skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So our quibble is over “useless brick.” How does Apple dropping support for a device make it a “useless brick”? As far as I’m aware, you can still use an original iPhone from 2007 today. It won’t be fast, but it will work more or less.

Planned obsolescence is not related to advancements in technologies. Would you classify the Commodore 64 as having been designed with planned obsolescence in mind considering it ran on a 6502 when the competition at the time was transitioning to 8086? Of course not. So why is Apple deciding to put more advanced technologies into their devices planned obsolescence?

If you’re referencing the App Store, though, I can see where you’re coming from. But Apple releasing new technologies and not putting them on devices that can’t handle them (due to computing power) and developers using them (which prevents them from running on said old devices) is not planned obsolescence either. The developer chose to make it incompatible with the older devices, not Apple.
I'm not a Tory. You're perhaps conflating me with the first responder who admitted as much. That said, I can't stand ANY of our political masters and think party politics is mostly dysfunctional and inefficient.

Do I think Labour or the LibDems would have done any better, given they'd likely end up relying on much the same scientific input? Nope.
Have you ever worked on a farm? If not make sure you understand exactly what it entails. Most people who've never done it vastly underestimate how much work it is.

That said, a small hobby farm with goats and chickens doesn't take much work. But going on vacation can be problematic.
You should investigate who in your company decided upon the 30 days and be weary of what they're up to.

30 days is unheard of for an unsubscribe system. Usually it's not mentioned or it's 48 hours. Very very few websites claim they need thirty days, and it's ridiculous.
I wonder what the overall concentration of alcohol released per second is.

> 200 to 1,000 tons of ethanol emissions every year.

200 to 1000 tons / year = 200 to 1000 tons * 907185 (g per ton) / (365 * 24 * 60 * 60 s per year) = 5.7 to 28g / s

Very roughly the equivalent of one shot of vodka every second (presume 1.5 fl oz = 44g total and vodka is half-ish alcohol). But, that's spread out over "hundreds of thousands of barrels". So each barrel is releasing ~100-300 micrograms of alcohol per second.

I'm sure it's measurable in the air, but capturable? Hard to say.
not really surprised about this and almost impossible to isolate with a company consisting of 1m employees and growing.
Ryman Eco, a beautiful ink saving ink
> or, god forbid, to actually meet friends and not in VR space...

These technologies really do solve problems for some people. Ignoring the temporary problem it’s solving for most-everyone right now, VR lets quadriplegics and house-bound invalids go places that aren’t accessible, e.g. the middle of the jungle. And VR is also useful for assisted visualization in the treatment of PTSD and other associated disorders.

This is also the thing that everyone who makes fun of those “as seen on TV” products needs to be reminded of: they’re not really for you. For many products, there’s a smaller core of people who actually need the product, and then a much larger halo of people who might want the product if you sell it the right way. For the As-seen-on-TV products, the core market is usually “old people who don’t move around well, or have the grip strength/dexterity necessary to operate hand tools.”

But even the core market doesn’t like being advertised to in a way that points out their problems. They’d rather that you wrote your pitch to target the larger halo market, and then they will see that ad, and notice the particular benefits to themselves as a core-market member.

So in the end, you get things like the ad for the Snuggie (whose real point, IIRC, is that it’s a robe that someone can put on an infirm person without having to lift them to get it around them) that instead markets it as a sort of weird throw-blanket with arms; or ads for VR headsets that market them as being for Beat Saber. In both cases, the advertising is ignoring the core market with a need for the product, knowing that they’ll discover it on their own once they see the advertising aimed at the larger market.
Sans Socom 2 remake, PS5 is going to be absolute garbage.
This one's obvious. I've gotten ads ON OTHER PEOPLE'S DEVICES targeting me (a habitual blocker of ads). They were very industry specific and I was hanging out with people that would have nothing to do with that industry.
I think this is only true if you're working under bad managers or in a corporate culture that incentives bad management practices.

People who are good managers almost always try to solicit as much criticism and feedback as possible. Especially from the most experienced people, since they know where the bodies are buried.
Who’s the AP for a popular ETF like Vanguards total stock index? What prevents Vanguard from bundling more stocks and selling more ETF units when the share price/demand is high?
Yes, and was very centrist.

I don't think the changing media landscape can be disentangled from this, which is a trend happening for unrelated reasons. If the only thing happening was urban concentration, then the mathematical predicted response of politicians would be that the liberal part becomes political-center and the conservative part skews further right.
What you're complaining about is basically that certain features have become simpler to the point that it's feasible to have them in more situations--and adding those features adds a certain amount of complexity.

There are three overlapping issues in what you talk about:

* Moving from bare metal servers to VMs to containers, with cloud deployment optionally thrown in there somewhere.

* Moving from hand deployment to continuous integration.

* Moving from monolithic applications to microservices.
I agree, there's a lot of fluff in business/productivity/self-improvement books. They're repetitive and often refer to the same decade old studies. I've also found that I need to be in the proper state of mind for a message to sink in. Maybe the regurgitation helps but I should reread a good book instead.
The TikTok deal solves quite literally nothing
Australian scientists say suppression of environment research is getting worse
Incredible that Fallout and Obsidian are now under the same roof again. The Outer Worlds was fun, and I want to see Obsidians efforts continue. Still, new Vegas 2 would be fine too.
I hope that was long enough in the past where they've done their DD and learned their very-much-needed lesson.

Pre-MS Rare was my personal golden age of gaming. I don't really play anymore, but man do I think fondly on those days.
Elixir has a few forms of updating a struct (or map)

%{existing_map_or_struct | some_key_1: :some_val, some_key_2: :some_val}

Then there is also `put_in/2`, `put_in/3`, `update_in/2`, `update_in/3`, these are nice because they work in pipelines

some_val
|> put_in([:foo, :bar, :baz], 3)

some_val
|> update_in([:foo, :bar, :baz], fn x -> x + 1 end)

The macro forms are cool too

put_in(foo.bar.baz, 2)

update_in(foo[:some]["nested"][:path], & &1 + 1)

The cool thing about the `/2` forms of `put_in` and `update_in` is that they are macros they rewrite the ast to return the entire object, and not just the changed value.

iex(1)> foo = %{bar: %{baz: 2}}
%{bar: %{baz: 2}}

iex(2)> update_in(foo.bar.baz, & &1 + 1)
%{bar: %{baz: 3}}

There's even more powerful macros like `get_and_update_in` which can use "selectors" to extend their functionality (https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/master/Kernel.html#get_and_update_...)

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/master/Kernel.html#put_in/2

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/master/Kernel.html#put_in/3

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/master/Kernel.html#update_in/2

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/master/Kernel.html#update_in/3
Quake is made by id Software. ZeniMax Media owns id Software. Microsoft just aquired ZeniMax Media.
A lot of modern mechanical engineering practice is building and using software.

Source: am a mechanical engineer who works on my industry's software
Good to see that something is being done but when there's money to be made and humans are in the decision loop there's going to be an opportunity for social engineering and corruption. Amazon is the biggest target but I suspect this is going on anywhere else there's a large enough cohort of shoppers (eBay?).
If you played Rare games from the 90s you would understand.

Also those games while not considered 'bad' weren't exactly considered system sellers.
We had even Uber without having to phone someone in the 1980s. It was called black taxi market and you really just hailed a car in the street.
Don't forget Tencent.
I still have some trouble around the idea that hardcore consumers will want a bundle that has maybe 2-5 games they would have bought otherwise + 95 more they dont really care about.

Aren't consumers just going to buy what they want anyway? Plus the Sony world just has so many more games worth playing
Can you please be more specific? What should an average Android user expect to see in those DNS logs?
You’re off by a couple of decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers

You could be thinking of “personal computer with Internet access”? That’s closer timing as long as you want something more open / capable than the various dialup services which were popular with personal computer users starting in the 1980s.
Can confirm this was also the case in The Netherlands.

As a child. fish sticks from "Kapitein Iglo" where a delicious treat.

Other fish sticks were not to be consumed.
I used 3 step divorce for mine!

https://www.3stepdivorce.com/
Microsoft Buys ZeniMax Media and the Elder Scrolls Dev Bethesda for $7.5B
> For longer-lived projects however, Phoenix is miles ahead. Even Rust's Rocket, but only if you are willing to invent a lot of stuff yourself (auth for example).

I can't speak to Phoenix, but I've looked into Rocket and don't understand how it can really be compared to Rails. There's so much you need to implement yourself that you'll end up spending a big chunk of time on implementing things that Rails (or high quality / well used gems in the Rails ecosystem) can provide for free. And don't get me wrong, I'd love to sit down and do that work, but my job is to make stuff work and make it work quickly, and my employer doesn't hire enough people that we can afford to dedicate that kind of time when it's already "solved" by a framework.

I tend to work on projects where the requirements change constantly, and they're never really "done." Saying rails is good for "prototyping" is not wrong, but in a world where software is always evolving, the features and capabilities that make Rails great for prototyping are also great for just day-to-day existence.
Calling has absolutely not the same friction as using an app. It's orders of magnitudes less efficient, more expensive and sometimes just impossible (good luck calling radio taxi in some countries where you don't speak the language). I think comparing what we could do 20+ years ago with what we can do now and saying "meh" is outright absurd. But, hey, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
I would argue that public markets very much DID do their job here. Once you are public, people can go long or short your stock, unlike private companies where the latter is hard. In this case, someone took a large short position and then went public with accusations against the company. Now the stock is down. Assuming that the accusations are at least partially credible, sounds like a functioning market to me.
Great question. It's very important to not depend on just your technical skills.

Make sure you read this article https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/dont-hinge-your-care...
> most of it too is just trivial oil and tire changes or changing a basic part of two

And those types of jobs are the most likely to have higher margins.
A lot of people dislike Bethesda's management, is there now any risk of ex-Bethesda managers or executives poisoning the other game studios Microsoft owns?
Bethesda/Zenimax as a whole has had a very rough time of it recently, but their IPs alone are ridiculously valuable and id Software has been killing it lately. I wonder how much Microsoft intends to shake things up.

Also, if MS just wants development studios and IPs, I imagine a lot of the publishing arm of the company will be redundant. I wonder what MS intends to do about the publishing staff.
Epic is partly owned by Tencent but yeah, they are a very big fish, specially with their interests in mobile gaming.
No Microsoft game has monetization as bad as Fallout 76. So whatever Bethesda does from now on can't be worse than what it does today. ;)
Apparently [1] it returns Option<Element>.

[1] https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/api/web_sys/struct.D...
Is the world really getting worse or is the amount of negative information we digest daily affecting our perception of how good or bad things actually are?
I saw that as "222/55" = 4 (almost exactly) and then notice the text that shifted the the unit scales significantly. Mixing numbers with non-boilerplate text is confusing.
I remember the time when I needed a paper map to actually know where the buses went back in my home country. They would sell you guides that would routinely get updated, so you had to purchase a new one every six months or so. It was not convenient at all!
> We want to save up enough money so that we can retire at 55 and stop working.

If that's what anyone takes away from my jeremiad, then I actually think that's pretty great. Except ... why not 45? Maybe if more people could use software development as a quick route to something else that created more personal satisfaction and/or social value, that would actually be a good outcome. A bit more "it's just a job" and a bit less "it's my holy calling" is a necessary ingredient in that formula.
I'm not seeing where your link makes any such claim.

It quotes Assange as saying ‘forget the Jewish thing’, after he allegedly pointed out that a number of people :shown to have lied about him: were Jewish.

BTW, 'The JC' were very big on the claim that Corbyn is an anti-semite, while effusive in their praise for Boris Johnson... Sorry but that's proper batty.

I had a look at their US news page, and while they had a front-page story about a BUDDHIST swastika necklace, the :forced sterilisation: scandal seems to have passed them by.

And if there's anything in their news about this trial and it's irregularities, and the significance to journalism, I haven't found it.

You might not want to take them too seriously.
All of these consolidations of power are nuts. Feels like we need another round of trust busting in the next 10/20 years to help introduce real competition back into the markets.
>These technologies really do solve problems for some people. Ignoring the temporary problem it’s solving for most-everyone right now, VR lets quadriplegics and house-bound invalids go places that aren’t accessible, e.g. the middle of the jungle. And VR is also useful for assisted visualization in the treatment of PTSD and other associated disorders.

Yeah, that's a valid market. But they're touted as some ultimate revolution / need, to everybody, when they're trivial in utility (outside that niche), few asked for them or would care about them without heavy marketing, and all at the same time basic needs (like health, a job, housing, education) get increasingly shitty...
Interesting, seems pretty similar to an Executive Summary which also would have been very useful here.
3x Mojang makes it sound like MS got a really good deal on Bethesda, at the time they bought Mojang they were really buying a single (very popular) game, while with Bethesda they get a huge back catalogue, some really big franchises, and ID with all their knowledge of engine development.
Dose makes the poison.

There is a difference between someone telling you Band A is good, and someone hooking you on drugs and promising more drugs if you buy Band B.
The grass is always greener on the other side. Let's see.

I have 3 degrees in unrelated field (Industrial Eng, Theology, and CompSci), and worked in on a few careers, white collar jobs like being a sales engineer at a biodiesel company, helping running a cafe for a family business, being a church administrator before the current software engineering. I also worked on low paid labor jobs such as laundry, dry cleaning, deli, restaurant. All with their own physical risk, tiredness, stress from customers, etc.

The current job which is software engineering is far better than any other jobs that I had. It is pretty stable, great income, great benefits, stress free, not limited to space and time, can WFH, more flexible schedule, etc. I like software engineering a lot so I did side projects on the side, learning various programming languages, programming techniques, reading programming books, etc.

Now I am bored of all of those as well, and right now just focusing on my hobbies. I am focusing a lot on my musical skills right now, and that's the only thing that captivates my mind daily, not programming books, programming podcasts, etc anymore. Software is just another job. I'm not changing the world, not saving lives, not helping solving global warming or pollution or the declining flora and fauna that we have, or ending wars. It's riddled with churn mentality in this industry, politics, etc.

Somedays I dream of making it in the music industry, or creating a small cafe with aquascapes that I create as decorations, or not having to work at software anymore, or not having to work because I need income.

But in the end, I still work as SWE. The grass is always greener on the other side, and that depends on one's position in life like age, economic situation, etc. Right now I don't have the luxury of leaving my SWE jobs, and no I don't do this for myself, but for my family members.
One weird thing is that Deathloop and Ghostwrite are timed exclusives on PS5. I'm assuming that'll still happen because of contracts, but I wonder if there will never be another Bethesda game on PlayStation afterwards.
> 1) Make sure that visibility into the trial is as restricted as possible.

I think you missed a negation somewhere in that sentence.
There are similarities to the patterns on ancient bronze vessels.

Notice the patterns on the handle

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/HouMuWuD...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_ritual_bronzes
"There are small and variable amounts of phosphine in Earth’s atmosphere, and its origins have been the subject of much argument."

They mention this in their press release video. We only think phosphine on earth is from life.

I think step one would be to find the life on earth that creates phosphine.
I think there is a lot of truth to this. I started programming in C++ and then Java. But for about the past decade I've done web dev. Recently I've found myself back working on some non-web projects and it's a breath of fresh air in many ways.

True, a lot of that could just be the change in scenery. But I really appreciate that just about everything about the platform exists in order to create software, rather than trying to jump through the bizarre hoops that browsers created. Not dealing with Webpack is an absolute god send.

But with all that said, I think wasm has the potential to bring us sanity again. And if not wasm, then possibly tools like Rome will make web dev a bit more sane at least.
Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy – A Best Practices Guide
Any linguistic information experts here that can comment as to whether there is some informational advantage to having random nouns assigned “genders” like German, French, etc. do? As in, if we were considering a programming language would all the work involved with matching gendered nouns, adjectives, etc. get us any gains in expressiveness or any other benefit. I love the French language and wouldn’t want it changed, just have always wondered if there’s a “point” to eg a table being feminine.
How is The Outer Worlds? I heard it is basically space Fallout, which if that is half as good as it sounds I am all over it.
There used to be telephones (with buttons). You could order all of the above through it, given a credit card.
> He insisted Leigh had included a password in his book that could decrypt the files WikiLeaks had left online. Leigh has always said this is nonsense.

How is it notable that Leigh said something is nonsense that can easily be verified by anyone? This is a tactic I recognize from a lot of propaganda: when repeating something that is known to be factually inaccurate, attribute it to someone else. This work of art not only does that, but surrounds it with "tactic I recognise" "Julian tropes" and "'blame culture'".

The last I put in double quotes, because I'm pretty sure it's not a quote, it's a thought being projected into Assange's head. Not even good propaganda.
Huh? In MN, WI and the upper peninsula of Michigan I have sat in multiple restaurants that had a seafood section in the menu that proudly claimed fresh caught (insert nearest great lake) fish. Maybe not so much in Central Minnesota, but I have definitely seen this in Duluth, and I doubt that the average Minnesotan would be confused by calling lake fish seafood. Although if we are being truly pedantic I suppose that the great lakes would more properly be considered inland seas.
And when you’re dealing with fentanyls, there’s huge dose to dose variation due to uneven mixing.

Mixing something 1:1000 is a lot harder than 1:10, especially when you’re just dealing with solid particles of ??? sizing.
I can answer at least something, though I'm not a Tory, so someone please correct me if I'm mischaracterising:

1) David Camerons right to own policy was very favourable among young adults who felt like they will never be able to own a home. I had a friend of mine tell me that he "selfishly" voted tory because of that policy.

I didn't have the heart to tell him where the money came from.

2) Tories are good at projecting a feeling of "control" and making their opponents seem a bit chaotic or not as clear. Their opponents do not help themselves here.

This is my own observation, I see often that tories will speak clearly with a single voice and paint labour as being "in chaos" or that labour is seriously divided on key issues.

3) People are generally afraid of immigration. Tories are on the anti-immigration side of things publicly (though, this is betrayed by their actual policies, because immigration brings a lot of wealth to the country.)

4) People don't like taxes, and see the cuts to public services as "eventually coming to them". This was told to me by my friends father who voted tory.
Unfortunately, buying octopus in The Netherlands means either buying "Calamares" which turn out to be deep fried rubber rings, or buying pre-cooked tentacles for €10 per 100g, which turn out to be rubber as well.

There is hardly anything as delicious as properly prepared octopus.
If you want to target Xbox, you need to write a D3D renderer anyway (although the Xbox API has some significant differences, if I understand correctly). There's little point writing an OpenGL renderer if your target platforms are Windows, Xbox, and PlayStation (which has its own graphics API).

Also, my understanding is that on Windows, OpenGL generally runs into more issues with driver bugs than D3D does.
I think that’s the wrong frame- the two problems for me are the corporate environment (which is hellish and always getting worse, but also applies to any other office job) and the “never finished” nature of software.

I don’t want to keep adding features to the same thing, I don’t want to keep being the expert on how it works and how long it will take to do x and sit around planning out roadmaps and do user research and all this shit. I want to work on something for a while and have that be enough and then do another project.

It’s the nature of the work, not “I’m building websites when I could be building mobile apps”.