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by bhattisatish | 2025-07-13 21:26:19+00:00
Thanks for the reco.

Anything that requires mouse is out. I have a RSI on my wrist, and anytime i use the scroll wheel it flares up.

I am ready to buy a gamepad. I guess I will need to explore which one I should buy.

Outer wilds looks interesting. Something I will explore one of these weekends.
by michaelg7x | 2025-07-13 21:27:55+00:00
Amen. Even with those 5k word monsters it's brutally hard. Andreas Fertig's cpp-insights is really helpful, when is able to complete the coroutine transform.

FWIW, I think a useful addition would be for compilers to output the intermediate source code, so you can reason more easily about behaviour and debug into readable code.
by EdwardCoffin | 2025-07-13 21:28:03+00:00
Thanks, I'd not seen that particular article before, and it has some things in there I'd not read in any of his other interviews.

I think the article I got his take on Blade Runner from was the Paris Review [1] which is archived here [2]

[1] https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fi...

[2] https://archive.is/qmwKj
by Aurornis | 2025-07-13 21:28:38+00:00
> I don't think GLP-1s are particularly expensive

On-patent GLP-1s (all of them right now) are actually extremely expensive. Right around $1000 per month.

I don’t want to discourage anyone who needs them from seeking treatment, but their discontinuation rate can be somewhat higher than you’d think from a life-changing drug because many people don’t like certain effects or even encounter side effects.

Weight loss drugs are also a challenging category for OTC because they’re a target of abuse. People with eating disorders and body dysmorphia already seek out black market GLP-1s at a high rate and it would be a difficult situation if they could pick them up impulsively from the medicine aisle. It’s also common for people to misuse OTC medications by taking very high doses hoping for faster results, which has to be considered.

There’s a libertarian-minded angle where people say “Who cares, that’s their own problem. Medications should be free for everyone to take.” I was persuaded by those arguments when I was younger, but now I have a very different perspective after hearing about the common and strange world of OTC medicine abuse from my friends in the medical field. Just ask your doctor friends if they think Tylenol should still be OTC if you want to hear some very sad stories.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-07-13 21:29:05+00:00
>This is essentially the story of tech companies across nearly every industry where they have come to dominate.

It is the only possible result of consumptive transactional organizations.

Conquest in all forms is accretion and consumption based, until the organization gets to large to sustain a consistent direction, then it collapses and the people get pulled into many smaller companies.

Those companies get accreted into a new superset monopolist/duoploist etc... and the bubble grows again and then explodes.

Wash rinse repeat forever at different abstraction levels.
by pie_flavor | 2025-07-13 21:29:05+00:00
There isn't really a good way to recommend a game to someone who's never played a game before - preferences regarding immersion, complex mechanics, turn-based vs live-action, etc. vary wildly. Someone who likes Europa Universalis 4 frequently does not like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and vice versa. With these constraints I would probably recommend Cyberpunk 2077 (no gamepad), and if you decide you like live-action, Hades, and if you don't, Slay the Spire.
by growbell_social | 2025-07-13 21:29:19+00:00
I don't disagree it's a naive take, and I would love to read about some examples where this happened.

I haven't seen too many industries be automated away first hand, and I'm sure there are historic examples. I wouldn't expect the lamp lighters to have been championing the rise of electric lamps. Maybe they did though because it meant they could work less hours.
by kgwgk | 2025-07-13 21:30:58+00:00
2001: Resisting the conventional wisdom that says that if the mind is a large neural network it cannot simultaneously be a manipulator of symbols, Marcus outlines a variety of ways in which neural systems could be organized so as to manipulate symbols, and he shows why such systems are more likely to provide an adequate substrate for language and cognition than neural systems that are inconsistent with the manipulation of symbols.

2018: While none of this work has yet fully scaled towards anything like full-service artificial general intelligence, I have long argued (Marcus, 2001) that more on integrating microprocessor-like operations into neural networks could be extremely valuable.

2022: Where people like me have championed “hybrid models” that incorporate elements of both deep learning and symbol-manipulation, Hinton and his followers have pushed over and over to kick symbols to the curb.
by jtrn | 2025-07-13 21:32:11+00:00
Clinical psychologist here in Norway, and just my subjective experience: People stop GLP1 agonists for the following reasons, in descending order: - They want to enjoy eating again. - Medications are a hassle. - Worry about long-term effects, even if there is no alarming evidence for now. - Price (we are a spoiled/rich country). - Other (like hating needles, feeling bad for taking medications that others need more, being aggressively lazy).

Often, I think that it’s a bad move, as the clinical effect of losing around 20 kg would have to be matched by some extremely high frequency and severe side effects. Overweight is still not sufficiently appreciated for how dangerous it is, especially after they ramped up production so much that there isn't a real shortage anymore.

Ironically, most of the people who respond well to Ozempic and stay on it have few psychiatric problems. But those who almost desperately want to get off it after a while might be those who have a psychological component to their overeating. The obvious suspect then is eating as emotional regulation. So one could extrapolate, at least as a hypothesis, that the ones who have worse life expectancy due to regained weight after a year of usage are the ones who have a double set of problems stacked against them: overweight and emotional problems. That would have a huge effect on longevity.

This is PURE free association though, no deep analysis behind it.
by mattmanser | 2025-07-13 21:32:28+00:00
Think of it a different way, you like city builder games, but you don't want to play one right now. You can buy 3 different city builder games for $10 during a sale. And when you do fancy a city builder, pick the one that most appeals in the moment.

By purchasing a bunch of different game cheaply, yoh have the choice of what kind of story/mechanic to play when you do want to play a new game.

You're speculating on your future desires, and you might as well get a selection when it's cheap.

A game pass subscription sort of scratches the same itch, but you don't own the games. So can't replay a few years later if you aren't presently subscribed.

It's not about being stupid with your money, it's actually a cheap way to give yourself choice in the future.
by fasterik | 2025-07-13 21:32:47+00:00
Factorio has deep gameplay. You can spend thousands of hours on it and still have more to learn and experience.

If it's your kind of thing, spending $70 for the base game plus the Space Age expansion is really good value; orders of magnitude more than most games. But if you want something that will give you a few hours of entertainment and then move on from it, it's probably not for you.

There's a free demo which has more than enough gameplay for players to decide whether they want to invest in the game.
by cyberax | 2025-07-13 21:32:51+00:00
> Wouldn't the issue be that an interview center could take money to lie/etc? When I start a job I would have to go through I-9 verification - if that process is not good enough to weed out fakes, how would another verification work better?

You just need to have a US citizen's SSN and birthday to beat the I-9 verification. And "beat" is a strong word. I-9 is just a form that the employer asks the employees to submit, there's no requirement for the employer to do anything with it.

So you can just say that your SSN is 555-55-5555 and your birthday is 01-01-2001 and you'll "pass" the verification. It'll be detected only when the employer submits the Form-944.

There's E-Verify that requires a picture ID and more information, but it's not mandatory.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-13 21:32:53+00:00
> I am an American but the idea of Germany not having a competitive LLM right now is pretty sad and embarrassing.

> As an American, It is really hard to understand how this can be for a country with such an incredible intellectual and engineering tradition.

As a German, I would claim that getting Germans on a hype train is incredibly hard.

I also cannot see anything that is "intellectual" about these LLMs. To me, the whole LLM scene is rather like "rich alpha tech bros are tech-broing; a lot of sycophants in the inner circle of these tech bros attempts to use the dictate of the moment to become rich fast; and a lot of real or feign AI fanbois attempts to rid the hype wave to make easy money".
by silisili | 2025-07-13 21:33:42+00:00
This is mainly about A pillars, but one related problem I noticed and went through in particular are cars getting taller. Not just to sit in, but the entire body.

My wife is only about 5' tall which to be fair is fairly short, but she can't see over the hood on most new cars. Said another way, if a toddler were standing directly in front of the car she wouldn't see it. Even if she were closer to average height, I can see it still being a problem. Luckily we found a 2024 with a hood that sloped down towards the front bumper, solving the issue. The 2025 of the same make decided to flatten and box off the hood, causing the aforementioned problem.

And this is on a compact car. I have to imagine trucks, SUVs, and crossovers are even worse in this regard. I'm sure most of us have read stories about a person hitting a child that they didn't even see, and it's easy to see how.

It seems a lot of new cars are coming with pedestrian detection, but it feels like having a front camera that works like the rear camera when coming out of a stop would be beneficial if we insist on making them so tall.
by 9dev | 2025-07-13 21:34:14+00:00
Oh, that series. If only it hadn’t devolved into a low-effort telenovela, it would’ve been so much better. The alternative timeline to spaceflight was amazing. But while I patiently waited through the boring relationship drama to get to see alternative space history again, those segments got shorter and sparser and the drama more stretched out and ridiculous beyond belief (that… Oedipus thing..? Like… still at a loss of words). I gave up on the first few episodes of season 3, when it completely derailed into golden girls in space with like three extras.
by unsigner | 2025-07-13 21:34:23+00:00
The Bulgarian translation I read was a valiant effort by a guy who ran the Bulgarian "science fiction and fantasy BBS".

(Yes, that kind of BBS, with the dial-up modems, XMODEM/YMODEM/ZMODEM etc.)

(Yes, it was mostly for pirating books in the form of badly OCR-ed TXT files, and occasionally discussing them.)

Apparently at some point he decided he needs to bring Gibson to the non-English speaking part of the population and... I don't remember the translation as being "good", but it definitely was "bold".
by to11mtm | 2025-07-13 21:34:38+00:00
> Why can't the takeaways just go rogue and offer independent deliveries?

Because many of these delivery 'ad-hoc contractors'[0], sometimes even eating cost [1].

Pre-covid, you were often best off as a business either doing something that was 'known' to be delivery offered (i.e. pizza) or your next best option was to aggressively advertise it and have an extra staffer on hand willing to do the deed.

Then, you've also got the other form of arbitrage (or perhaps a cost thereof), of smaller independent restaurants/chains being unwilling or unable to handle the costs of properly covering drivers [2] and their pay when not driving [3].

Some restaurants started doing delivery during covid and kept it going. However most around here dropped because the volume wasn't worth it to them, on top of the 'streamlined flow' (don't need to give a route, the app the person picking up the 'pick-up' order is handling, does that for them.)

I'm not saying I like it but I get how it got here.

[0] - Remember that in the early days some of these companies would do all sorts of weird things like just have someone order on behalf.

[1] - There's an article about this involving 'pizza arbitrage' here https://www.readmargins.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage

[2] - To be clear, both the startups as well as locals have a checkered history when it comes to proper coverage...

[3] - One can argue that such a person can be made 'useful' during the waiting time, however it becomes a complicated equation between 'what can this person be paid to do' vs 'are they willing to do it for that base'.
by SonOfLilit | 2025-07-13 21:35:38+00:00
Russian culture considers translated (I think) Shakespeare to surpass the original. We Israelis also had one of our more famous poets (Alterman) translate some Shakespeare but I'm not aware of the translation being considered a masterpiece on its own (personally it felt too archaic to appreciate).

We have two translations of Lord of the Rings (Tolkien fans being one of the more picky bunches of book geeks here, I'll refer to it in depth.) The older one, by Lavnit, is considered more beautiful and poetic and flowing (my nick comes from it though I was never much of a Tolkien geek, just hung out with them - Elves were translated into the Sons of Lillith from Hebrew mythology, and my mother's name is Lillith...). It's also long out of print and goes for (lowish I believe) collector prices. The newer one by Dr Emanuel Lotem is more... I don't know, academic maybe would be the word? Anyway, the Tolkien community hates him so much that he's one of their main memes. He also translated Dragonlance, which I grew up with, so I had no ill will towards him myself, and at some point I realized he's the one who managed to translate the Illuminatus! trilogy, which is... quite a feat. I wouldn't expect it to be translatable. So now I hold a deep appreciation for him.

The local Harry Potter geeks treated the translator as a minor celeb.

Off the top of my head, I'm not aware of any other translators that are held in special regard.
by cheriot | 2025-07-13 21:35:52+00:00
Maybe it's just me, but the words, "Other Immigration Violator" rubbed me the wrong way. I see it's a term from the source data and ICE describes the category as, "Other immigration violators are individuals without any known criminal convictions or pending charges in ICE's system of record at the time of the enforcement action."

ICE alleges these people have violated the civil code so calling them "violators" assumes guilt and comes across as inflammatory. Something like like "No Criminal Status" would be accurate and more neutral.

Personally, I'd call them "Productive Members of Society The Rest of Us Depend On."
by Swizec | 2025-07-13 21:35:54+00:00
> If only governments could provide a very simple “check identity” service online. I think this should be a basic service nowadays.

Slovenia issues personal certificates so you can identify yourself online. Mostly used for banking and e-gov. The commercial space has decided it’s too cumbersome.

Fantastic idea. Started rolling out when I was in college some 15 years ago. You go to the same place that issues your govt ID and you can also get the equivalent of an SSH cert issued by the government that guarantees you are you, your identity was verified at point of issuance, etc.

Unfortunately it’s about as fiddly to use as SSH. Okay for nerds, way cumbersome for normal humans who just want to log into their bank and pay their taxes damn it. Last I remember (moved to USA ~10 years ago) getting their e-signing browser widgets/extensions to work reliably on non-windows machines was hell. Most Mac/Linux users ran a whole VMWare VM just to do taxes once a year.
by mikhailt | 2025-07-13 21:35:58+00:00
Yes. Gut microbes has already been shown to have a great impact on how we metabolize by what med we take, what we eat or drink and intake from our environments (micro-plastics, etc).

There is no single main root cause for obesity. We just combine it as one because there isn’t a lot of long term research or funding for it right now. There is a lot of sigma against obesity and people keep blaming other people instead.

Thyroid hormone disorders have been linked to cause weight gains. This can’t be fixed by simply eating less, it can literally do far more damage.

Medications have been linked to cause weight gain as side effects. This wouldn’t do anything to eat less until they stop taking meds and for some, they cannot do that.

Americans’ increasing desire for sweets have increased the sugar content in all of our food including the fruits and vegetables over time. We’ve intentionally bred our healthy stuff to be sweeter. So eating less can make us even more hungrier because we go into sugar crush without realizing it. Changing diets is difficult without us doing all sorts of calculations of finding the right cheap healthy food at the right store and that is you are lucky enough to have any.
by b112 | 2025-07-13 21:36:09+00:00
And yet, why do you need software?

In the 80s, I delivered pizza with no software. The place had a normal cash register, for pickups.

People would call, order, and we'd write it down. They it'd go on a wire with a clothes pin, until made. Then it went with the driver.

Each delivery was written down before leaving with it.

This worked for decades for everyone in the industry, flawlessly, perfectly, without issue.

Why is software required? Any given reasons are an unneccessary complication.

And here's the thing. Even in Palo Alto I order from companies still doing it this way.

The above system, paperwork wise .. again, is perfect. It's been done forever. It is faster and far less expensive than any unified payment and order system.

Seems to me, they're the smart ones.
by rasz | 2025-07-13 21:36:29+00:00
Iv been following https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/issues/644 since 2020. I remember a moment in 2021 where Google came out with this ridiculous notion of User code stored on User computer and executed by User Agent being "remote" because it wasnt under Google control, but somewhere around 2022 things started clearing up and Jan Biniok managed to get a working mv3 version a year ago in May.

Surprisingly this async serialize/deserialize nature of the API (https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/blob/cdfc253c07... ?) somehow still manages to inject and execute scripts fast enough to make them act like content scripts at document_start. The only problem is no arbitration between extensions, cant force Tampermonkey inject before uBO (tons of adblock filters disable functions required for Tampermonkey and effectively kill Tampermonkey in the process).
by kelipso | 2025-07-13 21:37:00+00:00
Quotes from the article:

> Intelligence community’s report on wealth and corruption of China’s rulers is overdue

> The truth is, the party is illegitimate. It is so for three reasons. First, it was formed and nurtured by the Communist International, a worldwide organization, and the Chinese Communist Party’s seizure of power in 1949 was made possible by Stalin and the Red Army.

Lol, this is the most obvious propaganda article I have seen in probably years. You should be embarrassed to post this in HN.
by jjangkke | 2025-07-13 21:37:03+00:00
we live in a society where we can't really voice, our opinions or grievances towards specific groups or cultures or issues as it is deemed politically incorrect, so a lot of that has moved online, behind anonymity. Anonymity also plays an amplifying role. Larping as the target group and in many instances it becomes even easier to manipulate this much is true, but this is the price of forcing all of the healthy debates away from the off-line world because we fear offending.

The contrast between the online off-line world that the author in the article alludes to is indicative of this. It's the unspoken role where we all know that speaking out has consequences often that impacts are economic well-being. There would be no way to get farm something for which there is no demand for...
by bhattisatish | 2025-07-13 21:37:16+00:00
Oh I wasn't aware that I could use the xbox/playstation controllers on Ubuntu. I guess that makes it easier to buy one.

I did not play much of Doom in a single player mode. It was typically in a LAN party my friends used to organize. I don't have much nostalgia for the game as such, more for the time and friends during those period :-) I am not sure I wanna explore the newer versions. But I might try...
by thisisit | 2025-07-13 21:37:25+00:00
> He hasn't done anything illegal and, if he does, his own staff and the courts will prevent him from doing it.

Then you must be living under a rock. He is a convicted felon who knowingly broke the law, his people who should fulfil their fiduciary duty helped him.

> I never cared much for birthright citizenship other than for offspring of slavery but arguing about it hardly seems a good argument for or against Trump.

Yep. The goal post shifting Trump supporter. “I can’t refute this so let’s go with “I don’t care for it so not a valid argument””.
by msgodel | 2025-07-13 21:37:27+00:00
I think rather pulseaudio either isn't configured correctly or you haven't authorized the connection (Bluetooth devices will pair, then connect, then you have to authorize them. In bluetoothctl you get an asynchronous yes/no prompt, I don't know what this looks like in the GUI bluetooth management tools.)

Generally drivers on Linux are all kind of shipped together. Unless you have some really niche device that's so rare your distro doesn't ship the module for it with its normal "linux" package you're not missing drivers. That's almost certainly not the case with A2DP/HFP especially if bluetooth itself already works.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-13 21:37:34+00:00
> I don't have the right personality traits to enjoy this kind of personal attention a lot of the time

Have friends who work at the Four Seasons. This—low service interaction—is a common type of personalised attention patrons want.

I don’t think there is a social media cue for it. But even as someone who’s fairly extroverted, I got a note indicating I should be left alone if dining alone and reading.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-13 21:37:57+00:00
That's not why sales lead to more revenue.

They do because people who can't afford full price will wait to buy on sale. Whereas people who can afford full price will often just buy it when they want it for instant satisfaction.

So they get mostly full price from people who can pay full price, and make it accessible to people who can't afford it at full price.
by ryandv | 2025-07-13 21:38:11+00:00
Usually I see that term applied to Turing tarpits, intentionally obfuscated languages, joke/meme languages, or ones with highly heterodox syntax. Zachtronic languages are really none of these and closer to an assembly (reduced) instruction set architecture. What makes them toy-like languages is that the "machine" you're writing assembly for is rather oversimplified, and is in fact totally fictitious.