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by MBCook | 2025-06-17 23:56:08+00:00
That’s not the problem.

The game should look like a normal Mario game at a minimum. It should use its additional color palette available in HDR to look better, and the additional brightness to make make effects pop as you describe.

The problem is that’s not what it’s doing. Some things pop better, but it’s not because they’re using extra colors. It may be a little brightness, but mostly it’s that everything else just got toned down so it looks kinda washed out.

If they did nothing but use the expanded color palette and did not use the additional brightness at all I would be a lot happier than with what we have right now.

I haven’t turned it back to SDR mode but I’m legitimately considering it. Because I suspect the game looks better that way.
by freedomben | 2025-06-17 23:56:42+00:00
I think this depends a lot on the stack. for stacks like elixir and Phoenix, imho the extraction layer is about perfect. For anyone in the Java world, however, what you say is absolutely true. Having worked in a number of different stacks, I think that some ecosystems have a huge tolerance for abstraction layers, which is a net negative for them. I would sure hate to see AI decimate something like elixir and Phoenix though
by fuzztester | 2025-06-17 23:56:46+00:00
that was from 35 to 40 years ago.

today:

s/COBOL/SQL

and the statement is still true, except that many devs nowadays are JS-only, and are too scared or lazy as shit to learn another, relatively simple language like SQL. ("it's too much work". wtf do you think a job is. it's another name for work.)

because, you know, "we have to ship yesterday" (which funnily enough, is always true, like "tomorrow never comes").
by michaelteter | 2025-06-17 23:57:15+00:00
Having experienced several overhyped corporate knee-jerk (and further press-amplified) silver bullets, I expect this will play out about as well as the previous ones.

And by that, I mean corps will make poor decisions that will be negative for thought workers while never really threatening executive compensation.

I see this latest one somewhat like TFA author: this is a HUGE opportunity for intelligent, motivated builders. If our jobs are at risk now or have already been lost, then we might as well take this time to make some of the things we have thought about making before but were too busy to do (or too fatigued).

In the process, we may not only develop nice incomes that are independent of PHB decisions, but some will even build things that these same companies will later want to buy for $$$.
by computably | 2025-06-17 23:59:35+00:00
Except the causes of burnout have almost nothing to do with the type of cognitive load associated with coding, debugging, etc.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in...

Of the six general causes listed, four are institutional or social, having to do more with the workplace or coworkers: lack of control, lack of clarity, interpersonal conflicts, lack of support. IME, in tech, these are far more common causes and more deeply tied to the root of the issue than specifics of work.

The remaining two are productivity-related issues: too much/little to do, problems with WLB.

I would note these are tied into lack of control/clarity/support, and conflict. In a healthy work environment, expectations should be clear and at least somewhat flexible depending on employee feedback, and adequate support should be provided by the employer.

That aside, it's unclear, and I would argue unlikely, that AI-related productivity gains will help with workload issues. If you do disproportionately more work in an overworked team/org, you will simply be given more work. If many people see gains in productivity, then either the bar for productivity goes up, or there's layoffs. Even if you manage to squeak by / quiet quit with much reduced cognitive load for coding, and that's most of your job, unless you are fully remote the most likely change is your butt-in-seat time will go from "mentally taxing coding" to "mentally toxic doomscrolling."
by miki123211 | 2025-06-17 23:59:48+00:00
Voting is always allowed. No matter how corrupt the country, no matter if it's ruled by a dictator, even in a "Free Democratic Union of Independent People's Republics", there's always going to be an election sooner or later.

Whether the elections are fair and the opposition is even allowed to field a candidate... now that's a different story.
by api | 2025-06-17 23:59:56+00:00
I have a conspiracy theory that it’s a pattern pushed by cloud to get people to build applications that:

- Cannot be run without an orchestrator like K8S, which is a bear to install and maintain, which helps sell managed cloud.

- Uses more network bandwidth, which they bill for, and CPU, which they bill for.

- Makes it hard to share and maintain complex or large state within the application, encouraging the use of more managed database and event queue services as a substitute, which they bill for. (Example: a monolith can use a queue or a channel, while for microservices you’re going to want Kafka or some other beast.)

- Can’t be run locally easily, meaning you need dev environments in cloud, which means more cloud costs. You might even need multiple dev and test environments. That’s even more cloud cost.

- Tends to become dependent on the peculiarities of a given cloud host, such as how they do networking, increasing cloud lock in.

Anyone else remember how cloud was pitched as saving money on IT? That was hilarious. Knew it was BS way back in the 2000s and that it would eventually end up making everything cost more.
by sfn42 | 2025-06-18 00:00:42+00:00
I agree, it's definitely about the self. That's what psychedelics are to me, they're a way to explore the self. Seeing things from a new perspective, unlocking new ways of thinking. Seeing yourself in a different light.

It's not every trip but some of them really feel extremely profound and inspire me to change my life for the better.

One of the first psychedelics I tried was psilocybin mushrooms, made tea and I think we made it quite strong. I must have been around 17-18 or so, and what I remember most clearly isn't the crazy visuals, it's what came after. After the peak when I started coming back to reality I experienced this mental clarity where I felt like I saw my life from an outside perspective and I was ashamed of who I was. My parents didn't want me experimenting with drugs so I distanced myself from them and we always argued, had a really bad relationship. My two younger brothers were just annoyances to me, I just wanted them to leave me alone. But during this trip I thought back to when I was their age, chilling on the couch with our dad watching nature documentaries and stuff, and I just felt so incredibly bad about the brother I was to them.

Before that day I was on a pretty bad path, I was doing a bit more than experimenting with some pretty serious substances and i really think that trip changed my life. I turned things around, it was a bumpy road and it took some time but after that trip I started trying to do better and it worked. 15 years later I'm pretty proud of the person I am and I don't think I would be where I am today if not for that mushroom trip.

A lot of people make psychedelics seem like it's some kind of amusement park ride or just some druggie fun time, ooh pink elephants and blah blah. To me it's not about that at all. It's about the profound ways they can reveal things about yourself that you're too blind to see.
by freedomben | 2025-06-18 00:00:50+00:00
Interesting, I tend to think design is a dying job now. It's not that I don't see value in designers, but if I am being honest, when they aren't advocating for a complete UI refresh, there isn't a whole lot for them to do. IMHO this is why we see all the major apps refreshing their UIs every 9 to 12 months. It is unnecessary and aggravating to users, and if we can get away from that I think we would be better off.
by timr | 2025-06-18 00:00:53+00:00
> If a bunch of armed thugs who aren't wearing uniforms or badges show up and abduct someone citizens don't have the right or obligation to do something about it?

Sure you do. Call the police. Record it, capture the details for evidence.

> Just stand back and watch?

Again, you're welcome to call the police. But no, you don't just get to rush in and start interfering because your sophisticated understanding of the circumstances as a complete nobody make you feel like Captain America.

> That's the world you want to live in, one where kidnappings are normal?

It's obviously not a "kidnapping". Nobody seriously believes that -- most obviously, Brad Lander, who wouldn't be screaming for a warrant from "kidnappers".
by ParanoidQrypto | 2025-06-18 00:01:12+00:00
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by ChuckMcM | 2025-06-18 00:03:24+00:00
Agreed, it brings the story home. What I most like about this news is that Honda has joined Blue Origin and SpaceX in demonstrating a complete "hop" (all though my all time favorite is the "ring of fire" video SpaceX did.)

But it also illustrates that I've seen in the Bay Area time and time again, which is that once you demonstrate that something is doable (as SpaceX has) It opens the way for other capital to create competitive systems.

At Google, where I worked for a few years, it was interesting to see how Google's understanding of search (publicly disclosed), and the infrastructure to host it (kept secret) kept it comfortably ahead of competitors until the design space was exhausted. At which point Google stopped moving forward and everyone else asymptotically approached their level of understanding and mastery.

I see the same thing happening to SpaceX. As other firms master the art of the reusable booster, SpaceX's grasp on the launch services market weakens. Just as Google's grasp of the search market weakens. Or Sun's grasp of the server market weakened. When it becomes possible to buy launch services from another vendor which are comparable (not necessarily cheaper, just comparable) without the baggage of the damage Elon has done, SpaceX will be in a tougher spot.

It also helps me to understand just how much SpaceX needs Starship in order to stay on top of the market.

Some folks will no doubt see this as casting shade on SpaceX, I assure you it is not. What SpaceX's engineering teams have accomplished remains amazing and they deserve their success. It is just someone who has been through a number of technology curves noting how similar the they play out over their lifetimes.

Having witnessed first hand how DEC felt that Sun's "toy computers" would never eclipse DEC in the Server business, and watched as United Launch Alliance dismissed Falcon 9 as something that would never seriously challenge their capabilities, it feels almost prophetic to watch SpaceX's competitors emerge.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-06-18 00:03:53+00:00
In general, all your personal information stored with Google or Apple or any other American company is subject to getting requested by a court order. If you listen to any of the True Crime podcasts, you'll always hear how google searches and cell tower location are always presented in a trial as evidence. People here always think they are so smart saying

> Actualllly you can't prove that it was me who made that search query.

> Actualllly you can't prove that it was me who had that cellphone around that cell tower. Could have been anybody. I could have been hacked.

Judges always allow those evidence and jury always views it as incriminating. What makes more sense, that some unknown hacker hacked into your account and googled something about the thing you're here for, or that you actually just googled it yourself?
by ajkjk | 2025-06-18 00:03:55+00:00
I mean... none of mine, that's for sure, nor am I expecting to get in trouble for anything I've said in the past. I don't customarily do things I wouldn't be okay with somebody finding out about, and if did find something out and decided to become angry at me, that's on them for being a shitty person and doesn't really bother me. Nor am I expecting anyone to be looking at my history other than me anyway; that's why my phone has a passcode.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-18 00:04:29+00:00
What? Nowhere did I say it wasn't worth investigating. How did you come up with that?

I'm complaining about a seemingly non-scientific statement that sounds absurd at first glance.

If you want to do rigorous testing of different combinations of wavelengths to see if anything can be distinguished and how that fits into our current frameworks of color interpretation, then great! But saying someone can see twice as many colors of the rainbow sounds like nonsense unless you have a rigorous scientific framework for that, and the article sure doesn't provide one.
by yieldcrv | 2025-06-18 00:05:08+00:00
This is like the worst comparison since generative AI is far better at conversational translation than google translate

LLM’s will tell you idioms, slang, and the point behind it

You can take a screenshot of telegram channels for both sides of a war conflict and get all context in a minute

In classic HN fashion I’m sure I missed the point, ok translators are still in demand got it.

Google Translate has been leapfrogged by the same thing that allows for “vibecoding”
by alephnerd | 2025-06-18 00:05:14+00:00
By law sure, but in action the DNI has little-to-no staffing, and the heads of the other agencies are represented in the NSC and JCS, so the DNI tends to be an afterthought.

> which is a metonym for the Legislative branch because of the location of the Capitol complex on Capitol hill.

IK. I used to work there. It is the general denonym for working in either the Executive or Legislative.

> And all of those are executive branch positions, so not in any hierarchy "on the Hill"

Strongly disagree from personal experience. Just like any organization, resourcing gives certain groups or agencies more heft and leeway than others.
by vkou | 2025-06-18 00:05:56+00:00
Easily.

The alternatives are also probably up to the same sketchy shit, so your choices are to be a hermit, or accept that your services will spy on you.

If you want to participate in society, you have to either trust a very large list of untrustworthy people... Or acknowledge that they are untrustworthy, and mitigate accordingly. Part of that mitigation is accepting the possibility that if the Mossad want to murder you by blowing up your toaster, nobody's going to stop them.
by zug_zug | 2025-06-18 00:06:15+00:00
This is just a lie. I personally know somebody who worked at meta and they had a whole set of teams dedicated to building tools for governments to mass-export data based on their queries

Now I don't know the exact details of which governments had which access (was it just for warrants, which nations, what was the line between actual terrorist versus persecuting journalists), but there was absolutely bulk export and the fact that they are lying about it makes me inclined to presume the worst.
by zefalt | 2025-06-18 00:06:20+00:00
Your choice of words reveals a lot. Don't manipulate words to serve your conclusion.

They are not "thugs". They are federal officers.

ICE did not behave "lawlessly". They are upholding federal law. In fact, it was Brad Lander who acted lawlessly.

This constant manipulation of words is tiring. I don't find what happened "horrifying" at all. Anyone impeding the law should face its consequences.
by twoodfin | 2025-06-18 00:06:22+00:00
The intrinsic research and analysis behind this article are great. I’m having a hard time, though, not tripping over the obvious (tell me I’m wrong!) ChatGPT “polish”. Multilevel tutorial outlines, bolded key points, “X is Y—not Z”, …

I can’t articulate why it bothers me. Except maybe the implied assumption that the author’s real voice & style benefit more than they are harmed from being submerged in what is ultimately mathematically derived mush.
by numpad0 | 2025-06-18 00:06:35+00:00
> HDR is mainstream – From just a quick browsing of BestBuy, nearly all TVs over 42” are 4K and support HDR. 9th gen consoles are shipping with HDR on by default. The majority of your audience is HDR-equipped.

"Mainstream" or "majority" in context of Nintendo is a $20-40k/yr white collar household with 2 kids. The REAL mainstream. Some would have real ashtrays on a dining table. ~None of them had bought any of TVs over 42" with 4K resolution and HDR support in past 10 years.

Though, I do wonder how globally mainstream is such a household buying Nintendo hardware. Admittedly it could be somewhat of a local phenomenon.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-06-18 00:07:07+00:00
>makes us better as a species instead of worse.

IMHO it's made the world worse. We're not sterile robots. To deny us mischievous ASCII art is to deny the very things that make us human. Bring on the IDE penis. Make it widescreen if you like. It's not nearly as offensive as having a censoring big brother overlord telling us what is and isn't acceptable for the workers' enjoyment.
by twotwotwo | 2025-06-18 00:07:12+00:00
I recognize it as beating a dead horse now, but JPEG XL did what was needed to be actually adopted. AVIF has not been widely adopted given the difficulty of a leap to a new format in general and the computational cost of encoding AVIF specifically.

One of JPEG XL's best ideas was incorporating Brunsli, lossless recompression for existing JPEGs (like Dropbox's Lepton which I think might've been talked about earlier). It's not as much of a space win as a whole new format, but it's computationally cheap and much easier to just roll out today. There was even an idea of supporting it as a Content-Encoding, so a right-click and save would get you an OG .jpg avoiding the whole "what the heck is a WebP?" problem. (You might still be able to do something like this in a ServiceWorker, but capped at wasm speeds of course.) Combine it with improved JPEG encoders like mozjpeg and you're not in a terrible place. There's also work that could potentially be done with deblocking/debanding/deringing in decoders to stretch the old approach even further.

And JXL's other modes also had their advantages. VarDCT was still faster than libaom AVIF, and was reasonable in its own way (AVIFs look smoother, JXL tended more to preserve traces of low-contrast detail). There was a progressive mode, which made less sense in AVIF because it was a format for video keyframes first. The lossless mode was the evolution of FUIF and put up good numbers.

At this point I have no particular predictions. JPEG never stopped being usable despite a series of more technically sophisticated successors. (MP3 too, though its successors seemed to get better adoption.) Perhaps it means things continue not to change for a while, or at least that I needn't rush to move to $other_format or get left behind. Doesn't mean I don't complain about the situation in comments on the Internet, though.
by freedomben | 2025-06-18 00:07:13+00:00
I think in 5 years you are absolutely right, but for now we desperately need a language which is easy for ai and easy for humans. The stuff that AI has suggested to me is about 50% genius in about 50% idiocy. I don't know what that language is, if I could pick it personally, I would pick elixir, but I recognize that we're probably looking at typescript or something like that
by throwaway63097 | 2025-06-18 00:07:51+00:00
> Wayland does way way way less special magic & is way more straightforward with how it handles the display subsystem than X, which half ignores the kernel & has its own absurd driver subsystems and mountains of jank overlapping extensions to do what kernels and GPUs just do these days.

Users don't care about your beautiful code and architecture if your product doesn't even work. Making excuses doesn't help anyone - if X can work fine with Nvidia drivers, Wayland's failure to do so is a problem with Wayland.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-06-18 00:08:07+00:00
> Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I have the full understanding of your perception on this. And judging by the number of downvotes I got, your sentiment seems to be shared among others.

IMHO, don't worry about the downvotes, but instead take joy in our opportunity to have this discussion. Again, just my $0.02 and all that. :-)

> My advice is very different from “run”, assuming running is not an option. I want you to imagine a person who has never had too many opportunities in their life, and works in a downtrodden environment. And does not have the qualities to work somewhere better. Now this same person has wife and kids. The only thoughts that come from this is hopelessness.

My mentor lived this experience for most of his career. He had a wife and child, so chose income stability over optimal work environment for reasons I am sure you can relate. It made me sad the things he had to put up with, but I understand why he did.

Ultimately, he achieved his goal of providing for his family. However, the personal cost was high.

> On reflecting on my comment, I think it was a bit rushed and did not go fully in depth. It sounds very difficult to grasp. I apologize to everyone. If I could delete it I would.

Again, IMHO, sharing your thoughts/situation honestly is the important thing, even if others (myself included) do not agree with how it was worded. If we do not get conflict/pain off of our chest, out of our system, it can build up in our psyche much like a cut can become infected.

If anyone needs to apologize, it is me for having initially replied in such an aggressive manner. I hope you accept my apology for having done so.

EDIT:

Clarified the phrasing of "do not agree with same" to be "do not agree with how it was worded".