skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately none of that fun stuff lasted very long. Mostly because word would travel and enough people would know about the things they could mess with. At a certain point is was basically assured that someone would do something exceptionally stupid and get the IT guy to actually figure out how to lock that shit down.

Though they never did figure out how we got local admin access to the machines[1]. That was a fairly large security breach actually... once you have local admin, installing a keylogger that drops its logs onto a hidden network share on the machine is trivial. Personally I stayed out of that because my dad would have murdered me if I ever got caught (the friends of mine who did it did end up getting caught!) Still, I found the local admin password was useful for tweaking settings.

[1] It was simply by dropping a disc in and booting the machines into a password cracker. Was very fast since it used rainbow tables.
Falcon 9 isn't big enough to give Starlink the full constellation they've requested permission for. They first receieved permission for 12,000, and later requested an additional 30,000, or 42,000 total. Right now they have... less than 4,000, less than a tenth of what they want.

So it will just take a few more years of Falcon 9 launches, right? Well, probably not. Because these satellites have a limited lifespan, they need to be constantly launching new satellites to replace older satellites. I don't think they can launch and keep anywhere close to 42,000 satellites operational with Falcon 9. They only get a bit more than 50 satellites per Falcon 9 launch. Even though Falcon 9 is cheap, to launch the full constellation would require several times more Falcon 9 launches than all the launches for every customer in the past combined.

Long-term, Starlink is doomed to failure if SpaceX doesn't get Starship operational. FWIW, I also believe talk of Mars colonization is a recruiting scheme, and the true raison d'etre of Starship is to launch Starlink and similar large constellations. Solving this problem is what Starship is for, and without it they're toast.
I'm getting a CORS error trying to log in with my own Solid pod :(
I think it's reasonable to say that "any major change in the way societies or economies were organized" which resulted in all of Apple's assets going to zero, including the US Dollar, would qualify as the end of the World As We Know It, and would be effectively cataclysmic in magnitude as far as its effects on society.

...Whereas blockchain assets going to zero doesn't even register as a blip to the average citizen.
You're thinking of like MOVNTDQA? Those still have to reach into RAM - that's still double-digits nanoseconds away and still creates a stall in the processor at n complexity!! No thanks? I can allocate a new linked list node with memory guaranteed already entirely in cache (except for TLA failure.)

> be able to pretty much max out the bandwidth available to the CPU core

Why max out a slow link at n complexity when you can just avoid doing that entirely and use a linked list?
The Atlantic is majority owned by a trust controlled by Laurene Powell Jobs.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Atlantic-Monthly
Technically, the board’s job is to represent the interests of common stock holders.
Fair use policies are fine when it's fair, but 1TB for a household's home internet is not fair in 2022.

2.5TB or 5TB being the threshold would be received much better.
Use of 'Dang' in the United States
It would be like a court order to ban encryption. Its just math. You cant do it and it would be meaningless.
If you like RATM then it's worth watching this early video of theirs from 1992. So many hits on their debut album and about 10 people in the crowd in the middle of a record store. This video is a definite gem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ8YAv2rcQU
It definitely still happens because I received a follow up in the mail after a purchase on amazon, more than once, in just the past few weeks offering a gift card for a good review.

I would argue that paying for reviews is inherently dishonest. So is giving away items for free for reviews.
> <flameon> CEOs can't underperform, wage earners aren't working hard enough and are just there for money </flameoff>

For such a markup, it would make more sense to have some kind of delimiter to more easily match tags e.g. <flame-on> ... </flame-off>, where the second term is a reserved keyword that defines the scope.

That said, I think that <flame-comment></flame-comment> where the tags are matching would make more sense since they would probably be more compatible with existing markup languages.
Ask HN: What app or app feature do you wish existed?
I'll go first...

I really wish I could have immersive routes on a treadmill or workout bike. This could be via a simple 360 degree trail/route or even in the more immersive VR headset. The treadmill inclines and gradients would auto adjust as i go through it. I think i might even engage more with ads this way.

For example, I would like to be able to run through NYC or Paris or London with an all around view of the stores ans streets that i am passing through and feel the inclines and corners etc. If a coffee shop or a store has a promotion or an offer, it could be marked on their storefront or something.

This could also encourage stores to 360 map their own store layout so that I can 'walk in' and purchase.

This is my app wish. I am not sure if such a thing exists already.

What app do you wish for?
They currently have ~3000 satellites. The total plan has ~12,000 satellites.

So that's going to basically quadruple the available bandwidth?
No, it's not. A 1Gbps comcast connection would then need roughly a 5-10Mbps bandwidth cap if you wanted to ensure everybody could hammer the connection at the same time. A total data cap allows most people to use the connection at full 1Gbps speed whenever they want (because most people are only going to be hammering it on average no more than the data cap)

...while those who know they'll hammer it more than average have a specific idea of how much they can get away with.
The if they don't have to was a rather important part of the statement you quoted. I'm saying if they can block the scanning packets and have some subjective reason to do so then this is fine, the value of the scanning as a service notwithstanding.
Musk will soon set his bot army against his foes, including advertisers. Twitter will become the new Yelp.
no, it does not make sense. it's like if you buy too much beer in a month, they start to mix it with water and sell it for the same price
Every transfer service has transfer limits. Have you ever tried to send $1M or $10M internationally? What service provider would you go through to execute the transaction? What are their fees? Not only will your transaction be delayed as much as weeks, you'll have additional forms to fill out and fees and expenses associated with such a transfer. Even more so if you are converting to another currency.

On Ethereum, you can execute a swap from one currency to another (0.3% fee) and have the transfer execute to anyone in the world in 15 seconds. Even in a highly congested time on the network, that will cost at most a few dozen dollars. Doesn't matter if you're sending $1K or $1B.

Crypto isn't ready for retail use cases yet, but it's within the next few years (less than 3) that it gets there. Retail transactions will occur on rollups. The retailers will pay transaction fees of a few pennies to a few dozen cents. It will not be percentage based on the transaction value as VISA, AMEX, etc currently get away with.
if you can replace linked list with vector then you don't need a linked list and the two shouldn't be compared as it is almost always obvious when you need one over the other. Link lists are used in areas when there is a relationship between nodes like a list of running processes. one of the frequent operations is to remove a node from whatever position it's in and add it on either side.
60% of home compostable plastic doesn’t fully break down
Ahh, you're probably right. I missed it.
Intel makes billions of dollars more per year than AMD, and has throughout its whole history.

Intel isn't strapped for cash to do R&D, and if they are, AMD is way worse off. Go look at profit numbers for both companies over the last 5 years. It's not even close.

To pretend like intel is going to run out of money to fund R&D is just to not even understand what's going on.
Ironically, if you weren't using huge pages, the operating system was already doing this for you anyway, and your contiguous segments weren't contiguous.

This does suggest functionality that the OS should provide: let the program remap memory somewhere else in its address space to obtain a larger contiguous chunk of addresses without copying data. This wouldn't help much if you have direct pointers, but I think e.g. Java has a layer of indirection that would let it benefit from remapping to grow ArrayLists. I don't know if things already work this way. It should make speculative fetches easier for the processor since now it understands what you're doing via the memory map.

Edit: taking this idea a little further is actually fascinating: use the type system to separate objects into pools based on type, and instead of pointers, use indexes into your pool. You can move the pool for free to grow/shrink it. I think you could even do this with pointers and full hardware acceleration today if you used the high bits to tag pointers with their types and used remapping at the hypervisor level to move the pools (so the address in the application level doesn't change). You could do some crazy stuff if the application could coordinate multiple levels of virtual memory.
The MacNeil/Lehrer report: Computer crime (1979)
They're also put performing AMD at the top end with their latest chips.

And they dominate in the Steam hardware survey (gamers more likely to build their own machines)
This sentiment, and this thread, is bordering on unintelligible.

Is Twitter such critical election infrastructure now that if it’s trending information is not perfect the provenance of the election is now in question?

If so, how long has Twitter been this important? Would elections function without it? How much “misinformation” is enough for the election to be suspect?

Is this concern simply limited to what’s on Twitter itself and not, ya know, out in the citizenry?
The problem isn't mobile phones, it's the convenience of the cloud. I can access my email and files from any location, from any device. It's magic.

Of course, we've given up our privacy and autonomy for that convenience. The problem is that we seem to keep ending up on the convenience side of the trade-off.
He's really articulate. I listen to his show "Comandante" on XM just for the history stuff he brings up. Tonight he was talking about being in a legit spandex, hair metal band WHILE he was still attending classes at Harvard. It was such a funny, yet totally Tom Morello thing to do, right?

If you get a chance, have a listen, he has a lot of fascinating things to talk about - would love to see him get a regular spot in the Times just as a culture writer. Would be really interesting to see what he's write about.
... and IT procurement folks are familiar with the brand name. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM."
My guess would be prestige.
They're also increasing the size (and probably bandwidth) of each satellite by a factor of 5 or so with gen2.

Total constellation size would be like 40,000 satellites. Overall that means roughly 50-100 times the current bandwidth.
Please don't cross into personal attack. That just makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I want to say a little something that's long overdue
The disrespect to women has got to be through
To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends
I want to offer my love and respect to the end
Looking past the snark of your comment, I think the person you are responding to has a legitimate point: the cap doesn't apply to 8 hours of the day. Actually, it isn't even a cap, it's just that traffic after 1TB is de-prioritized. If you are in a cell that isn't congested, there will be no impact on you.
This question could be an entire series of answers, but yes, the environment absolutely contributes to ones performance.

Not only in explicit ways such as availability of resources, supportive processes, and the cognitive comfort of being within an environment where things "make sense" to you (ie, you can operate on your instinct with confidence), but also in implicit ways that impact your internal motivation.

I've definitely been in positions before where a culture shock of environment change led to me being unmotivated, as well as just making stupid mistakes that I wouldn't have made previously. I've had previous coworkers that I would definitely consider hiring again as long as it was not back into the same environment I previously worked at them in, and had coworkers that were fantastic previously but I honestly wouldn't expect to have the same level of performance in a different environment.

Success in your career is not just about your skills (both hard and soft), but about finding an environment which is conducive to your particular skills and working style.
Largely agreed. The normal way for shareholders to express their distaste for choices made by the board/executive is to vote them out. Shareholders here literally can't do so, but they've known that from the day they bought their shares.
I'm really worried that cheap, abundant and reliable is not something our defense industry is capable of.

- As a result of deindustrialization, we can't ramp up production of critical components. We make up for that by prepositioning supply depots around the world, and these depots allow a brigade or so to fight for a few weeks. But once that runs out, things get hairy. See this article: https://www.csis.org/analysis/united-states-running-out-weap... which talks about "surge" capability after a four year ramp up time and also here: https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/us-not-ready-peer-peer...

- We have little sea lift capacity to move gear around to the hot spot even if we were able to produce it in large quantities. https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/12/31/the-us-military... see also https://gcaptain.com/new-report-says-us-navy-capacity-is-ver...

A nice summary of US military logistics is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpPuJ_r8Xg

- US gear has a reputation of being expensive to maintain and breaking down easily, even though it is generally best in class.

- We critically rely on air dominance

Basically we've optimized our military for global police actions by pre-positioning small amounts of troops and supplies around the world, rather than maintaining an industrial base with a large amount of slack and the ability to quickly ramp up production to support a sustained conflict. At some point an adversary is going to call our bluff with a major sustained conflict - and sufficient AA defenses to deny us air dominance. Then people will realize how hollowed out our defense industry has become, and they'll look at the huge amount we spend on defense and how little we are getting in return for that investment.
The way things are going, "the two minute hate" should be right along in the next day or two...
This whole conversation is predicated on zero evidence.
Also, they're upgrading the launch vehicle, which will lower the cost of launch per kg by a factor of 10 or so.
"In addition, Farnsworth and Lowe allegedly made false claims that HMNY possessed and used technologies – like “big data” and “artificial intelligence” platforms – to generate revenue by analyzing and monetizing the data MoviePass collected from subscribers. However, the indictment alleges that Farnsworth and Lowe knew HMNY did not possess these technologies..."
FNM
There are few things in the world I’m more terrified of than Yelp’s salespeople. They give me Jack Lemon from Glengarry vibes.
LOL. I see what you did there.
Your #2 is oddly one of my fav things I've implemented recently. I use 2 identical bottles with straws that I fill in the morning and just by them being there (I drink them whenever I'm listening in Zoom calls... looks a bit awkward, but I'm over it) I'll finish 2 full bottles a day without even noticing it. My whole life I've drank literally 0 water up until recently!

Another one that worked well for me is putting laundry baskets in each corner of my living space and swapping out my closed clothing drawers with open hanging shelves (from Ikea, <$20) and small open boxes (<$5) on the ground for underwear, socks, etc.

It's experimenting with these small things to put on autopilot that have helped me a lot too!
If you can offer me unlimited beer for a fixed consumer-range monthly price, I've got a bridge to sell you.
You don't need to summarize articles on HN submissions, let the story speak for itself.
I thought the UE4 reference scene looked familiar.[0][1] Now that room can get some proper interior decorating!

The origin fascinate me:

>It started off as an app to simulate housing in an MMORPG, since the furniture system there was atrocious.

I'm going to quote part of a comment I made five and a half years ago that I dredged up:

"Neural nets can probably be used for level design today. One use case might be creating an entire urban environment complete with residential interiors, where the artists don't have to slave over each individual apartment for it to be believable. Imagine playing a war game where the levels look like there's actually people living there."[2]

AI's advanced a bit since then, to put it mildly. Seems some apps are already there.[3]

Interior design tools, archviz and gamedev are all different things, of course. In any case, cool project!

[0] https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2082490/ss_e45...

[1] https://external-preview.redd.it/n-7TOneH8RbHjK0Ag62bXX4WxkE...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14253073

[3] https://analyticsindiamag.com/5-ai-powered-home-and-interior...
What is the advantage of using Solid?

Its not exactly successful, and people are already complaining of Mastodons complexity in their Twitter replies.
So I dont think would improve the situation at all.
I’m not an expert in memory allocators but I suspect large allocation is better than many small allocs due to less fragmentation no? I’ll grant you the multithreaded case but if you’re doing that your cache performance is probably crap anyway =)
Calling for advertisers to pull out of Twitter seems to be a proper exercise of free speech, not an attempt at destroying it. Then again, so is naming & shaming.
That's kind of my point. ;)
After the horrible experience I’m having with 12th gen I’ll probably never buy Intel again.
Maybe with the 22 billion in net income they raked in in 2021 they could upgrade their gear and give customers what they want.
Serious question: do people really rely on Twitter for real information?
I'm not making any point on whether the US is likely to be successful or not, truthfully I doubt it, however I'm only pointing out that hundreds of billions of dollars were allocated for onshore fabs.
I get it, you don't like the idea of taxes, but fortunately most people are glad for them and the services they provide.

If this service causes a bunch of crashes (somehow) or they end up DoSing someone they should be responsible for the harm that they cause, but since these scans are no different that what criminals are already doing every day I don't imagine it'll be a huge problem unless they really screw something up.

I'd also guess that the costs in both time and money spent on the traffic generated by DDoS attacks, malware infections, and phishing sites are much much greater than the costs for 'security guys' to review logs, safely automate scans, and notify webhosts of problems. This is a sensible measure that should save massive amounts of time and money for people all around the globe and make the internet better for UK citizens in the process.
The laptop was later confirmed to be legit by several outlets: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

Several of the emails found on the laptop make it look as though Hunter was selling influence/access to his father to foreign companies and other foreign entities. Whether or not Joe was in on it is not certain, but several of the foreign parties Hunter was working with certainly seemed to think it got them something of value.
Convince me that's not extortion.

Think about some company that was just starting to think about advertising on Twitter.

And now Elon Musk is threatening that if you ever stop advertising with them, he will try to convince his followers to boycott your products.
It's unlikely since the smallest possible jpg 10x10 jpg is just under 300 bytes. You might be able to squeeze out a few dozen bytes if you tried multiple browser supported formats (e.g. jpg, webp, png, gif) and pick the smallest one since they might be better at encoding blurhash's gradient effect.
>AMD GPUs perform better than Intel ones, and they do it with close to half the TDP, that's just one example

I feel like talking about intel's 1st generation video cards as if that's the entire debate and future of intel is misleading and nonsensical. Intel hasn't really made discrete graphics cards before. Their first attempt missesd.

AMD was behind nvidia and intel for years and years in their respective businesses, but here we are and things have changed. Pretending like now that AMD has a efficiency edge over intel the entire game is over, ignores the fact that intel is still performance competitive on larger nodes and also improving their efficiency every year.

Intel is a more profitable company with more than enough R&D dollars to compete against amd. If you had applied your thinking to AMD anytime before the last 3 years you would have also declared them a dead company.

It's just not a consistent way of thinking.
Why should anyone care one way or the other about this Twitter drama?
How Intel and AMD spend R&D is structurally different. AMD is fabless so they only have to focus their R&D exclusively on chip design. Intel has to build foundries, fund manufacturing R&D, as well as chip design.

It's a bit ghoulish but Intel's saving grace may be an invasion of Taiwan.
I'd start with the pyramid, but there's a risk of trying to dig up a regular mountain, which would be very wasteful. Maybe we should dig instead the Face of Mars after all, but who knows what other alien faces are there that we can't recognize? Let's dig everywhere!
I take your point. But note that I'm here upvoting and commenting still!

I saw the link to this article in my RSS feed, and I took the time to open a browser, find the link, and comment because RSS adoption is something that I genuinely want to have a conversation about.

Which means that with RSS, you can still be a part of the community, you just won't reflexively upvote or spend time in the comments section.
OpenAI opens up AI text-to-image generation to businesses, launches DALL-E API
That's not what I'm referring to.

Starlink was attempting to get almost $1B worth of grants from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, which exists to "bring high speed fixed broadband service to rural homes and small businesses that lack it".

They quite literally failed to prove that they could provide the service they claimed.

> The FCC has rejected the SpaceX unit's bid to receive $885.5 million in aid through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. The broadband provider "failed to demonstrate" that it could deliver the claimed service, according to a statement.

https://www.engadget.com/fcc-rejects-spacex-starlink-rural-b...
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