skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that 500kg mass or negative buoyancy? Because 500kg of octogen (density of 1.91g/cm³) which thus would take up 261800cm³. An item of that volume and mass would only be 230kg negatively buoyant in sea water.

Still very heavy, but basically neutral with 2 large lift bags (you can easily find 150kg pyramid lift bags for about 1-200€ each).
Yes I agree. An issue I have is hearing about a future event that has now sold out of tickets because when I heard about it so did everyone else. It's a catch-22.

Are you suggesting your online data could predict which events you might like before they sell out / actually happen?
For context, I recently completed a game on a team of 4 devs who were all relatively new to ECS for the last bevy game jam [1]

Initially, we struggled a bit with how much ceremony there seemed to be to make simple stuff like movement work within the paradigm of an ECS (entity component system) engine.

But by the end of the week I think i can safely speak for all of us when i say we came away impressed by how organized everything was - despite everyone working on different pieces at a frantic pace for a week.

One concrete example is a last minute addition of little text dialog popups over various entities in response to different events : enemy sighting a player, player respawning, reaching an objective, etc. This ended up being trivial once the system for picking which line to say was in place, largely thanks to ecs and bevy’s event system.

Now i wouldn’t want to go back to the gameObject / update function way of structuring things ecs and bevy actually really shine once you do cross a certain threshold of size/complexity - especially with multiple people working simultaneously.

That said i do agree with you on the generalized physics engine point - we decided early on that was overkill and we could write our own collision and movement much faster, with better game feel to boot.

[1] https://itch.io/jam/bevy-jam-5/rate/2824463
Headed out to where the down boys go
if the aim is to just read and understand the papers, it is just a matter of learning the ap calc and some first-year university maths to get the basics out of the way.

the rest of the journey is to find an ml course which acts like a survey of the current state of the art. this field has complexity due to abstraction and horrendous naming practices. to understand a given paper requires working your way in reverse from concepts around it.

in addition, learn a "maths in code" platform of your choice to map the concepts to something you can run.
Yeah, all my learnings were from books, bought or local library, computer magazines, and occasional demoscene meetings.

I was able to connect to BBS only during the summer internship I did, at the end of my vocational school training in computer programming.

When I afterwards arrived into the university, Gopher was still a thing.

Lots of paper based programming, and wild guessing, there was no Stack Overflow to help us out.
Has it? I see this:

Instance has been rate limited.
Use another instance or try again later.
I suppose there's levels of mediocre. For the vast majority of us, the level of mediocre we could accomplish across many fields may not enable us to do much connecting at all. But I realize this is all very vague and depends on individual traits. I just don't think that what OP points out is "extremely depressing."
Yeah it was pretty insane, catching it mid flight. Really cool. You can't make that stuff up.

Imagine tracking and catching something falling from space using only 60s tracking tech. No GPS. Wow.
Agreed. I was also thinking of utilising bento cards for each benefit/feature, that the user can learn more.

Bento cards would also reduce the landing page significantly.
That is still a valid expectation, just look at other commenters on the thread that they also find the behavior surprising.
> A protester, by staying in a protest that turns into a riot, may also turn into a rioter.

Only if that individual protestor personally commits acts of violence. Obviously they are not a rioter simply by being near other rioters. That's an illegal concept known as collective guilt or collective punishment.

> Usually, a protester would understand that there's law breaking and leave the scene. Staying put, he'd become a rioter.

That would mean the government can outlaw protests by simply committing a single act of violence during one (or falsely claiming there was violence), declaring it a riot, and calling all the protestors, rioters. Obviously illegal.

> If you are standing around watching a friend engage in a streetfight, and someone ends up dead, now you are at a murder scene, and if you stick around doing nothing, don't be surprised if you are arrested as a suspect

Few would be surprised by police doing illegal things. That doesn't mean the illegal things are legal.

In the same vein, if you record police brutality in the United States, don't be surprised if you are threatened or targeted by police. If you insult a police officer to their face in the United States, don't be surprised if you get assaulted, arrested, or shot and killed. Does that make such police behavior legal or righteous?
Honorary mention:

SAFe agile
World's greatest productivity hack: stop reading blog posts about productivity
Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.
Oh lol that’s not great
Working for a 100 year old 5b/year company the amount of forms to fill in to do various things are extreme.

I could easily see a requirement from high up managment to “reduce risk” by having a department have a plan for an unusually long holiday stint (I.e someone taking 6 weeks off in a row), fundamentally because senior management don’t trust middle management.
But you can still drive a Cyber Truck.
I'll admit I can't weigh on whether there's a plausible strategy for implementing backwards frame step in VLC without violating any of their sacred invariants. Maybe the existence of other players with that feature implies that the VLC devs just aren't seeing it. But without that knowledge, I'm left to trust the developer's presumably deep knowledge of their own architecture when they say that it just doesn't 'fit'. It seems more likely that the other players can do it because they're architected differently, or they make a different (smaller) set of guarantees about which formats they will play back in which scenarios.

>Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If people don't use your product, it doesn't matter how right and pure of vision you are.

This is great advice... for a business. VLC isn't a business, it's a useful thing that exists. It gives people fulfillment to donate their time to keep it useful and relevant. That fulfillment is going to be directly proportional to how elegant the design is and how much leverage they have, i.e. small amount of good code provides wide amount of functionality for many happy users. The more that maintenance of VLC degrades towards "brutal hand-crafted specialization of huge switch cases", the less well-maintained it's going to be. This is not an excuse, it's a statement about human nature, something akin to economics.

It's possible that mpv picked a better abstraction and they can provide a strictly better application for the same or less software maintenance cost. But I tend to suspect that the differences arise from levels of support, not better design. That's just a spider sense though.
Just let me opt out of margin collapsing. That may be helpful if we’re dealing with paragraphs on a long piece of prose, but that’s decidedly not what I’m dealing with 95% of the time.

Even with all the cool layout props we have today, it’s way too complicated to say „make this thing fill the whole screen minus the navbar at the top, make it scrollable if the content overflows and Center it vertically otherwise“. Add a grid or sticky elements or z index modifications to the mix, and the quirks get loud fast.
You can block third-party cookies in browser and install extension "i still don't care about cookies". (not sure if and how it works on mobile)
An attack on the PAKE would involve the attacker seeing the secret value as it was transferred to the recipient and then beating the recipient to the handshake. So there is security value in being prompt in putting in the secret value at the receiving end.

That is as opposed to sending a public key or key fingerprint. In that case there would be little value to the attacker in seeing the transfer. They would have to MITM the transfer of the key itself. If you wanted to prevent the attacker from sending bogus files you would also have to transfer some sort of signing key.

So a short, time limited, secret vs a longer public value.
The price per watt for rooftop PV system installations varies dramatically from country to country in the west. Where I live in Canada the average cost is about $2 USD per watt installed (for a 7-10kW system). In Australia, the same system costs about $0.66 USD per watt installed.

That means for a 10kW system I'm looking at $20k USD in Canada vs. $6600 USD in Australia. That's such a huge difference that 5-10% cost reduction in Canada would barely make a difference at all. I have serious doubts that any Canadian household could recoup the cost of a big solar install over the lifetime of the panels vs simply investing that money in ETFs.

Perhaps the situation is different in the US?
Potentially related:

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-168...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38970676
How is that different than, say, indefinite detention? It’s obviously not implemented perfectly, but habeas corpus is uncontroversial at least in principle. I don’t see anything mechanistically unique about property seizure that would make this tricky to solve.
Of these, I'm familiar with Enshrouded. Although I suppose it's voxel based in a sense it's not really voxel-based like minecraft is. Like instead of displaying the voxels as is, the game interpolates them into smooth shapes. Also characters and placables are high-poly like you would expect from any other game rather than blocky like in minecraft.

The effect of this is that it's actually quite non-obvious that it's voxel based unless you pay careful attention.
As an aside for Clojure users, there is a nice “declarative, functional and extensible” wrapper for JavaFX called cljfx[1] that has been around for some years now. When I tried it last time to prototype a desktop app, I found it really pleasent and simple to work with, it felt like a more modern way to build JavaFX GUIs.

[1]: https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx
The Polonius rules were formulated using Datalog, but the implementation that will ship in rustc does not use Datalog: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/10/06/polonius-u...
It's not about updating anything user-visible, but about updating the feed reader's internal cache with the new last-modified timestamp so that it doesn't keep requesting the same feed over and over again.
for all intents and purposes, brave on ios provides plenty ad-block capabilities to do the job.

with altstore grant from epic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41250470), it should hopefully be easier to onboard more proper alternatives.
Do you actually see and modify code in your browser today? I mean for like 5 years all you see in the browser is minified and obfuscated to the point its almost impossible to make any practical sense out of it.
The tipping points of climate change and where we stand [video]
Wild Pathnames in Common Lisp
I discovered that in a weird limbo: I updated to Windows 11 on an "old" XPS 13, and never used that device again in Windows. Several years later tried to use Windows 11 there for a specific purpose and it says that I don't have the required hardware.

It is interesting that around this time (COVID age) I started using the MB Air M1 and couldn't connect many external monitors while my "old" XPS 13 could be plugged to any Thunderbolt dock and works incredible well, even without configuring anything special in Linux.

I don't think this is a benefit for a Microsoft strategy but that many people there should be layoff. It is completely contrary with their current developer strategy. Also, privacy-wise you cannot now for sure if they are sending your keystrokes via telemetry... as a negligence.
If I ask my favorite search engine for "technology salary guide", there are several first-page results that at least claim to provide just this.

Are these less reliable that they look like they think they are, or... ?
Oh yes I can. I don't care if there are a variety of levels and flavors. Noise over my yard from somebody else sucks.

ICE noise on the road sucks too, there's a reason freeways have massive investments in sound barriers.
Linked GitHub comment is from August 2023.
The idea is that Blockbuster already had strong relationships with practically all the makers. Transitioning to streaming would have been very hard, but coming into the market with preexisting relationships would have been a huge advantage.

On the user side, the storefronts could have helped a lot of less technical people set up their first streaming accounts at home. It was a massive mental leap to go from “movies come out of that box under my tv” to streaming and the storefronts could have helped people make that transition.

It’s all to theoretical to talk about whether it would be good or bad for users. Implementing it correctly would have relied on Blockbuster being able to turn itself into a technology company without cannibalizing those things that made it attractive to makers. That is a very hard thing to do and they had to pull it off in a moving market.
Really now? Please don't credit X for this. Nitter operators are working hard behind the scenes to keep as many usable IPs and accounts in operation as they can. Give credit where credit is due.
This is more of what I'm talking about. It's evident you've never talked with a Taiwanese. The younger generations of Taiwanese don't oppose the idea of reunification because they don't like China, due to this idea of US propaganda you have, but because they don't feel Chinese, due to living independent from the PRC for their entire lives. Have you ever asked yourself why they would care to entertain the idea of "reunification" to a country they had never been a part of?
I feel like Slack is 80% of the problem. Honestly I'd like to get rid of it at our company, and just have everything come down/go back up through my manager. I realise some of you probably have never experienced this.
They still provide directions on downgrading the TPM check from 2.0 to 1.2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/ways-to-install-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon_affair

TLDR: GCHQ spend 500million on a satellite, and decide that not only is it too secret for the BBC to talk about it's too secret for Parliament to know about. Huge row ensues.

Matrix-Churchill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Report a number of people are given permission by the MOD to supply weapons to Iraq. These are stopped by UK customs. In the subsequent prosecution, those involved attempt to raise the permission they were given .. but the government signs a number of Public Interest Immunity Certificates, making it illegal to mention that, including at their own criminal trial in their defense.

Important information is still redacted by the D-Notice system. The MOD have free reign to lie about things and have people prosecuted for revealing the truth. There are a few incidents where Americans and Brits on social media have radically different views on what happened because of what is and is not legal to report.

There is a very long history of critical information on weapons systems and capabilities being kept secret.

(Despite that, their Ukraine war briefings to the public are pretty reliable)
Steam deck made gaming work really well, sometimes better than windows with the same hardware. It isn’t 100% compatible of course, but it does work for most things.
> It sort of raises the question of, could there be 1 universal language to query relational databases, text file storage (json, csv, etc), and anything else.

Sure there could be -- any turing-complete language (which SQL is) can query anything.

But the reason we have different programming languages* is because they have different affordances and make it easy to express certain things at the cost of being less convenient for other things. Thus APL/Prolog/Lisp/C/Python can all coexist.

SQL is great for relational databases, but it's like commuting to work in a tank when it comes to key-value stores.

* and of course because programmers love building tools, and a language is the ultimate tool.
> both encoding/json and text/template guarantee sorted iteration order of maps. I don't think it's an edge case at all.

That is literally the edge case example I gave. Perhaps there is a better way to describe it than "edge case", but semantics is a silly game.

> then the built-in map still seems like the right choice, and having a standard way to iterate it is a reasonable request.

And, indeed, the standard library provides slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(m)) for exactly that. Ergonomic enough, while making the compromise being made reasonably explicit to help with readability – which is far more important than saving a few keystrokes. If typing is your bottleneck, practice will quickly solve that problem.
Pegasus was sold to more countries than they list. It's a good start though. Future improvements could include ability to click on the globe and see what companies are located in the area.
I applaud people who do whatever is possible to work around an issue. But it just gives me tremendous anxiety to imagine trying to run a product using hacks like “proxy thousands of guest accounts”

This feels like those hilarious and fascinating projects to glue together free tier services or use YouTube or email for data storage or whatnot.
Enablement mechanism; as fallingsquirrel mentions, there are adversarial countermeasures that continue to take place as X updates access requirements on a whim. I assume the "cat and mouse" game to continue as long as X operates. Shoutout to those putting the effort in, and anyone archiving along the way.

Edit: I'm unsure how many tech folks are left at X, but publicly available information indicates that the org is in financial peril and its owner is unable to pay the liabilities coming due out of their personal finances [1] without liquidating public equity components of their wealth. It should be assumed that X could shut down at any time, without notice, and any data that has not be archived will be lost to time. I am not attempting to talk about anything here except "this data is at risk, this system should not be treated as if there is any permanence."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41270878
> You should visit countries before you trash them.

I haven't visited North Korea either. That shouldn't stop anyone from opining on it.
Yep, all this. I've tried linux half a dozen times over the last couple decades, several times it even seems to work out of the box - then a day or week later, I realize my printer doesn't work, or I unplug the ethernet and realize the wifi doesnt work, or something that had worked great suddenly stops because of some update. All problems relying on searching through decade-out of date forum posts, hoping someone else's commandline solution fixes my issue. It's too much work, so I use windows 10.
The article already addresses this. The point is to have the feature exist without having to know about flexbox/grid (or history).
I called the cops. They did not show up. And the ordinance that I read at the time was vague, and that means the interpretation goes the way the cop wants it to go.
Organic Maps Removed from Play Store Due to "Requirements for Family Program"
Nearly every tweet linked from HN is part of a thread because it's actually a blog post by someone who couldn't be bothered to have a proper blog.
The Supreme Court has said it isn’t unconstitutional as a general matter, so a lower court’s ruling won’t force that to change. And because the practice is a holdover from English law and isn’t understood (as a historical matter) to be something the constitution was meant to alter, there isn’t much basis for thinking the Supreme Court would reverse its earlier decisions.
https://airisk.mit.edu/
Reticulum (noticing similarities to old UUCP here) doesn't need the Internet, TCP/IP, or even Ethernet to work - networks can be built over serial lines. Therefore a possible link could be a modem link over an international phone call. I am curious if/how and sure that various countries monitor/scrape PSTN for data though. Other weird ideas off the top of my head: satellite phone, 2 shortwave channels with appropriate hardware (one for Tx other for Rx - I don't really know anything about shortwave).
The globe doesn't appear on Firefox. Just a black background and a lot of warnings on the console about textures not loading correctly ("renderbufferStorage(Multisample)?: Width or height exceeds maximum renderbuffer size") and then framebuffer not being complete because of the lack of width or height.
Sure, it's motivated by a bit of license turnover like you suggest. But mostly it's a case of securing their OS against adversaries (including their users). You can lock down the system a lot more with TPM on your side: Now you can keep secrets away from users reliably.

I think we are seriously nearing the point of no return. Once you have manufacturers start implementing TC, that will really hamper reverse engineering efforts. Over time, the side channels will get ironed out.

Enforcing TPM requirements isn't about making users make changes, it's to scare OEMs into including TPMs by default so they don't get complaints from users. Microsoft wants a more controlled hardware environment like Apple does, because it's more profitable for a variety of reasons.
Zircon passim, the UK security services have a specific track record of secrecy about satellites.
It makes no sense to destroy democracy in the name of defending it. To accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same is doublethink, a symptom of political alienation. Beware that you might be the fascist. Given time Jesus will return our the Sun will die taking us along with it. Eventuality isn't an argument.
I feel like you are the one who has never met a cop in a situation you were not a suspect , if you have and expouse publicly, that opinion.
A lot of dentists' offices have roof-mounted TVs
This is nice and all, but also let's not forget that X can arbitrarily undo this decision too. Remember folks, fediverse.
Sure with higher overhead of support. Running Windows on my gaming rig means all my games are capable without fail. On Linux, I have two recently played games which would require a ton of work to get them working. MSFS and WARNO.
There has been so much research on this, and this article seems to ignore much of it.

The book Accelerate is a good start.
There’s no “half”. While the current court has a conservative majority the rulings only fall sharply along those lines around 10% of the time https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/02/supreme-co...
It also wouldn’t be Microsoft if they wouldn’t ceaselessly harass those users to upgrade to Windows 11, even if they’re using a non-upgradable laptop that will never see a new mainboard. It’s so braindead, I’m convinced at this point that Windows has been degraded to a mere sales funnel that is to be monetized at any cost.