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Economic justice and civil rights are inextricably tied in discussions about US history.
I would suddenly feel a lot better about things if this explained the resurgence of stuff like Flat Earth theory.

Sadly, I don't think that's the case.
> I really don't understand why there isn't more intense competition at the AAA tier.

it's enormously difficult to make a game and not a repeatable business model.

> I know for a fact I can do it cheaper and faster.

To create the products they're making the big dogs are leveraging years and years and years of tech R&D development and tooling and enormous amounts of manpower.

To be able to create a hit AAA without any of this is relying on capturing lightning in a bottle.

If one stumbles upon some novel gameplay that propels your game to notoriety, the design will be copied by the big AAA devs next release cycle.
Previous Discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29484567

My previous comment

Not just 2022, after being stuck with an 14nm node and old uArch from Intel. The Super Cycle will go on till 2025+ once you factor in all the upgrade from previous hardware and new capacity. PCI-E 6.0 was 0.9 in Oct and should have been 1.0 by now. I guess a small delay. We are looking at PCI-E 7.0 by 2023/2024.
Intel is working their ass off to get back on track to their somewhat original roadmap. Lots of competition from AMD and more importantly ARM. We finally have node improvement after stuck with Intel 14nm on servers for 4+ years. TSMC 3nm in 2023 and 2nm by 2025. ( Expect a year later on Server ). DDR5 and DDR6 as well. 1 PB of SSD in 1U with Ruler form factor. And 800Gbps Network possible.

The biggest problem with all of these is that they are not getting cheaper per unit. DRAM / GB hasn't dropped at all in the past decade. The price floor is pretty much the same at $2/GB and much higher for high capacity and ECC memory. ( Price excluding inflation so you could argue it is cheaper ) NAND wont get much cheaper even with higher stacking. So all in all, you may be putting double the Storage, DRAM or Networking in a Server put they will cost double as well. Only thing that is getting slightly cheaper is CPU Cost per Core.
Edit: And that is why this decade may be all about Software optimisation. There are many inefficiency lying around in our software stacks. While we have peaks everywhere in our Hardware roadmap. I would be surprised if we could even get 1TB Memory and 128 Core Server at half of today's price by 2030.
I don't use Venmo a lot, but I did notice a "purpose" button when I was in there the other day, I wonder if that's how they figure out which of these transactions are commercial payments, or if there's some other way to do it.

If I remember correctly, the default option was "Personal gift" or something like that. Is it technically fraud to forget to flip that option now? The app didn't explain any of that to me...
Would've been valid only if the quality of products and services pre-acquisition were actually good, and for Blizzard games at least it's been anything but good in the past few years. Gaming is a very end-user-focused experience and until their testimonies come in due time, your abstract market competition spiel is irrelevant to it.
I am pretty bearish on the the semi space especially after TSMC comments last week. I really think they’re expanding at the worst possible time. Understandably, this is largely due to politics.
> The employer only needs to pay enough to make it worthwhile for the employee to show up.

That's exactly my point—why would you show up to a job that pays you less than you receive by default? It doesn't make sense to go from working 0 hours to working 40 for a less than 50% increase in income.
That’s basically it. Apple went big because the target process allowed it. To someone out of the ASIC industry, it is a set of interestingly scaled but pedestrian design choices coupled with some exaggeration (realizable memory bandwidth per core on the Max is a fraction of what you’d expect based on Apple’s aggregate memory bandwidth claim for the processor as a whole) and a very serious investment in performance/watt (legacy of the phone use case).

The Max has barely any improvement core-wise than the first M1. It’s going to be interesting to see what the real next generation looks like.
China hasn't eliminated covid in human or animals. No one has.
The new reporting requirements are yearly receipts of $600.
Wow, that's a dealbreaker for me.
The US has a 65% vaccination rate where other developed nations with free internet access hover in the high 80s or 90s. It's not just information.
Paypal FAQ:

https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2021-11-04-New-US-Tax-Repor...
You can do the Vim approach just fine, and I usually do. I write prose in kak for goodness' sake, I don't usually have multiple cursors for that. The only time I accidentally get extra selections, besides old muscle memory triggering that feature in search with shift-N, is when I accidentally click in the terminal, which was going to mess me up with any editor.

But occasionally it's very nice to actually have that multiple selection feature. For instance, suppose you have a search and replace that you only want to do on certain instances of your search, in a context dependent way. You could just use n and . repeatedly. However, I find it nicer to examine each selection, drop the inappropriate ones individually, recheck my work, then do all the edits at once. This also eliminates (granted, by defining it away) the problem of changing your mind halfway through the search process about what change you want to make. When you change your mind, your cursor is either still live in all the places, or you're done, in which case at least there's only one thing to search for again, not the half that were changed and the half you hadn't reached yet.
> Choose the best tool for the job.

Totally agree. Just trying to get the community thinking about this stuff. Most business apps I have seen over the years do not have any actual value-add proposition for existing as 2+ separate computer systems.
Yeah, I intended that a bit tongue in cheek. Of course everyone knows what's going on, though to some extent they pretend not to.
The lease agreement on those boxes usually states the customer assuming all risk. Sometimes boxes randomly go missing, and natural disasters can make them inaccessible.

"She sued the bank in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking $7.3 million. Bank of America sought to have the case dismissed, citing language in its lease agreement stating that the renter “assumes all risks” of leaving property in the box."[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
Reminds me of https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/13/business/media-business-a... where a bunch of billboard owners in Times Square (New York City) tried to sue Sony over digitally replacing the advertisements in scenes in a Spiderman Movie. Luckily the judge in that case came to a similar conclusion.

I'm still dubious the city skylines can be copyrighted - NYC believes they own the copyright on the city's skyline. I'm also dubious that the NYC Subway can copyright the route indicators (letters in circles).

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/the-por...

http://www.fordhamiplj.org/2010/01/07/mta-symbols-intellectu...
I'm guessing this is due to MySQL using clustered indexes, which require a separate b-tree lookup for each matching row in the secondary index since all you have is the key. A Postgres secondary index actually contains the offset of the slotted page containing the row.
I’m much the same but with an additional local backup: iCloud Photos (with one computer set to save all originals), Time Machine backups to a local NAS, plus BackBlaze for offsite.
The fun here stems from the fact that many small business owners use the friend-to-friend side of these payment services.

Unpopular opinion, but I'm OK with eliminating this loophole.

I went to a record shop a couple of weeks ago and when I went to pay, the guy didn't take Apple Pay. Or any kind of credit card. All he took was Venmo and Facebook. Fortunately, I had cash. But if you can't even shell out $5 for a Square reader to take credit cards, you're not a business — you're a hobby.

And yes, I have owned small businesses before. Three times. Each time, I took credit cards as payment. It's known as "cost of doing business." No different than paying to put up a sign, or renting a storefront.
None. This is commercial transactions, not personal ones.
Power law going to power law.

I am sure this will result in better games than if not, lol.
If you have terabytes of photos, be honest: no one is ever going to look at them. Pare them down to the good ones, get high-quality prints, and make a photo album. There's really no way to guarantee electrical devices will last without labor and cost. Although the idea of passing digital assets down as heirlooms has never existed before, so maybe there's an PaaS here that goes beyond Google photos.
However, I do like the role GPS plays as a plot device in all kind of stories, where it's an active device, with GPS-enabled devices giving away position or there's no GPS in the wilderness, as mobile connections fail. So there are two versions of GPS, the popular plot device and the actual navigation device.

(The more sinister version is that this has actually been planted as a cover-up for more realistic electronic intrusions, as this is also a trope in popular media and news.)
While it sounds like this headline is missing a "commercial" modifier needed to clarify what this applies to, I currently use Zelle for sharing expenses with my S/O. Does anybody have any suggestions for a replacement service, or is Zelle as good as it gets in the USA? Concerned that I'll eventually be paying taxes on my rent and beer splitting.
There is a double edge problem here.

Farming like almost every other industry is has been under massive consolidation pressure for the last several decades, small and medium farms being bought out by large corporations.

These large corporations have no problem with these changes at JD because they do not want to repair their tractors anyway, they outsource that to the dealers now.

These changes however do drive up the costs for independent farmers which the Corporate farms love because then they can either drive them out of business or buy them cheap...
Although I am not doubting you, I find it rather curious that you would describe tractors and/or other farm equipment as "fiendishly complex". I am not sure if there is a term or concept for this issue, but I get a strong sense from this whole concept that what is really happening is the generation of artificial and intentional complexity, if not just the perception of complexity. There is nothing inherently complex about, e.g., a tractor that has some method of automatic steering, locates itself by GPS, and follows a path set by coordinates and vectors.

Another aspect of what we are experiencing here I think is essentially a multi-level/nested con job that uses that artificial and perception of complexity to extract ever higher and compounding levels of what what are essentially rents.

The established industry players are banking on the high barrier to entry (heavy machinery production) and brand recognition (Runs like a Deere) to con the whole sector, and therefore extract wealth from the whole of society trying to feed itself.

Please feel free to challenge my perspective.
Seems like:

- downside of delaying 5g is slightly longer download speeds (?)

- downside of interference is planes might crash (!)

why not just give the FAA all the time it wants
Zelle has determined that none of their transactions qualify under these rules: https://www.zellepay.com/faq/does-zelle-report-how-much-mone...

For PayPal/Venmo and similar services, they are only going to report transactions classified as "goods & services."
Model-free systems are easier to build, but researchers are working on model-based approaches to reinforcement learning and I remember seeing blog posts last year describing some promising results.

It sounded like it was still reinforcement learning, though.
I saw the changes to WoW being described as reeling back from 'the line' because their company culture is so warped they have no idea where 'the line' lies anymore.
"consumers always lose" and "it's not positive for everyone" are different statements with non-overlapping meanings.
A year back or so there were articles claiming that apple has stopped all development of content rich games, aiming at quick addictive ones instead. They released studios making the former from contracts.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-30/apple-can...
D2:R was mostly Vicarious Visions (but it absolutely did turn out awesome).

WoW (retail) has had 3 of its last 4 expansions ultimately perceived as failures and is (justifiably, belatedly, finally) having its lunch eaten by the vastly superior Final Fantasy XIV.

Immensely is probably overstating Starcraft 2's popularity, but what popularity it still has is in spite of anything Blizzard has done for it recently rather than because of it. They've essentially abandoned the franchise to wither on the vine at this point.

This is the first acquisition, possibly ever, that I view as potentially a positive for the customers of the company being acquired, if only because Microsoft can't possibly mishandle Blizzard's IP and staff any worse than Activision and Blizzard already have.
That’s true to an extent but no one lives in isolation. Losing Apple was a pretty massive blow.

Still the real blow will be if someone successfully enters the server business. Graviton* are interesting but that’s not a broad threat yet.
It's the opposite - Google is a giant, humanity-fucking ad platform. That can't really change, so any changes that come is just gonna be placating the employees so they stop complaining and keep building the giant, humanity-fucking ad platform.

Might feel a bit better, but if you really care, quit!
this looks interesting, at my work we have a sdk wrote in typescript and im intrested to see how it looks
Jeremy Clarkson has a Lamborghini tractor,it's huge compared to most that you see in the UK..
Next headline: MS to acquire Epic Games? Tencent is in the way there.

Really, I could see them launching their own engine. Think of all the studios and talent they have now. They have the engines behind Halo, CoD, WoW, Overwatch. Could build an Unreal competitor.
if you play using one of their offline game installer and not via their Galaxy launched, GOG won't see the achievements and so can't track the game time. But I'd think GOG would be tracking abuse of their system (though if one really want to get GOG games for free, since they don't have any DRMs a lot of them are available for free on the web).
I'm not convinced consultant style learning is THAT useful.

I know my AWS, I can be tossed into learning whatever product a client needs. The problem is that AWS is such a varied product that has its individual quirks that might not actually mesh properly with other services.

Sure I can probably deploy completely unfamiliar product fairly quicky, but without owning the product medium-longish term, you have no idea if it was actually properly deployed, meaning whatever you learned probably wasn't the best way to do a thing
The problem that the industry faces is that the economics and reliability of these chips have been undermined on the recent nodes.

Sophie Wilson has said that cost-per-transistor is rising since we shrank below 22nm, and that a 7nm die cannot run more than half of its transistors at the same time without melting.

Sophie addresses the cost rise at 22:00.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4ZNfvw1cw

Heat is more of a problem because finfet can't dissipate as well as planar, and reliability is declining at smaller nodes.

"With a planar device, you do not have to bother about self-heating. There are a lot of ways to dissipate heat with a planar device, but with finFETs that is not the case. The heat gets trapped and there are few chances for that heat to get dissipated."

https://semiengineering.com/chip-aging-becomes-design-proble...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29889951

If I needed a 20-year service life, I would not choose 7nm.

Edit: I did not realize that ARM1 had fewer transistors (~25k) than the 8086 (29k), and over ten times less than the 80386 (275k). Intel should have bought ARM in the 80s; instead Olivetti got them.
Problem is the less product Intel pushes through its own fabs the less investment they will get and the more they will fall behind.

This feels like a defensive / short term value maximisation strategy - and might be the right one in terms of total value. It doesn’t feel like a long term vote of confidence.
Of course, German justice system knows precedents in civil law. Usually, courts respect higher courts‘ decisions. So once there is a „Leiturteil“ i.e. a decisive court ruling, you stand no chance when you sue sb based on your personal interpretation of the law before whatever court you file your case.
I have been laid off several times as an FTE. The boutique s-corp I am with now has never laid anyone off in 18 years. We turn down work every day and have a massive pipeline of new work and customers. If I get booted from a company I just shrug happily and choose my next client.
You won't learn anything from working in a dysfunctional organization that will come in handy in high-functioning organizations, except how to empathize with dysfunctional people. That one person who just won't share information, thinks every question is a trap, and won't do anything for someone outside their team without management signing in triplicate? You'll have a better shot at knowing what's in their head and maybe what to say to reassure them.
I use both Google Photos and Amazon photos. Both, because I'm afraid of being one of those cases where Google's automation decides to suspend my entire account without recourse.
>an alternative would be to require social media companies to allow parents to monitor their children's social media activity. Or to have "child-friendly" accounts without E2E. It doesn't seem necessary to impose a blanket ban on E2E, which would almost certainly be abused.

Exactly , make this giant companies have 2 apps
Facebook Messager and FB messanger for Kids
iMessage and iMessage for Kids
then is you responsability as a parent to setup your child device to enter the correc tbirth date of the user, then the App Store could only allow the "kids" version of the application.

But now what? you have shit AI flagging pictures and badly paid people around the world attempting to classify is the picture is "bad" ?

The problem seems to me to have a much more effective solution,
hire some real cops or social workers to answer reports from children and parents, when some creep asks for such material you could easily report them, then FB,Apple or whoever will have to help the authorities and stop this illegal activity. Make an educational compaign to educate the children and parents and let them know where to report the issue, explain also the punishment and make some public examples.
That's true. Also, now that you remind me, I remember all the Adobe Flash compatibility issues of the time. I always needed to update Flash to get things working at all. And Flash sites often had scaling issues and terrible performance on Mac OS X for some reason.
> “As far as I've seen, Crypto.com haven't said that no funds were lost, but that ‘no customer funds were lost.’ This could mean that the funds belonged to the company themselves rather than customers, or that any customer losses will be covered by the business. But that's just me speculating based on what I see on social media.”

That's pretty much my take on it too.

It is interesting how safe the centralized, incorporated, and custodial exchanges have become, for users.

It is also interesting how lucrative they remain for bug bounties.

Enjoy the $15mm. Send me a tip on which erc20 token you're going to pump to launder it all. Please launch the new erc20 at a low 5 figure market cap so I can ride it up with your Tornado.cash withdrawals and pumps.
I have to say, I’m still very divided about right to repair.

I think it’s hard to keep a consistent world view where right to repair is a thing, and at the same time anything but open source is outright illegal.
I can still hear the pop-up sound of ActiveX warnings in my head.
> it's a lot easier to swap out a stick spying on you for one that doesn't than it is do do the same with TVs

Serious question: Which sticks don't spy on you? My understanding is that all of them do, but I could be wrong.
> If you can't trust git to do this, how can you trust "cp" to make a copy of a file? I would love to get a genuine answer to my question: what do you think git is for and why do you use it? This would help me enormously to understand where you are coming from.

All of us - at some point - were new to git and coming from other VCS systems meant there was a relatively steep learning curve.

I also understand git fear - some of the stuff is a little arcane, and organizations are often very dogmatic and loud about their usage and approaches to git. It leads to a lot of gatekeeping. Do we rebase here? Do we never rebase? Linear history? Rebase feature branches or merge directly into main? It makes the fear of the tool that much stronger.

`cp`, on the other hand, is pretty straightforward. There are no local approaches to using it, there's no real `cp` expert in-house at most places. It does what it says on the box without a lot of frills or options.

git is a complex tool. It becomes easier the longer you use it, like most things, but it can be very intimidating to new or intermediate users.
For me, Pascal is a pretty good 2d map as software experience. Begin/End pairs along with indenting 2 spaces each time make it easy to understand and provide landmarks that are easy to spot. I imagine this is true for most languages.

The only thing better would be if I could compile it to an abstract syntax tree I could manipulate, change the name of a routine, etc... then reverse back to updated code.
There is zero usable information here. Just a claim with no details whatsoever and a link to a petition.
> "nerds aren't the good guys anymore,"

Why would anyone assume this was ever true?
Fabless scenario will not happen, ever.

One simple reason that similarly to aeronautics chip manufactures are critical industries for US.

US government will not let either one die.
> I'm not opposed to seeing any ads; I just don't want badly behaved ones.

While I support this sentiment, a definition of "badly behaved ads" which is based on whether or not the advertiser paid money to some third party is just not a definition I can live with.
Most people including myself don't care what is legal or illegal, if something is a victimless crime and there is 0% chance of getting caught they will go ahead and do it. What most people also care about is hearing about Amazon's treatment of employees and then hearing they don't pay taxes, what is illegal is secondary to what is ethical.
now the neighborhood kid is getting audited while Jeff Bezos goes to space tax free
well, you can buy the older version which can run under nearly any version and doesn't require to phone home before launching, afaik
This is asinine. If the government wants to tax all transactions you make they'll tax all transactions you make. This doesn't make that any easier.

This is the government adding reporting requirements for transactions that are already taxable. It's just covering a gap where transactions weren't being reported.