skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most sophisticated ones uses bots on residential devices. Ie malware infected, or visiting a site with abusive code.
He's acting in a very careless way though. Saying things like "oh, let's try this on my hand", without thoroughly thinking about the possibilities where it could go wrong, looks really stupid. Perhaps he thought about it before he made the video, but in that case he still sends the wrong message.
What exactly is the point of your last statement about conservatives?
> The guns you own with your second amendment rights will not protect you from riot cops in a helicopter with rifles or driving around in a tank. To even go toe to toe with militarized police you'd need things that are incredibly illegal to own like RPGs, and you'd need training to use them.

I hear this a lot, and it's silly. You just don't see it happen because generally the people who own the powerful weaponry are responsible and don't shoot at cops. Helicopters go down easy with 50BMG, and tanks are massively impractical the moment you get out of a city. They're easy to disable, have limited range, and can't safely handle a lot of terrain.

> The only counter example I can think of is the recent case where a guy returned fire at a van full of cops (they were blindly spraying 'less-lethal' munitions at civilians from an unmarked van) after they shot at him. He got off because his defense was able to prove he had no way to know he was shooting at cops, otherwise he was gonna spend his life in prison.

I think we'll be seeing more of this as more middle class people buy firearms and learn about self-defense laws. Cops abuse their power a lot, and it's beginning to happen to people who have lawyer money.
"russiagate" has the feel of the effective deflection that Karl Rove engineered for GWB over his AWOL incident -- release a convincing fake that substantiated the narrative and then once it's accepted to reveal the forgery and shift all focus to that, rather than Bush's indiscretions.

I admire the deftness of that trickery but have no love for the substance of it.
I don't think that's true. I've never seen a router that lists hostnames that I can actually ping. Sometimes they do but 50% is always empty. It's a very client dependent solution.
I wasn't worried about the fire going out, but for embers flying out into the cab.
> We have people who are first-time system administrators deploying applications. building containers, maintaining Nomad. There is a guy on our team who worked in IT help desk for eight years - just today he upgraded an entire cluster himself.”
Wikipedia claims strontium-90 emits 0.95W/g. But it also says SrTiO3 emits only 0.256W/g, which is consistent with your figure.

So, I am obliged to conclude Wikipedia's figure is off by 2x, undermining my argument.

That said, if there were no Pu, Sr-90 would have to do. It has the advantage of being very cheap, as radiothermal isotopes go, and not requiring G7-military-grade security. Its bremsstralung radiation is only in X-ray range, so easily shielded, yielding heat.

When it gets cheap to loft 150 tons to orbit, in a couple of years, the economic and timing verities of outer solar system transport will be up-ended. Cassini was lofted at 6 tons, and took 7 years to get to Saturn. Much of its cost was driven by limits on mass. Given 150 tons to work with, it is hard to imagine any detail of the mission remaining similar, except its rousing success. It certainly would not have needed 7 years to get to Saturn. It might not even have needed RTG power.

A four-year transit to Pluto using FRC direct fusion propulsion is more appealing than RTG-powered ion drive, with the additional advantage of much less likelihood of wholesale civilizational collapse in the interim. But FRC fusion needs development work; its research budget is currently diverted to dead-end Tokamak projects.
Yes, that's SPIR-V. Unfortunately it's not universally supported, but Khronos maintains transpilers to HLSL and Metal Shading Language.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. This was a noticeable step in that direction, hence the low-quality responses it evoked.

Your comment would have been just fine without the first sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes I must agree, I was being sarcastic trying to call out the groupthink.
From what I'm seeing, there seems to be a trend towards ditching smaller offices and consolidating or moving towards WeWork spaces.
Whenever I've needed support from Fastmail, I've received a well thought-out response from somebody who knows what they're talking about.

It's not bottom of the barrel outsourced "customer service" designed to point people to FAQ articles. It's professionals who work as professionals.

I'm sticking with Fastmail for now.
Even after reading bunch of suggestions from fellow hackers, I would still focus on your view of the world and what assets have value to you.

My main core would be real estate and stocks. I find them safe, real estate more than stocks. Though stocks are connected to products that produce value. For retirement maybe DGI might be interesting.

then probably gold, diamonds, etc -> to store value, not to expect huge gains

p2p lending -> can do ~10% annually, but it's risky.

crypto - risky bet, as you are in software, small % might make sense. Choose the coin that makes most sense to you as a software developer
But is use in a commercial environment personal use?
As far as I know, you've never needed to create a Gmail account for YouTube. You need a Google account, but those aren't necessarily Gmail ones. To create a non-Gmail Google account, just click on "use my current email address instead" in the account creation screen.
It appears that with COVID, the proximate cause of death is often mis-coded, for financial reasons.
If you follow Java & ecosystem at least a bit you needed to read one or two blog posts from reputable community members to figure out what the situation is and what to use.

To compare I find a licensing situation on mid-size (50+ direct dependencies) or larger project much harder to comprehend - you need to figure out what licenses are used, if they can be used at all due to the requirements and company's policy, if they are compatible with each other and what's required for distribution.
I doubt their homepage is being served from the same DB as their game platform.

I think throwing together a static page better than "we're making the game more awesome" would be simple. It kinda makes me wonder if it's an internal auth/secret issue as has been speculated. That could theoretically make it harder to update the website, especially if it's deployed by CI/CD.
In many forths you can have what they call locals, so your example can be:

: add {: a b :} a b + ;
Ask HN: Reading someone else's code and bug fixing
Hey guys,
What is your process of reading a code someone else wrote (particularly in JavaScript) and applying fixes?

I am working on a JavaScript SPA product that is more than a decade old with huge code base and a lot of service integrations.

I am new in the team, sometimes a bug fix (compromising of just 1-2 lines) takes me a couple of hours to finish.
Starting from understanding the issue, reading the code pertaining to that area, applying the fix and then testing different use case to make sure the bug is fixed before handing it over to QA.

I want to be efficient and as quick as possible and wondering if you guys share your process of debugging and fixing bugs for big products.
redox is one i've been following from afar. rust, not posix, microkernel, s/everything is a file/everything is a url/

it looks pretty cool, although the url thing seems yet to prove its utility. they seem to be playing around a bit with using the protocol component (net, disk, etc), but it's unclear what this adds over just using paths. although maybe if they used the protocol to describe the encoding of the data, it would add something?
Finally, finally and finally!
I'm endlessly amazed that the Arduino platform is as hard as it is to code for. The editor is ridiculous and there's absolutely no API guide or look up for what you can do on it.

Every criticism I give is met with "but it's for kids so shut up!" - but that makes my point more valid!

Image how much easier it would be for kids to learn if it auto suggested words and things like any decent ide, or highlighted why their code won't work before they try to flash it, and had useful links and resources to how to do things.

I use to work in professionally teaching people Arduino and writing other programming stuff. I'd rather keep them away from Arduino, there's no room for self-learning at all. It's only for people who already know C.
By that logic we should ban sex due to HIV. This is an extremely dangerous argument...
> I'd say raytracing was NVIDIA trying to distract everyone from the fact that their GPUs had in fact been 'enough' for a while

"Enough" maybe for 1080p gaming, but 4k remains still heavy for the top tier GPUs even without raytracing; there are plenty of titles where 3080ti will not hit steady 60 fps on 4k, nevermind about 120 or 144 fps.
What makes this different from all the other video question interview products out there?
>People have expectations going into a game, that it won't be a movie...

As a counter-example, we have series like Metal Gear Solid, which are renowned for the huge use of cutscenes (MGS4 having an ending cutscene that's practically feature-length). Admittedly, this style of in-depth storytelling is not everyone's cup of tea (especially those for whom the second point made by the OP applies), but it is a very effective storytelling tool that works well in the series. The games are predominantly not, however, open-world, unlike the other games you mention. The cinematic storytelling would probably not translate well. Indeed, MGSV, which was open-world, mostly used in-game audio tapes to be played at the player's discretion, with any cutscenes being mostly contained to specific missions. So I think the exact requirements for good storytelling really depend on the style of game and on what your players expect from it. But much of what the OP says about good writing still stands, such as finding a Whedon-esque sweet spot of serious/comedy and using original jokes.
Which "privacy snafu" would that be? iOS 15 includes several new privacy-minded features.
Because if they don’t, the Java ecosystem is dead.
I know everyone has to start somewhere, but this just sounds like a sure way to have a platform blow up impressively.
The way you've phrased this comment without any context makes it really hard to respond. If there are zero people in the world who want to work with you, maybe consider that the problem is yourself? What value are you really gaining from being stubborn about social issues if nobody else agrees with you?
Again.

You are advocating ban sex due to HIV. Please stop being so black and white about policy involving human beings and reality.
This was one of the major practical lessons I got out of Thinking, Fast and Slow. Before reading that book I would try to get people to change by powerful logcal argument. I would get frustrated when people didn't immediately realise the potential I was explaining.

Having read that book, I've realised people need to hear something many times before their system 1 will even consider thinking of it as true. So these days, I have much more patience and I deliberately employ repetition strategies -- sometimes with powerful logical arguments, but sometimes without, too. It's about as effective either way, in my experience.

Saying "we need to also consider a solution that doesn't use Oracle" in different contexts and with different reasons attached over a few weeks time somehow mysteriously gets people to think that maybe we should at least consider a solution that doesn't use Oracle.
Dividends from October 2021 would cover 7.44% of my living expenses that month
Nice app! Perhaps the app authors can integrate CookLang parser to import recipe files in CookLang.
I'm vaguely familiar with Factor and hopefully not in process of reinventing it.

I was planning to investigate this space just for fun. Most likely nothing will come out if it and that's ok, it's just a learning opportunity.
It's a plant. Think of it as a cut flower. After cutting open a pumpkin, they are obviously no longer sealed. They start to dry out. You can rub petroleum jelly all over the carved sides to help slow down the drying out. You can also soak them in the tub, and they will pull in some of the water to help them come back into shape.

There's all sort of things you can do to prolong things once they've been cut/carved/etc. My mom was a florist and designer. I've been in/around productions requiring things to be preserved so items can be kept around as long as possible. You just kind of pick up a thing or two
You look like you are just about to discover Powershell.
Hey there- that's a good point. My decision for the iOS 15 requirement was because some new API's were introduced that made development a bit easier, but I think I can add support to iOS 14 with a bit of TLC. I'll look into that, appreciate the feedback!
I wasn’t boycotting, but it turns out I’m not on iOS 15 either. Would be cool if older versions were supported.
What's your view on the "new kids on the block" like notion?
Yeah, it's why it's Pentium has the 'pent' in it, being the '5'86.. IIRC the trademark office told them they couldn't just trademark a number so they did the next best thing.
This is pure bullshit. US goes down etc are dreams. Such tales are being told by people for years who want to market alternative speculative systems. If US crash, it will take the whole world down with it too.

Many countries are depends on USD. Sometimes you have to keep savings in cash when all available investments are overvalued.

US treasuries are amazing right now, even Buffet put lot of money on them.

Anyway, I suggest the OP to get a financial advisor. HN is not the place to ask financial advice.
Took them off my "don't buy" list when my smartphone broke and I immediately needed a replacement and the only reasonable one available at my local store was a Sony Xperia XZS. I still regret it to this day. Worst 499€ ever spent.
Going to ask some really stupid questions, apologies in advance:

This is mindblowing work. I'm having some trouble wrapping my head around all of it. Will lead with the context that:

A) I am not very familiar with audio programming specifics, or DSP at all. I have done some things with VST2 + VST3, and looked into LV2.

B) I have very little background with C++

I am curious:

1. Is this targeted more towards the DSP and algorithm side of audio plugin development, or is there interest/use for the plugin side too (IE, generating VST/LV2 compatible interfaces)?

2. Would a byproduct of this be that you would be able to implement functionality + interact with C++ classes from other languages? Or generate C ABI's? I see the note: "Automatically generate Python bindings for a C++ class"

I ask about the second one because I have been trying to work towards getting a C ABI for VST3 so that language bindings can be codegen'ed. I know VST3 works through COM so you can use that, but the alternative is to emulate the VTable layouts in C structs. This can make it easier than implementing COM in a language.

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Edit: I also wanted to say that when reading your blogpost, the way you write C++ is very easy to understand. Not sure if it's a stylistic thing or a purposeful choice. I usually have to spend a second reading C++ code to comprehend it, but in your snippets, I was able to (mostly) grok it first pass.

Same for the example code in the repo.
There is something to that.

He reminds me of Eric Whitacre in a sense. Whitacre reached "genius" "prodigy" "best composer" status among amateurs and beginner musicians because he published his music with all kinds of markings on it (e.g. explicitly writing crescendi and diminuendi for every basic phrase, and notating all kinds of subtle tempo changes) that a well trained singer would already understand implicitly without need for the markings (which in my opinion as a well trained singer with his own sense of style, are annoying). The effect is to allow bad high school choirs to get to decent-sounding choral music.
okay, i guess in my mind I automatically translate “coming apart at those speeds” to “the microstructure stretches to a degree it’s impossible to read/write to the drives”. Nothing catastrophic.
Performance is a common reason. There are architectural incompatibilities between high-performance database engines and the way Kubernetes is designed to work. Kubernetes does not respect the traditional contract between the OS and the database engine, transparently interfering with that interface in adversarial ways that degrade important optimizations. Ironically, the performance loss can be substantially worse than running databases in a properly configured virtual machine -- virtual machines have some overhead but they otherwise don't interfere with the proper functioning of this software. Kubernetes wasn't designed to efficiently support the syscall and hardware utilization patterns of I/O intensive applications and this is evident throughout, even requiring non-standard hacks to set things up in Kubernetes that really shouldn't be necessary.

Deploying databases in Kubernetes is fine for many applications, I've done both. Not every application that uses a database is data intensive.
let's make a script that migrate .aliases to named functions
Written by Gold or Bitcoin people :)
I agree with you about Web Shading Language not needing to exist.

But I also don't think it's the end of the world, either. Google's Tint can translate between SPIR-V/GLSL/etc -> WGSL and vice-versa pretty well.

If that's what it takes for Apple to be on board with WebGPU and we get an extension later to load SPIR-V (or some other WGSL binary form) later for optimization I'm cool with that.
Marc Andreessen Analyzes HBO's Silicon Valley on a Podcast
Ah fair enough. I just remember those early days they were trying to push the Linden dollar as a way for business to monitize the virtual spaces and objects. It seems to have had a bumpy history.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we're hoping for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd guess not, as anything that would store these new words is probably storing longer text strings, and thus already would need to be dealing with escapes properly. Unlike names, these words won't be keys terribly often.
Like when Camelcamelcamel was down for a week in 2019

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038198
We have WebGL, so we have a near universally available cross platform interface now. It lags the current hardware a lot but seems to be the only actually working cross platform thing we'll have for a while.

If you look at WebGL implementations, the heroic amounts of driver bug workarounds found through trial and error over the years and feature compromises due to said bugs, it's hard to believe anything will match and replace it for a long time.
Is it your impression that "zero people" disagree with prevailing DEI orthodoxy?
Scanning the personal photos on your device and reporting them. They delayed the feature but did not cancel it.: https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-delays-child-abuse-phot...
With respect, I feel like you have some phobias relating to electricity and magnetism and accidental blindness. I understand your recommendation and hope you find relief and stay safe.
https://archive.md/uEHuP
> For example, you can't just rant about "greedy healthcare industries" and expect to generate more light than heat. Healthcare is complicated, and cannot be boiled down to a couple of the seven deadly sins.

I agree in principle that nuance should be recognized, but there's a very simple story about healthcare: the current system is broken and has no incentive to change, and that a single payer system would be more cost effective and humane.
Not that long ago, people who supported same-sex marriage were a small minority. Should they have been banned from giving technical talks and expelled from research groups?
> Already, most people live in countries with less than replacement fertility (i.e. with a total fertility rate (TFR) below 2.1 births per woman).

This is a textbook example of what unsustainable means. In the long run most people will live in the countries with the highest fertility rates.
T. Sowell: The Quest for Cosmic Justice can be summarized in three propositions which may seem to be axiomatic, but whose implications are in fact politically controversial:

1. The impossible is not going to be achieved.

2. It is a waste of precious resources to try to achieve it.

3. The devastating costs and social dangers which go with these attempts to achieve the impossible should be taken into account.
> Basically any cheap router supports Avahi/Zeroconf/Bonjour … and allows you to reach any other machine of the network directly by its host name instead of its IP.

I regularly run into instances where local hostname resolution is unreliable.

To improve reliability, I setup a local DNS server to hand out a domain name with the IP address. Even then, whether a client requires a hostname or FQDN to resolve a local address - that can vary over time.
Are you seriously comparing drugs with transport?
I got it going by passing "--enable-unsafe-webgpu" actually on the command line. Thanks.
I think this is really just a matter of subjective values.

Mass Effect, God of War, and Horizon Zero Dawn are in my list of favourite games of all time.

I couldn’t stand Red Dead 2 until I stopped doing the open world things and started just following the story.

Breath of the Wild is cool, but it definitely hasn’t captured me like these other games have.

I have never been able to stick with a Souls games, but I devoured Detroit: Beyond Human and the Telltale Walking Dead games

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but when you ask “is it good?” You need to consider what people are looking for. Personally, I’m looking for something that is technically fun but also leans closer to being an interactive movie/book
> the new reality is that wind/solar are cheaper than the old baseline plants

Not if you take into account land use. A single nuclear plant can supply about a GW of electrical power. The equivalent capacity in wind and solar--even without taking into account the overprovisioning that, as you note, is required because of the lack of reliability of those sources--takes up far more land than that nuclear plant. That has a huge environmental impact that nobody takes into account when figuring the actual cost of wind and solar--though of course the same people are quite happy to hunt down every last little environmental impact of nuclear and point out how it increases the actual cost.

(The requirement for massive amounts of storage, which others have pointed out, is another environmental impact of wind and solar that nobody takes into account when figuring the actual cost.)
How much sun does that block? Workarounds may be feasible, depending on the mechanism.
No parameter names instead of hyphenated parameter names.
You'd be better off using JDK builds from your distro's repos.
Not knowing the details. Doesn't this impact the sun<->google Java android suit?