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6yyyyyyon Open source and self hostable/private file converter

You have your timeline confused. When Microsoft bought Mojang, the only version of Minecraft on PC was Java Edition. It wasn't under the next year that they released the Windows 10 Edition (which is what became Bedrock on PC).

6yyyyyyon RFK Jr. forces out FDA's top vaccine scientist, Peter Marks

The pattern you're talking about in [2] isn't by choice, it's a result of blue states paying more federal tax. The decisions about who pays federal tax and how much are made by Congress.

6yyyyyyon Numbering should start at zero (1982)

  for (unsigned i = N - 1; i < N; --i)

6yyyyyyon More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

That fucking guy torturing monkeys :(

6yyyyyyon "Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"

Why is that image worse than this one?

https://files.catbox.moe/bt4j9j.png

6yyyyyyon Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back

These capacitive buttons are actually super cheap, a lot of microcontrollers have this function built-in so the buttons are effectively free, just an extra pad on the PCB.

6yyyyyyon 200k subscribers flee 'Washington Post' after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement

"Honest, neutral coverage" is a contradiction. You can be honest, or you can be neutral.

6yyyyyyon You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

NewPipe can do this very nicely, it even lets you build a playlist of videos.

6yyyyyyon Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris

I find endorsements very valuable when voting in down-ballot elections. A good endorsement includes the reasoning behind the decision. I read the endorsements of multiple outlets and find myself agreeing more with one or the other.

What's the alternative, do comprehensive research on the record of 20 candidates? I don't have time for that. Read the blurbs they write about themselves in the voter's guide? Why should I trust that, they can write anything there.

6yyyyyyon Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web

A dedicated shader could do it far more efficiently. Ideally, you would create a mip chain, then as you move towards the blurrier parts of the image, spread your taps farther apart and choose them from lower-resolution mips. You could even have an animated "blur map" to control where the blur is, and it would run at 60 fps ez.

This runs at 165 fps in Shadertoy for me (warning all constants are wild guesses, use "pebbles" for iChannel1):

  void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
  {
      // Normalized pixel coordinates (from 0 to 1)
      vec2 uv = fragCoord/iResolution.xy;

      float blurRadius = clamp(1.5 * (texture(iChannel1, uv/2.0 + vec2(iTime, iTime / 2.0)/6.0).x - 0.5) + 0.5, 0.0, 1.0);


      float mipmapLevel = fwidth(uv).x;
      float biasedMip = mipmapLevel + blurRadius * 4.0;
      vec3 final = (3.0/8.0) * textureLod(iChannel0, uv, biasedMip).xyz;
      for (float i = 0.0; i < 6.28; i += 6.28/5.0) {
          final += (1.0/8.0) * textureLod(iChannel0, uv + 0.02 * blurRadius * vec2(sin(i), cos(i)), biasedMip).xyz;
      }

      // Output to screen
      fragColor = vec4(final.xyz,1.0);
  }

6yyyyyyon JetZero: Ultra-efficient blended wing body jet

Airlines have been charging extra for window seats for years.

6yyyyyyon JetZero: Ultra-efficient blended wing body jet

Some of the people who currently fly economy would start flying business, but a huge number of people who are currently taking Greyhound buses, driving, or choosing not to travel at all, would start flying economy.

6yyyyyyon US Used AI to Help Find Middle East Targets for Airstrikes

Israel did 200 airstrikes on schools already. What are you doing about it now that you wouldn't be doing if it were AI?

6yyyyyyon Ray Optics Simulator

Reminds me of this:

https://benedikt-bitterli.me/tantalum/tantalum.html

6yyyyyyon Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16

Actually, in many states there is no minimum age to get a tattoo with parental consent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_tattooing_in_t...

6yyyyyyon Hacker Newsy: a pretty Hacker News client

You might find these useful, not just for HN but elsewhere:

Bypass paywalls: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...

Auto Nitter/Invidious/etc: https://libredirect.github.io/

6yyyyyyon Global carbon markets overcredit cookstove greenhouse gas reductions by 10

Land owners will vote for politicians who spend less.

6yyyyyyon Even More Bay Area House Party

>I am surprised Wall Street doesn’t do this already to create synthetic longs.

A comment on the post covers that: It's called a "bucket shop", and it's illegal.

6yyyyyyon Tell HN: I asked ChatGPT to build a login form in React and it gave me the code

Based on this and the other post where it delivered lies about Typescript generics, ChatGPT will—with total confidence—tell you things that look correct but are horrendously wrong for anyone who understands the subject matter. Just like the "science news" section of any mainstream media.

6yyyyyyon Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo

What are you doing on a phone where CPU speed matters? Mine scores 364 and I've never felt like performance was a problem.

6yyyyyyon Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios

6yyyyyyon Firefox Translations: Translate websites in your browser without using the cloud

Which is especially surprising when they have a Japanese character in the logo.

6yyyyyyon Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades

Why would uploading the video to a SaSS, paying them to run FFmpeg, and downloading the result be cheaper than running FFmpeg yourself?

6yyyyyyon Disney+ demands users’ age and gender so it can “deliver targeted advertising”

If only there were a service that:

- Doesn't show ads, or steal your personal information.

- Has all the content from every major streaming service.

- Is scalable and efficient without a centralized single point of failure.

- Can be used with 100% free and open source software.

- Lets you keep your favorite shows forever without being subject to the whims of corporate licensing.

6yyyyyyon The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry

>All operating systems

C != C++

6yyyyyyon Old jokes

>Pelosi Says U.S. Won’t Allow China to Isolate Taiwan

...that's what she said.

6yyyyyyon Winamp 5.9

No, he means this:

  http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=458120&utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=winamp5.9&utm_term=july2022
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

6yyyyyyon Why isn't there a CreateProcess that completely isolates Windows processes?

This is more or less what seccomp is on Linux:

>The only system calls that the calling thread is permitted to make are read(2), write(2), _exit(2) (but not exit_group(2)), and sigreturn(2). Other system calls result in the termination of the calling thread, or termination of the entire process with the SIGKILL signal when there is only one thread. Strict secure computing mode is useful for number-crunching applications that may need to execute untrusted byte code, perhaps obtained by reading from a pipe or socket.

6yyyyyyon Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes

But other drivers can drink, and you can't do anything about that.

Are you a good enough driver to save yourself in this situation?

https://litter.catbox.moe/ed5an4.webm

6yyyyyyon Rare and strange ICD-10 codes

Y38.5X3D Terrorism involving nuclear weapons, terrorist injured, subsequent encounter