skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At no time prior to the illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2014 did Russian speaking regions in Ukraine express any interesting in becoming part of Ukraine. Russia paid mercenaries to infiltrate Ukrainian regions and make it look like there was a dispute. Of course these Russian mercenaries committed the atrocities Russia blames on Ukraine. There is nothing trustworthy about Russia. They've torn up all prior agreements just for border expansion and subjugation. Long term peace in the world isn't going to happen without decolonizing Russia.
Also see https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-29/new-cali...

The article hints at the rationale:

> “This is a big moment for California workers, especially women and people of color who have long been impacted by systemic inequities that have left them earning far less than their colleagues,” Sen. Monique Limón (D-Goleta), the bill’s author, said in a statement Tuesday. “As we continue to build a sustainable economy, we must ensure every worker is paid equitably.”

Not sure exactly how it benefits those groups specifically and not all workers.
Unless we're talking running x86/x64 binaries on ARM or something, WOW64 is not an emulator, since x86_64 chips support IA32 instructions natively. There is some small overhead from filesystem and registry path translation, as well as switching the processor into/out of 32-bit mode.

There is, in fact, a new sound recorder app on W11: https://www.pcmag.com/news/first-look-windows-11s-new-sound-....
Signal is setting up proxies so users in Iran using Signal could update their proxy settings in the app to bypass the block for that at least. Not sure to what extent things are being blocked, but if you can get connections to SOME outside services, this might help people to organize means of communication. The proxies are also setup by people outside of Iran and it doesn't really matter if someone in Iran leaks a proxy address, new ones can be setup in minutes. Look for the #IRanASignalProxy hashtag on twitter/other social media and ask people for the address. Signal also made a guide to help users set this up on Ios/Android - https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360056052052-Pr...
Of course you can. That's what a huge chunk of art ever created does. You're only (potentially) in trouble when you make it obvious.
So you agree. I can carve a message into the side your car, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Nice. I’ve got my knife. Let’s meet up! Afterwards, we’ll swing by the television station and make them broadcast us live, free of charge or control, a six hour lecture about our novel interpretation constitutional law.
That's seamless though. So if you have a failure you get a single stack trace that includes everything. In JS the debuggers sometimes glue stack traces together which works for basic stuff but incurs a major runtime overhead and doesn't work for production failures.

Locally the concept of multi-threaded debugging is easier than async-await since a single flow typically maps to a single thread and you can just step over it. If something happens asynchronously it's just IO and you can ignore that part. As far as you're concerned it's just one thread that you're stepping over/into. Variable context, scope etc. are maintained the same and passed seamlessly.
Yeah, a lot of people play games with their TV not in game mode, which is a ticket straight to +300ms City

Not only that, but a lot of AAA games nowadays have super long animations, tons of post-processing slapped on the tail end of the rendering engine, etc, so you end up with 300+ ms from "button pressed" to "something happens"
Regarding other peoples recommending their focus music/noise. I’ve been a big fan of brain.fm. Basically the only music I can just turn on and work without thinking about. But also helps me sleep on airplanes which I struggle with.
Where does the bad code come from? [video]
A user of Blender can absolutely point at an arbitrary part of a rock wall and say "move this over and make it bigger". Blender sacrifices rendering quality to make sure that interaction is reliably responsive. Cube/Sauerbraten forgoes some of the rendering optimizations provided by some other 3-D game engines to make sure you can always edit any part of the environment at any time, but it was already delivering interactive frame rates 20 years ago. And of course Minetest has very little trouble with arbitrary sets of nodes appearing and disappearing from one frame to the next, but Minetest isn't that great at performance, and its expressiveness is a bit limited compared to Cube and Blender, so maybe it's a less compelling example.

As long as it doesn't cause a glitch in playback, it's acceptable for your DAW to delay 10 milliseconds to figure out which note you clicked on. That's about 100 million instructions on one core of the obsolete laptop I'm typing this on. As you obviously know, that's plenty of time to literally iterate over your hundreds of thousands of little rectangles one by one, in a single thread, testing each one to see if it includes the click position.

But (again, as you obviously know) you don't have to do that; for example, you can divide the screen into 32×32 tiles, maybe 8192 of them, and store an array of click targets for each tile, maybe up to 2048 of them, but on average maybe 64 of them, sorted by z-index. If a click target overlaps more than one tile, you just store it in more than one tile. When you have a click, you bit-shift the mouse coordinates and combine them to index the tile array, then iterate over the click targets in the array until you find a hit. This is thousands of times faster than the stupid approach and we haven't even gotten to quadtrees.

A different stupid approach is to assign each clickable object a unique z-coordinate and just index into the z-buffer to instantly find out what the person clicked. This requires at least a 24-bit-deep z-buffer if you have potentially hundreds of thousands of MIDI notes. But that's fine these days, and it's been fine for 25 years if you were rendering the display in software.
Hacker shares how they allegedly breached Fast Company’s site
Maybe I was a little too flowery with my speech. But I think my points are still valid. Regardless of what Gab's founder writes, Gab (like Parler) was created in direct response to the deplatforming of white supremacists. That kind of content is just not going to attract mainstream attention.

In that sense, that makes Gab a failed platform. But you're right; the fact that it is up and running, in spite of getting blacklisted by big corpo, could be seen as a sort of success. I'm all for technology that can't be taken down by overzealous governments.

You kinda got me wrong too. I'm not for silencing anyone. I'm just explaining why no one is using Gab. Again, its not because its uncensored (as you bemoan). It's because Gab doesn't offer anything people want. Time and time again its been proven that users simply don't care about privacy / censorship / decentralization / some-other-high-minded-ideal. They care about convenience and content.
Linux file managers manage to be nice and snappy. On my machine, KDE's Dolphin, on an NVME, takes, maybe, 4 seconds to open and scan a folder that has more than 9000 folders and files.

What's Windows' problem? It has no excuse. Maybe, just maybe, the Windows Explorer, plus the stack it runs on, is utter garbage.
Mystery Hackers Are ‘Hyperjacking’ Targets for Insidious Spying
great article. very details guide. thanks.

back to simple is really great. internet things go wrong way for complication for many years.
It seems to me that lots of things get upvotes from people who just want to discuss it and don't click to actually read it. In particular, I wonder how many things in the 'new' page actually get read before being upvoted -- links are usually on the first page of 'new' for only 15 minutes or something like that. It would be interesting to see the composition of the front page if people instead had to click first before being able to upvote.
Is there any good open source or publicly usable steganography software with reasonable UX? Page 1 of Google shows this thing called OpenStego. I've heard of steganography but have no idea what tools are reputable in this space.
When was it a joke to say Google sunset every side project of theirs?
Type two backticks, everything below is fine. Type one more… the entire rest of the syntax tree is potentially a new tree. Backspace, do the whole thing again.
Isn't copyright about copying verbatim (or with trivial enough changes that it remains recognizably the same) large enough sections of the protected work?
https://www.fcc.gov/rules-political-campaign-calls-and-texts
If data centers can make outside connections then steganography and internal (to Iran) routing can help get messages from protests to someone that can pass those through datacenter Internet links.

Just being able to organize internally is super useful. The protestors don't need to use Facebook to organize effectively.
most ppl can visualize a football field as a unit of large distance because it's a large thing we've all stood on and regularly see. so it kinda makes sense and is easier to visualize than a mile. good "for scale".

what's with the hate on measuring things in football fields, aside from some hand-waving about it being "unscientific"? like yeah don't use it in a research paper but i don't see a problem with it.
Johnstown Flood
Leading VC to provide up to $1.25B to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers
yeah I was looking for mentions of Aranet. I have two and they came with calibration info iirc.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...
Virtual Children Will Be Commonplace in 50 Yrs and Help Combat Overpopulation
> As someone in tech ...

... you do realize that goes for 99% of people posting here? In my biased experience in consulting for ~4 years, the distribution is more like 80/10/10 for AWS/GCP/Azure.
Many people have been on a football field, so they have internalized its bigness. It’s the same thing as comparing smaller objects to a dollar bill, or a quarter.
Wait, I'm also confused. I thought completely rewriting the implementation of an algorithm would not violate copyright. It may run afoul of other laws, but not copyright. Am I mistaken?

I don't mean simply renaming variables or changing a couple of lines.
The irony is that this doesn’t seem to be “aimed” at the celebratory gunfire community at all
Maybe there’s something different about Europeans where it’s not necessary to sue, and lots of people DO profit from it. BUT I actually met the lawyers for that McDonald’s coffee case and the woman involved was not being a clown, she was a victim of a corporation that put her in harms way to make a few bucks.

The coffee was dangerously hot (hotter than is safe, so hot that regulations would require wearing safety equipment to hold) and she got burned at McDonald’s when it spilled and gave her third degree burns. I think a more likely reality is that Europeans drink coffee at a safe temperature (and not to-go) and European companies don’t overheat their coffee for their car-centric culture to ignore until their morning commute is over.
Under Big O and any time you have an algorithm, see what the complexity is and if you can reduce it.
But if they do that, you can just continue playing on your own PC.
Not really, you're buying access to a game which you can download an unlimited amount of times and play on your own hardware, often even offline. They're not entirely dissimilar, but they're definitely different models.
And yet, the factual outcome of the battle (many months ago!) was that all of the russian army units to the north/northwest of Kiev were either destroyed/killed, captured or withdrew themselves back into Belarus. Unless you want to claim that the Ukrainians did not actually win in that entire theatre of the war?

That massive convoy of Russian vehicles to the north of Kiev in the early days of the war is not presently parked in downtown Kiev, occupying the seats of power, so I think the outcome has been obvious.

You don't want to believe the ukrainians? Okay, the satellite imagery of that massive build up of Russians who tried a thrust directly towards Kiev at the earliest days of the war was taken by Maxar, a US company, and two or three other competing commercial satellite imagery companies.

Your entire comment reads like somebody who thinks RT/Sputnik is real journalism.
My Linux distro has never slowed down for me, except where I've personally done some weird config muckup. And I know exactly who is to blame... insert "of course I know him, he's me" meme here...
Google required game studios to adapt their games to a specific Linux engine, which is an extra cost for companies and doesn't make sense if there is little audience on a platform... No games -> no audience
this tbh. me and some buddies will sometimes shoot blanks on auto, like if we're out at a ranch doing a barbecue for the 4th or something. away from people, zero risk, people who are drunk don't get handed the guns. still had a neighbor who was driving by so she could hear it and pitched a fit like, ok karen.

edit: hn is ratelimiting me again so here's my response to @chroma comment

yeah buddy i'm totally aware of the 86 ban but if your family has stuff before then and moved it to a nfa trust then you're cool. cause it wasn't all that expensive before supply was capped. and the cool part is if you got a bunch of full auto AR lowers you can make a shitton of different configurations and they're all still the same thing legally.

literally all you have to do is get a el cheapo thing to screw on the barrel and it cycles fine, sometimes have to tune the gas system but if it's built for the exact model then not much. one guy sometimes brings a m10 and has a closed barrel he fabbed himself for shits and giggles.

and no, we all reload so blanks are actually less expensive than a full round.

we do a shoot too but sometimes it's fun to shoot off in the air? like usually at the end after we finish up fireworks.

why tf are you so pressed about it anyway?
Futurists have been predicting when we'll have stable fusion for decades, but now we suddenly got stable diffusion working. That's good too, not what we wanted, but good. We're gonna need stable fusion or other renewables to run stable diffusion though. /s
Is it acceptable for any business to allow accounts to be compromised for a half hour?
Trump is still the hands on favorite to be the nominee of one of the two major parties. Truth Social is not facing any of the issues that Gab was facing as far as being deplatformed.

Conservatives love the free market until it’s not working for them. If the situation had been reversed, they would be the first ones screaming how regulation prevents innovation.

Trump is listed as one of the 400 richest people in the US, he really can’t get his message out there? I live in the South, I assure you that if he did some advertising and started heavily promoting Truth Social it would be successful.
Indeed appears to be middle of 1991 design. Nice!
Got a link to the FT article? I'd enjoy reading those comments.
> are completely fine

Can be fine. There are plenty of computer game genres where security bugs are not fine at all and where you need to be super careful to not introduce nondeterminism as that would break the whole game, all while maintaining performance.
Briar has been translated to Persian 100%. This is a good indicator that is must be in widespread use in Iran
The N64's CPU was dramatically more powerful than the PS1's, but it was partly hamstrung by having to share the high-latency RDRAM bus with the GPU.

The 4k "texture stamp" memory was an absurd limitation and nobody ever liked it.

Some of the blurry look of N64 games was caused by the weird antialiasing mode it used, which stored a "coverage" bit along with each pixel.
Snap? Yeah, well, containers can be slow beasts, and Canonical's container solution is especially awful.

Compare the Snap version of something to a non-container version, and see how much quicker it is.
> No one is dying

I hate this argument so much

It's like being perfectly fine with a universe with as much suffering as long as no one is dying. I am exaggerating of course, but why inflict this suffering to a BILLION people? I feel bad when I annoy someone for a few seconds (like struggling to open a door) and yet people are perfectly nonchalant to create ecosystem that billions of people use everyday for the next decade at least.
Plenty of politics stories do get posted and discussed as on-topic, even if they are the minority. I mean, "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack" was a huge thread on here... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450336

These guidelines are deliberately broad and allow for many exceptions wrt politics.
I agrée it’s unlikely, but I can imagine serious bandwidth issues. Especially if local data centers close to preserve power.
What do they mean by “now generally available”? AFAIK, private profiles were available before also.
> A debit card lets them empty my bank account.

The solution to this is to use a bank (or credit union) that permits you to have multiple bank accounts and to move money between them instantaneously.

With this, you can have an "internet purchases" account that has like a $10 balance that you dump just enough money into to cover your purchase.
Unsafe Shutdowns: 85

What does this mean? and looks like it is very high compared to others in the list
I'm the "main tech guy" of a financial firm and I can answer this question.

It's because people like me don't care about user experience.

We get Teams for free in our M365 subscription. It's integrated with other stuff, it has APIs for automation and I can't be blamed for choosing MS.

I know this is a shitty argument... but seriously, I have many battles to fight, not wasting my energy choosing the best chat software.

Devs think a lot a about software quality and stuff, but that's often irrelevant for business. GP is wrong, MS knows exactly what they need to do to increase profits.
I’ve always been fascinated by SSB but I don’t know how to find people to interact with. It seems weird to try to befriend strangers online… just to use a social network.
Terminals have to get in-country and there needs to be usable ground stations in the same cell as the terminal. Good luck getting a terminal to Tehran where the police are apparently gleefully destroying satellite dishes. Even if you got an intact terminal there's no ground station nearby.

StarLink has been given special dispensation to operate in Iran. This is not the same as air dropping a warehouse worth of terminals and setting up usable ground stations.
>The economy is never "stable". It is constantly in a cycle of ups and downs, over-investment and under-investment, easy money and tight money...

That's pedantic and beside the point. The question is whether the economy experiences periods of relative stability. The answer is yes.
The book about Le Roux is pretty good. Quite riviting reading.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41181600-the-mastermind
I don’t. I censor them.
Might explain why the NSA fired him so fast.
Those are worthwhile problems to solve, but they seem well on their way to getting solved, though it's not guaranteed. Your civilization is collapsing because you're fighting each other, not because of climate change. Fighting each other is also why it's not guaranteed.

Other problems are also worthwhile to solve. I agree that zero-sum HFT and negative-sum adtech and arms races are not the most prominent ones.
It apparently does have continued use as an approximate synonym to chafe or flay when used in the appropriate context:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/excoriate

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/excoria...
I think what's happening here is that the flat-looking table is actually raised up in the center, in the shape of something like a smooth pyramid. There's dough painted on both sides of the rolling pin, but because of the curvature of the "table" you only see each side's dough when the camera is on that side of the pyramid.
Dispassionate technical analysis is where I'm trying to turn the focus, getting away from the reliance on emotional and ad hominem rhetoric in these threads.
At least not in my country (France). At the very least changing the pitch, and rhythm and interpretation of a melody is not enough to make it an original work there.

To give a very concrete example: french singer Claude François made the song Comme d'habitude:
https://youtu.be/avr5nvY4wxg

It was translated and rewritten a few times but he still is recognized as one of the copyright owners on those covers, e.g. https://youtu.be/qQzdAsjWGPg which are definitely not just a mechanical rewrite of the original score
It's important to note the difference between our online personas, such as HN accounts, and our online self-appointed responsibilities, such as our Github accounts.

I understand the reasoning for a clear path of succession of the latter. I do not believe that the former should carry on after our deaths. Our personas should die with us.
There's also some great reusable earplugs which are much better for the environment than foam earplugs. Plus, it saves money long term vs buying a bunch of foam earplugs

https://us.loopearplugs.com/products/quiet

https://www.flareaudio.com/products/sleeep-pro

https://www.happyearsearplugs.com/ (which someone already mentioned on here)
> Am I mistaken?

No.
I don’t have kids (yet). That’s probably a big part of it.
A target chosen completely arbitrarily. Obviously deflation is playing with fire, but I see no reason why something closer to 0% inflation would have been an issue. Maybe even a quarter or two of deflation wouldn't have killed things. Things more or less cost the same year to year? People would be less incentivized to invest unless they have an idea they think will have a return that beats a savings account? Cool, maybe slow, steady growth and savings could have stored up a decent cash pile for... oh, I don't know, a pandemic and a full blown war amongst (by world standards) wealthy nations? Those fun unforeseen events that I guess those in power (in the west at least) arrogantly deemed were no longer possible?

There are probably literally a thousand proverbs in a thousand languages, probably more in languages lost to time, that amount of some version of "when times are good, prepare for the bad". This is fundamental human knowledge.

I guess we generally agree, I just get frustrated when institutions like the fed, who are politically insulated by design, fail to appreciate their responsibility or make full use of their privileged position. Seems like for most of the last ten years leadership in general was conflict-avoidant to a fault.
For those familiar with UWP, what does RuntimeBroker.exe do exactly?
Can I pipe it to Zapier?