skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullets in flight have a few dynamical modes where they have a sort of wobble around the direction of travel. They all, when given enough distance, end up tumbling end over end which absolutely ruins accuracy though getting hit with a tumbling bullet is quite destructive for soft targets.

I can totally see trying for a record being helped with a low aspect ratio bullet (er, short and stubby) though this is probably not what you’d actually do if you were doing anything but trying for records.

Fun fact: if you don’t correct for the fact that the earth is spinning which requires knowing your latitude and compass direction, your targeting will be off by an amount measured in feet at this range.

I spent a while developing external ballistics models for a similar use case years ago.

The standard tome of knowledge is McCoy - Modern Exterior Ballistics https://a.co/d/8B6w0qL
You mean the soul of the plane? The grand spirit of buoyancy?
GeForce GPUs are slowing down after installing the Windows 11 2022 Update
> You can start with the deafening silence regarding the treatment the people who have been locked up for the last 2 years for being accused of trespassing in the Capitol on Jan 6th.

You mean this silence?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aclu-capitol-rioters...

From what I've seen their treatment hasn't been much different from what other prisoners experience. Sadly, a certain segment of the population believes that it's preferable for prisons to be inhumane and they've been fighting against efforts to reform the prison system my whole life.

Additional context:

https://apnews.com/article/records-rebut-claims-jan-6-rioter...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/why-investigatin...

> You could look at the (mostly minority) young men who are being railroaded and destroyed by Kafkaesque Title IX rules at colleges.

I agree that Title IX rules are a terrible problem, and that this is an area where I personally disagree with the ALCU's stance, but they haven't been ignored by civil rights groups either.

https://www.thefire.org/proposed-title-ix-regulations-would-...

> You think the ACLU of today would take the same, principled stand on a KKK march in Skokie, like they did in 1978?

I agree that the organization has changed and I personally feel that they are not as reputable as they once were, but then again, the ACLU is not the only civil rights group in the country. It's not really a problem that different groups have different focuses. Nobody complains when the NRA doesn't oppose forced labor in prisons.

Some of what you'd call "social justice" is civil rights activism. They aren't unrelated things that have to be shoehorned together. There's a lot of overlap between them. it's not an either or problem although it does sometimes provoke some interesting conflicts. The rights of minority men vs the rights of privileged women in title ix kangaroo courts for example. The winner of the Oppression Olympics in a particular case might be judged differently by different civil rights groups but I've never seen a situation where there weren't people fighting the injustices found on both sides. That's the thing to keep in mind really. People who support civil rights are all fighting for the same thing in the end, even when we're coming at the problem from different sides.
Pound tumbles below $1.09 after Kwarteng’s £45B tax cut package
Cult of the Dead Cow - BO… this got me into programming because it was like magic and I wanted to learn how it worked.
one half inch is 50 cal or 12.7 mm.

[25.4 mm == 1 inch]

there was an issue with the desert eagle as a 50 cal weapon, at time considered a DD, so there was a revision for civilian carry that was, 49.5 cal with a tapered chamber. if bored out to a true 50 cal, it would constitute production of a DD

i think i was looking at the 20mm cannon as well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957960

but posted over here.
For context, these articles form a good background of the ongoing war between Microsoft and Mozilla on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28510490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29579994

They'll always use "security" as an excuse to force you into doing what they want, and this is just another instance of that tactic. Don't be fooled into giving up your freedom. I wish more people would be aware of that.
39-year-old Radio Shack laptop gets new CPU, keeps original screen
The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (and Bad for Business)
> Phones are rarely plugged in unless the battery is dead.

???

Most people I can think of charge there phone as part of their nightly routine.
Do you really trust the government to have a nuanced definition of hacking?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/missouri-gov-cal...

Yes, this is a state government and not federal. I’m sure you can find equally outlandish examples of federal cases.
I did a ELI5 writeup on this. Hope someone finds it useful:
https://tongwing.woon.sg/blog/image-which-displays-its-own-m...
It looks like the AVL tree implementations do the lazy coding way of updating balance factors and recursively descend to recompute the heights of the left and right nodes constantly. The balance factor can be updated directly from the kind of rebalancing rotation being used. I would not call that properly implemented since it is wasting a lot of cycles on that.
So the same taxes etc as permanent staff, but with none of the benefits or security?
It depends on your definition of "slow" and your use case. If you were on a road trip and had to stop for an hour per 30 miles at a charging station, it'd probably seem really slow. If you're plugging in after you get home from a short commute (the most common use case), then it's perfectly fine.
The question is similar to why we vote. Individually, my vote is meaningless. Collectively, our votes move the needle.

Things rarely turn out exactly the way any individual wants, but that's the nature of any collective action -- taxes, voting, picking a restaurant to eat at, etc.
zero-copy snapshots, end-to-end validation of writes and checksummable data integrity, built-in logical/physical device management, and a very intelligent caching layer that uses spare RAM to handle MRU/MFU for both filesystem metadata and the data itself.

Along with a track record of being generally reliable and stable, under intense commercial workloads.
Hawaiian islands have struggled with this for a decade. Rich people put up solar cells with usage offsets and get grid scale reliability on the backs of those who can't put up solar cells due to being poor or living in an apartment.
Structured barrels are a relatively recent development and interesting in and of themselves. One of the main objectives is to eliminate barrel harmonics that distort accuracy. The article didn't provide much info on the structured barrel used to break the record, so here's some from the only company I'm aware of that specializes in making them:

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2019/07/30/tacomhq-struc...

https://tacomhq.com/structured-barrels/

The Engineering Behind a TACOMHQ Structured Barrel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7LKQYtU48
Since 9/11 and armored & locked cockpit doors, surely planes would be able to withstand pandemonium in the cabin and still land safely?

Also, in the video linked in the blog post there doesn't seem to be much panic visible at all. I bet most people are laughing their asses off once the initial confusion is over.
The target moves at different speed because earth's rotation varies with longitude (highest at equator, 0 at poles).
That's my understanding atleast!
How much performance gets left on the table as you disable ever more optimisations though?

The justification for monstrously unsafe languages like C was that they're faster. If after removing optimisations which are too tricky to write for they're no longer faster then the languages don't pay their way any more and there's no reason to use them.

I was expecting it would be easy to find benchmarks trying the same C or C++ code with GCC, Clang and MSVC and giving performance numbers, but I didn't find that. Maybe it exists and I can be directed to it ?
I think slightly less non-deterministic than that, because there's at least some way you could know, if you were god.
The U.S. has apparently sent M982 Excalibur shells to Ukraine, according to leaked budget documents: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-08/most-accu...

AFAIU, Russia doesn't have any munitions comparable to these guided artillery shells or even the guided HIMARS rockets. Arguably these deployments in Ukraine may inch Russia a little closer to resorting to tactical nukes. Their military doctrine relies on tactical nukes as an answer to conventional weapons beyond their own capability, and that's part of the reason Russia has so many tactical nukes deployed (at least at sea).
The Upside-Down Org Chart (2020)
Ah so this captures his thinking about kinematic self reproduction, before Stan Ulam came up with the suggestion of abstracting it to what became cellular automata.

Then they were able to show a construction that was self replicating with great generality because it worked using a sort of Turing machine tape to guide its operations.
Anywhere in non-enterprise web development in the heyday of Ruby/ python / php.

Static typing fell out of favor hard among certain crowds. Typescript brought many of them back to the world of static typing, and all three of the aforementioned languages are getting more static support, so it isn't nearly so prevalent as say 10 or 15 years ago.
For those curious, the specific scope is this one:
https://vortexoptics.com/razor-hd-gen-iii-6-36x56.html
the tonal inflections are very human, and in the recording it felt the voice changed a bit after the flight attendant made an announcement, so it's probably live (not necessarily making the sound, but using a soundboard).
you dont have to pay 1600 usd for a gpu on PC to enjoy Switch like indie games. even integrated graphics will let you enjoy thousands of non AAA games these days. what is your point?

Btw Factorio runs on any kind of PC well before it was on the Switch.
This isn't about fixing anyone's code, it's about securing the software stack that the government is running. They already have well developed processes for addressing closed source software.
Why aren’t there logfiles in the system of every access and state change?
I found it useful. Thank you so much.
The bullets in this case were .416 422gn cutting edge mtac bullets- this one, specifically.
https://cuttingedgebullets.com/416-422gr-mtac-match-tactical

Taken from their press release here:
https://nomadrifleman.com/world-record-shot/
Software development is not engineering, it is artisinal. We need to stop kidding ourselves, 90% of the process is creative.
No worries, good decision :)
My best guess its an unfunny "Easter Egg" that triggers after something like 5,000 hours of uptime. I think I remember some bug in Boeing or some other system that they need to actually be rebooted every 100 days.
Right. My comment didn’t assume a specific interface method (user accessible port / medical jack vs. something else) but rather a method to play the audio without having to be on the plane (which would certainly be my preference were I the prankster.) If it was actually done using a user accessible port intended for access to the PA, I would agree with you, it wouldn’t fall under CFAA/hacking type laws. Still could be problematic legally though.

Microcontrollers are small enough now that there could be lots of interesting ways to interface.

EDIT: Also, based on the OP, the PA gets power cycled repeatedly on at least one flight where this is happening. That’s much more intrusive.

Or again… horny ghost
For sure, but we’re talking in the context of a home charger here.
Bleh. I'll use up a spare account.

hunter-gatherer sounds about right on the money.

I've previously held a TS SCI clearance within an organization. I wasn't an S-2 guy, but worked with them and troubleshot stuff in the SCIF from time-to-time. I did some auditing in well-known buildings, blah blah blah.

Basically, the more secretive things get, the more bureaucratic and tedious they get. The more impossibly hard it is to do literally anything without at least 5 or 6 meetings to discuss the poteintal outcomes and risks therein. I suppose when you get to the kinds of things POTUS wants done right now, it could get weird? I don't know, never been in that position. But the amount of oversight and auditing that gets done by people that refuse to do anything that could risk their retirement? It is excessive. At more than a few points I found myself "preparing for the pre-inspection, inspection." That inspection, which would happen however often, was essentially always happening. You were either "learning from the last one" or you were "cleaning up for the next one". Just absolutely soul crushing.

I should also mention, even though some of the words I used above might sound interesting, it really comes down to carpeting. Carpeting sucks everywhere in the government. They can spend tons of cash on stupid meeting room tables for conference calls or whatever, but the thing you walk and stand on is just absolutely awful. Except in an executive officers office. The office that goes completely unused because they're out doing...whatever it is they do. Golf? Lunch? Who knows. Once you notice the little things like that, or light fixtures just looking like trash, you realize that all of the magical ideas people have about the big scary government is just kind of...quaint. Like things can be important or sensitive or whatever, but it's just not the way people imagine it being. It's too bogged down in the mud to be what people think it is.

Getting basic things like light fixtures changed out becomes a major hassle because, if it requires a dude on a ladder, now that dude on a ladder also has to have a clearance, and the room has to be sanitized. Don't forget to turn on the red light, so no one forgets that there is a guy up on that ladder! Getting one bulb changed can interrupt your work for at least an hour or two. It's insane.

Like, we had one cleaning lady. For a building of...a lot of people. Everyone loved her and treated her great. Do you know why that was? (Well, she was totally awesome and nice. But besides that.) It was because if she quit, there would be no one to replace her. That would mean every desk jockey in the building would be lugging their trash to the locked dumpster halfway across the parking lot in the hot sun. Then have to go through all of the fun stuff that goes with getting through the front door. They treated her like royalty!

Right before I left, they did actually get some young guy in there. If I had to guess, they went with him because they were hoping he would stick around for at least two to three decades.
Pastor said that with the sharp rise in liberols taking the flu shot this year there is bound to be a rise in spooks and frights.
I hate this argument - who ((uses) -L this) in practice?) aka, nobody working a job does this.
Speaking of marketing, he probably could've plugged his product at some point in that article and leveraged the inbound traffic
Have you seen Whisper by OpenAI that was discussed recently [0]? The quality is extremely good for transcription and even translation, wondering if your team could use it as it's also open source.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32927360
If you like cutting code, figure out how to keep doing so. If you prefer organizing and directing work, figure out how to do that. There's positives and negatives for either choice - while I liked knowing everything about a project/product when I was it's product manager, I (greatly) preferred creating tools and applications. Left the talking to others, gave up the grip on the flow of information and went back to the bench.

Can't say that everybody gets the chance to try both sides of the coin, but it worked for me. While I think I did a good job "in charge", it wasn't ultimately satisfactory. Creating > arranging creation.

And if you end up managing others, remember your role is to make them productive and happy. Protect their time.

YMMV.
China's Nio takes on BMW, Mercedes in home market with flexible battery plan
I really expected it to be more expensive.
For example, if the engine is switched out (or made an option) so that Firefox 150 uses WebKit or Blink instead.

Many Firefox users would not notice the difference, as long as the things they care about keep working.
Oh, that sounds really dangerous to forget / happen
> I know you can duplicate a layer - but not to a different document.

Sure you can, at least as far back as CS6. In the Duplicate Layer dialog, there's a Destination group that includes a Document dropdown. You can select any open file or create a new one to serve as the target.
Autism is one of those diseases which is probably several. A cluster of symptoms which is caused by a small collection of differently or diminished functions in a set of brain systems and that altered function would be further caused by a few separate things, genetic, development environment, autoimmune, and or infection.

Sort of three layers of how it presents, the brain differences that directly cause the presentation, and the underlying mechanistic causes of those differences.
God I hate grain, I actively try to remove it from video games (through their settings on PC) and films (via AI).
> As of now there exists no way to get a great coffee without having somebody with taste and knowledge to actually check the coffee, diagnose the problem and then fix it.

This resonates with me. I have a home machine. Sometimes it produces coffee perfection, most times not.

There aren't really a lot of variables: the bean and its age, the grind size and the grind time. So it sounds simple.

But the bean and it's age change continuously, which means you have to change the grind size and time to compensate. Probably daily. The grind size and time effect each in a highly non-linear way. I do it more by trial and error, which takes time and a lot of wasted shots. It is a lot of effort - so I don't do it as often as I should. Which is how we get to "Sometimes it produces coffee perfection, most times not".

Was the barista course useful?
For later entries, you probably want to make your own URLs, because the links in the pages are messed up.

Or, just start here: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/financing-offshore-wind-...
Personally, having just suffered the issue of uint64_t (unsigned long vs unsigned long long...): I prefer having "bit size" + "semantics" in the type, and that's it. If the hardware doesn't support it, fail horrendously or use an approximation/slower path, as specified by compiler options.

In my opinion, developers should think about semantics first, optimization (device-specific or software) after (, unless you already know your device).

I slightly disagree with JVM "int = 32bit" but they essentially are forcing their own "virtual hardware", so I can understand that. For portable native code... I can only say that I'm disappointed in uint64_t. But also that, maybe, the current Rust isn't the end-all be-all of portable types.
Gamestorming is a set of co-creation tools used by innovators around the world
Sounds human to me too but I wonder if we've been primed by the headline to recognize it as such. If it had just been posted as "Mystery sound on American Airlines flights", maybe we would have interpreted it differently. This has worked on me before for backmasking and was quite remarkable how different what I heard between when I was primed and when I listened to the track a week later without priming.
In today’s age of firearms it’s easy to not realize just how effective medieval armor was against the weapons of the time. An armored knight was basically a terminator tier threat to lightly armed footmen until the longbow and later weapon advances.
I've set my default browser on Android to Firefox Focus, and found that many "in-app" sessions appear to be running an in-app variant of Firefox Focus.

It's not quite the same as running actual Firefox Focus, but there's a drop-down menu option to let you switch to launching the in-app page in proper Firefox Focus. That's almost instant and appears to preserve the page state. So between that and the way cookies always seem to be reset in in-app sessions, which is great, that's why I think the in-app sessions are using Firefox Focus.
I try not to handle my root account credentials. Everything on the list that requires root account access is pretty scary:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/root-vs-iam.ht...

At one place, they gave them to outside counsel, and at another place they're in a safe that only the trusted company ops person has access to, and she isn't remote.

Generally, you should be breaking your footprint into different AWS accounts under an org with SCPs if you really need root account access for something, not sharing the credentials for the main account.
I don’t see how this helps. If the law applies to Indian customers then the Indian government would just claim that they need to keep logs of customers connecting FROM India, rather than TO it. If the law is written the other way around then they could alternatively route all traffic to India with 2 hops via one of their servers in another country so that all traffic connecting TO India originates from themselves.
From what I understand of the Schrems court rulings I think you're right, but the whole EU establishment is continuing to try to ignore the ECJ on this because cutting out US vendors is more disruptive than they want to deal with. From a realpolitik perspective, it's only as illegal as the fines and binding court orders (after exhaustion of appeal rights) will make it.

I also wonder what the Schrems court rulings mean about US citizens working in the EU for EU companies, since the US might feel free to give purportedly binding surveillance orders to such citizens; or for EU residents who visit the US while working for EU companies and receive a binding surveillance order while in the US, possibly even with their work equipment and remote access to company PII.

If cutting out US vendors is disruptive, avoiding travel to and remote work from the US, and avoiding hiring (or being subject to hierarchical oversight from) US citizens in Europe would be even more so.

As a US citizen who is about to move to Europe myself, my preferred solution would of course be for the GDPR to be followed strictly and for the US to change its laws. But I'm really not expecting the US to pass that kind of legislation now.
Having annoying or disturbing loud human noises over the PA system for the entire flight is not something one does to "arouse curiousity".

There's no way this is a sanctioned AA marketing program.
Imagine posting this on social and seeing the disagreement
I think a case could be made that it's unauthorized access, since the prankster is definitely not supposed to be using the system for those purposes, regardless of how accessible it is. Same as if you walked into a bank or something and surreptitiously plugged a malicious USB drive into one of their machines.

Maybe it would make a difference if the prankster was an employee, and not just some random person, but I doubt it.