skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem I see with most of 2FA, you have to reveal more of yourself instead of less, increasing potential attack surface instead of minimizing it. If anything, recent history has shown that you cannot trust anybody on the internet. Even if they're not outright hostile or abusive, they can still get cracked and their data stolen. For myself, I'd rather rely on strong, well-protected passwords and no 2FA as far as possible, but most people might not know how to do that or find it too inconvenient.
Leverage kills
Ah ok thanks. Yes, from the graph seemed like it was always going up, then 5 years after Port Arthur peaked and has been going down ever since. I wouldn't call that "little correlation" but sure, who knows.

Anyway, this is a weird topic. It seems only in the USA that "fewer guns = safer society" is not extremely obvious to everyone.
Someone please submit the sound of a gasoline or diesel engine starting!

It's perhaps more of a "deprecated" sound than obsolete, but I think it counts!

I'd do it myself but I don't have very good recording gear
> It is scarily easy to miss, even at physically close distances, when fighting for one's life.

In my state it's required to qualify at a gun range in order to obtained a concealed carry permit. When my turn came I experienced a huge adrenaline rush. I did hit the target adequately but was surprised at how difficult it was under pressure. I've never experienced this before when going to the range and casually shooting.

I expect in a real world scenario where the assailant is not a static paper target, you're more likely to miss than not.
Maintainance can mean: reuse most of the business logic and port the software to another MVC framework, so it's easier to maintain and add new features, as opposed to keeping it running on life support.
I was being a little facetious, but there are some DoD/military industry towns where the majority of code will be C/C++ based stuff.
This looks awesome. Looking forward to a non-Apple version to try it out myself. Great idea to solve some of the issues of video conferences. I assume it also upscales people when they move away further from the camera, as some sort of welcome side effect. So you only need to be close to the camera once and then make yourself more comfortable a little farther away, or even with suboptimal lighting.

One thing that struck me as odd on the page is that the H265 still looks considerably worse than H264, despite being the better codec and being larger. What's up with that?
> But we could also reduce that down to "if you're specifically in an assault". Surely you're safer right? If you're in an assault and in possession of a gun, you are over 400% (4 times) more likely to be shot then if you do not have a gun. [2]

From the paper itself, the TLDR is that those numbers only apply if you're in a gang. The cohort that is 400% more likely to be shot is, according to the paper, 400% more likely compared to non-illicit activity individuals.

> "However, compared with control participants, shooting case participants were significantly more often Hispanic, more frequently working in high-risk occupations1,2, less educated, and had a greater frequency of prior arrest. At the time of shooting, case participants were also significantly more often involved with alcohol and drugs, outdoors, and closer to areas where more Blacks, Hispanics, and unemployed individuals resided. Case participants were also more likely to be located in areas with less income and more illicit drug trafficking (Table 1)."

It's a good argument for better social services, not for restricting non-gang individuals from owning firearms.
The Estonian delivery startup Starship uses tiny self-driving robots. I wonder if those can be made cost-efficient.
Perl seems to still be fairly popular with the OpenBSD folk, since a Perl installation comes with the base system. It seems to be pretty much the scripting language of choice when simple Shell scripts don't do the job or are too slow.
In these non crypto enforced capability systems, you don't have any control over other processes' names for resources addressed through capabilities is the point I'm attempting to get across.

Crypto backed capabilities that merge the token with the capability itself are one morph of capability based systems, but that's not the scheme being described here. Leaking the name of a capability (the offset in the cap table) does not leak the capability itself in these TCB schemes. Capabilities are still communicable in these TCB schemes because they're explicitly supported in the IPC mechanisms like SCM_RIGHTS or seL4_Send along side normal data. The token naming a capability then is a per process concept and you can clone an identical capability into several tokens in the same cap table, unlike the crypto enforced scheme which are basically content addressed storage for a secret representing a capability.
A couple responses:

1. If the values the source registers aren't computed yet (due to prediction, renaming, etc.), then CMOV will need to stall until they're computed, right? And those could be pretty long prediction chains. So I don't follow as how you can regard this as just a 1-cycle thing on any architecture.

2. Didn't Ice Lake come out literally just 1 year ago? "Out of date" seems like quite an exaggeration... I don't have a single machine that new and I don't imagine most people purchase a new computer on an annual basis either.
> Because it uses face rec, you can ONLY show your face, and if you disappear from view your audio will stop after a while, to avoid situations like when you need to go the the restroom but forget to mute. This also solves dick-pics etc.

Who would have thought anti dick pic technology would become a product feature but here we are in 2022.
Hi, we don't collect any data from the app, and have filled in the privacy etc. statements on the App Store accordingly.

Ideally I would like to collect faces to train the compression on, in which case we would have to consult with lawyers to come up with an EULA allowing us to do this. The advantage compared to using broadly available datasets to train on would be more realistic shot noise, low light images, and so on. I don't see any other valid business purpose of collecting people's faces.

We've been sitting on the face recognition tech since 2018, so if we'd wanted to become Clearview.ai we probably would have a long time ago.
You can easily do that in Germany with some traditional supermarket chains, e.g. REWE, create your online basket, then when ready do the 5 minute walk to pick it up without dealing with the supermarket confusion.
Turkey is not a muslim country but a country with majority of its population being muslim. Forced marriages and honour killings are illegal activities in the rural regions that are becoming thing of the past thanks to the active measures taken. Arranged marriages are still common in the rural parts but almost non-existent in the cities.

And no, Turkey has no death penalty. Politicians may say that they would re-introduce it when they speak to their extremist voters and they had the political power for a decade to re-introduce but they never did. Do you know why? Because it's an extremely unpopular among the Turks.

I think you need a reality check.
Well, why are those companies pivoting so often in the first place? Isn't the root cause probably in GP's list?
The problem with this in my city is that the scooters are substantially more expensive than the taxi, which doesn't make any sense. I've often found that I can choose between a 1h scooter ride or a 30m taxi ride, and the scooter would be about twice the price.

I've used them a few times just for the fun of riding, and they are probably cheaper for very short distances, but that's it.
A restaurant is about the whole experience, for having someone else to cook there are pizza, donner, kebab, pita, shawarma, sandwiches,....
I don’t understand speed, either. Once you have the desired circuit, you don’t have to build it out of discrete components, you also can send it to a fab (I think that already happened with 7400-style ICs, too. The 74248 BCD to seven segment decoder doesn’t contain lots of individual NAND gates)

That will introduce practical problems, though. If you want your design on the best tech possible, that costs serious money that you may not be able to afford, especially if you don’t want an enormous number of circuits. Your 10,000 transistor design may fit a million or more times on a top-of-the-line die.
Ask HN: How did you use open source to compete with bigger enterprise products?
I am very bullish on open-source and platform based approach to build SaaS products. Recently, I've seen ToolJet, Hoppscotch, RayCast executing it very well.

Been using OSS products for the past few years for all the cloud-infra related needs and feel that great products can be built this way (along with giving back to the community).

- How well has this worked for you if you tried this approach at your startup?

- What are the things that should be taken into consideration with this approach? (delayed revenue, free to paid conversion etc.)

- Is there any "right" way to try this approach? (like build a product for 1-2 years then focus on platform etc.)

I am building a product in B2B SaaS (along the lines of enterprise search and productivity) but there are many older, not-so-good and sales-led players in that domain.
You are because you are doubling down on being wrong.

Tax collection is backed by force.

Try not paying your taxes and see what happens
That's missing the case where the tech debt results in lowered commercial performance, as things necessary to keep customers happy enough to provide the cash flow are getting harder and harder.
What's New for the Web Platform
I switched to 11 mostly just because why not. I only use Windows in my free time to work on some personal stuff. Nothing new has really annoyed me, except for if something is in a folder in the start menu it will never come up in search. Ever. But that could have been in 10 for all I know.

There is a long list of things that no longer annoy me though… here’s the top ones:

1. My .git folder no longer gets corrupted after a reboot in WSL. That used to drive me insane and I lost hours of work several times. Hasn’t happened once since upgrading.

2. I feel like WSL integration has gotten light years better. Nothing specific comes to mind, but I basically work in WSL. (Still no native ipv6 support though. Sigh)

3. It feels like a smoother/snappier experience overall. Especially when it comes to gaming.
In general, H265 is better than H264, but when you really squeeze it it seems to fall over its own feet. This is measured against ffmpeg's x265 implementation, the hardware-accelerated version on the iPhone will just refuse to go down to that bitrate.
Fine, it's the threat of your guns that is doing such a grand job of keeping you all so very free.

Almost 1% of US citizens are in prison. Your police forces routinely brutalise and oppress large parts of your population even though (or perhaps because) you are all armed to the teeth. The majority of your fellow citizens are a couple of paychecks or one health scare away from homelessness, your social security safety nets are in tatters and your collective Labour rights have been eroded away over the last 50 years. Thank goodness you've got your guns or your government might screw you over
SimdJson: Faster JSON parsing with AVX-512
It would be nice if it included info on how many of the layoffs are technical people. I know of layoffs here in EU, but it was UX, product, etc. Seems like techies are still in demand.
Well done, bully! I'm glad you're full of yourself.
This is the right decision. The primary reason anyone still writes Perl is because they already have a lot of existing code and dependencies in the language. Backwards compatibility is a critical feature for a language in that position.

I doubt anyone would write a greenfield project in Perl when numerous other platforms are available. Raku is there if you like the design philosophy of Perl but don't need to worry about backwards compatibility.
Investigation into suspected anti-competitive conduct by Google in ad tech
Didn't take a look yet but will, very cool. Where are the meetings rooms hosted?
Tech is a broad field. In news reporting, use of ML is ubiquitous at this point and many roles require strong technical background and development experience. Journalists are only a small part of the newsroom
I believe the individual you responded to is stating that from a moral perspective it's murder, not from a legal perspective. I would agree with them as well.
Yes, but in this case it explicitly says it is not a tech layoff. So the possible relevance is denied at source.
It make sense for Google to steer their products, not for generalised mapping.
If that were the case, Google would not own a patent on PageRank and we wouldn't have to bother with open source audio/video codecs.
> But it falls massively short when it comes to anything concurrent or async

Nonsense, there's AnyEvent, EV, IO::Async, Mojo::IOLoop. If you need parallelism, yes, you'd better use Go or something else.

And the 10 years old bugs are to a large extent an exageration, because those modules are probably abandoned and you shouldn't use them anyway.
I'm pretty sure discord is using rust on the backend, not on the electron app. They use it to make some code faster (through NIFs) inside of their larger Elixir codebase.
Any comments in the light of the "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang" article?

It's the most cogent critique of Go I've seen yet.
Tech companies are like lewdness, we know them when we see them. I’m sure Maersk and Walmart rely a lot on tech and engineers, but no one is calling them tech companies.
Its literally not a pyramid scheme. You could call it a scam sure.

A pyramid scheme means that you use money from new investors to pay previous investors.

Thats not at all what happens with Bitcoin.

Bitcoin just trades like a commodity...

You can call it a bubble sure.

But its simply not a pyramid scheme
>Why?

Because we tried it for a decade and it did various shades of nothing.
Wow that's super cool! Thanks!
That is indeed the fastest way in my experience (at least on the CPU). It's very unlikely to have more than a few rejections, so any method that requires evaluating trigonometric functions cannot compete.
This reminds me of an idea I had about 15 years ago but never pursued. The concept was using basic object detection as an input as a first pass to to a standard video codec to guide where it should spend it's data budget. So, for example, a TV news broadcast could put more details on the host's eyes and mouth while a parking garage camera would be trained to get clearer number plates.
What an absolutely preposterous comment.

>Turkey has a very significant population(over 10 Million people) on its officially European lands),

Because of forced population transfers in the 20th century. European Turkey is no more European than the Falklands are Argentine.

>The Ottoman Empire has had its significant chunk in Eastern Europe

Yes, a loathed, parasitic, alien occupation, which was overthrown at the earliest opportunity.

> Do I have to mention that the roots of many European cultures are in Turkey. Have you heard of Hagia Sofia for example?

Are you insane? The Hagia Sofia was built by Greeks centuries before the Turks arrived off the steppe.

>they are like the Greeks, the Spanish and the Hungarians.

The Greeks Spanish and Hungarians would likely regard this comparison as insulting.

Lebanon is more European than Turkey is.
Only in fantasyland, where Amazon and Chinese companies don’t exist.
I think it is insulting that Bluetooth basically gave up on this. It is faster to send an audio signal around the planet once than to send it from your phone to your ear with the worst Bluetooth profile.
I think I'd ideally want to do this with some alignment constraints but I don't see this as being far more difficult than setting constraints manually. Doing this correctly is actually somewhat non-trivial because you'll want the square to respond to rotation appropriately, etc. which will require less-than-or-equal constraints.
A genuine question: isn't armed population one of the main obstacles of autocratic regimes?

If it is, then mass shootings is the lesser evil compared to, say, Russia, where a handful of armed psychopaths can commit war crimes on a global scale and quickly take down any internal opposition.
Seems to be anoter push by the processed food giants to push their fake meat replacement. Veganism + climate is just the excuse they use to push this.
At least here in Finland Klarna engages in borderline-shady tactics. They use all the dark patterns you can think of to get your personal identity number even if you choose a payment method that doesn't require it, presumably to combine data from various sources. They skip the difficult identity-verification steps to make the checkout go faster, which of course means they can be easily used for fraud, and it falls to the unfortunate bystander whose identity was stolen to report the fraud and return the goods.

I and a lot of friends avoid Klarna checkouts to the point of choosing a more expensive shop or ordering from outside the country.
Way less than half the engineers are needed to keep the lights on.

Keeping the lights on isn't enough. You want to grow. You have competitors that will do more than keep the lights on to take your market share.
You missed entirely the point made. Obviously I was pointing out that your stated reasoning was flawed. Government regularly publishes data and predictions that are trustworthy and useful. Therefore merely disagreeing with this report because it is a government report is sloppy thinking. Also, even saying “government” as if it is a single entity is sloppy thinking. The federal government has areas of expertise and it is better at some things than others. The CBO is generally held in high regard. The White House Budget Office is the one that people tend to discount as being overly partisan regardless of who is in power.
I suspect if you are right about the date that it is lost to time. I searched quite a bit, and the earliest record of any webzine I could find was (ironically) the current owners of salon.com - which have had the domain since July 1995.

I should also note that I'm not 100% sure of this, but sources seem to indicate the current salon.com was the first registrant, so I suspect you'd be wasting your time looking specifically for that domain.

My guess about your best bet would be searching the oldest archives of alt.zines you can find.
Love how you cherry pick timelines that suit your argument. Try being intellectually honest
Yeah, the crucial trick is that Rust is a single language but the Editions system lets people keep older syntax in source code, knowing it will be transformed into the single abstract syntax of that language.

Rust editions are not versions of the language, they're just syntax.

New features of the language in a new library or compiler version work fine in all editions unless they require syntax which isn't in your chosen edition.

Rust 2015 edition is only restricted to the syntax from 2015, all the features of today are available unless they're gated off somehow by syntax. For example the "async" keyword didn't exist in Rust 2015, so, you won't be using that from 2015 edition even today. But even though in 2015 you certainly couldn't go around evaluating u32::checked_div() in a constant, it works just fine in Rust 2015 edition today, because it's not gated by syntax.
Does it matter? The relevant part (to most of us) is whether they're laying off engineers. Almost any company is a tech company these days
> Anyway, this is a weird topic. It seems only in the USA that "fewer guns = safer society" is not extremely obvious to everyone and where people are straining hard not to see the obvious.

Well, that's because it isn't obvious. I limited my data lookups to Australia because OP presented Australia as an example of where it is obvious that fewer guns == safer society.

In the example that is provided as evidence (Australia), the data does not support the assertion. Maybe it will in other examples, but the OP presented this example and so I only checked the stats for this example.
>The only difference is, that we have "different criminals" here, so when someone gets shot, both the shooter and the shot person usually know why they're shooting and why they're being shot, and it's rarely without a good reason.

No, you don't.

The overwhelming majority of murders in the US follow the same pattern. Basically the drug industry DIYing the the kind of violent enforcement of business disputes that "real businesses" use courts and state violence for.

People going postal is a rounding error.
Push Notifications are becoming like promotional emails. Instead of getting important stuff in the notification drawer, you get nagged multiple times a day to open an app. Of course, turning these off isn't a problem (like unsubscribing) but it's quite annoying.
It is ironic how many assume C and C++ compilers are the ultimate example of doing compiler optimizations, while some of us had the experience that on the early days their 8 and 16 bit versions were worse than what a junior Assembly coder was able to write without even bothering with profiling tools.
And only recently has the US government started allowing funds again study the answer to that question:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03882-w
Ask HN: Can you see syntax highlighting on VS Code with clear mode?
Hi HN,

Recently, I saw a video[0] claiming that black text on white was less tiring for the eye to read.

I decided to try the clear mode of VS Code. To my surprise, I just can't see the colors of the syntax highlighting. I manage to guess they are there, but I don't actually see them as clearly as the Monokai theme.

I'm not colorblind (but my father is), so I don't really understand why.

Do you have the same experience?

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVDbu8lhqAA (french)
Agreed.

For me, XP was the boost to get off the bloated platform. Ugly skins, mandatory junk apps (Movie Maker or whatever) that you can't remove, mandatory IE for Windows Update... So many little things.

The one gain over Win2K was faster bootups/resume-from-hibernation. That I liked. That was the only thing.

But it was clear that MS would play its usual trick: compel upgrades by killing support for the well-loved older product.

So you couldn't really stay on W2K.

So I switched. Mac OS X on the desktop, Linux on laptops.

And frankly, the continued gutting of the UI in macOS, which has been going downhill since 10.6, is making Linux everywhere look appealing... Even with the shiny Arm chips...
Question for the pro-gun folks: where is the limit on what a civilian needs to defend themselves? Assuming you agree civilians shouldn’t have nukes. How about fighter jets. What about tanks. What about bazookas. How do you make that call. If, for example, greater than 5 round magazines isn’t the limit, where is the limit and why?
I got these results by using Vertigo's bitrate as the target, and squeezing the other ones until they got as close as possible to that. H265 is in general better than H264, but when you put the thumbscrews on it seems to get itself into a bit of trouble.

Wrt encoding/decoding complexity this is the major bottleneck, because you have the GPU competing with custom ASICs. I have a version of the codec that works in combination with H265, but still gets largish bandwidth gains, so if all you wanted was an insane hi-res and hi-bitrate transmissions that might be the way to go near-term.