/from the page and update them accordingly.

Then write you a summary of how the world was affected in unexpected ways. Butterfly effect.
As I said, subscriptions, not buying
There's a study that showed mountain lion (puma) can eat and digest CWD infected deer meat resulting in > 95% removal of prions. Don't quote that number though, some googling should find the study.
Really cool! Sadly, it seems that internal consistency is a bit... weak, but quite a fun concept overall!
New types of mosquito bed nets could cut malaria risk by up to half, trial finds
The entire book industry rides on the backs of bibles, hobbits, and extremely ravenous caterpillars.

Seems almost poetic, somehow.
Exploring New Worlds: 'Deep Sky' and the Search for Life with the JWST
What is the tech stack?

It would be nice that instead of 1 random style, get all the styles. If it's too much, perhaps 5 or 10 styles.

And If I choose the a not random style, get 5 or 10 images instead of 1.

Why all the examples are girls?
> the links don’t redirect to the external site, but to an internal redirection link?

Yes, which is why I broke the habit of just clicking on links years ago and switched to copy/pasting the link text to extract the real URL instead.

The existence of the ping attribute and "sendBeacon" are why I won't stop copy/pasting links even if they stop including those redirects.
Cool idea, but disappointed that the first article I clicked on breaks kayfabe:

"While the Arctic in our timeline has experienced extensive exploration, development and environmental damage over the past few centuries, in this alternate history it has remained relatively pristine and untouched."

https://www.wonkypedia.org/article/Arctic

Although, it would be entertaining if Wikipedia were written in this style. "While the Arctic in other timelines remains pristine, in this alternate history it has been ravaged by human exploitation."
Women in Cybersecurity You Need to Follow
Intel vs. AMD vs. Graviton: Amazon EC2 Processor Differences and Distribution
.NET is a little smarter about switch code generation these days: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/66081
400 transistors per synapse is a foundational assumption and is total nonsense
50 or 100 years ago, people read a hell of a lot more fiction than they do now.
That same article says she was born in 1989 and graduated MIT in 1987. I knew she was driven, even before conception!
Unlock Gemini's full potential: Google releases official 'Prompting guide'
Ghost is joining the ActivityPub network
Pupillary correlates of individual differences in n-back task performance
Holy shit its Gilfoyle.

This is pretty cool but what Im thinking about is more like a general purpose language which is primarily visual. Imagine for example a for loop has a visual representation which shows a visual transformation from
100000
010000
001000
000100
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and this transformation can be applied abstractly to 1 = red circle, 0= black circle, which when run shows a red circle moving from the beginning position to its end position.
Micropython on an Adafruit Feature to make a dual deploy altimeter for high power rocketry. Got really into control theory and all the fancy math for determining the state of the rocket on the way up. Then got into device drivers and improving on the ones that come with CircuitPython to get higher performance out of barometers and IMUs. Then got into circuit board design and fabrication starting from zero for an i2c pyro board that fires the ejection charges (little tubes of blackpowder and an e-match used to eject parachutes). That was pretty interesting, i have the advantage of a handful of hardware engineer friends to answer my questions when i get stuck.

It's all sitting on my desk, first flight will likely be in May.
I've not come across tiller before, i will have to take a look at it. And yeah, that was one of my main gripes, there seems to be no quick and easy way to run your finances like a business (as beneficial as this would be for you).
Well, if there's any comfort: The AI will definitely read your book...
If you only want to get a gravity boost from Jupiter and Saturn (like V1) I wonder if you wouldn't have to wait as long, say, every 20 years instead of every 176?

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline/#event-a-once-...

But you'd still have to fly for ~40 years to get to where they are now, and they'll keep on flying during those 40 years.
Rename the repo, why is it too late to change it?
What is the Spotify of books?
So, I usually think in terms of longevity. I do own some books, because in case computers don’t work anymore, well I can still read good stuff. I have plenty of PDFs/epubs in my laptop because the internet may not work anymore anytime. I do have some stuff in the cloud, but just for convenience (I don’t care if those files disappear).

Same with music,
movies and video games. I want to be able to “run” stuff offline. Electricity is still a big dependency (i’m looking into solar panels)
1) this organisation was founded in 2013; they've been thinking and researching into this for a while, this wasn't a rash intervention.

2) they didn't block the river flow! 100% that would be very dangerous. The have a capture device on the surface of the water. Wildlife and water travel freely under the surface.

3) the mission statement of this organisation is about helping wildlife, so I reckon they think a lot about the impacts that anything they do can have on wildlife.
So, I decided to install Linux on my formerly-Windows-only laptop, and thought it was cool enough to go full time and ditch Windows completely. The downside was the lack of access to top tier games. No problem though, my plan was to take a break from gaming, figuring that by the time Linux had caught up with compatibility, computers would also be much more powerful and I'd be able to resume gaming at some point in the future on better kit, and not have to worry about janky framerates on struggling hardware.

Linux proved interesting enough that I kept finding all sorts of cool new rabbit holes to go down - shell scripting, filesystems, Python, databases. It was side-quests within side-quests! Plus, having kicked my gaming habit, I had plenty of time to explore these.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, that was 23 years ago. I ended up getting a career in tech, relocated, got married, had kids, lived the American Dream... The "life" rabbit hole kind of got in the way of my plans, so I can't wait to finally get back on track and play GTA III on a decent box.
For me, it's DIY audio.

The thing about diy'ing audio (primarily speakers but also amps, DACs etc) is that you can get top of the line performance for a fraction of the market price. A $50,000 speaker setup that would bring tears to your eyes could be made for perhaps $5000. A DIY $500 kit can perform similar to a $2-3000 set of speakers. Open source amps with gerber files on github are amazing.

The biggest reason it's so easy to get amazing value is because that $600 speaker only has $150 of materials. Upgrading its $25 woofer to a $80 one would help a lot, but no company would do that and not sell it now for $1000 if they could.

However the biggest allure for me is not beating commercial systems on cost, but making what I want. A small speaker with deep base? Easy. Speakers with quasi-active noise cancellation behind them? Sure, why not. Speakers that'll make the most overpowered/fancy beach-boombox sound like a crappy toy? Simple.

The only limit is your imagination and time/money.

I'd very much recommend diyaudio.com, but be warned, parts of this field are mature while others are still in effective infancy. Also, being an engineer (electrical/mechanical) helps a lot, there's a ton of signals processing and electrical/mech oscillation.
I suspect in the past they also read far more nonfiction.
Before Photoshop, Soviets Mastered Erasing People from Photographs and History
UK aviation supplier lifts lid on plan to turn human waste into fuel
It seems obvious that books lost some market share.

People have a limited amount of time for entertainment and have a lot more choice between Netflix, YouTube, Books and thousands of other things than they did back then.
Sure, but there is a common set of safe characters that are guaranteed not to cause problems in any of these: the set described by the regex [a-zA-Z0-9 -]. If you can limit user input to this set, you'll drastically reduce the risk of code injection regardless of the stack below you.
Discussion [0] (39 points, 7 hours ago, 18 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40114515
Beatrice: A tagless, dependently typed, self-aware programming language
While that's true, It's also true that mobile devices tend to be a rather static configuration during their lifetime, and if you're going to have a fleet of those, having the best performance during that lifetime is a nice bonus. So I believe that form factor specific considerations are still a good value to write about.
Perhaps our descendants will build a museum around it without ever changing its velocity.
I've had my share of problems with Reddit but it's never seemed to have an undue amount of downtime, and I've been clicking on the old.reddit.com interface about a zillion times per day for close to a decade.

I know you're not being literal with the 30%, but I have found it's uptime to be really good. Especially for a site constantly battling spam/bots/etc.
PRAC should happen automatically in the background when possible and when it really needs to stop the controller from accessing something while waiting for the bits to refresh it uses the already existing ALERTn signal.

https://stefan.t8k2.com/rh/PRAC/index.html

> Panopticon retrofits an existing signal in the DDR specification, called ALERTn, to effectively “trick” the memory controller to pause issuing new DDR commands. DRAM uses ALERTn to signal errors to the memory controller. Upon receiving this signal, the memory controller stops issuing new DRAM commands and instead re-issues the old memory access. By making use of ALERTn, Panopticon requires no modifications to any hardware other than DRAM itself.

(As I understand PRAC uses the same design as Panopticon for this part)
https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYC...

It's... not concise.
I'm more of the position of "trust but verify."

The verification process is exceptionally difficult. We're on HN and I think it should be rather common knowledge that attackers almost always beat defenders because the game is asymmetric. Attackers only need to find a single flaw while defenders need to find a large number of defenses. There is a huge difference in the resource expenditures between these two groups. This is related to the reasons why one single person can fuck shit up (e.g. a bad driver can impact tens of thousands of other drivers) but it is difficult for a single person to fix things. It is the nature of unstable equilibria.

A society, of any form, depends on trust. Like it or not, there are no trustless systems available to us. Certainly not at any meaningful scale.

This does not mean one should be negligent, but rather I'm saying that it isn't easy and the best intentioned can still be taken advantage of. We should recognize this and accommodate this fact when approaching solutions or we will end up with many undesired results.
I have partial color blindness and glaucoma which I think aren't related to my inability to read dark themes. When I try to read white or light text on a dark background, something in my eyes start flashing and I develop a headache in less than 60 seconds, it's been like that my whole life.
For those interested, Lazy Game Reviews (LGR) recently started a live bird feeder cam which runs daily: (edit: fixed) https://www.youtube.com/live/fd-2D_Qabqk?si=buJg480KK3VJI_PD

Also, if you're curious what birds are coming into your yard, I recommend the Merlin Bird ID App from Cornell University: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
Have you seen the Apple Vision demo(s)? Now imagine being able to have wall sized versions of Android apps like Netflix or even word processing apps like Google Docs.
I understand what you're getting at, but the 'average' vape pen is essentially a disposable battery and temperature sensor with no additional inputs or features.

After reading some details about the Voyager, I have my doubts that a disposable vape has more computation power [1]. Maybe the higher end devices with programable displays and temperature settings?

[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/voyagers-1-and-2-take-embe...
That came to mind reading it too. I'm sympathetic that not all the recycling is making it into reused materials, but I do think the behavior change in people was a success on the whole. Eco-friendly materials continue to be a focal point for many consumers, though not all of them.

And there's probably a lesson in there about how long it takes to effectively shift consumer behavior with the right campaign. I feel like it took about 2 decades to get everyone on board with recycle bins and general eco-friendliness, both using carrot and stick methods.
I wouldn’t bet on it, unless we’re counting user-generated posts online, and clickbait “articles”. Which, maybe we should.

[edit] JFC I misread your sense of “read”, I think we agree.
Yes, that is what I meant. Books as a medium is just a much smaller industry with far fewer customers.
Now, if they could also do the performant, unified, software and driver part..
True for fiction books. But if you think about fiction generally, as the poster said, the medium has changed. People still love fiction, but now it's movies and shows.
it depends on the quality of your monitor and your lighting environment, many of which people can't control very much.
Kube Crash is the event of the year!
Archived copy: https://archive.ph/nM32u
What are you using at the moment?

And i think the main thing is getting very granular breakdowns, so the only way to do this at the moment would be to scan all of my receipts and process them, not the most robust method) and then also data integration, so being able to pull and analyse my statements (only seems to really be available through open banking apis which individuals cant really access.)
MH370. There was no intermediate step as I saw somewhere it was the 10th anniversary of its disappearance and decide to get a quick update on the current status of all the evidence and theories. Ended up spending the entire day reading about radars, pings and aviation controls.
We can't know that, but we can know that if they pay unfair prices the workers are definitely not getting paid or treated appropriately.
This is the thing that I've struggled the most with. Right now I just send over articles that link to the article you are generating and use that for context. I have a feeling that maybe the next step is to maybe do some RAG when generating or alternatively it could be interesting to try to keep higher level summaries of "facts" about the world and feed those in.

If anyone has ideas please send them my way.
Java claim to fame was to be close enough to C++ but portable in binary form. This made it possible for millions of people to learn it quickly. Lisp is too distant from C++ to have had any change.
This is amazing! I wonder how you could make it internally consistent.

Somehow keep a memory of made of facts, that accumulate?
Dify, a visual workflow to build/test LLM applications
A quick and dirty, shallow one, that I just opted to brute force out of curiosity.

An online game I play includes an optional two player Russian Roulette type feature (non-fatal). I got to wondering if there was an optimal betting percentage to use, if you set aside some money as a betting seed. So I spent time coding up a really ugly brute force "just run lots of games and see".

Pretty much the answer is you'll lose more often than you win, looks like your best bets are around 2% of whatever money you have left of your betting money.

If you play 75 games, at 2% of your betting pool, you'll come out ahead only about 49.8% of the time.

There's more efficient ways of working that out than I bothered to do, which was to create a basic abstraction for a gun. For example, your odds of winning is essentially 50%, given two players. For every "game" I simulated, I could have just picked a random integer between 0 and 1 instead. Faster and the same effect.

As best as I could find, there are no good betting strategies on a coin toss (which is what this really is)
Interesting that a trailing newline is accepted. Not as bad as what's in the post, at least. Definitely worth breaking out which languages do which of those, though! Python, for instance, only accepts a trailing newline but not additional chars beyond that.

I don't think Java should be in your first list, though? Pattern.matches("^foo$", "foo\n") returns false.
not hdmi, but display port over usb-c. Though it can't just show up as a plain display I think. Search for quest 3 link to learn more.
This past month, I’ve been reevaluating my dev environment and workflow. My goals are to reduce RSI, be more efficient, as well as learn all my tools as deeply as possible. And have fun!

- I’ve ditched VSCode and gone all-in on NeoVim. I’ve spent a bunch of time watching Primeagen, etc., tweaking my vid config and learning how to navigate as efficiently as possible.

- Switched from QWERTY to Colemak-DH to hopefully reduce RSI. I’m at about 70wpm with decent accuracy after 4 weeks. My QWERTY skills are gone. I like Colemak, but we’ll see how I feel in another month or two.

- Finished my custom hot swappable Sofle keyboard, and spent many hours customizing the layout. I think I’m pretty close to feeling comfortable. I’m using home row mods, which I love. Currently using Kailh box whites (clicky). Might switch to Gateron Brown Pros.

- Been going through a “Build your own git” course, to understand git as deeply as possible.
This was going through my head. From a cost of acquisition standpoint Espressif had already captured (effectively) 100% of M5 stacks users, so this must be a play to remove some inefficiencies and the supply chain they already have in place.
Neovim — as good for a mid-life crisis as a Porsche, and a fair bit cheaper.
I was writing an article on reverse-engineering vintage synthesisers[0], and I ended up getting majorly sidetracked trying to find out exactly what year the Hitachi HD44780 LCD controller was first manufactured, or try and find any background information on it. The earliest reference to it I can find online is a 'preliminary' user's manual[1], dated March 1981. I know it's a bit of a weird rabbit hole to go down, but I figured I'd get to the bottom of this mystery. It's a shame that there's so little background information available about one of the best-known ICs in history.

0: https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vin...

1: https://archive.org/details/Hitachi-DotMarixLiquidCrystalDis...
At very beginning I want to do it in comic style, kinda like “beast academy” style. But my art skill sucks, and ai image generator is not as good as I hoped. So I settled with chapter book, at least something I can produce. May be I should go game style "book" to be able to reach younger readers.