skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The suit, originally filed back in October 2020 and moved to a New York federal court last week, alleges that Google, alongside developers Bungie and id Software, stated that the Stadia service would feature 4K resolution support, but did not walk back or correct this statement once it was openly reported that Stadia was upscaling several titles from resolutions such as 1080p and 1440p, rather than offering “true” 4K resolution.

That's one flimsy ass lawsuit. Upscaled 4K for some titles ( admitted by Google themselves) is still 4K.

For the game library, did Google promise they'll have every game on it? What promise was broken? They worked with game developers directly, paying to get games ported ( be it indie or Ubisoft/EA/Rockstar). They should have done more, but it's not like Stadia was advertised as "the platform you can play all games on" and then it turned out you only have 20 games.
Congratulations, you’ve reached “how can I just trust any woman when she claims she’s been sexually assaulted” level of disconnect from reality. Yes, this stuff does happen. The tech bro summation of “facts” and “logic” is hilarious on this website.

You even say recording these abuses is “trivial” and should have been conducted. You have never been in an abusive environment, that much is clear.
Apple did not have anything to do with producing this film. Their own studio was not involved with it at all. They bought the distribution rights well after the movie had already become a darling in the festival circuit.
What HBO film is that?
> So there's really no difference between this and a fiat currency.

Exactly. Gold is a currency just like the dollar or euro. If you are a gold bug, you believe that no other currency in the world is trustworthy. If this is true, good luck figuring out what to do with your gold after the collapse of civilization, because I find it isn’t a particularly good dinner option.
Perhaps it's a little out of step with today's empirical approaches. Sure, it's a (currently) untestable hypothesis but they speak themselves of how LSD could help open us to seemingly unlikely ideas. Besides, if logical positivism hadn't already been abandoned by the time of this interview, it's certainly lost credibility since.
It is extremely normal to be anxious about job interviews. If you try to kill the anxiety, you'll fail and make yourself miserable.

The thing you need to practice is tolerating the state of anxiety and realizing that it's temporary, it can't harm you, and it's there for a reason.

It may take many years of treatment to be able to do high-stress activities like live coding interviews, but you need a job in the meantime, so seek out employers who don't have idiotic hiring procedures that filter out people with anxiety.
This would lead to a society where there is no incentive to create any new digital goods.

The patronage "platform" would be the new Apple/Google and would likely be riddled with corruption
Even the CLI apps will run into the memory limit
Important Web3 Concepts: Part 2 – Performaroo
Plasma Mobile interview on running a privacy-respecting and secure Linux phone
Whenever I see racist used in a sentence about deaf people I always think about if the person saying it has any idea what they're talking about, or if this is an example of language "evolving".

Admittedly this is a sample size of 1.
Came to comments for this. Screenshots or it didn't happen.
does the word magical scare anyone else or just me? anytime someone describes their feature as magical it just means black box, undebuggable. nice while it works and then god awful when it doesn't
I, and many others, disagree with that premise which is part of the reason he is not popular.

That USPS needs to be profitable (it's a us govt service for the people). And that there were (bill just fixed it) onerous requirements that made 'profit' basically impossible.

For me it's also political. It's hard for me to separate his political agenda from things that materially impact elections.
Would you flip that around and say that people are only receptive to movies with white, straight abled leads because it has a group that the majority can identify with, either through being of that demographic or as a byproduct of colonialism?
You can use this behavior to your advantage though. I have my browsers set up to delete cookies when they are closed and from the surface this works for Youtube recommendations. If I open the site I only get very generic popular/pushed content.

So after I watch that instrumental music video, there will be a mass recommendation for other instrumental music. And that's nice, because I apparently was in a mood for that. And the next day, I open my browser again and they are all gone! I can dive into the music for the mood of that moment right away.
If you’ve watched anything on Netflix and Apple Tv recently I’m sure you’ve noticed the insane quality difference.
90% of what Netflix is producing feels like “film for tv” in the 90s at best.
Well this should disabuse you of that notion:

— it’s a secret ballot

— the members of the jury aren’t widely known, as far as I can tell

— they care little for the reputation of the institution itself

— those that care are more likely to hate it for being snubbed in the past

— those that won obviously deserved the price and feel strongly that a meritocracy abhors loyalty

= this is a great chance to really vote with the heart, including settling a few scores with any group you secretly loath especially because “political correctness” forces you to keep it to yourself the rest of the year

Bonus inconsistency:

— there have been all-deaf movies before that didn’t win

Some groups were systematically or implicitly excluded from honors such as the Oscars for centuries. It’s great to see the trend bending towards justice. Unfortunately, they sometimes see their legitimate success undermined by various “but you didn’t really win the price/get hired/become President” strategies.

So… congratulations to being part of the problem, I guess.
Try the blog search profile, and if that's still no good, add set it to deny javascript. That reduces quite a lot of noise.
Now that I come think of it, wouldn't that demographic actually be the target one? I mean you need to be affluent to send a kid to such a place. You, as in the parents, are under some social pressure to retain your social standing, you even have some lofty goals for your kids. You might be working, and travelling, a lot, so you're not around that much.

After all, we are talking about private programs here. The poorer folks are usually victims of the state sponsored, and sometimes enforced against the parents will, programs. Which are as bad as those private ones.

This is, of course, just a theory. In the end, so, I think that the number of abuse victims, pick any kind of abuse, is orders of magnitude higher then we all think.
Linux does not take 3 hours even on spinning rust. I'd say one hour at worst. On my computer with the compile happening on an NVMe, it takes about 15 minutes.
"You can't have decentralization, censorship resistance, self sovereignty, ownership of your own stuff without privacy." - Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, Founder of Zcash.

If anyone wants to give Shielded ZEC a try, get a Zcash Wallet from https://z.cash/wallets

This is how fungibility looks like: https://zcashblockexplorer.com/transactions/d51f29739b753683...
March: -100, took 100 from my savings for the house, because I wanted to go to this concert.

October: +100, finally paid back the 100 taken in March.

Anothet option: you have multiple personalities.

Btw. Semi joking
Is it "just Apple's", not also Eagle Pictures' or Sun Distribution's?[1]

Interestingly Apple was sold the "worldwide" rights to Coda after rights were already partially sold to other territories all over the world. Apparently, Sun Distribution Group had the rights for Latin America and Eagle Pictures in Italy.

"Andrea Goretti, CEO of Italy’s Eagle Pictures, told Variety that he received a call from Pathé February 1 inquiring if the distributor would be willing to sell back Italian rights. "

Was Apple able to resolve this with their big vault of cash?

[1] https://www.indiewire.com/2021/03/apple-coda-sundance-25-mil...
Programming Languages for Scientific Computing
The Wizard of Oz was actually in fact a silver/gold allegory.

https://economics.rutgers.edu/joomlatools-files/docman-files...

L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, however, is not only a child's tale but also a
sophisticated commentary on the political and economic debates of the Populist Era.1 Previous
interpretations have focused on the political and social aspects of the allegory. The most important of
these is Littlefield ([1966] 1968), although his interpretation was adumbrated by Nye (1951), Gardner and
Nye (1957), Sackett (I960), and Bewley ([1964] 1970). My purpose is to unlock the references in the
Wizard of Oz to the monetary debates of the 1890s. When the story is viewed in this light, the real reason
the Cowardly Lion fell asleep in the field of poppies, the identity of the Wizard of Oz, the significance of
the strange number of hallways and rooms in the Emerald Palace, and the reason the Wicked Witch of
the West was so happy to get one of Dorothy's shoes become clear. Thus interpreted, the Wizard of Oz
becomes a powerful pedagogic device. Few students of money and banking or economic history will
forget the battle between the advocates of free silver and the defenders of the gold standard when it is
explained through the Wizard of Oz.
I remember testing this theory when I lived in Los Gatos, CA around 1980 and had a PO Box there. Los Gatos has three zip codes: 95030 for the downtown area where I lived, 95031 for the PO boxes at the downtown post office, and 95032 for the east part of town and the hills.

I put a stamp on an envelope and wrote nothing but 95031-nnnn on the envelope, where nnnn was my PO Box number. Mailed it from some other local town, and sure enough it was delivered to my PO Box!
> Patrick McHardy wasn't interested in GPL compliance and source code release, only in extracting money from non-compliant companies.

So what? If it makes them comply then I'm fine with it. No one else has taken on the fight except for a handful of large companies (Vizio and a settop-box-manufacturer whose name I forgot are the only cases I remember). Everyone else, particularly in the phone and embedded sector, outright shits on the GPL for decades now.

Particularly Google would be in an excellent position - they possess the Android trademark, they could require manufacturers and SoC vendors to properly open-source their stuff as part of the Android license, even for AOSP-powered devices.

Governments could also step in, similarly to enforcement of patents, but no government in the world has done anything to establish legal protection for open source that does not rely on open-source authors filing lawsuits on their own! Just imagine customs going on a trade fair and confiscating every device where the GPL and other OSS licenses are not obliged. After two rounds, no one would dare mess around any longer.

> Got a link for that Apple firmware thing?

Unfortunately not, that was many years ago and I might be remembering it wrong :(
My new insight from this work was around the Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) being framed as “varying in value” depending on who owns the asset.

Are there any other business examples where an asset ( without any other craftsmanship/ work / energy input ) changes in value based on who holds it?
Surprised the books from Niall Ferguson are not mentioned:

-- Ferguson, Niall - The Ascent of Money

-- Ferguson, Niall - The Cash Nexus

The standards of Niall Ferguson are very, very, very high. I would also keep an eye n his site, niallferguson.com , particularly on his ongoing journalistic production: https://www.niallferguson.com/journalism
It’s only Apple’s because they bought the world-wide distribution rights, not because they made it, had it made, had the idea for the plot, or, as far as I know, had any hand in it (it may have been edited after the premiere, but I doubt that)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODA_(2021_film))
The first three chapters look promising!

When sailing through the computer network topic, my great companion was Tanenbaum's and Richard Stevens's book. Although, I have to be honest that if I only read that book without exposure to the real-world problem, I might quit computer networks many years ago.

My two cents for the rest of the chapters would be: to make sure to provide a real-world problem and example in which anyone could have access to them. In my case, I had the privilege to build a real network (10k users) with FreeBSD as the router, proxy, DNS, mail, etc. With all the tooling available today, one can easily acquire these swiss army knives for networking. Sure, tooling comes and goes, but at least it can provide better abstractions to the students. At least it worked for me.
I was very critical of No Man's Sky on release, but boy have they knocked it out of the park since. Super impressive piece of work
Good point, updated my reply. While Google don't explicitly say that they want to support run-time updates of the kernel and OS; it's implied in their system architecture that such is the case.
If you consider that a huge risk/threat I can only congratulate you for running a business without real issues.
Interest list. But from first look I see very important flaw - it is linear.

- I think, knowledge space is multidimensional, and some parts are hierarchical, and in most cases, parts should have their weights.

Mean, some things are magnitudes more weighted than others (unfortunately this differs depend on exact case, on geography, on legal things, etc, and even could significantly change in relatively short time, when for example, EU implements some new GDPR like thing).
I, in Australia, had never received a spam call or SMS, until two years ago. I now receive several per day. All automatically blocked, but still.

My number was leaked in a particular data breach that actually had nothing to do with me, but a different family member who had all of their contacts vacuumed up before the breach. So from my perspective it was passive.
The refutations of leftist ideologies are also freely available to read. It rather seems you have run out of arguments.

Marxism wasn't a success story in the real world, either.
It's not technical minutiae, it's the difference between government censorship and private property rights.

Almost all web traffic follows the pattern you laid out, and almost none of it in the US is broken in that pattern. Having your content hosted on the end service is entirely up to who runs the end service, and entirely outside the control of democratic government. And it's a privilege, not a right.

Would you have our government force Youtube to host content it's decided it doesn't want to host?! I suppose if your understanding of the world were as simplistic as that of someone who believed RT, you would just assume government makes everything up and creates corporations as shells to put out their message. That's not how it works in the free world.

Youtube is just one site in Russia. RT is one site in America. RT is not banned in America.

Does RT let me post anything I want about Ukraine on their website? When they do, let us know.
How much hardware support is there in the public Fuchsia source and how much of it is going to be proprietary?
> It's kind of amazing to think that the system that underpins an awful lot of human activity is a collective delusion.

This could apply to religion, politics, nation hood, loyalty, or money. A few other things as well. Arguably, sexual monogamy. And marriage. Also, all mass panics and hysterias. I could go on.
> 36 year old (at the time) the time of day if I had been 5 foot 5, 350 pounds, flipping burgers at McDonalds and yelling at her “hey shawty, give me dem digits”.

Are you arguing then that she'd have swooned over all that but 6ft tall? Sounds like a real catch.
yeah that was my worry but seems like it is based on CDK so perhaps you would end up hacking that layer but then I don't know really know and I would be gambling and I really don't like it.

I'm just amazed by how small problems are blown out of proportion to sell you an elaborate contraception....like a Rube Goldberg machine which is what this feels like.

what is wrong with just using SAM or aws chalice like we've always done? even looking at Laravel vapor (problems with cloudwatch logs)....all of it seems like a rube goldberg machine of sorts and this is why aws chalice has been my go to tool simply because A) it is written by AWS team B) it just spits out cloudformation, SAM, cdk C) stages like you are used to

"magical" here means sacrificing simplicity and overloading the developer with MORE rube goldberg machine on TOP of the stress from having to do "program in AWS" imho.
Nice recommendation, I've added to my reading list.

I have read Graeber's Debt and it's a great book but always thought that it left out many so questions unanswered. His anthropological treatment of money is quite nice until feudalism, but when he starts explaining the start of the Enlightenment and the gold standard in Europe things seemed very rushed and inadequately explained. Also it only touches upon our current system (post-Bretton Woods neoliberalism) briefly in the last chapter, which was a letdown since I though Graeber would have many comments about our current configuration of society.
Isn't Thunderbolt 4 supposed to support some ridiculous bandwidth too, like tens of gigabits or something?
Er, why?

I live in London. It's quite big. Why would I want to cap its' size? I live there precisely because it's big; it has great connectivity.

~0.2-0.3% of the world population are within an hour or two of my front door. If that were 0.5% I'd be happier.
I'm a poor doctor, but my book about heart surgery deserves props for debunking the myth... You do see the problem here, don't you?

If people aren't qualified, as opposed to having credentials, to understand and comment on a subject, they should get a good co-author. Because the look at monetary policy through the ages is a very interesting one. If the authors do have an actual grip, and the ability to explain things to the layman unless we talk about dry scientific books, of the subject. If they don't it's just pseudo-science sold with confidence.
One of the core characteristics of a real time operating system is that it has to service events within guaranteed time.
unfortunately not anymore. there's a number of legitimately dangerous psychedelics on blotters passed off as LSD, such as 25I-NBOMe. some people love it, some have seizures and die, some people die after several good trips with it. it's a shame because the good trips seem amazing, but it's not worth a horrible death.
One big feature that I think missing in modern CAD is gamepad support. It’s predominantly a mouse and Ctrl/Shift-WSAD game, with basic joystick accommodations, so to speak.

If you could put together something on a Valve Steam Deck and send it to 3D printing, that’ll be a great step towards Drafting Dan.
Why exactly do I need a "passwordless world"?

I read the prior article, and the two main problems with passwords apparently are pwd-db leaks and email accounts as central password reset mechanism.

A password manager software solves both these problems. I have to remember 2 passphrases: 1 to decrypt my harddrive / backup, one to access my password manager.

Everything else is protected by a truly random, long, unique-for-every-service, password. Yes, that includes my email account. It's simple, it requires no external services, I control it in its entirety, it can be done using 100% FOSS software.

db leak somewhere? So what, the chance of a 64byte random string being bruted/rainbowed is next to zero, and it's used nowhere else. And it takes me all of 10 seconds to set a new password that is just as strong.

And since the pwd-safe is part of my backups, there is no single point of failure involved.
It hasn't.

Which suggests that the risk may have been well-considered.

This could of course change, but your counterfactual remains that.
Performance: Computing pi to a billion as quickly as possible

Real time guarantee: When a hook for an event is called it transfers all computation to that call within a time limit predictably and deterministically

Please correct me if I am wrong.
> Which repo? Now I have to maintain repos alongside apps? Why can't the app take care of its own compatibility and upgrade needs? Why am I involved? I just want to use the damn thing without interruption.

Which is exactly why distros have very big repos, iOS has exactly one store and so does android (yeah, yeah amazon, fdroid...; few people install these). So that you never, ever have to care about that.

Simple rule of thumb as a consumer: If it is not in the repo/store/steam then it does not exist. Same for iOS or android by the way: If you need to jailbreak/root for an app, for the average user it might as well not exist.

> On mac, I don't use their appstore, I just get dmg images and get going. Same on windows.

Yeah, same for appimages. And you don't use the mac appstore because it currently is much worse than the comparable linux offering. Yet, both apple and MS are clearly pushing in that direction.

> and now I have to build from source and figure out aclocal dev packages,deps,ugh...

Er, no you don't. If the mac .dmg has those same issues you don't do that, if the windows .exe has those same issues you don't do that. You simply say "that sucks" and go on with your life and install the "fixed" one half a year later.
In fact for windows software that seems so much more painful (compared to linux) that I would not even attempt it. It is nice that linux is so much better at that, but still as a user you simply don't do that.
For absolute programming beginners only
For cultural anthropology, I'd say it's 'In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio' by Philippe Bourgois. It's a fascinating read based on the authors ethnographic study of life on the margins in NYC in (I think?) the 90's.
Alternate possibility: religion is a pre-modern adaptation to encourage co-operation / unity / pro-social behavior and it likely correlated with fitness of societies for a long time.

To the extent it played that function, indoctrinating children was no different than teaching them to hunt or gather.
Fair - people definitely have different paths, and I don’t mean to suggest that therapy is a panacea. I will say however that not all therapy is focused on trauma; it can also address patterns of thought and behavior which are not conducive to your happiness. In short, I think good therapy is often about learning how to have deeper relationships with yourself and with others through being able to practice vulnerability in a safe, controlled environment. That’s helpful to people whether or not they’ve suffered deep trauma, as feeling connected to others is often the first step out of depression.

I agree “just doing stuff” can help to. But for many people, as others have pointed out, such advice is not immediately actionable. People can be made to do stuff, but if they hate doing those things then they’ll still be depressed.
Unfortunately this is the confusing way of the world.

IIRC, Netflix is able to run a logo credit for themselves in Star Trek Discovery despite only having licensing rights, but it gives the impression that it's a Netflix show (that being said, their buying the rights to stream it is de facto a large swath of their production budget)
They have a perception as specialist/medical so premium is the order of the day.

The prior lamps were heavy and inefficient. Newer LEDs are preferred but they are not made by that many companies, or until recently anyway. And many of the new entrants have crap longevity. Furthermore, sourcing issues compounded over COVID.

There are also unique design challenges mechanically for UVC. Just some of which are efficacy is inversely proportional to distance and time, and you need 100% line of sight to have any effect at all...