skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the PS1 copy protection encoded the first pits and peaks in a way that a normal CD drive’s error correction logic would tolerate, but in such a way that the special firmware on the PS1 could detect the profile of the “errors” and ensure they matched expectations.

Consumer CD Burners didn’t have firmware (or maybe even the physical capability) to reproduce these “errors”.

Imagine a vinyl record where the start of the track has a groove that isn’t perfectly tracing the perimeter, but is actually a low amplitude sine wave of a certain frequency, waving in to the center and out to the perimeter. Any record player could trace the groove correctly, despite the fact that there is a low amplitude sine wave, and you’d hear the audio correctly (error correction). But a special record player could even detect the sine wave and reject records that don’t have it. I’m hand-waving away the fact that you’d get a little bit of wow and flutter from the sine wave, but you get the idea.
At what point do we say "we bad at business, here, have your money back"
The symbiosis of C and Unix is likely why we're not using Multics, VMS, TOPS, or something to this day.
There is a fun story of a guy who was making several thousand $ a month for a couple of years from a side project, a bunch of fan websites about reality TV show. Unfortunately in Russian, but Google translated version is tolerable:

https://vc.ru/life/189035-doooooom-2-s-shestyu-nulyami-kak-y...
I think that's a very naive perspective, it encourages a romantic view of entertainment where an artist is selling their own trade themselves.

That isn't the reality of the world.

Maximising the profit of the entertainment "artist" is in reality maximising the profits of the rights holder which in many cases is itself a large corporation such as the NFL.

Do I value the consumers of football over the NFL? Heck yes I do!

It's why for instance Germany has their 50%+1 rule, to help make sure that fans rather than corporate owners benefit from the sport.

Even in the case of things like solo artists, I don't want to live in a world where only the super rich can see an artist live, and everyone else has to suck it up because it maximises the money for the artist.
ASML deserves mentioning as well.
Gource Visualization video which points to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7JB0mhrGCQ does not work anymore.

> Video unavailable
> This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.
In Chicago there is a multi-month training program, and they are on a probational period for their first year.
I like it,but even a trivial app becomes a huge +5GB folder in development. The dependencies folder alone will make a node project blush + all the stuff generated when compiling/building. I love to have several apps to work on them concurrently but I wont reserve 50 Gb of my already small SSD for this stuff.
LibRocket – Electron alternative powered by C++
What really bothers me is that most of time when the date of birth is asked it is done as a way to determine some age criteria. The same could be achieved simply asking "are you older than N years old? [Yes] or [No]".

For example, I want to buy Quake on the Nintendo eShop. The website wants to know my age in order to show me a age restricted game. So it will always ask me the age same question even if I have already answered hundred of times. So does Steam and many other websites. Is this a by-product of some compliance or self-regulatory requirement like ESRB?

If not, it would make much more sense to just ask a yes/no question for the age criteria. Usually this argument is answered with "what about fraud?". Well, asking the birthday is no guarantee at all that the birthday is correct. It only adds friction.

As a small revenge I always use an absurdly old birth date on these forms. This way if they are collecting this data, my input will be discarded or pollute their datasets.
Fuchsia is having a mainstream web browser ported to it whereas this never will.

"Mainstream": has more than 5000 users on its best day ever.
Fighting disinformation and “issues advertising” now a matter of compliance
I think it depends on if real estate is still being devoured by investment groups. And during high inflation, it doesn't seem like they're going to stop parking their money in homes any time soon. And since they can buy with cash, interest rates don't matter to them.
US Nearly 400 crashes of automated tech vehicles
This is a weird way to say "retail investors couldn't continue to engage in illegal market manipulation for a couple days because of margin requirements between Robinhood and counterparties".

They had to stop purchases for one or two securities for a couple days until they could secure a billion dollar loan and clear some pending transactions. It was far less of an issue than the conspiracy folks wanted it to be.
This is the disconnect I've found in my self-taught compiler education journey. Every time I try to tackle this topic, I get bogged down by parsers and lexers. I already have that structure.

Users.find(x => x.name == "Bob").

My programming language has done that for me. What's the next phase? What data structures do I need to maintain to construct these DSLs? How do I optimize them?

I can fight my way through this but I wish I just had the theory and making this kind of stuff easier. It just comes up so often in the problems that I solve and I'd like to reach for this tool more often.
Teenagers manage to figure it out just fine by reading the back of a box/bottle.
I’m closing next week, so I gander this is the top of the housing market.
> How come this is how it works

This is an example of regulatory capture through licensing. It's bad for consumers, bad for the economy, bad for job-seekers and only good for a small handful of incumbents and politicians.
If there is that much of a demand for that type of entertainment, more of it will be created due to the increased revenue.
In NY, local police departments require a minimum of 700 hours of training to be certified. IIRC, state troopers are like 1200.

Like most of these things, the headline is probably misleading. You probably spend most of the 1500 hours as an apprentice.
I’m one of the few people that does, but for me it’s because I actively played the startup game early in my career to maximize my lottery ticket chances.

The worst thing you can do is spend too long at a loser company when you are early in your career. And it often is hard to tell when you don’t have a lot of experience. That’s why rules like “don’t spend more than 4 years at a company” and “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” are good general roles even if you like the company/job. Because you might like the other job just as much and make 10x the compensation if the lottery ticket hits. I have many friends that hopped from jobs they liked to Airbnb circa 2017-2019 and… they are all very happy they decided to get another lottery ticket.

When you are later in your career it’s much easier to pick jobs and companies you want to work for because you know what you want and you now what questions to ask before you join.
It's just called webview/webview[0]. The fact is a little obscured now because it's been used from so many other languages, but Go/C/C++ were the original targets.

[0]https://github.com/webview/webview
https://youtube.com/shorts/SpEfWSMRJJ8?feature=share

Apparently it’s a big thing of “no tip, no trip”.
Do they know that? Will Germany magically stop using Russian gas, reinstitute draft and manage to produce more than a dozen tanks a year? All the signals pre-invasion of Ukraine pointed to no. Unlike Ukraine right now Baltics CAN be taken by a surprise air mobile assault, some of those countries have 20%+ of population who subsist on healthy dose of RT and worship Putin the Tsar, they will serve as pawns we see now in Donbass.

Practically how does NATO actually liberate them. Does it have the stomach for the full scale high intensity war as we see in now in the East Ukraine? Not just Putin, I am also not sure of that. Who is going to lead the American armoured division drive to capture Kaliningrad..

Yes detoothing Russia in Ukraine is MUCH safer.
After seeing this on HN at some point, I bought the software for a family member -- as far as I know, they're very happy with it! It's kind of a sore thing to talk about, so I haven't heard it said directly, but last I saw the software was still installed on the machine :)
Help me understand, are you saying this is purely smoke and mirrors or just nothing fundamentally new?

As a semiconductor lay-person, my expectation is that this course would really just be an organized curriculum around semiconductors, and if you completed it you'd be hopefully competitive getting a job at Intel/Qualcom/etc. I am not expecting them to be providing any fundamentally novel approaches to semiconductor theory or design. To me it makes sense that the same type of knowledge may have been at the graduate (or more advanced) level before.

So to my (ignorant, layperson) perspective, I see the value of this making semiconductor study more accessible. It's no longer something you have to do for a (for example) PhD, but rather a structured program that should lead to an increase in semiconductor experts.

Am I off base? When you say you feel like you are "missing what's different here", what would you expect? Is it typical for new academic physics programs to provide truly novel techniques?
Hypersonic weapons have a lot of FUD around them. First off, they aren't some new technology. Most ballistic missiles achieve hypersonic speeds, including the V2 rocket from WW2. What's new are hypersonic glide vehicles that follow a ballistic trajectory up and then are capable of moving and maneuvering down to a target. Notably, this method means that the hypersonic glide vehicle is traveling SLOWER than a ballistic missile traveling to the same target, but the trajectory is depressed and the ability to make some maneuvers complicates targeting and tracking. And that isn't even overly new technology, there have been tests of the hypersonic glide vehicle concept dating back to the 1950s and 1960s. An example of a hypersonic glide vehicle that was actually used was the space shuttle. There's also hypersonic cruise missiles, which are able to achieve hypersonic speeds in level flight.

So what does Russia have? Currently, all they have fielded is the Kinzhal missile. But is it neither a hypersonic glide body nor a hypersonic cruise missile. It is simply an air-launched ballistic missile. It would not be suitable for an anti-ship mission, unless striking a ship docked in port. The impressive and novel thing about it is that they managed to get a ballistic missile to be launched from an aircraft, which is rather tricky to do from an engineering standpoint, and IIRC is the first ALBM to actually be deployed. They also have Avangard in development, which is a hypersonic glide body deployed from ICBMs for the nuclear strike mission. Finally, they have the Zircon missile in development, which is a hypersonic cruise missile meant for the anti-ship mission. Russia claims to have completed testing of the missile, but it doesn't appear to have been deployed yet. It's unclear how effective it would be against a carrier strike group, with air defenses, electronic countermeasures and decoys. Notably, it cruises at a high altitude, unlike most anti-ship missiles which try to skim the surface to make it harder to detect and track on radar.

Ultimately, I don't think that hypersonic weapons fundamentally change the security of the carrier. It may necessitate the development of some anti-missile missiles better tuned for the counter-hypersonic mission. It may necessitate altering doctrine towards the anti-ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) mission to complicate targeting such missiles. I could be wrong of course!
It's probably an element of the Electronic Health Records system they use. EHR systems are massive and complex, and the health care facilities are barely aware of all the functions and features. I'd say this is a failure of oversight on the EHR providers.
Let me leave here sarcastic yet truthful note, directly answering the fist sentence of the title:

Nobody has!

:)
Unfortunately, all of the world's richest people seem pretty set on getting rid of privacy as a concept altogether.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...

>Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.
>build 4 nuclear plants for each one we currently have to achieve a 100% decarbonized grid

Uhh, mining and uranium enrichment and transportation all require fossil fuels, and more fossil fuel energy than a fueled nuclear produces in electrical energy.
Increasing 4x nuclear plants would increase fossil fuel consumption in the nuclear supply chain.

Nuclear isn't some secret technology you've just discovered thats being suppressed by environmentalists. It literally ended the biggest war ever and was pursued for decades afterwards. Unless you know a secret, if its feasible it would have been done.
Yeah, is that a bug? lol
well well, I think you might be on to something. This is going to save me quite a lot of time, not to mention that I might be able to go back to wearing shoes with laces again and not having my productivity totally destroyed.
They were higher due to uncertainty of even higher rate announcements.
What part? I grew up there. Can confirm that as soon as you leave the WASP-y suburbs, dudes in wife beaters and gold crosses on chains really start coming out.
How is it rational to allow untrained people to have weapons around elementary and other school students?
>Adams [the inventor of the bat bomb] stated that the bat was the "lowest form of animal life", and that, until now, "reasons for its creation have remained unexplained". He went on to espouse that bats were created "by God to await this hour to play their part in the scheme of free human existence, and to frustrate any attempt of those who dare desecrate our way of life"
Focusing on training is pointless when the incentives are set up wrong. Hold police officers accountable under the laws they purport to uphold (eg the ones against second degree and third degree murder), and they'll stop immediately reaching for their suspect-stopping remote control. Otherwise training is mainly a lesson in what to say to justify themselves afterwards.
When you are part of a company or some entity, the risk is smaller since the credit goes to your company rather than yourself. When you work for yourself that's not the case.
https://archive.ph/9wQxA
But enough to retire off a decade or two early if you set up somewhere low-tax and cheap-to-live
> ...but if your business need/use case is to port with your existing web app to the desktop with minimal fuss...

I pretty much understand this point and see that Electron help.
I would definitely write desktop-native UI, maybe just because I prefer it.
And in large programs it might be somewhat expensive. But on the other hand, I found writing QT programs to be much easier than messing with web stacks.
100M People in America Are Saddled with Health Care Debt
The Cloud vs. Dedicated Servers
>veterinary surgery is so much cheaper (i.e. affordable to ordinary people) than human surgery....

..."in the USA".
At a guess, I'd say it's the complete opposite in Europe with it's pesky human healthcare systems.
How much influence do investment groups really have on the housing bubble?
Why do they need guns?
I was born on December 9. The doctors wanted to do a C-section for my kid on December 9 but I said to my wife that my kid shouldn't have to share a birthday with me, so they scheduled for December 14 instead. This might have been a better argument than not wanting to share.
Thanks for the warning: otherwise I might have click the URL.
Well that is the big question, is it worth trying to protect from kinetic penetrator or not.
Because they are for-profit businesses and as such have a strong incentive to spend in ads and for these ads to be as effective as possible. FB and Google are just giving them the means to do so; we should be asking why it is that hospitals are allowed to have these strong economic incentives to begin with.
>> I noticed in the Assembly3 section that it uses SolveSpace as its solver. FreeCAD uses OpenCASCADE as its main CAD kernel, and this supports mating and constraints between parts (at least, CadQuery supports it, and it's essentially just wrapping OpenCASCADE) so I'd be interested to know why they chose to bundle and use a different kernel there.

AFAICT OpenCASCADE does not include a geometric constraint solver like the one in SolveSpace. There are companies licensing such things for use in OpenCascade derived products. I think OCCT is used in FreeCAD for reading/writing files, handling all 3D geometry and NURBS operations and rendering. Only the constraint solver from Solvespace is being used in FreeCAD (and only in one workbench), as there isn't an equivalent in OCCT. The Solvespace geometric kernel is not as mature or complete as OCCT, but it is about 100 times smaller.
I frame it as a "carrot" only because I hate using these kiosks and thus would need some incentive. The "stick" side of that metaphor for me is a nagging impression that companies that use them want to foist work on to their customers rather than provide service of any kind.
I think Elon is so focused on technology of going to Mars, he doesn't realize something: you need to get along with the people you might die with. THis doesn't register on someone who has an admitted mental illness that makes it difficult for him to have empathy.

"We care deeply about SpaceX’s mission to make humanity multiplanetary. But more importantly, we care about each other. The collaboration we need to make life multiplanetary is incompatible with a culture that treats employees as consumable resources. Our unique position requires us to consider how our actions today will shape the experiences of individuals beyond our planet. Is the culture we are fostering now the one which we aim to bring to Mars and beyond?"

Also, it's hip, cute, and puerile (and cringe) to use "no asshole" in corporate memos, but that is no substitute for actual policy.
A collapse can mean many things, not just that we will all die. It may just means that 80-90% of the population will have to work in food production.
Why a monolithic back-end makes sense for Mwmbl
I don't see why not. Normal humans make mistakes, can't manually manage memory safely, are bad at building safe buildings without experience and standards and guidelines, and naturally fall into unsafe food preparation habits.

Still, we have set up memory safe practices and languages and standards, building standards and regulations, and food safety regulations that work quite well. Just because humans make mistakes and are fallible doesn't mean that humans are incapable of working to prevent mistakes and the consequences of human fallibility.
Temperature? :)

And math. I was astounded how long it took me to do basic math as I haven't touched any equations or performed any non-trivial calculations for a few years. 8(
>the Zilog Z80, is an early ancestor of x86! The Z80 is an enhanced clone of the Intel 8080, which of course the 8086 was heavily based on

I owned an Z80 based computer when I was 8 to 10 years old. Its instruction set and memory access does not have any
resemblance for me with 8086.

They seem like very distant relatives.
Facebook takes on TikTok – redesigned algorithm
The blame should fall squarely on the company providing the electronic health records system, and any regulatory agencies (like the FDA) that are supposed to be overseeing them. The hospitals buy these systems, which are massive and complex, they don't create them in-house. I would not expect them to have the expertise to do so.
There can also be significant disadvantages to totally disconnecting anything you do online from your professional identity. If the two things really don't have anything to do with each other--say you're a developer and write risque fiction on the side--it may make sense to use a pen name and that's not uncommon.

However, many professionals in the tech space and elsewhere have online work that is intimately connected with their day job--and may even be part of their day job. In that case, anonymity is not really an option.
And Fuchsia has BSD, MIT type licenses, while Helios is GPL3. Thank you, ddevault.
I just loaded their webpage up with Network Inspector and found a Tiktok tracking pixel.

Fucking disgusting.
Celsius Is Running Out of Options to Stay Solvent, Kaiko Says
Recruited to join in the scheme against their employer.
This was pretty helpful in understanding the landscape, so thank you.
Everything is awesome until it ain’t. It’s structured into your insurance.

The risks vary. If you replace an old electrical socket, the risk is pretty low. But when someone gets electrocuted due to some dumb-dumb improperly running electricity to the pool, it’s probably not gonna be your house anymore.
The big savings on graviton come from no hyperthreading. A VCPU on x86 is a hypercore, but a VCPU on graviton is a full core. So you get a full core and its L1 and L2 all to yourself. Usually for cheaper than an x86 VCPU.
> Sounds like your neighbor did have a legal place to dump refuse

Well, no. After he stopped using our residential bins, he started dumping in city trash cans, was fined, and then ultimately paid for use of a dumpster.

> so adding that rule wouldn't have helped

He wasn't aware that either of his illegal dumping methods were illegal, and changed his behavior when he was informed (in the second case by a fine). So a form probably would have, in fact, prevented the situation from happening.

> and then everyone in Boston would have a 93rd step in the process.

I probably spent 40 hours on this issue. Much of that time highly unpleasant (cleaning out rodent traps, taking out cheap trash bags that would break and make a mess, spraying down gross trash bins and the back sidewalk, etc)

A one page online form that takes 5 minutes to fill out, for every food truck in the city, consumes perhaps 20 hours of time on the high end. So this one event I experienced already pays a net 20 hour profit to society.

I'm not the only one who has had issues with food truck trash disposal -- it's actually a fairly common issue for cities and one of the primary sources of complaints my city received about food trucks. A quick google search shows that other cities have similar issues and some even ban food trucks because of trash issues.

I'm sorry about your building code issues, that sounds very annoying and unfair, but only Ayn Rand could complain about filling out forms when a business is literally trashing someone's home ;-)
As a child you were familiar with the internal company culture of multiple corporations?
Ex C64-games coder here! — If your sprite multiplexer was taking most of CPU during the screen draw time, then honestly it was not a particularly great multiplexer! ;)

Most decent multiplexers took just a scanline or two/three, multiple times down the screen (i.e. whenever relocating any already drawn sprites) — often with decent sized gaps (time when the CPU wasn't involved in manipulating sprites and could do other things), with a larger chunk during the offscreen period / at the bottom of the screen, when one was preping the data (mostly sorting the sprite's y-coords) for the next frame's screen draw.

— During debugging/etc, we'd often enable colour changes to the screen border, at the beginning and end of the multiplexer code (for both the interrupt stuff in the playfield, and the non-playfield section), so we could visually see how it was working/performing.