skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of an real-time strategy (RTS) game, like Starcraft:

1. base: how many Marines you have

2. dx: how many Marine-producers you have = X Marines / sec

3. d2x: how many Marine-producer-producers you have, your harvesting units = (X Marines / sec) / sec

4. d3x: how many harvester-producers you have, your bases

5. d4x: how many base-producers you have

Idle games also fall in this category: first you chop wood with a crap axe, then you use wood to upgrade to a better axe, eventually you assemble an axe factory.

Inverted pendulums use such advanced math as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pendulum
their goal isn't voter reform, so why should they do that?
Seems just as finicky as cell tower extenders. I recently installed a Waveform log periodic MIMO antenna and the amount of testing and crawling around on my roof to get the best signal was pretty crazy. We are talking <1 degree angle affecting 10+ MbPS level of performance.
I have no real reason to believe Firefox telemetry is used nefariously.

But I also don't believe that personal data Google collect will be used nefariously. I have yet to find a story that proves Google untrustworthy of my data. I consider personalized ads an annoyance (and I block them), but not a significant threat to my privacy, after all, they are shown to no one but me.

Same thing for Windows 10 telemetry.

As you can see, I am rather trusting of big tech, but because I am trusting, I am not going to choose Firefox for privacy reasons. I actually use half Firefox, half Chrome, but privacy has nothing to do with it.

Now, if I was less trusting, enough not to want to share my data with Google and Microsoft, then why would I trust Firefox? I wouldn't want any data to leave my computer unless I explicitly allowed it. Firefox has questionable management and has Google as its biggest partner, enough for the paranoid me to raise concerns. And one thing for sure, with telemetry, if I really had "something to hide" (ex: criminal activity), I wouldn't use Firefox as is.
Yes, your component is compromised (sic)
Well, the article was making the case that Windows 95 was some singularly unique UI, and the comment was suggesting that it really wasn't. Among Mac users at the time this wasn't exactly an uncommon belief; the joke "Windows 95 = Mac 89" was pretty prevalent, even making it to bumper stickers, IIRC. (Although former Apple engineer Erich Ringewald later observed, that while was largely true, the real problem was that Mac 95 = Mac 89 was also true.)
Haha, I actually think about this a lot.

There are mechanical g-force meters you use when driving. The position of the needle is the acceleration (2nd derivative of position). The velocity of the needle would be the 3rd derivative. The acceleration of the needle would be the 4th.
What I don't understand is how you seem to be equating graffiti with gang violence. Removing a tag won't stop any violence because painting a symbol is not violence, even if it is tangentially related. That almost sounds like treating a symptom and pretending the problem goes away.

If you really want to stop gang violence, people in poverty need opportunity and investment. Preventing gang members from painting things does nothing to solve the problem of violence, that's an absurd conclusion.
You can have Snap, Flatpaks and native packaging running side by side so... and Ubuntu has a unified interface for all of them (the "Software" application). So yeah, another non-problem for the end user.

The end user doesn't have to know what X11 and Wayland are. You don't need to know this to use most software. Just use what your distro provides.

Most of the complexity you mention is hidden from the end user.
> But programmers, as a species, have gotten acculturated to salt mines as a natural habitat. They will think nothing of it.

Hilarious and I wholeheartedly agree with the elitist sentiment.

Every programmer should treat themselves to some dabbling with a Racket #lang at some point, if only for the great documentation. It’s a beautiful lisp dialect with quite a few weird twists. Wholesome and chock-full of human ingenuity.

I would add that there probably is an economic aspect to it as well here.

Programmers do generally love to solve problems - doesn’t matter if they are the actual root cause of much incidental complexity themselves - and they also love to get paid well for it.

React based SPAs, distributed systems with Kubernetes, etc all treasure troves of endless solutions to endless problems which need lots of highly skilled peole.

If you think about it from a worker’s perspective there is actually not much wrong with that.

Indeed, inferior is better for many.
>> If Facebook wanted to replace the iPhone with some "metaverse" device they would need to be able to build a device way more advanced than their current offerings at a price point equal to or less than the iPhone.

Once upon a time Apple was a much smaller company. They strategized to one day have something they called a "dynabook". Their first attempt, the Newton was not good at all and much too expensive.
> Materialism cannot be true, despite it's seeming simplicity

[citation needed]

The mind is not a physical thing, that's correct, but we need not claim the existence of anything non-material to explain the mind. The mind - or more specifically consciousness is made of information, which is 100% encoded in matter, hence materialism. (See Joscha Bach's detailed description of this.)

> But that 'pointing' isn't the actual system, it's an abstract thing that helps our minds understand the underlying system it's running on.

Yep, and that's platonism in a nutshell, but that doesn't contradict materialism either.

Entities are encoded in our brains.
They are necessary to prevent the massive weight of the roof from pushing the walls. The benefit of having flying buttresses as opposed to traditional buttresses is that it lets much more light go through the windows. So you can have a higher and larger nave, with larger windows that receive more light.

The key to understanding this architectural choice is that cathedrals are meant to be seen from the inside and from the front, mostly.
If there's a canonical url in the metadata HN will automatically use it. It does seem to be a Daily Beast article so I assume it's in there somewhere.

Better UX would be to have an interstitial page giving the submitter the option to use it or not, because canonical urls, like all metadata, are often abused for SEO.
24% every two weeks would be 59.6% inflation per month, but I don't think we're there yet; I think it's been about 35% so far over the last month. But I don't see why you'd say it's "far away from hyperinflation". We might go over the hyperinflation line next month.

The INDEC inflation figures are, yes, 100% fake, and the controversy didn't end in 02015 (my guess is that somebody wrote that paragraph of that article in 02015). In 02001 AR$1 was worth US$1 (US$1.67 in 02022, deflating according to US BLS CPI figures according to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/) and today it's AR$321 per US$1 according to https://preciodolarblue.com.ar/, thus AR$536 today is worth AR$1 in 02001. That's an average of 34.9% inflation per year. Some years it's been higher than that — 02001 is when the government dropped the dollar peg that had been strangling our economy but holding back inflation, at which point the peso immediately lost about 75% of its value before bouncing back — but the INDEC figures don't come anywhere close to the truth. A friend of mine was one of the numerous people who resigned from INDEC over this.
I find Firefox Suggest pretty good.

But if you want to turn it off you can here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-suggest
For a second I thought you are referring to kids(first derivative) and grand kids(second derivative) haha
I would go further than that and say the worst of FAANG still beats not just "bottom tier companies", but many decent but mediocre companies where tech is treated as an unrespected cost center.

As the post I replied to above said, it's not just the pay, but also the intangibles like the prestige that will let you more easily pivot into other companies and potential lifelong networks of similar colleagues.

It depends on your priorities. Are you willing to make some sacrifices to get what is likely to be a golden ticket to catapult your future career?

If you're even considering FAANG, then you've already probably decided to make some sacrifices to go through the stupid leetcode grind.
Of course not and op's reply was not, on its own, a very convincing rebuttal to the article. My only point is that the objectivity of the authors (really, any author on this subject at this point) should be assumed to be cloudy until proven otherwise. There's very few people on either side arguing in good faith about the source of COVID at this point.

My personal view is that it's impossible to know: the CCP has done everything possible to look guilty of hiding something, but unless there's some breakthrough where a source animal is found or someone in the CCP security apparatus makes a deathbed confession, I consider this an unresolvable discussion. That being said, I'm still 100% behind the shaming of people like Peter Daszak who have been shown to have acted in bad faith to cover their own asses.
> There is also strange code like this loop https://github.com/hashlookup/fleur/blob/4ee2644a850381d928a... that jumped into my eye.

The line below that is worse:

strncpy(bloom_path , argv[optind], 128);

If you pass something >= 128 chars then bloom_path won't be null terminated. In general strncpy should never be used for copying strings.

For expansion on that: https://ramblings.implicit.net/c/2014/05/02/c-functions-that...
There are so many "evergreen" articles in the world which do not even include a post date that it's hard to be annoyed about this.
We're at a cusp in technology where "reverse rendering" is rapidly progressing from a research curiosity to a mainstream product. As soon as high-quality model generation becomes possible on a typical workstation, there will be a dramatic shift in how computer game art assets are produced. Many artists will be replaced by this mechanical, automated method of 3D model production.

No longer will you need a team of 100 artists for every 2-3 developers to manually model and texture objects, instead you'll have 10-20 photographers running around taking pictures of real-life objects and scenes. These will then be reverse-rendered into models, which can then be directly placed into the game world by just a handful of map designer artists.

You can see this in Unreal Engine 5, where they combined their "infinite detail" polygon engine Nanite with their acquisition of Quixel's Megascans library of models captured via photogrammetry.

However, photogrammetry is not the same as reverse rendering: it's only really suitable for diffuse objects captured in good conditions (foggy or overcast days). It can't handle transparency, reflections, or complex/dynamic self-shadowing. Currently it's mainly used for backdrops like rocks, logs, and road surfaces.

Reverse rendering can in principle capture anything a renderer can do, including specular materials. It can "undo" self-shadowing and produce objects that can be re-lit in different scenes.

For gamers, these are going to be exciting times!

For graphic artists... perhaps also exciting, but not necessarily in a good way.
To what end and through what means, though? Do you really think Mozilla would never do anything nefarious with the data that they collect? They would never, ever, swear on their mother's grave, sell that data to a third party, is that what you believe?
My hypothetical is that if your mail is in the footage Google turns over to the police sans warrant, they can use it as evidence against you. That’s not “going through someone else’s mail”.

All I’ll say is that I’d prefer to stop the thing that will very clearly harm someone before that actually happens, not pretend we haven’t seen a million times before what happens when you give police more power.
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That’s probably more about who you spend time with, as a very strong majority of Europeans surveyed view the US as an ally and have an overall positive view: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/06/22/international-...
About 30% of the stores in "arbolito" areas are willing to buy dollars at the black-market rate, and maybe 0.1% of them will report you to the police for asking.
Is it? I'm, 60 years old. I went to a low cost college and worked full time while I was earning my degree. Why should I pay taxes to subsidize people who spend beyond their means? I should be rewarded for being a frugal saver, not punished.
A tarball of tarballs, layered using barely documented rules (e.g. you can add a directory, remove it on upper layer, and re-add something else on top).

Constructing them is easier than unpacking. :)
I don't have a sales strategy, I'm not selling anything. I'm questioning the need of buying needless storage for data hoarding you're never going to use.

Have you seen Jeff's videos? They're mostly him talking to the camera in what I think is his basement, or closeups of various PCBs. If you're running a stock photo company I get wanting to keep footage at max quality, but once your Youtube video is published, do you really need to save all those alternate takes and cut out bits? I just don't see them being very useful in the future, and if you do end up needing some of it for B roll or whatever, would a couple of seconds of compressed video really make a drastic difference for the project as a whole? Especially since the final result ends up on Youtube and consumed on a phone screen or a TV two meters away.

Much of the content that's produced today is not trying to be timeless classics with endless rewatch value, it's ephemeral and only really relevant for a short time. If you can reupload your videos to other video hosts in the future that's probably good enough. Nobody is watching reviews of three year old Raspberry Pi add on boards for the low noise in dark parts of the image, or the accurate color reproduction, or even the 4K instead of 1080p resolution. Kill your darlings!
Soon an add-on device for Alexa, Siri, Google home.

Actually I might buy one myself.
There is no way the computer-generated answers were produced by a mere "language model." One of the fake answers referred to a specific book written by Dennett which was on the topic of that question. So, in addition to a "language model" there are specific facts about Dennett and his work that the system must have had access to.

I can simulate Dennett myself by rephrasing passages from his books. It seems that's what this algorithm was really doing.

For complex subjects like this, the inherent stupidity of the AI is easy to cover up in the space of just a couple of paragraphs, yet must be evident in longer pieces, because the system doesn't connect concepts in a persistent way.
FB ads are higher value, less obtrusive, and despite it's reputation in tech circles, FB has a better reputation with genpop than Google does.
Reliable storage requires surplus production, and that leads to a significant cost increase that is likely to be non-linear.
>How do you enforce that?

You'd barely need to. Stores aren't going to accept crypto if it's illegal, Visa's not going to keep issuing their crypto cards, Robinhood isn't going to let people buy and sell. All the means by which the vast majority of people who have or use btc use it would go away.

> It seems like it would be pretty simple to set up an exchange as an onion service.

Pick ten people off the street. How many do you think know what that means? If you guessed more than 0, you're living in a bubble.
0th derivative = position

1st derivative = velocity

2nd derivative = acceleration

3rd derivative = jerk

4th derivative = snap

5th derivative = crackle

6th derivative = pop

I just learned the last 3 due to this discussion and Wikipedia[1][2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_deriv...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap,_Crackle_and_Pop
Yes they were... Apple Menu = Start Menu, Hard Disk Icon = My Computer, etc. You can't just not do the translations. Everything Microsoft did was stolen from other places, including Macs.
I can't imagine managing lots of such systems, but a handful sounds doable, which is all you need sometimes.

I'm currently speccing out a system for an internal application that processes huge amounts of data. So far the plan is to just use standard Postgres on Debian on a huge "pet" server with hundreds of GBs of RAM and redundant 4TB NVME drives and call it a day. It's sized for peak load so no need for any kind of scaling beyond that, and it's a single machine using well-tested software (and default configs whenever possible) so maintenance should be minimal (it'll also be isolated onto its own network and only ever accessed by trusted users so the need for timely updates is minimal too).
What is the likely outcome of this? Can ShotSpotter be compelled to disclose?
> writing your own date picker

That's a good one. The next time I run into my competitors at a trade show, I'll be sure to recommend they do this.
That doesn't even come close to addressing the point I was trying to make.

All of these anti privacy features, default enabled as they are, tells me something about Mozilla. Something you might not even want to think about.

If you're fine with sending to Mozilla everything you type into the address bar, then you probably don't care that much at all about privacy, which would be a shame, because privacy, online and offline, is nothing more and nothing less than a god damn human right.

>> but you can turn it off, doh

99% won't, because they don't know what's the point. Perhaps they're right.
"en_US.UTF-8" is a locale. The "UTF-8" part is the encoding of that locale. Codec would be whatever piece of code parses the encoding.
> 1) Founder still has majority voting shares

I work at a startup that recently IPO'd and one thing that surprises me is the number of people who have gone through several rounds of promotion that have never worked at another organization. You can easily tell who is who by the level of maturity they have in their decision making. Even senior directors that have never work some place else have a very visible lack of understanding that "things are different elsewhere".

I realized the other day that Zuckerberg is one of these employees. He has never worked someplace else, has no idea what other ways of doing things exist, and has only ever known one way of doing things.

Having someone like this have majority voting shares tells me that a essentially a kid is still running the show. Zuckerberg got incredibly lucky in his first job as founder, but has never developed the skills to pivot an existing company into a new space. In every role I've interacted with from software engineer, PM to designer having only experience at one company is a huge negative in solving new problems, I don't know why anyone would think that somehow a CEO would be exempt from this problem.
On the contrary. An experienced architect defines the boundaries and then the microservice architecture enforced them in a way that a monolithic architecture cannot.
The opposing candidate has a public domain photo published by the US government, her employer. The challenger does not, and does not have a Press Kit on his campaign page, despite having already run a full campaign 2 years ago.
KDE 2 was such an incredible experience when it came out. I understand the GPL purism in GNU/Linux that hobbled Qt and by extension KDE, but I always felt that KDE from 2 onwards was by far the superior desktop environment. Ultimately despite Qt and KDE adopting GPL they never seemed to catch up in terms of corporate sponsorship or distro adoption.

I thought it was a sort of bitter irony that Apple basically co-opted Konqueror into their core web platform... Shows the quality of engineering the KDE folks had.
I use XFCE these days. It's close enough to what GNOME 2 was.
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Ask HN: Solving an algorithm interview without explicitly coding the solution?
Algorithm interviews often involve rote memorization of said problem or of a similar one. Alternatively, if you have never seen the problem you could identify some truths and cases about it, which could eventually lead to the solution. Often times you’re allotted only ~1hr, making it difficult to work through AND then code it. Has this ever been enough for anyone to pass an interview challenge?
FB/META is still one of the leading organizations when it comes to AI/ML research. They are also sitting on incredible infrastructure that they can open up, just as Amazon did with AWS. I really hope Zuckerberg hires someone to tackle more realistic growth opportunities while he plays around with VRs. I think META should roll out cloud, ecommerce, and payment products.
If the author's editing rig doesn't have a 10G port, what is the point of spending money in $ per TB for the SSD on the other end of a network connection, because something like a 6 drive raid of spinning disks can very easily saturate approx. 100MBps on a 1000baseT link.
> I can say I was alive back then

But that's an inference, not a direct observation. It's possible you turned into a philosophical zombie temporarily without realizing it. How would you know?

> I personally think your brain needs to exist and be functioning in its normal state

Sure, but that still leaves open the possibility that the brain is just a transceiver and the actual locus of your self is somewhere else. That hypothesis is consistent with all observations.

> It feels like it's projected from where your brain physically exists.

Are you sure? Or is this just a reflection of your prejudices? How could you tell?
> GNOME 2 was perfect

I'm one of those rare people that like Gnome 3 way better than Gnome 2 or any other "windows 95" or "traditional-style" desktop. Other than command-line apps, I run like 5 main pieces of software regularly (IDE, browser, etc.) and probably 20 pieces of gui software total over the lifetime of my PC. I want something that:

1. Makes it easy to launch my main 5 apps (under 1 second)

2. Makes it fairly easy to run the 15 apps I run less often (couple secs max)

3. Looks pretty out of the box w/o customization so I can just get stuff done

The only environments I've used that tick all my boxes (subjectively of course) are Gnome 3 and macOS.

I think Gnome 3 especially does this extremely well. I flick to my upper right hot corner to expose my dock with my 5 apps - instant launch. If I want one of the other 15 I'm happy to type it in the resulting app search box. Done. I never understood why I would want to click and navigate for like 10 seconds (much less have to remember WHERE it is and WHY it is under a certain 'category') to launch one program from a Windows 95 style start menu. To each their own I guess.

EDIT: I should add a #4: Minimal customization. Gone are my days tweaking me DE exactly how I want it. While I do _some_ customization - it is very little (1 or 2 extensions)
This is something I've thought of before.

I've done work for clients on 'celebrity' news sites and the amount of celebrity trivia I absorbed without conscious effort was terrifying. I knew who was who, who was banging who, what they'd done etc. And I really couldn't care less about any of them.

There should be sites that make it that easy to absorb math, science and technology and actual worthwhile subjects, but I think they would take a lot more effort, it'd be something worth paying for though.
What makes this illegal exactly?
Say I stop using Google Analytics and just collect user data and store it in a DB on AWS. Would that be compliant?
This is not said enough, but mindfulness practice is also not for everyone. If you're feeling a lot of negative emotions do not persist and persevere past it