skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, I'll say that popular frameworks optimize for being popular, which usually means they let inexperienced people make cool things quickly. This necessarily involves tradeoffs that end up being "walls" to more experienced coders. It's very very hard to let inexperienced people make cool things quickly without restricting power-coders. So "Unreal does it" doesn't necessarily mean it's the right choice for great code -- it only means it probably helps inexperienced coders make cool things quickly.

> Characters are Pawns [AI or human decision-maker] that have a mesh, collision, and built-in movement logic.

Indeed that's a combination of a lot of different responsibilities. Probably too many. Why built-in visuals (mesh) but not built-in audio? Why a mesh and not built-in particle effects? I'm guessing it's just because that is the combination that they found helps inexperienced coders make cool things quickly. I'd be really curious whether people who spend a lot of time tweaking their engine, or make games that are more complicated than just Another FPS, actually use that class much. I suspect they either don't, or they have several similar varieties of their own, which they sorta switch between as it makes sense and then go "Dammit, I wish we had made this an ACharacterTypeSeven, not an ACharacterTypeSix!!"

Of course there are times when you combine responsibilities together into larger objects, but the trick there is to always accept that this is just one projection, one perspective on the entity. If you start to think of that ACharacter object as the character, you'll have problems. It's an arbitrary boundary. When you come up with a cool idea to, say, have your character split in two parts with independent motion before merging back together a few seconds later, is that two ACharacter instances or one? You've duplicated some parts of it, but not others.

"But dude, YAGNI! Don't try to predict the future" you say, missing the point. I'm not saying restructure your code just in case someone wants to split characters in two later -- that's YAGNI. I'm saying throw what-ifs at your code to see if it holds together as a sensible concept right now. You future-proof your code by making sure its concepts are clean, independent, and composable, not by trying to predict the future. My character-splitting example is not an example of something we should plan for, but rather an example of why the concepts may not actually fit together that well. When I look at ACharacter, I don't see something that's composable -- I see something that's already composed for you, and if you want a different composition, it looks like a pain in the ass. That tradeoff makes sense if your main goal is to help inexperienced coders make cool things quickly, but it does not make sense for the codebase you rolled yourself.
> How does being a russophobe protect you from Russian tanks at home?

The Russophobia displays by sending support to Ukraine and pushing for EU independence from Russian exports. It also manifests by trying to keep your country less influenced by Russia. So, quite a lot, actually. It does a lot more then appeasement.

> Central Europe is circa 100M people, just get yourself a real competitive army (not NATO) - that will protect you from Russian tanks at home.

Central Europe is already member of NATO, which is even better. NATO has also United States in it, which would be even more useful in case of attack. Even now, Americans are the ones giving out the most needed arms to Ukraine.

> Then you can normalize relations with Russia.

That is up to Russia to normalize relations. They are the expansive aggressor praising Stalin legacy. Once they stop trying to export their corruption, violence and authoritarianism, relationships can normalize.
Because if they didn't, their kids would starve to death because their husband was either dead or debilitated.
There are some things that are zero sum or reasonably approximated by a zero sum game, and they are increasingly the tickets to multigenerational prosperity, namely real estate, promotions, job offers, and college admission slots. If you are a start up, your market can realistically only support X companies each getting a piece of the pie.

I contend that the rat race exists not because of collective delusion but because of basic economics.
what is a “global data graph” and why do i need it?

Dropbox and iPhone are consumer products, so the comparison is not even close
If you have a piece of software, that can read supposedly encrypted messages on several devices, it is obvious that it does something with the keys. You don't have to audit the compiler and argument into ad-absurdum.
The lesson from the shale boom is that the saudis have no problems with waging a price war to drive them out of business after they’ve made significant upfront investments.

Avoiding investments that you know will result in huge losses isn’t price gouging.
eBay is port scanning visitors to their website (2020)
Sorry, reasonable arguments don't drive clicks and engagement
"But Democratic elites did try to make Clinton’s nomination as inevitable, as preordained, as possible."

so, i guess it was rigged
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The Political Landscape of the U.S. Twitterverse
In a sense, sure. Plaintext input is completely valid markdown though. You can take text from any plaintext editor and paste it into a markdown input and it will render as HTML or XHTML that very much resembles what you copied.

Then, if you want lines, you can embed SVG in it. You could also draw in a box, use a tool like ImageMagic to make a PNG or GIF, encode that as base64, and embed it into the document as HTML source.

What the author has done is basically invent their own JSON-based syntax for Pic, Fig, or SVG and their own comment/template tag format.
A bit OT but worth a mention: to read about the feudal-hierarchical system in a fine restaurant, read George Orwell's "Down and Out in London and Paris". The London part is ho-hum (imo) but in Paris he worked in a restaurant and hoo boy what a bizarre little universe contained therein. This was in the 30s iirc but I wonder how much of this kind of culture has survived unchanged to the present day.
Author confused hardware and assumed barebones single frame framegrabber was a video accelerator.

QuickTime Road Pizza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Video was one of the first viable universal video codecs on the desktop. Its not a coincidence Premiere started out on Mac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Premiere#History
Exactly. It's all "kind of okay" at best. OSX used to have the best XMPP and IRC clients and some were ported to iOS; it's not a lack of effort on the part of the developers it's a critical problem with the platform.
I always assumed that WWII was facilitated by heavy sanctions imposed on Germany. See [1] for a romanticized description of economic disarray that thrusted Hitler into power.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Comrades_(novel)
OK, I will concede your point. Regardless, I do think Elon can get out of this deal without paying a penalty.
I meant the cache specifically
There's a lot here, and Musk is counting on the public not understanding what he's doing.

The letter doesn't allege materiality about user counts. It alleges that Twitter's failure to provide certain information is a "material breach" (term of art) of the covenant for Twitter to provide information during the period between signing and closing.

There's nothing about user counts at all in the agreement. Musk is hanging his hat on a tortured, 5-step argument:

1. Twitter represented in the Merger Agreement that their public filings with the SEC were materially accurate and not misleading. Standard enough, and no reason Twitter can't make this rep since if they filed false information with the SEC, the SEC would come down on them.

2. Musk alleges Twitter's disclosure about user counts in their public filings may have been wrong, so they might have filed false information with the SEC. (Why he didn't verify these public claims before signing the agreement is the smoking gun that this is all a pretext.)

3. He's purporting to request information from Twitter that would help him verify those allegedly false claims with the SEC.

4. Twitter is allegedly not providing this requested information.

5. That failure to provide information is a material breach.

Musk could have negotiated for much better protections than he got, but he ended up signing a very seller-friendly agreement because he was so sanguine to do the deal. In my opinion, he's resorting to these contortions because he doesn't have any outs here.
I'm still unconvinced that it protects them from Russian tanks at home. Having an army would do. Not having an army and angering Russia at the same time, not so sure...
There is some truth to that statement but the article does not even do any justice about what that trip should have been. Charging at Walmart / Electrify America would have make the trip just as easy as using Superchargers. They didn't because it was not an interesting story if everything went smoothly.
This is only true in your country. Most people in the world do not have the luxury of affording this, and for many that do it's not worthwhile.

I live in Ontario, Canada. Almost all of my electricity comes from nuclear, hydroelectric and wind. Solar panels are not particularly efficient so far up north and they are covered in snow five months of the year anyway. Solar is mostly a waste of money here. (I still see the occasional house with solar panels but I mostly interpret it as a protest against nuclear power.)

Electric cars also don't fare particularly well in our winters. It's pretty hard to go visit family out of town when your car has half its stated range. I'm of the opinion that pervasive plug-in hybrid vehicles would do far more to reduce our collective carbon emissions and buy us time to get plug-in hybrids with renewable fuel (biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen, etc.)

Heat pumps I agree would help. Unfortunately my country has huge amounts of cheap natural gas. Until carbon taxes start ramping up and heat pumps are subsidized I don't think most people will willingly increase their heating costs.
What's with the uncritical pro-CIA tone throughout this whole article?

Quotes like this go completely unchallenged:

> Karen, the O.S.B. supervisor, later recalled. “That information getting out into a forum like that can hurt people and impact our mission. It’s a huge loss to the organization.”

What about the people who could be hurt as a result of the intelligence the CIA collects via the spyware?
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Yandex News service is how a lot of Russians consume news media. It has a systemic history of censorship and propaganda. Also, Yandex search has been known to censor the results as well — always in interests of Russian state.

Once upon a time, in the 00s, Yandex was a great company, with world-class technological community and great ties to Russian mathematical community. (My own high school has a seat in the PIF board alongside Russian universities). Sadly, this reputation is destroyed now.
Yep and the worst is that it seems that now 3rd party dependencies basically force it because they've also made that choice.

And one thing in your stack is async, everything else ends up following.
Well, the NSA and CIA and the State Department have long claimed that their cyber-espionage activities have nothing to do with securing economic information for the advantage of say, US oil companies, right?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/longhorn-cybe...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-bra...

Those claims seem to be false. Engaging in cyber-espionage (and indeed, going to war) for economic advantage seems to be the name of the game. Why not just be honest about it, instead of spouting all this pablum about 'defending democracy and human rights'?
You want to build a chair. Home depot sells you a hammer which you can use to build chairs. Someone runs up to you in the car park and calls you and tells you that you are using toy tools and you have no real awareness of the world, and if only you give up a couple of weekends on some blacksmithing and woodworking you can make your own tools and build anything, what do you think?

You say you want to build a chair and this hammer is ready-made and convenient, and they tell you that you only think buying hammers is the natural state of things because you were told that. You try to walk away. They get in front of you and say that you don't understand the intellectual and philosophical underpinnings of tools! You step to the side and push past, they call after you that you are in prison and don't even know it!

You get home and make a chair. It's a nice chair. You sit in it while telling the story about the crazy person you met earlier.

> "Anyone, ANYONE, who agrees that you're somehow wrong when you use it to build a table is a shill, a sucker, or an idiot. Full stop."

You buy arsenic, you can't put it in people's food. You buy a camera, you can't use it to sneakily record people using the toilet even in your own home. You buy a recorder, you can't use it to quietly record phonecalls in many states. You rent a film to watch at home, you can't show it to a large audience for profit. You buy a radio transmitter, you can't modify it to be more powerful or use different frequencies. You can't decorate your car to look like a police car, put a midnight klaxon on your house or an unsightly chimney overshadowing the neighbourhood. You can't lease a car and disassemble it to find out how it works. There are restrictions on all kinds of things in everyday life for all kinds of reasons. And you don't get a free pass to do any of these things with a computer just because you identify as a computer geek. The rhetoric that people who are agreeable or disinterested, must be "shill, sucker, idiot, full stop" is plainly incorrect and embarassingly simplistic, and just pointless insults. As you can see from the large number of people who use macOS to develop for Linux servers because it's got a nice GUI - people who definitely know about Linux, aren't shilling for anything. You calling them suckers and idiots is irrelevent when they get a better experience and trade away nothing which interests them. That's not stupid, that's a reasonable trade.
> transport layer encryption, like literally everything else in 2022… for all intents and purposes telegram can read and access

Not literally everything. By and large everything, sure. Effectively everything, even. But not literally everything.

For instance, take a deep dive into how e2e encryption works in the Apple ecosystem…

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

… and why allowing iCloud Backups for usability becomes the weakest link for Apple Messages:

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/security/sec3cac31735/...

To save a click:

Messages in iCloud, which keeps a user’s entire message history updated and available on all devices, also uses CloudKit end-to-end encryption with a CloudKit service key protected by iCloud Keychain syncing. If the user has enabled iCloud Backup, the CloudKit service key used for the Messages in iCloud container is also backed up to iCloud to allow the user to recover their messages, even if they have lost access to iCloud Keychain and their trusted devices. This iCloud service key is rolled whenever the user turns off iCloud Backup.

If you are in this ecosystem, and feel your potential loss from disclosure is greater than your potential loss by losing/damaging your device, go turn off iCloud Backup — and make sure your keychain is secured to your needs.
We can generate heat with electricity.
> This is not dragnet mass surveillance of the kind more often associated with the National Security Agency. These are hacks, or “exploits,” designed for individual targets.

Mhmm. Pray tell what oversight should make me believe this is true?

> Snowden and Manning were not seeking to blow the whistle on any one particular policy, in the manner that Ellsberg was; theirs was a more generalized disaffection, and the troves of data that they exposed were indiscriminate

Both good whistleblowers who I do not care what ideological principles inspired them.

> Unlike other prominent digital leakers, Schulte did not seem like an ideological whistle-blower.

I guess you have to be a good person to be a whistleblower in the CIA. Maybe that's why they don't hire good people.
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No, the party should be acting. If party leadership cares about winning the general election for example, they should promote the person more likely to win.

Party leadership could very well prefer candidate X personally, but promote candidate Y strategically. Politics goes beyond the election into actually implementing the candidates proposals, which adds yet another dimension here.
> It is incredibly hard to get to the truths of these things,

What are you a sock puppet? Everyone knows about deniable ops in the Special Forces world, assassinations are not something new, what makes you think Edward Snowden isnt telling the truth?

Personally I dont think he's exposed that much, but then he may not have been in the thick end of it.

Just read some of the stuff published by ex-military, and if you were a kid growing up around those sort of people, you probably got to hear about it.

The vast majority of the population, less than 1% are like Mother Theresa, which means _everyone_ _has_ _secrets_ and today, science can extract those secrets against your will without you even knowing.

AI detecting subconscious bias in judges https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/17/18186674/daniel-chen-mach... is just the tip of the iceberg.

> the media outlets spinning it in their own ways (based on who donates to them and who owns them) makes it even harder

Even journalists & news organisations including state broadcasters dont realise, they are giving away secrets at the subconscious level. There will come a point when they want to shut up shop because of what they are implicated in.

AI is an arm's race that has no boundaries, and the winner takes it all!
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I think the issue is that Ballmer's Microsoft wasn't very effective.

While late-Gates Microsoft was the king of whole technology industry, by late Ballmer it was one of many players. While they haven't decayed into "enterprise" obscurity like IBM, they weren't driving the industry then.

They missed several "trends" like mobile phones, and only thanks to Nadella they've caught up in cloud with Azure.
I'm sorry to hear that you know people who died of COVID. I don't think anyone I've ever met later died of COVID, and that's true of most of my friends too, as far as I know. It's just very rare, which is why they couldn't get enough deaths in the (large) COVID vaccine trials to meet any threshold for significance.

As for "virtually never", why would you think "never with exceptions" is the definition? "Virtually never" here just means "it happens very rarely relative to the total number of COVID deaths". Isn't that normal use of English? We're not communicating in SAT here.

I agree that the statistics are blurry, but they're mostly blurred in the direction of exaggerating the risks. I'll take your word for it that your acquaintance did indeed die of COVID, but it must be remembered that such classifications were being handed very liberally, especially in the USA where COVID death classifications were being directly incentivized with money.
A mix of too many cooks, I would guess.

The Windows 10 file explorer architecture traces back to the XP one, with several COM extension points, and it got some re-architecture on post vista as they doubled down on using COM for what were originally .NET based ideas for Longhorn.

For example the File/Open common dialog became COM based as well.

On Windows 11, from what I have read they did a full WinUI 3.0 reboot (the migration of UWP COM on top of Win32), losing half of the features in the process.

So far I still consider Windows 11 as the next Vista/Windows 8, and am as eager to update as on those versions.
I lived in a house with luan plywood walls. It was nice to have the wood grain instead of dry wall.
True mastery right here.

Senior Architect?
Different people like different things. I would almost always rather drive than fly. 300 miles is just getting started! My limit for a day is more like 750... I have frequently chosen to drive from Seattle to Sacramento, when visiting family in CA, rather than going through all the rigmarole and discomfort of a plane trip.

Flying is worse for the environment, anyway, since there will be no electric jets in the foreseeable future.
People searching for perfect allies are going to be constantly disappointed. Musk, for all his faults, has enabled some amazing things...all of which seems completely lost on rabid Musk haters. Life is a spectrum and living on either end is subscribing to a warped view of reality.

> You reply to a comment that apparently adds no value (not a sentiment I necessarily disagree with) with a comment that adds even less?

So this is going to be an argument of which comment(s) add less value? We already started very close to 0 with yours so can continue to ride the asymptote as far as our stamina allows.
In my experience I quite enjoyed async Rust, there was definitely quite a bit of yak shaving required to get tokio and various other async/sync libraries to play nicely together, but once that was done I haven't run into any significant issues with it. Are there problems with it I'm unaware of or is the somewhat fractured async ecosystem still a too high barrier to entry?
that kind of careful developer is becoming rare nowadays, sadly..

all about slowing down the computer nowadays, including build time cough like rust cough
That's making purchase decisions on my behalf. Which is what taxes is in general, of course.

But this is the most subsidized one of all (even in the US), and people do it whether it's subsidized or not.

You could say that they are getting "paid in love".

If it's already worth it for them, why should they be paid twice?

Most of the benefits you list may be better off with fewer kids with the same government support.

I definitely think we should invest in schools and such, to make the best people we can. But I'm sick of parents complaining that children affects their economy or has opportunity cost.

Parents don't deserve a handout. Children do, however, deserve a good education.

Literally everything in in life has opportunity cost. Nobody owes removing that cost for anyone else.

If you spend all your money on partying nobody owes you the cost of nice clothes.
> I do think Elon can get out of this deal without paying a penalty

There's a deal to be worked out. Elon is one of Twitter's biggest users. That's a boon and a curse for both sides.
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You can mute channels too. I have a ton of “ask” slack channels for the various things I’m considered a SME on that I simply mute. If I have a free minute I’ll drop in and share some stuff but I can’t be answering those things all the time.