skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There's something to be said for having the freedom to only take on the projects that interest you (or pay the best)"

Do you live in the USA with work authorization? You already have the freedom, probably...find another open position somewhere looking for someone like you, start working somewhere else
Shtora is really not an APS. It's more of a countermeasure system designed to fool the laser guidance used by missiles etc. Think of it like ECM for a tank.

APS is more along the lines of Trophy (Israeli and eventually US), or Drozd/Arena (RU) where radar senses projectiles, and fires counter projectiles at the incoming round/missile.

Drozd was never really implemented; partially due to cost, but also because it tended to kill any infantry accompanying the tanks. Arena appears to be much of the same tech, focused on RPG type weapons as well as ATGMs. I think the reason we don't see much of it on the Russian tanks is again, cost. The export version was pitched to South Korea at $300k per unit. And compared to the cost of a T-72B3, that's a significant amount to add. Or it could be the typical Russian military corruption we've been seeing in Ukraine.
I only have ps5 and a switch. I never knew microsoft got into gaming recently. Cool thanks. /s
> I used to program on a platform [...]

Yeah, and I know that's why the C standard has so much slop in it. They want to keep the window of conformance open for past or future architectures.

> If I could, I would disallow integer to pointer [...]

It's not just about 0xDeadBeef hardware addresses, and I don't think anyone is talking about breaking assembly language.

However, C has unions and Rust has enums. You want those to share the same piece of memory in the fewest bytes you can get away with. Some interpreters, written in C, even use nan-tagging to store the important 48 bits of a pointer in the 52 bits of payload with double precision floats.

You don't have to like it, and you can discourage your children or coworkers from doing it, but there are legitimate reasons for all of this. The examples look ugly because they're short and stupid.

And nobody has even mentioned that `A[i] == (A + i) == (i + A) == i[A]` is going to continue to be valid in C. https://stackoverflow.com/a/381549
I don't think it's actually risk aversion or not.

The risk is not precisely and exactly quantified. The uncertainty isn't precisely quantified. This isn't an experiment where someone is asked "Would you like to have $2, or flip a coin and get $5 if its heads, or roll a die and get $16 if it's a six?"

I think it's more about how they are estimating risk in different areas, and ways in which one might commonly see people overvalue or undervalue risk, or overvalue or undervalue potential payoffs. It's not that they're trying to be more conservative, their incorrect calculation just makes one option seem like a bad (or worse idea) than another.

An alternative viewpoint is that maybe their risk calculation isn't actually wrong and they're not risk averse, they're just taking the strategy of only making decisions that don't make you look foolish and can be blamed elsewhere if you lose, but can take credit when you're lucky and they win.

Saying yes to 2$ over a coin flip to $5 is risk aversion. Saying no to $3 so you can coin flip for $5 is probably just foolish.
>When the maintenance is "ensure auto updates are on, and don't do anything that would not get updated automatically" it's not like it requires regular effort.

no dog in the fight here but I felt impelled to point out that ensuring auto updates are on solves almost all security holes except for the security hole it opens up.
It's not just leadership, it trickles down to every aspect of work.

From the poor tooling to the most toxic "team" of co-workers I've ever been on.

I don't regret joining but every month I deeply regret staying. Props to Amazon for providing me with the motivation to find something better.
Looks intriguing, thanks!
I think the JVM route is smart for bootstrapping a new language since it gives you an existing ecosystem to leverage. However, at this point, I'd love to see a native Clojure.
Just adding for clarity (I'm GP), this linked article is great and puts to bed any doubts I had. This firing and treatment of the plaintiff was outrageous.
Run Docker and Nomad on Android – serverless mobile compute
Isn't coherence time the big challenge?
I think you make valid points pretty much top to bottom. Less tracking on the internet would make me feel better. "Bad" content on a site will corrupt or ruin its ability to function.

I just (ironically?) hate crusaders, and the type of people who proclaim (as wikipedia does) that they're Doing Their Best(tm) to adhere to their stated goal(pseudo-anon editing with IP based tracking) while doing something that undercuts that goal for millions (blanket IP bans).

I guess my ultimate complaint is that the continued mercy of the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents causes people to do things antithetical to what they say they want. That people refuse to live in nuance and continue to pretend they hold themselves to a higher standard that they frequently do not when pressed with any sort of complication.

I understand we live in a society and in order for it to function there are tradeoffs, and I'm not one of these "free speech has been completely killed by cancel culture" nutjobs, but I hate when people speak out of both sides of their mouth which is what Wikipedia does (IMO) when it comes to their moderation/contributor policy. Abolishing anon editing puts everyone on a level playing field (you want to contribute, you have to sign up).

Am I being Just or just Vindictive? IDK, and I'll admit that's open to interpretation. It just feels more fair to me to throw your hands up and admit that vandals are why we can't have nice things than to say APR users are collectively lesser than AT&T users. One feels defensibly, the other feels like logical contortion.
File-roller/engrampa/ark will call them for you on GNU/Linux/*BSD.
I haven't installed the extension yet, but perhaps you could try https://remove-js.com/https://web.dev/streams/ instead? I'd guess that that would work, but I'd be curious to know.
I prefer Emacs dired, where pressing C-x C-q starts editing the opened directory (including any inserted subdirectories).
As Scott Adams recently pointed out, even if we restrict this argument to the US, while the numbers are truein a very superficial sense, it completely misses the fact that this 2.2% of the US population seems to decide what journalists get to talk about, which then affects the entire population.

So it's a bit like arguing bees are irrelevant because they are a small percentage of the animal kindgom, completely ignoring the fact that losing the bees would kill off the whole planet.
That was an SPAC in 2016, OP said "the night of the DNC primary in 2015." I was there for the CTR debacle, the SPAC hasn't existed since 2016(?), do you think they're still funding accounts?
After onboarding and getting to know them better. Of course, speaking ill about your current job in an interview is unprofessional.
How about enrapturedhosting.com?

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/service-lets-yo/

>Website Lets You Send a Post-Rapture E-Mail to Friends 'Left Behind'

>If millions of Christians suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth as the opening act for Armageddon, Threat Level thinks most nonbelievers will be too busy freaking the hell out to check their e-mail. But if they do log in, now they can be treated to some post-Rapture needling from their missing friends and loved ones, courtesy of web startup YouveBeenLeftBehind.com.

[...]

Good thing the sysadmins are loving trustworthy Christians:

>Users can also upload up to 150 megabytes of documents, which will be protected by an unidentified encryption algorithm until the Rapture, then released to up to 12 nonbelievers of your choice. The site recommends that you use that storage to house sensitive financial information.

>"In the encrypted portion of your account you can give them access to your banking, brokerage, hidden valuables, and powers of attorneys," the site says. "There won't be any bodies, so probate court will take seven years to clear your assets to your next of kin. Seven years, of course, is all the time that will be left. So, basically the Government of the Antichrist gets your stuff, unless you make it available in another way."

There was a pretty good Law and Order episode where one of those sites accidentally triggered, sent an email confessing to somebody's crimes prematurely, which led to an unfortunate chain of events and salty remarks.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343619/

>The owner of a Rapture website is killed by a man working to return Soviet Jews to Israel to fulfill Biblical prophecy. However, the killer seeks shelter at the Iranian embassy, leaving the DA's office in an unenviable position.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/LawAndOrderS19E...

>Van Buren wonders why the emails were sent at all.

"Yeah, but the Rapture didn't occur."
"As far as we can tell."
"I'm still here."
"You mentioned."
—Anita Van Buren, Cyrus Lupo, and Kevin Bernard
I mean, it's kind of expected to forget about them if you took a break for a year after having used it for 6 months?

I do think 6 months should be enough to see some benefit in your workflow (like ci" to delete everything between "" and go into insert mode or Ctrl-O to go back to the last place you jumped from).

But I guess it depends on how you practiced, and if you look at those 6 months I'm sure you'll see that the time spent on actually learning Vim (struggling to learn these efficient editing patterns) was much less than you'd think.

With a tool like Vim I don't think it's enough to just use it, but we need to put conscious effort into it to learn it properly.
Long time ago, a colleague of mine created "evenmoreutils" : https://github.com/rudymatela/evenmoreutils
Solar storm could supercharge northern lights as far south as New York
The difference is that we have almost a thousand meteor ready, tens of thousands MICA and thousands of Scalp missiles. And our aces get 150 to 200h/yr of flight time, including training against F22 which are Su35 but actually good in dogfight. Russian pilots have mixed training and get less than 100 hours on plane. Without air support, you cannot go in an offensive war, even against 10k men. And Russia cannot go against our meteors with anything except their 10 su35(probably), of which at least 5 are prototypes(and they did loose the 11th against IR manpads, which is telling).
The History of Franz and Lisp
>It was really obvious when something unexpected happened, like that video of Hilary collapsing and having to be pushed into a vehicle during the presidential campaign - for several hours the sockpuppet accounts didn't know what to say so comments from regular users started making it to the top again.

Same thing happened after Trump's 2016 election win. For a day or two, it was possible to post something non-leftist to /r/politics without having it be mercilessly downvoted; as if the shills were awaiting orders.
A lot of good comments about the Unix market back then. The honest truth is that cheap no-name PC's with RedHat and a little later, nVidia graphics cards are what killed the Unix vendors. The price disparity was stark and a no-brainer for companies looking to do big things but with increasingly commodity hardware. It was sad to see Unix vendors die off.
> 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939

Jews were running away from Germany in those years. Quite desperately. 1938 is Kristallnacht alias November pogrom. Jews were restricted in civil service and schools since 1933. The second wave of segregation laws was in 1935.

And other Germans characterized living in Germany as "you did not knew what is fear unless you lived there" - because you could actually get to prison for a joke someone overheard.

My point here is that Nazi Germany did not became totalitarian as the war started. It was very oppressive and totalitarian long before.
This only seems controversial because we're reading the colloquial meaning of 'video service provider' rather than the text of the bill.

The text of the bill applies to companies who >lay fiber or cable through the public right of way<
Driver popups. I made the mistake of buying a razer keyboard and microsoft update itself is pushing to download their companion app each time it does an update. It's a thing, look it up. There are workarounds but they don't survive multiple rounds of updates.
For me, ORMs and [web] frameworks serve essentially the same purpose - Establishing some development pattern that can be followed.

Most developers do not feel comfortable jumping directly into raw sql/js/html/css when they are just starting out in their careers, especially when trying to build a new/complex thing. Having effectively zero constraints on how to structure a real-world codebase can be terrifying if you don't have an existing mental model of one of these things. I remember what it was like to be staring into the maw of a blank solution explorer and not even knowing how many projects I would need to create or what a good namespace system might look like.

Understanding that the sql schema is probably the most important part of the entire product may encourage us to not sweep this particular concern under the rug of automagic training wheels. We did the entity framework thing for about a year before moving back to raw sql. Performance was the biggest thing for us. Many of the inferences the ORM made back then were horrific in practice.
I think of the DK effect in kind of a recursive way: gauging one's skill level is itself a skill. And if you are bad at that skill, you can't know it.
Way simpler solution is go grab yourself a copy of WPD - https://wpd.app/

I've found that to be a very simple, well documented antidote to Windows constant desire to violate my privacy

I run it every time you see a new windows update roll through and it has constantly kept up with their most egregious attempts - feels like a good middle ground
It seems fairly obvious that most people who follow him do that because they like what he has to say. Even if he had 500 million followers it still wouldn't be an unbiased sample.
The whole point / explaining away the facts / gaslighting / trolling.

I guess we’ll just never know the motivation of the storytellers.
In general in Rust game engine culture right now there is a strong trend towards using entity component system based design. Sometimes this is a definite good thing, for certain kinds of games it can have benefits both for performance and coding niceness. Entity component systems also play nicely with Rust's borrow checker.

But, in my half educated opinion, it creates a massive amount of unnecessary complexity for many types of games. If you are making something pretty basic like pong/pac man/ simple 2d rpgs, etc, you just have all this infrastructure and all these new paradigms when all you wanted was a way to efficiently load and draw sprites and play sounds.
I hope the tide does turn and then keeps going. I think the language restrictions around Deref(Mut) and Index(Mut) originally borne of purism are just not all that helpful in practice. I can make a network request in my Deref impl, but I can't return a smart pointer?
> Good riddance

Exactly. Good riddance to the useless JPEG NFTs and the oversupply and saturation of silly NFT projects that have no use case and will wither away.

We need a market crash to wipe out these JPEG NFT projects that have no use case in this cycle.

The majority of the JPEG NFTs which is around 90% of them will collapse with the remaining 10% of NFTs with utility that will still survive.

Even after this crash however, I'm afraid they aren't going to completely go away anytime soon.
NASA had a 1979 illustration of what the Space Shuttle should have been, which would have been giving the Saturn V the "Falcon 9" treatment to fly back the first stage.

If they had we might have had Starship by 1995 and been doing some of the stuff O'Neill was talking about it but instead we got something Ralph Nader warned us about.
Aldo when the oomkiller process kills another process it causes it to exit with a well known exit code: 137
>Sometime around the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift in the content on Reddit. If you were a frequent visitor of the homepage and /all at the time, you will know exactly what I am referring to.

Indeed.

It's especially visible when the effect temporarily abates. After Trump's 2016 election win, for a day or two, it was possible to post something non-leftist to /r/politics without having it be mercilessly downvoted; as if the shills were awaiting orders.
"Free speech" as in no restrictions, and if Twitter gets overrun with spam and child porn then so be it? I suspect that you (and Musk) actually do want some restrictions, just different ones than Twitter currently has.
A WFP firewall like simplewall (by henry++, not the corporate one) can block everything by default, including services like Windows Update, and is IMO the most straightforward option.
It's funny, on a fresh W10 install there's a toggle for weather telemetry for "Location", which the description describes as being used for weather data.

Even if it's un-toggled the weather feature in the taskbar works fine. At this point I've given up, need Edge unfortunately so can't use LTSC.
Target prices are short-ish term; 12 months.

Goldman could hold the position that the company's current performance justifies $30, but that $55 doesn't fairly reflect the longer-term potential in the business.

(It's also different sections of Goldman, with firewalls and different goals between them.)
Ask HN: What methods do you use to focus and stay relaxed?
I'm fairly certain that I have ADD. I partly feel like it started to get worse over time when utilizing certain platforms designed for to capture peoples attention with short content. I have since stopped using things like Twitter (for various reasons) and any platform that encourages short form content.

What methods are you using outside of avoiding social media?

Thank you for ... oh what's that over there?
The funny thing is that my current company technically doesn't practice agile. They love to advertise that to interviewees, but the problem is they haven't really replaced it with anything. There's still a lot of process involved, but it's almost all communicated ad-hoc, so there's massive confusion about how stuff should get done, or who should do what. Requirements gathering is a mess, and yet we're still asked for estimates, even though we don't even have a rough list of requirements.

People have begun pushing back against that (including me), but in response I'm beginning to see the tendrils of Agile sneak their way in, which has me uneasy. But I don't know what a good alternative is...that's kind of why I think the social problems surrounding team based software development are often way harder than the code itself, and why I've got this interest in shifting to solo work somehow.
I think people, and sometimes myself, create a binary comparison of right and wrong to simplify the complexity.

If there are two political parties I vote for the lesser of two evils or the better choice, depending on if you are a positive or negative person.
I'm not sure if I edited yours. I created one of the first ports from C++ to Lua of the Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source weapons that allowed you to mod those.

I'm also the author of Planimeter's (previously Team Sandbox's) Half-Life 2: Sandbox reference implementation, which was the first Source engine game to use LuaJIT.

We also ported the base code to allow users to use Lua in other games as a Valve Server Plugin. It relied heavily on reverse engineering.
Then try https://www.dyne.org/software/dynebolic/
Live ISO but you can install it on an HD.
Cisco's Webex phoned home audio telemetry even when muted
Show HN: Is Ctrl+F not finding what you need?
Hello HN,

I was fed up with having to use Ctrl+F because I could never find what I was looking for, so I build an NLP based Find in Page alternative that works pretty damn well.

Let me know what you think,

Scout Team

P.s. you'll soon be able to search through images and the text in them too.
A web search indicates that “Bobby Axelrod” is a TV show character. What does “pulling a Bobby Axelrod” mean in this context?
This bill seems too good to be true, but so far, it has passed a Senate committee and may yet get a floor vote.

I searched for details of it on HN search but didn't see many comments about it. What does HN think of this bill and/or its chances of actually passing both houses during this legislative session?

The bill in short, Apple/Google etc cannot:

1. require u to use their payment system

2. prevent apps from telling about alternate payment methods

3. prevent users from installing apps or app stores

4. prevent users from choosing apps or app stores as defaults for a given activity (call apps, browsers, emails etc.)

5. (and this is the one that got me excited enough to post this) prevent users from hiding or deleting apps or app stores provided by or preinstalled by the app store owner or business partners

6. companies must provide the same basic API documentation / support to 3rd party devs as they do to first party devs
Isn't that a streaming solution?
> I'd argue that it's not really a big city if there's a constant need to Lyft to your destinations.

If that is your metric, then there isn't a single big city in the US aside from NYC (and, maaaaybe, Chicago).

With all other big cities in the US, you can technically get away by using public transport exclusively, but with a really giant caveat - your place of living, your place of work, and all the other places you would want to visit are all, by sheer luck, located near public transport routes. There is a non-zero number of people in this situation, but it requires a great deal of luck and specific choices to be made for that to happen.

To be more specific, I will use Seattle as an example. We have a solid lightrail and bus system, and the expansion of lightrail has been going great. Public transport covers a lot of places and areas one might need or want to go to. But it doesn't cover an even larger amount of places/areas. I personally know plenty of people here who live without cars, and even the most pro-public-transport of them resort to Uber/Lyft fairly often. Not as a time-saving activity, but out of necessity.
This is a fun idea, I'm going to let it stew for awhile, thanks!
I had the same experience. The Sun workstations that I was able to use were very slow compared to the same era PCs running Windows. The keyboard was cool as hell, though. The control key was in the correct position (where Caps Lock is in the standard layout). I do remember that the font rendering was horrible. There was no anti aliasing. Windows had just came up with Cleartype.
This seems to be a rare situation where the externalities of the company are as big as the internalities. Investors with strong political preferences might take stances that conflict with their financial interest because of perceived political impact that Twitter has. Just a thought.
Cornell's Merlin app can identify birds by sight and sound
If you are already a programmer and you are looking to learn Python (not how to program) I recommend 'Dive into Python 3'

https://diveintopython3.problemsolving.io/

It teaches the language and many of its subtleties. It is fairly good to learn Python and is free. It is not however, a book for beginners in programming, it is for programmers wanting to learn Python.
Basic Anki Setup
It's nowhere near that clear; the offered price is lower than the stock's 52 week average.
It's definitely private but biased propaganda platform.

That's why Elons attempting to buy it.

To provide a more fair less propaganda filled platform to the world.

The founding fathers believed a free and private press was essential to a healthy democracy.
Blows my mind you’d both tell a pedestrian to cross and also allow a car to drive through at the same time.