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Rick Beato is awesome. If you enjoy him, you should check out Pat Finnerty.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnLozCO8w7uJODg8_iAGaVw

He has a series called "What makes this song stink" which is just gold. And there are some digs at Beato all done in good friendly fun.
For a history of the process in the US I recommend Ezra Klein's 2020 book:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%27re_Polarized

While the public tended to have particular leanings, the Democrats and the GOP didn't really bother 'sorting' themselves until the Southern Strategy where the GOP went after the southern Dixiecrats:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

It's worth noting that there's decent evidence that one's political leanings may also influenced by brain structure:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_political_orientat...

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853648.The_Political_Bra...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics_(book)
I think Game Pass has built up a helluva goodwill bucket, from talking with friends of mine.
Bernie is all over the map on gun control. He's to the right of Hillary, in that he opposes mandatory buybacks. He also favors the right of permit holders to carry weapons into national parks, and he voted against requiring trigger locks on handguns. But he favors prohibition on the sale of assault weapons (including many of the most common rifles in the country) and expanded background checks. The NRA gives him an "F", but given the above that seems extreme. He does appear to be on the right of the typical Democratic candidate, but to the left of the typical GOP candidate.
Coromoran Strike? Was a bit of a slow burn, but grew on me after a bit.
Right, if it’s not a panacea then we should definitely not pursue it.
> Why can something as large as MS have a “division” that can go into mergers and acquisitions as if they were a separate entity?

Especially when Microsoft is using the rest of Microsoft to subsidize said "division"
Are you saying that AMD is very close in perf/watt? If so, that's pretty cool.
Life on Mars suffered a similar US translation, IIRC.
Synology NAS, using Synology Photos (installed on my phone + wife's phone for photo backups). The NAS is backed up nightly using Synology C2. I also have a local standalone disk. We also both use Google Photos - although not all photos on here and ideally I wouldn't use it, the utility is so strong it's hard to say no to it.

I did used to use Mylio [1] which is a really lovely solution that uses a sort of internal P2P approach - your images don't go near a cloud host if you don't want them to. It just keeps your "vaults" updated with each other - a vault can be on a NAS / desktop / mobile. The issue I had with it was that the mobile scenario is a bit shonky - required you to have your phone on at the same time as one of your other vaults in order to sync mobile photos, and that proved too fiddly to maintain.

[1] https://mylio.com/
The success of Red Dead Redemption, and Rockstar in general, is proof that you gamers will appreciate more substantial than sports games (which barely update between editions, and sometimes actually have LESS content than previous editions), and shooters, which have rapidly turned into Skinner's Boxes themselves with all the unlockables and achievements (which hijack the whole point of a shooter from competition between individuals' skill, into a competition between the player and a list of arbitrary "achievements").

But clearly the AAA studios have the market figured out, it's just easier, less risky, and more profitable to make shallow "product" than a rewarding and interesting "game."
This sounds a bit like "ms should just make better games". Games are hard. Extremely hard. If Microsoft managed to incorporate the Battle net portfolio into their gamepass, there is some argument to be made about how much better that service would become.

I see your point, I really do, this stinks in all sorts of ways, but there could be a benefit here for a lot of players.
Was a missed opportunity. I often wonder if he’s be the JFK of our generation when given the pandemic opportunity.
I believe Rocket League was a special case, in that they offered refunds for everybody who bought it to play on Linux/Mac, no matter how many hours of it they have played.
> Which model of drone costs $780K and has the same range?

None, but you don't need range if you will creep within few hundred kms of the target, and launch from field.
I don't have hard data at hand, but I think most investigations into this phenomenon show the same pattern. People identify as independent when given the choice between that, R, or D, but in practice many of those vote almost exclusively for one party.

My recollection is that there are somewhat more people who identify as Independent who vote primarily for Republicans, but that might not be true.
All photos make their way to a home server -> duplicati -> S3 and backblaze offsite backups
> Win-wins all around!

Do devs get more money from Steam than Switch on a per unit basis? If not, using Steam means the dev is not winning as much as they could.
But retweets is not content discovery, retweets are content posted by people you follow (albeit originally posted by somebody else).

I'm looking at it from the perspective of somebody with a new account with only few followers. How do you get people to see things you post, and ultimatively follow you? In principle you can just reply to their tweets and get their attention, or approach them outside of twitter.

In some fraction of cases, twitter suggests things you post to strangers that have common connections. I think that is beneficial and actually doesn't happen nearly enough, leading to people living in filter bubbles.
I know, that's what I was thinking. Or even geostationary satellites. Being able to go to some public building and getting 1Mbps for an hour is a lot better than nothing.
Intel is already competitive on 10nm (Intel 7) with Alder Lake on desktop against AMD; I'm frankly impressed to see what Intel's designs on TSMC 3nm will do.
Can you be more specific about what things went too left since Biden was elected? It was my impression that people are more dissatisfied about their jobs and that covid is still plaguing us.
The anecdata of my random Walgreen photos seem to be holding up pretty well in the living room and hallway environment that they live in. We have some done from their "photo copy" machines from 20 years ago. Mind, I don't have master originals to do a side by side comparison, but using the Mark 1 Eyeball, they look fine. They're doing much better than my 50 year old polaroid.

While I can print photos, it's typically far easier and cheaper to have Walgreens do it.
there are some major differences that mean inflation isn't the best indication for price

the biggest is market size. in 1980, there were very few people buying games compared to today.

also, for non-aaa games, the difficulty of making a game has in many ways gone down significantly. NES era games were at the absolute limit of hardware capabilities, and required a ton of wizardry to fit within size constraints. now graphics expectations are higher, but modern computers are so much more powerful that you can afford a lot more sloppiness.
Agree it is a function of a broken healthcare system as well. That said, vaccination rate and bed capacity are two different issues with separate timeframes to scale up. Adding a meaningful capacity to hospitals takes time - educating more doctors, nurses, buildings, equipment. The capacity for vaccinating everyone is already there, which, given adoption, would avoid over utilisation of beds. I would argue keeping people out of hospital is a better outcome than adding capacity for hospitalisations that could easily have been avoided.
The point is not to engage with propaganda, but with the ordinary people who are genuinely concerned about child sex abuse enabled by social media. This is a real problem, so I don't think it's fair to talk about 'preying on [people's] unthinking parts'.

I should think that there must be even less to be gained by responding smugly with rote slogans and links to clips from the Simpsons. Who is going to be persuaded of anything by that?

What you need to show is either that (i) kids are already pretty safe online, or (ii) that the situation can be significantly improved without increased surveillance, or (iii) that the current level of child sexual abuse is a price worth paying to preserve important freedoms. But making one of those arguments would require actual thought and effort.
I voted for Biden in 2020, and I have been very disappointed with his presidency. He started out saying that he wanted to unite the country and turn down the temperature, and this was exactly what I voted for. In the first 6 months of his presidency I actually thought he was doing a decent job.

However, he has really lost me in recent months. His administration spent so long trying to deny that inflation even existed, all while pushing for a gargantuan spending package. WTF? Then all this hyperbolic crap about Jan 6 started getting pushed, with the VP comparing it to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. Extremely disrespectful, in my opinion. And finally, the nail in the coffin was this Voter ID nonsense. I absolutely support Voter ID, it seems like a common sense policy. And I don't support giving illegal immigrants the right to vote, like they did in NYC. But according to Biden, this makes me a racist who is on the side of Jefferson Davis. Are you freaking serious!? My response to Biden is - go fuck yourself, asshole.

In summary, he has disappointed me in many ways. The left hasn't calmed down in the slightest, and cancel culture is at an all time high. Inflation is spiking and people like me may never get to own a house. Biden is too busy calling us racists to have any chance at uniting the country. And covid is at an all time high.

Very disappointing, and I hope someone more moderate runs in 2024 for BOTH sides. Trump and Biden are clearly a bunch of old curmudgeons who can't unite shit. Let's get some moderates in there, like Manchin or Romney.
They also like to make SCOTUS do the hard part of their job.
Without end-to-end encryption, one doesn't need to break into anyones servers. Thats sort of the point. Without encryption, you are weak at every packet, which can be intercepted anywhere between you and Facebooks servers.
Nobody seems to have moved to the left though. The only significant thing that passed was an infrastructure bill, and none of the Democrats in congress seemed to have made any radical opinion shifts.
It's a paradox in the same sense that Zeno's paradox is. As in "if we assume the world is how we intuit it to be without thinking it through and having the proper understanding, this problem seems self-contradictory" rather than in the sense of something actually self-contradictory.
While "cancelling" as a phenomenon isn't new, the methods and scope of what constitutes modern "cancel culture" is much more vicious and far-reaching than mere ostracism or the oft-referenced "showing someone the door".
I've worked for a crypto startup.

They were frank enough to tell me that their business could have done the same thing in a centralized fashion, but they wouldn't have gotten funding.

Cryptocurrencies don't have a "killer app". Something for the common person.

I suspect that even when they do, it will be incidental. Something that could have been developed as part of a centralized architecture, but built with cryptocurrencies because the financial support was there.

> permission-less loans and lending

What does this mean?
Kitty terminal productivity features [video]
I've been painting some walls in my house recently. After getting over the short learning curve of making a mess everywhere I find it pretty therapeutic and meditative.
What great works of art have ever come from the State?

If anything, we need the ultra rich to fund this kind of thing based on their taste. That worked well in the past with the court musician/composer and patronage.

There are so many problems with this UBI idea. The medium is one that comes to mind. We have largely moved on from paint on canvas to video the way we moved on from sculpture in stone to paint on canvas.

Does the artist have the artistic freedom to start a youtube channel with the money? I would suspect not.

Most likely this goes to propping up outdated mediums of expression and will lack the complete freedom needed for a true artist to really express themselves.

Then of course you have to contend with those gaming the system to free roll by collecting old toilets from the trash to work on their homage to Duchamp masterpiece.

I suspect there is reason for the starving artist archetype.
"it's hard to vote for the party who calls you privileged."

that's very true and it goes both ways (right-to-left and left-to-right). When you call someone the enemy long enough they will eventually start to feel the same way towards you.
The point is that AI has the power to change the ecology of war. Cruise missiles occupy a niche, and yet they haven't obsoleted combat aircraft, so clearly they aren't "drones by another name"--drones serve a purpose today and will continue to diversify (including a blurring of lines between "drone" and "cruise missile"). Anyway, this conversation has taken a defensive tone, so I'll duck out.
As an ex-Intel employee it is interesting to see.

This seems to be sound long-term though it may cause significant shrink in the business in next couple of years to cut lines of business that are not above water.

From the point of view of infinite game it makes a lot of sense to diversify and then cut any branch of business that is not profitable, before it drags entire company.

While I think it is difficult to predict results, one thing is sure -- this will force a lot of change in Intel and we would likely not recognise the company ten years from now.
Also, giving other people career goals and birth control makes them have fewer children.
I think authorities are keeping vaccinated non-covid deaths secret. Or maybe not. But we will not learn the answer from theatlantic.com.
Yes.

>> The pilot, dressed in an olive-green flight suit, sat in a high-backed gaming chair, his face obscured by a virtual-reality headset.

So nothing like the real cockpit they would have trained in, with low-resolution, high-latency visuals. This alone could have removed a lot of the expert advantage of a real pilot in a real plane.
Feels like we're getting to the point where this could be anti-competitive.

Even if CoD remains cross platform, if it's free on GamePass well that's a pretty severe competitive edge to the Xbox platform.
That's why I love Stefan and Arq Backup :-)
That's only half of it.

Someone will propose addressing an actual real thing that actually is a serious threat to children and someone else will mockingly and with a Calculon level of overacting say "Won't someone think of the children!", using it as a kind of ad hominem.
And you weren't aware of the potential risks of a closed ecosystem before?

It's not like you bought into an open ecosystem, but now they closed it off.
Thank you, you are absolutely right!
Because the Avengers game wasn't very good. On the other hand the recent Guardians of the Galaxy game sold much better and has received overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Have you seen all the indie companies?
Android studio (too slow)
Does this have any equivalent to US laws or was it at all a departure from German law? I don't see what the precedent is, everything thinks the topic they care about is so important when its not.

The claims were 1) that HTML of a page is copyrighted 2) so therefore browser extensions that modify it are a problem

If I read this correctly, the court curbstomped 2) because thats silly while not needing to address 1) because thats true but has nothing to do with what a browser extension does.

Couldn't this had been dismissed since there is nothing new at all? was there really ever a risk of anything different occurring? what a waste of time
nslookup also goes directly to DNS, as far as I can tell. From what I remember, nslookup is what people used to use before “dig” became popular. So there is no good reason to ever use nslookup.
Can you enable just enough access on the deploy box so people can go view the logs there, and do nothing else? As opposed to shipping logs off the box, which I assume is what's getting gummed up
You got the types of consulting right, but the terminology wrong. Yes, one type of consulting is lending your expertise, another type is lending a pair of hands. Either of these types of consulting work can occur under "contracting", "freelancing", or other types of business relationships. Often a "pair of hands" consult is hired "until further notice", so it's not always contracting.
> farmers don't have to use JD.

I have a bunch of different colours in my shed. The only appreciable difference I've noticed is that when I needed the service manual to fix something, the CaseIH dealer slapped a book down in front of me. The tech at the Deere dealer had to enter a password on a computer to decrypt it for me. Neither seemed terribly concerned about providing the information, though.
Not really. It was clear that there was space for another large player in the console market. Sega was done or dying, Sony and Nintendo couldn't keep the entire playerbases to themselves (and PC and Mac are barely worth mentioning im sorry to say).
Just wait until everyone’s 401k loses all the gains made during the pandemic while inflation continues and job growth falters. Oh, and international turmoil and potential war following a series of diplomatic and military blunders that have weakened America’s stance abroad.

How can people not understand the reaction of moderates and independents? Perhaps they are watching propaganda that masquerades as news. The next few years will be confusing times for many. The pendulum swings as they say.
This feels like the missing tool in our remote team workflow. I love that you recognize there is a need for proper syncable docs that help manage project luck-off/monitoring processes.

Can you share a bit about your upcoming prioritized integrations?
Their games are available on PC, sold on Steam, and can run on Linux via Steam Proton. Just because they aren't available on one console doesn't make it that bad.
Just wanted to make sure we were on the same page about numbers mattering.

I guess you are in Australia? Australia may well have successfully suppressed natural immunity. In my own country we have large swaths pre-omicron who have natural antibodies: https://covid19serohub.nih.gov/

Now you seem to be expecting these folks to be vaccinated with a drug that has specifically excluded them from the trials. Drug recommendations ought to be coupled with safety testing on the impacted group.

If you can find me Pfizer/Moderna trial studies which show specific impact on recovered individuals I will never post again.
I can think FSD is inevitable while also thinking Tesla's current version is garbage and shouldn't allowed for the public, much less sold for $12k.

This is like defending an early electric company that is deploying lines all over the place and risks shocking people while not working at all.
Only competitive if you don't look at energy usage, Intel relies on cranking the energy usage in order to get their chips almost to compete with AMD.
Do you have a switch? I can’t make sense of your comment honestly
> Even if you made sure to unregister your phone number and email addresses from iMessage first? You can do this while still using an iPhone to validate that it's worked before you give it up.

You are right, of course. And you can also do it afterwards if you forgot. There is no nefarious plan to void your messages when you change phone.
Interestingly, Confluence doesn't have a 2 way sync with Jira. You can embed Jira tickets but you can't push content from Confluence to Jira and automatically create tickets.

Aside from that, we've designed Fable to be customized for the product team workflow - with features like the decision feed, zippy content editing, etc.

We also work with Linear, which has a fast growing user base
Those are fair points and thoughts I’d probably have myself. I’m not trying to sell you on this, but here are my responses to your two notes.

The first is that we know it’s more expensive than Google Photos storage. That’s in part so that we can actually fund development. As a small operation we can’t run it as a loss-leader or make up revenue from other channels like Google could.

The second is that we’ve been somewhat vetted through Google’s application process. We’ve also been building things for the web for 20+ years. Admittedly, trust is hard to earn from folks you don’t know, but we are decent people.

To be honest, Pixaver probably isn’t right for most folks on HN as most here are pretty technical. (I’m just a daily reader here, and spotted this thread, so I thought I’d share it.)

We’ve geared this more for people like my mom who don’t want to set up a local hard drive or do anything even remotely technical. For someone like her, it’s a couple of clicks to having a second backup without needing to do anything additional. :-)
Here is my personal example of how this COVID rules ends up being stupid:

- me and wife got Covid but we do not have symptoms

- I have surgery (quite important and relatively urgent since it hurts) but it is delayed because I’m positive

- my wife is a nurse but she forced to go to work because she has no symptoms

Should I blame democrats on this? I do not know but they really love being “COVID police” …
There's still plenty of money in PC and console games, especially AAA ones. It's a good thing that games expand to mobile. My little cousins in India have no consoles or PCs to play on, but they happily play PUBG or Minecraft with their friends on their parents' phones. Of course, for every wholesome mobile game, there's a 100 slot machine games with no merit.
how can an executive order legalize weed or cancel student debt? you can't just change a law with an executive order, if so then what's the purpose of the legislature?
Personally, I would guess it has more to do with people's attitudes shifting away from the COVID-cautious attitude the Dems staked out towards the Republicans' back-to-normal, outraged-at-restrictions stance.
> Nobody is compelling developers or users to use this technology.

Ummm.. have you seen the mountains of hype and cash poured from the cryptocurrency community onto regular folks?

> Isn't it enough to dislike something and avoid it entirely?

I would, but the cryptocurrency community isn't letting me do that.
A short hike, celeste, katana zero, …
I have an index. I like it. It definitely hasn’t taken off.
We're navigating "survival space", the space of all possibilities of existence in the future, under limited resources. It's pretty open-ended, we don't know what we could be, the peaks of evolution are clouded and we don't know if any particular path leads to it or is a detour. Only when you're close enough can you make progress by going directly towards the target.
> The chance of any sort of aerial dogfighting happening in a war are next to zero.

I am not so sure. Fundamentally, bullets are cheaper than missiles. A single AIM-9X Sidewinder missile comes at $400k, about the price of a brand new Cessna. A fixed wing drone under $100k is not inconceivable (drones don't have to support pilots, so all sorts of failure modes are acceptable, as opposed to what's ok for a Cessna). It would be within the capabilities of many nations' armed forces to send swarms of thousands of such drones. Shooting them down with missiles will be both expensive and impractical. The only realistic way to defend against swarms of cheap drones is to use your own cheap(ish) drones that can out-dogfigth them.
well the Diablo 2 servers have been online continuously for over 20 years already, so I'm not exactly sure this is a valid concern for the vast majority of people.