skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Damascus Incident[0]. There's a book called Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser that details the incident, and a PBS based on the book about it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...
https://github.com/codr7/sharpl/pull/1

Was: 686 98 1195

Now: 226 79 293 (with net9.0 preview: 201 70 269, another release another free >10%)

The reason for such a significant difference is that `ArrayStack<(int, int)>` only implements `IEnumerable<T>`, which prevented the Enumerable.Last(stack) call from seeing that the type has an indexer which can be used to quickly access the last element instead of traversing it in its entirety.

Now, it still requires JIT (or, in this case, compiler back-end and ILC) to reason about the actual type of ArrayStack to optimize away type tests, inline Last() call and devirtualize indexer access, but the better option is simply replacing it with just [^1] which does the same on any indexable type.

Generally speaking, it's recommended to use out of box collections whenever appropriate like Stack, List, etc. which already implement all the necessary interfaces which the standard library takes advantage of unless there's a specific need to do otherwise.

Also, it is always nice to have .net's aot emit "canonical" native binaries, so it took me about 45s to find the bottleneck by bumping up the numbers in benchmarks.sl and clicking "Sample" in macOS's Activity Monitor.

All in all, the code in the project is terse and thanks for showcasing it!
You don’t have to imagine, here’s a web site that lets you model the impact: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/. I positioned the “moderate” 1MT single warhead strikes at all nearby army and naval bases and concluded that I won’t be incinerated right away, but will die of radiation sickness and starvation instead.
Could it be cold feet or fallout from the Crowdstrike debacle?
No, eligible businesses can do this through Stripe for example.
Nuclear winter??? Strange question.
Add me to the haven't heard of them list. Mind you I almost hadn't heard of Crowdstrike and they managed to brick the world.
I feel like the rise of advertising malware attacks (where someone places a google ad on a domain name they don’t own, so that people searching for that site directly are tricked into clicking on the malware ad instead) is bringing back typing domains directly. I know I have personally started avoiding using google search as my dns.
Have you tried https://www.xometry.com/ ?

They have a network of vetted shops who bid on jobs when otherwise unoccupied.
Once it IPOs?

Wiz might not mind at that point.

But if they did mind, it would be a hostile takeover. The way Wiz can prevent it is by approaching their largest shareholders and asking them to help prevent it.
The end of men? The woman growing testicles in a test tube
A tax is usually a percentage or income but my definition it need not be. It can be a flat tax. Or a tax on an assessed value, like a property tax.

I think the idea is if you tax people ~$1k/year/.com domain or 5% of the assessed value then you have fewer domain squatters and fewer stagnant domains. I guess students, hobbyists, etc. would then have to move to a corporate entity like GitHub Pages, Netlify, etc.

A tax on assets resuces some problems but creates others.
but why use a nuke? we have all sorts of non-nuclear weaponry. we have bunker busters that can penetrate hundreds of feet.

even if iran can't retaliate with nukes, the geopolitical cost would be insane.
The article demonstrated that skill / correct process is not sufficient for success. However, for making estimates of future results, looking at the process to gain insights into the EV rather than looking at past results can be more fruitful. Just looking at past results often results in falling victim to reversion to the mean.
I showed my Mom my personal website a few years ago, and her only comment was it needed more pictures, so I added a picture of a window plant to exactly one page. I haven't showed it to anyone else IRL.

https://brynet.ca/article-x395.html
That should've been in the title:

"Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-anywhere run-anywhere language"

Let the furious downvoting begin.
Same goes for vinyl and music charts (downloads).

For a certain time some producers and their label magically went into the top 10 in their not so small niche. Ok-ish stuff, but very short lived.

What a beautiful marketing machine in a very expensive and taste driven industry. It seems to appear a great way to launder money.

In Germany there was also a small scandal around a singer who’s producer had to admit to vinyl buying practices as a side note in a court case.
The premise of it being universal is that it doesn't have an explicit phase out and instead it's implicit in the tax system. Obviously someone making six figures is not going to be a net recipient, but they would still have the money deposited into their account. The amount would just be smaller than the amount they're paying in taxes.

The advantage of doing it this way is that it makes it clear what's going on. Right now we nominally impose low marginal tax rates on the poor but their effective marginal tax rates are high because of benefits phase outs, so their effective marginal tax rates are higher than the wealthy. With a UBI you replace the benefits with cash payments and eliminate the phase outs, but also flatten the tax rates so the poor are paying the same effective marginal rates as the rich, instead of higher ones.

The result would be that the poor pay slightly lower effective marginal rates and the rich pay slightly higher ones (although you don't even inherently have to do that; it depends entirely on the tax rate and the amount of the UBI), but the overall system is much simpler. And the consequence that the poor are paying higher effective marginal rates than the rich, which was presumably never intended, goes away.
I think the taycan is overpriced and underperforms. I wondered why people bought them. But maybe it is that porsche does the sports in sports car well. It still has dials, gauges and buttons, and works well with the driver. For people who like to drive, porsche gives you control, gives you an experience and is a good match.

Now the tesla plaid costs less and is quicker. Specs put it miles above other cars. But tesla has been turning its back on the customers. This is a car for people who like to drive, yet tesla has designed it for someone who doesn't mind not controlling their car. not only no gearshift, but it guesses what gear. No stalks. no buttons (except for the silly ones on the steering wheel that turn)

Don't know the actual demographic of these cars. I remember reading decades ago that most corvettes come with automatic transmissions, so maybe people don't want to drive their sports cars.
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> so don't fuck with us.

That's the entire point of nuclear weapons, isnit?
For everyone who doesn't need ä,ü,ö. Or software that needs to take ä,ü,ö. For everyone else, UTF is a blessing.
HN voting system is stupid.
Conflicts Around the Globe Are Breeding Our Next Pandemic
An Introduction here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPMjVcLiNKc
If you did, then you would know that it is not about race, it is about culture. Gypsy culture is extremely toxic and more akin to gangs than to normal society.

Do you like violent drug gangs? If not, why? Are you racist to them?
If you really want to be that charitable.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1a1jn00hc

> [Cyberstarts] has a portfolio of only 22 companies whose combined value is $35 billion. Five of these companies are unicorns, first and foremost Wiz, which seems to be breaking all the rules of growth and success and setting new standards in the industry.. In all three of his funds, Ra'anan shows an internal rate of return of more than 100%, an unusual figure even for the best funds in the world.. The first sales come from the loyal CISOs who work with the fund.. The whole CISO advisory committee issue has gotten out of hand for corporate America.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjpwti2dr

> Wiz announced two months ago that it had raised $1 billion at a $12 billion valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to $1.9 billion.
It's not a strange question: many falsehoods get repeated over and over on the internet and here on HN.

The conversation around nuclear winter focused on burning petroleum storage tanks because (in contrast to burning houses and burning trees) those kinds of fires produce the darkest smoke with a particle size small enough to get high in the atmosphere and to stay in the atmosphere for a long time. "100 oil refinery fires would be sufficient to bring about a small scale, but still globally deleterious nuclear winter," said one prominent paper.

Then Saddam lit 700 oil wells on fire (and deployed land mines to slow down firefighters with the result that it took 7 months to put the fires out), and although there was some slight cooling effect, you really had to go looking for it with precision instruments to detect it at all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Kuwait_wells_in...
This is exactly how I felt as a shareholder. There is no real reason to pay this much and it seems like Google is the one that walked away from the deal.
> You might think it's clever because it's generated code for you, but that's probably because you asked it to make something 500 people already made and published on GitHub.

An LLM has no problem coming up with novel solutions within my own esoteric physics framework that only exist on my computer, using my patterns and taking all the nuances into account. It's definitely not just spitting out something it has seen before.
A good enough personal brand means you have a name (generally) disconnected from your individual job and you are known as an entity in your own right, often not entirely pinned to a single discipline. The most cynical example here is probably Kylie Kardashian, ostensibly a billionaire entrepreneur, but you could just as easily sub in a lot of modern content creators like Mr. Beast.

These can come about naturally through some amount of fame, naturally through having a natural talent for something that generates interest in you and your opinions, or you can grind for it in a kind of numbers game.

If you are working towards getting your name "out there" and having some of that sense of recognition, if you're hustling for subscribers or follows, if you are following trends to post about in order to try to get more readers, you're behaving in brand-building exercises.

If you're just writing for the sake of writing, or to keep a journal for your future self, or just so your close friends can keep up with you, you're not.
From the start this seemed more like a PR move from Wiz than a real offer.
Comically, the way I save mermaid images are through screenshots.

But this is only if I need to put it in a paper or something as otherwise just point the user to the diagram in a browser.

It is still much better than any alternative I can think of.
Sad, it was nice to see a developer trying something other than "single family homes for as far as the eye can see".
Firefox disallows them by default, and in OP for Chrome we're also only talking about what's the default, from a developer perspective you should still act on it.
> the researchers were able to observe characteristic X-rays and ionized gas rotating at a speed of several 100 km/s in a ring around the suspected location of the intermediate-mass black hole.

That's a little better than circumstantial.
Samsung 850 EVO Data Retention and Performance Degradation? (2016)
Aren’t most of those things developed in house at tech giants and later open sourced?
I remember reading about this a few years ago... the MC4700 "super-fuze"

It looks like it was deployed back in 2009 on the warheads on Trident SLBMs. From [0]:

"Before the invention of this new fuzing mechanism, even the most accurate ballistic missile warheads might not detonate close enough to targets hardened against nuclear attack to destroy them. But the new super-fuze is designed to destroy fixed targets by detonating above and around a target in a much more effective way. Warheads that would otherwise overfly a target and land too far away will now, because of the new fuzing system, detonate above the target.

The result of this fuzing scheme is a significant increase in the probability that a warhead will explode close enough to destroy the target even though the accuracy of the missile-warhead system has itself not improved.

As a consequence, the US submarine force today is much more capable than it was previously against hardened targets such as Russian ICBM silos. A decade ago, only about 20 percent of US submarine warheads had hard-target kill capability; today they all do."

[0] https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
It’s a hair smaller than a stack of 4 UMDs, the media the PSP used.
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A book doesn’t, and Foundation makes excellent use of every inch of the novel as a medium to explore itself, but the commenter above was specifically referring to what made the book difficult to adapt into a television series. And while Malick et all can def do “rumination on a theme” as a feature film, an ongoing tv series requires the audience to invest and keep coming back week after week, episode after episode.

Generally that takes the form of characters who experience things — ideally growing or changing in response, although many genres and formats don’t require that part. It’s unnecessary since part of the medium of television, unlike the novel, is people putting on a show to entertain you which is different from reading, an inherently more-individual experience. Part of what TV is selling is a group of people to hang out with every week. Generally.

Which is not to say always — shows like Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt proved the anthology format has a wide audience. But they had the advantage of a brand new paradigm each week, which creates a relationship with the show itself (but even TZ allowed the audience Serling).

Foundation def be done as anthology style episodes with some crossovers/overlap, but again practical realities make it difficult to guarantee narratively-necessary access to actors due to contract and scheduling factors, and you have the issue of both too big for standard structure and “not big enough” for a true anthology at its core. Not saying it couldn’t work it’d just be more difficult, which is not a quality that makes studios likely to invest.
I would assume that asking a question in the comments section of a relevant article, and making clear why I’m doing so is slightly less flag worthy than randomly googling questions about logistics and production.
Look at their financials, CloudFlare might be popular among the HN crowd but the stock is massively overvalued. At the end of the day they are a commodity CDN that somehow can’t run a profitable business.
Lots of companies have regretted passing up on an acquisition, especially one this large and of a company this young. My bet would be that this company is making the same mistake as Yahoo, Groupon, etc.
There's a homebrew head tracking demo [0] for the wii that has you put a sensor bar on your head, and a wiimote on top of your TV. I messed around with it over a decade ago and found it very convincing.

0: https://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Headtracking
Nice work, thanks!

I'll have a look later, the only part I didn't get was [^1], could you elaborate?

About the ArrayStack, I wanted a stack backed by a fixed array, because my suspicion was using a fixed array for fundamental collections would be faster. Hence the VM.Config object to set the max sizes.

There is also a DynamicArrayStack that supports reallocation, which is currently used by OrderedMap.

The plan is to eventually benchmark the alternatives, but start with the simplest thing that could possibly work.
I regularly play in Vegas poker no limit hold’em tournaments, and am substantially positive. These are 12+ hour/day, multi day tournaments, and a bad player with luck just isn’t going to last the grind. 90% of the people in these tournaments have no reason being there. The top 10% are solid, and within that group, it does come down to luck.
This is wiz.io BUT I appreciate the enthusiasm
My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
23B is a staggering number for a 4 year old cyber security startup with 900 employees
Hotel owners like working with booking, and yes, they have resale agreements with all hotels and other accommodation providers they list on their website.
The Dreamcast GPU was also really neat. It was tile based and could do order independent transparency!
My son has been working on this game for the last month or so. He got inspired by Prodigy to make his own take on the game.

He's coded all the HTML, CSS & JS by hand in VSCode. He's made the animated graphics on his own using a web based sprite editor called Piskel.

I provided some hints along the way and Google Gemini has been his coding partner.

View source to see the code. He's excited to share and get your feedback!
years ago someone posted http://norvig.com/lispy.html here on HN

I wrote a lisp in C# based on that, it was only a 100+ ish lines of code. It was a great way to get into Lisp.
Wild. How soon until the standard housing lease boilerplate contains clauses like “you may not transmit any electromagnetic radiation at all under any circumstances whatsoever” as a means of landlords trying to cover their booties?

More seriously, I’d be mighty concerned if I were a landlord and saw someone putting up a ham antenna, regardless of whatever licensing they claimed to have. It’s a bad day for public radio.
Is it a given that operating directly on the actual graph is preferable to graphBLAS?
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/323 is the oldest currently open tracking issue, as you can see it has 397 comments. And that thread you linked has 171. Basically, tons of people that feel basically every possible way.

I also feel at this point it's basically a wontfix, but that's more because it's both controversial and huge, and arguably not as high of a priority as other things even if it weren't those two things. The reason it gets huge is that you really want to consider all three of {optional, named, variadric} at roughly the same time.

I do think that people are generally more supportive of variadric than optional/named.
> Sometimes it's not about the money

it's always about the money.
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My CPU was unstable for months, I spent tens of hours and hundreds on equipment to troubleshoot (I _never_ thought my CPU would be the cause). Had I of known this, I would have scrutinised the cpu a lot faster than what I did.

Intel not making a public statement about potentially defective products could have been done with good PR spin ‘we detected an issue, believe the defect rate will be < 0.25%, here’s a test suite you can run, call if you think you’re one of the .25!’ But they didn’t.

I’m never buying an intel product again. Fuck intel.
with a 29% discount.
Extremely normal for VC backed companies.
You can also use lvm2 and then you get atomic snapshots with any file system (I think it needs to support fsfreeze, I guess all of them do).
It is, but governments have welded it to the on position for fear of what off would do.
Your comment made me go look at the P/E ratio of Alphabet itself - they're valued at 38x earnings. In this context turning down 65x ARR seems fucking insane at best.
Even more strongly; Copying is the way we Learn.
They’ve had some really nice writeups but I always thought they were your generic security firm doing some bug hunting. Recently I happened upon their domain submissions to HN and saw they raised $1b+ and was like wtf? What do they actually do? I mean what are their products that people pay for?

Maybe there are obvious answers to these questions, but if a company is worth $23bn I’d expect that as somebody in the industry, I could answer them without doing in depth research.

This is exactly the kind of gut feeling of “something’s off” that I’ve learned to pay attention to.
Space doesn't just move the cursor on a display; it will obliterate a character cell with a space glyph.

When a display terminal has nondestructive backspace (backspace character doesn't erase), it can be software emulated with BS-SPACE-BS.

At your Linux terminal, you can do "stty echoe" (echo erase) to turn this on (affecting the echoing of backspace characters that are input, not all backspace characters).

Dial-up BBSes had this as a configurable setting also.
Yes, the top cloud customers of the big three cloud providers are making similar, if not more. Startups in the cloud space are similar.
nrc was poking at the problem in 2016 https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/struct-field-defaults/3412 which led to this RFC https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1806

It got postponed because it wasn't going to make it into Rust 2018: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1806#issuecomment-327...
I programmed and ran a bot that played on real money sites.
This comment chain is talking about the oxidation in particular, and specifically the situation where the oxidation is not the cause of the instability in the title. That's the only way they "identified & addressed the issue but didn’t issue a recall".

Do you have a reason to think the oxidation is the cause of your problems?

Did you not read my first post trying to clarify the two separate issues?

Am I misunderstanding something?
Agreed. The minute I learned one of my directs was reading my small blog posting to it became much, much harder.
Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards
Major respect. I can only wonder what it feels like to possess that intense confidence. The appeal of 'a bird in hand' would almost certainly overwhelm most of us.
Volume is incredibly important for any truly serious endeavor. Bryan Caplan's excellent post Do Ten Times As Much makes the point succinctly. [1]

I've come to believe the real reason people shouldn't pursue these kinds of sports or games professionally unless they're born with a deep thirst for winning them is twofold. First, if you love it from day one, the chances that you're actually better than average are higher than they would be for a randomly selected person in the population (e.g. Nike CEO Phil Knight really was able to run a 4-minute mile in college).

But second, deeply enjoying the game makes the requisite 10 (20, 50, 100) thousand hours you need to become a true pro go much faster than for someone who's just putting in the reps, and it even gives you drive to do related things in the likely case that that doesn't pan out (e.g., Nike CEO Phil Knight did not become an Olympian after college, he instead sold Japanese shoes out of his car for half a decade or so as a side hustle to track and field meets across the country while working a day job).

[1]: https://www.betonit.ai/p/do-ten-times-as-much
> void is the unit type. The fact that it is not constructible is a wart of the language, inherited from C.
> A function returning bottom cannot return, yet void foo() {} can.

Or you could say it the other way, that it is the bottom type, and the fact that it can be used as the unit type for returned values is a wart of the language. Furthermore, void* isn't a pointer of the unit type, it's a type for pointers to undefined/unspecified value types.