skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think you have a realistic appreciation for what kind of resources are available to interested parties. I would think that the classic “Mossad or not Mossad” threat model might be a good starting point.

Air gapped networks and hardware are interesting to powerful organizations. Don’t underestimate the base for “impossibly expensive”
Yep. To add insult to injury, for many years there either wasn’t a setting to disable loading of external programs or doing so required a subscription of some kind to a MS enterprise license/endpoint/policy management feature.
I loved 2049. Thought it was a great film. But it was a great film on its own. It didn't really need the ties to the original. Does the blade runner world really need another piece? Well, idk. I guess I would say its probably going to be pretty good, but I'd suspect trying to embrace the existing canon is going to harm the potential of the movie more than it will help. The 50 year time jumps are good though.
>> Show me _how_ you can beat SQL in performance

> It is literally a postgres instance underneath,

Exactly. So. Why? Someone created a database abstraction? God damn, that has almost never happened before! ;)
Thought experiment. Remove all ads from Facebook. Now, the only way corporations can advertise on Facebook is by making Facebook posts on their normal Facebook page; people only see them if they "liked" the company's FB page.

What you've done is slightly reduced huge corporations' advertising effectiveness; and absolutely killed every small internet brand. There's people starting cool clothing, food, perfume, watch brands, starting these companies from rock bottom, getting customers through online ads, and becoming millionaires. The vast majority aren't dropshipper idiots; they're legit brands, many of which eventually get acquired by a Fortune 500 corp.

This isn't the 90s. Online ads are just essential to getting companies off the ground nowadays. What should people do? Mail-order magazine ads? (still ads.) Cold calling? (isn't that more intrusive than online ads?)

There's other aspects too. Kill online ads and you kill a huge chunk of the social mobility that results from entrepreneurship. There's two paths to wealth nowadays: getting a great job, or starting a company. In your ideal world, the only "path" left is the same old "golden path" our parents talked about, of going to a good college, getting 1 or more degrees, and getting a highly paid career at a big corp or SV startup. For various, well-documented reasons, that system ends up excluding tons of people (many ethnic/gender minorities, people with "difficult life paths" who end up dropping out or are unemployable because of gaps in their resume, ex-felons who have paid their debt to society but aren't going to become Apple VPs anytime soon, undocumented immigrants, and many more). Entrepreneurship is an equalizer.

The anti-ad kneejerk reaction often comes from an anti-bigcorp philosophy; but it would only strengthen big corps, and harm any small companies trying to compete. You'd significantly weaken one of the best mechanism we have to reduce social/wealth inequality (entrepreneurship). You have people like HVAC specialists and plumbers advertising their services on Facebook.

On the contrary, I think it would be extremely sinister is just a few big corps (browser makers) could harm huge chunks of the economy and society by mortally crippling the best way entrepreneurs have of getting customers.

I rarely see anti-ad people address any of these concerns. Think of the ramifications; how about every reputable news source being behind a paywall, leaving fake news sites spreading wildly? I'm sure you could come up with hundreds of other dangerous ramifications yourself.
I'm not sure what is really going on here. Macros have been disabled by default for many years now. Is this article from fifteen years ago?
Sense just guesses everything wrong. I can strongly recommend Emporia energy, which has per circuit monitors.
You seem pretty contentious here; I'm just making a case that Mars makes sense as a destination, not trying to convince you that this is something you need to pay for. IMO, the numbers work out for it being a hub for traffic to the belt and outer planets. Maybe you don't agree. That's fine. Again, I'm not asking you, personally, to start backing this. Just stop spouting off nonsense like 'if you can't get somewhere from Earth, you can't get there from Mars'. It's a matter of fact that delta v requirements from Mars are lower than they are from Earth, and this would have been obvious if you had thought just for a second about any of this.

> You start by shipping a million tons of freight to Mars

The equipment for generating the electricity to perform ISRU on Mars is supposedly within the payload capabilities of a single Starship, 100-150 tons, not a million, and this should be enough for a ton per day, enough to resupply in the 26 month launch window. The equipment for collecting water and CO2 is another matter, and I don't see estimates on that, but with the above and some engineering margin, it seems plausible that this operation can get off the ground in under ten ship-trips to Mars.
Would love to hear about your interest in self-hosting! We've consider supporting that use case for e.g. software teams who want to set up markets on sensitive data like revenue forecasts or user growth numbers. If you'd like to chat more privately, reach out anytime to me at akrolsmir@gmail.com!
Before, I had access to 10mbps down, 2 up from charter where I typically got 20% of advertised. That was rough but I made it work. Now we have 400mbps down but usually when I test I exceed that.
Israel is having its little ending of "Enemy of the State" moment where untouchable people realize they could have been spied on.
That's just not possible - astronauts depend on thousands of engineers and testers to do their jobs right, they can't know everything.
I'm more concerned about Apple at the moment, I guess we'll see how common AirTag stalking becomes.
This is the key quote for me: "...leaving many baffled as to why so much money is being spent on items that do not physically exist and which anyone can view online for free."

I honestly do not understand the current state of NFTs... I mean, I understand the technology, and I understand what a smart contract is, but really - what is the point of "owning" this tweet: https://twitter.com/jack/status/20 and why would you pay $2.9m to "own" it? Another article (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/22/jack-dorsey-sells-his-first-...) tries to compare "owning" the tweet/NFT to owning a virtual autograph, but that still doesn't make sense to me.

What if Jack Dorsey quit Twitter in a rage and deleted his account? That tweet would vanish. Or perhaps Jack gets fired from Twitter, and Twitter deletes his account? What exactly does the owner of that tweet get for their $2.9m?
That MAY be what we're looking at. Will know more when the tech calls, if they do.
I mean, the standard way to do IO in C++ involves spamming the left shift operator (<<), I can only assume because it looks like an arrow? This is definitely a shallow thing, but I'd argue that for this single reason operator overloading definitely causes more problems than it solves (in C++), due to things like:

1. translating format strings to other languages is extremely difficult because the position of expressions in the message is fixed.

2. modifying how things are printed requires modifying global state, and it's easy to forget to reset the flags on std::cout after setting the precision of floats or something.

There's also the famous question of "what does the multiplication operator do on vectors?" problem, but that's something that could be solved by simply having a standard "vector" interface that defines it in a particular way. Overall I don't fully disagree, but seeing as it happened once with C++, I can imagine it can happen again in some equally widespread language (Javascript with it's + operator on strings maybe?).
This one is pretty esoteric but if you want to know anything about Mt. Whitney, good luck doing better than the Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board:

http://www.mountwhitneyforum.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist...
Something like this: https://www.faro.com/en/Products/Hardware/ScanArms

I've worked with these, they are super cool. Just the laser part of the hand-held scanner was detailed enough to show the lettering on a laptop keyboard because of the differing depth of the molded-in characters.
>> Show me _how_ you can beat SQL

> Scroll down. They do exactly that.

Where?
You beat me to it. A deeply moving song from the perspective of the crew. And please don't miss the lovely [Song Exploder episode](https://songexploder.net/the-long-winters) about the song with John Roderick, it's really stuck with me.
This is super helpful context and great feedback on my writing in general. I tend to paint almost all of my articles in a fully positive light (mainly due to that being my personality) but I absolutely understand how that could lead to a one-sided piece that doesn’t capture the full picture. The title on here definitely didn’t do me any favors either. In the actual article, it reads “virtual learning != zoom lectures” but HN doesn’t allow special characters in titles so here we are…

But truly, I appreciate the follow-up and will work on adding some counterpoints / historical context to future posts.
This is absolutely correct! Modern technical security practice preaches defense-in-depth. Over a long enough period of time, you WILL be compromised. It’s much more effective to plan for it and mitigate the damage than it is to attempt perfect security.

The trick is to make sure you have good network segmentation, don’t allow apps/users more access than they need, and have reliable monitoring and anomaly detection in place so you can respond rapidly to breaches that do occur.
Are your saying no amount of AI training is enough to recognize a car in front of you?
Yeah, oracles are a common solution to the question of "how should the prediction market get resolved". We think there are some usability problems with oracles in practice, which is why most prediction markets (e.g. PredictIt, Kalshi) still end up relying on platform resolution.

That said, we'd be very happy if anyone was interested in setting up an oracle on our Manifold! "User-resolved" includes the possibility of "user publicly commits to resolving all markets via an automated, predefined oracle".
I love 2049 and it took me 3 tries to finish the original without falling asleep. I still think the original is a mediocre film made cultish by its genre definition cyberpunk worldviews.

Different strokes for different folks.
He just proves there exists models that gives a skewed distribution by providing an example. So having a skewed model is a possibility.
I'm reading it as it being disabled beyond a confirmation modal. You probably have to change some file attribute to re-enable it, perhaps.

Edit: Yep, from the linked article inside the article -

"Once a user opens an attachment or downloads from the internet an untrusted Office file containing macros, a message bar displays a Security Risk that the file contains Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros obtained from the internet with a Learn More button.

The Learn More button goes to an article for end users and information workers that contains information about the security risk of bad actors using macros, safe practices to prevent phishing & malware, and instructions on how to enable these macros by saving the file and removing the Mark of the Web (MOTW)."
Thanks. I fixed copters, just a typo, I've leave the other alone.
These days, you would need an official fan-restoration / fan-edit to see the Star Wars from 1977 - and that would legally be a bootleg.
Maybe you can sell an NFT of the NFT itself?
Article doesn't offer many reasons why. I wonder if anal sex is on the rise
Brewing beer/cider/wine: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/
2048 was a fantastic depiction of modern male loneliness; unloved and invisible, yet with beautiful commercialized girls at one's finger tips.

"Her" didn't capture this well, and frankly I don't think Spike Jonze is the type of author who can. He's too popular to be that pathetic! The movie is great for other reasons, but behind its sci-fi lies a traditional romance movie plot.
I'm perplexed too! How does this article reconcile with the existing disabled by default practice?

> Security Warning Macros Have Been Disabled [enable content]

At best, the headline is still misleading. Macros are already disabled. Clicking more "are you sure?" prompts is different and dubious
Is "ATL" "A Tensor Language" a homage to "APL" "A Programming Language" from Iverson?
Not a word about the safety of having a massive co2 laser fire in the open though?
"Last Update, 2014-08-18"
If you have reasonable people skills, you may well have correctly inferred what the lecturer was communicating: overly questioning the words can be damaging. As I have matured, I have learnt better to trust my intuitive reading of what someone says, especially when I detect that the meaning of their words is divergent from what I believe they think beneath the surface.

Stubbornness, tenacity and self-belief are useful skills for success - perhaps you gave up too quickly? Unfortunately, soft skills are very rarely taught well. We all rely upon our subconscious learning and a good amount of luck to gain necessary skills, and those skills are often learnt by osmosis while very young. I also think the meta-skill of being able to teach yourself soft skills is not common either and it - although we can make an effort to improve that meta-skill even though it is somewhat self-referential.
oh yikes sorry. I didn't realize JavaScript is so idiosyncratic. i was just kinda thinking from my c++ bubble i guess
Yup, you can join our Substack to hear about updates (https://manifoldmarkets.substack.com/), or come chat with us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/eHQBNBqXuh)

PredictionBook was definitely one of our inspirations! They are somewhat out of date with respect to UX; and we've also spent some time innovating on a new Automated Market Maker so that our markets work well for differing levels of trader volume. We hope to bring PredictionBook's core ideas to a much wider audience~
off topic: I've found tide-mode[0] to be pretty good to use with typescript on Emacs

[0] https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tide
Yeah it probably makes more sense as an enterprise product. I'm curious if that's already a thing, I haven't looked into the space - corporate/internal prediction markets. I don't have much of a use for it personally but I like your thinking.
Staggering to imagine a developer using emacs would use some random community package corner-case function to install and keep updated an important package written in the same language he programs with.
From the article:

> Attackers have already had to adapt to tricking users into affirmatively running macros, but the new moratorium means targets would have to carry out a much more involved process to be infected—making it much less likely that attackers will be able to successfully guide them through it.

I didn't see a description of the new process, but it sounds like they beefed it up some.
Maybe it's the other way around for the personal call and the client has a compromised device that leaked your number?
TypeScript 4.6 RC
I can't believe that I did not know about troff. I had heard it being mentioned before but I had never seen a demo. It's great.

Thanks for mentioning it.
If you can't see the creativity in 2049 that's on you IMO.

Villeneuve is probably the best director in his area of film right now (not necessarily sci-fi), his work is emotionally mature and challenges audiences without mocking them, calling it uncreative is ridiculous.
I was watching Dune 2021 on Microsoft Teams streaming (virtual company Christmas party from Youtube Movies), and the auto-diction translated Arrakis to Iraqis.

Suddenly the whole story make sense to me.
I think it's a reference to APL which is an old, but extremely cool and relevant language and stands for "A Programming Language". APL was all about matrices and vectors too.
"What other games are like programming?"

Some lesser-known recommendations:

Bitburner (a game in which you use javascript to "hack" computers... not really hacking, but really using your javascript skills)

Screeps (use real programming languages to harvest and compete for resources... sort of like an RTS, but where you program your units instead of directly telling them what to do)

Neon Noodles (use a simple visual programming language to program robots to make sushi... super innovative game, with a free demo on steam... highly recommended)
Also, generally being on PrEP involves a full run of STI testing including HIV quarterly. I would imagine that most straight people do not get tested for STIs as regularly.

Heck, most people don't see their doctor for any reason quarterly in the US.
In some culture and religion it's even written in books. Under some circumstances and granted the insulted peer followed a few steps, right to murder was granted.
The rising proportion of non-native speakers in US academia is what I thought of when I saw the article's claim that academic vocabulary is shrinking over time. Papers written by adult language learners tend to cluster around domain terminology + the absolute most common English words + words that happen to be similar to ones from their native language, and there's not a lot of incentive for them to go read Charles Dickens until they're indistinguishable from native speakers because, really, it doesn't matter and nobody cares.
It’s not happening so don’t worry about it. You may as well ask why take animals to heaven.

If people ever get to Mars, with or without other animals, pandemic disease will be the least of their problems.
> When people say something "is a game", often what they are implying is that "all legal moves are fair play"

Good point, I guess the concept is constantly negotiated by this sort of conversation too
I bow down in an act of obescence. Nice work.
Honestly, I wonder if VBA's most effective security feature has been its bad reputation. There's so much access to inexplicably vast swaths of the Windows ecosystem, combined with a nearly perfect consensus of users who have no idea what a macro is, that it's kind of surprising that VBA hacking isn't more ubiquitous. Security through obscurity via popular loathing?
"TIS-100 was a bomb for me; if I'm literally writing code, it better end up in a GitHub repo"

I was frustrated by TIS-100 for exactly the opposite reason: it wasn't enough like programming to interest me.

It's really a puzzle game, not a programming game. Its similarity to programming is just window dressing.
If I mint an NFT for something and its hash gets inserted into the blockchain, it should be possible to prevent minting the same thing again by checking against hashes in the chain before adding it in.

If they won't even do that much, what's the point?!
Months ago Chrome / Chromium were pushing FLOC. I'm willing to withhold judgement until we see the end product but I hope Mozilla can do better than Google did.
Unfortunately it is according to some of the common core grading rubrics (in the US).

5 x 3 can be understood as five groups of three items, or three groups of five items, and students at a particular grade level are "encouraged" to use one interpretation over the other to the point of taking off points when they naturally use the commutative property (and or choose to chunk differently). I forgot what it was exactly but I read about a parent (rightfully) complaining about this.

I don't think this is anywhere in the common core standards, but probably the teacher/school was using some pre-packaged rubric and the teacher didn't bother to override using better judgment.
If I sell your comment as an NFT, who does the comment belong to ?
Do we have a better source?
The original is basically worse as a film than 2049.

However, it's better, because of the sheer power of the visuals and worldbuilding. Some things in it have not aged well (like the "love" scene), but it is still simply jaw-dropping. It's what Scott is just unmatched at doing. A villeneuve film probably makes more sense, but Ridley Scott does Ridley Scott better than anyone. Give him a good script and watch him fly.

They're both excellent, they don't need to compete. Be glad 2049 ever got made (similarly with Dune really).
Isn't it also against Hacker News policy to go posting comments accusing other commenters as fake?

It just degrades the discussion as seen here.

Also, pretty sure that Hacker News has automatic detection for fake comments so no need to do manual moderating I think.
As the other comments here have already mentioned, automated methods are available but expensive and relatively low accuracy. I'll add that manually measuring parts with instruments like calipers or micrometers in order to reproduce them is common in the machinery industry.

Here's a random video of someone doing that:

https://youtu.be/i9Ow0jD4V5k
You might be onto something. See https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/i-almost-got-banned-h...

But messaging the mods to investigate is the better strategy.
This is so cool, immediate hit of ol nostalgia.

I wonder if I could integrate this into Home Assistance, all I know is lovelace isn't the easiest to mod.

This would sure look good on my wall mounted tablet!
Assange, not Snowden, but I guess it could have happened to Snowden too.
Also this now: "Fast-spreading HIV variant doubles rate of immune system decline" https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/02/1111372
This is quaint, but https://www.anylist.com/ exists, so does https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/, and other tools, and best of all they are always with me. I must be in the minority of people who can manage not to play an iOS game while reviewing their to-dos. But honestly, I'm biased because I just wish paper would die already
https://www.agisoft.com/

Take a photo of the object from all angles, I usually end up with 40 photos. Don't move or spin the object, the static background details help align the images and you want the lighting to be consistent. Smartphone cameras actually work best for small objects because their tiny aperature keeps everything in focus.

I've used the turntable laser scanners (NextEngine specifically) but it is far from automated, requires hand alignment of point clouds. Photogrammetry approach was much lower effort.

But really this gives you a mesh, which is far from being a CAD drawing. Taking measurements and drawing from scratch is usually how I've seen it done when accuracy matters.
It's every game dev's first mistake to start adding, say, weapon types to their game by first creating an Item class, then creating a Weapon subclass, Sword inherits that, Shortsword inherits that... And so on. Makes sense, right? It's exactly what OO is for.

Except games rarely have that rigid a structure, and maybe you want a sword that also has laser gun features, or an axe that's also a magic staff. That's a lot of subclassing and further dividing up your game objects into rigid hierarchies that become difficult to modify later without unintentionally breaking stuff (was it the logic in the Sword class that grants that damage bonus, or in the Weapon class?)

It's nicer to be able to say "I have a weapon entity, I'm going to attach the `SliceDamage" component, the "MagicAttack" component, and so on, and call it a magic axe. It's easier to maintain, it can change at runtime, and the behaviour code only exists in a component file that only does that behaviour, rather than nestled in some lowest common denominator of a hierarchy of classes.
Wow, I love this idea