skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just move the X closer and get less expensive ammo" is on its own an almost bottomless argument. I'm going to presume you're reasonable and don't think we should replace bombers with hordes of people on motorcycles throwing grenades.

A lot of the same differences show up here too: safer for the ships involved, vastly faster reaction time, precision.
Next Theranos I'm calling it.
Lacking in this conversation so far is the absurdity of yet another "precision ground attack" platform, when there are already ship / submarine / air land launched cruise missiles, air launched guided bombs from (supposedly) stealthy fighters, and in a pinch short-range SLBMs or SRBMs. They might have cost disadvantages compared to the theoretical marginal cost of the Zumwalt rounds, but I get the sense that the DoD is not exactly optimizing for cost.
I'd be more inclined to blame chemical carcinogens in that case. Old electrical equipment used things like PCBs in capacitors and transformers, and beryllium oxide thermal compound. Military organizations are sometimes exempt from civilian safety regulations and they are understandably willing to take long term safety risks if it reduces the risk of short term catastrophic failure. There could also be contamination there that pre-dates understanding of the danger. Even if the cancer cluster is real, I wouldn't consider non-ionizing radiation until I'd ruled out all the known carcinogens.
i also had trouble with pointers while learning C, and, like everyone else, it seems so obvious now that i wonder what the hell my problem was. like learning to ride a bike, or drive a car with a manual transmission. i learned 8086 assembler before C and had no difficulty with indirection there.

for what its worth, your "aha" scenario would have just confused me more. even today, i have to think a bit before your second example makes sense to me.
Except for the landing and reusing part, no? (Yes, they recaptured and reused the Shuttle's SRBs, but it's a different scale and the economics are very different.)
As another comment, I think the author of this article is confusing the decorative products the resulting fashion trend that minimalism has created with the actual lifestyle and the improvements it provides for people where time, efficiency and reduced mental clutter and life clutter is of the essence.

Not everyone buying minimalist wallart from urbanoutfitters and posting it on instagram is necessarily representative of people who have organized their thoughts time, schedule, social life, work life and have a resulting apartment decor that represents that.
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CVN-80 is going into service in 2025... just saying.
Are there any alternatives with the same reaction time though?
Not sure if /s, but, to rasterize a 1920x1080 image you would make 2073600 HTTP requests? Sound reasonable.
I am absolutely awful at this but you're completely right. I've never had facts change anyone's mind but at the same time I've been told I'm a "robot" regarding emotions so I have changed my mind in the past but I don't think that makes me better. In fact it seems I may be deficient in emotions compared to many that I interact with.

So I _try_ to figure out where they're coming from and relate to it. But I can never do it. I've never figured out a way to argue with someone in a productive way.

In fact if you know of any good reads on the topic I'd love to check them out. I've been told I'm not empathetic enough though I try to be and I'm not entirely sure how to fix it.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I don't know how the DPRK does it (it's notoriously opaque), but it would be astounding if they didn't follow the 20th Century Communist model of having political types police the military. As for the Korean People's Army, a few minutes with Wikipedia turned up this acknowledgement of direct political control (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People%27s_Army#Commiss...):

The primary path for command and control of the KPA extends through the State Affairs Commission which was led by its chairman Kim Jong-il until 2011, to the Ministry of People's Armed Forces and its General Staff Department. From there on, command and control flows to the various bureaus and operational units. A secondary path, to ensure political control of the military establishment, extends through the Workers' Party of Korea's Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Now, this control is not tight like the infamous USSR Red army political commissars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commissar#Red_Army), as can be discerned by how nowadays army units out in the field on non-military duty are known to act like bandits. Including capturing and eating small farm animals before they have to return to their barracks.

So, yes, a degree of skepticism is warranted, but there are too many reports of this sort of thing to dismiss it. The Soviets certainly squared this circle, albeit without the spur of pervasive malnutrition ... which, come to think of it, can put a damper on mutinies and the like, if you barely have enough energy to survive.

The Soviet approach to civilians, making them spend lots of time gathering the necessities of life, is another way of suppressing dissent. The PRC was more direct, get on the wrong side of your block or village political committee and you'd no longer get your ration coupons and would starve to death. My PRC roommates in the very late '80s reported this was the biggest effect of Deng Xiaoping's opening of the food system, changing your fate to having to pay more for a lot of your food.
I don't see how one would limit it in any way.

If they ship a binary and give you its signing key, you can change it into any binary you want and resign it, and the OS will have to accept it (if it doesn't, they aren't complying with the GPL because, apparently, they didn't give you the full effective signing key)
Since I had kids it seems practically impossible.
React, routing, and data fetching
Their initial design was a fiber projector that oscillated in a spiral pattern with something like 512 rings (I can't remember the exact number). Along the the spiral you can have any resolution, only limited by how fast you can modulate the laser. Details along the spiral would be sharp, anything along the normal (spokes radiating inwards) would be only have 1024 distinct levels of detail.

But their later patents showed whole arrays of these fiber projectors. They are probably limited by the optics in-between the fiber and the eye and by the display controller bandwidth more than anything.
Pretty well. Sony's porting of AVX, for example is pretty nice, there's a good performance boost in hand there. ARM's also made some substantial improvements to LLVM, in fact dumping their old proprietary compiler for one built around LLVM. Neither of these things would have likely happened if the two projects in question had been GPL-encumbered.
DLNA, like TVMobili or Serviio. Twonky server and family, too, does that, I think - never tried it. Now the DLNA part on top of it hides the underlying URL's but I'm sure with some digging around with Wireshark you can figure it out. Using a DLNA client is much easier anyway.
The web plugin requires installation and draws a native window with native code, onto your browser viewport.

"VLC.js" would theoretically take an HTML <video> or <canvas> tag, as well as a filename, as arguments... and that'd be it. No setup, no nothing. You would just have video, playing.

Although I've had some bad experiences with software decoding on mobile platforms, so I don't really know of any advantages to having it as a JS file besides "look at what's possible with emscripten". It'd wreck your laptop's battery life, probably be unplayable on mobile. Why not just have your user... download VLC?
You're most likely right. I was under the impression that they just did a basic anti-malware scan on your app, but that seems to have changed back in 2015.

Oddly enough, this doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the Google help pages or Android docs. This blog post [1] is the closest thing to an official confirmation I managed to find.

[1]: https://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/03/creating-bet...
it would be a big freaking deal if any other country started doing it

like when that guy simultaneously attacked the world power of Britain despite being under sanctions
While I agree entirely with many points about misleading labelling and the relative safety of GMO foods, these sorts of articles inevitably leave out any notion of the actual risks that heavily pro-GMO policies might produce. Such as the massive risk to long-term biodiversity of crowding out non-GMO breeds in the name of "less wasteful" but far less diverse GMO breeds. Not to mention the well-established risk of lowering the quality of the food itself in terms of taste and nutrition in pursuit of shelf appearance and lifetime, pest resistance, and harvesting density, which long before direct genetic modification was possible ruined many common produce varieties.

These are entirely reasonable concerns, well proven out by past experience with agricultural monocultures and counterproductive "improvements" in the shelf product. And so while it's fair and probably justified to avoid the "Non-GMO" certification label itself, it's not justifiable to dismiss concerns about trends in GMO produce overall by quoting "science" that only addresses the safety of GMO produce and not the larger concerns.
Don't forget the in-air refueling cost that's there to save the Navy the embarrassment of taking off and landing anywhere near where the Air Force does.
A language is a set of strings and an oracle for that language answers whether a certain string is in that language in O(1) time.
I saw a demo of ffmpeg running in emscripten at some point. It's definitely possible.
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I'm not arguing that poor people have more things because its economical for them. I'm arguing that it's not elitist, opressive or pretentious for people who are well off to live this lifestyle just because some other people (definitely not poor refugees) who are on instagram and feel slighted that they cant afford to make their look minimalist enough for instagram.

It's like being jealous of a girl at school just because her family can afford nicer clothing than you.

The author is addressing the resulting fashion trend, and not the lifestyle, and assuming a bunch of rich people with mansions gave it all up just to try a new hairstyle persay, at the expense of the dignity of the masses, which is far from how I would see it.
And how much fossil fuel would those huge plastic spaceships burn, especially if they were reusable?
It would be cheaper to just have drones or manned craft nearby, waiting to fire. It would be cheaper to just have a missile boat ready to fire a tomahawk. It's not as though we're short on options of ways to deliver ordinance on a target. What we're short of are good reasons to do so, that aren't concocted for the worst possible reasons.

Think about it... what was the last war we actually needed to be involved in?
"People like you" isn't a non-starter if they just mean "people who think nukes end the need for competitive conventional capabilities", and the justification for such a model can be gathered entirely in this thread.
This exactly captures the struggle I've been having with pointers in Go - I have no problem grasping what a pointer is and how to use it, but I keep getting tripped up on the syntax because of exactly this.
I think your approach, limiting implementation to the portion of the market where there is political will, is highly likely to bias results into producing a meaningless outcome. Scary labels on some things and not others really do scare people. That strikes me as poor experimental design, likely to show that if you put scary packaging on some products then fewer people will buy them.

I'm pretty sure we know that one already.

You're right. I don't believe that engaging with the concerns of anti-GMO activists is a productive course of action. I don't think being sympathetic and a good listener here will be any more helpful than being nice to antivaxxers has been. I think you cannot reason people out of a position rooted in fear.

It's very possible that scientists are as bad at handling systemic risks as you say. You very well may be right. However, in this case those systemic risks must be weighed against the other systemic risks we face without GMOs. We are not in a situation where there is a risk-free option on the table, and we do public policy a grave disservice by pretending otherwise for political expediency.
I voted him up because I want to see that movie, but I agree with you, in that I don't want to live that life.
Shu here. I'm the person drafting the memory model for the SharedArrayBuffer spec, and as Dave says, it'll be the basis for the wasm story as well.

Lars Hansen deserves most of the credit for the actual spec -- I'm just doing the memory model. :)
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Just because everyone has the same amount doesn't mean that everyone has an infinite amount. It's still a scarce resource.
I believe NPAPI is being deprecated; that wiki page is very out of date.
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I recently started playing Saints Row 4. In the casual mode, its an easy game with an overpowered protagonist. It's really relaxing when a game gives every weapon in the beginning and let us choose the way to use them.
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Heard a comment from a recently deployed logistics guy:
"A great projectile for a rail gun would be a used-up
double-A battery - we always have plenty of those."
i'm hoping its real... but all that time and all the hype with no substance is confidence shaking. i mean, why would you not allay the obvious fears of investors and potential customers?

there are also the deep technical problems which are widely acknowledged in the field and clearly not addressed. a top spec desktop machine struggles to keep up with your eyes movements /if they are known in advance/ - the idea that a pear of glasses coupled with /any/ peripheral, even one the size of your house, can contain the hardware to do this in real-time is quite far-fetched - even accounting for sensors with feedback and clever mechanical tricks.

there is no mention of how to deal with occlusion. no amount of throwing light at your retina can solve that problem... you need something to intelligently block it out. the marketing hype images make this seem like a solved problem...

maybe there is something that works, but i have no faith that magic leap is anything more than a scam targetting VCs. the same opinion i have grudgingly kept since i first saw anything of it... because its a cool idea and i want it.

i hope these issues are publicly addressed so i can buy it early in confidence instead of waiting to see if its as good as the sales-pitch... which, sadly, there is no indication it will be - because none of the obvious issues have been addressed.
I'm currently traveling to India from the states, and this is exactly why I'm against trying to characterize India as a "special" extraordinary case. You're just proving my point as to why building this kind of narrative is dangerous.

Even the majority of mythologies, and social perceptions don't victim blame in the case of rape so I don't know where this "no decent woman will get raped" is coming from. However I will admit that there's still a perception that going out at night is dangerous which, even as a guy, I subscribe to for the most part. It is nullified if I'm going with others, and depending on the area. Unfortunately there's still a social stigma associated to the rape victim, which is changing.

"So yes, there is a qualitative difference between Indian rape and western rape."

What a load of bullocks. There's a "qualitative difference" between the crimes of all countries as all crimes are dependent on their specific geographies, culture, and people, which all invariably change. This is the case even in the USA.

"In the big cities, many countries have issued travel advisories because of rape to avoid India for female travelers."

Based on what? One anecdotal case? Or based on what statistic? Or is it just manufactured? I mean what proof do you have to actually make it a valid claim?
WAT

How did you swing that/who do you write for?

I have written an article for Sitepoint and have a couple in-progress pitches with them and someone else, but I am not really motivated about it because the per hour rate, after all the back-and-forth and work, ends up being like 20 bucks or less.
Are you saying that tenants who names weren't on the rent-control leases were living in the apartments? Forgive me, because I just moved to SF, but that doesn't sound legal to me.
On the other end of the flexibility + compatibility scale, if all you need is to watch The Wire on your iPhone/iPad/Apple TV v4 on the couch instead of at your computer, I've been using Infuse. Just turn on SMB on your computer and fave a few directories, then stream away. It'll even pull in metadata, cover art, descriptions and sort shows into seasons.

https://firecore.com/infuse

(Arguably, Infuse is very compatible with whatever your video source is, but it only runs on iOS.)
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Seems unwise to reason backwards from your desired conclusion (commons implies censorship/regulation, so it can't be a commons).

Security is indeed a commons because the overall security of the ecosystem only benefits each person weakly, and so every actor rationally benefits by neglecting security.

External regulation isn't the only way to address commons problems. Manufacturers can see the writing on the wall and work together to solve issues, but only if the public pushes them to.
$800K per round seems a bit off - that would be half the current price of a Tomahawk cruise missile. This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur would be a good comparison and it costs about $80K.

I remember when i first learned about these guns it looked to me like somebody decided to go for a money saving trade-off - land attack with weaker round at shorted distance at supposedly cheaper price per round than a cruise missile. Looking at that one, i can't help to remember another trade-off - to save money F-35 engines aren't made stealth ...
..., but why must everything be in JavaScript and in the web browser?

In this case, the point is to make that archived data readily accessible. An internet archive where you need to track down and install the right native application to view each record is a bit like those rarefied museum collections locked away in the vast basements of large academic departments, accessible only to those few scholars who are familiar with the hoops they need to jump through to be allowed in.

I don't think the idea is that if you had, say, a large collection of MOD files you enjoy, that you should throw away your native tracker and use the browser with a JS tracker instead. Rather, the idea is that if there's a discussion somewhere of the early 90s Amiga demoscene you can post a link to a particular MOD file and know that everyone will be able to play it straight from there.
And nearly every one of these does not do it correctly. I haven't recently checked this in VLC either since normally I just use the original trackers and other programs for playback on the real hardware.

From the github of the project you linked:

"None of the player classes fully implement all the
features and effects in each file format, but all the major
ones should be implemented. In addition, there most
certainly will be some playback bugs in each player class -
let me know if you run into some bad ones."

Additionally, I did not see support for some other tracker formats listed (though perhaps supported) such as IT. There seems to be some sort of culture of "cool web page" or "on github" means "works PERFECT" to many people. Worse, sometimes these things do work well, get abandoned, then something breaks them like a security change, so we're back to unsupported again.

As someone who has a passion for what some describe as "scene" formats, I have to say that 99% of the stuff I come across, whether for MOD, ANSI, RIP, DIZ, whatever is fundamentally broken or missing key functionality. The same holds true to other related tech such as vt100/vtxxx emulators. Music and ANSI are some of the worst offenders. Music is interesting since even at the time, different programs would play things back differently, however there was some degree of consistency to make things playable. Literally every ANSI parser in popular places I check have some combination of horrible bugs, missing parts of the standard, abysmal performance, inaccuracies, and worse. It's as if the authors didn't read the specs, because, well, they probably did not (or at least didn't understand them).

The situation gets worse when you think about preservation. Some of the formats had multiple versions and iterations, not to mention were built with different processors and architecture in mind. I was working with one format recently that used a little-endian packed struct that added fields between versions and stored this data as binary. If you read a previous version of the format with the most of the code out there (supporting the latest), it would actually crash. I've actually hit this with archives too, such as with LZH/LHA that are especially used in retro settings or on some platforms.

There's a lot of complexity to older formats and the evolution of things that appeared in more wild circumstances and/or times. Implementations that work perfectly are a rarity and worthy of attention. VLC in this regard does a better job than most. So I think part of the logic whether I agree or disagree is that VLC is widely used, maintained, and active, so it's a bit better for preservation at the moment than random collections of github libraries.
Can't say i can explain it, but the words you're looking for are "local realism".

I really like the pretty pictures from walking droplets, and it makes the thing seem very intuitive. But they're a little disingenuous. It's easy to imagine, or just see a drop of water bouncing in the air on a wave of water. But all this stuff happens in 3d. There's (as far as i know) no separation like air and water. It's more like a sound wave expanding out in all directions.

How do you surf on a sound wave? Not saying it can't be done, it's just that the pretty picture has to be a lot more complicated for the particle to have something to bounce off of. Maybe there are some weird hard thin shells that hover around particles. Who knows? For sure i can say 'not me'.
I don't understand that idea. From what I understand, most oil is used for transportation, so if EV's get cheaper than ICE, which it seems is going to happen in less than a decade, won't all the newly-prosperous developing world people buy EV's instead?