skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article clearly says that not all events can be described this way, especially the "tic tac" encounter.
Anti-drone guns exist. What is the difference?
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2079045/chin...
Sadly too many `vs` breaks the flow and rhythm
My favorite recording of D960 is the Horowitz 25th anniversary recital performance. It’s at once light, powerful, and swift, seemingly abstracting away the specifics of instrumentation in its phrasing and singing.
That is generally true, but has weird edge cases. For example using not so specially crafted ICMP packets[1] two hosts each behind independent NATs can communicate with each other without any change to a firewall configuration.

Also honorable mentions: The UPnP protocol & STUN servers

[1]: https://samy.pl/chownat/
Gigagram? 10 thousand ton?
“The masses” don’t deploy http servers. They don’t need to implement tls. The fact is that something struck a nerve and motivated the people who handle this to implement TLS. Whether that’s tech-minded understanding or consumer-fomented demand channeled through CTOs, I don’t really care. Let’s Encrypt founders didn’t sit down one day with a master business plan of getting rich off free certs. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if a high-level view showed Snowden having a lot to do with it.
Bitcoin Cross $11K: AMD Graphics Cards About to Disappear?
What was the coolest thing you coded up for your operating systems class?
Here's an Ars Technica write up of a study like that, if it's not the one the original poster had in mind:

> A new study released Monday looks into what would happen if that limitation were eliminated. It envisions a massive web of high-voltage, direct-current transmission lines, hooked up to 32 nodes spread across the US. This allows a massive spread of renewable power that could be dispatched anywhere in the nation. The result is a grid with dramatically lower carbon emissions and the bonus of lower costs to consumers.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/making-a-single-us-e...

Of course it's one thing to engineer a carbon- and cost-minimal grid in theory, it's another thing to try to construct a market that could reach that optimum, or get it enacted politically.

This HVDC network is something I think of every few months, not only for the idea itself, but for the futility of a really really good idea that has every bit of politics stacked against it.
What post is that?
WinCE was really their most accurately named OS to date.
You can simply use the detector network to discard faulty results in a pipeline and it's already useful
"Should we look in cliff shadows? Near ice deposits? The bottoms of craters? Near the equator where it is warmer? Or near the poles where there might be water? We could look a long time without ever learning whether or not life exists."

Somewhere near water might be a good start. There are plenty of candidates for this on Mars already.

Also, I'm sure plenty of people at NASA and other space agencies have thought of this, and there are probably some good reasons for not doing it, but why not take some deep core samples and look through them with a microscope for anything moving?

Not that creatures that can be seen moving under a microscope would exhaust all possible forms of life, but wouldn't it be a good start rather than looking for traces of what might have existed on Mars millions or billions of years ago?

Looking for basic components of or traces of life and only then later starting to look for existing life itself seems like the going the long way around. Why not just go for the gold from the start?
I remember (upon mentioning my excitement regarding IPv6) this exact sentiment over a decade ago. It was accurate then, and it’s accurate now.
What will actually happen is that everyone will be dragged into lengthy video conference that doesn't require a meeting room in the first place.

The incentive to eliminate unproductive meeting should be something else.
I thought the 1950s were by far the most intense UFO era.
Cherry picking is no longer necessary with recent advancements. The images on https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ are random and have a few artifacts (particularly the backgrounds and hair), but if you weren't looking for it you'd be unlikely to notice anything.
I'm not attacking Bunnie, everyone has their own view of the world. Bunnie has repeatedly stated that he views IP as an impediment to R&D, and anything that threatens the quasi-open sourcing of hardware (eg: how data sheets, BSPs and code are passed around by sellers in China, in spite of the legalities) is bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
nobody would port old games that don't give revenues.
For example, if Paradox/Cerberos don't move a finger to fix a stupid annoying bug of a game that have like 6 years old (Sword of the stars), why hell they would port to 64 bits ?
Thank you. I was too young to read and experience it at the time so I don't really know.
Sure. If you are willing to torpedo the economy you could accomplish a lot.

At least until people start showing up with pitchforks and torches.

And by 'torpedo the economy' I mean raise energy costs up to the point were all this energy pipe dreams becomes viable.

Of course if people were interested in actually solving the problem then we would be building nuclear power plants left and right and wouldn't have to worry about insanely long transmission lines.
There was an incident recently where a tech website was unable to send a Huawei phone they were reviewing from their UK office to their US office because FedEx sent it back. I believe this is in reference to that.
NTPsec Version 1.1.4 release – NTS is now implemented
I was being extremely generous given the rotational speed these things were demonstrated with. If it has a significantly narrower beam it absolutely won't be able to track a single moving drone much less deal with it's intended target of a "swarm of drones".
This environment sounds like hell. The company is pushing the entire process and overhead of management into every facet of employee life but not distributing commensurate benefits to employees except a handful of lotto winner that serve more as performance set pieces than an actual compensation model.

Because most of those things they're cutting: meetings, reports, OKRs, forecasting, planning? Those things exist to keep the company legible and transparent to its owners. These activities often feel pointless because other than feeding information upwards, they don't always serve a purpose.

These toxic activities tend to cast a pall on the genuine hard work that line workers experience making a business actually function on a day-to-day basis. Those meetings, often critical for drawing out consensus, now are perceived as from the same pointless, poisonous well as the other activities. The net result is that only the most overwhelming personalities and cliques of employees can succeed, and that limited success becomes a 0 sum game. Cooperation gets branded as overhead.

And it seems like now the company is so utterly devoid of leadership but so intensely addicted to a tall hierarchy that they're "crowdsourcing" their business plans to folks for the privilege of competing for those fixed-size bonuses more effectively? Other than play-pretend they're on Shark Tank and make sure beans stay counted, what do the executives and upper management there even do?

You'd have to be pretty desperate or pretty close to a sociopath to enjoy that environment. It's a synthesis of the worst qualities of most corporate excess: overwhelming personal responsibility, arbitrary numeric axis of evaluation, constant performance justification, ruthless peer competition. But it's got no real benefits over a normal job other than a small handful of people getting performative payout. You can put in the effort to your utmost and circumstance can still deny you that payout even if the company succeeds.
I have to do something similar when testing Apple Pay et al in development. I only get one connection at a time, and the latency is huge. Is ssh capable of multiple connections within a tunnel? Is Serveo relatively performant?
> I'm less convinced that age has anything to do with good outcomes these days as is the discipline to do the responsible things, regardless of how little we wish to do those things.

The age might also act as a filter, since the best developers are often promoted to the management roles in their 40s and 50s, and are no longer writing much code themselves.
> Why I'd need to us a fucking VPN tunnel just to get SSH to my home computer.

My most recent disappointment was trying to mount an Azure SMB 3.0 network drive over port 445. It would function just like a network drive at work or school right? No more poorly made userland daemons i.e. Dropbox. Or any additional software, VPN, proxy, or admin rights for that matter. Just click “add network drive” button in explorer and paste in the URI.

But nope port 445 is blocked by ISPs. So ironically the cheaper storage is only usuable by business internet plans. Which seems sorta atypical.
Does an incognito window not work for you?
>In fact, Gates is still kicking himself for taking his eyes off the ball and allowing Google to develop Android, the “standard non-Apple phone form platform,” as he describes it. “That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win.”

Not without Satya Nadella's Microsoft, who knows how to exploit open-source ecosystem. Even if Steve Ballmer had bought Android instead of Google, Microsoft would have sold it to manufacturers at premium without letting them to innovate upon it(Like they did with Windows Mobile/Phone OS). So android under Pre-Nadella would have failed anyways.

So Bill Gates, take it easy; android under Microsoft wouldn't have become a reality due to the seeds you sowed in the Microsoft's Philosophy. But things are changing thanks to extraordinary overhaul of Satya Nadella.
I guess some good soul could maintain and host a "Firefox Lite" config file that disables all these unwanted extras so that the work is done once.
Scientists have discovered a sea of fresh water under the ocean
> “I will tell you as an engineer, with training in operations and planning, if you had asked me 10 years ago if we would have been able to reliably accommodate even half of that, I would have said no. Period. End of discussion,” he said.

This has been the story of renewables since the beginning: highly trained people bringing up technical concerns that seem like impossibilities, and then that impossibility being proven to be possible.

I almost never believe a hardened, experienced, smart energy person anymore when they say something isn't possible, because what they really mean is "nobody has done that before."

Up until 2000, nobody having done something before probably meant it wasn't possible: thermal steam turbines have been optimized out the wazoo for decades upon decades.

As we move away from thermal steam production of electricity, we will need to re-evaluate everything, something the energy sector hasn't done for a very long time.
Show HN: BlackHole – Fast, free and encrypted file transfer for Windows and Mac
It's crazy for me to realize that Linux was created the same year when I got the first computer in my house running Windows 98. I didn't know Linux was this old.

Another funny thing I just remembered is how I broke our house computer trying to install Linux (I have no idea how to actually do it, I was barely 10-12 years old back then). I bought one of those magazines which shipped with CDs with demo games and other software. I tried to install Linux on our home computer using that and completely messed the computer up because apparently my hardware didn't support it or something. Anyway, I got a pretty good beating from my Mom after that.

EDIT: correction, as couple people pointed out Linux was created in 1991. I thought it was created in 1998 based on the publishing of this archived news article. I also grew up in a developing country where things came much later than the US.
To be honest, the 'reversal risk' issue is a red herring.

Consumers are not going to be thrilled about storing their money in a system where there's no official "if your account gets compromised or suffers a technical difficulty, you'll be made whole" policy. If it turns into a knock-on situation where they buy third-party insurance at their expense, it looks even worse.

For merchants, even if not technically required, legitimate players are going to have to find a way to bolt refunds onto such a system. The risk to reputation would be too great-- nobody wants to be known as "this is where people go to buy stuff with stolen crypto because they never refund." And this will be priced into things, just like now they have to price in losses due to bad cheques and stolen cards.

What's the best a perfect crypto dream can offer? An appeal to super-high-risk (and outright fraud) merchants who might benefit from not having surprise clawbacks and chargeback fees.
The headline makes it sound negative but actually the arricle makes a very strong case.
Looks like US only wants you to be able to get your NSA-backdoor approved devices.
LetsEncrypt was likely accelerated by the Snowden leaks, but the discussions around free community run CAs were around long before that precipitous event. For CloudFlare it was likely just an effective way to drive additional business to them while pursuing their business model.

I don't think "the masses" fall into the equation at all and likely haven't even really noticed the change besides the "This site isn't safe" warnings that occasionally pop up.
For those asking why we need the nation state: because in most countries, this is part and parcel of having a democracy. Celebrate the death of the nation state, you celebrate the death of democracy in itself.

Against democracy? Start another thread explaining why you're so damn clever you'd wind back centuries of political progress.
The market for wind turbines has a chance to explode if the wind turbine companies would invest in small-scale ammonia production technology. Farms everywhere (a) can use ammonia for both fertilizer and fuel, (b) have room for wind turbines, and (c) are mostly far from power networks.

A Canadian inventor, Roger Gordon (http://www.greennh3.com/) has a refrigerator-size design that needs only electric power, water, and air, but can't raise capital.

Intermittent ammonia production is a perfect fit for wind turbines. Who needs wires?

Industrial ammonia production turns out to be the single biggest methane polluter. (https://agreenerworld.org/a-greener-world/it-wasnt-the-cows-...) Methane is much worse than CO2. Driving them out of business would be a wonderful side benefit.
The performance impact makes this a no-go for graphics drivers. Lots of games are 32 bits, even recent ones, because they don't need the large address space and don't want to pay the overhead of 64 bits.

Really, this is an incredibly stupid move that has a high likelihood of killing Linux gaming on Ubuntu.
It's not about founding or donation, it's all about false promises. How you can give false assumptions about something which does not exists and it's not provable. I'm thinking here about all the optimistic features the author is acclaiming. As some of the commenters mentioned practically is impossible to build a product (a new programming language) in solo and having only a couple of thousands of LOC.
The article talks about the cost of transferring a file from the cloud vs loading it from a local harddrive.

It's not only the amount of energy used for that at the datacenter, it's also summing up all the fractions of power usage per GB of the used fiber connection, the repeaters on this fiber connection, routers, switches, losses in power supplies, energy required for air conditioning the hardware, the phone/cable/mobile infrastructure that also has switches, repeaters, ... until ones own modem, router and computer at the own location that is needing energy to operate.
I actually hope that software ( open source) could be more like trade.

Eg. Follow human rights, No great firewall and you can use it.

Global trade has done a lot of good for the world, in general, there hasn't been any big war in the last 70 years.

Why: 996
If you're self-hosting, why not just use ssh forwarding directly, without serveo?
That's where aluminum 'chemtrails' come into play, to create HE radio channels. https://geopolitics.co/2015/04/03/chemtrail-pilot-blows-the-...
I doubt packaging graphics drivers is feasible for Wine, and those are target important for games...
Did you make a typo? Linux was created in 1991.
>> They don't pay out of pocket, which would generally be illegal in most First World nations...

I've been at an employer where the procurement process was so arduous that employees were encouraged to just buy some things themselves, or risk not meeting MBOs (e.g., cloud compute instances, licenses for desktop software, etc.) In most cases, the manager forked out their personal credit card (realizing they would not meet their MBO and would lose out on a much larger bonus.)

Not saying this is acceptable, just that is does happen.
Wasn't Palm taking a 80% cut in their glory days? (My google skills fail me) I heard developers saying that 30% was a great deal at the time.
Not as good as Smack my Bitch up the Orinoco Flow! I'll admit, the lyrics don't quite work together in that one.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLScpNjQbak
I highly doubt you had Windows 98 in 1991. Did you mean Windows 3.1?
Supposedly, you're free to switch managers at any point. Then again, switching teams helps to get out of a bad manager relationship, but it doesn't help build a good one.
> why is it on the front page with zero comments?

Because people upvoted it and people didn't comment. This is not at all rare.

Speaking of which, please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, especially when a thread doesn't have any comments yet. Discussions are surprisingly sensitive to initial conditions.
Or all the meetings will happen in the common areas or around Bob's desk or whatever other space they can find.
I understand that. I was just referring to the OP who was surprised that it does not answer his questions
On slightly thinner ice, Microsoft was at the height of "embracing, extending and extinguishing" the browser and internet at the time of the book. They failed in good part from completely misunderstanding, presumably at management level, their target. I'm sure many individual MS engineers understood well enough.

The era when you could put an activeX component on the desktop, or embed it into a screen saver, and some network services like ftp wouldn't be distinguished from just opening an explorer window. A world of (mostly teased but not delivered) Windows services you'd subscribe to like a series of cable channels, and when sites still backed either Netscape or IE with little "made for..." icons. Which stopped because MS thought they were "finished" with IE 6.

[Edit: IE 6 was rather later and understood, but balkanised the internet. IE 1 and 2 were interesting. Sort-of compatible but available via an MS view of the world - as an extra cost option in the Windows Plus! pack for Win 95. It was only Win 95 after some service pack that included IE in base. I'm not sure when downloads started, but initially I don't think you could]
> However I know the mysterious hn algorithm does like to try out new articles on a small pile of readers before seeing if it should stick to the front page proper

HN's algorithm doesn't do that. What made you think it did?

> How much does it cost nowadays to get a ad-article on here anyway?

Hopefully infinity. I'm not aware of people getting away with this and we've put a ton of effort into preventing it. The voters, by the way, whose votes got this story on the front page have been good HN citizens for 9, 8, and 7 years respectively. If some ad manipulator got them to do that, that's a hell of an ad manipulator.
We have to distinguish what the given language exposes to its users and how the code such language generated works on the underlying hardware (along with constraints due to compatibility with other languages, most importantly C which is the de-facto system interface nowadays).

A C-compatible closure basically requires an executable chunk of memory that captures the state along with the istructions to push it to the parameters area (based on the architecture's calling convention) and then jumping to the actual function.

This is not global just because it's scoping the state with the function. On the other hand it becomes global the moment it gets installed to a global handler table (because there can only be one such handler).

However a language that limits globals (and forces people through this kind of hoops in order to deal with cases where singletons are really needed) encourages a coding style that makes it easier to test your code in isolation.
The surface of Mars is very hostile to life.
The Smooth Resize Test
This was posted 15 hours ago but the same article[1] posted 2 hours ago is on the HN front page with discussion

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20253284
Oh, my bad. I thought it was created in 1998 based on the publishing of this archived news article. I also grew up in a developing country where things came much later than the US.
> My thoughts are that ageism in IT is a natural consequence of not valuing experience.

Exactly, which is often reflected in job specs. You rarely see a requirement to have 10, let alone 15 or 20 years of experience as a requirement. When the application is automated you can get a drop down menu that stops at 5+, for example. I once complained about this to Hired.com; they didn't react at the time but years later they added more options up to 15+.

This is a Dunning-Kruger effect of sorts. When those hiring have no more than 5 years of experience, they have no idea that the difference between 10 and 5 is as big as between 0 and 5, and so on. Unfortunately you have little chance of seeing the value of experience if you lack it yourself.
Maybe it's simply about them being two generations younger? E.g. people in their 20's have never suffered communism while my father has lived through the socialist normalisation AND the Velvet Revolution, my grandfather fought in WW2 and then lived in stalinist communism and my great-grandfather was in Austrian Imperial Army and then Czechoslovak Legions in Russia during the WW1.
Sorry, made correction.
Android was worthless back then, all existing OSes were better than it, it wouldn't make sense for anyone thay jad a mobile OS to buy it.
Yes, it is comparing what it takes to load a file from disk or from remote. It needs to include the share of the used infrastructure for that.
Have been personally using it and I believe it’s a better alternative to ngrok.
"No" isn't necessarily an answer. In the UK for example the law creates "Necessary Wayleaves" which basically say well, society decided we need electricity, and the power transmission company says it needs to put something here to achieve that, so tough, now your freehold has a Wayleave on it that you can't remove saying they can have access and put things on your land. You get paid compensation automatically, but you don't get to say "No".

You can go to tribunal (like a court) but "Too bad, now nobody gets any electricity" isn't one of the options they have, so unless you're going to show that they had another better route open to them the tribunal will just rule against you.
So, i've talked with my dad about how i would need a credit to start-up some business if i would do it. We talked in a small garden, no wifi/pc there just my phone. Never searched online for a credit or whatever, nothing concrete it was just something that came up once in a conversation with my dad.

Three days later i received a letter from my local banking center offering a personal talk about getting a credit to start-up businesses, handsigned.

Never got such a letter before. Sure could be coincidence but im not quite sure there.