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Unity will never have halfway decent audio, networking, or ui; and not for lack of trying.

The problem is that the one size fits all approach that made then successful falls far short of ideal in areas where there simply isn't a good general case for all of the possible use cases of unity.

For UI, is because no single approach is suitable for all possible combinations of glance, grasp, touch, gamepad, mobile, PC, VR, adaptive web, and with all possible projections and rendering approaches. There may be some commonalities, but no package is going to be great at all those things.
This article smells like cynicism pretending to be self-congratulating intelligence. Painting whole swathes of groups to be all the same ("Liberals cheer the FBI and CIA, call for limitless censorship, and insist on blind faith in tech giants and pharmaceutical companies. Conservatives have cast off Christianity, their north star, the orienting principle of all they believed, discarding it offhandedly like a gum wrapper.") and saying they should've been something else is... meh, stupidly reductionist.
Pointfree: Are there any advantages to not having a variable scope?
PACSafe: Leveraging ARM Pointer Authentication for Memory Safety in C/C++
"...we propose PACSafe, a memory safety approach based on ARM Pointer Authentication. PACSafe uses pointer signatures to retrofit full memory safety to C/C++ programs, protecting heap, stack, and globals against temporal and spatial vulnerabilities. We present a full, LLVM-based prototype implementation, running on an M1 MacBook Pro, i.e., on actual ARMv8.3 hardware. Our prototype evaluation shows that the system outperforms similar approaches under real-world conditions. This, together with its compatibility with uninstrumented libraries and cryptographic protection against attacks on metadata, makes PACSafe a viable solution for retrofitting memory safety to C/C++ programs."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.08669.pdf
> There's no whistleblowers from the electricity company, even though it literally kept the lights on for murderers and traffickers

To play devil's advocate here, if those people completed their sentence and they are being resocialized they have access to what any regular citizen is supposed to access.

OTOH if they haven't been sentenced yet and the electricity company knows of it, I think they are walking on thin ice if they don't report it. I'm sure there are heavy sentences for keeping a blind eye on trafficking.

The other point worth mentioning when money laundering happens, tax evasion or even misappropriation of state money the bank is facilitating those crimes which really stands by itself.

So now I'm really wondering what the legit use case of the anonymous accounts is supposed to be.
It’s good news, but it doesn’t mean that there still aren’t more challenges to overcome.

I think the article ends on a really important note:

“The increasing cost of manufacturing these treatments makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to develop and test gene therapy for many ultrarare diseases where the number of patients worldwide is very small and profitability low.

We were able to deliver these treatments to the children in our ongoing clinical trials thanks only to funding from a generous family whose own child is a participant”
Whats a better UI framework? Been a unity game dev since I learned to program properly so I don't even know any better.
It should be noted that this is a pretty bad end state. Reporting is already an extremely weak force for preventing corruption on the part of the powerful. Journalists entering a state of total uselessness is only going to make the problem bigger.

In a realm of total bullshit the winners are the one who are best at lying. "I don't know what to believe and everyone involved is probably corrupt" is usually just an excuse to disengage and follow base instincts.
I know the COMPETES Act, but what is the other one?
After trying Bluehost + Wordpress (easy to buy and get started, but required learning Wordpress) I set something up with Hugo + Netlify. Free, and super easy. Static, very understandable. Look up a simple getting started guide, there are many. I use namecheap for my domain, you can use any obviously.
Sean Carroll had Cory Doctorow on his Mindscape podcast and it's been a while, but I recall it being the best case I had heard for antitrust legislation.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/10/21/69-c...

Ctrl-f transcript if you prefer to read.
I am also having an odd issue. I tried to submit a news article, but I got the “Slow down!” error, though I had only posted one comment over 20 minutes previous.
I wasn't aware of this (shame on me)... Thanks for the information.

Anyway posteo supports inbox encryption https://posteo.de/en/site/encryption to address this exact kind of potential problems
I think one of the fundamental problems is that wealth grows exponentially and taxes do not. We need to make wealth grow linearly. Otherwise the inevitable end is that one person will control half the wealth… and thus power.
I read in a psychology book that this is one of the (few) cases where there’s a big gender difference in intelligence: males statistically do a lot better at this than females, and I believe those with higher testosterone also statistically do better.
Thanks for pointing that out. I did slightly cheat HN rules by editing that, but only because I found it fascinating that many of the ones listed (like Maze) exhibit growth patterns that reminded me of biological life.
Would your reaction have been different if, instead of Microsoft, this article was submitted by some random person entitled "Show HN: I built a reverse proxy in C#"?

By your logic, the world should be operating on a single OS, with a single web browser, paired with a single web server, because why re-implement something that already exists?
One problem that I had with FastMail is that they were bouncing too many messages. I also found that some important-to-me services were being rate-limited from sending email for weeks, even though none of the email received was marked as spam (by their filters or explicitly by me).

I tried adding the senders to my address book as recommended and nothing changed, I also tried reaching out to support and they took weeks to respond then said "they look spammy". I get that all providers need to do some filtering but if the customer is saying that they want a specific set of emails saying "they look spammy" is not a good response.

I ended up picking another provider and closing my trial account.
No, having the related executable in the PATH before you start emacs is enough.

Then you need to install the Org Babel packages that don't ship with Emacs or Org mode e.g. ob-tcl, ob-nim.
Is there a way to request your money back? I'm surprised Google can just pull an app you've payed for. But well... Ts&Cs you never read.
the audience here is not just or even predominantly "users looking for products"
The planet is a massive ball of iron. A nuclear war won't do anything of significance to it. The biosphere, on the other hand...
> wasteful business that is, honestly at this point, simply making more landfill.

I'm pretty sure that, on average, web pages rot much faster than the time it takes a book to reach the landfill. I have lots of books that I got used, many of them for free. There is probably a book exchange in your city as well, look it up.
There are some domains which are auto shadow banned on HN. If you think it's a mistake, you could write an email to mods.
Yes. Both paper and digital. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Some are English-only, some are English-<other language> translation dictionaries.

'Paper' dictionaries are great but are heavy and unwieldy to use if they're comprehensive enough, especially for the translation dictionaries.

I also have an 'idiom dictionary' for English slang words and other idioms.
Ask HN: Where to Find a Rare Book?
Hi all, I am searching for this book I used to have a child almost 3 decades ago: Situational Grammar by M. I. Dubrovin. Any ideas for buying a paper or ebook copy will be appreciated.
Cough cough Walmart....

Employees are working yet still they need government assistance to offset the low wages. Walmart knows this and one might argue they incorporate in their business planning. Why pay employees to work full time, when you can pay them part time, reduce your labor costs and have the state pick up the rest of the expenses (i.e. medicare, Foodstamps)

Walmart executive's know this is a win/win for them, they get the labor they need and pay little for it. This is not something that just happened overnight. It's corporate greed on a massive scale that hurts everyone but no one cares because Wallstreet see's the profits rolling in.

Deceptive businesses like Walmart are consistently fucking us all, and nothing is done about it. The tax breaks they receive are enabling this behavior.

End rant.
It's deceptive to compare the two since the shuttle really is good almost exclusively for ISS missions, Hubble repair, etc (unique Canadarm capability) while F9 is the cheapest there is for Satellite launches at $2,720/kg. It isn't so great to require a crew for a satellite launch. The shuttle can only stay docked to the ISS for about 14 days while crew dragon can stay for over 180 days.
I only listed things that I actually do with the headset.

I do all of my daily programming with it on, there are a bunch of applications to watch movies with IMAX-size screens with it on in multiplayer-synced virtual theaters, there are a surprising amount of full-motion sports, plenty of applications built around socialization including a bunch of games, and it's incredibly easy to develop applications for: It's just an Android device as far as software goes, and as of last year it uses the industry-standard OpenXR, so you don't really need to know much specific to the headset at all.

The only thing you can't do completely standalone that's mentioned in that comment is use that particular Linux-in-RISC-V-emulator-in-pixel-shader-in-VRChat, but that's sort of an edge case, as you can probably imagine. For that sort of thing, the Quest 2 works really well for PCVR, as long as you're not using a very specific configuration of Linux (Linux/Nvidia), or a Mac.

But yeah, the future is basically now.
I feared that (“This list is a lot shorter, so there will be fewer opportunities for savings”)

However, I think you can layout the tree so that no pointers point backwards. If so, can you make those offsets smaller by making them relative to the current point in the tree?

Also, since the list only has five-letter words, for the last letter, you don’t even need the letters themselves, just 26 bits for what letters can complete a word. That might be a saving.

Also, the crab source code is available (DEC: http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/gatekeeper/crab.sh.txt, Mac: http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/jacobson+appel/mac/Crab_sourc.... Both via http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/scrabble.html)

Both are nice examples of C the way it is intended to be written, or rather, was intended to be written decades ago.

I don’t remember how that stores the data, but it might do a trick you didn’t think of.

And finally, I just realize that, for fairness, you need to look at (data size + decompressor size). Did you do that?
This is great! I work on visualizations all day and it’s a real skill to interpret size and angle of 3D shapes. 10 seconds per shape on my first play through. I think I would have been a lot worse if the shapes didn’t move.
I tried out Migadu but I found their calendar service lacking for me. Specially I wanted to be able to generate private calendar links to be imported by others. Unfortunately I also need to tie my calendar and email provider together for server-side scheduling on mobile.

The other oddity is that the expect you to set up the DNS records before they active inbound mail on the account. This means that in order to get set up you will need a period where mail is rejected. However by reaching out to support I could get them to active the account first, then I could add the records for a zero-downtime migration.

Other than that the service looked really good.
The hard part about rocket science is not the equations of motion.

It is that rockets that can send payload into orbit are operating at the limits of what materials are capable of. You have extreme forces, pressures, temperatures, and some of the nastiest chemicals, all that while being as lightweight as possible. There is something called the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation. The equation is simple, but the implications are that space rockets are not like fireworks, and it is what makes rocket science rocket science.
Minis are just a poor man's iPhones. Apple should offer something for lower market segment, but it should be visibly inferior to their other models. Thus, the size.

Android ecosystem has models cheap enough for quarter of minis price, and it still would be a decent phone with decent screen and other specs.
Oh, I don't know. Whatever the faults of $CURRENT_YEAR, it still compares favorably to that time when we randomly invaded a country because a two-pizza team in the White House thought it'd be awesome.

And then we re-elected the guy who led the circus, because YEAH! WARTIME PRESIDENT! USA! USA! USA!

We've always been tyrannized by a majority of unprincipled, easily-duped, low-information voters. This is why democracy sucks and has to be checked by an anti-majoritarian constitution that enshrines basic liberal values.

It doesn't stop every horrible thing from happening, like the aforementioned stupid war, but it sure helps stop the worst stuff.
They are frustrated, they're simply not aware that Intuit and other players have exercised regulatory capture to make it so awful and blame "the government" since the IRS is the face of it.

Other modernized nations have nothing like this insanity, often sending people yearly reports they can accept (since for most cases they are accurate) or send in amendments. This is far from the only issue that business interests have made the USA almost uniquely fucking stupid about.
I think they move so that they aren't accidentally covering up crucial bits, and so you get a sense for them in 3d. I'd also like it if they moved less, or had a pause button though.
From what I understand (and I could be wrong) they spend a decent amount of money lobbying politicians in Congress.

Customers are very much frustrated though and I believe the Cash app started letting people file taxes for free this year.
That's a bultin feature of messaging systems like I2P-bote (running on I2P darknet). It's been a while since experimenting with Bitmessage but I think they queue/batch messages as well. But for forum like software that's definitely true, can't easily have variable delayed posting.

Another aspect that's important and often ignored, is writing style anonymization. You practically want an offline tool, that removes idiosyncrasies from the text you write and makes it sound as bland as possible.

edit:

A related story. Around 2010-2012 I was working for a company, and I was part of a somewhat managerial group. At one point we decided to pull in direct employee feedback in an anonymous free-text form. Due to their writing style being reflective on the way they spoke, it was possible to point exactly who wrote what message. Of course, few exceptions existed, I didn't personally know all the employees in the company.
The eye candy on the site is what I object to, the giant image is solely what my complaints were about. It adds nothing but makes the site look like it's trying to trick people.
Which probably means that someone with “chief scientist” title shouldn’t be using it when making public claims. Of course, he can do it for his own profit, but he is ruining the credibility of his research field, that’s why people working in this field object to it.
DEMAND creates and provides those jobs. Those rich monkeys could be vapourised tomorrow and by and large the world would continue on without particularly missing their existence.
Pretty much every "I built a thing" post is met with the same response. MS isnt special.

I think pretty much every open source project that wants to be taken seriously needs to compare itself with its competitors.
Transactions, yes, and dates and amounts, but not names. And many "transactions" on the blockchain are within a single wallet.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when journalists start reporting on the immense data in the blockchain, but for whatever reason it hasn't happened yet. I don't think it'll happen as long as the "journalists" are the kind that think it's okay to publish an encryption key to a publicly available encrypted file of confidential data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cable...
Philosophers have been trying for decades to define it rigorously and have failed decisively. It really looks intractable at the moment. Given we are in this quagmire, I think it is ok to explore/discuss a bit further despite the shaky foundations of only having fuzzy definitions of "qualia" or "consciousness" to rely on.
Excellent read.

Looking at these notebooks, I'm amazed and appreciate the self-discipline that the author has exercised.

But a question one should always ask: what could I have done with all that time if I hadn't put it in taking notes? (Write a whole novel?) That's the dreaded question of _opportunity cost_. You can spend your time only once!

EDIT: I also strongly agree with the utility of paper note-taking as frictionless system and with the author's choice of pen & ISO based date/time formats.
> Swift on Security isn't a heavy humor account by any means

Is the author reading an alternate universe Twitter? Tay is an incredible shitposter.
Not impossible, but very inefficient.
is every OS version a fork, is every new parliament a new country? there are markers other than backwards compatibility for continuity.
I have argued my question and told you my opinion on self logging and quantified self. I don't understand what else I should be asking.
I personally am a strong advocate of note-taking and agree with your post above. I myself have collected notebooks, and now they rest on a shelf gathering dust since I don't do anything with them except flip through them for nostalgia and look at my drawings/sketches.
I use Obsidian to collect the information I'm interested in and try to connect them together and I can research and connect the dots to form new ideas and I find the value in just connecting the ideas.
Collecting and not using notes can be as therapeutic as those notebooks with mandalas to color.
The article states that anonymity is on a spectrum. Privacy is a different issue. You can lead an entirely private but non-anonymous life.
The rise, fall, and surprising rebirth of Docker
My aunt, recently retired from the printing industry, has regaled me with many tales of the intricacies and complications she went through to print everything from Harry Potter to Jocko Willink. Kindles were also banned from entering her home.
It's been a very long time since I used Drastic but I remember it being vastly better than the other emulators at the time. Was the only one able to run DS games at full speed on my 2012 Nexus 7. The open source alternatives may have caught up by now though.
Do you have a source for this or know how prolific this was?
There are good reasons for the industry standard high holding and service temperatures. I can tell when coffee has been sitting at temperatures that are too low.

I'm glad Stella got her bills paid, but no, that's not how the system is working. Successful hot coffee lawsuits are extremely rare. I'm aware of only a couple successful payouts in case alleging only excessive temperature. The only two "hot-coffee" lawsuits I know of in the past couple of years both involve defective lids and insufficient warnings.
Can you share more specifics on what you needed to customize that went beyond nginx's capabilities?
One would hope that all of your policies are archived; otherwise, how will anyone determine in the future whether a past action was in accordance with the policy when that becomes a question in a lawsuit?

Perhaps by "archive" you mean something like "delete", in which case I would like to strongly encourage you to not use "archive" to mean that, because it's the opposite of the standard meaning of "archive".
> "Experts largely agree that current forms of AI are not conscious, in any sense of the word."

Experts in what? There _are_ no experts in consciousness, at least in the lay sense.
The original tweet was very innocuous and seemed more like a thought experiment than a proclamation.

Furthermore, nobody has come up with any conclusive evidence that the statement is incorrect.

It's possible neural networks are slightly conscious, because we fundamentally do not understand what consciousness entails.

If anybody can prove that statement is wrong, Nobel Prize to them.
The solution isn’t for everyone to make web apps, it’s to regulate the app markets.

Web apps are still at the mercy of Apple and Google. Plus, they’re always lagging in features. Wordle for example wouldn’t have been able to implement the sharing feature before ~2019 because the web share API wasn’t supported by major browsers (even though it’s a thing native apps could do since forever)
Ah. Perhaps dang can rewrite the URL linked to the headline.
Maybe no driver support in mainline kernel.
The sly humor really makes this document readable. I love the list of what the base does NOT have, including "spiders or snakes!"
Nintendo as a brand is dead to me.
and yet the Beijing 2022 Games[1] app with known security vulnerabilities [2] is still on the Google Play Store.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.systoon.do...

[2] https://citizenlab.ca/2022/01/cross-country-exposure-analysi...
Resuming maintenance of libxml2 and libxslt (2022-01)
No it works on devices where I still have it installed :) just meant I can't install it from the store, which is different from Steam where you are still able to install games you bought even if their store page got taken down
If you haven't seen it already, take a look at https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle for an OSX window utility. I've been having great success with it. Some placements may take a couple of shortcuts, but this is easy to memorise, for example "switch monitor" "second half"
How is creating a giant flashy jpg prioritizing security?
Not sure I can agree. I’m using an iPhone SE (2016), the original, and my battery life is still pretty darn good. Routinely outlasts my SO’s Pixel 4a, and her 3a before that. I have swapped out the battery twice since my original purchase, but I’d do that for any phone.

I briefly had a 6S, before I grew so sick of the size that I got my current SE. The SE’s battery is 90% the size of the 6S battery, and the 7/8/SE 2020 only increases the battery size incrementally past that point. The SE 2016 is about a mm thicker than those phones and that makes all the difference.

The Sony Xperia Compacts routinely had great battery life compared to the larger models, too — all for an extra mm or two of thickness that I, at least, cannot perceive. Phone manufacturers are just so hooked on making “7mm” phones with a 2mm camera bump they’ve forgotten that they could just omit the camera bump, curve the edges a bit if necessary, and dramatically improve battery life.
You're absolutely right. It is not enough to use anonymity tools, you also have to make sure everything else around you doesn't compromise your anonymity. Made me think of a Harvard bomb threat incident where the student posting a fake bomb threat (through Tor) to avoid final exams was the only person using Tor on campus at the time, which trivially identified him.

https://theprivacyblog.com/blog/anonymity/why-tor-failed-to-...
That’s my frustration. Tax filing should be a free service of the IRS for everyone. The process could be much better too. The IRS already has my W2s, 1099s, etc. There’s no reason I need to resupply what they already know.