skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MacOS will never be a gaming platform. Apple has never shown any interest in making it one and compatibility has only gotten worse over time.
It's a thing everywhere but the issue is that there's just so much of it in China. I live in the US and you can get custom home built, but that segment of the market is the minority, as most homes are built then sold.

The problem emerges when the majority of your homes are sold before they are built, therefore if any defaults emerge, there is nothing to collect on. The practice isn't the problem, it's the sheer scale of the practice that's the problem.
Probably because the only thing that can physically stop a man is another man, and when men get so unhinged as to support ruthless leaders to get what they want, all bets are off and you’re dealing with a carnage waiting to happen.
Maybe because it's a biased POV, that doesn't take into account that the isssue is simply being human, nobody can call themselves out or blame some activity more than others.

For example many vegans and animalists own pets to "save them from cruelty"

But

Loss and others of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that free-ranging domestic cats (mostly unowned) are the top human-caused threat to wildlife in the United States, killing an estimated 1.3 to 3.7 billion birds and 6.3 to 22.3 billion mammals annually.

And that's only in the US...

Wild life is a constant threat to our life style, like it or not, being a modern human in modern society means being responsible for animal suffering even if you don't personally eat them.

For example in my country the war on hunters (mainly by radical animalists) produced that

Roughly 2.3 million wild boars roam around Italy, with roughly 20,000 in the area of Rome, according to farm trade group Coldiretti. And while African swine fever can't be transmitted to humans, it can infect and kill domestic pigs
https://archive.ph/Hoi9Y
I don’t see evidence that the HN crowd as a whole doesn’t know much about veganism. Are you measuring knowledge about veganism via adoption of veganism?

From a few years back:

“Ask HN: Have you gone vegan or vegetarian?”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13985006
“There should be a science of discontent”

Many modern political problems stem from people needing something to struggle for and other people fighting against it.

There’s also a lot of shaping going on where if people weren’t so upset about X they’d realize Y was a huge problem so let’s distract them permanently with X.
Yup, not just the entertainment business.

It takes a different kind of vision to predict things which are orthogonal to past performance.

In so many areas where corporate control has been consolidated, there is more complete dominance of bureaucratic hierarchies that just happen to more systematically exclude those rare innovators and creatives who could occasionally punch through to earth-shaking effect. The allowance for true innovation is almost extinct. The difference is it's nearly universal now.

People like Thos. Edison and Nikola Tesla wouldn't have a chance today, they already had it difficult in their time where the downward pressure was already palpable, and each came very close to not having a worldwide imact, just like everyone else. Keep in mind their productivity was actually decimated by going against the current like this, so their known milestones & breakthroughs are only the tip of the iceberg compared to what "could have been" in a more supportive cultural environment.

And that was then.

Even in places which pride themselves in non-traditional corporate behavior, the same anti-creative characteristics have become generally acceptable by comparative example, all up and down the entire chain of command. Especially among the money people, increased greed is the antithesis of increased innovation.

If the only thing you want to do with money is make more of the same, that's legitimate especially if you're in debt or something, but that's not how you make more of new other things which could turn out to be more valuable than money.

People in general have gradually settled for so much less innovation, in exchange for the very little financial improvement that might result without such a distraction.

And creatives who would have had a (already slim) chance in previous decades are having none of it.

Woz dropped out when it started getting so bad you couldn't deny it.

Plus "star-making machinery" itself became so much more prominent and more like an insiders lottery. The establishment of a mechanism which can "make anyone a star" ended up being needed just to get recognition for the occasional jaw-dropping talent. But once that mechanism is in place, there's almost no talent needed after that.
https://youtu.be/5W9_WDG2Pdw
What percentage of someone’s inheritance is money they worked for, or money they deserve? Is inheritance compatible with meritocratic ideas?
It's one of the primary responsibilities of the movie to set up a universe that is compelling and believable. The fact that it's live action imposes some constraints, but they can be creatively worked around.

Just a few movies that do this well that come to mind:

* Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

* Kick Ass.

* Ella Enchanted.

* Amelie.

* Thor: Ragnarok.

* Space Jam

* The Mask
Because patriarchy. To females, being a "loser" was simply the status quo; there were no "winners" to aspire towards.
Nvidia GeForce Now is also an option if you already own the game on Steam
How many female dictators or mass shooters are you aware of?
The central problem here is trust: either your kid trusts you enough to discuss things with you, or they don't.

If that doesn't exist, implementing a technical panopticon is a way to paper over its worst effects, but it's not a solution to the root problem.
This comes up every time and I have to point out that Apple provides Linux builds of WebKit.

=> https://WebKit.org/downloads

They’re not marketed as “Safari” because Safari is part of macOS, but it’s an official build of the same rendering engine.
The low usage is a fair point, but "all the issues this browser causes" simply isn't true. You would say the same about chrome if you developed for Firefox first.
There are a dozen Chromium browsers on Android with blockers but it's still not quite the same.

Raw < DNS blocking < custom solutions < uBlock Origin
I love this and I hope someone at Bethesda sees it. Unfortunately, I think the odds of Bethesda releasing anything for non Microsoft platforms in the future is approaching zero.

It is an interesting development that AAA gaming is becoming nearly an all first party affair with the acquisitions and consolidation that have happened over the past couple of years. We are already at the point where for the most part only indie games will be available cross platform.

As a gamer and an Apple fan, I’m vexed and puzzled that Apple isn’t doing more in games than Apple Arcade and milking iOS in app purchase. They finally have capable hardware with the transition to Apple Silicon (and this includes iOS devices), and their software stack is pretty good, but it’s tragically underutilized. Simply building a good platform and hoping the games will come isn’t enough in a world where your competitors buy up all of the game studios.
Very good, interactive article describing how the watch works: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Speaking for the US, I wish this is something that everyone could think about slightly differently. There are a lot of white males in this thread who take the lack of diversity in tech so personally. As if those in favor of diversity blame THEM for the lack thereof. The truth is that this is an old, deep, and very complex problem that goes WAY beyond the borders of tech. The solutions to the problem do not start and end with how tech companies hire. Honestly, if a company is even making a small effort to hire more diversely, they are ahead of the curve.

There are some great things that people can do to help the situation. Mentor young engineers, try to expand your recruiting pipeline. For larger companies, who have the most latitude, bring in more diverse interns, etc.

We're not going to solve this alone, but we can make a difference.
Natural immunity has the exact same effect as the vaccine. So you gain or lose nothing. (except the risk of the vaccine)
I think they mean no user customized stylesheets.
> What’s the point of this comment? It’s an opinion piece, so we know it reflects the author’s opinions.

Well yeah, it's an opinion piece so OP is going to criticise their opinions and how they are framed.

Take the following:

> "This is a moment I’ve long worried would arrive. The way tens of millions of Americans use everyday Google products has suddenly become dangerous. Following the Supreme Court decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, anything Google knows about you could be acquired by police in states where abortion is now illegal [...] There is something Google could do about this: Stop collecting — and start deleting — data that could be used to prosecute abortions."

Now what he is effectively saying is - Google should destroy evidence of a particular crime (a crime I suspect most of us believe shouldn't be a crime, but is now a crime nontheless).

He isn't arguing Google should delete evidence of all crimes - just this specific crime.

So presumably we are arguing that Google should be able to decide which crimes are 'good' and 'bad' and then destroy evidence of things that it thinks shouldn't be crimes?

Once more - I personally agree with the author on abortion and don't think abortion should be illegal - but it's a really weird twist to ask Google to effectively intentionally and automatically detect when someone might be breaking a specific law, and then specifically delete just the data that they think could be evidence of law-breaking so that law enforcement can't get the evidence. I can't imagine this passing the sniff-test with prosecutors in terms of tampering/destroying evidence.

I mean if we are arguing for a blanket ban on law enforcement having data from Google then that is fine and a viewpoint I can understand - but only arguing for limitations in the context of abortion is the thing that seems strange.

Should they delete evidence if you crash your car so the police can't see if you have been using your phone when driving? Should they delete the evidence of who was at the congress riots? Should they let investigators trace if a suspect was at a particular location during a murder trial? It becomes a bit of a slippery slope trying to work out where the line is.
The conclusions in this article don’t follow from the data it presents.
A chicken is an egg's way of making more eggs.
Why not ask the company to pay for lessons in that non-English language? And ask your colleagues to teach you informally as well.
Here is my 2¢ on the matter. Most tech companies currently have publicly stated goals to hire more under-represented minority engineers. Almost all of them publicly say they want to hire more of these engineers. Thus I conclude the demand for these engineers outpasses supply.

> Aside from lowering our hiring standards for minorities, I’m not sure what else we could be doing better.

Your options when supply constrained are to pay more, buy lower quality, find untapped supply or do without. It sounds like you are doing without. I don't see many issues with that approach.
This is an interesting quote, though Keller's response appears to be framed in the context of business and/or self-help books: more explicitly, books Keller read "for interest," rather than books about technical subjects.

His response (immediately before much of your quote) was: "They spend all this time highlighting and analyzing. I read for interest, right? What I really remember is that people have to write 250-page books, because that's like a publisher rule. It doesn't matter if you have 50 pages of ideas, or 500, but you can tell pretty fast. I've read some really good books that are only 50 pages, because that's all they had. You can also read 50 pages, and you think, ‘wow, it's really great!’, but then the next 50 pages is the same shit. Then you realize it’s just been fleshed out – at that point I wish they just published a shorter book."

That doesn't sound like books that take more effort to really understand (e.g. Plato's works). In more technical subjects, such as mathematics textbooks, would it really be possible for most students to thoroughly understand the subject by just reading, without note-taking or at the very least, trying the practice problems? There is certainly value in note-taking for subjects and books worth thoroughly understanding, even accounting for edge cases where students can learn complex subjects just by reading, without writing.
if something needed to get done quicker or some technical point was not getting across, the Chinese eng manager would say "OK, we are going to speak Chinese for a minute" and the team would deliberate some point in their native language. Then, when it was resolved, we'd continue on in English with the better English-speakers summarizing.

So, the native English speakers were not part of the debate and just got a summary? I'm not sure that jibes with contribute equally.
Why Epicureanism, not Stoicism, is the philosophy we need
Not just Brits, but Europeans in general. Consider the Dreyfus affair, which happened in developed, La Belle Époque France.
Imagine getting “banned” from a dating site just because some woman was spiteful towards you for rejecting her and she reported you during lockdowns.
That was fucking dystopian, and I could never get through to an actual human being to unblock my account.
You are basically “cut off” from human beings / love.
Democrats are realizing they must become more moderate
Why don't these team members take an effort to learn language of the team? Shouldn't be too hard to do in couple of years.
Honestly it sounds like exactly the form of government we have today, where all of those positive and “negative” features are available in varying quantities.
Keep in mind if we launch a missile from the Great Lakes, it’s heading north over the arctic to get to its destination.
Good ole Coalinga... That towns major exports include factory farming and prison... basically hell lol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalinga,_California
It seems ontologically very ambiguous with respect to the "music" it is meant to represent, with each document arbitrarily positioned on a vast spectrum between plain note data that could be converted from or to MIDI events (more or less) and the opposite extreme of a printed page (e.g. CSS styles, colours, specifying rest "pitch" to position the rest symbol vertically).

In the middle of the spectrum, there are many cases of missing features (a.g. grace notes, but not trills), missing constraint (e.g. beams are only possible if the involved notes have appropriate durations), strong assumptions of traditional Western notation (but apparently no example of a standard piano part, only "groups" of independent parts), undefined behaviour (e.g. many defaults).
It would work on MacOS too if apple hadn't made supporting 32 bits binaries so hard.
Reminds of "You say you want to improve society and yet you live in one, how interesting"
In many European countries shooters are encouraged to use suppressors these days, to avoid pissing off people who live nearby (and to avoid deafness).

In the UK they are called "sound moderators" and are easy to get - you can even buy them for .22LR firearms over the counter if you say its for an air rifle.

In the US getting a suppressor requires a 200$ tax stamp, NFA registration, FBI background checks, fingerprints, and a huge wait for the ATF to process the paperwork.
> the direction gave the vibe of a student film

They were trying to pull off Robert Rodriguez without actually having to pay Robert Rodriguez when they would've been better off paying Robert Rodriguez to Robert Rodriguez.

Instead all we got were a bunch of Dutch angles.
For what it's worth, Chrome has a reader mode, just hidden behind an experimental flag, and a native PiP mode for videos, accessible with the media controls icon that appear when a video is playing.
Why? Women very rarely date down at the economic level. Last time I checked, mate options are important for males.
I don't know. You'll have to ask the people who made it.
This is something you could do with a commit hook which verifies that commit messages have a well-formed release notes entry section, and some seven line Awk script to combine them together when needed.

If "every merge adds its own separated entry" and that doesn't refer to a special section of the commit message, you're doing something silly.
Isn't that the standard these days? It totally ignores ethnic diversity within the "white" population but ... "whatever" would be the general response I guess.
Asking Google to collect less data is like asking a tick not to bite you. Sure, you can ask, but that won’t change the nature of the beast.
I can't bear the contradictions.

- "No trackers, no javascript, no stylesheets"
- inline js.
- inline stylesheets.
- uses favicon which can be used for tracking.
- not self hosted.
- requires an account to sign up
- "TOS" > "Bear may disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the Terms of Service."
- can't be bothered to indent the html.
- payment system could require real identity.
> Many modern political problems stem from people needing something to struggle for and other people fighting against it.

Reminds me of the lines in Fight Club: "We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives."

I'm not sure if that precise quote is in the book, but it's certainly in the movie and it echoes your sentiment and those above.
By all means check out the film The Tenth Victim.
Connection between H5N1 and seal deaths in Maine
I've tried their games, they were all mobile shovelware with the IAP taken out. However, they are releasing Into the Breach next week, an acclaimed indie game from 2018. So maybe they're shifting their strategy.
> I wonder what sort of strange centrist form of government might be able to strike a balance between our need for comfort and our need for adventure.

A serious specification for such a thing is going to be bigger than the SVG spec.

At that point it's almost certainly cheaper to fulfill our need for adventure through eternal vigilance in a representative democracy.
If a single dating app is your only connection to human beings, that's a problem of your own choosing.
I read it as an intense over-correction. One of the few valid criticisms (not to gush, but I’m a fan to be sure) of the original is that Vicious is a thinly written villain. They tried to fix this but failed. Also, CB is closer to a noir than an action/drama. This was overlooked repeatedly throughout the season. I’d send whoever worked on that show back to school before tasking them with adapting anything else.
It's mobile phone manufacturers and OS developers that make devices that collect our data and grant access to that information to apps. The biggest point where data collection needs to be properly addressed is at this level. If there is no Lidar feature accessible in a phone, then TikTok can't get information on how many people are sitting in your living room with you.

The problem is that people are not educating themselves, paying attention to proper technology issues, and taking the right actions because they're so busy trying to make personal profit... The "giant social media monopoly" ship is sinking fast, everyone is trying to loot the gold stored in the ship's hull, not realizing that that's exactly the extra weight that will also sink their escape boat.
> I wonder what sort of strange centrist form of government might be able to strike a balance between our need for comfort and our need for adventure.

i think that's supposed to be sort of the idea behind free market capitalism. whether or not we should be fulfilling our emotional needs with the system of production is an open question, but i think that's basically the idea. business as a risky adventure with exaggerated potential upsides and downsides.
The crypto aspect is opt-in
I'm with the GP on this: FF is unstable with lots of tabs. It's a big memory hog, and it's been like this for about 2 years in my experience so far. I'm using a Mac with 16GB RAM, and it's not enough for Firefox any more (something changed, it used to use less memory). Using current FF (103.0b9). Lot of tabs, but auto tab-unloading so there shouldn't be a large number active.

Reported memory use (in Activity Monitor) varies, 8GB-25GB, and it's often swapping. Sometimes it uses more, and then the system crashes. Often it fills my remaining 20GB of free disk space for swap space. Surprisingly, even opening HN pages and only following HN links (i.e. all text-only), the memory usage grows in this way over time.

It's not possible to scroll smoothly or type a comment like this without pauses and occasional spinning beach balls. Just scrolling through a page with two-finger drag, it will stop every 10 seconds or so, then jump forwawrd. Moving the cursor with the cursor keys in this comment window is similar.

The constant jank and pauses may be entirely due to memory swapping or some other garbage-collection like overhead, I have no way to know.

What other people write about this issue is that it's likely some combination of number of tabs, and the fact that modern pages need a lot of memory for large images, compositing and similar, and perhaps memory used by add-ons. But all of this has suggestive evidence against it: If I go to about:memory and click "Minimize memory usage", it consistently brings memory usage down to not much more than when Firefox starts up, without appearing to change any functionality or deactivate any tabs; and when it starts up it's using less than 8GB despite loading up the same session. It also does this itself spontaneously from time to time, though not reliably enough.

That said, I switched from Safari when I realised Safari was also being a memory hog and was causing everything else on the laptop to be slow. At the time I switched, Firefox was a lovely breath of fresh air in that department. Even though I copied over all my tabs from Safari (by hand), Firefox ran in very much less RAM, and life was good again on the laptop.

Something has changed since then, making Firefox much worse for memory usage, and I don't yet know what it is.
we can expect the impact of these visas to be significant - tax exemption, lower cost of living, holiday landscape / lifestyle. I wonder what the retention counter measures are going to be, probably by implementing US style worldwide taxation laws
Apple needs first party Vulkan support. It would be a huge first step to making many modern games very functional on Mac.
There are sensible game-theoretical reasons for behaving that way. Individually choosing to forgo tracking hurts your competitive edge. Advocating for ad blocking, environmental regulations, or other industry-wide taxes will not, because everyone gets hit with that.
So like, the subset of people within an entire nation that are programmers (or whatever you are looking for) cannot produce a team good enough to get the job done?

The only "issue" here is whether or not the chosen company language is being used effectively to communicate between teams.
Data point fwiw: the company I work for SOLD me some of their shares when I joined. I.e. not a grant. The company owns options to buy back the shares on the usual schedule of a cliff after one year, then monthly for 4 years.
So no tax consequences until I sell the shares and pay capital gains.
The caveat is that the valuation that they sold the shares at must be well below their last raise for it to make sense for me to buy the shares. So it only really works for early stage companies.
After this early stage is over, selling me actual options works better.