skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anti-Trust is quite openly defined. The courts in the 70s tried to establish a consistent way to judge it. The basically defined it as consumer can be forced to pay higher prices. You can read about Judge Richard Posner.

Either there would need to be some revolution with the legal profession, or congress would have to pass some new law.

What the judges realized is that by an more open definition pretty much any company and any merger could be said to be against anti-trust.

So if you want such a law, you need to actually get some exact definition of how every is judged that can be consistently legally applied.
I have some affection for the single-level store architecture of thr AS/400 (at least, on paper-- I've never coded for the platform). I wonder if persistent memory could be an enabler for single-level store architecture operating systems and applications on the PC platform.
It is one thing when you use it as phrasing, it is another if you use it as "out of nowhere" claim as if it applied to the real world.

> I dare you to find a nicer way to express the meaning behind "With great power comes great responsibility". It's a dumb quote we all know, yet it is perfect.

I don't recall this one to be used as argument. Probably it does not really say anything applicable to anything. It works because it is vague enough for anyone to project feelings into.
In my experience, most of the places you find when driving through the desert southwest are focusing on survival. You're not going to find much that doesn't appeal to the widest audience possible at the lowest cost possible.
It's BuzzFeedy, who cares how many are discussed?

From the guidelines [0]:

> If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

(and I think it makes some attempt to do this automatically)

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I still very much recommend the Peepcode Git Internals book.

https://github.com/pluralsight/git-internals-pdf/releases
Microsofts market cap is 10x disneys. It's more likely that microsoft would buy disney (and perhaps spin off theme parks and cruises).
Echoing the sentiment, it cost significantly more for me to heat a studio to 65F in CA than to get a 2/1 up to 72F in ND (or rather, to maintain those temperatures).

Both units had electric baseboard heat and were top floor apartments, but the CA unit didn't have double pane windows, had enormous gaps at the doors and windows, and for all intents and purposes didn't have any insulation. If it was warmer than 0F or so outside the ND unit would have more than enough heat just from cooking. If it was colder than 50F or so the CA unit needed the heaters to actually be on.
The more fun thing to do is to manipulate messages in transport.

There was a really fun game where you could join public wifi and change every image request response to be images of cats instead. (by changing the requesting URL and/or response).

This idea was borne from the 'upside-down-ternet' which people ran on their Guest Networks. (https://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html)

Would be fun to have a word replace running for "Thank You" to "Fuck You", it's not at all impossible to do.
If you're good at it and have a good network, consulting is always better than FTE work. You make more money, grow your network faster, have more flexibility, etc. I was a consultant for 5 years and now run an agency, and I currently have ~50 consultants I work with across various projects.

That "if" is big though. If you're not good at it, you won't keep clients. If you don't have a good network, you'll be stuck with low end SMB clients that aren't lucrative.
Agreements like that are evidence that boards don't always take into account the health of the company as a whole when making decisions.
Excited to see what this will mean for some of the gaming franchises.

Overwatch has been on shaky grounds due to uncertainty surrounding the league and the release of the sequel.

Heroes of the Storm is still my favorite MOBA even though it's clearly on life support. I'd love to see Microsoft try reviving it once more by doing a big Heroes 3.0 push.
Yeah this is bad for everyone overall. Disney is an even worse offender if you're looking at synergistic monopolies.
Which one would be?
Maybe you'll be happy to hear that Polandball have a game on Steam..
> I wonder what this "cloud" means. Is Microsoft planing an alternative to Google Stadia?

They already have it, Xbox Cloud Gaming. It's mostly a steaming pile of crap that can't handle billing or multi-language users without cryptic useless errors. Quality and latency are pretty bad too, and the games are meh and console versions only ( so it's poor for strategy games for instance).
Apple Arcade is for casual games that have to work on all of Apple's form factors (minus the watch, thankfully). I've tried it out twice. It is, with very few exceptions, in a completely different category from PC gaming because most people access it through a touchscreen. It's like comparing a PS5 and a Switch, except that Apple Arcade is not nearly as polished as the Switch.

My impression is also that Apple Arcade is already pushing the limits of how much Apple's management wants to touch gaming.
Teach them to read real books, on paper, by real authors. Given them lots of unstructured time in nature with other children, with a watchful parent nearby (this requires investment of a parents' time, but I can't think of a better investment).
Conspiracy hat on: maybe that's what all the UAP craze is about.
> It is a space with a low barrier to (indie) entry and it is not part of some critical infrastructure.

How many indie games are there for Xbox?
That's not what I mean at all. On Viking 2's LR experiment; "Our experiment was a definite positive response for life, but a lot of people have claimed that it was a false positive for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons was because there wasn't any water found"

We didn't even attempt to verify the accuracy of the LR experiment despite to-date nobody coming up with a non-biological explanation.
I love this question. First and foremost, meditation. It definitely helps me be more present. Another skill that gives me joy is reading. I can concentratedly read for 2 hours, but after 2 hours I need to take a break. I can't think of any other activity that I can concentrate so long on. Ideally, I would become a scholar but I'm going into software engineering for now:)
I agree with your view point - however it’s hard to see any other outcome for the AAA franchises. Player expectations of a modern title are increasing - as are the time, human, and fiscal capital required to ship a modern title - years of engineering, hundreds of people, hundreds of millions of dollars. The risks are huge - missing your date, or game experience can sink a company - consider what Cyberpunk almost did to Projekt CD RED - to ship they cut to the bone very late in the day. The economics of the AAA business is optimizing towards managing and distributing that risk thru supply-chain and scale. I don’t see a better way on this current trajectory.
If they fire him after taking over can't they give him less in severance for the many reasons why he is hated?

However, they could also be withholding that until next week so they can get more news out of this acquisition, saying that he (and hopefully a lot of management) is stepping down would make a lot of news on its own, doing it now would muddle it.
The Rust port of Yjs is aiming to have Python bindings.

https://github.com/y-crdt/y-crdt

https://github.com/y-crdt/y-crdt/tree/main/y-py
> I'm not convinced.

It might be bad for 3p developers, but it's pretty hard to argue that iOS is bad for consumers despite continuing to gain marketshare in the US.

> I'm not convinced.
I love indie games but I also wish there was a middle ground between the current generation of AAA titles (not typically my cup of tea) and the indie community
I don’t consider past regulatory failures as a reasonable counter argument to regulating current transactions. I would wholeheartedly supported forcing Disney to divest much of their portfolio.
We gotta break up the monopolies again. These companies are getting tooooo big.
This can delay the execution of an atomic read or write

You can play "what if" all you want if you don't know what else running, but this was always about lock free interprocess communication, which is not broken by a page fault or process suspension.

An atomic instruction by design will do everything it needs to when the instruction runs.

Saying the OS can ultimately control the execution of a process is a nonsense cop out to try to skew away from the original point.

all you ever wanted is anonymous memory

This is local to a process tree and does not work for interprocess communication.
> What I'm worried about is the potential for global contagion.

A lot of stable internet architecture is based in the United States. If anything happens, there will be rippling effects worldwide. You won't be immune.
I also quite enjoyed D2R on the Switch. Controller mapping worked VERY well, and it was a great mindless addiction for a month or two after release.

Yes, there were some annoying server problems, but the game was great and still felt fresh even though it was a remake. I have stopped playing now (not trying to be on that eternal grind...) but overall thought it was pulled off MUCH better than the WC3 remaster.
It doesn't seem to me that aerial combat is vastly simpler than ground combat. If a robot pilot can accurately identify friend and foe, and maneuver effectively to target the latter, then likely we are not a lot farther from doing the same with an infantry robot.
>> As well as any nation who's best and brightest minds refuse to contribute while their adversaries have no such qualms.

Wait, what? Are you saying that if a scientist refuses to contribute to AI development that will be used to kill human beings then he plays into the hands of nation's adversaries ?
If you want to get technical IEEE floats have a total ordering defined in the standard.

Using that the range of an IEEE-754 float is from -NaN to NaN
It's wild how Microsoft has been able to vertically integrate gaming.

They now own the distribution (Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Game Pass), the games (Call of Duty, WoW, Starcraft + what they owned before), the OS (Windows, Xbox), the hardware (Xbox, many PCs), and the back end compute (Azure). The only thing they're missing, the network bandwidth, is mostly a commodity anyway.

That's a heck of a moat.
Do we have to look so far as to dig up shady organizations that few know about? We have much more obvious ones like Disney or the NBA or the rest of Hollywood playing a clearer role in patronizing and legitimizing the actions of the CCP. This isn’t just executives either - celebrities like LeBron James who claim to be “progressive” are the first to turn a blind eye and follow the CCP PR playbook.
The Second Civil War
Geometric Anatomy of Theoretical Physics (2016)
But to be honest all these attacks on the e2e encryption in order to prevent child abuse or security are a bit busting balls, like there has been for years pedo content in light on youtube, and no police saw that, other than VIPs and princes going to islands to see kids, I think this has nothing to do with kids and security, it's just another way to shrink individual liberties
Trying to find an evolutionary explanation in existing behaviors is putting the cart before the horse. Organisms can do many things that have nothing to do with evolution. However, evolution will take care that only some of them will survive. So, what was good for evolution can only be inferred from the past.
Thanks! And definitely agree, can 100% recommend TipTap!
I agree with this, but this is something that needs to be done on the societal level. Doing this individually will be nearly impossible without impacting the social life of the child involved, which no parent wants to do.

I think the vast majority of people agree that unrestricted screens and online communication are bad for kids, so I think this idea could get pretty widespread support. It shouldn't be the norm that a 10yo has an iPhone.

It's like giving them a Land Rover instead of a Hot Wheels. But of course, the Hot Wheels of phones doesn't exist right now. Maybe it should. A smartphone dedicated for children, which can only install a small number of safe apps?
In Australia, we had a plan for a massive web filter in the late 2000s. Their databases were broken into and the blacklist leaked, and inbetween the genuinely illegal sites were sites that had been deemed to be politically immoral, like supporting decriminalization of drugs or spreading information on abortion.

There were many things that were perfectly legal but had personally offended the people presiding over the filter, including random Wikipedia pages and certain personal websites, including a dentist's site. This filter, of course, was sold to people with the idea of protecting children against predators.

Anything not directly relating to children that is sold to you with "B-BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" is done with the intent to manipulate you and provide you with the false dichotomy of "unconditional acceptance, or child abuse", which is nonsense and should be viewed with extreme suspicion.
I saw a tree yesterday. It was beautiful. The sun was close to setting, the sky was completely clear. The color of the sky went from a beautiful clear blue down to a very pale almost green color at the horizon, backdropping the tree. I may remember this the rest of my life.
The retail cost of electricity consists of the capital cost of generation (20-30 year cost of building a plant) PLUS fuel costs; depreciation and maintenance of the grid; financial risk of selling electricity at a fixed price to consumers while purchasing it at a variable price; billing and collections; the risk of non-payment and compliance burdens as a regulated entity along with overhead and profit.

A rooftop solar owner under net metering has zero costs or risks outside of capital depreciation but still sells electricity to the grid at full retail price.

There is no obligation to provide the neighbor with power during high demand times when power is more expensive. No costs to build or maintain the grid. No costs to bill your neighbor. No risk if he doesn’t pay. No obligation to extend power to distant communities over rocky terrain.

These costs and risks are non-trivial and in California represent more than two-thirds of retail cost of electricity. Costs for solar installations are dropping while other cost are rising. What the grid needs now is not more solar installations but very capital intensive investments in energy storage and more robust distribution systems. Renewables aren’t going to decrease the cost of the grid but likely increase it as power will need to be able to be distributed across states to compensate for a rainy day in So-Cal. The rooftop solar installations in So-Cal with excess power doesn’t compensate for the more power demand from No-Cal is there is no way to move power between them.

Net-metering is paying a rooftop solar owner well in excess of the value of the electricity produced. No free agent in the market would ever buy power at retail rates. There is nothing special about the electrons coming from a rooftop solar installation versus a commercial solar installation a mile away but the rooftop solar owner gets paid 5x the price for those electrons. If there is anything special about them is it the commercial solar plant because it can distribute its power beyond the step down transformer at the end of the block which is as far as the rooftop solar owners power can be distributed.

Paying the rooftop solar owner in excess of market rates is a subsidy. Win for rooftop solar and lose for every other participant.
There’s no logical fallacy here, just a factual disagreement over the extent to which E2E encryption actually puts children at risk. Supposing that it does, that would be reasonable grounds for opposing it (so long as countervailing considerations were also take into account).

This particular Simpsons joke is pretty tired at this point, and it's often just used to short circuit any discussion of potential harms to children.

I am not in favor of banning E2EE, by the way. It’s just that the claim that E2EE puts children at risk should be met with a carefully considered factual response that respects the intelligence of people who are genuinely concerned about child sex abuse, rather than this reflexive ironic cry of “think of the children!”.
the article say Microsoft will be the third largest gaming company behind Tenecent and Sony. how antitrust going to trigger if Microsoft doesn't have the entire market. if antitrust didn't take down Apple just force Apple to allows third party payment option. i don't see how this will trigger antitrust
Forever seems like a stretch. When Switch is succeeded, how long before Nintendo shuts the Switch shop down? You can't legally move downloaded games between consoles.
Are CEOs who make 100+ million USD per year responsible for the behavior of those under them? What about when they are informed of such behavior and do nothing?

Sometimes it seems we hold those working the drive-thru window at a fast food place to a higher standard than major CEOs.
U.S. Political Party Preferences Shifted Greatly During 2021
Not familiar with Frame Innovation, but you might be interested in Brian Cantrell talking about system architecture. He emphasizes that one can only prioritize so many values at a time, which will tend to drive (and presumably focus) architectural choices and flavor. (Sorry, not in my notes which video, and YT search is not helping.)
To start a gaming division with widely known titles already onboard.
Although this shouldn't detract from the author's specific situation and choice, I think a big share of those using jQuery are those who are also using a development framework that is dependent upon it ==> e.g., Twitter Bootstrap (ver 5 and below). That could be an interesting project -- a drop in replacement for TBS' jQuery dependency.
You're right. It doesn't need to be perfect. It only needs to be better than humans on average. (How much better it needs to be is debatable, people react differently to accidents caused by machines than accidents caused by humans, but that's a different discussion.)

So this line in the report should probably concern you:

> FSD Beta v10 committed one likely collision every 36:25, or 475 per year. This is 8,506 times higher than the average accident rate for human drivers used by the auto insurance industry, which is one accident every 17.9 years.

I don't know if it's fair to compare what they consider a "likely collision" to what the insurance industry considers an "accident". Maybe the analysis is bogus on that grounds. But your statement isn't an argument, since the analysis itself doesn't expect self driving to be perfect.
This is the worst generation of Tory politicians in living memory, although sadly the authoritarian streak is not absent from the Labour party either.
You can also use git-reflog to restore the branch back to the state it was before the merge. So instead of creating a temporary branch, you can inspect the reflog, find the entry before the merge commit and do git reset --hard HEAD@{X}.
It is usually as easy as "git checkout ID".

If that doesn't work you probably have done something really bad to begin with.
Funny to stumble on this thread just days after we started evaluating BookStack for internal use! Thanks for this piece of software. I'm really enjoying it so far and am looking forward to integrating it into our daily processes.
Bobby "Culture" Kotick
I think this may have to do with the availability, price, and restrictions around food safety. Most of those places are out in the middle of nowhere, have an audience that cannot afford $20 for unusual meat, and if they wanted to hunt elk to have on the menu, they would run a large risk if the meat was tainted or had prions or whatnot.

Usually the food they cook is what the tribe does eat. Things have just changed over time.
An unmanned hypersonic SR-71 successor.

Lower speed reconnaissance jets that are always in the air?

Refueled in the air from drone planes.
> The tricky part is that if this was published in a static html page it would be less likely that it would reach us

But this is an orthogonal issue. Twitter could have exactly the same terms of service, but still serve a single, static, small, html page that would load instantly on all devices. But instead, they choose to serve a bloated mess that does not work in many browsers, and is slow everywhere. Just to display a few lines of text.
I think that you are looking for a technological solution to a non technological problem, even if there was no encryption at all there is no way to 100% inspect all of your kids communications. The same way there is no way to follow them and watch them 100% of the time in the real world. The only thing you can do is educate your kid about these issues and trust them.
Don't get hung up on "monopoly". Their games are only available on their own vertically integrated platforms. They're abusing their dominant market position and should be slapped hard ( full break up and multi billion fines).
US airlines warn C-Band 5G could cause ‘catastrophic disruption’
Not your code not your software.
I found the Git section of "The Missing Semester of Your CS Education" to be helpful.
I think the tribal thing is interesting but a meaningless distinction when it's such an easy choice like this

The tribes are essentially people refusing free vaccines for no reason vs people who are vaccinated to protect themselves/others

This is one of the easiest cut and dry examples I could think of to justify in-group/out-group behaviour, you shouldn't be forced to tolerate or associate with people making deliberately bad decisions

You could extend this argument to drunk drivers and I think it would hold just as little weight
No place to hide is such a terrifyingly direct phrase given the real effects/intentions of this
> but they can also go overboard by building a lot of custom functionality where any standard library could have been used.

Well I am kind of recommending using standard libraries. And servlet implementation I am using embedded tomcat as I mentioned in other comment. What I am not doing is generating gratuitous scaffolding of dozen packages and innumerable classes because that is the "best practice".
> I'm having an dilemma about my career. I'm very fortunate to be in the position I'm in, I have a very secure and well paying job ... And to be honest, I'm feeling burnt out and bored to death.

I know plenty of people who've been out of work and can't land interviews who'd gladly take the job off your hands.
Of course that is what would happen. Of course prices are relative.

The idea of UBI without a massive increase in apartment/housing supply is frankly moronic. Even then though, it will all be captured. Being poor is still relative exactly like prices.

Ultimately, it will all pool upwards to the equity markets. All UBI will really end up being is a giant stimulus to the ultra rich.