skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large amount of animation made in Japan is still initially animated by hand on paper, actually! The anime industry is remarkably conservative, technologically, which makes it all the more impressive that its animation production output dwarfs that of most other places, including ones that have largely switched over to 3D or puppet rigging for animation productions...
It seems that’s just the way things go with disruptive technologies. It’s a gold rush and you don’t want to be left behind.
this is great development!
Apple’s return policy is great in my experience. I bought a Macbook while waiting for repairs and returned it when mine was fixed. No hassle at all. Just make sure you do it at an Apple Store.
I do! https://3e.org/books/
My guess is that it was intended to escape the * since unescaped * in regular text on HN results in italics. Since the text in question is in a code block, though, that escaping is not needed.
That is both a cynical take and an anachronistic one.

Sure you can argue that currently it is only used for get rich quick schemes.

But to argue that it was get rich quick schemes from the start is innecessary.

Also while get rich quick schemes are a problem with crypto, and there are crypto securities that evade regulation, there's also tax evasion, cybersecurity ransomware payments, drug trade, and not an insignificant amount of real legitimate transactions.

You can again argue that the real transactions serve to pool illegitimate usecases with legitimate ones, like an xkcd mirror on the Tor network.

But that would be a more nuanced and accurate take.
This is why they flow out of our grasp.
Your one man company definitely is not safe, you’ll be responsible for all damages done by the full stack you’re providing.
Each library / OS / whatever software is part of your product.
Yes, this is bad.
Not sure how it works in the US, but at least here, if an employer wants to provide meals to some employees and not have it seemed to be a benefit in kind (and thus liable for income tax), they have to provide them to _all_ employees (or at least all employees working at a given site).

I'd wonder if that was part of the issue here, actually; are these sorts of meal vouchers treated specially for tax in the US?
I think the music part is related to the setting called "Show Featured Content" in the Photos app settings.
Show HN: Jsonmergepatch.com – Free JSON Merge Patch Tool and API
The JSON Merge Patch standard suffers from a lack of tooling, so I decided to build one: jsonmergepatch.com

With jsonmergepatch.com you can:
- Generate a JSON Merge Patch between two JSON objects (ie. the patch would transform JSON A to JSON B)
- Apply a JSON Merge Patch to a JSON object
- Upload a JSON document via API and perform HTTP PATCH calls against that document
If you do play crokinol and have never used Gliss powder I suggest you try it, though it is a bit messy
Lawson to open robotic stores of 'future' on trial basis in Tokyo
Curlinole would be easier to say...
WPEngine do not profit off of Wordpress brand any more (or less) than a shoe store selling Nike shoes.

WPEngine are profiting off of the service they provide, which is hosting software, which happens to be Wordpress.

Wordpress can't say anything about contributing to wordpress core when Wordpress the supposedly seperate foundation in fact only serves the purposes of Automattic, and inhibits or rejects prs that Matt and Automattic don't want, ie anything that works against their paid addons and services. No one should volunteer 5 minutes of their time to wordpress untill wordpress is actually a community-serving project rather than just a Matt-serving product.

Same goes for the plugin updates. They can't cry that anyone else is using them as a free distribution service when they actively work to keep it that way themselves.
Do these design changes drive a change in the philosophy of education or is it the other way around? The author of the article doesn't dive into that issue very much, but if a change in the architecture of schools will help drive some much-needed changes in education itself (the "rigidity" mentioned throughout) so much the better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Sinwar
Say if a worker on H1B expires all 3 attempts to obtain an H1B and is forced to return to his home country. If the company he/she is working for has a partner company in the home country, can the US company continue to apply for the H1B to bring him back? Are there better options to exercise than this?
I've seen the video - to be fair, theoretical physics is probably the cheapest thing to fund - they just need a supply of chalk. ultimately a lot of physics is a jobs program to keep physicists from going abroad and working on a foreign nuclear program.

seriously though, you should run for election on this platform!
Almost exactly 1 year ago, I built a simple macOS app to run randomized photo slideshows (turns out - it's not an easy thing to do on macOS!). I got some nice initial traction (no paid ads), received user feedback, added more features, did a few releases, and after 6 months introduced a one-time fee (needed only if you want to run a slideshow with more than 150 photos; otherwise the app is free to use). And it turned out - people find it valuable and buy the license :)

I have not published it via the App Store though. It's a direct distribution (via .dmg, but it's checked & notarized by Apple so I needed to pay $99/year fee to be able to do that). I'm using Sparkle to handle the updates.
Ask HN: I have 24 core server with 1TB of DDR4 RAM, what should I run?
First time I'm doing colocation and as experiment I picked up a 1TB DDR4 RAM server with 24 cores (around 2.2ghz each)

What should I do now? What stuff should I run?

I have a hello world Flask app running but obviously its not enough to use the full potential.

I'm thinking of running KVM and selling a few VDS to friends or companies.

Also thought of running thousands of Selenium browser tests but I do this maybe once a year, not enough to fully utilize the server 24/7

Help! I might have gone overboard with server capacity, I will never have to pay for AWS again, I can literally run every single project, APIs, database I want and still have space left over.
> Could we simply not replace Pyro with Stan for statistical modelling (whether with PyTorch or JAX backend)?

Stan has a fantastic NUTS Monte Carlo implementation. Pyro & NumPyro are more focused on variational inference. For a third alternatively that IMHO doesn't get the attention it deserves, take a look at Infer.NET, which excels at expectation propagation and uses factor graphs underneath. These three offer very different tradeoffs.

Stan is less expressive than Pyro/NumPyro. But for the models it can deal with (generally medium-sized multi-level models), I find it extremely easy to work with. In other words, it's much easier to diagnose model and sampling issues.
It's interesting to explore https://where.durableobjects.live/ - a tool that maps where Cloudflare's worker scripts actually run.

Notably, while Cloudflare has CDN edge locations in countries like China and Russia they don't appear to run workers there.

EDIT: I was wrong - I misinterpreted the map. A solid border circle around a location indicates "Worker-only Datacenter" (see the map legend) and there are indeed locations with those solid borders in Russia (including Moscow and Yekaterinburg) and China (Haidong, Lanzhou and more).

I doubt we could get them on the record for this, but I suspect this may be very deliberate. Maybe CDN edge locations can be run completely securely with forwarded encrypted traffic, while workers are at a higher risk of physical attack.
Well, that's life. Thank you so much—at least now I know my chances.
Copilot Arena: free to use VSCode completions from LLMs
They don't pregonate what they perceive is best, or try to evangelize.

They hold the asset that they recommend, so that it increases in price.

This dispels another common misconception that shills get paid, nope, they just buy into an asset at some early point in the early to late spectrum of a ponzi scheme, and then try to sell it by recommendation.

Just another ponzi
JSON Patch
Overcoming Bias: Anthology
I just use the website on desktop and mobile. I tried a couple apps on the phone, but it didn't seem worth having an app for.
> these would be analog drum machines and the sampling is for convenient use in a digital workflow?

Convenience and also price. A real Roland TR-808 will set you back about $5,000 dollars on the used market.
How is this stealing?
What's the threat model that ram interception is an issue? I think the upsell is entirely reasonable, you get charged more for weird compliance demands.
Discussion recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209900
As someone who otherwise hates genAI, I must admit, this is actually a very cool demo and a very sensible application of AI.
I love the future as much as the best of them, but the charm of the convenience stores for me was its organic diversity and density, these seem so cold. But maybe I'm not the customer, the robot is?
As an admin of my personal website, I completely disable all Cloudflare features and use it only for DNS and domain registration. I also stop following websites that use Cloudflare checks or cookie popups (cookies are fine, but the popups are annoying).
Whether it is 14th century or an authentic relic, I still believe it's simply amazing to behold. We can explain what it's made of and guess at how old it is, and we can guess at its provenance and history, but there's simply no good explanation of how it was imprinted. The photo-negative imprint is nothing short of miraculous to me. Perhaps it's a miraculous forgery--doesn't matter anymore.

The crucifix in a local parish was commissioned just a few years ago, and the artisan who sculpted it in Mexico used the Shroud as a guide for the imagery. The painful stripes of scourging, the dripping of blood, the skinned knees, the pathetic expression on this man's face: they are all quite realistic and they perfectly evoke Christ's suffering for me, and for hundreds of other parishioners, especially the donors who contributed to beautify the sanctuary.

There are plenty of truly authenticated relics -- actual body parts of saints -- and I've come into contact with some of them. It's really amazing to have this connection to holiness. And you need to really understand the relationship of Christians with relics. The relic has no power in itself. The relic is not a miraculous talisman. The relic is simply a physical manifestation of a saint, who is very much alive to us. Though we cannot embrace such a saint, or hear them speak to us, they are present to us through the relic, and we invoke their intercession while touching the relic, because body and soul are one, and will be reunited.

My faith would not be shaken if this were proved fake. I simply don't rely on archaeology to prove my faith. Nobody should. I believe that archaeology and 99% of today's Scripture scholarship is an exercise in futility and misdirection. Live the life or don't live it. Be an atheist if you want. But don't tell us what to believe.
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your family has been passing down a family bible for many years. your father gives it to you and says, "this was your great-great-great-great grandfather's, he brought it from the old country, and it has the names of all the babies born into the family back then.

you say "eh, it could be anybody's, everybody had a bible and lots of kids back then" and you throw it away.

you're right, no way to prove it was his and you can live your life unencumbered by the past, no point in looking for meaning.
Unit tests are a _kind_ of documentation, but are rarely a complete solution to "documenting code". In general, the folks who don't do adequate code documentation are the same folks who don't do adequate unit tests. :/
As far as I know, the former yugoslavia managed to be at each others' throats given just talk radio/TV and no more advanced technology.

Unfortunately, I have no good recommendations for what I'd call an underlying social problem.
Richardson (who gathered data also on pre-broadcast deadly quarrels) saw a Poisson distribution in Statistics of Deadly Quarrels (1960): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Fry_Richardson#Mathemati...

Lagniappe: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674659216
And yet, if $COMPANY is also providing munitions for "Gaza Israel blah blah", then by continuing to work for $COMPANY, you are also very much a part of that.

It doesn't matter what department you are in, or the neat little Ansible scripts you get to write.
Why are people dropping flour in weird patterns around Austin?
There is no cap on number of attempts. I think the 3 attempts you are referring to is the 3 year OPT after you graduate with a degree, companies usually try to sponsor during those three years while you're employed with them.
It looks like those instructions are from 2011. CNC machines are pretty common these days and could help simplify it quite a bit.

For example: https://hub.shapertools.com/creators/5cfea3909fc9260017675dc...
How many UTXO do you hold?
Google Is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser Is Safe
Neat idea, this has happened to my previous email campaigns where critical business emails failed to send only to find weeks later that certain emails were turned off due to internal or external issues. Thanks for building it!
Correct, hence the "(geological) time" bit ;)

A lot of time, but it is irrefutably a requirement, and as we research it, we'll learn lots of things to use here on Earth, too.
Unconnected to whom it actually is, the mystery of how the image was generated is enough of a mystery to keep digging for answers.
A trick I use a lot these days is to take the unit tests from an under-documented library, dump them into an LLM and ask it to write me detailed usage documentation.

This works REALLY well. I've even occasionally done some of my own reviewing and editing of those docs and submitted them back to the project. Here's an example: https://github.com/pydantic/jiter/pull/143 - Claude transcript here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/264d487db1a18f8585c2ca0c68e50...
Extracting unit tests from your docs: great!

Somehow extracting your docs from unit tests: might be ok!

Pointing people at unit tests instead of writing docs: not even remotely ok.

Is that really what this guy is advocating??
Some people might see a certain level of rigidity to be beneficial to a child's development. Now we need to get into philosophical debate over the potential psychological impacts of design. I imagine the stoics would disagree that discipline is a bad thing (actual discipline and not punishment).
I really enjoyed listening to this and hope y'all do too. It's best listened to as opposed to read.
If I was meta I wouldnt want to employ people who are interested in stealing from me, especially when I pay them $400,000. The fact that the theft wasnt that bad or that the policy doesnt make the most sense is irrelevant. The company trusts employees to use benefits with responsibility and this dude used your logic of "leaving money on the table" even though hes being paid 400,000
> The presence or absence of some subtle new magic wand icon that shows up in the toolbar is neither making nor breaking anyone's business.

Sounds like famous last words to me.

The corporate landscape is filled with the corpses of companies that thought they didn't need to rush to adapt to new technologies. That they'd have time to react if something really did take off in the end.

Just think of how Kodak bided its time to see if newfangled digital photography would actually take off and when... and then it was too late.
Just to chime in, what's the situation with getting an H1B visa for a Russian Citizen? Are there similar issues or is it still possible to get one?
Sure, I didn't mean to imply that it's unconnected, just that they're at different places. You're right that it's almost certainly just parts of one common cycle.
Ah, maybe this is what’s happening to me.. I use Firefox with uBlock origin, privacy badger, multi-account containers, and temporary containers.

Whenever I click a link to another site, i get a new tab in either a pre-assigned container or else in a “tmpNNNN” container, and i think either by default or I have it configured to omit Referer headers on those new tab navigations.
Cut out the middle-man.
I was thinking about something like this. It would be cool if each app has a discovery service of commands so AI can manage the ecosystem automatically.
Just because there hasnt been a story doesnt mean its not important or critical
I don't use Cloudflare and I don't have strong opinions for or against them. These questions are the same I'd ask if you were discussing any other company:

> which operates out of questionable ISP and IXP colocation facilities in various jurisdictions with dubious standards.

Why do you say that? Do you have signals that their colo facilities are less secure than they should be, and/or that Cloudflare hasn't gotten those facilities to beef up their security as part of their contract? Again, not saying this to defend Cloudflare. I just hadn't heard this before.

> Moreover, when we raise these concerns, they attempt to upsell us on their Enterprise EU/FedRAMP offerings.

That's going to be the case with almost all providers in the space. If you're asking for special treatment, you're going to have to pay for it. I don't mean that to insult you. At a past job, for various reasons we had strict compliance obligations that our data could not be accessed outside of the US. Some of our vendors used offshore tech support who'd have access to our data, and a couple times we faced a decision: pay that vendor $$$ to special-case our support setup to meet our requirements, or choose another vendor.

> Cloudflare has also deliberately restricted our ability to block non-Enterprise Workers, KV, and R2 from specific regions, leaving us with limited control over where our data is processed.

Same. Those fine-grained controls are often going to be an enterprise feature.

Again, I'm not saying this to defend Cloudflare in particular. They have their own paid spokespeople. I'm not one. Nothing you've said sounds particularly egregious though. If your data is sensitive enough that you're legitimately worried about someone sneaking in undetected and intercepting RAM, prepare to pay the enterprise tax with all your cloud vendors.
It's a bunch of sheets of paper, or more likely part of a scroll. You can see the grain clearly in the image.

> it's not movable

I don't know what to say here. This is obviously false. Why did you say this?

What do you think is the difference between a "book" and a "codex"? Why do you think ancient texts are divided into "books"?
"This video might help. https://youtu.be/UnURElCzGc0?si=MQa2JKT_CMmM-_JL"

Sagan's video proves that it's always helpful to investigate abstract concepts with an experiment.

But the video also raises an important question: Can we derive true conclusions from wrong assumptions?

Here the assumption that the "flatlanders" are really flat is wrong.

Sagan notices that too and he says that his objects are not really flat, but they have thickness.

Now these little cutouts have some little height
but let’s ignore that, let’s imagine that these
are absolutely flat.

So the thickness of his objects are never zero. His flatlanders has a notion of third dimension because they have the third dimension. Their height is not zero.

This is the typical rhetorical sophistry widely used in physics. We may also call it equivocation on the word zero. Here, Sagan defined the word zero both as nothing and something and he wants us to go along with this equivocation.

You cannot have non-zero height and zero height at the same time. If you have zero height you do not exist. A door is either open or closed.

Instead of flatlanders, Sagan may have used shadowlanders. Shadow is closer to two dimensional objects but even shadow has thickness.

So, Sagan's assumption that his objects have no height is definitely wrong. Can we arrive at a correct conclusion from this wrong assumption? I guess not.

Also it is clear that when we try to transform a 3-D object into a 4-D object, the object's morphology changes. A cube becomes something else. A cube does not cross the dimensions as a cube.

This also raises questions about physicists' claim that we are living in a 4 dimensional continuum called spacetime. If so, our current morphology in the 3-D world and 4-D world of spacetime cannot be the same.

Then the question is, is our present anatomy 3-D anatomy or 4-D anatomy?
Can't wait to see how well it will run DOOM.
This is glorious. What a world we live in.

How can we make a die that functions as a d6, but has "less pips". An elegant dodecahedron as the solution. Less pips but more sides. Not an economic solution, but I love that these problems are being solved.
Yes, Ms. Pacman has the DDs, which is why PacMan himself gives her the D.

3 Ds.
Nice map but are you sure it overlaps with Workers in general? Workers can run without DO.
Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders
> The privacy battle has to be at the legal layer.

I couldn't disagree more. The way to protect privacy is to make privacy the standard at the implementation layer, and to make it costly and difficult to breach it.

Trying to rely on political institutions without the practical and technical incentives favoring privacy will inevitably result in the political institutions themselves becoming the main instrument that erodes privacy.
I think this is a fair criticism, and excellent explanation of evolution.

I should have expressed myself more carefully. What I am thinking of is that each individual is essentially one training step, where the current model is confronted with the training data (in this case, the entire environment, including other members of the population). Or even multiple moments over the life of the individual might be considered distinct training steps, where the model is adjusted in minute ways (epigenetics) based on certain events.

Of course, this makes less sense for species that are highly communal, such as bees, ants, or termites, where the fitness of an entire population is highly interconnected, and even severe maladaptations in an individual can nevertheless be an improvement to the fitness of the overall population (e.g. sterility in the vast majority of individual bees and ants is not a detriment, when it is a fatal flaw in almost all other animals).
We probably cannot shop our way out of climate change. The intense climate damage you'd do installing hundreds of millions of batteries (of any kind) would likely offset dozens of years of use.
How very strange, my partner was mocking up a room for our home just a few hours ago, and I asked whether an AI tool existed to rotate the incorrect angle of a sofa in a photo being used within the mock up - and here it is on hackernews just an hour later, just that tool..

Edit/ apparently I misunderstood it's only possible with vectors - getting close though to the reality mentioned!
When I worked at AWS they were insanely hardcore about mandating physical access controls, that is all I’ll say, even to the point of ridiculousness. For all the things AWS does poorly security is not one of them.

If I were to guess CF is locating their PoPs at cheap peering points and the reason they are evading the question is because other customers in the facility have physical access to their equipment, which is both an expensive problem to solve and something that is not even remotely allowed at a real cloud provider.
With GCC/clang can just add checking with -fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error.

For my main software project, which is some numerical software for magnetic resonance imaging, this adds 12212 checks and the optimizer reduces them down to 3803. But I haven't done benchmarking yet, but I would guess that for most software it would not matter.