skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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From watching pros play, an early wall-off can be vital. At their level of play, slipping in 1 to 3 combat units can have devastating early effect. Terrans can easily solve this by including a supply depot in their wall, which can be raised or lowered at the push of a button. Or a building that can lift off and reposition.

Another take: Especially in a Terran vs Zerg game, the Zerg's creep kind of acts like an inverse blockade. Since Zerg units move faster on it, and the Zerg player will have vision of what's on the Creep, the Terran will often prefer to slow-crawl their siege tanks and etc closer, and be forced to use resources to clear out the Creep before moving too far in. Stronger Terran players can often be proactive about pushing back Creep, and have an easier time applying pressure.

For those who don't know, Creep is a purple-ish goop that covers the map terrain (requires active effort to propagate), and Zerg are bug-looking alien things that grow out of eggs. Terrans are the humans.
> Why does text rendering in svg elements always look slightly off?

The rendering of text is pixel exact between HTML and SVG in every modern browser I've tested with.

What you might be noticing is the distance between consecutive lines of text. HTML can flow text in a rectangle and automatically handle whatever inter-line settings were given in CSS (or the browser default).

SVG cannot flow text-- the user has to specify an x,y for each line. My guess is that it's difficult to figure out how to replicate whatever the HTML algo is for interline spacing of text for arbitrary fonts.

Additionally, the SVG library would need to manually handle word wrapping.

Just with those two you can easily end up in the uncanny value of SVG, especially when the user starts zooming in or out.
Except when some smart jerk discovered like eight different things!
So wouldn't this trigger and potentially be blocked by CFIUS? Given Binance's Chinese roots and the general anti-China sentiment in US politics.

Here is an article about the twitter acquisition also with Binance/CZ onboard - this would similar or worse, no?:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-national-security-gro...

The national security grounds for investigating Musk’s Twitter acquisition
Have you tried scaling the output of the system by 77%, rotating it counter clockwise by 90 degrees, and aligning it to the bottom of the page?
> I am willing to bet that NVidia and AMD's GPU unit have floodgates of vulnerabilities along the lines of Spectre,

100%, I'm not anybody important but I've been saying this for years, as soon as I saw Spectre/Meltdown announced it's like "lol yeah I bet GPUs are even worse, everyone is just racing for performance and not timing-correctness so they probably have zero hardening against that". I hadn't thought of the connection between Meltdown and that person's comment but yeah it's entirely possible they saw the potential for that or other security shenanigans.

Multi-tenant or multi-privilege-level GPU is likely a shitshow, so in a way it's actually a blessing that heavy GPGPU compute never really took off. Because I bet you can totally do things like leak the desktop or your browser windows to malicious webGL or another tenant on a shared vGPU. We live in a world where clients are mostly running one GPGPU application at a time, plus the desktop, and that means there's nothing there to leak.

(Although of course, it's always a little useless to speculate about massively counterfactual scenarios and assume everything would have gone the same... if multi-tenant/multi-app GPGPU compute had taken off, more attention probably would have been paid to multi-user security/hardening.)

Of course the real game-over is if you can get the GPU to leak CPU memory (or get the GPU to get the driver stack to leak kernel memory/etc via the CPU). That's bad even without multi-tenant.

Intel in particular may also be more vulnerable to that sort of thing since they have uniquely tight ties between the iGPU and the CPU. They come from a world where dGPUs didn't exist and the iGPU was only ever a ringbus away from memory or the CPU... it's apparently been a huge problem with the Xe/Arc drivers (there have been a couple patches where they produced 100x speedups by fixing operations that allocate memory in the wrong place, etc) since the GPU is suddenly no longer super close. It would not surprise me at all if AMD would be more secure because they're not working with an iGPU that's super tightly tied to the CPU like that.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/819397/intels-graphics-drive...

That's super funny you bring that up, thanks for tickling that particular neuron. Great comment and again, just a rando who tech-watches for fun, but, I agree 100%.
No, I think it's because Microsoft failed their way out of the browser game and then we got auto-updating browsers. IE6 did a terrible job of implementing web standards, with MS deciding to just make up their own damn standards. And updates to IE6 were locked to Windows updates, IIRC. IE7 was big step in the right direction, but it wasn't until IE11 that you could be reasonably sure that developing in FF/Chrome meant it would work roughly the same in IE. But even then, MS wouldn't let you go past IE9 on XP, so in a lot of ways IE9's marketshare was tied with XP's, which took years to dwindle away to a point where you could safely ignore it.

Then Chrome rose to power, which is repeating some of MS's failures with "their own damn standards" here and there, but is largely avoiding the big failures because the browsers update themselves now. Shy of people being stuck on X version because of their work situation, you don't have to worry about a huge chunks of your userbase being stuck on a 5 year old browser anymore because most folks are getting auto-updated and those updates aren't arbitrarily locked behind OS versions like IE was.
"Blow shit up with longer range artillery and then when the enemy is so weakened, demoralized, underequipped, and dead; rush them with vehicles and artillery"

That was the primary tactical doctrine in 1919. In fairness it started with "rush them with infantry", but that was countered with static defenses. Which was then countered with tanks (your statement). Which was countered with anti-tank weaponry. Which was countered with infantry. Which was countered with mechanized infantry. Which was countered with mobile artillery. Which was countered by aircraft. Which was countered with.. Seeing a pattern here?
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows is great
"Just follow FDA publications for prototype medical devices and DIY build your own before it comes to market."
> What about hydraulic brakes, though? These require specialized tools to maintain, which are so expensive that no amateur will afford them (for the rare occasions).

What expensive specialized tools would you need for hydraulic brakes? Maybe I haven't kept up with very latest models, but I've had hydraulic brakes on my bikes for nearly 20 years now and I do all my own maintenance. I haven't needed and don't have any expensive specialized tools for it.
FTX was *throwing* money at everything moving in the crypto space. Where the heck did all the money go? Did they just spend VC money as long as they could and ran out now? Or did all the money disappear through the Alameda pipe? I really hope that there will be an investigation into the whole thing. Liquidity crunch my a**.
Additionally, most of the most-at-risk population has lived through the AIDS horror. A good gay friend of mine roughly summarized it as "we gays know how bad diseases can get, and fuck it my dating life even after 2 years of pandemic is not as important as is my life". Once it was clear that MSM were (once again) a high-risk group, they all went back to either reducing contacts or at least wearing condoms.

In contrast, the last time the general public has had an issue with a pandemic has been so long ago that deniers and downplayers had an easy game with their bullshit. Had wearing fucking masks not been that politicized, I'd wager a very good portion of the 6.6 million people that died to COVID would still be alive. And to come back to my gay friend, at least in his community there were almost no COVID cases.
More likely than "swallowing the planet" is disrupting orbits, sending the planet either flying off into deep dark cold space or onto some uninhabitable orbit around the star.
Yeah. Binance seems to have all the leverage.

https://twitter.com/ClarityToast/status/1590016720923930628?...
Several of our portfolio companies have gone completely serverless (admittedly on AWS) and it has been working well for them. If endpoints are stateless and independent being able to scale them all separately and only paying for use (where usage is far less than 100%) it can be a huge win.
Kindness was only mentioned in the title of the post. It's a pity, because I am pretty sensible on this topic of kindness because one of my former manager told me "you're too kind to level up in this company".

I gladly left.
Crux Linux 3.7 Released
> The repeated cries of "but you didn't account for this or that, which I know as a layman, but surely PhDs in climate science didn't think about!" is inane. It's in the models. Every single variable you can name and then some are in the models.

You made an extraordinary claim "It's in the models. Every single variable you can name and then some are in the models."

I am calling your bluff.

Please provide evidence of six variable things

(1) The change from Whitewash to semi-latex in the painting of Stevenson screens (the old paint vs the new paint) which is a feed into GHCN

(2) The change in the sizes of some Stevenson screens in some countries records (230L to 60L)

(3) Analysis of the greater accuracy of space based temperature measurement which deviate substantially from in-situ measurements

(4) The removal of corrupted data sources like ASOS from the Climate Record, as ASOS as placed on hot airfields and is hit by prop blast and jetwash

(5) Fixes to the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) readings to account for ship altitude, height, deviation from marine surface temperature, etc.

(6) Weather Station gaps used in location where urbanized city centers are extrapolated for all nearby landscape (e.g. Africa) and the large gaps in the surface temps (Antarctica, Greenland, Siberia, Sahara, Amazon, Northern Canada)
It's revealing of your true priorities that you only care about the massive amount of death and devastation cars inflict on pedestrians and cyclists insofar as it inhibits you from marginalizing people riding bikes.
I know this is probably some off-hand joke. But do you know some tracks that combine jungle and house? Doesn't have to be old-school jungle but just some breaky beats.
I realized my mistake, as I said in the other comments. The main repo is now under LGPL. I'll see what I'll do with the bindings. Writing code is so much better than dealing with licenses!
FTX bet customer funds through the CEO’s hedge fund on an FTX token [1]. The token price fell when this was revealed [2].

The hedge fund, and thus FTX, had less money than they owed lenders and customers. FTX found a bail-out in Binance; otherwise everyone would have lost their money.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/02/divisions-in-sa...

[2] https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/11/08/ftt-plummets-as-...
> I doubt that you've paid more in taxes than I have myself, so no.

Everyone pays taxes. Not every drives everywhere. And gas taxes/fees don't even come close to covering the total cost of our roads. Hell, I'd be surprised if gas taxes even cover the cost of petroleum dependency.

You're welcome for the subsidy.

> Grow the hell up

Pot, meet kettle.
> coming to a full stop more dangerous

.. in the bike lane, alone? Rolling through a stop sign as a yield is only legally allowed in 9 states as of 2022.

No one is saying anyone is trying to act like entitled babies. All my point is saying is that a vehicle is a vehicle as defined by the law.
Yes we do, they don't work in all climates, but we do have a quite well-working approach:

Step 1: base-resistand swamp cooler structured packing.
Step 2: NaOH or KOH solution in water, at equilibrium with air (temperature& humidity).
Step 3: blow air sideways while running liquid down via gravity.
Step 4: regenerate liquid via salt metathesis reaction on column packed with Ca(OH)2.
Step 5: dry-distill the CO2 out of the CaCO3 in a lime kiln (carbon capture for those is easier than for a gas turbine, as they exhaust like around iirc 3~5x as much C02 for each oxygen you feed in, assuming you fuel both with the usual methane).
Step 6: inject the captured CO2 into old gas/oil formations.

Of course this would be better if you combine it with already-needed air handling, for example in central forced air HVAC installations where adjusting the concentration of the lye in step 2 through adding water or vacuum-distilling allows it to humidify/dehumidify the air and where the liquid/air contact can also easily do the heat exchanger task (that strongly basic water shouldn't support growth of any harmful micrograms, I think (for KOH it would typically be half the molarity of a saturated solution, for NaOH more like 80~90%)).

They use similar scrubbing but in dry columns (Ca(OH)2 beads soaked with NaOH solution, then left to drip and packed into canisters) for anesthesia rebreathers to scrub a patient's exhaled CO2, and similar lime/lye cycling in paper Mills (Kraft process; green liquor (sodium carbonate + sodium sulfite) to white liquor (sodium hydroxide+ sodium sulfite) recausticizing).

Assuming negligible cost of the initial wet air scrubbing (via fusing the air handling with HVAC and in the process even providing extra-low-CO2 air), assuming a methane-fired lime kiln, this overall prices should be able to compensates for around 2~4x as much fossil fuel burn in, say, vehicles, than the burn/consumption of the DAC plant.

And much of the process is quite amenable to using solar electricity (with about a day's worth of storage, but part might be able to use thermal storage in rock piles for pre-heating the kiln gas feed), especially as nothing really requires the lime kiln to work in the winter.
One of my main concerns is how easily and quickly can issues be debugged? Can you attach a debugger in production if necessary? I've seen people experiment with serverless and it seems like they were back to print statements for debugging.
Was this a reply to my comment?
Linear scaling factor?

Scale of aspect?

Aspect factor?

Scale along Axis?

Axial scaling factor?

Natural scaling?

Propensity?

Leaning factor?

In geography for example(quoting from Wikipedia):

"In physical geography and physical geology, aspect (also known as exposure) is the compass direction or azimuth that a terrain surface faces."
We have stats on this, I’m sure you know how to use Google. But TL;DR drivers break the rules more often than cyclists.

Almost every driver breaks the speed limit on a regular basis. It happens so often that it’s completely normalised and ignored, despite the fact it significantly increases the risk of serious injury and death to vulnerable road users.

Fatality rate of pedestrians in car related collisions rises from something like 10% to 100% between the speeds of 30mph and 40mph. Yet many drivers see no issue with ignoring a 20mph or 30mph speed limit in a residential area.
"40 is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age."
LED lighting has actually regressed from the halogen systems available 15 years ago. You're expected to shell out $300+ for high end systems that don't match the performance of what much cheaper halogens could do. Couple that with the near universal dishonesty about specs and it's a consumer nightmare.
Statictools.jl: Compilation of (some) Julia code to standalone native binaries
I'm a bit of a food/cooking nut so since covid supply issues I now buy anything I'm not willing to substitute in bulk from reliable outlets (usually ethnic shops) and rely on supermarkets only for basic perishable 'English food'- vegetables, meat, dairy. Though even those items are in poor supply sometimes.
We report discovery of a bright, nearby (G = 13.8; d = 480pc) Sun-like star orbiting a dark object.

Can anyone explain these two units - G and pc. I'm assuming d is distance? I've googled it but can't figure them out.
"Just" is just like the word "k"

To some people it's seen negatively, like they should have thought of something or other, to others it's a stand-in for "merely" or "simply" but I find "simply" much more condescending.

Speaking generally, I heard the word "just" mostly when working on motorcycles or other hands on things like laying down floor boards or finishing concrete. There's a shared respect for the workers in those environments that ascents to a quick course correction by someone that has a better idea. If I heard someone on a construction site say "simply hammer in the cross beam from the ladder." I'd probably throw the level at them. I don't want politician speak at a job site.

But then I found out about how some people in tech hear the word "just" as a signifier of thinking the person is stupid. So I've toned it down. But sometimes.

Sometimes.

Sometimes, really, just put in a caching layer for your webserver or tell me why I'm wrong.
Well there are a few factors here, some percentage of the inflation is infact increase wages for workers at the grocer, this is what is keeping the margin the same. Here for example the 2 largest grocers are Kroger and Walmart, both have increased their wages several dollars per hour since 2019.

Further I hear all the time about "food deserts" and what not, The increase raw profit could be used for many things including expanding into those area's and could even make them profitable to service.

Finally they can use the money to expanding their technology, for example Kroger has invested heavily and made many awesome customer service enchantments to their mobile app, web site, and curb side pickup services (I know this because I am a weekly user of the app)

All 3 of these things I consider to be good for society
"Note that http://FTX.us and http://Binance.us – two separate companies–are not currently impacted by this."
>IRC, email, BBS, gopher

You need to take a step back, and look at what the average Joe is actually using. Don't assume that because your programmer friends use these obscure protocols for everyday communication that everyone is.
I think there's a lot of nuance to this. You may not keep any explicit state, but you may keep a lot of implicit state (often in frameworks and libraries). This state can include: database connections, cache connections, HTTP connections to downstream services, local LRU caches for computations, compiled regexes, import caches, and much more depending on the language and infra being used.

It's common for servers to take a while to start up, it's common to see the first request to each endpoint take a bit longer, it's a common optimisation to add keepalive to downsteam services, or tweak your database connection pooling. These issues are normally straightforward optimisations, and startup time isn't usually too much of an issue. With FaaS platforms these become significant hurdles that take engineering work to overcome, require introducing more services, more cost, etc.
Grad students should be paid for university service
I'm all for cutting this out with medical advice and such (unsolicited advice, and importantly wrong advice), but this example annoys me:

>You look at some graphs and error messages. It’s easy (once again, I speak from experience) to say something like “Could you just cache the hot partition keys?” or “So, just scan the logs for the high-latency signals and frequency-sort them.”

>This. Will. Not. Help.

It's not fair to ask people for help and then complain about their word usage when trying to help. This is a situation where solicited advice was asked for.

Some people diagnose and troubleshoot by starting simple -- this is especially true if they've been roped into an incident in progress and no one has caught them up. Is it plugged in? Is it turned on? Have you power cycled it? Have you done other simple things that humans tend to forget when dealing with a crisis because we aren't perfect?

>Do not, to quote the OED, “represent as a small thing” the difficulty of something you’re asking someone else to do, when you’re not inside their head and don’t understand what they see and feel.

Why don't you turn this around and consider that there may not be any bad intentions from someone when you hear the word 'just'. It's possible it's just a habit of speaking they've developed. You are not in their heads just like they are not in yours.

If you want to work it out like adults, then talk about the phrasing and see if you can come to an agreement. That will help you see if they are being condescending rather than reacting to hearing the word 'just' used.
You plucked the word "promises" out of the context it was written in.
I can't speak about FTX the company, because I just don't know their business.

I am speaking about crypto in general.

From what I have seen a lot of companies popped up that are purely bound to crypto and so almost all of them will fall when crypto falls. Only very small minority have enough business footprint outside of crypto or will be able to pivot in time to avoid demise if it happens.
Court Sides with LinkedIn in Data Scraping Lawsuit vs. HiQ Labs
smells like a crypto pump and dump to me, we shall see
Somebody has to do the Monty Python quote.

To play the flute, you just blow in this end, and move your fingers up and down on this end.

In the 70s, people thought of programmers as typists.
Yeah I really don't care about being cancelled, like at all.
Is this the porn version of "marijuana is a gateway drug and you'll end up a crackhead on the street if you take a single puff"?

Do you understand why that's unconvincing to most people?
Welcome to the world of unregulated finance.

There’s a reason the FDIC exists and all banks must be insured.
I was blown away in my Digital Signal Processing (DSP) class that eigen "values" exist for certain systems in the form of "waves".

Basicaly you put in a wave made from multiple sine and/or cosine waves through some function f(x) and the output is STILL a wave, though its frequency, amplitude and phase might change.

Technicaly if I remember correctly this applies to all complex exponentials, since those can be rewritten in the form of e^(ix) = cosx + i*sinx.

This formula also beatifuly shows how rotations and the complex exponentials are connected.

So basicaly you don't just have eigen values, eigen vectors: you also have eigen FUNCTIONS (sine and cosine above are the eigen functions of f(x)).

DSP basicaly revolves arounds functions that don't "corrupt" wave-like inputs (wave in -> wave out).
The context of my comment was

“it’s fine, don’t worry about withdrawing and holding your coins yourself, your deposits are safe”

It appears that you actually agree with me that they may not be.
12:38 PM · Nov 7, 2022 2) FTX has enough to cover all client holdings. [0]

4:03 PM · Nov 8, 2022 2) Our teams are working on clearing out the withdrawal backlog as is. This will clear out liquidity crunches; all assets will be covered 1:1. This is one of the main reasons we’ve asked Binance to come in. [1]

has enough to cover all client holdings ---> not enough to cover all client holding in 24 hours. Either they lost a billion or so dollars of client segregated funds in a day down the back of the sofa or it was a lie the whole time.
Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Isn't ftx.com[1] from the bahamas, and binance from the cayman islands?

[1] Not ftx.us, which is not getting bought