skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I’m worried about. With them owning both the games and the OS that they are played on, we could be forced into a subscription. Paying to own may be a thing of the past.
That's true! I personally prefer having a symbolic name for my backup, but the reflog is also very useful for "oops" moments.
That's my understanding too but I am also saying that "less you move in time" needs to be more rigorously defined. As it stands above I'm not sure it makes sense, even though it might be a useful fiction to get a handle on the weirdness of it all.

I'm also no authority whatsoever on the topic :)
Looks cool. What do you differently to productboard?
... or by just knowing a fixed physical address.

Or, by whatever convention. The possibilities are infinite.
> Candidates have suggested with blunt words that their pick characters in certain video games because they are female, well-endowed and barely dressed.

Are these characters ones made available to them by the game developers?
If so, what's the offence here?
It’s better than the Apple tax where devs have to silently pay whatever fee Apple demands because of the gag order.
Arguably, that's not E2E encrypted, since there is a potential vulnerability placed between the user and the start of the encryption.
And you would be surprised that it was not routinely available everywhere, anytime, in antiquity. Mass consumption of soap is a very, very recent thing.
> People could keep what they had downloaded, but once the Shop shut down, you couldn't redownload anything

You can still redownload things. Nintendo says at some point they'll turn that off, but they haven't said when yet.
Along with that perhaps implement rules of integrity - that you can't alter story lines (multiple movie release versions) for various reasons, else you can't earn revenue/profit from democratic-free nations [or at least nations doing their best to working towards understanding the rules necessary for an ideal level of freedom as maxim, e.g. driving on the right side of the road, excessive force for self-defense isn't acceptable, etc]; or perhaps these modified movies act as a Trojan horse library - which can later be proof points to help educate, enlighten their population by showing the contrast - and arguably why they'd want to exclude it.
Now, that's curious. Microsoft can't allow itself [0] the kinds of culture scandals Blizzard still seems like it doesn't care about.

[0] At least if they want to maintain all the government work they do.
I was more or less of your view until my 11-year-old niece was groomed and ended up sending naked pictures of herself to a 25-year-old man. Now, that incident was discovered because my niece's friend told her parents, but I do wonder whether, that aside, her parents would have found out at all. I am not in favour of banning E2E, but I do think it's foolhardy to deprive parents and law enforcement of any means to monitor children's social media activity.
> This is a very real communication issue that has causes a real productivity loss from high performers that have to unblock people frequently.

[Citation needed]

In 12 years of working professionally, a "hi" nas never been a blocker, neither for myself nor any of my teammates.
As someone who spent a good time in gaming, I'm perplexed and sad.

Consolidation always leads to job loss, the industry is very very small. At the same time, legacy publishers have a very different role now.

If I'm an indie dev, I don't need you to print the discs or box things up. The only 2 things publishers really do are QA and Marketing.

QA, for projects with a good community, can be free or very cheap.

Marketing, with again a good community,can be free or cheap. I think about the hikikomori game Pull Stay.

Nothing stops that game from selling millions.

The big publishers are much weaker now.

One could argue that Apple's actually the world's biggest game publisher.

They have the final say as to if your game reaches the masses
As consumer use our power. Vote with your wallet.
Those short clip apps seem like an Instagram profile which has been converted into a video.
Every industry is an extension of the energy industry.

Your last sentence has been thoroughly debunked by Nic Carter. [0]

[0] https://niccarter.info/topics/#energy
Over-the-horizon weapons absolutely have been used. Frequently, repeatedly, and (allegedly) effectively. Tomahawks count, unless they're retrospectively reclassified as drones.
Except that the table name isn't necessarily going to be that x. If you are matching employees with their managers then you have two employees tables in that expression so you have to work with aliases. At which point autocompletion breaks down.
How is winning a war against a decrepit nation's badly run military proof of any weapons system's superiority?
The Speed Queen TC5 is a splendid washer. Sadly they still felt the need to junk it up with ASICs for some reason, but it works extremely well. One warning, the "standard" clean or "EPA setting" is the one they included to pass regulatory requirements and doesn't clean like older washers do. Fortunately there are several other settings to achieve traditional performance.
>Do players really prefer the current AAA space right now though?

God of War, a 4 years old PS4 title, was just released on PC and sold very well. That should tell you everything you need to know...
The reason the scenario posits an invasion from so far away is that that's about how much distance it takes for a small speed difference here to translate into a day long time difference there.
Microsoft has been championing indie games for three generations now. This was the wrong question for sure.
Well, the keyword here is "responsible parenting". The child has to understand that the restrictions come from you, and not from the computer. This means watching the screen together, and not relying on a fallible automated system.

Breaking SSL is not the answer for one more reason: with more and more web apps (cannot say "websites") relying on JavaScript-only content delivery, long polling, websockets, server-sent events, and who knows what else, there are less and less standards. Earlier, such nanny software worked because everything was text and HTML, and it is known how to stop bad things in these content types. Nowadays, we can't just block replies, because we have to substitute some dummy JSON (or whatever) instead, so that the app doesn't crash or hang - and such dummy replacement of the blocked content is application-specific.

Also, think about today's children, they are tomorrow's politicians: now you deploy an automated system that breaks the internet for them, tomorrow they will deploy an automated system that will deny access for you to anything published by the opposition.
We should be a bit less naive about what this play really is. There is a talking point I've observed in some of my more progressive circles that "nerds aren't the good guys anymore," as managerialists see principled people who demand facts, evidence, logic, and reason as an obstacle to their maintaining control of "The Narrative," which is whatever absurdity authorities and their toadies use to demonstrate their alignment.

This campaign has nothing to do with protecting children - especially given the UK establishment's veritable tradition of both organizing and covering up industrial scale sexual abuse - and it is nothing more than hate speech designed to cast aspersions upon and isolate technologists as part of a broader political effort.

The Rolling Stone article from earler this week said, "The Home Office has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency — a spin-off of Saatchi and Saatchi, which made the “Labour Isn’t Working” election posters, among the most famous in UK political history — to plan the campaign, using public funds."

I would encourage HN readers to recognize this campaign is only nominally about encryption, and mainly it is about politically attacking the credibility and reputations of civilian technologists, and by conflating your expertise with abusers this M&C Saatchi agency has produced literal hate propaganda against you. (just following orders, surely!) I'd recommend people to not underestimate what this is.
> You must have lived a sheltered life as a child. As soon an VHS tapes came around in the late 70's and my family got a player, I was exposed to all kinds of crap- rape porn, bestiality, snuff films, white power propaganda, etc. You name it, and we'd trade the tapes as kids. Sure it's a lot more convenient now, but it was all around back then.

It was, but wasn't. I never saw porn on VHS, nor did I have a sheltered life. It wasn't until I was 15, last year of secondary school was when I saw porn round a pals house.

My parent's were not the parents who were in to such content so there was never any of that in possession. True, it has always existed but regardless it can be damaging to a child.
Maybe? China has historically spent very little on its military, and it's not like they benefited from US protection. Quite the opposite, in fact.
It's not yet published unfortunately, I'll probably post it here once it's closer to completion.

It's being written for a new OS kernel.
Changed title as I agree with you, it could confuse. Leaving the original article title although somewhat along the guidelines, is not helpful in this case.
The Apple of gaming is Valve/Steam. They make hardware and run a leading app distribution service while overall operating as a pricier minority of the industry.
It is opportunistic timing, but the Home Office have been pushing for this for years.
There is a great tutorial which teaches git internals by implementing git in python: https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/
Have you ever used Ableton?
They still don't own the graphics cards and displays (monitors &/or googles)
Not exclusive, but it's like saying "We French won World War II after a bitter fight of 6 years against the German Reich" and completely omitting the American intervention.
If the Deck takes off, we will see lots of other handhelds following the same blueprint too.
and microsoft still takes 30% of their revenue
That's probably not what you want. Checking out an ID would put you in a detached HEAD state, and the CLI will give you the page of warning messages that go along with it. I think that this is an excellent reminder that yes, the git CLI is not simple or obvious.
how do you ventilate without losing all the heat?
One thing we can say fairly certainly is Bobby Kotick's days are numbered. Everything I've read about the guy indicates to me that he won't do well in the Microsoft corporate culture.
thatsthepoint.jpg

I've read the GP comment with a strong dose of sarcasm.
There certainly are, the problem is the burden of proof. One case in particular was the USS Nimitz UAP video. It first leaked on the conspiracy Above Top Secret forum in 2009 (iirc); the now disclosed video, comms transcript,m. Obviously no one believed (and this being a conspiracy forum!), not that OP behavior helped with credibility. But still interesting to have such vindicated after all these years.
Russian cargo plane takes unexplained detour over Finland
Being an Apple household, we have two Time Machine drives, one in different building in case of fire etc.
How would you describe the post-Carolingian economic organization of Europe?

What I was casting about for was the earliest example of innovation-suppressing economic subordination by force, over a wide area.

The Achaemenid (or later Abbasid) seem have featured more individual freedom, with regards to innovation, and less maximally-taxing policy to redirect economic output to ostensible land owners.
>and is not really what we care about here

For a set to have a range that set must have a total order defined. If we want to find the range of a datatype we need to have a total ordering of all the possible values of that datatype. Total ordering is very relevant to the question at hand.
For most of the duration of Covid I actually worked for a large company that maintains large (hundreds if not thousands of people) development workforce in Shanghai. I left in November 2021.

NONE of them got sick, as far as we know. Some of them are good friends of mine and in safe, private conversation confirmed the same.

There were some lockdowns, but it seems they were largely precautionary.
https://youtu.be/yuBe93FMiJc?t=239
Well put and a clear and useful article to describe the problem to someone unfamiliar, but there is nothing we dont already know.

Maybe there should be a bit more expanded upon why open source software is important and explaining why reverting back to the 90' with less open source is not a solution.
Fellow T420s lover here. Yay us!
If you get to do it - let HN know. I like the idea but despise the dark patterns that author employed in his work.
100%. Doing a bunch of work in Syntorial is a huge shortcut to "getting it". And once you've done that, a synth is a synth is a synth. Like driving a car, becomes more, "oh yeah, this oscillator is a bit weird/interesting", rather than "wtf does this shit do"
They also acquired ZeniMax, which includes Arkane, id Software, Bethesda Games Studios and MachineGames.

And Obsidian Entertainment. And inXile.
1. I think we're assigning different meanings to "out of one's control": If you can "have a plan for it", as you say, than I wouldn't call that "out of your control", even if it's not your fault. In your example, the unfolding of the sunshield wasn't out of NASA's control, even though a failure might not have been anyone's fault in particular, so NASA would have been the one to blame. In contrast, an untracked meteorite hitting the JWST after launch would have been out of NASA's control.

2. Yes, that's what I meant by "for diplomatic reasons" :-)
> Not really. The chance of any sort of aerial dogfighting happening in a war are next to zero. The cost of planes, and pilots, is so high that almost all the effort spent these days is on killing your enemy with over-the-horizon weapons fired from hundreds of miles away. AI-powered dogfighting in aircraft is military marketing.

AI would dramatically reduce the cost of planes and it would eliminate the cost of pilots altogether. If you don't need a pilot then the economics of building planes completely change--you can throw lots of cheaper planes at the enemy and accept that a certain number of them won't come back.

I think that will also change the psychology of AI sorties. If a cheap Russian drone downs a cheap US drone, it will probably feel more like "Russians believed to be behind US government hack" than "Russians shot down a US fighter plane". The latter is a lot more of a casus belli than the former.
Except a country with shitload of drones will send 100 of them for a cost of 1 F35 from field runways no satellite can find, and bomb your airstrips.

Even if you react in time, and shoot down a dozen, result doesn't change.
> How do you square that with France not joining the war until more than halfway through

because you don't set up a massive expedition like that from one day to another, especially in the 1700s. I know we are all used to Amazon-speed these days but just even knowing WHAT was happening on another continent took months at the time.
Good answer. Seems like a relevant time to post an old math joke:

There were two men trying to decide what to do for a living. They went to see a counselor, and he decided that they had good problem solving skills.

He tried a test to narrow the area of specialty. He put each man in a room with a stove, a bucket of water, and an empty pot on the stove. He said, “Boil some water in the pot.” Both men filled the pot with water from the bucket and turned on the burner to boil the water.

Next, he put them into a room with a stove, a bucket of water, and a pot full of water on the stove. Again, he said, “Boil the water in the pot.” The first man immediately turned on the burner. The counselor told him to be an Engineer. The second man emptied the pot and proudly said that now the problem is reduced to the previously solved problem. The counselor told him to be a mathematician.

This version from: https://www.davidmarcus.com/Humor/MathJokes.htm and other versions at https://www.math.utah.edu/~cherk/mathjokes.html
How long is that valid for? Also does buyout by Microsoft count as a “change of control” … I’d bet Microsoft would wait out whatever time span that’s valid for and then immediately refuse to give him another one and can him…
Yep. Overwatch is an empty husk of a game and community it once was.
I know folks on this site don't like it, but in the wider gaming community, there is essentially no demand among legitimate buyers for an always offline gaming option. We have access to the internet almost no matter where we are, or can easily get it. Why should we care if a game needs to check in periodically? What harm is it likely to do to any given legitimate buyer?

It's almost certainly worth it to Blizzard to lose the tiny fraction of sales from people who care about this issue to prevent the buy-offline-return pattern that some folks might opt to use without this check in place. Yes, it won't prevent all piracy, but it's probably a net positive for revenue.
> ... but it's not true to say it's going nowhere.

I'm using the "native comp" (of elisp to native code) since it's available (years already now? Don't remember exactly but a long time). That, combined with a fast JSON parsing lib and LSP and Emacs is definitely not just the Emacs of 15 years ago.

Other things happened to the Emacs world too: ivy/avy/counsel (and maybe lispy and hydra) are stuff I couldn't live without anymore.
Sometimes, what might have been never stops mattering
> better compression like webp or x265, removing unnecessary raw-files, etc.

OP is talking about digitized videos, so asking to re-compress the videos is a https://xkcd.com/1683/ in the making.
They are still missing a mobile platform and that's why I believe they will retry within the next few years
Nice overview! IMHO all countries need e-government services ( with graceful fallbacks for old/technically illiterate/etc. people), and most can probably use X-Road without needing to reinvent the wheel.
They say up to 14 million reports of suspected child sex abuse could be lost each year. I couldn't easily verify that number from the linked NCMEC web site (seems high from the reports I read), but let's assume it's accurate.

However... What can even be done with 14,000,000 annual reports of suspected child sex abuse?

I'm just intrigued to know how that volume of data supports actual investigations, and to what extent it has helped bring perpetrators to justice or helped children suffering abuse.
A while back I was curious about the Native American cuisine of New Jersey, and stumbled upon this short recipe book:

Edit: pasted the wrong link. Correct: https://delawaretribe.org/product/lenape-indian-cooking/

Prior:
https://delawaretribe.org/blog/2013/06/27/foods-eaten-by-the...

Some of the recipes use European or modern ingredients, some seemed older than that. It’s pretty interesting and very accessible.
Recuperator ventilation, presumably?
Aren’t those types of severance packages typically invalid if you’re fired for good cause (like sexual harassment)?
4 year cliff typically unless acquirer wants to push them out.
> Leetcoding is certainly a big one. Having to jump through performative interview hoops is a tough pill to swallow for experienced folks. Took me many years to put my feelings aside and recognize it as the current normal.

If you're applying to, say, Google, you do this once then have a very well-paid job for life (theoretically). That, to me, is a good trade-off.
Tencent doesn't have one of the major consoles nor the vast majority of desktop operating system installations. If someone was going to encourage the government to stop the merger I'd expect them to try defining the market along terms different from just "size of gaming revenues". They'd target more the synergies that could be used to anticompetitive advantage and limit customer choice.

Not to say that will happen. Just that if it does, it wouldn't be on dollar size in game sales alone.
The Power User Curve
I never open my windows unless I'm trying to air out something.
Even though it would cost an additional $275 ish million?
True, yet irrelevant to the discussion, which is I think the part people object to.
Google is pretty good at looking out for themselves!
It seems very likely, based on comments Phil Spencer made just 3 months ago, when the acquisition was likely already on the table.

https://www.engadget.com/xbox-phil-spencer-activision-blizza...
Consider for a moment that you believe that Nuclear weapons are abominations which should be all eliminated.

How do you convince North Korea to eliminate theirs? If you eliminate your nuclear weapons, you now open yourself to being threatened with nuclear destruction by North Korea with no mutual assured destructive response to deter them.

The genie is out of the bottle and you cannot stop it. But you can deter its use against you.
If this can be turned into mechanistic theory, then implement a version of it that can solve CartPole (as an easy first test). Otherwise, it's just hand waving and conjecture.
What domain? I follow tech blogs, finance blogs, real estate blogs, cloud computing vendor blogs. Different domains have different strong players.
In the real world ability to pull more G's is of limited value. It mostly only matters when defending against a missile after all else has failed. Building an airframe strong enough to handle that load incurs a huge weight penalty.

The UCAVs built so far are actually stressed to lower G loads than manned tactical aircraft.
Hopefully they can start to force Sony into a world where cross console play is a thing if they have enough of the marquee franchises.
Considering that music, shows, movies, images, paintings and other cultural representations exist, then I fail to see how 'the arts have been a complete abortion'.

"Contributes nothing to civilization" - yet we fetishize Roman, Greek, and 'typical "good" artwork'.
Yes, a BS will get you past the automated resume screeners that most companies use.
>Choosing type=module is usually better choice than classic script tags like in the article. Module tags fetches (if any modules is used) asynchronously, and executes after the parser, however it won't work with older browsers.

Also it provide some kind of JS hijack. All the code with in the module can be tainted by a random .js included elsewhere in the page. However code in module can still access the window object to have access to global and the dom.
True if your goal is to make money.

Starcraft was just a fantastic game - people have been playing it for decades. Not sure how financially successful it has been (fairly well I would imagine) but it has a legion fan base.
It is. The book is basically a primer on Bayesian thinking for everyday life.
I don't see this said enough and I cannot state enough.

You should stop your children from having unrestricted access to the internet.

I personalty don't see it as anyone else's job to protect my children but me and their mother.
The only thing you need to know is at the bottom of the page:

"The campaign is funded by the UK Government and..."
yeah, it's going to take a little time for Microsoft to worm its fingers in there and get a feel for a massive org like that. I've got a feeling Kotick is going to be out of there within a few years.
Microsoft are using their platform positions to sell games on Xbox and PC in one, which others can't compete with (because Xbox is a closed market), and their deep pockets to fund Xbox Pass mean it is a little combative rather than genuinely competitive.
A dynamo is great and all, but how do I become a Lord of Synth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXgNo5Smino
The problem isn't requirement of being online.

The problem is forcing people to be playing the game regularly or loose whatever they have "accomplished".