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A 25cm run / walk sounds way too short.

vhcron Ask HN: People who work different timezones than your company. How sched?

I prefer working with teams to the west, I'm a night owl, so I can start my day at 11 am.

Google is the worst when it comes to i18n, I speak both Spanish and English, it translates reviews automatically to English, but at the same time will show me content in Spanish when I searched for something in English.

vhcron BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large

Nobody can give you that number, because it's way bigger than what can be represented in the universe.

vhcron Bot or Human? Creating the Invisible Turing Test for the Internet

The default policy of anubis tries to detect bots and changes the difficulty of the proof of work based on that.

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/data/botPolici...

vhcron A new PNG spec

That's what OptiPNG already does.

vhcron Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin

Humans on the aggregate can definitely get better, that's why Norway has 2.14 / 100k traffic-related deaths per year and the United States has 12.84 / 100k.

vhcron Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs

Now you need a consensus algorithm.

vhcron Ask HN: What would you work on if you couldn't fail?

https://www.aicr.org/resources/blog/study-vast-majority-of-c...

vhcron Where in the world are babies at the lowest risk of dying?

As does Japan, Ehime has a 0.9 / 1000 infant mortality rate, compared to 4.5 in Fukui.

vhcron (On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling

Would be nice if code editors colored it differently so it's easier to see.

vhcron The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine

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

vhcron Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots

And? If your network allows malware you should be blocked.

vhcron WebGL Water (2010)

The "problem" with it is that you only learn about fragment shaders, you should also learn about the WebGL API, and vertex shaders.

vhcron Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B

Have you tried being less jaded? Running a database is NOT about the hardest thing you can do.

vhcron Stuffed-Na(a)N: stuff your NaNs

Running the following snippets:

    f = new Float64Array(1)
    dv = new DataView(f.buffer)
    dv.setBigInt64(0, -123n)
    console.log([...new Uint8Array(f.buffer)])

    f = new Float64Array(1)
    new BigUint64Array(f.buffer)[0] = -123n
    console.log([...new Uint8Array(f.buffer)])

    f = new Float64Array(1)
    f[0] = new Float64Array(new BigUint64Array([-123n]).buffer)[0]
    console.log([...new Uint8Array(f.buffer)])

    f = new Float64Array([NaN])
    console.log([...new Uint8Array(f.buffer)])

I get on Chrome:

    [255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 133]
    [133, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255]
    [133, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255]
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 248, 127]

And on Firefox:

    [ 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 133 ]
    [ 133, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255, 255 ]
    [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 248, 127 ]
    [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 248, 127 ]

It looks like both implementations are buggy, Since both the DataView and buffer versions should be normalized.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393085

vhcron Eurorack Knob Idea

The Yamaha Disklavier has solenoids on every key, so you could disable every key but the one you want by moving them downwards.

It already has a similar feature called SmartKey: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_Qj33POZCyA

vhcron DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model

https://github.com/deezer/spleeter

https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs

vhcron Creating your own federated microblog

I hate that the conversation online has moved from distributed to federated, I understand that running p2p software is harder for the user, but I feel like actually distributed microblogging / social networks are the right choice going forwards.

vhcron Anubis Works

Until someone writes the proof of work code for GPUs and it runs 100x faster and cheaper.

vhcron Anubis Works

I used to have an ISP that would load balance your connection between different providers, this meant that pretty much every single request would use a different IP. I know it's not that common, but that would mean real users would find pages using anubis unusable.

vhcron Anubis Works

Because it's not a lot of CPU, you only have to solve it once per website, and the default policy difficulty of 16 for bots is worthless because you can just change your user agent so you get a difficulty of 4.

vhcron Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law

DoH over Tor

vhcron FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

Anubis is only going to work as long as it doesn't gets famous, if that happens crawlers will start using GPUs / ASICs for the proof of work and it's game over.

vhcron FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

That already existed a few years ago, Coinhive, and everybody hated it.

vhcron Powers of 2 with all even digits

Here's a really dumb algorithm:

    for i in range(1, 10**10):
        for k in range(1, 5):
            s = str(pow(2, i, 10**(10**k)))
            if '1' in s or '3' in s or '5' in s or '7' in s or '9' in s:
                break
        else:
            print(2**i)

It's really easily to parallelize, I was able to run it up to 10**8 in about 15min, so you would be able to run it up to 10**10 in a few hours with parallelization.

vhcron It's not a crime if we do it with an app

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

vhcron Why is hash(-1) == hash(-2) in Python?

Somewhat related, hash() returns a result % sys.hash_info.modulus, so if you build a set or a dict with keys multiple of sys.hash_info.modulus, you run into quadratic behavior.

    >>> {i * sys.hash_info.modulus for i in range(5000)}
    0.40s
    >>> {i * sys.hash_info.modulus for i in range(50000)}
    29.34s
    >>> {i for i in range(50000)}
    0.06s

vhcron Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair

Under a monophyletic definition, mammals are fish.

vhcron China reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by more than two-thirds in past 15 years

You're comparing TW vs TWh, according to Our World in Data, the global fossil fuel production in 2023 was 140231TWh vs 8988TWh for renewables.

- https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels

- https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy