skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was never a time in which "everyone" got a shroud. Even in Jesus's time, burying someone in a shroud was a distinctly Jewish custom, and using linen did not become fashionable until after Jesus's death [1] [2]. Furthermore, for a crucifixion victim to be buried at all, let alone in a shroud, would be extremely unusual. It was generally part of the punishment for the body to be left on the cross after death to be displayed and consumed by scavengers. When the remains were finally removed they were generally disposed of in mass graves. [3]

[1] https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/5282847/jewis...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamaliel

[3] https://www.mercaba.org/FICHAS/upsa/crucifixion.htm
cough https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...
(physical security isn't just access control)
I'm not backing down on this one: This is straight up an "old man yelling at the kids to get off his lawn" situation, and the fact that JGC from Cloudflare is in here saying "we'll take a look at this" is so far and beyond what anyone reasonable would expect of them that they deserve praise and nothing else.

This is a matter between You and the Website Operators, period. Cloudflare has nothing to do with this. This article puts "Cloudflare" in the title because its fun to hate on Cloudflare and it gets upvotes. Cloudflare is a tool. These website operators are using Cloudflare The Tool to block inhuman access to their websites. RSS CLIENTS ARE NOT HUMAN. Let me repeat that: Cloudflare's bot detection is working fully appropriately here, because RSS Clients are Bots. Everything here is working as expected. The part where change should be asked is: Website operators should allow inhuman actors past the Cloudflare bot detection firewall specifically for RSS feeds. They can FULLY DO THIS. Cloudflare has many, many knobs and buttons that Website Operators can tweak; one of those is e.g. a page rule to turn off bot detection for specific routes, such as `/feed.xml`.

If your favorite website is not doing this, its NOT CLOUDFLARE'S FAULT.

Take it up with the Website Operators, Not Cloudflare. Or, build an RSS Client which supports a captive portal to do human authorization. God this is so boring, y'all just love shaking your first and yelling at big tech for LITERALLY no reason. I suspect its actually because half of y'all are concerningly uneducated on what we're talking about.
Nothing like that is plausibly going to happen. We might as well talk about surrendering San Antonio to the Mexicans; that will happen first.
Highly Ineffective Habits of Product Owners
Why not use your own datacenter if it’s that important to ensure physical security? If the business can’t justify it, then maybe your use case isn’t that sensitive or important. Or maybe the business isn’t viable.
Immigration policies primarily govern residency, no? If you're not a resident of the US, any laws that apply to you would likely fall under employment or commerce, not immigration.
I would interpret it that they're getting the same push from Wall Street and the same investor-hype-driven product leadership as every other tech firm, but this time they have the good fortune to specialize in one of the few verticals (image editing) where generative AI currently has superhuman performance.

This is a testable claim: where were Adobe in previous hype cycles? Googles "Adobe Blockchain"...looks like they were all about blockchains in 2018 [0], then NFTs and "more sustainable blockchains" in 2022 [1].

[0] https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2018/09/27/blockchain-and-...

[1] https://www.ledgerinsights.com/adobe-moves-to-sustainable-bl...
The benefit of a headset is not solely the improved microphone, it's also that the headphones mean your microphone is only picking up your speech, and not your meeting's output audio.

If you are using both your laptop's microphone and speakers, then Teams/Zoom has to decide whether to play audio to you, or pick up audio from you. If you're talking at the same time as someone else, the audio quality for everyone in the meeting suffers.
UK police raid home, seize devices of Electronic Intifada's Asa Winstanley
This isn't at all a new idea, but it's the first time I've seen it presented with this textbook AI style.
I really wish there. was a two line answer to these long drawn our articles
I'm not sure anybody on this thread disagrees with you about the airport and the seaport and the economic blockade.
Some of it. And more and more loudly so. But I think the majority of the Valley is still center left (primarily because of social issues).
> no, it might lead to better surgery robots, search and rescue robots,

No, that's extremely optimistic, at best. We've learned that cats seem to use their knowledge of their height but not width when choosing to go (or not) through a hole.

That's it. We're promised follow-up research because it might be that, other than height, they also know and use their additional characteristics, like weight.

That's all. Are you seriously suggesting this knowledge might be helpful in building "surgery robots"?

> and countless things that I'm not even capable of imagining.

Maybe. Are the chances of that enough to justify the expense? Couldn't this work be done more cost-effectively (it's about cats - the world is filled with guys who would do all the experiments for free, given instructions, just for their cat(s) to be in a scientific study...)? Especially since we're talking about Hungary, which is not a super-rich nation.

In any case, allocating funds for research is probably a very hard problem, and I know nothing about it. Still, questioning the expenses is something any taxpayer should be able to do. Just give me good reasons why it had to cost $120k to feed 30 cats for a few weeks, and I'll be happily on my way.
Better yet, use doc test as featured in Python [1] or Rust [2]. This makes sure your documentation examples are always up-to-date and runnable.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html

[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/write-documentation/docume...
What's that law/heuristic about headlines?
Could this be used as an engine of some kind? The spinny thing giving off EM waves and those waves are caught by something like a solar sail?
> For every…let’s call them ‘privacy-conscious’ user, there are 10 (or more) nefarious actors that present largely the same way.

And each one of these could potentially create thousands of accounts, and do 100x as many requests as a normal user would.

Even if only 1% of the people using your service are fraudsters, a normal user has at most a few accounts, while fraudsters may try to create thousands per day. This means that e.g. 90% of your signups are fraudulent, despite the population of fraudsters being extremely small.
Do Fungi Recognize Shapes?
Uber drivers earn roughly $0.70/mile[1]. Gas at $3/gal and MPGs at 25mpg mean it costs $0.12/mi in fuel. a $30k vehicle driven to 150k miles costs roughly $0.20/mi in depreciation. Without additional maintenance costs, its roughly $0.32/mi to drive a car. Approximating tires, oil changes, brakes, and other maintenance of roughly $0.15/mi, you're looking at total cost to drive at $0.45-0.50/mi.

Do you think most Uber drivers drive for the $0.7-$0.12 = $0.58/mile or the actual cost of $0.70-$0.50=$0.20/mile? Sustainable Supply/Demand doesn't work until all costs are measured.

A Rivian battery is roughly $17k. Estimating 1500 charge cycles [2], that's roughly $11/charge. If you "give back" half a cycle, there's only $1.50 worth of electricity sold back, but its $5.50 worth of battery. Are you expecting to get paid $1.50+profit or $7+profit?

[1] https://www.stilt.com/careers/how-much-does-uber-pay/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Rivian/comments/10onhud/ev_battery_...
Honestly, that is a crazy server to put in a datacenter just for fun lol, and i have no idea what you could do with it, selling VDS space sounds like a good idea, especially if you can find someone who wants heaps of memory. Though I'm curious if you dont mind answering a few of my questions:
- Where did you colocate (ie what city), do you live there?
- How much was it to colocate (you can give ballpark if you dont want to give the full amount) / do you pay monthly or something, did you pay per U or is it something else
- What costs do you pay (eg electricity or bandwidth that you use)
Thanks, and good luck xd
The timing of this is kind of funny, as I've been working on my own version of this for the last few weeks. It's still very much a work in progress so don't judge the repository too harshly.

https://github.com/tedivm/robs_wall_clock/

My project includes-

1. Wolfram's 2, 3, and 4 state automata (including Rule 110)
2. Langton's ants
3. Conway's Game of Life, Highlife, and Immigrant games (immigrant is named after another game, but it's basically life with colors).
4. A clock. This just tells time.

Every few minutes the device will change modes. With the Wolfram rules I include both single starting cells and multiple starting cells, and with Langton's Ant I've managed to great some really interesting patterns by placing multiple ants on the display.
I agree with all of this. I get annoyed with the conversations surrounding wind and solar, but I don't dislike the techs themselves. They have a place and are great, and solar is mind-bogglingly affordable right now. I've seen utility companies offering them """for free""" (you lease, your electricity covers the cost of lease, no money for extra generated) because it's so cheap now.

But we need, as you said, a baseload. Nobody is really discussing how to create this, they're just saying we should magically invent an incredibly dense battery (more energy-dense than hydrocarbons, ideally, or let's say within 50% as useful) using technologies nobody can even fathom. Meanwhile, we're seeing breakthroughs in fusion tech, miles ahead of the usefulness of fission, which is miles ahead of anything else we have right now.

I just don't understand the aversion to a clean, renewable power source.
it can definitely be turned off, at least in models from the last many years. other than that the"screen"causes no more eye strain than a book
Can I recommend increasing the text contrast a little for the metadata under the links for accessibility?

#666 on #ddd is a contrast ratio of 4.2:1, which might be difficult for some readers. Even moving to #555 on #ddd would move you into passing WCAG AA. Moving #454545 would pass WCAG AAA contrast ratios, and you could be pretty confident that nearly all readers would find it much easier to read!
I struggle to understand the use-case. What does this actually offer me over just using a normal web browser with maybe a customised new tab page? I made an account with a throwaway email to play around with it, and I honestly didn't understand why I'd want to use this over whatever workflow I have now.
That's definitely a thing. Additionally, humans are surprisingly friendly in all the wrong ways when it comes to physical security (tailgating, "forgotten ID/credentials", etc.).
Any decently competitive scene is going to develop cheaters in some form or another. MOBAs, Minecraft, Fortnite, at minimum I've heard about cheating some form or another. Any speedrunning community is going to face cheaters in some form or another doesn't matter what community you are talking about.

FPS games are kind of the gold standard when it comes to competitive environments, and thus gather cheaters or people complaining about cheaters substantially more than most other game genres.
It's not just the physical buttons alone, but the overall design with a fairly large area on one side to easily grip it with one hand (while still having your thumb over the page flip button).

I really wish UX designers for handheld devices optimized for, you know, ergonomics of actually holding it, rather than just trying to minimize the physical size.
Firefox needs some good news.
it would be cool. to sava be able open two cloud disk providers side by side and copy files from one to other.
One reason I call them that is that they fought Israel to a standstill in southern Lebanon not long ago; the missile attacks were presumably an attempt to lure the IDF into a similar confrontation. Hezbollah is Iran; they are an instrument of the IRGC. Israel and Iran aren't near-peer military forces; they are peers. Israel cannot unilaterally overwhelm Iran.
>> What's up with the marketing?

Why advertise a function that you know your device can't fulfill?
The math works. I already went through the doing challenge numbers with Ron Rivest; he just kept moving the bar. There has been one offer on ebay, but that person had no backing or ability to solve the problem, so i turned him down and blocked him. All of the countries/universities/companies who could do something discreetly with this problem have already been notified. Ron Rivest just emailed me and said "don't worry about it". Eh, no fun solving problems that are too troublesome; nobody want to pay either, but they sure want me to "share". There is actually enough in the ebay listing to work out the final methods, for those wgo understand the subject matter well.

Here is the link, if you want to look:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186720648147
Not even. Zstd offers the best decompression times using just one single core.

Multi-threading is a feature for the compression side.
> When you design a regulation like the DMA, how much revenue a company makes is a good proxy of their potential impact on citizens

Absolutely not; it's just a proxy for how much money you can get from them, especially when the way you define the fines is proportional to that number (a coincidence I am sure).

The origin of the problem is that the EU has been unable to properly tax big tech companies for a long time. Due to how accounting works, Meta, Apple, Alphabet etc have been reporting very little revenue in Europe despite Europe being a major market.
They do so because the EU tax rate is much higher than the US so they have a lot of incentive to move all the revenue away through "clever" accounting.

Because there is "no revenue" there is "no profit tax". And that drives the EU crazy to see so much $$$ being done here and no contribution to the states members budget, which are in dire need of cash. Because the international convention prevent you from taxing international revenue, you invent some kind of weird law to fine it instead. Different name, but same result. I am sure you noticed that the fine are proportional to the worldwide revenues of those companies. From a "EU citizen protection" perspective, there is no logic behind taxing money made in Thailand because you breached a law related to users in Belgium. From a "let's grab what we are owed because we have trouble taxing it the normal way" perspective it makes total sense. Fining based on world wide revenue is the one key reason why this law exists.

Because you actually don't want to impact European companies (which are already paying what the EU feels like the "right" amount) you carve some rules and boundaries that are specifically designed to only target the companies you are after. These kind of artificial threshold age poorly as we see.

An excellent counter example to this is Live Nation. They have huge revenue, massive user base and undeniably act as a Gatekeeper in the live music sector (when is the last time you did not use Ticketmaster to buy a ticket ?). Even the US is after them. Will the EU move a finger against them ? Absolutely not; because of the nature of the live music sector it's quite hard to "hide" revenues made in Europe. So Live Nation pays the right amount of tax, and thus will not be investigated. They check all the mark, but they also have already paid their due, so no one is going after them.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes — Ben Franklin
1. by that time we can definitely use Sun as a receiver's lense

2. 1 ton is starting from 1000 ton rocket. The Saturn V and Startship are on the scale of 5000 ton and assembled on Earth. That interstellar rocket will be assembled in space anyway, so not being subject to any meaningful gravitational nor accelerational stresses, we can easily build a 100000 or even 500000 ton rocket - basically just the reactors and tanks of acceleration mass - and thus get 100-500 ton payload. If we get any [semi]hybernation going (may be combined with 3d printing or CRISPR-like repair of organs, whatever we get in 20-30 years) or more probably some brain [partial] upload integrated with AI into some capable cyborg, may be even some people or those merged human/AI cyborgs would be able to go.

And by collecting some additional reaction mass ram-style over that distance and time (as long as we have enough reactor power to use part of the collected mass to avoid slow down resulting from the collection) we'd probably be able to slow down some small probes to land and orbit various objects in the target star system.
Of course it is. That doesnt mean it isnt also a perk. I am happy that my office has coffee even though it also benefits my employer with the increased productivity. Same with lunch, its a win win for the company and the employee.
I worked on air quality monitoring about 30 years ago and the equipment used a Kalman filter to remove measurement noise and give stability; it had been added to the software a number of years earlier by a mathematics student who was working as a summer job with the company. No-one in the team had heard of it before but it solved lots of the stability issues and was core to the system ever after.
I should have known before I gave away old kindles to my younger relatives :)
Once I get the O1 visa, what paths are available to aim for a green card?

If the company with which I applied for O1 goes bankrupt what happens to my visa status?
What are considered best practices for a German/EU citizen to start a startup in the US? What would be the process to found a company and to move to the US to work for your own company be like? Or would it be better to found it Germany and move it to the US at a later point (after PMF for example)?
I, as a fledgling woodworker, was able to make my own board with some guidance from a friend. It's definitely a rewarding and educational project! Plus it makes a nice wall decoration when not in use. I used Purple Heart wood for the edges, which looks gorgeous but was difficult to work with. It took a few days of 3-4 hour blocks, due to a busy schedule, so a more experienced woodworker should be able to do one pretty easily.
With Graal native images, JIT compilation is not an option any longer. The runtime is static. With jank, you have a native binary, but you can JIT compile code with it and interop seamlessly with the native world. jank will also have an option for static runtimes, with no JIT compilation support, which can perform direct linking, better inlining, and whole program LTO. These builds will be smaller and lighter than native images.

Already, jank is faster than native images in the benchmarking I've done. The largest benchmark, so far, was a ray tracer.
Litestream is out of process, requires shared memory WAL, doesn't work with exclusive mode WAL, wouldn't work work on Wasm.

LiteFS didn't support WAL mode initially, now does. The Wasm version doesn't support WAL mode at all.

mvSQLite doesn't support shared memory WAL. SQLSync doesn't support WAL at all.

Browser Wasm builds either don't have WAL enabled, or don't support shared memory WAL.

These replications are VFSes or FUSE drivers, and for those, it's much easier to work with rollback mode than WAL, especially if you don't want concurrency (or intend to provide concurrency through other means, like optimistic concurrency).

In open source, only Turso actually did a VFS to replicate the WAL. They had to break SQLite so much they call it libSQL. It also requires shared memory as is, would be hard (if possible) to port to Wasm.

Please, do take the challenge and build this. It will be much appreciated.

I've been asking the Turso guys to document their thing for a year, with little success. They have the interface (which just opens up undocumented internal SQLite interfaces), with no open source samples of how to use it (except a logger), and zero additional docs.
Is this "article" written by a LLM?

"Tomorrow, you will receive your weekly recap on unit tests."

Please, no.
I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this thread, but: I'm a Singaporean, and we have access to the H-1B1 visa.

If asked whether I need a visa in a US job application, would it be fine to say "no"?

How should I explain my situation, given that most people might assume that hiring non-US candidates would require participation in the H-1B lottery?
so much for the windows on arm 'revolution'.
Thanks for the feedback on the writing! Stay tuned. :)
I’ve heard constant talk about there being a UN resolution that’s gone completely unenforced, which involved UN occupation in southern Lebanon to ensure protection from Hezbollah control and attacks targeting Israel. Is there any validity to that? If such a large policy isn’t being enforced to support Israel, does that not somewhat validate most of Israel’s seemingly-aggressive actions in Lebanon, since the area isn’t being protected as expected?
Twitter is changing the way that blocking works
How often do you ask your boss for a raise or go job hunting?

1. When your money's running low or your job feels shitty, or

2. Constantly whenever you think you can get a raise or a better job
There is not a lot to see here (yet). Some images or a demo video would help understand what exactly is going on. I think a nice short gif of the app in action on the landing page would go a long way to immediately tell people what your product is.
It's a tiny percentage of visitors, but a tech savvy one, and depending on your website, they could be a higher than average percentage of useful users or product purchasers. The impact could be disproportionate. What's frustrating is many websites don't even realise it is happening because the reporting from the intermediate (Cloudflare say) is inaccurate or incorrectly represents how it works. Fingerprinting has become integral to bot "protection". It's also frustrating when people think this can be drop in, and put it in front of APIs that are completely incapable of handling the challenge with no special casing (encountered on FedEx, GoFundMe), much like the RSS reader problem.
I wonder if anyone at Microsoft is starting to have an inkling of realization that ARM is not what makes the Mac good.
I watched it two or three times before I understood I was watching a 30 second loop, only because I was getting impatient and showed all controls in the browser.

Amazing feat of repeatability, but also nerve control. One mistake and you are losing it. Even if it looked less fun than later videos.
Serves Qualcomm right for front-loading so much Windows support and not engaging with the Linux community sooner. Every single person I've seen express interest in this device, wants it for Linux (dev or to try as a daily driver).
> Every one of these newer building looks like a high priced and high maintenance design

Not really possible to judge from pictures, as it depends on material selection, durability etc. Good architects can make nice things without breaking the bank.
The revolution will not be in the Microsoft Store.
AiOS: All-in-One-Stage Expressive Human Pose and Shape Estimation
is it possible to root still? I'm guessing no
Imagine thinking a genocide was not relevant to you... "[Country Name] is eradicating [type of people]" requires a level of state power that is globally impactful. The US, for instance, is party to some of these genocides. If you are a US citizen, you are directly affected -- your taxes, your representatives, your opportunity costs, etc. are being used to eradicate [type of people] rather than something beneficial. Same if you are basically anywhere in the world.

You aren't disconnected from those things.
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