skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your idea of leaky abstractions and overdriven goals.

I think one thing to remember here is that while for sure attracting mates must play a role in the appeal of bodybuilding, there's also a competitive game aspect. You can compete against yourself and your peers. This can appeal to instinctive drives to compete and gain status, maybe again past the point where it's reasonable in some cases (are you really winning at life, gaining something meaningful by doing this?).

If we just talk about the attracting mates aspect of bodybuilding, we also have to remember that if a man is trying to attract women by gaining muscle mass, his idea of what women in general might find attractive is just an approximation. Maybe this man found that he was gaining more attention from women when he started to gain muscle mass, so he just keeps doing more of that. Eventually he might gain even more attention for other reasons (improved self-confidence), but it gets hard to tease apart the real causal factors.
The right against e2e encryption will ultimately be lost, IMO.

There is just no concrete, tangible reason why sex predators and terrorists do need to have this protection from law enforcement. Meanwhile, there is no concrete, tangible need for the average citizen to be able to foil lawful access by police (say after a warrant was issued - you do have protections!).

I say concrete and tangible, because while I strongly support e2e, it is impossible to justify on purely objective, let's weigh specific pros and cons grounds. It's essentially an ideological position, where you are willing to accept a lot of concrete downsides for the idea that the right to privacy is a tool in the balance between the individual and the state.

I'd venture to say that very few people here actually deeply believe this though. Rather, it has been adopted as commonly accepted wisdom within our community. Your supposed to support encryption. Within the larger culture wars and the techslash, I have serious doubts as to how many people are willing to defend e2e encryption once the wider public turns against it. This just needs persistence and the right political trigger.

By the way - the argument for cryptocurrency, or for Tor, is exactly the same as the argument for e2e encryption. You are supposed to accept all the bad stuff (crime), not because the average Joe needs the tech, but because it serves as a counterweight against the tyranny of the majority. You don't need to be a libertarian to believe that.
If you want a Mac.
"Steam tracks that without DRM"

Steam is DRM
What an interesting read, it feels like a privilege to have free and open access to such well presented curiosity-led work.
No end-to-end encryption does not mean no encryption. For example, Telegram does not use end-to-end encryption by default, however they encrypt all the messages with keys distributed across their servers. Anyone inspecting the packets won't be able to understand what's going on, but Telegram are able to read all your messages.
Wait… WHAT?! Wow. Incredible to follow up the Zenimax acquisition with this. Was just playing a game via cloud gaming yesterday and thinking about how smooth it was and how MS was set for the future with GamePass. Congratulations to the Xbox org and MS in general. Hope to move back out to Redmond soon… ;)
... and what does that have to do with uBlock? (EDIT: and if you edit in answers to questions into your original comment, please mark that as an edit)
Also, probably obvious, but us humans have been countering evolution for a while now. Medical science (both for sickness and fertility) + modern lifestyle keeps people alive that wouldn't otherwise be if we were still living in the woods.

So (at least from my armchair) it's no wonder we see more "pointless" behaviors.
I don't think they argue against all encryption (Do they?).

Basically everything would become an encrypted group chat (Double Ratchet etc) where the 3rd party is the provider which can optionally encrypt/secure access. That would ensure the provider is the only one with a backdoor for some time until access to previous messages are lost. Similar to loosing decryption keys for GDPR compliance. Access to the keys would require a court order.

Nonetheless authoritarian governments could and would misuse this. It should at least be required to have an international court order. Still very difficult.
It's ok, I could never live in NJ, I want to pump my own gas and turn left.
In Apple's defense, it's not a trivial ask. They have security features like activation lock that would be defeated by a badly-implemented owner override[0]. Right now, if someone steals your iPhone, it becomes e-waste because you can't reset it unless you login to iCloud. But if there's an owner override that anyone can use, then they can install a version of iOS with the activation lock patched out.

That's not to say it can't be made reasonably secure. In fact, Apple actually did it on M1 Macs[1]. The secure boot policy there includes a device-generated key that only the first admin account - the Owner account - gets, which can be used to sign new kernels for that machine only. Ergo, if you want to install Linux, you have to be logged into that Owner account. You can't steal someone's Mac, wipe it, and defeat the activation lock by installing Linux. But to get there required a lot of additional engineering work[2] - the easy path is "only our software runs on our hardware".

[0] AFAIK Android has similar security features, so they face the same threats that iOS does.

[1] T2 has a similar but less elaborate scheme. It doesn't have per-volume security guarantees - if you want to dual-boot Mac and Linux, then you have to turn off the signature check on the macOS side.

[2] Engineering work, BTW, that I'm genuinely surprised Apple put in. I imagine there were some very heated internal debates over whether or not the Mac should even have an owner override. Especially given that Apple did their darnedest to ensure that the owner override can't touch anything even remotely related to iOS. If you launch an owner-signed kernel, iOS app support turns itself off; and the Apple-signed versions of macOS actually have the same sideloading restrictions on iOS apps that iOS does. Which is particularly silly, because you can get around that by just compiling for Catalyst.
Two objections:

1. Chaos theory ensures that unless we have INFINITE precision measurements, even a perfect simulation of our universe will diverge based on even the smallest differences. A difference of one particle's velocity in the googolth decimal place will eventually cause wildly different simulation outcomes. So, in practice, it's impossible to know what's going to happen given a long enough time frame, unless we can get advanced enough to have literally infinite precision measurements.

2. Given objection 1, using the law of large numbers to explain away quantum processes' non-determinism from initial conditions seems like a cop-out to me. Yes, given enough particles, they converge around some predictable value. But given the need to have exactness in measurements to predict chaotic processes, if a SMALL number of individual particles interact with other matter, and they sometimes do, how could the probabilistic nature of those individual particles be neglected?

Let me sum it up this way. If I take a quantum random number generator and use it to generate lat-long coordinates, and visit that place, could anyone or anything predict what happens given initial conditions before I do that? No, it is not bound by initial conditions.
What about profitable indie studios? Sure there’s a lot of games made by small companies, but how many are around for a 2nd game that isn’t just a shadow of their first game?

I don’t have any stats but would find that interesting, mainly as I’m not sure how much revenue indie studios have. Is the split like 10% get most of the money while the other 90% starve?
It's not that simple. It isn't about a particular bill. People want their lives back. They want inflation under control, they want their jobs and retirement secure. They want to be able to buy a car without having to wait a year for it to arrive. They want to go to sports games and have holidays and watch movies and all the other things we consider normal. They want to buy a house and not have speculators and investment firms jacking up prices because the rich already saw the problem with the market so they traded their cheap cash for physical assets a year ago.

As long as COVID and the economy aren't "fixed" whoever is in power will have them as major problems.
> If games are so expensive to make and sell so cheap, how come are the game companies getting bigger and making record profits year after year? Not that the median game developer seems to be much better off for it, though.

That's a fair point. My first guess is lootboxes and microtransactions being used to make up the difference, as well as underpaying employees. For big studios it is common to lay off developers immediately after a big release.

Regardless, I don't think that same logic applies to smaller studios.

> How come is it entitlement to not buy things that cost more than you think they are worth, anyway?

That isn't what I was saying, though I admit I didn't make it very clear. If you don't want to buy something because the cost isn't worth it to you, that's perfectly fair. What I am annoyed by and think is entitled is any kind of objective-sounding judgement that 'games are too expensive'.
You don't need to create backup branches ahead of time with git, because the reflog saves every branch before every operation. You can create your backup branch from the reflog _after_ you discover you need it!
I see that as correct decision. Yes, sure the HTML of a page is copyrighted work.

But the 2 following from that is bit weird. I couldn't take magazine cut it up and make something new? Or a book? Or maybe I have ebook reader and I couldn't change the font and size?
I’ve dated a lot of doctors actually. The only one who made more than me was a plastic surgeon. Even the guy who was a cardiothoracic surgeon was barely matching my middle-management salary.

Side note, a lot of doctors in their late 30s are single for a reason. They literally do not know how to turn work off. Not a bad quality to have in a doctor, but also not a good one to have in a prospective partner.
Here's just a small list of games I found in less than 5 minutes of looking.

- Five Nights at Freddy
- The Binding of Isaac
- Hollow Knight
- Carrion
- Loop Hero
- Factorio
- Phasmophobia
- Frostpunk
- Valheim
- Satisfactory
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Stardew Vallley
- RimWorld
- Terraria
- Dead Cells
- Cuphead
- Among Us
- Project Zomboid
People who self-identify as "independent" have views that closely align with one side or the other. Lean-democrat independents believe the exact same things as self-identified democrats, and lean-republican independents believe the exact same things as actual republicans. They are just too chicken to commit.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/15/facts-about...
Have some stupid CGI: https://youtu.be/n8u0l_c2_NA
> Its 2022, people don't want to fiddle around with a terminal.

Is this a good thing though?

Computer illiteracy seems to be at a new high-water mark with the upcoming generation. They generally know how to punch some buttons to make a few things work, but nothing more.

If anything, I think we should be teaching the basics of the UNIX command line starting around 5th or 6th grade. Get those kids playing around and learning a bit more about their systems. Maybe teach a few little python or Javascript one-liners to automate some stuff. Not everyone will pick everything up, but a lot of overlooked kids would find a new skill that will help them no matter which direction their lives take them.
Not the parent, but in many countries in Europe you need to have a vaccine passport to lead a more-or-less normal life - and in extreme cases, you are not allowed to work and are forced to pay a fine if it expired. So often having a booster or not is not a matter of personal choice.
It's like Power Point presentation. Forcing everyone to read at the same pace, waiting for the point to show up, instead of skimming to the part they need to read.
uBlock != uBlock Origin

uBlock is a scam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock
https://ublock.org
The watermark literally just fell off of the document when I opened it in Inkscape. Everything else (except the watermark) rendered there, so it was completely clean just by opening. (Sorry, OP.)
Sure, but Canada is just the US with a health plan. :-) Canada! The Maple Leaf State!
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming the consumer. I'm just saying that AAA studios have "the market" figured out. They know how to, forgive the use of the phrase, "game the system," to make profit at the expense of quality. They didn't invent it and they sure as hell won't be the last to use it, but they certainly got good at it.

I'm just saying that there is definitely an appetite among the general game consumer for a more complex and cerebral type of game! And that it's sad to see such few of those titles come from the big studios (while at the same time they nickel-and-dime everyone with their dlc's and other schemes).
Well, Apple sold some 200 million iPhones in the last year and the cost of an iPhone is conveniently the cost of a life according to GiveWell currently.

I suspect that even you don’t believe what you say, in reality.
Researching a company (really well!) before an interview
> Why do people pretend that what they call "cancel culture" is new and hasn't been pushed by lots of groups for decades?

The whole reason the term “cancel culture” was coined was to give right-wing rants about the troubling new trend of “political correctness” a veneer of novelty; it's literally the same complaints from the Right (about things the Right does just as much, but based on different ideological orthodoxy) that have been being made since the 1980s, but with a new label swapped in to the old complaints, because complaining about a new trend for 4 decades starts to show that, whatever the basis of your complaint is, it's not a disturbing new trend.
uBlock (Not origin) was acquired by AdBlock (not plus), look under the uBlock header here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock
You can run gamepass on Linux, so when all these games hit gamepass (which they will) it’s a net positive for Linux gamers.
Bye bye Bobby!!
This means that Intel manufacturing is used where it makes sense and vice versa isn't used where it doesn't make sense.

I can see those general outcomes:

* Intel manufacturing is soon again better than other manufacturers in all aspects as it has been a long time. All Intel business goes to Intel manufacturing and things return to what they were.

* Intel manufacturing is better in some aspects and continues to outcompete other manufacturers in some areas. Most Intel business goes to Intel manufacturing but some special business goes to other manufacturers. Some other companies use Intel where they have an advantage. Everybody wins.

* Intel manufacturing cannot keep up with the market leader. Most Intel business goes to the leading Fab. Intel manufacturing cannot catch up as they don't earn enough money to do so. They start cutting costs and compete downmarket with lower tier fabs. In the long run Intel becomes fabless.
Continental copyright is actually a bit stronger than Anglo-American copyright because it draws from the concept of authors' rights, the moral right of an author to control how their work is exhibited (because the work is tied up with the author's reputation). Hence why essential aspects of American copyright law, like public domain and fair use, are leas developed or missing in non-Anglo Western Europe.
> Without any assumption about the way light moves, you can not answer visibility questions on spheres and desks.

Yeah you can: light moves the way it actually moves in real life: the way you can see with your eyes.

> Make up your mind. Does light move in straight lines or doesn't it?

I was assuming what you said to be true, and showing that it wasn't sufficient to rule out what I was saying.

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In reality, I understand how light behaves (not quite as simple as “straight lines”, but that's a good enough approximation to explain mirrors). I know that you do, too. You aren't demonstrating that, though; you're just name-dropping facts without showing why they have to be true, why that's the only way the universe can work because if it didn't work that way, observations could be made that cannot actually be made.

I have not got a complete model of “flat earth cosmology” to present you, because I believe such a thing doesn't exist. I did have a consistent, incomplete model in mind when I was writing those comments, though: one where light curves upwards in a manner that causes the surface of a plane to appear spherical. (However, objects on the horizon would be a different size to on a real sphere, which could be used to falsify my model by comparing it with real-world observation.) I wasn't moving the goalposts.
I agree with yours points in general, but this sort of thing:

> OK, grandpa

is very much not up to par with what's expected here.
Am I the only one thinking they paid really too much?
Are websites more unreliable/buggy nowadays than in the past?
I have noticed that most websites nowadays are built as SPAs (single page applications), whether they be my local utility company, auto insurance, university, apartment's web portal, hospital, etc. Unfortunately I find all to be a degraded experience. They are slow to load content. Content often fails to dynamically load, forcing a full refresh. The back button frequently fails to give me the behavior I expect. Forms often crash. It seems simple mundane operations of clicking and typing frequently fail.

I don't remember the web being this way. It seems the web was much more stable back when most websites were built as MPAs (multiple page applications).

I am curious to know if others have the same observations. If so, I have my suspicions as to why. I suspect the innate complexity of SPAs are overwhelming the technical staff that run these non-technology companies. For example, do you really think the local county utility agency has the right staff to properly build and maintain an SPA site?
How Web3 is being leveraged in food and beverage
I'd also love to see an offline-first version of the datomic model.

I've thought about datomic + crdts in the past, and it seems like ":db/unique :db.unique/identity" properties would be an issue. Whether or not the transaction fails depends on the current content of the database.

I don't know if there is a way around this (while still being a CRDT) or how necessary this feature is.
Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster,  query plan
With the electricity, hardware, space, and time cost it might be cheaper to have just one and sync to a hosted ZFS service. Of course, those didn't exist 10 years ago, I don't think.
There's a lot of really great info in here. One random things I learned from this:

> As that angle increases, the signal from a satellite travels more sideways and its larger portion gets affected by the atmosphere. To account for this, GPS receivers ignore ranges measured from satellites at very low elevation angles. ... atmospheric effects are primary source of GPS inaccuracies.

(I know GPS has inaccuracies, but I didn't really know what caused them, but if I had to guess, the atmosphere wouldn't have been on my list of guesses for the top causes)
So who else spent five minutes playing with the flexible rope?
> There's no agency. Nothing but automatons.

Only if you define 'agency' as requiring magic. If you think that there's no conflict (as I do) between being an automaton and having agency, then there's no problem here.
There are more than just those two interpretations. Super determinism, for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
"Important" is the key word there. Going to a restaurant, leaving ones house, going to concerts, participating in sports, are not an important time to show a linked identification document and have it remotely verified by an authority, and recorded. Contriving the important instances is what makes internal passport systems oppressive.
No. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/connect...
> I dare her: do romance novels next, and do it from a men's rights perspective.

There is some weird gatekeeping in this thread. The blogger is a self-proclaimed lover of comic books writing a critique of Frank Millers work - and you demand she write about romance novels? Where is is suggested she even have any interest in that genre?
I wonder if the Nokia phone division sale included the NGage patent portfolio
Hey, author here.

The article describes a fun debugging and optimization session I’ve had recently. Happy to answer any questions!
Wonderful write up, as always from Bartosz!

Here are some fun GPS projects I've found in the past, maybe others can add to this list.

GPS/Galileo/Beidou/Glonass status and error monitoring, open-source community-ran project: https://galmon.eu/

DIY GPS receiver using minimal signal frontend, FPGA Forth CPU for real-time processing and RPi running position solvers: http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm
The funny thing is it's not just locals. You can feel the energy change on the train towards the coast as people get off and get on. People are more relaxed. Even the Londoners staying on the whole way starts to chill. I think when you're surrounded by a whole mass of people all the time and trying to navigate people who often want stuff from you, it's just natural to decide you need to ignore them or it'll be overwhelming.

Even where I live in South London, random strangers will say hi to you if you go for a walk in the park early enough in the morning, when they've not yet run into too many people. And then the later in the morning you go, the more people raises their shields.
Intel to Unveil 'Ultra Low-Voltage Bitcoin Mining ASIC'
Countless port-mortems or the same post-mortem recounted over and over?

As an employee of MongoDB we treat "catastrophic" failures of our software pretty seriously. If you have experienced a failure we want to hear about. Paying customer or no...
Games are software. Changing the upper management/ownership isn't going to change deliverables. If anything, it could delay releases even further out with new overlords. Certainly they can clean house of the former companies HR department as well as any senior leaders that did nothing with previous issues.

It will take a long time before anything material comes from this from a games perspective. I would assume legal agreements are in place for cash-cow games like Call Of Duty on other platforms so that should alleviate any anti-competitive investigation.
Decarbonization tech instantly converts CO2 to solid carbon
I feel like this buries the lede a little, Microsoft is acquiring Blizzard for 70 billion dollars.
Dunno about the methodology there, but, that's why I said historically.
the president of el salvadors response

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1483194959989719059

> BREAKING: EL SALVADOR DGAF
By giving the password to a good compressor? (and then computing the shannon entropy of the result) Yet i'm not sure i know a good compressor for short strings... Perhaps something like gpt2tc tailored to passwords instead of english text.