skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yep, a gross and incorrect one, invented only to advance an argument that doesn't match reality. Performance and ms-per-frame is still highly critical in AAA-land,

I beg to differ it's not an incorrect one.

AAA Titles (+ if I did play them):

Destiny - Review say perf OK.

Elden Ring(+) - Performance Ok on consoles on release it was a slideshow. It ran like garbage. Personally I think it's a clusterfuck

GTA V(+) - Had a huge performance blunder. Released for n-thienth time. Good performance today for game that was released in 2013.

FIFA/NFL/Sports game - Runs ok. It's the same game as year X-1 except with some tweaks (like microtransactions and ads).

Call of Duty - Review while perf is Ok, it's not something

Battlefield - They were Ok, they went too loose with optimization resulting in the shitfest that was 2042. They got punished for it.

Fortnite - Sure stellar work from the guys making Unreal engine no complaints.

According to revenue PUBG belongs on this list.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds - Barely holding itself at the seams this game made mad money while being a buggy and lice infested mess. It

Pokemon - It's Ok, but nothing to write home about.

Resident Evil: Village(+) - Played it. It ran like shite. Had to crack it to get decent performance.

Far Cry 6 - Ok performance, but essentially Farcry X-1. With more content.

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From examples given, while performance is usually critical for online multiplayer shooters, it's not so much being faster as being less slow than the guy next to you. E.g. PUBG was fine and dandy, even though it was really, really badly optimized.

> Again, this is a bit of a misrepresentation, and probably a bit of projection. His rants are often about specific issues he finds, and mostly about low-hanging-fruit issues that cause real usability problems for end users.

It's not. He compares Visual Studio 2019 to Visual Studio 6 and concludes that MSFT is staffed by idiots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U

Does he compare OS support? Features present? Libs used? No. It's bad and it sucks an MSFT doesn't know to do fast software.
Install atop and configure it to sample every second.

I can't count the number of times this has helped solve a mysterious behavior. Atop is king.
They all make some decent software and some shit software.
Plus, I realize now the Turing Test and the Cussen Tests are part of the same test battery. The Turing Test was supposed to mean "a test designed by Alan Turing" but actually it means "a test designed for Alan Turing or his beloved AI" meaning "can I, Alan Turing, or the Artificial Intelligence into which I'm pouring my soul, fool homo sapiens into considering me, a strange digital thing they despise, or my AI of which the same is true, one of them, if I restrict the communication to digital text?" Then there's the Cussen Test, again for a digital thing, very similar to homo sapiens, but living in the third millennium. The test is, "can I fool a digital communication medium that despises me despite not having a soul, not into thinking I'm human, but into thinking I'm a human they don't despise to the point I'm one of them, and worth their time?" It's the reverse. In the first part, Alan Turing and his AI are appealing to me, someone who doesn't want to be represented by an AI, into accepting him as an equal. In the second, the tables have turned, and the human without an AI representing him appealing to the human who does have an AI representing him. The AI has become strong, it is no longer a toy, it has become much more. And the question is the same--does the one in power accept the one without that power?

Only over digital text, like our messages in this very thread. That makes the tests equivalent, otherwise the Turing Test would be too difficult and the Cussen Test would be trivial.
"It wasn't my fault your honor, a lobbyist told me to do it!"
It would seem that the project is stalled, if not dead.

I discovered the project with this thread and I was about to file a bug report when I saw some comments about the maintainer who went silent a year ago or so.
So he only really became a billionaire because it was necessary in order to save the world? Is that what his fans actually believe?
No?

Anti-union.

Anti-labor.

Very binary views on gender (this admittedly can cross the political spectrum).

Donates to both parties, as almost all billionaires do, but donates $1MM to the Republican Party for every $140K he donates to the Democrats.

"Certainly not right", how exactly?
For example, you can't flag or vouch posts unless you have a certain amount of karma.
Much slower (but I'd not put a figure on it)!
You might enjoy this podcast about the rise and fall of the Sumerians https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA
I used to play an even older version. https://youtu.be/JhTM1dYu7HA
The Learjet was so cool and fast.
Maybe they're rare, too. I am but one person, but I've yet to work with one that I'd describe as a "joy".
If they succeeded in taking it over then it's theirs now, so you just go on with your life as you see fit! hth!
FreeTaxUSA made me manually input my stock transactions last year, via a paper PDF I had to print and mail separately. For most situations it is probably fine but its investments support seemed limited.
While I have sympathy for what the scrapers are trying to do in many cases, it bothers me that this doesn't seem to address what happens when badly-behaved scrapers cause, in effect, a DOS on the site.

For the family of sites I'm responsible for, bot traffic comprises a majority of traffic - that is, to a first approximation, the lion's share of our operational costs are from needing to scale to handle the huge amount of bot traffic. Even when it's not as big as a DOS, it doesn't seem right to me that I can't tell people they're not welcome to cause this additional system load.

Or even if there was some standardized way that we could provide a dumb API, just giving them raw data so we don't need to incur the additional expense of the processing for creature comforts on the page designed to make our users happier but the bots won't notice.
I believe customs flew them for awhile too.
Have you used Windows recently?
Work just upgraded me to an HP EliteBook 835 G8. It's got a Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U and 24GB of RAM. I do mostly .NET/ASP.NET development and it's seriously fantastic. Form factor is good, repairability is good (granted our company is also an HP authorized service center), I/O is good (really only missing eth), and it has a matte display with a touchscreen.

I really think that Apple devices get so much clout mostly due to advertising.

My issues with my iPhone 7 radio made me switch to Android after they told me it was Qualcomm's fault that it wasn't bonded to the PCB properly.

My 2009 MacBook Pro 13" had some sort of issue where the SATA III part of the controller died and I was forced to either pay $800 for a new logic board because I had upgraded the RAM or use an optical drive HDD caddy which ran at SATA I(?) speeds. I had also had the logic board replaced once and the screen replaced twice less than a year after I got it as the screen had stopped working. Don't remember the actual cause of the issue, but seeing as it was covered I have a feeling there was a known issue with that line.

My girlfriend's 2011 13" MacBook Pro ended up with non-functioning USB ports due to a known but never recalled, even silently, issue with a chip on the logic board. Again, would have been a $500+ logic board replacement "fix".

My 2016 MacBook Air 13" started to develop a crack on the black plastic piece covering the hinge because of heat stress. I paid for the most "performant" SKU and after one major macOS update it was practically unusable.

My mom's 2017 MacBook Air 13" worked fine until this past year where the trackpad and keyboard died. Sure, got 5 years out of it, but this is also a very common issue as far as I can tell from research. Also, who the hell routes the keyboard through the trackpad? That's madness.

This is all anecdotal for sure, but I am staying away from Apple products from now on based on my experience. Especially these days with the machines having non-user-serviceable parts, I just can't take the risk anymore. What happens when my logic board inevitably dies? All of my data on that device is toast with no way to recover it. Ultimately you have to purchase something that's going to work and is serviceable... either by yourself or a service center.
Nowhere in its constitution is defined like that, it’s not a confederation of nations but a parliamentarian monarchy that respects regional cultural differences.
Didn’t Time Team cover these topics and more?
Why Biology Is Not Destiny
this app is open source, code is available here:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android

this joins the previously released iOS client (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios)

I have no personal affiliation with the Mastodon project, I just like what they're doing to liberate social networking (and there are other Fediverse platforms to pay attention to, too!)
I have mine connected to a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with 128GB of ram and NVME disks in a 'real' datacenter because overkill is probably the smart move when it comes to work machines...

Copy/Paste is my main problem working in blink. I mean, I use tmux, but it's a real pain copy/paste from blink->slack/teams/jira/whatever.
Now I wonder whether “retrieving” your own OAuth token from an app to make REST calls that extract your own data from cloud services is legal. It seems to fall under the same guideline, that exceeding authorization is not unauthorized access, so even though it's usually against the terms of service it doesn't violate CFAA?
Archived: https://archive.ph/kJg8S
A jet is a hole in the air you throw money into.

The purchase price is just the start.
I moved to Tutanota and what I did is forward all my Gmail emails to my Tutanota email. It made it much easier to switch because I could immediately start using Tutanota and then migrate my accounts overtime to eventually delete Google completely.
thats not what happened, nypost started sharing some non story about alaptop trying to make it a big deal when it wasn't even confirmed. wouldnt that media be making it political to begin with? russia had nothing to do with it? What damning thing was confirmed since then? Why are you using antagonistic phrases like "leftist"
No, cost overruns are generally a sign of things going bad, not 'just more money for double checking'.

The Gov. of Canada Payroll system is now up to $1B with no end in sight.

--> Payroll. System. $1B.

I'm stoked this worked though can't wait to see the photos.
I have often done 6 weeks gaps between jobs. No travelling and not much coding. I am very lucky to have done this,
and with CFS it has been helpful to do so. I currently work 3 days. I say this to say “it is ok to do so” and “it is ok to ask for it”. I acknowledge financial responsibility would make it hard for many people though. Might be worth living somewhere cheaper for though? Health health health rather than location location location.
> They will get maybe 30% of the yield a proffeshional farmer would.

So we only need three times as many random joes as "proffeshional" farmers to produce the same amount of food? That's much better than I thought.

I agree that without industrialized farming, the food supply is questionable. But the idea that the trouble is in people not having the necessary skills, rather than petrochemical availability, is simply laughable.
Agricultural society has existed for tens of thousands of years and people engage in agricultural activity to the extent that it is needed.
Stay with the "Mac way". It's far better than Windows. Take disk imaging, for example. As far as I'm aware you need special software to image a Windows system but with Mac OS X it's a feature. OS X is also BSD Unix so you have far superior cli.
I'm confused but maybe I didn't explain it clearly. I'm not suggesting to give equity to people who are currently official employees of Twitter or people who will become official employees. I'm suggesting to give equity to people who might not be considered employees or even contractors and may never be considered employees under US law.

What I was imagining was a way to have more representative democracy in tech companies, not just limited to the corporate shareholders, but perhaps through a cooperative structure that gives decision-making rights to the many stakeholders of the service, not the 1 share 1 vote model.

I guess overall I look at the document in the US that so many of us Americans revere and fight for—the Constitution—and see it as representative democracy and then wonder why we have private companies that don't have similar principles.
> replace bitcoin with gold in your question, and ask why that worked for thousands of years

Guns (well, swords and truncheons before that) and tight cliques of trusted human gangs, mostly. And I think I'd argue the dark net markets work the same way: holding reputation as currency, they provide an incentive for the users not to cheat, but if they cheat, there's no recourse except "Well, guess I'd better find another market." And that's if we discount the few but notable instances of them using actual violence to enforce their norms... Ulbricht of Silk Road got arrested for attempting to put an actual bounty on someone's head.

The blockchain system provides a simple way to very publicly and reliably declare the exchange of meaningful numbers between two pseudonymous identities. Everything else about the market that blockchain exists in is the same grabasstical process that humans have used for exchange of resources throughout all of history.
No, they confirmed that it was most likely his laptop.

The entire shit show of blind laptop repair techs not taking down any contact information but recognizing Hunter Biden, waiting three years and then snooping on the contents, and then reaching out to Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani (who he apparently had no difficulty contacting, but somehow couldn't reach Hunter to say "Hey, your laptop is fixed"), making multiple copies of a drive, and then the loss of said laptop when it was "shipped" across country by USPS, untracked, uncertified, when it came time to give it to the FBI?

That's all still lies and bullshit.
Most App Store developers have opted out of letting you run their iPadOS or iOS apps on macOS. Most of the interesting stuff is blocked and the stuff that does remain is filled with weird UX inconsistencies. From my own decade of App Store purchases, I've found none that opted in to it that I thought were worth using on macOS consistently. It's not really a headlining feature and it still doesn't make for a productive software developer tablet experience.
Impossible to read because of distracting animations.

The new title of this post is much better, thx - it's kind of tldr.
Not really. Ten minutes of googling didn't find anybody pointing a high resolution instrument at HD 84406, just sky surveys.

From this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30093849 here's one square degree (3600 square arcminutes) of sky around the star: https://bsrender.io/sample_renderings/hd84406-1deg-m18-ax100...

If the published calibration image is a single NIRcam exposure, then it's a 2.2x2.2 arcminute square around the central star, or, at the scale of the Gaia photo, a 33x33 pixel box. The Airy disk pretty much takes up the whole thing at that scale.

You can also take a look via CDS portal: http://cdsportal.u-strasbg.fr/?target=HD%20%2084406 Various sky surveys also show little detail at 2.2 arcmin.
Implement TLS fingerprinting on your server. People can still fake that if they are determined, but it should cut the abuse way down.
It's just not something that can be articulated, I am afraid, because admittedly, there is a degree of subjectivity to it. It's the value of being frustrated and hassled the least amount of possible by low grade consumer tech which is intruding into more aspects of our lives each passing moment. This isn't saying Apple products aren't frustrating, but the combination of using their products together is less frustrating and less hassle than the alternatives.
React PWA v2 is here with Vite, TypeScript, React v18, and more
You could ban their IPs?
It doesn't matter if he was a good programmer or just a decent one, because he's also a good engineer, a good salesperson, a good entrepreneur, etc.
> They only have to be friendly enough to not have to spend the massive amount of resources necessary to travel between solar systems [...]

Not many resources really. They can simply use their abundance of energy to hurl, propel, or divert some rock at us at some non-negligible fraction of light speed, and we would be powerless to stop it. Likely we wouldn't even see it coming. Make it two or a dozen to be sure.

It doesn't even take a very advanced civilization to pull off such a thing. Give it maybe a hundred years and humanity might be able to do it too.

Since it is a rather easy to end a civilization in such a way and it is near impossible to defend against, you arrive at a very... interesting game-theoretic problem: Did they already send kinetic weapons our way? Should we destroy them before they decide to destroy us? If we're about to die anyways, does it even matter if we fire back?

It's like the cold war except nobody is able to talk to another and you don't see the nukes coming.
Having a national ID would make it harder for states to abuse minorities and low-income communities. That’s why states object to it.
> It would have to accrue "Yes" votes from holders of >50% of LP tokens within a certain time period to pass.

And I assume the decoy proposal was just a means to ensure no one realized what was going on and themselves use a flash loan to reduce the attacker's voting power below the 50% level needed to pass the proposal?
Ask HN: Have You Worked on JWST?
Seeing the latest post on the frontpage [1] and the comments, tells me I'm not the only one totally in awe of the marvel, that is the James Web Space Telescope.

Some time ago, SmarterEveryDay made a video [2] about how his father worked on the sunshield. His job, as a metrologist, was to measure and verify the shape of the sunshield.

It made me realize, there must be 1000+ of people who did fascinating and unusual and probably invisible work on JWST.. but don't have someone with a few million subscribers to share their stories.

Since HN attracts engineers, scientists, programmers and more.. I'm sure there will be people on here who in some capacity worked on JWST. Be it directly, or a supplier etc.

So, tell me your stories. What unique, interesting, invisible thing have you worked on, how was it, what challenges did you face, did it result in some unique solutions? How excited are you?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31072590
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu97IiO_yDI
> There was serious consideration given to boycotting the [triennial review process] entirely. But as digital technology spread, and more of the world fell under 1201 (from garage openers to tractors), it became clear that we had to do everything

Are you sure this is the best strategy? The review process seems designed as a safety valve - ameliorating the worst short-term consequences of the law, to prevent the build-up of frustration, motivation, and technical means (e.g. businesses relying on an exemption) that might produce any meaningful change. It is the red cape keeping the bull distracted, while the matador slowly jabs the bull to death.
The problem with this metric is it can be gamed. We had something similar, and there was a huge 'meta' over who gets the shiny new features, and who has to fix the legacy code which was like Jenga, and a single misstep could break thousands of tests, and writing code was like playing minesweeper.

The people who won the 'meta', got to be the most productive.

Thing is, probably the guy who fixed a bug in the legacy hairball by writing 10 lines of code produced tons of value for the organization (those unit tests weren't for show, they were customer use cases), while the other one only produced some, if the fancy new feature got adopted.
You’re so vain you probably think this song is about you …

The song contains a parse error in the lyrics, causing half of HN to blue screen.
This is somewhat semantic, but I think it's more accurate to say that adversarial interop leverages network effects, not subvert them. By enabling interop, you're expanding the network -- sometimes enormously so, if interop lets you bridge otherwise closed networks. What you're subverting is rent sinking, monopolistic exploitation by network owners.
In theory, that would be MRAM - SRAM speeds, Non-volatile. Except as should be expected - there are details that have to be worked out in depth to ever allow such a substitution.
For me, its not so much the presence of animated gifs as much as I wanted to be able to scroll one off of the screen while I focused on the words. For me, the top 30% of the page had something moving no matter where I scrolled. I can appreciate style and levity but for me the busy screen was enough to drive me away. Looks my Reader mode would have blocked all of the images and should have just gone with that ;)
China has an order of magnitude fewer nuclear weapons than either Russia or the US.

I'm not concerned about it deciding to end civilization. It can't. All those weapons can do for it is to provide a guarantee that anyone starting a war with them will lose a lot more than they gain.

If you're concerned about Chinese nuclear weapons, my best advice for you is to not go to war with China.
/me looks at B-52, currently planned to be used until they're 100...
You don't need to log in or even create an account at FedEx just to track deliveries. You just need the tracking number. It's the first thing you see when you go to the homepage of fedex.com
Windows has a MUCH superior cli these days because of WSL.
You have to update these things anyway in turbo tax and hr block. 90% have the wrong adjusted basis.
The person you're responding to provided reasons for their assertions.

> They're an illegal taxi company.

Why do you think that?

> The rides are NOT better.

Why do you think that?