skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you're going to want your spears to be the same strength as your opponents.

Why?

A substantial portion of energy in a Hypersonic missile is spent battling drag. Its far more efficient to kill them with sub-sonic missiles or supersonic missiles so that there's less drag. The less drag you have, the bigger the payload you can put.

Think of it this way: 100% of the weight of your missile needs to be allocated between thrust and explosives.

If you go 80% thrust, you'll reach hypersonic, but now you barely have any explosives left over. And the vast majority of this "thrust" is wasted on air-drag.

If you go 20% thrust, you'll have 80% explosives left over for your weight. You'll take longer to get there, but supersonic (and subsonic) has significant efficiency gains.

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There is a USA hypersonic missile project that does away with this problem by being 100% thrust and attacking with kinetic energy alone. But you can see... this fundamental physics question of allocating "explosive" vs "thrust" is very fundamental to the situation at hand.

I posit that any hypersonic missile will do less damage than an equivalent subsonic cruise missile of the same weight class. Because air-drag at hypersonic speeds really is a major play on the amount of energy you deliver to the opponent.

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You go "faster' not because it does more damage. You go 'faster' because it avoids the enemy defenses. But that speed costs you rocket fuel (rocket fuel that could have been high explosives instead).
So if the studies are each compromised in various ways, carry on, no worries.

If the studies are ground truth, only to be reconfirmed again and again, carry on, no worries.

Well, you have a resilient plan!

We do seem to be waiting for a critical mass of pain to motivate a sustained and researched response. I am having trouble visualizing what could possibly do that. Enough pain to reach the rich, presumably.

Or not. I hear private jets have fabulous climate control.
This still doesn't solve the overflow problem.

It's also too limiting: with u8 you can't ask for page-aligned data, and with u16 not for hugepage-aligned data. Granted, those aren't exactly prime use cases for a bump allocator, but it seems like poor design to limit the API unnecessarily.
mediocre Libraries sink to the bottom over time. Home grown libraries have a different quality and don’t sink easily. This is definitely YMMV for different teams

I can imagine home grown libraries having inconsistent api with wild and wonderful assumptions and beware the edge cases
I think my first exposure to it was on Slashdot, and I suspect that time wasn't its first post (pun intended).
The problem is that the error conditions are relatively rare. Most of the time it doesn’t break anything. So even with dogfooding you can miss it or not see it as a problem early on. But after 10 years of evidence that it was a mistake, that it’s almost never intended, and the fix won’t break much if anything, it’s time to fix it.
Fair points, but it doesn't answer the question asked - what are his "inalienable rights" and where should that line drawn? GPs examples were good - banks, taxis, etc. Should his local cafe be allowed to refuse service?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37570719
This is not an objective argument, if you were expecting one based on the title. The author is making this claim as "an antisocial autistic person".

> I can't bring myself to understand the importance for such things (if it even exists.) Communication is about the exchange of information, not superfluous nonsense that contains hardly any relevance to it.
My goal: to use "tundish" in a sentence tomorrow.
I think everyone in the comments here is missing the point.

Lodash is a dead project and has not done a release for 3 years.

All the PRs and issues were for a version of the codebase that has not existed for a long long time. There is no working version of the codebase anymore.

I will be surprised if lodash ever comes back in any meaningful way.
- It’s not meant to be a “gotcha”

- It’s not about enforcing anything on anyone, I think you’re missing the point

- Thank you for your contribution
Yeah, I watched a 45 minute video and listened to an hour podcast arguing the same.
And you’re allowed to notice it without dudes in suits
And dark sunglasses convincing you it’s a bad idea to do so.
> But if slowing down HIV/AIDS transmission had required that most people inconvenience themselves, or behave differently for even a week, I think the story would have been very different.

Here, I would ask you to compare changes in behavior around condom usage to the near blanket rejection of wearing a mask in healthcare settings. Irrationality and denialism has fully won out, despite the former being a more intrusive constraint on one’s behavior.
Yes I can instead choose to buy an Apple.... much worse
>The US has a tradition in rule of law, and it’s a social convention that applies broadly.

???

You are conflating all the different legal systems of the US. US criminal law is the one of beyond reasonable doubt. US civil law on the other hand is an entire other bag of worms and 'potential' contractual obligations. On top of that private property has a pretty massive leeway in reasons you can ban people from said properties. There is no contradiction here. "Fuck you, your tie sucks" is a completely valid reason to remove you from their private property. Said person being a dick to others is what is typically considered an exceptionally valid reason to remove them from the property.

If we want to follow a broad social convention, then it is be nice to others, how about that for a start?
I think that the author is a little mixed up and is /actually/ saying that 'Reading is Objectively Superior to Listening as a Communication Method'.

Writing != Reading and as someone building an app powered by dictation that turns speech into text for the reader to consume... speaking is fast, reliable and powerful and reading is fast, reliable and powerful.

On the other hand typing (especially on mobile, but even on desktop) doesn't share these qualities nearly as much in the general populace, even if some of us are good at it -- and hand-writing is even worse (although it's arguably a more powerful communication method).

Listening is also pretty bad and you can see for example Matter's recent release of podcast transcription as a great example of making things easy to consume and easy to produce.
They used it in the context of the question whether "we, the internet" have done away with it. So clearly it never referred to the legal system, and diverting to that is just kicking up sand to not let the people who are interested discussing the question as it was asked discuss it in peace.
Yes but I'm pushing the problem to a level where there is competition. There are many advertisers. If even a large group of advertisers doesn't want to advertise on Russell Brand's videos, fine. Probably he would get significantly lower ad rates than other more widely acceptable content, but that's between him and the advertisers -- there's no middleman that refuses to let him make any money at all.

Frankly, I think supporting content through advertising stinks, but that's another matter.
Or just aggressively tax large/high-revenue companies.

And speaking of taxing! I'm not sure why highly-successful companies draw so many more "they have too much power" criticisms than highly-successful individuals who often have power over media companies and spend a lot on lobbying politicians.
This must be some kind of incompetence record. It's been weeks since it began.
> It sounds like YouTube will continue to host his content, but will now pocket the money they would have paid him.

If he is demonetized, then his videos won’t get ad placement, so Google won’t make the money in the first place, as it will contribute neither to advertising revenue nor to the marginal benefit from the Premium users derived compared to non-Premium users in avoiding ads.

Since Google pays creators less than it makes from their content, Google is giving up money (in a narrow analysis) by demonetizing Brand, not keeping additional money. (In a broader analysis, the rational for demonetizing is that monetizing toxic content hurts the brand and alienates advvertisers, so it is profitable to demonetize that content in the long run despite the immediate hit from any particular decision to do so.)

The exception is demonetization for certain copyright claims, which effectively isn’t “really” demonetization, its letting the copyright holder take the creators place for monetization.
I ran into this when trying to make a vector version of the Smith chart [1] - which has a lot of circles. It turns out the inaccuracy from a 4-segment Bezier "circle" is significant when you need precisely intersecting arcs at the scale of a full letter/A4 page [2][3]. Ultimately, you can just increase the number of Bezier segments and make the error arbitrarily small; doubling to 8 segments was enough to eliminate the error on the chart even at extreme magnification.

[1] https://www.penpapernomographic.com/pdf/smith-chart.pdf

[2] https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgf/issues/817

[3] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/0cc44db2e367356629d897c10...
Sorry about that, I'll try to fix it. You can watch a video version of the article here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VgrdLfDozo
Evil maid attack applies to data centers too doesn’t it?
Personally I like how rewarding it is to convey jokes in writing. The spoken word has too many giveaways that make understanding a joke a simple children’s game but with writing only the most highly educated can traffic in humor, its nuances both secreted away and sat in plain sight for those of generous intellect. One can know they’ve truly arrived at greatness when their friends stop calling.
Sorry! You can watch a video version of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VgrdLfDozo
It would be really nice if it didn't shit the bed over Swing apps.

Distributing a nonmodularized Java Swing app in 2023 is far more difficult than it should be.
> some people here say that kind of thing with no irony whatsoever

Well, if that person appears, then this would be a good reply to them. Well, actually it'd be pretty heavy-handed and unconvincing, but still. You know.
>What data is encrypted on the router? VPNs, for one.

What sort of VPN are we talking about?
The US authorities can make the same orders that they made with LavaBit (i.e. ordering them to produce a backdoored build and replace yours with it), and they can make them secretly. Given that Signal by design requires you to use it with auto-update enabled (and, notably, goes to some effort to take down ways of using it without auto-update), and has no real verification of those auto-updated builds, I would consider it foolish to rely on the secrecy of Signal if your threat model includes the US authorities or anyone who might be able to call in a favour with them.
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The original proposal for this change went into great detail about the research they did into existing uses of this syntax. In my memory, they found vanishingly few cases in the Google codebase or GitHub code where the change would violate the expected behavior. The decision to break the backwards compatibility here came only after determining how few codebases would be affected and developing a mechanism in Go itself (the version specification in go.mod) to require actively modifying the code to build with the new behavior.
A corollary is that text is better than video as well. Possibly not for entertainment, for for education, I find text infinitely preferable - much easier to scan forward and back as required.
> Is there any proof that Dual_EC_DRBG is backdoored?

The algorithm is bad: it's complicated and slow.

The competing algorithms were much simpler, much more secure by construction, and much faster. Most importantly, there was no obvious way to backdoor the competing algorithms, but there's a hilariously trivial way to backdoor Dual_EC_DRBG.

Ergo: the only reason you would ever devise or use Dual_EC_DRBG is to introduce a backdoor capability. There is no other believable benefit or reason.

But rest assured, the NSA promised that they destroyed all copies of the private key they used to generate the public key for Dual_EC_DRBG.

Oh wait, you thought you could generate your own pair and throw away the private key? Ha-ha... haaa. No. That's not compliant with the "standard", which the NSA forced upon the industry, and/or literally bribed companies with millions of dollars to accept willingly.

It's as obvious a backdoor as you could possibly have.

Even if the NSA didn't use it as a backdoor -- I'm crying with laughter now -- the Chinese hacking group APT5 definitely did: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/22/on-junip...
High Blood Pressure Is the World’s Biggest Killer
The scope is lexical, the lookup is dynamic. What you want is for each loop iteration to create a new scope, which I would categorize as "not lexical".
nope - too political. it's worth doing, but not "a good bet for venture capital"
Those view counts on Twitter, TikTok, and Netflix? Be skeptical
>This weird era of conspicuous consumption, "lifestyle" branding, and virtue-signaling faux-activism can't end soon enough.

This weird era... See this is what blows my mind. Like boycotts are not something that's happened pretty much forever. There is currently a particular group that has been bearing the brunt of boycotts due to their socially unacceptable behavior and they seem a little ticked that the power they once unilaterally wielded is now leveraged against them.
Before reflexively expressing disagreement through a downvote, I invite and encourage a thoughtful discourse on the matter. It's disheartening to observe dissent without accompanying dialogue, as meaningful engagement fosters mutual understanding and growth.
> That's far more dystopian.

You say this as a person with no fear of getting unpersoned when the wind changes, or a cosmic ray flips a bit. It never happened to you and you don't have empathy for the wide range of people it happens to (some of them as innocent as snow), so you don't quite have the fear of it in your bones. Until you're the one to get unpersoned, and then it's too late.
The article is arguing mathematical inaccuracy, you're arguing the limitations of compressing an infinite abstract concept on a finite field.

You're not wrong, but it's like someone showing proof that a person can't fly unassisted and then responding with "well dogs can't meow".
> You might get 99.999%+ of humans like that. But there's always going to be some people that are immune to it, that didn't catch it, a few crazy blokes that live completely off grid, tribes with no contact, etc.

Perhaps that is true for a natural virus, but you have no idea what an actually engineered virus can do (engineered by a superintelligence, no less), so I wouldn't speak so confidently if I were you.

Entire animals can fly from one side of the globe to the other. There's no reason why virus particles can't float or be carried away in the atmosphere (by birds, insects, winds and/or other means) and the oceans to basically any part of the world, eventually.

Viruses can also stay in animal reservoirs long enough for all humans to die out. Perhaps an engineered virus could even use plants as reservoirs. Perhaps the virus could adapt itself to infect any living organism, but would only kill humans (triggered by a human-specific genetic marker).

Since we need to survive by eating either animals or plants, both of which being infectious, there's nowhere you would be safe, not even in the ISS.

Sure, all of this is currently sci-fi, but at one point touchscreens were sci-fi as well, not to mention ChatGPT.
vernacular such as "unalived" is specifically to get around youtube's content policing.
Your reference to Nokia is too random so I can say Apple is next Nokia.
To be honest, YouTube should be charging hosting fees to people who don't qualify for the partner program. The fact that they try to make up the shortfall through ads is a huge favor
In this day and age, anyone who doesn't take steps to hide their identity online is quite likely an NPC with no original thoughts and thus no reason to worry about ever experiencing negative consequences from expressing themselves. A normie tosser trumpeting their lack of need to hide their personal information online is the intellectual equivalent of a homeless person bragging about not having any need for a bank account or a wallet.

Or the person using his or her own real name makes a living as a pundit and does not to have to worry about negative consequences. A lot of people on twitter and substack make a living and use real names and this does not preclude them from having original and or controversial ideas.
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Unless I miss something, any reduction in population due to fewer births will change the age distribution, so reverting to 1 billion people without changing the age distribution means billions of people dying much earlier than they have been. I'm going to say that's ... not good.
This is how ad-subsidized media has always worked. You worked for a television network has a team of censors that protected it from reputational damage. You had to listen to them if you wanted your show to air.
>YouTube is in even further hot water here

No they really aren't.
It is if you're a smart person. The bottom 70% of the IQ range has a really hard time with fast reading comprehension. Even people in white collar jobs. It's not something people admit, they even hide it, but it's something you can't help but notice.
> If true, this was a stupid move. They’ve martyred a separatist while bringing him and his cause international sympathy and attention.

The heyday of the Khalistan movement was decades ago. It has petered out and lingers only at a minor, ineffectual level similar to how left-wing militants or Basque separatist violence still simmered for a while in Europe but achieved nothing. Plus, Western audiences are still poorly informed about ethnic and sectarian differences within India, there’s nothing here easy for them to grab on to. I wouldn’t expect this event to bring any new impetus to the Sikh separatist cause.
This has all been addressed in the proposal. The research was done and this change will impact so few projects that it’s worth making a technical exception to the compatibility promise to fix a real design flaw.
I cant remember where but I saw an interview with a 'qualified professional' ... it may have been on here actually, but their overall argument was "whatever condition you have, diabetes, alcoholism, the works ... youll be better off in the long run if you exercise".
Long story short, get off the couch
*obviously, im speaking of those that can and/or havent fallen too far
You're getting to the key thing:

You don't want to classify them by what they do. You want to classify them by what the clients must do/experience.
Let’s go down the list of rappers and professional athletes and see how much harm they’ve caused women.

Once again, another coincidence in which side of the political aisle gets censored.
listening is good for multitasking . both formats have pros and cons. you can listen to a book in the car for example.
now try explaining your programming problem to:

- a person on IRC/slack/the comment section of a pull request

- that same person on a voice connection.

and see which one leads to incoherent rage faster.
This leads to either more paid sponsorships and harder pitches for the creator's Patreon, or it leads to fewer professional creators.

Are these things you want?
> If your child is putting part of the playground into their mouth, you are doing it wrong, not the playground.

Apparently you've never met an infant.
Yeah the hold and drag interaction model sure looks fancy but isn't very ergonomic. On mobile, you're fighting to stretch to the top item, with a mouse it's very unintuitive, and with a trackpad forget about it. Tap to open makes more sense in every scenario. It's an accessibility nightmare
The first "better" approximation, while having a better "max distance" (0.019608% vs 0.027253%), has a _worse_ span between min and max (0.039216% vs 0.027253%), which probably matters for some applications.
Hey thanks, I was being a bit flippant, but I was not aware of that. That's very interesting!
This is just not true though.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/memo_1...
Such a neat website.
You know what, trains in most of the world also use existing infrastructure. The US had a very nice train infrastructure. So maybe the whole logic with 'lets not rip out infrastructure' should have been applied earlier.

Yes buses are good. Specially trolley buses. And you could built a country based all around trolley buses.

But the reality is, buses are actually operationally more expensive then trams or trains. Roads are more expensive long term. And the whole thing will be a lot less cost or space efficient.

As soon as you have sufficient scale, buses become impractical.

I live in a city of 70k people, we have electric double bend buses. These are huge 140+ people buses. And the are very often full.

People how don't live in a society based around public transport don't seem to understand what happens when you want to move a whole society, rather then disinfranchised poor people.

And just from a user-experience perspective, tram and trains are just so much better. Traveling threw the city, I rather spend a couple more minutes and take a tram route. Trams are just so much better and more comfortable.

We have routes in Zürich Switzerland, that only 1M people, where you have S-Bahn trains that are double stack and 12+ wagons long. They come every 5-10 minutes. And pretty much all of them are full during peak hours. Go to Zürich rush hour during those hours and just observe the amount of people, and then start to attempted to do it all with buses. And that's a small city, we aren't talking about Paris or Tokio.

> This could even be improved with dedicated bus lanes.

The running joke in the tranist community goes like this.

We could make buses better by using electric trolley buses rather then disel.

We could make buses better by giving buses a dedicated bus lane.

We could make dedicated bus lanes better by having steel rails rather then asphalt.

We could make buses better by having steel wheels as well.

Congratulations, you just invented a train.

Truly ask yourself, what do you want in your city, this:

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/MG6KEA/tram-in-amsterdam-MG6KEA.jp...

or

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Linha_Ve...

For a while the idea of 'Bus Rapid Tranist' was promised as some sort of solution. But real world shows this simply isn't the case. As soon as you actually have a successful BRT lane, you instantly start to think about that it would be far better as a tram line.

Yes, dedicated bus lanes are great, use the extra lanes you have and your existing bus fleet and try to improve the system as much as possible. But once you are serous and you have some users, build a tram or a subway.

P.S: Plastic wheels are also a big source of emission that you don't want to have in a city.
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I love this way of thinking. I can totally see this happening.
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If you have in mind the kind of international courts that already exist, e.g. the ICC,... well they already exist. I took your emphasis on "effective" to imply that you would like international courts to have substantially more power than presently exists. With enough power to truly be effective, that court would become the unipolar power. It would attract the power hungry like moths to a lightbulb.
Thanks, must have missed the module versioning bit