skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current law draft deems you a gatekeeper if you have:

- annual EEA turnover equal to or above EUR 6.5 billion in the last three financial years

- market value of at least EUR 65 billion in the last financial year and it provides a core platform service in at least three Member States

So, I believe it will apply to many game consoles.

More in detail:

Article 2, Definitions

‘Core platform service’ means any of the following:

(a) online intermediation services;

(...)

Article 3, Designation of gatekeepers

Paragraph 1, a provider of core platform services shall be designated as gatekeeper if:

(a) it has a significant impact on the internal market;

(b) it operates a core platform service which serves as an important gateway for business users to reach end users; and

(c) it enjoys an entrenched and durable position in its operations or it is foreseeable that it will enjoy such a position in the near future.

Paragraph 2, a provider of core platform services shall be presumed to satisfy:

(a) the requirement in paragraph 1 point (a) where the undertaking to which it belongs achieves an annual EEA turnover equal to or above EUR 6.5 billion in the last three financial years, or where the average market capitalisation or the equivalent fair market value of the undertaking to which it belongs amounted to at least EUR 65 billion in the last financial year, and it provides a core platform service in at least three Member States;

(b) the requirement in paragraph 1 point (b) where it provides a core platform service that has more than 45 million monthly active end users established or located in the Union and more than 10 000 yearly active business users established in the Union in the last financial year;

for the purpose of the first subparagraph, monthly active end users shall refer to the average number of monthly active end users throughout the largest part of the last financial year;

(c) the requirement in paragraph 1 point (c) where the thresholds in point (b) were met in each of the last three financial years.
https://github.com/search?q=list+of+awesome+blogs Look at the result of this github search for 'list of awesome blogs'. It's all there, in github...

For example these lists:

https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs

https://github.com/markodenic/awesome-tech-blogs

https://github.com/crispgm/awesome-engineering-blogs
please, please!
Interestingly I found the logotherapy part of the book much more useful and compelling. Using the holocaust as an example of putting it into practice is so extreme it's unrelatable. The daily life type case studies in the second part of the book were much easier for me to learn from. Saying that, hearing a first hand account of the holocaust was powerful in its own way.
Get involved locally where you can make a difference.

Volunteer for town planning commission or whatever advisory group has an open spot in your town or county.

Run for board seat on town council.
Easier is to apply for seat on local credit union board of directors.

Show up and be friendly and learn. Keep your world-changing ideas to yourself for a couple years while you learn.
Recently there has been 250 titles verified for the upcoming Steam Deck: https://boilingsteam.com/top-10-new-games-you-can-play-on-li...

While not technically "a console" it's still one of the best line-up ever for a new hardware launch, and it's probably going to be in thousands later this month.
Meh. The article makes unsubstantiated statements in a matter-of-fact style, rendering the whole piece useless.

Among those, the key statement: TED talks ideas do not impact our world, is, in my view, completely false, and would at least deserve a closer examination.
What does the author expect ? That in the months after Bill Gates makes a dramatic intervention countries all over the wolrd have prioritized his ideas, devised new contingency plans, voted on them, and implemented them ? How fast is fast enough ?
Those things take time, and changing minds is only the first but crucial step in a long series of changes in the cultural, political, and legal domain.

Changing opinions and improving cognitive flexibility around stale issues is high impact.
I didn’t mean to stretch anything, that just the immediate thing that popped in my mind when I red "PHP – The Right Way".

Now, I don’t mean PHP is never the right way to go. Especially if you have to deal with a large existing code base, rewriting everything in whatever shiny bright language there is available currently on the shelve is probably a far worst option.
how long would the cycle last before it starts repeating?
https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/
I've always wondered if just having a really strong matchmaking system would be enough. It would keep cheaters playing against cheaters. Pro players in theory shouldn't be as good as cheaters, so they'd be in their own rank. But I suppose cheaters could purposefully play poorly sometimes to keep their ranking down. Is that even worth it to cheaters?

Downside to all of this is it would have to take longer to get into matches to keep players in their pools. I know games already do this, but they seem to match players up or down too quickly to keep the velocity of matches going.

As I type this I realize this system wouldn't work. Pro players would complain about long waits whiles average players would play the most frequently. Lose pros and you lose average players.
I am not going into a personal discussion with someone who throws tantrums and slurs their elected government. Maybe you should seek mental health yourself instead of talking about others. lmao
tl;dr I wanted to do more frontend work but they made me mostly write Ruby. They're nice though.
> and despite those cores running over double clock speed on the M1 Pro

Note that it's a bit harder than that. The ecores on M1 and M1 Pro/Max run at around the same clock for an all-core workload, but the clock on regular M1 is halved when it's running a low priority job specifically.
> The principle of Carnot efficiency dictates that the larger and hotter you can make any heat engine, the more efficient it becomes.

While this is true, for air-breathing propulsion engines there's another factor: It is more efficient to accelerate a lot of air a bit, than a bit of air a lot. That's why the jet engine was replaced by the turbo fan with increasingly higher bypass ratio: they have a jet engine in the middle, but the fan also pushes through a lot of additional air that passes around the turbine itself entirely.

In particular, the propulsive efficiency under some simplifying conditions is 2/(1+v_ex/v_in): the higher the exhaust velocity the worse the efficiency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propulsive_efficiency#Jet_engi...
I mean, the target shouldn't be profit but providing a service. But throwing money down the drain should be kind of avoided, in general. Probably some cost share would be great.

In said case, they might have calculated the cost of upgrading the road through this mountains versus maintaining the train. I guess..
What I've seen is that kids get that dopamine rush from putting together everything exactly according to instructions. From opening the numbered bags and methodically working through thick instruction booklets.

The problem now is that they have this expectation of gratification from making something kind of perfect and their own creations are less interesting and fulfilling.

I don't know what the name is for the idea that offering an "extra" optional path can detrimentally affect the other path. (I'd posit the same theory softly applies to Minecraft's creative mode.)

But might just be my experience.
Basically, a few years ago the Moscow mayorate asked themself a question "can we build the Metro at Chinese rate?" and found the answer to be "yes".

Before that, Moscow metro had half dozen new stations per decade, now it's half dozen/yr.

Saint Petersburg is still on the former schedule. But the takeway here, there's China who build a few new systems per year, go ask them and maybe employ some of their tech.
OpenStack Challenges 2022
I bought an XPS 17 9710 for my GF on Xmass. Horrible experience and definitely the last Dell laptop I get. From now on I will stick to MacBook pro's and Lenovo Thinkpads.
> WSB started as a canard to get more drunk tourists to the small stakes poker tables

1. WSB was created before Robinhood was released.

2. WSB started as a place for people to discuss more risky strategies than what was being discussed on r/investing

3. Yes. There is no movement. WSB is not your personal army.
Sure. The "blue bubble" effect is strongest in the United States, and Apple's most iconic catchphrase under Steve Jobs was "it just works". If that's not the hallmark of a technology product being adapted to a lifestyle product, I'm really not sure what is.
Eh. It depends on the kid and their circumstances.

I was a child prodigy (I'm a much less impressive adult), and since I was from a rural area with divorced parents without much time for me, I spent plenty of time in 'normal' classes in addition to supplemental classes and educational opportunities.

The difference between me and my (non-prodigy) siblings was that the teachers normally didn't expect me to pay attention/I was allowed to do pretty much whatever I wanted after I finished the assignments. I have to agree with hatsubishi to a degree: It IS boring as hell to be in a classroom setting made for people behind your level, and this is especially likely to happen at early ages.

I don't think it's schools alone that kill the creativity, though. It was interesting going to events/being around other prodigies, because often I was the only kid there whose parents/adults didn't have a career already picked out for them by the time we hit middle school. The expectations of perfection, the sense that you're public property (with great gifts come great responsibility), and the social isolation of child geniuses does more to stunt them than the education system, in my opinion/experience.
I maintain this list. It contains non-programmer blogs as well but the vast majority is software people:

https://collection.mataroa.blog/
Hasn’t Phil Schiller gone already? I think Greg Joswiak is the VP in charge of the store now.
Many hands make more work
I never got how this worked on Steam. You have a consistent Steam ID, which the game is tied to, and all your achievements/ranks/etc.

Isn't that what you are talking about here?

You can create a new Steam account, sure, but that would start you again from scratch as a total newbie (and losing access to anything you'd bought)
Damn - does this mean I have to pull "thought leader" from my resume now? How else do I imply that I am more knowledgeable and intelligent than my corporate leaders?

This is half-serious, half "I would have gotten away with it if not for these meddling kids!"
Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/

Josh W Comeau: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/
Scan everything to searchable pdf, store it in a simple folder structure.. and use Mac or iOS spotlight to search for things. To make it a little less work for some things I have Hazel (Mac file automation app) watch my downloads folder for pdfs. If the contents match a set of unique things, like my electricity account, provider name, number and so on.. then the file gets renamed and moved to the correct folder.
I download the pdf version after paying the bill, so there’s never any confusion.
I used to have Hazel rename and move to desktop and I’d file manually once paid.
As for folder structures and file names, I use 2022/Hydro/2022-01-26 Hydro bill.pdf
Everything lives in sync.com (similar to Dropbox etc, but better security) and accessible on all my devices.
You should be able to disable them for your VM guests, but I don’t know if VirtualBox does.
https://bowtiedfox.substack.com
You should check it out again. We recently restricted memes to Friday afternoon to Sunday morning and the context is almost all text now.
Pure monetary value: targeted ads (Google, Facebook)

Human attention: recommendation systems (TikTok)

Health/biology: protein structure prediction (AlphaFold/DeepMind)

Manufacturing: computer vision (no single company dominates here)
" printing an endless supply of money for their own benefit. "

Good description of 'Federal Reserve' which prints money to bail out the banks it allegedly regulates.

There are many open finance projects, DeFi, on Ethereum which allow me to opt out of the bankster's rigged system of debt-is-now-money.
That has not happened yet.
I feel like a lot of people look at the intricate sets that cost hundreds of dollars, and conclude that Lego has abandoned play and creativity. In reality, there's an abundance of kid-oriented sets that are meant to be built, played with, deconstructed, and modified. But those aren't the sets that get shared through social media.

Lego has embraced the adult collector as a valuable customer. But that does not mean they have abandoned the children who just want to play with some Lego.
The only benefit of gamestop is selling back old games. If gamestop is a digital retailer they will die.
Show HN: Paul Graham's Essays into a Podcast
Also - The Art of Loving
The great part is many games have the aimbot built in. Players use a hardware dongle to make a keyboard/mouse look like a controller input, and the game applies aim-assist to the keyboard/mouse input.
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Ok, I've skimmed the paper and they are doing clustering grouping by tests results. Ok that's first step. Now please instead do grouping by classification of algorithm by other NN first.
Can we also acknowledge that Apple says that you must use a Payment Service Provider that also supports Apple Pay?

"Your PSP will need to offer the following:[...]
- Broad payment support including cards, iDEAL, and Apple Pay."

This just seems evil.
Typical of most management primers: 2,000 words of hand-wavy
psychobabble, none of it actionable, all of it music to other psychobabblers.
While I despise this kernel level bs, do you know how it is going to be implemented on Linux?

As far as I understand, it is coming via Proton/Wine, so these programs would need some kind of kernel level access as well (if they don't have it currently)? Or maybe they're just emulating Windows kernel calls or something like that. I mean, less intrusive (but also less effective) in a Linux system.
I got some of the Lego Elves sets for my daughter, but the line was later discontinued and prices skyrocketed. I ordered some Communist Bricks / "Illegos" from Ali Express, and the quality was decent if you wanted them to sit on a shelf. Some of the parts, though, did not hold up to "play time" and I had to buy a few critical components from bricklink to put the dragon's wings back on.

My daughter loves the intricate Friends sets, but dislikes the Friends minifigs.

edit: you may find this interesting -- https://brickset.com/article/38929/a-survey-of-communist-leg...
SHA2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/SHA-256

Hashcat's GPU-optimized OpenCL implementation:
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/blob/master/OpenCL/inc_ha...

Bitcoin's CPU-optimized sha256.cpp, sha256_avx2.cpp, sha256_sse4.cpp, sha256_sse41.cpp:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/crypto/sh...

https://github.com/topics/sha256 https://github.com/topics/sha-256

Cryptographic_hash_function#Cryptographic_hash_algorithms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Cr...

Merkle–Damgård construction: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle%E2%80%93Damg%C3%A5rd_...

(... https://rosettacode.org/wiki/SHA-256_Merkle_tree ... Merkleized IAVL+ tree that is balanced with rotations in order to optimize lookup,: https://github.com/cosmos/iavl

Self-balancing binary search tree:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-balancing_binary_search_t... )
PayPal Q4 2021 Earnings Call: will the growth continue?
As a non-American may I point out that SNL is no laughing matter under any circumstances.
i think that public safety is a feature of eastern europe most westerners are unaware of. this is often due to a false association of low income and high crime rates that is prevalent in anglo communities. the only place in western europe where i experienced comparable public safety was in portugal, curiously another low income country. anyway i think that you should not sell your homeland short despite its shortcomings. btw you did not make it clear what country you are talking about
I don't think I'm misinterpreting that he appears to be gleeful at the trolling. He thinks it is funny.
How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
Back around 2003, my buddy and I were walking home from our college classes and we saw a 1981 track and field arcade cabinet next to a dumpster. We hauled that thing home in the rain, gutted it and made a MAME cabinet that took quarters for credits and soldered a keyboard up to the controls. We learned alot about keyboard ghosting and were pretty good at soldering by the end of the whole thing. We got so much enjoyment out of that box for years.
Plasma has given me everything I could need. For 80% of people that’s going to be a web browser. Outside of that I had no problems migrating my work flows to Linux native apps. There are plenty.
I hate my job and would like to "nope out", but I don't see anything better out there. I have to support myself and my family too. Are there other options?
> did not change within the minor revision boundary

I'm confused, are you saying it's fine to change core language semantics as long as it's across major version boundaries? How the hell is that better?

No other reasonable language does this.
> Your 100MM suggestion seems laughable, at $500/acre.

Shhhhh.... We're fudging numbers to raise capital to monopolize land around an urban center. You just don't get it.
This is shocking
> The novelty you experience when doing something new must decrease over time.

It goes up and down at different stages in your life.

When you're a child, everything is new, so nothing is. Everything that exists in your childhood is Normal. It might be completely new to your parents, but you've never known otherwise.

As you grow up, you get used to this normality, and new things are novel, but not that novel yet, because they're still close to what you know as Normal from your childhood.

As you get older, new stuff gets increasingly removed from your Normal, and you're amazed by it. At some point, you get used to that feeling of amazement. You get used to getting new stuff all the time. And sometimes it doesn't impact you as much because you're already completely invested in all the old stuff. Although still there sometimes is new stuff that you can't avoid, and it uproots everything. (Think internet banking for old people who have banked on paper for all their lives.)

And then you start to realize that all the Normal stuff from your childhood was probably also completely novel at the time.
I remember reading about MAME many years ago, and I was amazed at how many arcade systems in could emulate. When you consider many arcade systems are one off (or close to one off) designs meant for running a specific game, you get a feeling of how much work people have put into preserving and emulating them.
Evergreen, but the incentive/enforcement structures for this in games are often very wrong.

If you're playing against someone who's sniping you across the map every thirty seconds, it (usually) does not matter whether or not they're cheating or doing it legitimately. Both outcomes aren't fun for players, and both outcomes make the game less competitive. The idea that toxic behavior saps the fun out a game only when it's automated is just silly -- cheating doesn't really change anything about that dynamic.

Yes, this is admittedly more complicated than I'm making it sound, and yes, there is a valid conversation to be had about players wanting to feel that multiplayer games are fair, even when they mostly aren't. But while that player instinct around fairness does exist, it is also true that for a huge portion of your playerbase if someone is cheating convincingly enough that other players are still having fun then (outside of esports leagues) it often doesn't really matter. Let them, especially if they're convincing enough that players can't tell the difference. And if someone is purposefully creating a bad/toxic experience for other players, they should be either matched differently or banned anyway, even if they're just that good entirely out of their own skill. Good players who legitimately win can still be toxic and annoying to play against.

This isn't a universal hard rule, but in general you should optimize for the outcomes you want, not for the way that people get there. It is better to have a game with cheaters/bots where people are still constantly playing at the edge of their skill level, where there are consequences for griefing, and where players are trying to create competitive/fun matches, than a game where all of your energy is devoted to just figuring out whether or not a match was miserable for "legitimate" reasons.

And for a lot of games, probably >90% of your playerbase is in this group where they care more about competitive, interesting matches that help them grow as a player and get better at the game than they care about the extreme low-level integrity of the game. Most of your playerbase is frankly not good enough or competitive enough at your game at the global levels where it matters whether or not everybody on the global ladder deserves their win count. So why are we collectively optimizing everything around such a small percentage of players?
The thing is, you don't _have_ to buy things through a third party and you don't _have_ to buy anything if you don't like the payment processor. The market will correct itself when shitty applications with shitty UX don't get any sales, unless it turns most customers don't care and people like you are the minority.

In a perfect world, there'd be a "pay with Apple Pay (€2,60)" button right next to the "pay with iDeal (€2,25)" button, just like on most web shops. If you prefer to use Apple's services, you can pay the extra costs for the 30% Apple tax and lose nothing you have now. Apple are the ones putting extra restrictions on app developers, I'm sure devs would love to have the easy Apple option available right next to the cheaper option!

To me, Apple's behaviour reads like they know they can't compete in an open market with their payment processor fees so they'll fight tooth and nail to keep any form of competition out. Their cut is simply unreasonable compared to any other payment provider, but of course they'll try to fight their billions in profits whenever they can. They go so far to force developers to increase their prices and even forbid them from showing the transaction costs in the checkout screen.
Oh you might right, I thought he was still there.
imho, they should have expected that, since Shopify is a known Ruby shop

edit: this wasn't meant to insult OP, sorry
IE isn't embedded in the OS in any significant way any more, and hasn't been for a while. Windows Explorer used to basically be a wrapper around IE, for example.