skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chronicle was bought by Hearst in 2000.
The newer insignia is a reference to the NASIC one. "The majestic sphinx – an ancient symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and the challenges that NSIC analysts will
solve – is invoked out of pride in an organization that traces its roots back to the earliest days of aerospace intelligence." Riddle of the space sphinx, I guess.

https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jun/22/2003021948/-1/-1/1/DEL...
>It was great at the time but who wanted to support GLIDE? Our engineers. But DirectX was the obvious thing to do.

And OpenGL, John Carmack was extremely vocal about it. That was before the internet and twitter so it was interviews in computer magazine and PC Gamers.
(Good) repost. Previous threads are at

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20094866 June 4, 2019

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24824977 Oct 19, 2020
I missed it the first time. But really bad! Awful!
Physics won’t stop working for any trillions of dollars.
Is there an alternative to OKTA for managing sso access for a hundred users with second factor across a couple dozen websites?
You totally destroyed my assertion that iOS has zero usability problems in any feature.
Keep doing your best but stop fighting whatever change is happening. You might think you are on the way out and years later you'll still waiting. Now is probably a good time at least leetcode practice in your free time.
I'm quite jealous of their closet then :)

For anyone curious here's a tour of one of their data centers https://youtu.be/5eo8nz_niiM?t=813.
You're absolutely right - purpose does presuppose another cognition. The good thing is that if we have purpose then there's Someone out there who created us with a purpose. And if that someone wanted us to know what it was, they could tell us in many ways (including by leaving us with a desire for something so innate that we can't substitute anything else for it).
With LI, I haven't applied to jobs in years as recruiters come to me; I simply don't have to do any extra work. With others, I have to actively apply for jobs.
SCIM is also there to allow filling gaps between systems that use federated identity.

Say you use Google Workspace for your staff and have some application that uses SAML.

How do you tell the application about the users and groups in Google?

Well ideally Google has built an integration that can do this. That's not a big set of integrations, though.

Perhaps your application can just read the incoming user's identity and membership details during the login process.

If none of that is an option, you need to use something to read the lists of users and groups, and push those over to your application. SCIM is a reasonable (if not 'great') way of doing this.

AWS SSO[1] (now "AWS IAM Identity Center") is an example of this.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/developergui...

e: Also, you need to consider the de-provisioning thing, too. Leaving resources hanging around for people that have left can be expensive and/or annoying.
> Like, what is the thing that's suddenly possible for them to do when you log in using a Google account rather than a Fitbit one?

The data has different terms of use, depending on the account. Your personal health data is imperative for the Google ad wheel to keep spinning
Could someone explain why nearly all amplifiers I see only amplify one half of the wave? I am seeing these optocouplers as only being able to amplify the positive side of the cycle and ignoring the negative.

In my mind I see the sound pressure as a positive and a negative where each side could be very different but ultimately adding up to zero over time.

Is it just that if you make a positive pressure wave the negative is right after and does not matter?

Class A amplifiers seem to take both sides into account. I am expecting to see some sort of H-Bridge configuration but never really see it. The most I see are positive and negative rails.

What am I missing here?
It looks really nice.

I’ve spend what feels like too much time looking for a windows app that I can use to occasionally preview CSV files before moving them into WSL.

I just think $50/year is too much for occasional use.

Since this posts has initiated several other shameless plugs, maybe I can swoop in and ask for shameless recommendations for something cheap in this space.
I had the same thought. Then thought meh! Then not caring anymore I spotted the flying saucer!
A PDF file from a server without HTTPS seems a little dodgy?
To answer the why plain text, the feature this talks about is the Okta Secure Web App - basically if an app cant do proper SSO you can set it up as SWA which just acts like a password manager. The Okta browser plugin will just fill out the login form of whatever site for you. One bonus feature with SWAs is the admin can set a password for all users, making it a cheap way to share an account transparently for all your users.

In the words of Raymond Chen this exploit is basically being on the other side of the air tight hatch
What does $0=$2 in awk do?
If. Many people will take a risk, as the risk will pay off in most cases that aren't totally egregious. Most shady scenarios are not "people will certainly die if I sign off on this", they're rather "eh, this is somewhat against the rules, but it's not that important, it just increases the risk from one in 1000 years to 1 in 300 years". People who will accept the risk to their personal careers will be in high demand as "people who make projects happen", and they'll be highly renumerated for their increased risk profile.

In any case, if PE was required to work in software, I wouldn't have had a job in the first place, so I'll always oppose these kind of efforts to shut out the outsiders and underprivileged people.
You mean early Reddit. I don't know who new Reddit is made for but it's the opposite of functional.
It's a good shape for coasters. And patches, buttons, T-shirts, of course.
You can text them immediately to know you are fine. Nonetheless, this sort of false sensitive is very unlikely with cars, and chances are you overestimate your well-being in a car crash due to adrenaline, so even then it may be good to have your family look after you more than they would otherwise.
A lot of Linux based command line whois clients still use "whois-servers.net" to look up up the appropriate whois server for a TLD, which is long dead (it still responds but is no longer maintained).

Many years ago I built a replacement whoisservers.org, and tried contacting a few maintainers, but nobody seemed to really care.

If you want to make use of it, you can run "whois -h com.whoisservers.org exmaple.com" (or substitute -h with the appropriate flag for your client to specify a server)
Why would they need these now? Putin ran out of missiles, generals, soldiers and ammo six months ago.
They could easily be graffiti insignia for an illegal rave.
Are you talking about customer facing SSO?
Compared with proper commercial OSes that fee at the time was almost symbolic.

They were aware of what they had, hence why their first action after being allowed to commercially take advantage of UNIX was to sue BSD.
If "the phone makes them look" (via dark patterns or whatever), then everyone with an phone (or specifically iPhone according to the gibberish of the blog post) would surely have them out all the time whilst walking, commuting, etc.

But they don't. Even on my currently limited interactions with the outside world, I see most people not staring down at a phone whilst walking. Even on a bus, where it's much safer to have your phone out (London still suffers from opportunist phone grabbers), it's nowhere near 100%.

[Caveat: I am not on all buses at all times, there may be buses where it hits 100%]
I don’t think I ever came across any code that was accredited to Richard. Definitely remember some max/msp patches throwing the Autechre name around. Still love the supercollider bbcut libraries, Nick Collins definitely knew what the rephlex folks were up to :D
I remember Oracle used to provide the free instances and resources using older ARM chip. But a quick search now this no longer seems to be the case.
I can offer you a thousand examples of "How far can fake news travel". Pizzagate, anti-vax, moon conspiracies ...

"_Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it_" (Jonathan Swift, 1710)

Not only don't I want anyone to add to a pile of mistruths, I want purveyors of misinformation to face social and financial disincentives.

> Do you really believe we should trust random tabloids

Of course not. "Tabloid" === trashy journalism, so no, no trust. Those of us who believe in being good and not misleading people should join efforts to make sure that misinformation does not get out of hand; at the very least we should not be manufacturing trash of our own to prove to others how badly it can go.
Run programs in Emacs buffer, seeing their output inline, interactively
No, the prank pointed out multiple failures in different stages of the process.

> But even if we had been careful to avoid p-hacking, our study was doomed by the tiny number of subjects, which amplifies the effects of uncontrolled factors. ... Which is why you need to use a large number of people, and balance age and gender across treatment groups. (We didn’t bother.)

This poor design should have been reason enough not to publish the study - p-hacking or not. But...

> Our paper was accepted for publication by multiple journals within 24 hours. Needless to say, we faced no peer review at all. The eager suitor we ultimately chose was the the International Archives of Medicine.

It got published anyway in a "journal" with a fancy sounding name that doesn't actually do any rigorous peer review.

The team then issued a press release that the press regurgitated without any scrutiny. If they had bothered to look and if they were good at their jobs, they might have noticed that the journal was not reputable. Anybody familiar with any academic field can recite off the top of their head what the reputable journals they'd want to be published in are. If it's not one of those, it deserves a closer look. That's without even doing some basic googling about the team behind the research which should have been able to uncover that they were nothing but a website.
The list of distributors is here:

https://www.espruino.com/Order#banglejs2

Unfortunately, if you don't want to import from another country, you might be out of luck.

According to the developer, you can also buy the SMA Q3 watch from another vendor and flash the FOSS Bangle.js 2 firmware onto it yourself if you're comfortable.[1]

Could you please explain the 40% import duty in India for me? I was under the impression that the smartwatch import duty was only raised to 20% earlier this year,[2] but I'm not familiar with this.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/puh1om/comment/he2s...

[2] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
Unlike a regular filesystem, mvsqlite offloads both storage and transaction processing to FoundationDB. Fine-grained optimistic locking is implemented, and massive write concurrency across a cluster is possible.
The feature is essentially a syncing password manager for legacy apps that only support password authentication. Password manager exposes passwords in clear text, no shit.
It's kind of a standardization given that uniforms, other clothing, accessories, wall mounted devices, etc all expect the same relative dimensions for these things. Attaching a circle to a sewn in velcro patch that expects a rectangle looks not great.
Windows 11 now warns when typing your password in Notepad, websites
Yeah, but maybe you shouldn't model your conversations on Churchill: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3109#comic
"The Sphinx, a traditional symbol of intelligence, signifies the unit's intelligence analyses, production and services."
- https://www.nasic.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/article/611728...
Funny, I also didn't see it at first and then felt stupid after reading the comments. I was trying to figure out whether the thing that looks like a dude in a bat-wing suit might be from one of the declassified UFO sightings...
I'm confused. How is it possible to login directly with the hash? I was under the impression that if you use the hashed password obtained from the DB, then the system will try to match the hash of the hash and would fail because they would be different.
Good ones still exist, biotechnology, Robotics, a few other domains.
And it had bounds checking like most sane system programming languages since late 1950's.
I think people are missing who makes this stuff. 20-25 year olds who use heavy doses of humor and sarcasm to joke with fellow 20-25 year olds in the same situation as them. No one thinks what hacker news will think about this. Same for the O’s that OK something like this. I’ve got a collection of patches I couldn’t even wear on the flightline because if the CO saw them it would be NJP for me.
I'm a little sad that this isn't (re)posted on https://what-if.xkcd.com/
If you want to do the bare minimum, a good starting point would be removing any work accounts from your phone. Make an effort to close your work laptop at the end of the work day. Focus on your main goals during the day, perhaps some project you want to finish before it ends. All this will allow you to focus on either what's expected of you, or what's truly important to you.

That said, I do agree with the other comments here suggesting a talk with the manager or a new job. Why get yourself stuck in a situation where you can't take pride of your work?
One of the first things that an elderly friend of mine noticed when he visited me in the US is that all the currency notes were of uniform size. He said, 'that's the sign of a trusting/trustworthy society. Visually impaired people trust others to not cheat them".

There are countless things that you trust by default. Think of all the Bayesian priors. It is too tiring to be distrusting and cynical all the time.
It's not a joke. That's one of the things they do.[1]

The classified reports are probably more useful. Some of these events were detected by various military sensor systems. DNI can request and analyze the raw sensor data. The various Navy reports say nothing about what the ship's sensors recorded.

DoD now has something called the "All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office". Here's the bio of the person running it.[2] He's a physicist with both an academic career and lots of management level jobs in the intelligence community.

Useful comments in the ODNI assessment include:

"Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a
majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared,
electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation."

144 reports originated from USG sources. Of these, 80 reports involved observation
with multiple sensors. Most reports described UAP as objects that interrupted pre-planned training or other military activity.

So this is being taken more seriously. It's also being done at a level in the intelligence community that can get access to the raw sensor data if needed. The head of the new office spent years with CIA and NRO, incidentally.

Other than that, not much is being said. Partly because saying more would give away info on exactly how good various sensors are.

[1] https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelima...

[2] https://media.defense.gov/2022/Jul/20/2003039076/-1/-1/1/DR-...
I'd say not just NYT but journalism and culture as a whole has.
Why not rather distribute Python as NPM dependency?
Were you able to get it to work on the Mac silicon?
Here is a comment that may solve it from a recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32896463

Though it has nothing to do with Wayland before the flamewar starts, it’s just libinput and gtk maintainers not agreeing upon whose responsibility is it to handle scroll events (it is gtk’s though, libinput doesn’t have enough context to implement kinetic scrolling, so it really should be the framework that adds semantic meaning to an event stream)
It's a shame people are downvoting you. I'm not here to tell everyone they have to be vegan. I think if you were raised in a vegan-friendly culture, you probably would have found foods you enjoy. And perhaps you could still do that now. But something I've learned is that some people I know were vegan for years and ultimately felt like their body couldn't really deal with it, and they had to go back to eating meat, eggs, and dairy. Between a doctor, a nutritionist, and a chef, could they figure out what that person needed to stay vegan? I think the answer is probably yes, though I don't know for sure. But can we expect every person to be able to do all that while dealing with all the complexities of everything else life throws at us? No I don't think so. I do have a lot of moral qualms with animal agriculture, but it's not on every person raised in a meat-centric culture to solve. If more and more people try veganism, eventually we will all have an easier time converting. And I don't blame anyone in the here and now who isn't in a good place to do it.
Peace only happens when Russia fully leave Ukraine (including Crimea), returns all kidnapped Ukrainians and the responsible Russians faces punishment for the rape and genocide of Ukrainians.

Ukraine also needs to receive security guarantees from a country that is military strong enough that they could push back Russia in a small amount of time.

Any less is capitulating to Russia and shouldn’t happen.
Hmm....JSON felt so good in the mid-2000s because the alternative was XML, but I would not be on the list of things I am _thankful_ for now. It would not take much to make it considerably better at the job it purports to do—see JSON5 as an example. However because it is so entrenched it basically cannot change at this point.
In case you wonder what Coconut is:

"Coconut is a variant of Python built for simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.

Why use Coconut? Coconut does to functional programming what Python did to imperative programming."
I thought it was a perfectly amusing patch myself. I think the innuendo is pretty clear. If it was really sensitive or classified it would not be on a patch. I am sure this will rile up a conspiracy theorist or two though.
>why a whole new project.el instead of adopting or at least compatibility with projectile

Probably because projectile is not FSF compatible and getting all of the copyright assignments would be way more expensive.
This is great, but I’m still waiting for the sample to Yamaha dx7 patch midimutant code…
Came here for the awesome project, came out with a book recommendation.

Thank you HN!
Very interesting. Unfortunately on my browser it's not a quine because some style tags were injected (and visible) due to my dark reader extension. ;)
agree, is it a university creating all this? from what i can see it looks like it. will have a look at their stuff when i get some more time.
> Ok, then how this "humanity" will block putin's regime to use nukes? "magic" or "super heroes"?

If Russia drops a single tactical nuke on Ukraine I suspect they would loss the war within a month.

Any use of nukes requires a response and America would likely just delete all Russians from Ukraine and destroy the Black Sea fleet with conventional weapons.

Don’t forget that Ukraine has gotten anywhere near the latest and greatest NATO gear nor numbers.

There’s a reason Russia just keeps posturing about nukes instead of doing it, they know they will be met with overwhelming force from a actually modernised army.
You are giving Apple too much credit here. Apple can plaintext any iMessage if they wish with their signing keys for the servers that exchange user encryption keys. Why do you think the CCP demanded control of those servers for chinese residents? Just because Apple has a profit model other than adtech does not mean they are making choices that prioritize immutable privacy.

Apple could have folded, like even (old) Google did, and refused to comply with the CCP but shareholders would have been too upset seeing the price go down.

Successful publicly traded companies will almost always do the most profitable thing legally possible, no matter how evil.
I wonder whether this will alert on every new third-party password manager.
Well, CBS Interactive is a branch of CBS, the broadcaster.

A decade and a half ago, its reach was greater than Netflix's.

My point wasn't the scale of the hosting network but the failure of broadcaster- (or program-originator-) centric "interactive" television concepts. I think the trope existed even when Neil Postman was writing his books ... not sure if this shows up in Amusing Ourselves to Death or Technopoly, or both, though I think it does. They're 1980s / 1990s. Postman died in 2003 though, so if it was him, it was early in Internet time.

Wikipedia lists attempts dating to the 1950s, though these were not networked interactions. Those existed, however, by 1977.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_television>
Why is searching for another job not an option? Won't you need to do that anyway when they push you out?
Until you find that one weird game that relied on some obscure or undefined behavior that only exists with the cartridge ;p

Not a popular game, but the cartridge for Morita Shogi 64 had a built in RJ-11 jack and allowed online multiplayer.

Plenty of SNES games included a SuperFX graphics coprocessor in the cartridge. Star Fox is probably the most popular example. SuperFX games were popular enough that it was quickly emulated successfully. But you can't treat the cartridge as just a file system abstraction on SNES.
Avatar IMAX 3D re-release: subtitles are messed up
The highly expected James Cameron sequel to the very successful film Avatar (2009) is releasing later this year. The 2009 version was re-released in IMAX 3D version recently (here in India), presumably to capitalize on the hype for the sequel and to re-introduce the film to new audiences. It ran to packed houses. I had watched the film in 2009 but not in 3D. So, I watched the IMAX 3D version this week. The film is great in IMAX 3D. However, I had a couple of issues.

The film released with English subtitles (quite common in India) and whoever did the postproduction/processing for the subtitles screwed up.

1. The subtitles were placed almost 1/3rd from the bottom (presumably because they were lazy with doing one pass for both IMAX 3D and regular 3D versions). This was annoying.

2. The subtitles also moved around a lot. Part of it, I guess, was due to the 3D perspective and the subtitle text seemed to jump forward and backward on the z-axis. This was more than annoying, it was disorienting.

The part that sucked was the film had English translations for the Na'vi dialogues (burned into the frame with the Avatar typeface). They were perfect and did not have the distortions on the overlaid English subtitles. So, I am wondering why the postproduction/subtitling team couldn't have gone the extra effort to ensure a better quality output.

If any industry folks are reading this, please please please, take care of this in your films. Thank you!

ps: I don't have a problem with subtitles per se although I prefer films without them. The issue I have is with not taking into account the interplay of subtitle placement in a 3D frame.
This sounds dumb. Start a startup.
It may have fallen into the category of weapons too big to lug around, and inferior to vehicle-mounted systems. That's happened before. About 10 years ago, the USMC was trying out an "automatic mortar". This accepted fire direction like artillery - forward observer designates target, data is passed to weapon, weapon duly clobbers target. Worked OK, too heavy for infantry, and there are vehicle-mounted systems already deployed which can do that job.