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cool!! what is this amazing little yeso.h library?! My googling is coming up empty...

btw, a cool platform to experiment with things like this is the Commodore 64... You can fill the 40x25 screen with the same 8x8 character, then modify that character and it fills the whole screen. This can also be be expanded to make cool animations and whatnot.
> Three LA city council members from the last 10 years are serving federal prison sentences on racketeering charges

Racketeering related to developments and permits? Or something else?
I have the v1 dish, so the wifi router is physically separate. I just plug the Ethernet directly into my router box and stuck their wifi router in a drawer.

I'd be interested to hear from people with the newer hardware about whether it is more heavily integrated.
Hey, I like what you're doing with duckboard! I checked it out and it's actually quite similar to what I'm working on.

I was curious about integrating with the "webclips" feature since it was native, but it turns out that was part of the "Dashboard" feature, which got dropped after Catalina. But I did find a Reddit thread where someone had a clever workaround.

Quote from zonkbonkbadonk on Reddit:
"It's not the same, but the closest I've found is creating several desktops and using Chrome's More Tools > Create Shortcut in a New Window option to make a borderless, resizable website window. Then, I arrange them on that desktop. I also use Adblock Pro or uBlock Origin to 'hide elements' and clear away parts of the website I don’t want to see."

Here's the link to that discussion if you want to check it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/kojjzn/comment/ghrm5...
IIRC it's not in the spec because administration of resources is out of scope. For example, perhaps you offer a public repository and you want folks to sign up for an account before they can push? Or you want to have an approval process before new repositories are created?

Regardless it's a huge pain that ECR doesn't support this. Everybody I know of who has used ECR has run into this.

There's a long standing issue open which I've been subscribed to for years now: https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/853
So long as we're compiling an exhaustive list of web UI sins, tiny, low-contrast type. People are designing as though we still had to pay per column inch. Why? Reading is cognitively taxing enough in the best of circumstances. But old or young, we're all expected to tunnel into fine print in order to read an article. If your site is more usable in Firefox reader mode, you should be laughed out of the industry.
You don't need to make an airliner. There are enough billionaires in the world to support a small industry of supersonic private jets. All of the marketing hype about supersonic for the masses is a figleaf to avoid being pilloried over tech that only serves the ultra wealthy.
Discussions

(63 points, 1 day ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40936995

(54 points, 21 days ago, 70 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40747869
after working at a cloud provider, I would say:

1. managing compute clusters has gotten a lot easier but managing storage clusters and running good storage products for block & object storage on them is very very very far from a solved problem and quite frankly it sucks and is not fun.

2. planning out buying, installing, upgrading, patching, and retiring hardware, server/hypervisor OSs, takes waaaaaaaaay more engineering management skill and experience than 99.9% of companies have. Plus you probably have to fight for every dollar of investment against a board / investors. Even at the cloud provider we were constantly getting kneecapped by upper management not wanting to spend money on hardware.
> You should ensure your app provides a stable, engaging, responsive user experience.

What does this mean?
Discussions

(63 points, slightly later submission, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40936995

(54 points, 21 days ago, 70 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40747869
The demonstrated lack of scientific agreement was not the problem. People are ok with that. The problem was that those who held the levers of power instituted polices as if there there was no disagreement. If you’re not sure whether community mask mandates will materially alter the trajectory of a pandemic, you can encourage masks, but you cannot — at least in a liberal democracy — require masks. Same goes for public messaging. If you’re not sure vaccinations will stop viral transmission in its tracks, you cannot claim it will, as Dr. Anthony Fauci did.

Trust in public health authorities thus has been severely compromised, as well as trust in scientists who as a whole proved too much invested in marginal protections to their personal health and community standing, and too little in their role as dispassionate scientific observers.
> Here's a list of 9 counterfactual claims from just one video: https://www.reddit.com/r/thunderf00t/comments/lrhznb/i_fact_...

I don't think counterfactual means what you think it means.

Anyways, I didn't ask for minutia of objections people have against him. Just for one thing he called bs that eventually turned out to be as good as how it was advertised.

> Here's a well referenced article about the man, titled "The Never Sinking Ship: How Thunderf00t Sucks at Science (or Else He’s a Liar; Probably He’s Just a Liar)": https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/9345

Wow, such a well reasoned, calm and objective assessment form a non-partisan.

> Appears he's also a creationist.

Are you kidding me? He has the whole video cycle titled "Why do people laugh at creationists" from 16 years ago. It consists of 44 parts and is informative and hilarious. That's how I first encountered his content.

Guy attacks beliefs semi-professionally. With first-hand science knowledge and math. He does that for more than a decade. People don't like their faith challenge so he accumulated a mountain of haters over the years. He doesn't care. It doesn't stop him from going after bs. Even if it's peddled by a billionaire.

If you tried to prove that you don't know anything about him apart from the name and smearing produced by faithful that hate him and hate that he doesn't agree with their bs ... you couldn't have done it better.

> It's called "Project Jarvis" and here's a whole article about it with photos: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/first-images-of-blue...

Thanks, but it's just booster recovery project for New Glenn which is in direct competition with Falcon Heavy not Starship.

> Cynicism is tiring.

Only for people who can't bare reality.

> I'm looking forward to all the improvements they'll be testing this go-round. It's a blast watching each test flight!

I can agree with that. Fireworks are always fun to watch. I'll enjoy it even more with grounded Thunderf00t commentary. I don't need cheerleaders to enjoy.

> If you think Starship is an empty pipe you aren't familiar with the details of it's construction.

You can see insides of the Starship on the video from the flight tests. Apart from engines and tanks it's empty, it's not even pressurized. There's a girder across to prevent it from collapsing.

Whatever. Enjoy. I see that you are a fervent believer so this conversation pretty much ran its course. But I'm thankful to you for giving me an idea for the best explanation why Elon is doing what he's doing. Milestone was a key word.
Schaffer–Vega Diversity System
> AI might be able to help a person become more creative, but it risks decreasing creativity in society overall.

Can’t say that I find this surprising, but it’s good to have this suspicion confirmed at the least…
"Digital Asset Manager" sounds like a bitcoin ETF to me
While I think this is a valid take for the term "platform" I do think that "Platform as a Service" implies that someone else is running the platform and I don't have to deal with the headache of managing it, I just use it.
This, in part, is why distributions like Debian go to the trouble they do to build everything from more-or-less isolated sourcecode artifacts.

Sure, its not always perfect, and getting say, blobless, is a challenge of its own, but no distro in their right mind for example, would ship arbitrary .o or ld.so objects in source packages.
Heh, “For some reason all these teams always do go-karting and indoor grilling bonding sessions before major tournaments…”
Yeah, if I was gonna attempt this, it'd be N2 gas, or even CO2, but CO is stupid.
I browse default with javascript off, and if it seems like a website is messed up, I enable it on a per-site basis. Browsing like this is 1) really nice for my laptop battery, but 2) also completely eliminates many of these soft paywalls.
I would take that in a heartbeat! I love the simplicity, and no waiting for DHCP after a reboot. Also no lease expiratins, which are a source of pain for me with starlink. I have a cron job that has to babysit it and down and up the interface periodically, otherwise it will get stuck and leave me with no Internet. That's especially painful when I'm not at my house so can't physically reach it...
This is the 2024 version of magic gasoline additives.
it has fuck all any impact if the electricity is sourced from nuclear/hydro/solar/wind/geothermal.
Discussions

(272 points, 7 hours ago, 210 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40944505

(76 points, 6 hours ago, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40944839
ATT did not answer this question. I would expect them to keep phone records going back a ways, but 2022 seems pretty far. I'd guess for law enforcement.
If it confers an advantage, even a small one, and it's allowed, everyone will be compelled to do it in order to remain competitive.

That's the crazy thing about high level sports. Either it's banned or everyone does it. There is no in between.
Is this different than existing instruction level parallelism and hyperthreading?

> [CPUs] primary limitation is that as serial rather than parallel processors, they can only do one thing at a time. Of course, they switch that thing a billion times a second across multiple cores and pathways

This is from the article, not the company, but unless I'm misreading it, it's just wrong
I see it the other way around. They’re sabotaging AI in order to maintain their dominance on search. If AI was to advance in some future form it might even substitute search altogether. By making it less reliable you keep your cash cow secure.
Reading the radial gradient example I’m struck by how much English is used, “farthest-side” as an example, and how far beyond short hand symbols for concepts (“var”, “int”, etc) we’ve moved.

I’ve been around a while, I understand that English is the lingua-franca of compiled languages … but CSS seems like a singular travesty.. other instructions in the “radial-gradient” function are “animate”, “infinite”, “alternate”.

I feel like CSS deserves to be internationalized, as it stands this group is creating a dialect that only English speakers can understand with relatively low cognitive load.
Eh, not in this context at least. Nature is a big term. Physics just "is". This makes it a good place for simple mechanics to appear and be derived. You can argue around how universal that is all you want but proteins themselves are the result of an enormously large search of a hugely high dimensional space. It doesn't seem possible for them to ever be reduced.
> To simply spit out some code and without further thought accept the first barely working version of it

That's not exactly what TFA describes, though.

> there are situations, in which the engineer, provided they even get the right idea, can make their code reusable with little to no additional time needed, simply, because they know they they are doing and have experience with the matter

Maybe. Problem is, how do you know when you or someone else has enough experience to make those calls? I guess the only way is to try and try again. But if you go that route, you should really keep the score, that is, note down when you made a call and check later if you were right or wrong. It's easy to trick oneself though because the future is virtually infinite, so a decision to make e.g. something more reusable at "this little extra cost" can be indefinitely neither right nor wrong.
The Evolution of MFA: Beyond SMS and Email
how does this compare to coolify and caprover already established and mature PaaS ? this is a welcome addition
I wonder if this will ever come full circle (or.. spiral) and the AI tools we've created will in turn lead the way to discovering / inventing new proteins / cells / life forms that eventually outsmart and outcompete us.
Latin American rowers from many countries train (or used to) at Tiquicaca Lake, in Bolivia. The highest lake in the world. Apparently intense training in a thin atmosphere made them more powerful when racing in richer atmospheres.

Source: Olympic rower who is a friend.
I’m using YouTube Explode for Dart, appears to be working.
Is your complaint:

- You can have the UI/UX affordances that you prefer, but you resent the fact that they’re not the default affordances (and so have to affirmatively set them to match your preferences)?

- You can have the UI/UX affordances that you prefer, but you resent the fact that other people have other preferences (and wish your preferred defaults to be the only options for those affordances)?

- Something else that’s less clearly inferred?
In summary: “screw you, I got mine. Go some where else”.
One of the first exhibits in San Francisco Exploratorium is a toilet with a water fountain and a description explaining that it's from a clean water source. Knowing this, would you still drink the water from the toilet? It's such a fascinating exercise in psychology. The urine to drinkable water obviously takes this one step further.

https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/a-sip-of-conflict
This is an interesting thought, it makes sense intuitively.. I could see it being adjacent to why steroids are prevalent amongst body builders. After you've hit your "genetic wall" for size/strength, chemical advantage could seem like the only way to keep progressing.

It's interesting to see it play out in an "official" sport, rather than just individual workout/ "aesthetic" tournaments. Maybe they should add some more skill elements to major cycling races.. perhaps a slalom through the orange cones of a construction site every few miles? lol
What the AT&T phone records data breach means for you
Chrome Extension to Tokenize Your Tech Gadgets
Hello fellow hackers,

I'm Celestino, a software developer and founder of the fintech product - Jasiri App (https://X.com/@unlockwithjsr). I built a simple Chrome Extension that lets you digitize your tech purchases on a public distributed ledger called Algorand (an Ethereum alternative). This extension unlocks digital assets equal to the USD value of your purchases and mints a Web3 property title deed (NFT).

The extension works seamlessly with Amazon.com (most preferred), Alibaba.com, and Aliexpress.com.

I've discovered that the smartphones, laptops, smartwatches, and tablets we buy hold significant economic value that today's financial institutions ignore and leave untapped, which then drove me to build the extension.

Here is a video tutorial link(https://youtu.be/1Em2Sh9RSG4?si=Dd1kFIHmeFaJTQ2s), on Youtube, that I personally worked on, that you can check out how it all works.

It has an accompanying mobile vault/wallet where you get to store your unlocked digital assets, view them, and manage them easily, here's the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jasiriwall... .

Once you try it out, let me know what you think.

Thanks, and wishing you all a great day!
The core solve is similar but instead of generating a mesh, you generate a series of elipsoids that have color, transparency and some spectral radiance information.

The idea is that by layering enough of these on top of each other, you can make a high quality visual representation not bounded by geometry.

Think of them like brush strokes in mid air versus a sculpture.
It's seeing aspects of a fundamentally different form of government that's the appeal. If it was just seeing "Korean" culture, I'd have gone to South Korea years ago.

(BTW, a good friend of mine told me he's been skiing in view of the DMZ, and they just laugh at the NK guards watching them ski with binoculars.)
What are you even talking about? Being able to run 10 year old software (on any OS) is orthogonal to being able to build a piece software whose dependencies are completely missing. Don't pretend like this doesn't happen on Windows.
Well, exactly, that's their point. If possible, choose a data center location with access to renewable energy.
Firefox can be set to ignore fonts and colors from web pages and always use your configuration (or follow your OS theme). Firefox's settings screen is a mess so it's easy to miss. If you want Firefox with a sensible UI, you could also use SeaMonkey, which is an artifact from back when software was more user-focused.
This feels reminiscent of the American Billion Dollar Space Pen vs Russian Pencil.

Silly Americans, just drink urine! - Bear Grylls, probably.
"ire" = two dozen terminally online, mentally unwell people complained on twitter
agree - but that gets to the larger point that mass adoption of anything like has to be fairly frictionless.

We are barely getting a third of people to use adblockers - you'd have to squeeze the ad server industry a lot more to make them change.
How to squeeze them? Get more people to use an adblocker that enforces serving from the same domain. How to get more people to use an adblocker? Make it frictionless, like enabled by default on browsers.

Then by squeezing them, they would be forced to respond by building tooling making it more frictionless to serve ads form the same domain, etc.
I think there is a requirement to keep them 18 months. Any reasons to keep them in bulk for longer than that are probably bad.
Nitrogen is apparently pretty dangerous too because, from what I understand, your body doesn't feel like it's not "getting enough air" like it does with high CO2 concentrations? Something like that, I don't recall the specifics...
You'll also see a lot of MMA fighters train up in the mountains to the same extent.
When I use the API Gemini gives me block_reason: OTHER a lot and it is very annoying. And that’s after setting everything to block_none.
What the recruiter said when I asked him to clarify was "Our understanding so far that is that it's FT on-site Mon-Sat."
> Once a player has installed the game on his phone, the handset senses which resolution the phone can handle and downloads the appropriate skin.

I am mystified. Why does the game install not include the current skins?
I agree that iOS isn’t multi-user in any real, like, multiple user accounts intended to be used by real people sense.

I wonder, though, it is based on MacOS somehow, right? Which is based on BSD. Could there be some left over multi-user plumbing sticking around in a technical sense?
High altitude has been well known as a training aid for decades, e.g. Kenyan marathoners: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/africa/kenya-runners-win-mara...
The “50” in 14-50R refers to the maximum "rated" amperage allowed through the receptacle. Load-wise, to avoid melted connector, you don't plug something with load capacity of more than 37-ish ampere thru this 14-50R receptacle.

The OP is confusing load rating vs. capacity rating.

However, computed loads are always adequately under the breaker size, and beneath wire capacity, and below the receptacle rating, all three and each components of a circuit.

Many urban building codes often demand the 14-50R receptacle to match the 6/3 COPPER (not Romex) wire and 50A breaker size, often as a response to mass introduction of EV.

NEC 2018/2022 is unchanged about the permissible used of 50A-rated receptacle with smaller 40A breaker but NEC code firmly states that a breaker cannot exceed 8/3 AWG wire rated capacity and many types of 8/3 sheathing barely supports 50A; that's because NEC is all about load-rating, well beneath its rated capacity.

Naturally, in light of those NEC "restrictions", if an EV charger calls for a 50A RATED circuit (because charger performs at nominal load operation at 37A-ish, you'll want all three components of the circuit to each carry 50A. This is the part where the former electric stove/range 8/3 wire failed to meet the new EV charger's demand.

If the EV charger is rated for 60A but operates nominally at 46A, DO NOT go the 50A installaion route. Go with 60A. Operating your load capacity near its rated capacity is potential meltdown situation, especially if weather turns hot, Hot, HOT!

Also for 50A rated EV charger in the high-temperature area (garage), 8 AWG copper wire and 6 AWG aluminum wire are not NEC-code recommended despite having the 50 AMP to 60 AMP ampacity rating (NEC code); go with 6/3 copper.

For most residential garage having 50A-rated EV charger, that means 6/3 (non-Romex) copper AWG, 50A breaker, and 14-50R receptacle. Open-air carport and year-round cooler weather region can NEC-wise get away with (but local/urban electrical code may prevent) the use of 8/3 AWG copper (but no aluminum) wires.
I have to use Windows 10 at work. The flat white UI makes navigating File Explorer excruciating. Borders between panels are nearly invisible, clicking on them means fine mouse control to juuuust hit that one or two pixel trigger point, functions are hidden in ribbon panels, ... the beat goes on. In exchange I get absolutely nothing in terms of capability or performance.
The extent of the “conversion” required would pretty much just be taking one form of JSON output and transforming it into a different JSON output, which is pretty easy to do in a few lines of Python or a single jq command. It would likely be more work and hassle to have to install and manage a secrets proxy, rather than just writing a few transformation lines, or better yet just using the SDK of the service you’re using.

Even this secrets manager proxy that the OP is about is explicitly to be used in legacy situations where you can’t use the AWS SDK, which is preferred because it does all of the stuff you mentioned for you.

However, this is Hacker News! If you think you see a problem that can be solved that other people don’t, why don’t you build it?