skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. Wikipedia tells me that a UDP headers has 4 parts: Source port, dest port, length, and checksum.

I suppose with a new protocol you could ditch the length and checksum, which (I don't know much about networking) might be redundant with the IP header and with TLS respectively. That would save you 4 bytes per packet. Nothing huge.

The reason it uses UDP is that the Internet is full of middleboxes built 10 years ago that won't get any firmware updates for another 10 years, and those boxes love TCP and we're lucky if they even pass UDP and ICMP packets. Anything else might just get dropped, and then you have to fall back. Is UDP underneath QUIC really hurting much?
You could have doubled your money on Nvidia since January?? Look at the charts for all the evidence you need. There's survivorship bias in all the claims but it's easily done for the survivors.
You don't have to see the world in such stark terms. There is plenty of silliness everywhere.
But still not particularly hard. mmap has a
MMAP_FIXED flag for this particular reason — overwrite the arena you’re decrypting to, and you should be set.
IIRC the key point there is that it's contextual to whatever generation method scheme you used--or at least what method you told it was used--and it assumes the attacker knows the generation scheme.

So "arugula" will score is very badly in the context of a passphrase of English words, but scores better as a (supposedly) random assortment of lowercase letters, etc.
People used to memorize the phone numbers of all important family members and close friends without much trouble. Anyone without a serious disability should have no trouble memorizing multiple passwords.

Sure, I do use password managers for random sites and services but I probably have at lower double digit amount of passwords memorized for the stuff that matters. Especially for stuff that I want to be able to access in an emergency when my phone/laptop gets stolen.
The joke is that Microsoft was truthfully able to say "the individual responsible is no longer with the company", a phrase which normally implies that someone has been fired as a direct consequence of the event, without actually firing anyone. The statement was true because the individual responsible had finished their internship, and hadn't yet been brought back as a full-time employee.
Wealth is unelected power, a bug. It’s reasonable to say there should be limits on wealth, considering most wealthy people were lucky (either by birth or “right place right time”) but attempt to post rationalize it as anything else.

Would you want someone who won a lottery ticket to have power over your life at scale? Because that’s what excess wealth is, a power dynamic powered by a suboptimal system masquerading as shades of a meritocracy that does not exist.
HN ist not "most users". Yes they both have apps, an icon grid, a swipe down notification panel... but there are oceans of difference beyond that surface. HN is always full of new ones.
I was under the impression that “grid forming” as opposed to “grid following” inverters were not a solved problem. Can you cite any battery plant with documented tests of energizing transmission or distribution systems?
I’m guessing Integrated Information Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
There is Epic and Itch.

The problem is that Steam for all its faults is DRM, anti-cheat, and a well functioning store rolled all in one. Most of the alternate stores are bad in one way or another; Epic launched without a cart, and it still doesn’t have user text reviews. Itch had to redo its whole UI after that one bundle they did that had thousands of games in it.

Notably Valve doesn’t really use its position to make competing games. This is an unknown for most publishers, and Epic pretty blatantly pivoted Fortnite to eat PUBG’s lunch after working with them.

If anything the leading platform for competition as an indie store is the Nintendo eShop. Which is probably why the Steam Deck exists.
That's clever. I'd wondered how you can transfer files with "any order, as long as the entire file completes as fast as possible" semantics, that is, without head-of-line blocking, without incurring a lot of overhead. I guess the answer is to use lots of big chunks and lots of streams, instead of lots of tiny packet-sized chunks in 1 stream.
This is what the top sites do, e.g. temp-mail.org

And they also don't allow you to view all the active domains which helps against getting blacklisted quickly
Oddly? His essays are regularly thinly-veiled excuses to peddle libertarian horse shit

I thought Hackers and Painters was decent and even in those essays Paul couldn’t help him self
I’m in my late 50’s, and I still love making software, maybe even more now than when I was younger. What’s happened to me over decades as a professional is that I’ve totally lost any interest in “career” or the large corporate entity that employs me. Once any organization grows beyond about 20 people, it starts to become dysfunctional, so I’ll be retiring the day I can convince my spouse we have enough money. That will give me more time to work on things I care about, including software.
Because there are fewer places than expected where it really makes sense.
Was discussed in an old video of Practical Engineering: https://youtu.be/66YRCjkxIcg?si=PXArfkXkbCODeSAF&t=290
To be fair to him, he does say time and time again "Invest in an S&P Index Fund"
Stealing Passwords from McDonald's Users
> There is epic.

How is Epic a serious competitor or alternative, then?
You're right, looks like they doubled the price
>left-of-the-then-center progressive party

No it wasn't.
Ukraine Is Using AI to Help Clear Russian Landmines (2023)
That seems self defeating, nose meet knife but I guess if you're willing to give up what you actually want for the sake of annoying strangers that is your right. Doesn't seem like a recipe for happiness though.
The real scandal is that it is 2024 and people still don't understand how redaction works.
It turns out that notating the production of sound is inherently a very information-theoretically hard problem.
Totally fair. Solo dev is hard, and those priority choices are always a challenge. Remember that you have more context than anyone else suggesting things here - I'm sure that 3mo delay is for a reason. Great work so far!
This is super cool!

I'm going to try in the next game night with my friends. Will let you know how it goes.
Tho off brand Red Bull with a couple of rotgut vodka shots already mixed in.
Might be related to punting outcomes.
Not books but hints. I use and recommend magnesium just before bed.
"Magnesium: The Most Powerful Relaxation Mineral Available" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnesium-the-most-powerf_b_4...

From 2017 "Israeli firm 2breathe has developed a smart sensor and complementary app to help those who have difficulty nodding off" https://geeknewscentral.com/?s=2breathe
I'm not sure high inflation (and by high i mean from 10 to 40% yoy) is _that_ bad if your economy isn't mondialized and you produce most of your own food and mechanized parts, as long as local/national investment follows.

As it stand, Argentina inflation is way higher than just "high", and now also unpredictable since Milei took office, so i agree with with in large part, but i think this very method can and will cost Argentina its sovereignty over large part of its economy and real estate. Which isn't a bad thing if you are a foreign investor fund willing to make a risky bet (or investing in such a fund), but it might be a hard pill to swallow for Argentinians, and that could brew a lot of resentment.
The real scandal is that PDF Software is still stupid enough to not notice that a user is trying to do a redaction and offer to do it correctly.

This is the programmer’s fault, not the user’s.

It’s not a huge bar either. If the user has set a background color to solid black, and is filling black text with it, the intent is pretty obvious.
Isn't the form of an equation really just another sort of parameter?
Google reportedly is close to buying cybersecurity company Wiz for $23B
It's not every day that we see Oz mentioned here! I was very involved in writing the Mozart/Oz 2.0 VM.

I also wrote a "toy" (read: for school) dialect of Scala compiling to Oz and therefore turning every local variable or field into what Scala calls a Future, for free. Performance was abysmal, though! But in terms of language idioms, it was quite nice.

---

Unrelated: about Wasm, none of what it does is new, obviously. What's interesting about it is that

a) browser vendors agree to do it together, and

b) the design grows to accommodate many source languages. This used not to be the case but the eventual arrival of WasmGC significantly redistributed the cards of the game.

Relevant background here: I'm the author of the Scala to JavaScript compiler, and now co-author of the Scala to Wasm compiler.
There are plenty of competing stores, all of which pales in comparison. I don't know what their secret sauce is, but for me personally what makes a difference and why I keep preferring them is their dedication to Linux as a platform and a general feeling that they are not just driving me towards rent seeking. I know that last bit is slightly absurd, and I can't quite explain, but I think the fact that they are private means their priorities don't just exists as quarterly goals.
Very few adults, especially if we’re talking 40+, are healthy. By that age almost everyone has high blood pressure or asthma or a bad knee, or whatever.
cloudflare is blocked here... do you have a better archive?
Why generate the random names on the server? That could just be done on the client, reduces load and is faster.
GOG is a compelling option for a lot of content. DRM free and a huge library available
You are right: there are a lot of proposals at the moment trying to replace lithium. I'm hopeful, but let's wait until they are widely adopted before claiming victory. Let's not forget the carbon and environmental cost of such alternative batteries are not known because they are not mass built and mass deployed.
The presidency. So 1 out of 3
Feels like good scifi : interesting, clever sometime, but still made up
> Programming for the sake of "writing code" is probably going to miss the target.

Why do you have to be so demeaning?

I'd argue almost nobody is "writing code for the sake of writing code". In my case I love solving problems with code. Not by clicking through AWS' terrible website. Not through taking a deep breath and trying to reformulate a ChatGPT prompt for the 17th time.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-08/tesla-is-... | https://archive.today/xU9Kg

https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2024/01/12/Tesla%20BESS%20G...

Gambit Energy, owned by Tesla in Texas. Megapack supports grid forming in production (Hawaii and South Australia installations as well). “Virtual Machine Mode.”

It is solved, which shouldn’t be controversial considering Tesla’s power control maturity.
Steam might have a very disproportionate market share, but no one complains a lot because the competition is downright laughable. Internet companies are very low maintenance

It has a very low barrier to entry for devs and a permissive DRM compared to other stores. A powerful review system and a return policy better than anyone else I've seen so far. Very community friendly and has an entire feature dedicated to hosting user mods and creations. Right now they're wasting money on VR just because they can

Is it a monopoly when no one else is able to compete even on the technical side?
They’re still around, just not as caffeinated. Still fun to drive around with one between your legs. Just alternate sips with a Monster.
Because of the regulatory/economic regime the state has established, all of these plants are 4h plants, or 4Wh/W if you prefer. That's the number they need to hit to get the top-tier payout from the grid operator.
Fun anecdote, but do you buy it? An intern can really get this kind of change through approval to a test build? Who are they, Jia Tan?
'Build' Review: Failure Is the Mother of Invention
It’s that insight that brought forward passkeys, which have elements of SSO and 2FA-only logins. Apple has fully integrated, allowing cloud-sync’d passkeys: on-device for apple devices, 2FA-only if you’ve got an apple device on you. Chrome is also happy to act as a passkey. So’s BitWarden. It can’t be spoofed, can’t be subverted, you choose your provider, and you don’t even have to remember anything because the site can give you the name of the provider you registered with.
Who owns that Issue? Who allocated budget to address? It's a Team with a Leader that misses things, not some first-year doing things "wrong".
Steam is like any network effect based business. It's extremely difficult to dethrone when well entrenched.
The ETFs are generally rebalanced once a quarter, so yeah, it really is a big deal when a company enters one of the main indices, and the price starts to move up in anticipation of the listing, then stays up because the ETFs, as you intuit, have to start buying it as a component of the market. Supermicro entering S&P500 and Arm entering Nasdaq 100 being good examples recently.
Less off-topic, and a cool [web-based] virtual modular synth: https://cardinal.kx.studio/

Cardinal runs natively, as a plugin in various formats, and in your browser. It is based on VCV Rack 2, but has a fixed (large) selection of libre-licensed modules.
Are you involved in the still-thriving C64 demo scene at all? Possible way to reconnect with the magic if not. Especially by attending (in-person, ideally) one of the many demo parties around the world.

There are also parallels with embedded device and FPGA work that I personally find thrilling.

Plus we on the VICE (open source Commodore emulator) team are always looking for devs.
Not only are the poor poorer but now they feel like crap from the tech social media dystopia they inhabit.
it's exactly the way torrents have worked for decades, so it's pretty well tested.
So the model is - “first person pays, rest of community gets that audio for free”, have I understood that right?

Cos if so - cool, that’s a lovely model. And you should make more of it. There’s a definite feel good factor associated with this. You could probably also charge a bit more - $5 for a thing I get alone vs $10 for a thing that I get but everyone else gets for free too seems a no brainer incentive to me.

FWIW I find Omnivore[0] to be really compellingly realistic TTS. I don’t know what they use but it’s pretty great imo.

[0] https://omnivore.app/
That's not "the" joke, or even a joke, that's just an amusing case of PR spin.

The title doesn't say that employee was fired to refer to that "joke". It says it because it's more clickbaity this way.
It's my favorite illustration in the book too. :)
If it was just Adobe, blame Adobe.

But can you tell me your favorite open-source PDF reader on Linux is immune?

(Edit, because some people miss the point and just want to be pedantic: an editor.)
I'm not shocked because that's exactly what I would expect.
Let's be honest, it's an Adobe issue
Ride share and delivery app companies could take some notes on how to stay lean and profitable while operating an online marketplace. I know ride share apps are more complicated, but I don't think we're talking two orders of magnitudes more complicated (300 employees vs. 30,000 at Uber). The bloat at Uber/Lyft/Doordash is insane.
If you can consistently make 30%, a bank loan will make you 24%.
> It is misleading to compare a battery array that lasts for 4 hours to a nuclear powered electric plant that supplies energy at a constant 24/7.

It is misleading to compare the two:

* One has no risk of a nuclear meltdown in a very earthquake prone area (California).

* One does not have 60+ year long successful history of lobbying governments and establishing regulatory capture (note I wrote 'successful')

* one does have issue where they do not reprocess spent fuel adding billions of risk of nuclear fuel leaking into the environment; or if they do recycle, risk creating material for nuclear weapons.

* one would struggle with it's strong baseline, yet inflexible power generation without batteries to handle afternoon peaks

Keeping hearing random arguments for nuclear fission power (why not tidal?) and yet the regulatory capture and earthquake issue is still present in the US. We moved away from nuclear power after Japan's meltdown for a reason. With recent Supreme Court decisions and fracking causing earthquakes in Nebraska it has only gotten worse. I do not trust the industry with nuclear power. California spent a lot of money to establish a working grid that can be used for sustainable power until we get useful fusion (or that big supervolcano hits). Nuclear power is more needed in Texas right now, with it's broken grid, than California.

More information on reprocessing nuclear waste:
https://www.projectoptimist.us/why-us-doesnt-recycle-spent-n...
https://thebulletin.org/2019/07/recycle-everything-america-e...
Obligatory (long-form) watch if you're going to continue wondering about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4

"Notation must die" by Tantacrul
I haven't. That's a good idea. I'm pretty good at tracking down resources, but really bad at actually contacting humans.
> Best practices for software engineering teams, derived from writings and speeches of Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping.

... or translations thereof, to be exact.-
It is one of the most serious, in that it exists, and probably has one of the biggest catalogs next to Steam, which is not true of say whatever Ubisoft or EA is doing. at the very least there is substantial enough catalog overlap that one can price compare.
Alcohol consumption is a stronger proxy.
One involves delivering software to license holders.

The other has to deal with the possibility of humans using their app as an assault or kidnapping mechanism; from either end (rider attacking driver; driver kidnapping passenger, etc.)

Very different levels of responsibility. This can be seen, for example, by the size of Lyft and Uber’s security teams.
Minimum requirement is an Amiga 500 with 1 MB of RAM (512 kB chip ram).
Some of the drugs are intramuscular injections of formulations that take months to metabolize. As they metabolize, the active ingredients enter the bloodstream.
So what you’re saying is that the mirror is the measure, and that the projections based on photons, etc. are fundenmentally evidenced by the form of the mirror image?
Here are some useful graphs showing how electricty demand varies by region, month and time of day [1].

As expected, California peaks in July because there's more demand for cooling than heating. But what's a little surprising is that July is peak demand for every region.

There are many reasons why solar is so attractive as a power source, including:

1. It's the only form of power with direct electricty generation. There's no heating water to turn a turbine;

2. Solar basically has no moving parts. You can point panels towards the Sun to increase efficiency but the panel itself and transmission has no moving parts;

3. Solar panels continue to massively reduce in price and increase in efficiency and it's not clear where this ends;

4. Obviously solar generates its pwower when the Sun is shining. This conincides with when most power is usedk. Adding solar to the power generation mix reduces the peak load required to generate from other sources;

5. Solar installations can be really small, including on individual houses, reducing the transmission capacity required for last-mile and regional power transport.

Batteries are just one method to store excess power for variable (renewable) energy sources. Another is carbon sequestration to create fuel directly, called Carbon Capture and Storage ("CCS") [2]. This isn't economic yet. But it may have applications in, say, cold climates where battery performance noticeably degrades.

Solar power is the future.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915

[2]: https://www.iisd.org/articles/deep-dive/why-carbon-capture-s...
>Is it a monopoly when no one else is able to compete even on the technical side?

Steam is 20 years in the making, so it is very hard to catch up with them. If you want to compete, you need to offer something different.
Is it lean when your biggest payroll is "admin"? More like fattened up and held up by big margins and little competition.
But isn't the whole idea for those companies to burn a lot of money to show investors that big things are happening?
I’m in a similar positions (in my 50s with a family to support). For the most part I can get my boring corporate work done fairly quickly. Then I spend some time each day working on personal programming projects where I get my true satisfaction.
A can of FourLoco contains 4.75 servings.
> The whole country is in a constant state of fear because of guns.

No, we're not. Nor has it been during my entire life. This sounds like the kind of stereotype only someone that doesn't live here believes... the kind of stereotyping that allows you to say, "we're so much better than them!" Oh sure, there are some that are and there are some places, though relatively few, where you probably ought to be.

But if gun availability is the root of the problem as you seem to be suggesting, you simply aren't thinking very deeply about the reality in context with history. Guns are more regulated now in US than at any other time in its history (OK, given some modest ebb and flow in laws passed and litigation over the past few decades). But do you really think that during its entire 248 year history the entire country has been in a state of constant fear? If increased gun prohibitions are the answer to lawlessness certainly that fear must have been terrifically more pronounced in the past and we should already have a highly regulated gun ownership regime. I find it highly unlikely that my ancestor's ancestors were shaken to their core for fear of being shot (and some of my family goes back to the 1850s wild west in Utah!)

Gun availability in the US is simply not a recent phenomena. They use to teach shooting courses in some public high schools no less. Suggesting that after a hundred years of ever increasing gun regulation that somehow guns are the problem is just silly.
Jay Leno Announces Microsoft Windows 95 Launch
Here is another good open source implementation:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dVD1Yws__v0
The article you linked was written by the CEO of the company.

So it’s not going to go into detail about possible negative impacts of the mining in the same way that the original NYtimes article does.
You are right in the sense that there is groups among the MSM community who feel emboldened by PrEP to have unprotected promiscuous sex. I've ran across this mindset myself. It's a free world but the mindset is short sighted: there is many other diseases who spread more freely thanks to the carelessness instilled by PrEP.

I agree that PrEP should mainly be seen as a means of derisking the worst case scenario of what happens when a condom breaks, falls off, etc. It's an amazing gift in the fight against HIV, but only for HIV, not the other diseases.

I wouldn't say this mindset is present in all gay people though, one should differentiate. Many gay people I talk to are very aware of the distinction.
From Britannia: https://www.britannica.com/topic/hacker

> Indeed, the first recorded use of the word hacker in print appeared in a 1963 article in MIT’s The Tech detailing how hackers managed to illegally access the university’s telephone network.

I get what you’re saying, but I think we’re tilting at windmills. If “hacker” has a connotation of “breaking in” for 61 years now, then the descriptivist answer is to let it be.
You might be shocked to learn that code review processes more than 30 years ago might not have been quite as ubiquitous and robust as they are now.

Back in the day, there were all kinds of hidden Easter eggs in MS products, some of them much more elaborate than this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Easter_eggs_in_Microso...