skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Damn, Zenimax and Blizzard under the same roof.

Might as well try to sell your PS(whatever) now before there are no games.

However with the DOJ taking more shots at large companies, MS should be worried about this one.
The tech analogy is basically similar to those who have their tech stack as Microsoft .NET vs Go. You can switch but it isn't as easy as just buying all new equipment.

Another point is JD is far more than just tractors so if you run a farm you will have many large pieces of equipment which you paid millions for so not so easy to just go and buy new stuff.
They should set up a big clock, like the national debt clock, that counts up the lives saved through various pandemic response techniques (subtracting actual from forecast deaths?).
But we need the people with feet in both doors to make the connections necessary to figure out what mappings can be used, and that seems nontrivial
> graceful fallbacks for old/technically illiterate/etc. people

That attitude toward offline people should not be so dismissive. Being able to continue operations without relying on the computer systems is a "when" not an "if". Maintaining those fallbacks is good practice to prepare for that situation.
Congrats on the launch!

Building the conflict resolution engine sounds like a fun challenge.
> Meanwhile we suffer from a hugely incompetent global payment network that is horrible to deal with and makes some creators actually opt out of receiving donations because of the sheer annoyance and complexity of the system.

Chesterton's fence. Have you ever wondered why the financial systems is the way it is?

All that regulation is because of fraud. People REALLY, REALLY want to steal money and they will get INCREDIBLY creative to do it.

So someone stole a coin one way, we added a rule to stop it. They stole a coin another way, we added another rule. Another coin, another rule. Repeat a million times.

What do you expect will happen with a shiny, pristine, tech system once it faces the real world??? It's going to suffer the same fate.

We need iterative improvements to existing systems, not burn-the-world-pseudo-solutions.
> Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a product of an industry seeking to capitalise on the yoga pants (and later suits) demographic, to great success. Let's not legitimise it by using it as an example of healthy thinking, because it's not.
>Player expectations of a modern title are increasing

Unfortunately this is not true. Modern AAA franchises do not innovate. They are just shinier. You can find the same systems, and often more complex or creative ones, in games from the nineties and 2000's as you can today. Modern gamers either become jaded, seek out indie games, or, more often, simply buy what is offered.

Remember when the big question used to be "are video games art? CAN they ever be art?" I remember publications like PC Gamer spending a lot of time and energy wrestling with these questions. It wasn't lip service; it was a real goal that game creators at the time pushed towards, because gaming was trying to find acceptance and respect alongside other forms of media. I think that has mostly been lost, now. There is and will always be indie creators pushing their own creations that are inspired, but the AAA market is totally lost, imo, if you are interested in games as more than just a mindless bit of fun. That overarching sense of progressing towards something that could be considered true "art", is gone, for the time being.

edit: didn't mean to sound like I wasn't giving credit to all the fine indie games and game creators out there. There's still artistic and interesting things being created, just not by AAA studios :)
That's probably a reference to Xbox Cloud Gaming, though.
In short, Gelsinger and his team are configuring the company so Intel's internal manufacturing operations must earn Intel's business, in competition against every other fab-as-a-service provider in the world, including TSMC.

The risk is obvious: The company's internal manufacturing operations can survive only if they figure out how to outperform competitors. The upside is that all other parts of Intel stand a good chance of surviving and thriving -- but that remains to be seen.

Only one thing is certain: Gelsinger and his team have a lot of cojones.
This. I was a lifelong Democrat, but no longer. I am still gobsmacked with how they abandoned free speech, the working class, bodily autonomy, and turned science into religion. They've been captured by the Twitter laptop class.
You could easily observe this with a cache-cold query performing lots of random IO. EBS latency is on the order of milliseconds, even cheap baremetal nowadays is microseconds
Well first off, Intel themselves; they sell millions of chips a year. Given the current chip crisis, after their own capacity they would sell off the rest to the highest bidder. I don't think they would be shy of customers, except for direct competitors. But keep in mind that CPUs represent only part of the semiconductor market.
All of the Bethesda games have already been said to be exclusive to Xbox from here on.
Who won't ever get a serious chance to debate...the structure is set up to permit Coke vs. Pepsi... not Coke v. Pepsi v. RC Cola
Unfortunately, the primary system discourages this type of moderation.
“ fundamentally a password is a trust anchor in your brain.”

In other words, something you have (until you forget it). But also something you have to give to someone else after which all security bets are off.

A private key is also something you have (until you lose it). It is not something you ever have to give to anyone else. If you protect it with a password you don’t have to give that password to anyone else.

Big difference!
> Disagree with me politically on Twitter? We'll look for your employer and coerce him into firing you

It seems really weird to blame the Democratic party for this or Democrats as a whole since this is completely unrelated to the government or administration or elected Democrat officials.

Electing Republicans won't "fix" this for you at all.

> Don't want to take the vaccine? We'll find a way to make you

For interest's sake, are you consistent in wanting to remove all vaccine requirements, including for things like the measles vaccine?
LRU cache fallback/first strategy
"first/second generation migrant" is a widely used term in sociology and economy to detect and track differences between native and immigrant population. The term is common both in the US [1] and EU [2], with the latter actually going up to "third-generation migrant" when talking about long-term effects; the Swiss passed a special law to ease citizenship requirements for third-generation migrants. [3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations

[2]: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/pages/glossary/second-gene...

[3]: https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/abstimmungen...
I feel you should pick up and learn the synthesis architecture of the synths you you love the most.

This article/blog goes over VSTs and such, but theres nothing quite like sitting with a piece of hardware and learning that piece of hardware.

If I had to select a great piece of hardware to learn synthesis on, it world be probably the

*Elektron Digitone*.

- It's oscillator is a 4 op FM but the rest of the architecture is subtractive.
- Its very easy to get that 4 OP FM oscillator to do the classic triangle/saw square waves, for that more traditional subtractive feel.
- Its pretty popular and there are loads of high quality tutorials
- You can construct entire songs on it
- You can learn to synthesize drum hits, bass lines, etc.
- Its a 4 track midi sequencer! (4 track internal synth engine sequencer)
- Multitimbral 8 voices
- It's also a USB audio device!

(I love this little box)
90% of this track is made with just this box.https://soundcloud.com/cassilda_and_carcosa/cirk8

Great demo and overview of different synthesis techniques by loopop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Ic9upij-U
> Dems are quite happy to keep many things in place that they could easily reverse.

As are the Pubs. Ex. they left the ACA in place.
The Big Business of Iraq WMD denial...it seems 20 years is long enough to forget a lesson about the US & European defense industry and the "human rights" research they fund.
Agree, my thoughts exactly. There is something going on here related to the lockdowns/pandemic response.

Just for myself personally, while no where near enough to change political affiliation, I've gotten quite sick of what appears to be hypocrisy, arrogance, and gross incompetence from the left establishment, expressed through the popular media, government policies, and generally the "blue check Twitter" crowd. We are now living in "TSA everywhere" land with all kinds of ridiculous sanctimony.

I'm vaccinated, got a booster, caught and recovered from COVID initially and now again from omicron last month and still getting tested on a regular basis. When I go to a restaurant I have to show ID, vaccination proof, temperature check, leave a phone number, then wear a mask to walk 2 meters from the door to my table...where I can take off my mask and hang out for an hour surrounded by people doing the same...that is, unless I need to go to the bathroom. If I don't wear a mask while making the short walk from my table to the bathroom--oh my god, I'm basically single-handedly murdering old and immunocompromised people.

It is hard for people to take you seriously when you are associated with this sort of emperor's new clothes COVID theater. This is literally the modern equivalent of the "or else the terrorists win" nonsense of the Global War on Terror era.
If VR/AR is believed to be the forefront of the Metaverse than Microsoft is in the best position to do so with Work into HoloLens (AR) + kinect , numerous IP’s to use to build meta worlds, and the capital to burn.

What’s left to really show they’re going this direction is to release a VR that works on Xbox.
That is a really interesting thought. Now they got much more of everything both in terms of technology (cloud, mobile apps, hardware experience) and developers trust.
You could also make the Arq backups in your S3 bucket immutable, for more ransomware protection.
Electricity is different. It's obviously having a would-be electrocution every few homes from reading too many novels (by the biggest fans).

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8qcy9y/antielectricit...
This is the world we live in now. People rage against capitalism but at the same they'll hang their hat on corporation x and defend them to the death.
drawing.

Thank you for sharing the wiki link, I learned something. I like drawing, it let me forget about other things for hours. I use it as a therapy for anxiety.
There are no winners in this. First the pro-vax say that antivaxxers do not process facts. Now it seems those pro-vax refuse to gain evidence prior to social judgement. May be this is relevant to the discussion? https://phys.org/news/2022-01-rationality-declined-decades.h...
Maybe subtle, but shouldn't this be:

> "The more you [are observed to] move in space, the less you [are observed to] move in time."
> If anyone is worried, [...]

The worry comes from what you can do. If you did not want this power you would not ask for the information and explicitly say you have power over it.
Because the money and the interest is not in interoperability. It's in chunking everything in small bits and selling every small bit repeatedly.
There's a Wikidata WikiProject all about modelling politicians[0] if you want to dive straight in to the Wikidata side of things.

[0] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_every_pol...
Why do people pretend that what they call "cancel culture" is new and hasn't been pushed by lots of groups for decades? The religious right used it all the time after all.
> Their integrated air defense system was state of the art combination of the most modern Soviet and European systems that were redundantly layered and hardened.

Not quite: for example, see [0]:

"Though impressive on paper, the Iraqi Air Force's primary role was to act as a regional deterrent, with a secondary role of supporting the Iraqi Army, rather than attempt to gain air superiority in any conflict. Basic training was rigid, inflexible, and left pilots with extremely poor situational awareness.... Like its aircraft, much of Iraq's ground air defenses were also outdated: SA-2 and SA-3 systems were nearing the end of their operational lifespan and their countermeasures were well-known at this point, while its other SAM systems were not much younger."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_air_campaign#Iraqi_Ar...
There’s profit incentive, but also regulation to make them more efficient. Say they have an undersized motor now, you may have to wash your clothes a few times or do more small loads. This puts more hours on the poor motor and it burns out sooner, causing more waste.

Kind of like those toilets that use 30% less water per flush, but you have to flush them twice to get anything to go down.

This isn’t to say all regulation is bad, but poorly thought out regulation is the worst.
It's already a race to the bottom. It has been for a while.

Don't blame mobile games - they got those exploitative ideas from PC market.

The upside of a PC market, is the lack of a centralized authority to tell you what games are good - a.k.a the app stores. (App stores are horrible for games or any creative content discovery, as they use purely utilitarian categorization) That doesn't mean that PC, or web, games are any less exploitative than mobile counterparts. (remember mafia wars or farmville?)
The real story here seems to be the increasing numbers of independents. We've just had a republican president fuck everything up, and now a democrat is making everything worse. No surprise people are tired of our 2 party system.
Most welfare systems work something like that. This is why welfare is generally not considered a form UBI.
Undo what? The only government-controlled "left" thing that happened is adding CRT to some school curriculums. Oh, and anti-trust enforcement is ramping up again - though that seems bipartisan. "Wokeism" and other right-wing boogeymen are cultural or corporate in nature.

I think the current Democratic administration is most notable for its fecklessness and inability to get anything at all done. Maybe that's what's driving voters away.
People fail to appreciate how much leveraged financing affects the design of houses. If you pay 100% for a house and you decide to build something only you appreciate using 10% of your budget, you will lose 10% of your investment when selling the house. If you put down 20% and have the bank finance 80%, then the same decision will wipe out 50% of your investment. This means for financed houses, "resale value" becomes the preeminent decision affecting the design of a house.

In Economics, this is known as a "Keynesian Beauty Contest" [1] where your job is to predict what everyone else predicts will be the most popular option and Keynesian Beauty Contests can get weird.

eg: It's quite possible that you might personally hate granite countertops but still feel the need to put a granite countertop in your home because you believe it will help the resale value of your home. It's quite possible for everyone in a community to all hate granite countertops but for everyone to still put granite countertops in their home because they believe everyone else loves granite countertops. It's quite possible for everyone in a community to hate granite countertops and to know that everyone else hates granite countertops and still make the economically rational decision to put a granite countertop in their house to help with the resale value.

A lot of "economically irrational" housing decisions are driven by this core transformation via Mortgage Backed Securities of a house from a consumption based purchase of a place to enjoy living into an investment asset that dominates most people's finances.

It's only in houses built for the independently wealthy that don't really care about the future resale value of their houses that a lot of the good building science expertise still lies. That's why, paradoxically, in countries much poorer than the US/UK/Aus/NZ, you see much better building quality because their finance systems are also less developed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
It feels like we have two parties both of whose platforms are, "things just the way they are, but with us elected."
Great summary. Consulting not a great business to build to sell.

Curious how these businesses possibly survive a slower market?

Only thing I can imagine is the job market slows proportionally and your people/staff won't have better options.
Thankfully, Proton exists, which is what makes Linux gaming something other than a pipedream.
I know it's filesystems and not code, but the SGI Irix "fsn" file system navigator, featured in Jurassic Park, seems worth mentioning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)
Coding, video games, listening to music, painting.

And long time ago when I used to run, running.
> You've gone pretty extreme there. There is a much more plausible explanation, which is that they genuinely believe that more people would be saved if the security services could access messaging apps and they don't think the level of potential abuse is worth worrying about.

I think both can be true: the government believes it can increase security in general by expanding the state's surveillance powers--the state always wants to trade privacy for security. However, they're not framing it as a general "give us more surveillance powers and we'll increase security"; they're framing it narrowly as about protecting children ("give us more surveillance powers and we promise we'll only use them to protect sexually exploited children") which is exploiting victimized children in my book.
I am reminded of the very awesome book Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez -- A fictional account of a future with A.I. fighter pilots with permission to kill.
Relevant: https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-comin...

I'm quite shocked at how, after Biden decisively defeated his progressive opponents in the 2020 primary, Democrats have continued to allow themselves to be defined by their socially progressive left flank. Even my dad--a die-hard Carter fan who has voted straight-ticket blue since he became a naturalized citizen--is getting disillusioned.

I think Democratic elites have this notion that people like my parents "really wanted Warren, but voted Biden because of electability." They don't like Warren and they don't like Harris. They don't think the U.S. is a "white supremacist" country, they don't care about "voting rights," they don't think Republicans are "insurrectionists," they don't really care about climate change, etc. They didn't like how Trump talks, or his stance on COVID, and they support more funding for healthcare and education.
Maytag was US-only as far as I knew. It had a reputation for extreme long life and reliability, much like the reputation Volvo used to have for cars. And, like Volvo, this reputation was then squandered.

Back in the 1980s Maytag used to run commercials on television featuring the "Maytag Repairman", who never had anything to do because no one ever called. Americans still remember these commercials fondly.
Does it really matter who you vote for? We live in a kakistocracy where corporations run the country. I think it's safe to say we are in the 4th Turning, it likely plays out by the end of this decade.
> Now, I meditate often, I've learned a great deal about the higher self on neurodivergent TikTok…

Ah yes, the great mental health clinic of TikTok.
Oh neat. I erroneously thought it might have come in part with the http module in 11.
TLDR: 6% of submissions receive a hold, 2% are rejected. The problem, the article says, is that only 13% of the moderators are women and there is not enough diversity of nationality.

My opinion here, but it sounds like instead of a 92% immediate acceptance rate, the author would prefer an immediate acceptance rate closer to 100%. I’m not sure why diversity would get them there, but I am encouraged that the current moderators are able to produce 92% immediate acceptance rate. On the other hand, I am distraught by the suggestion that a highly diverse moderator base would presumably only account for a few percent reduction in holds and rejections. It’s my understanding that that should have a far more significant impact.
I can blame two people for two separate problems.
I agree with most of what you said except for this notion that we’re “post genome”. We are absolutely not.

What you described is just “nature vs nurture”. Genes don’t make anyone prefer Pokémon over Halo directly, but the mechanism was built by evolution. A person who makes friends playing Pokémon is certainly likely to develop a fondness for Pokémon, because having friends is beneficial to survival and reproduction.
Consolidation is not a function of technology, but a function of unregulated capitalist economics.
Critique of Crypto / Web3
> not be possible to reliably predict a human being's actions in advance.

That's also true for purely deterministic systems. Basically any complex deterministic system (and quite a few relatively simple ones) you very quickly get to a point where you can't predict future behavior.

On top of that, showing exactly the issues with metaphysical "free will", this corollary has a lot of constraints that are also poorly defined. For example if a person's behavior were entirely unpredictable (i.e. completely random) we would also say that they don't have free will. Therefore there is only a subset of unpredictable behaviors we would say follow from free will but that subset is just as tricky to pin down as the notion of free will itself.

"Free will" only makes sense in a particular moral world view with plenty of axioms most people would agree don't hold for them.

It's also worth clarifying that "free will" only becomes problematic to define in when it is posed as a metaphysical issue. We clearly have very useful, practical definitions of free will such as not holding people accountable for doing something when held at gun point.
Bingo. You got it.
Free will isn't a theory before someone comes up with an actual definition. That is the problem. I keep asking people for a definition, and the outcomes are generally either "smoke and mirrors" (complexity hiding something not at all "free"), appeal to a "soul" which just leads to infinite regress, or failure to even try.

Without someone willing to actually define what they mean, the discussion is moot - it makes no sense to claim that an undefined concept exists.
> It’s efficiency is frankly alien technology.

That's probably an exaggeration, and this exaltation of Apple is a Bad Thing. The M1 had good designers - two of which have moved on already, one to Microsoft [0], and the lead designer to Intel [1] only days later.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/12/apple-silicon-microsoft-poach...

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/06/apple-engineering-director-m1...
Apple buys screens and other components from Samsung (potentially giving them an early look into the next iPhone's form factor, visual design, and specs); the supply chain is built around trust.
Totally agree. Dark patterns making it to the front page always baffles me.
iCloud Drive

NAS that backs up to Backblaze