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waitforit··on Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture up to 4*10^18+7*10^13
> 4 quadrillion (4×10¹⁸) + 70 trillion (7×10¹³)

That's 4 quintillion.

waitforit··on Don’t look down on print debugging
> The thing is, in interpreted languages land print debugging has a power no debugger gives you: live debugging on your production instance.

Remote debugging is a thing that exists.

waitforit··on Google Play killed my game and won't tell me why
> it looks like a copycat of a popular flash game, the author’s name is atypical

That popular flash game is the game of this author.

> I am Tukkun, an indie game developer making games since 2008. My most significant work is a PC Flash game I made back in 2009 called Anti-Idle: The Game, uploaded to the website Kongregate.

waitforit··on Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable
And by the author of this version: https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/
waitforit··on Reddit CEO defends $193M compensation following backlash from unpaid moderators
Many people complain about that number (not necessarily on hackernews, but there are some comments like that already) without realizing that most of that value is based on the stock price and not cash. Depending on how the IPO fares this $193M value can turn into $1M or $1B+ (both extremes and very unlikely to happen).

He got around $1.1M in cash.

> According to an SEC filing, Huffman got a salary of $341,346 in 2023 and a $792,000 “incentive” bonus. In February, Huffman’s salary was raised to $550,000 with the bulk of his $193 million compensation package tied to stock.

waitforit··on Why Is the Sea So Hot?
Do you think it's winter everywhere? It's about global temperatures and it was summer on the southern hemisphere.
waitforit··on Reddit hasn't turned a profit in 20 years, filed to go public anyway
"Only" a million of that was in cash, the rest was in stock awards and stock options. So he has to care about what happens after the IPO.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...

waitforit··on Happy Birthday Lemmings
There is a game in development that combines the lemmings esthetic with base building.

The Settlings: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1771110/The_Settlings/

waitforit··on The University of California has all but dropped carbon offsets
It seems like that's only a question of when it needs to shut down rather than if:

https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-power-plants-struggling-...

> In the US, the sole desert-based nuclear facility, the Palo Verde plant in Arizona, relies on municipal wastewater rather than rivers or seas, though the facility has struggled with rising costs as more industries compete for limited supplies.

waitforit··on The University of California has all but dropped carbon offsets
> It works reliably and predictably in all weather conditions.

So they don't need to be shut down when it's getting too hot to cool them?

https://qz.com/1348969/europes-heatwave-is-forcing-nuclear-p...

https://www.energylivenews.com/2012/08/14/us-nuclear-plant-s...

waitforit··on Webb Telescope detects most distant active supermassive black hole
kurzgesagt has a video about (spinning) black holes as an energy source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY
waitforit··on Rejected GitHub profile achievements
"The problem solver": asks how to solve a specific error while also posting the stacktrace/error which already contains a message about how to solve the error
waitforit··on P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)
That would be true if it actually did the decryption, but my point was, an LLM doesn't decrypt. It just has the encrypted string followed by the decrypted string in its training data and so it outputs something that's almost correct. (the numbers being wrong 4501, 4502, 4503 instead of 4701, 4702, 4703 - maybe some bugged training data, maybe hallucination).
waitforit··on P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)
Just because it's confident, doesn't mean it's right. But it probably contains training data from this or similar sites.

https://enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=The%20U534%20mes...

> Interpretation (preliminary):

> [An] U-4701, nachrichtlich [an] U-Stützpunkt Lübeck von Chef 4. U-Flottille: Mit U-4702 und U-4703 zur Flender Werft Lübeck gehen. Von dort folgt Weiteres.

> Translation (preliminary):

> [To] U-4701, for information [to] Submarine Base Lübeck from Chief of 4th Submarine Flotilla: With U-4702 and U-4703 go to Flender Dockyard at Lübeck. From there more follows.

waitforit··on “Fractureiser” malware in popular Minecraft mods and modpacks
At the last Advent of Code there was a person whose solution didn't pass because a part of their input was replaced by a dogecoin address

https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zb98pn/2022_d...

waitforit··on Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)
Somehow I find 30k +/- 1, 7, 11, 13 more pleasing. It's 8 numbers and the primality of each "group" can be encoded in a byte.
waitforit··on Clock
Explanation on how it works: https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/
waitforit··on AI solves Advent of Code 2022
The linked solution is done by talking to the AI.

Automated solutions exist too:

* https://twitter.com/ostwilkens/status/1598458146187628544

* https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/zb8tdv/2022_d...

* https://twitter.com/max_sixty/status/1598924237947154433

waitforit··on Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure
With regards to records, you only need to wait for it: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/commit/99f60a5e662a7951dd5a...
waitforit··on Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team
By that logic, every employee of Apple/Google/Meta or at least the ones working on related projects should be handled a fine every time Apple/Google/Meta gets fined by the EU for breaking the law/abusing its position? The are violating the law after all.
waitforit··on Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email
Wait a few days. It may be possible at a later date.

I'm not storing cookies when using GMail and at a time I regularly got those suspicious login type messages when the browser updated to a new version. At one point I had to click a link in the recovery email and enter the month when the account was created. Pretty much guessed several times until nothing worked. Tried again a day or a few later and got in again.