skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also: Rainbow Tables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table

The thing about "Sploosh Kaboom" is that the end state of the board, essentially a hash, is all you need to know to figure out the seed. That's thanks to the precomputed table embedded in the helper program.

Unlike reversing a hash, however, you actually want to crack the code using as little information as possible! Nobody wants to solve for the seed after they've already revealed the whole board, after all. The truly novel part of this particular tool is in how it leverages calculus to narrow down the seed pool by exploiting the RNG that produced the board seed. Each entry in the precomputed table is also time-indexed, since the RNG step count can be loosely approximated based upon the game's runtime. As the tool eliminates seeds from the pool, it's also gaining confidence in the exact cycle count the RNG was at when it produced the seed value for the board, which, in turn, tightens up the distribution curve of the remaining seeds.
I think you are right, and that makes me sad.
User experience (UX) is the interaction and experience users have with a company's products and services.
See their other article for this: https://pudding.cool/2017/03/timeless/index.html (linked in another comment)
Side question: Why is Netflix in FAANG? When people talk about the "Big 5" companies they have Microsoft, not Netflix, in there.
This could really use a Table of contents
I guess you probably never broke a system and caused an external visible outage?

I am working in a FAANG company, almost all the things slow the dev velocity down are originated from postmortem action items, new hire super stars stop complaining immediately after writing their first postmortems.
Not offering symmetric bandwidth has technical reasons. You only have a limited amount of bandwidth with most technologies and the vast majority of consumers is much better off having higher download than upload speeds.

I'm actually glad that ISPs default to only giving one IP address per household. Not having most devices directly reachable from the internet is an extra layer of security. It should never be the only one but can be an extra step to make it harder for atttackers to introduce malware.
Sure, why not? Musical innovation seems to have slowed or fractured due to only pop music still having sufficient institutional backing to really retain large segments of listeners; meanwhile, music - like most communally-experienced art forms - thrives best when large groups of people know about them.

In other words: there's probably plenty of great stuff to replace/supplant 20th century hits, but unless you continually skulk random soundcloud pages you won't find it. All you get access to is undifferentiated pablum pop by default, which is amazingly less brave than it has ever been, musically.
You're locking out 67% according to Google's latest figures.

51% in the USA.

Still too many to make it practical, but getting there.
As the author of a programming language ; ) I find this article very inspiring.

I just want those new to programming to understand the joy of systems and simple graphics programming like in the ol' Turbo Pascal days!

http://www.adapplang.com/
on the row of number keys: éèçà

on the right of the keyboard: ù

but that's enough to want accents and symbols on the number row by default (&é"'(-è_çà) and numbers when pressing shift.

I think that's the reason that bépo (a French variant of dvorak which allows easy access of both common accentuated keys and numbers) is more popular among French speakers than dvorak is for English speakers, proportionally.
When I did my master thesis we had to use servers we were not allowed to install most things on. But awk and gnuplot was there. All we needed for some great results. Thought of it as a hack in the beginning but in the end it became our whole pipeline.
Except that doesn't work. CSV requires quite complicated quoting rules. Plus the records are separated by CRLF, not a "newline" as many seem to think.
I wish these comparisons would occur to the documenters without the need for a prompt. Also Apache Avro .. which is common with Kafka?
In my experience kilometre is pronounced “k”, centimetre is pronounced “ten mil”, and centilitre is “hundred mil”.
China has launched its first rover mission to Mars
Apologies i realize this is a bit of a tangent but what i would like and can't find is an understandable description of how Generative neural networks work. My very basic understanding of neural networks is as a classifier. Cat and dog pictures in, likelihood out. I can't get any intuition about how this can generate new cat pictures.. is it a search problem? How does that search work?
I'm a Gen Xer. I'm not from the U.S. but I had to look up "No Diggity" in disbelief that someone would think it a "90's standard". I had literally never heard of it.

There's also plenty on the list that I recognise but I can guess why they've faded. Most obvious are followup singles that charted well despite being pretty bland (it was some previous song by the artist that was good). There's also a couple movie tie-ins that were only popular alongside the movie. Some, like Bryan Adams' "All for Love", manage to tick both those boxes (I don't think I'd heard that song in 25 years).

And Winds of Change by the Scorpions was gigantic in Europe in the early 1990s but it is literally a song about perestroika. It's about as entrenched in a specific era as a song can get.

Edit: wow, same website has an article discussing why "No Diggity" is the most timeless song. Shows what I know?

https://pudding.cool/2017/03/timeless/index.html
What's Justin Bieber doing in a list of the world's greatest singers?
Wow she resigned. Doesn't sound like she was canceled. Does the NYT have a hostile work environment? I don't know. But getting told your views are bad on Twitter by your coworkers and the NYT not firing them for that is not a hostile work environment. It's what you get with a cushy writing job writing dumb think pieces about how oppressed conservatives are in a liberal paper that uncritically published them.
Does it have a replaceable battery?
All on one page with Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1285415881120481280.html
I've never heard anyone say Centiliter. It's milliliters or liters. You find cl or dl on bottles but I've never encountered it in spoken language.

Which is nice because having fewer units make it easier to compare, even if converting in metric system is easy.
We should remember that conflict does not equal chaos.

A good leader should not be afraid of conflict and keep open to conflicting ideas to his/her own while still being assertive about his/her ideas.

To introduce conflict, a leader does not necessarily resort to chaos. As an example, a leader in an oligarchic group can resort to persuasion to sway votes to his/her peers instead of causing discord between his/her follower/team-member and his/her peer's follower.

Some of my personal experience tells me that persuasions are easier for an opposing ideas to seep into the whole group rather than direct confrontations.
At a 10k company that didn't originate in tech but obviously had to get software devs eventually, it was similar. Most of my day was spent wondering whether I messed up something about docker again or the super restrictive proxy server just messed things up again. Just run the script a couple times to be sure it's not just the proxy. Then open ticket with network team. Maybe have it resolved two weeks later. In general it was mostly just asking for stuff to be allowed to be accessed. Even when you had three things to work on that were somewhat not dependent on each other there were times where you just had nothing to do. And then when you finally can access whatever it was it takes you two days to get back into what you were actually doing there.

On the positive side, it was mostly relaxed, I could think about side projects and actually work on them after work, even though I "worked" more hours than the job after that. I think that's what kept me sane, but it was very refreshing to switch to a small company after that where you could get things done and generally mostly dealt with motivated folks you can get along with.

Worst story so far was from a high school friend who joined a 600k employees monstrosity. Getting almost nothing done because every fart needs to be approved but in addition a very toxic environment with lots of unnecessary conflict and dickery between different teams whenever they had to cooperate on something. Now it's a huge company and probably not all of it is like that, but boy I don't understand how he's still there and not completely dead inside or became an actual psychopath.
Recorded some changes here https://vimeo.com/440905819
I don’t know if it pays for itself but I can say that my decision to be a customer for the last 4 years was probably influenced by the goodwill generated by those tutorials.
There is definitely a recognizable style of NN-generated art. It looks "piecewise-consistent". After a few years of seeing these I find them really boring and unpleasant to look at.
Sounds like there’s demand for an aggregator that curates non-trash, non-spam “content marketing” pieces!
That was in May, shopping at Costco means waiting in line outside for a couple of hours. We are also a high risk household. Costco was the only shop that does grocery delivery at the time (amazon fresh was totally not available then). It’s an easy decision between shopping at store, or online and have them delivered the next day. We are using the Costco website, so I think maybe the bug is in their integration.
Isn’t it illegal to use DNA data for purposes of health insurance? How would insurance company be able to use it?
Companies like kaiser run both hospitals and insurance, yet they can’t use your full medical history when determining your insurance risk.

The bigger issue imho is companies using biometrics as a secure authentication, but at least in USA that’s going to be no worse than SSN mess.
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The Eluktronics is a GK5/GK7 TongFang - same ODM but a totally different chassis (for use w/ gaming dGPUs). Eluktronics mentioned a while back they might be selling their own version of the PF5 but I haven't heard an update recently.
I wouldn't consider DNA to be secret information. Given that you leave them every where you go.
Just pipe the output to an upscaling ai like https://letsenhance.io/ /s :)
Ron Gilbert switches from Mac to Linux to develop his next game
This was presented in 2020-01, where proof was “due Q1’20”. FYI, Proof got finished in 2020-06: https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2020/06/09/sel4-is-ver...
No technical reason today, except for ISPs not upgrading to modern technology (fiber optics) because of being short term profit cheapskates.
>Now any health insurer could use this data to identify high risk genetic defects...

Why shouldn't they be able to? To not allow them is to force others more fit individuals to subsidise you.
Predicting First Day Churn in Real Time
https://youtu.be/JEz1qGS0T1Q

Dimash Kudaibergen is a rare combination of uncanny natural ability and a hell of a lot of training.

If you are interested in vocal range, I don't know anyone with a greater set of vocal texture.

Opera musicians aren't on this list, but wide vocal range is table stakes for that genre.
Here's a ppi calculator https://www.sven.de/dpi/ to satify various hypotheticals.

Any 4K monitor 26" or greater is the same dpi as FHD at 13"

Various examples here https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=4k+monitor

A 24" 4K monitor is only 8% better in fact. I would venture to guess it would be basically indistinguishable to the naked eye.

QHD at 13" is 226 ppi is that really a reasonable minimum?
I've been working with this team for the last ~18 months: https://www.passitdown.com/

Coming from the Library of Congress' digitization project, I knew the importance and complexity of putting collections online so was drawn to them.

Unfortunately, what was one venue for sharing collections became the only venue for sharing collections. I hope they - or other efforts like them - manage to at least document the pieces that are going to disappear into storage or private collections. :(
We are heading toward a future where work is less "work" and presumably people will have to be compensated on some other basis besides "working hard".

That is one premise in the film version of Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century.

The inequality in the distribution of capital that has been increasing since the 1970's, while wages stagnate, is at worst a trajectory that takes us to neo-feudalism, or something that resembles slavery, colonialism or caste systems. At best, it's a long-term recipe for social unrest.

FAANG is sitting on vast amounts of capital. Though FAANG employees may loathe the thought, it is arguable that, in the end, the market value is not based on the workers, it is based on the capital. Time will tell.

The relatively high salaries can be viewed as a protective measure to keep these workers from joining competing companies. We already know the FAANG CEOs, e.g., Steve Jobs, made pacts with each other on how much they would pay out for these workers.

The film suggests workers have become liabilities not assets. Workers are costs that can be cut when needed. You can decide for yourself, but when pacts are made to limit salaries, this to me sounds like limiting a cost, not limiting how much they will pay for an asset.

Taking a long view, thinking beyond simply my own welfare, I would have problems ethically working for FAANG. I do not see these companies as contributing anything towards solving the problems we are going to have as a result of the trend to which Piketty has drawn attention. If anything, these companies will be on side of capital not labour, and the "work" they do can be used to keep labour under surveillance and control.
I think yeah, there's no hard rock or grunge in the list whatsoever, just pop music. I mean "Smells like Teen Spirit" was a smash hit.

edit: it seems it only ever peaked at no.6 on the billboard top 100, even though it probably sold a lot more than some songs on this chart.
Jim Cramer of Mad Money fame coined it in 2013 to refer to tech companies that were dominant in the markets. I can’t speak to the veracity of his market claims, but he is considered the first to use this exact acronym; its worth noting that his original usage of the acronym FANG did not include Apple at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech
Lot of cool music not on this chart.
Used to be the Microsoft Systems Journal, which morphed into MSDN Magazine. But it shut down last year.

I guess there is so much content “free” that it’s difficult to compete.
I wasn't much into games but wrote a lot of ActionScript. Some such as the video engine for Vongo (STARZ), quite a bit for Walt Disney, and Educational tools for Pearson Publishing, and few thingies for Nokia.

Let me tell you a story.

So, there was a gathering of supposedly some of the best ActionScript developers in the world in the Macromedia office in San Francisco (just as they were about to be acquired by Adobe). These developers were the ones that wrote libraries the world uses, best game developers, et al.

One of the talks was by Gary Grossman, the father/inventor of ActionScript. He starts off by saying in the lines of, "I'm going to go a bit technical in this."

Well, we heard him talk about things after which we begin to think if he was talking about ActionScript or something else. We looked at each other, “We are all n00bs here.” ;-)
"... it was back when the population was 8 billion and lived in cities as opposed to 1 billion scattered underground"
They can name it "Windows RT 2".

That's pretty much what it is except now Edge is based on Chromium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT
Rather why such companies are even allowed? They are literally privacy invasion, even if by ignorance.
I see a lot of doomsday predictions, but 4 months in, I’m barely seeing any signs of a protracted recession. Everyone seems to be doing okay, and when bars and businesses open up, they are jam packed. Am I the only one that is seeing a disparity between the speculations vs what I’m seeing around me? I truly believe we are in a crisis situation but why aren’t I seeing more signs of these doomsday predications?
Modeling Streamlet in TLA+
I like to see the other side (that of the true believer) as well. If all (or most) can agree on that it is the right thing to do and the current way of doing it is wrong, why oppose the change for 20 years saying it will cause breakage? If the change had been made at the beginning, any breakage would have been dealt with long ago. (I’m specifically not talking about change for the sake of making changes.)
Legislation is sensible and in larger insurers this promise will probably be kept. But if the info is available, people will look it up. Long time disease risk is interesting to many people.

If you leave your door open, people are still not allowed to steal you things. Do you leave your door open?
I think that's because, even hardcore smartphone with physical keyboard users have accustomed to touch screen, it's just few outliers and security conscious people are using the setup being discussed here.

That said, I see a resurgence of smartphones with physical keyboards and once people get used to them, they may seek better screen/keyboard/performance with a pocketable laptop but the GSM integration is a major limiter for many. It's not like people are going to throw away their smartphones for a portable computer anytime soon.
Sorry but not for that price ;)
Judging by the URL of the images themselves these seem to be pre-generated, which makes me think there might have been some human selection process to filter out the badly generated ones.

Still some really cool looking art in there, though. I'd be perfectly happy hanging some of these up in my apartment.
> we're entering the greatest wealth redistribution

I can confidently say: this is nothing compared to the fall of the USSR or the aftermath of the Plague.
Sounds pretty risky to me...
Yes, this is exactly my point. Thanks.
Is a "weak education" == no quantitative degree?

Does this hold even after you get a few years of work under your belt?

In my experience, there are some good people with CS degrees, but there are a _ton_ of duds. If I had to choose between someone who's parents paid for them to get a CS degree and someone motivated and interested enough to teach themselves CS and math in their free time, I'd 100% be more interested in the latter.
It's blocking me too. I have no issues with other Cloudflare sites however. I wonder what site-specific firewall filters has been triggered.
> Apple doesn’t secure and close down by default their devices to please/upset bunch of nerds on HN, they do it, because normal people don’t know a damn thing about technology. People who “willingly and eagerly help” to find bugs and patch them are heroes. Just like that.

Of course not, they lock these devices only because it makes them more money. They really want you to pay that 30% cut, "security" is just an excuse. There's plenty of more open and more secure platforms than the iPhone, just have a look at the web.
I'm confused. Only u8 can be cast to char, but char is 4 bytes long? How do those two things works together?
I like efforts like this that try to use different wording to explain the same concepts. That said, this document still uses words I would not consider to be "simple English".

There are many such cases in the document, but let's take for example "inference". There is a definition of what "type inference" is in the first paragraph of the section. But the reader must still then learn this phrase at the same time as learning the programming language. Maybe a simpler English statement would be "Automatic types", using the word automatic, which is more wide spread and is adopted in many languages. The meaning is not as precise but the document can then further explain what it is.

I am not a native English speaker but have become so used to using it that it is sometimes difficult to know which terms cause issues to programming language learners. Perhaps HN is the wrong place to ask this but I would be very interested in knowing which terms other non-native speakers have problems with.
You started with “most relevantly” and my initial reaction to this follow up is “how is that relevant at all”?

The costs of porting are relevant to value of the new audience. The value to the old audience is negative (what are we losing while they are focused in something else). The value to the team is complicated, has to be weighed, and big changes like new APIs or new revenue structures tip that balance.
One is a much smaller full global routing table.
Fair enough. I never got the appeal of Instacart & the like but I guess it is good that the option is there should one need it.
The 'noise' on this plot of Google IPv6 adoption is interesting:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

It looks quite periodic when you zoom in: at first I thought it might be different adoption rates in different timezones, but there's only one sample available per day so that doesn't explain it. Anyone know what might be going on?
I don't get the point of calling it a "degree" if one of the cons is "you don't get a degree".

How is it different from just "learning online" ?
Could be helpful to integrate existing libraries with languages/runtimes lacking performant ffi.
I really like the type::value pattern. It provides some attractive options for embedded languages. If python allowed

fun x:
query = sql ::
select * from table

I'd be pretty happy.
It would be cool if such an aggregator had a commenting feature so people can discuss the title of the article without even bothering to read the article!
Most Christian denominations do not believe that those who are unaware of Christianity automatically go to hell. They usually say that it's down to divine providence and God's mercy, and that it's pointless to speculate beyond that, those being ineffable and all.
Because char's range has a hole from 0xd800 to 0xd8ff (surrogate pairs [1]) so not all u16 values (or larger) can be safely converted to char.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#U+D800_to_U+DFFF
BTW AFAIK in Win10, both the Windows kernel and the WSL2 Linux kernel run under the same hypervisor. Apparently performance implications are minimal.
The ISPs only have a monopoly because the government literally makes it illegal to start a competing ISP in many areas. Even local governments were forbidden from competing with Comcast et al. in some cities.
JavaScript Records and Tuples Proposal goes to stage 2
Haven't data scientists been watered down to effectively glorified data analysts who use programming languages and libraries as tools?
It's higher on weekends and holidays, which is presumably connected to mobile devices having a significantly higher rate of IPv6 adoption.
In some countries like Slovakia, they say deci for decilitre.
Because the risk is to become homeless and that sounds even scarier than it is in reality. Ive met people who had a stretch of being homeless and they eventually got back on their feet. They were also young.
> June 23rd

> epidemology boss says "epdemic is being slowed down"

> all time high daily new cases in Sweden one day later[0]

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
Well, the obvious one is having 2^128 addresses instead of just 2^64 addresses.
It's called Web Components, a standard built into browsers for many years now which means it will be backwards-compatible in perpetuity.
For 23AndMe you can buy the kit in cash in a store like Target and post the sample. Then use anonymous connection and email to use the website and get the results.
Python auto-generated documentation–3 tools that will help document your project
Creating an up-to-date, meaningful, easily usable documentation is not trivial. This article shortly reviews 3 tools that could help automate the process. I focus only on Python tools that can be used for internal documentation.