skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Game engines are not good in general, because they do too many things. In my view it's better to pick libraries that do just what you need.

It gets a bit worse when you need to write a functionality that is specific to your game, and it becomes too dependent on a certain engine or library, so you can't switch to another library or engine.

Unreal and unity are monsters that allows beginners to have quick access to a high end rendering system, but then it doesn't leave enough room to add new cool things, like cool gameplay, a good multiplayer system, etc, when you want to ship on console who have limited memory.

I'm quite curious about the unreal engine and how fortnite uses it, because PUBG is a similar game, but its performances are quite bad, so it is an easy demonstration that a rich engine doesn't mean your game will be a smooth experience if your developers are not experts, because expert developer can write a better home made engine instead of paying for a rich engine.

These are the good reasons why I don't want to use all-in-one solutions, and this applies for web frameworks too. What's even worse, is that those big things don't just enforce a programming style, they also make it difficult to migrate your code elsewhere.
Because Twitter is banned by China and isn't used there.
Or, as suggested by another commenter, the AI is triggering off of the camera moving quickly downward while pointing upward, which is similar to upskirting videos.
There are a few of these platforms now, like hive, lens protocol, member.cash or deso.
I agree on GNOME, but the thing is that while KDE/Plasma allows me to change these things easily, doing so has always caused some issues down the line that have been a major headache. GNOME is a bit stiffer for sure, but using things like the extensions, themes and GNOME Tweak tool; you can fix all of the weird GNOME developer choices and get GNOME acting like a "proper desktop", without any issues down the line. But again, Cinnamon is my choice these days.
Like you (but it was from Kansas that I moved to CA) I came back to the midwest after 26 years in Silicon Valley — wide-open (flat) became "normal" again very quickly.
> I’ve known C for close to two decades, thank you. I’m using the not at all well defined term “magic comment”

Please forgive those of us who've been using C since the 80's, or earlier, from assuming you don't know C when you invent your own terminology for preprocessor directives.
Eh, I don't buy the public square argument.

The online world is a cesspool filled with bots and crazy people. I don't need to voice my opinion on Twitter, nor is Twitter a place I need to be.

What matters is how we relate to the people around us, in our communities. Your neighbor isn't a bot, the barista at the coffee shop isn't a russian troll. We need to stop taking the "online world" so seriously and connect with the people around us more.
> ...By publishing our stuff on a decentralized database that is open for anyone to read in whatever way they like?

1. Isn't it how web1 work?
2. Who's going to pay for the storage and bandwidth?
3. As long as you hare hosting something on planet earth, the server is bounded to be governed by a country. And I am sorry to say, if a piece of content is considered illegal to the government of the country where the server is physically located, they can shut it down, no?
Thank you,

Its also worth remembering that a lot of higher level languages have runtimes / VMs are implemented in C. Web applications rely heavily on databases, java script VM, network-stacks, system calls and operating system features, all of which are impemented in C.

If you are a software developer and want to do something about climate change, consider becomming a compiler engineer. If you manage to get a couple of tenths of a percent performance increase in one of the big compilers during your career, you will have materially impacted global warming. Compiler engineers are the unsung heroes of software engineering.
You replied to my quote about pulling network resources and “other shenanigans”, which certainly isn’t what “everyone already implemented independently”. Plus that’s a potential vendor extension, i.e., some may implement it independently, some may not, implementations will likely differ.
Twitter is not "the public square". It is a night club.

Confusing private, for-profit businesses for public assets does a disservice to, and leads to ideas that are damaging for, both.
Trump wasn’t right by virtue, he was feuding poorly with Xi Jinping on the national stage at the time. It just worked out in his favor that TikTok could be banned on national security reasons. Ellison is/was also a Trump backer, so Oracle being in the mix probably had to do with that.
but in this case, the temperature doesn't go above boiling, so no steam, and I would presume no resulting bounce.
https://archive.ph/912r6 if you're also receiving "Sorry, this content is not available in your region."
Funny how you get downvoted for saying something everyone on HN agreed on when "Open Letter from Facebook Content Moderators" was published, with comments like "That is a simple problem for which Facebook should be able to apply existing technology. There is a lot Facebook can do, but they are not, because they are lazy.", calling for more automation and less traumatic moderation work.
We eat pigs and chickens because they are high-value nutrition. It's reasonable to describe meat as a luxury; but not in the sense of something nice but unnecessary. Many people depend on meat, especially if they live somewhere that's not suited to agriculture, like the arctic. And many people depend on fish.
It's not true, it's a clueless comment.
Dvorak does not evenly use all fingers - it is especially more right-hand dominant and that trait was actually why I hated it as a left-handed dominant person. The amount of finger travelling the right hand has to do for Dvorak is insane. Almost all improvements of typing speed in Dvorak are attributed to the learner finally learning how to type in the first place. The main draw to learning Dvorak should for the ergonomics - which are strictly inferior to Colemak. While Colemak is nearly as right-hand dominant it doesn't require nearly as much finger travel making it more ergonomic for left-hand dominant people as well.

Also - as someone who has learned both - I adamantly believe Dvorak is inferior to Colemak in almost every single way. From difficulty learning the layout to the ergonomics once learned to having to rebind or relearn hotkeys - especially common ones like cut/copy/paste. I only wish I had discovered Colemak prior to wasting time learning Dvorak all those many years ago.

Colemak heatmap: https://zhangshenjia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/8.jpg

Qwerty & Dvorak heatmap: https://whyfiles.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/dvorak3.jpg

(And as Bradwood pointed out in the response below - definitely biased towards typing English and not other languages. So people who primarily type a language that is not English may have drastically different experiences.)
What is it about js you dont like? is it really about the language?

a lot of the complaints i hear about js have more to do with “the community”, “the team”, “the application”.

here’s the thing: there is _so much_ built in js. i think theres a better chance you find what you want in a mainstream language (js or otherwise), but you first have to identify what your values are.
> If Facebook launches their own app store, the second pillar is completely circumvented

Meta be forced to offer their adware/spyware Facebook app through the Apple app store as well, as many people will not agree or won't have the technical knowledge to install more than one alternative app store. Apple will probably be forced to provide a list of alphabetically ordered app stores to choose from in the initial iPhone setup. It's quite convenient that their own app store starts with an A.
> How do you prevent someone from copying your RSS and making it their RSS? Where is the proof that you published it first?

How do you prevent someone from minting their own NFT using your NFT's underlying image file? You could rely on a third-party centralized search engine which looks at the actual content to determine which one appeared first, and the same would apply to RSS.
> it is still very difficult to predict whether the genetic changes that are done will have only the desired effects

This is true universally IMO.
Will absolutely all of the externalities of mining, manufacturing and transport then be also applied to renewables?

Also, maybe if there is any risk of damage to surroundings like with hydro batteries there would be need to deposit amount of money that covers them fully.
This is standard. Reddit's started doing it too recently. Totally random stuff, instabanned. Reddit threatened me with a suspension for threatening violence over a polite and entirely non-violent post.

Meanwhile, I report actual revenge porn, and they reply that it doesn't violate their content guidelines. (and I mean completely unambiguous with a posters gloating about how it shows up when googling the victims name and that her classmates and future employers would see it)

I went through months a while back trying to get twitter to remove an impersonator claiming to be me (and using my photographs, etc.) who's MO was to start conversations with friends/family/professional comments and begin cussing them out. Didn't want to do anything about it.
> Cold-brewed coffee is attributed to health benefits, fewer acids, and bitter substances.

IMO statements like this have no place in scientific papers. Attributed by whom? Less bitter than which method of hot brewing? Fewer acids than what - coffee made with all hot brew methods including AeroPress?
That logic seems very flimsy. Every city had AA guns and fighters protecting it. In the same way that massacring a bunch of civilians in a village that was defended by armed soldiers is still a war crime.

For a counterpoint, Alexander Löhr was hanged in Belgrade after the war, in part because of the bombing of the city he commanded.
$25/year for an .it domain is pretty cheap actually, usually they sell for more like 40€ per year
What have you tried and failed to do with a keyboard, as opposed to the other somewhat mainstream options (MacOS, Gnome, KDE)?
I suppose it’s possible someone would make this up, but having dealt several times with erroneous content removal / account blocking from FANG companies, the story rings true.

E.g. I’m currently banned from Google Ads because they “detected suspicious payments” without ever trying to charge my card (the same card I use without issue for GCP and Google Workspace). They’ve denied three appeals without any information and still won’t tell me how to fix it. I have a feeling I’ll have to write one of these blog posts to make anything happen.
For the gobbles
These megacorporations answer that you're using a 'private platform' - the answer is to use a public platform.

https://youtu.be/SkaaPcjKI2E
That's not the hard problem at all. The hard problem of consciousness is a question formulated by Chalmers in the 90s. The problem effectively states that even if we explain in perfect detail how consciousness works mechanisticially, we would still have to explain the existence of "subjective experience" this is highly controversial in the field and serves as a dividing line between physicalist and non-physicalist camps in the philosophy of mind.
You can use a redirector extension to change twitter to nitter links.

I don't think web3 solves any of the problems you're mentioning in a real world way, which is probably (a part of) why you get strong reactions here.
I'm always dubious of PR people inflating their own role, they are after all PR people.

Seems cheaper to just pay off the media and politicians though, and sack anyone who tells the truth and payoff any potential competitors rather than rely on some "just following orders" PR flack to do it all.

Plus, it works for everything else too, not just the "unsettled science" of climate change.
The host of this article has decided to stop providing service to Thailand. Maybe because of the cost of compliance with internet regulations there?
Almost nobody caught Alpha or the original strain the vaccines actually targeted because they had naturally disappeared before the vaccines were even available.

The fact that the virus would change was obvious from the start. Coronaviruses always do mutate fast, it's why nobody bothered making vaccines for then before. The narrative changed not because the emergence of yet another variant was unexpected but because the narrative was always and everywhere whatever would convince people to take shots, not what was true.
I’m ex Facebook software engineer (even had selfie with Zuckerberg as the avatar picture) who got banned on Facebook. Up to this day I have no clue what for. But it’s extremely annoying because I lost lots of photos that I didn’t back up and close to thousand contracts of people. Users should definitely own this data, not a corporation.
I'm getting the same message from the OP's website, and I'm in eastern europe. Weird.
As others have said very small, especially for someone not an expert in those languages.

It should be done more for interest and generally broadening your skills to make you a better developer.

If you want to learn a new language to get a different kind of job start by considering what kind of job you want and then learn the most used languages in that bracket.

Like c/c++ for game dev jobs, Objective C/Swift for iPhone development, java/kotlin for android and so on. For more generic dev jobs the answer would be that Java or C# would be a good place to start.
But they aren't sorry either. This guy appealed, and if a human at Twitter ever saw it, it was probably some overworked contractor who gets a strike for every appeal he lets through.
I also avoid those platforms but that also means self-exclusion from entire communities. I've seen large groups (DnD groups, gaming/sports clubs, obscure tech forums etc) being swallowed wholesale by Facebook, then Reddit and now Discord. That may not matter for a random game group but unfortunately Twitter is where most of the worlds journalists post and network.
It's not good for Nim, unfortunately. The language is great, but the community isn't that big.

If you're looking for a web framework with an ORM for Nim, check out Nexus: https://github.com/jfilby/nexus
I am so tired of the public square analogy. You don’t need Twitter. You don’t need Facebook. You don’t need Reddit. And what’s more, you can still read them if you’re banned.

If you think it’s ok for a restaurant to turn you away because of a dress code, then this is a non-issue. The are several major platforms you can use as a megaphone, just like you have plenty of restaurants to choose from for your meal. If you are systematically getting banned from each social media platform and being “cut off from the public square,” that says more about you than it does the current state of speech.
What are the consequences of brewing in the fridge vs. at room temperature?
Holed Up in a Portuguese Cave, Neanderthals Supped on Seafood
This is simply wrong. We (the ISO wg14) don't hold the cards, compilers are free to implement what ever they want, users are free to use what ever tools or languages they want.

We exist only as long as we are trusted to be good stewards, and only go forward with the consensus of the wider community.
Reading the article kept reminding me of "Country Death Song" [1] by the Violent Femmes. (Am I showing my age again?)

[1] https://youtu.be/aACATdZKHxc
groff -step -k file.groff > file.pdf

For mom, there's pdfmom -step -k. No need to waste time and ssd space with pandoc.
There is way too much in C already.

The first commandment of C is: 'writing a naive C compiler should be "reasonable" for a small team or even one individual'. That's getting harder and harder, longer and longer.

I did move from C being "the best compromise" to "the less worse compromise".

I wish we had a "C-like" language, which would kind of be a high-level assembler which: has no integer promotion or implicit casts, has compile-time/runtime casts (without the horrible c++ syntax), has sized primitive types (u64/s64,f32/f64,etc) at its core, has sized literals (42b,12w,123dw,2qw,etc), has no typedef/generic/volatile/restrict/etc well that sort of horrible things, has compile-time and runtime "const"s, and I am forgetting a lot.

From the main issues: the kernel gcc C dialect (roughly speaking, each linux release uses more gcc extensions). Aggressive optimizations can break some code (while programing some hardware for instance).

Maybe I should write assembly, expect RISC-V to be a success, and forget about all of this.
That's pretty much what I'm doing, and for that reason.

I don't have a great explanation for why it isn't happening faster, but I predict a substantial exodus from the California grid. Especially so in places with gas bans or among folks who electrify of their own accord.
Yep-- if the appeal hit a human and got a quick "oops" sorry! that would be another matter entirely.

I wonder if they're using their obviously invalid "appeals" results to train the AI? ... so as time goes on it just gets dumber and dumber.
Sure, but getting hundreds or thousands of people to join your Mastodon instance or whatever is a huge barrier when Twitter works fine /most/ of the time.
WTF? Has The Atlantic ever talked to someone who's worked for a serious personal protection service? Of course the Secret Service made sure to wipe all the interesting data.

Personal protection is NOT about monitoring or policing the behavior of your protectee, NOT about inserting yourself into his personal business, job, or politics, and NOT about keeping records of his actions. If your protectee feels a need to ditch his protection detail because they might disapprove of, or blabber about, his behavior - then your protection service has failed.

If you task the Secret Service with monitoring Presidential behavior - don't be surprised when the monitoring logs are full of "President ordered us out of the room", "President wrote something on paper and showed it to Mr. X" etc. Or when the President twists arms, to replace professional Agents on his detail with tight-lipped political loyalists.

And if you want the Secret Service to act as a Praetorian Guard, getting involved in decisions about who gets to be President...start reading about how well that setup worked back in the Roman Empire. And again don't be surprised if Presidents start packing the Secret Service with hand-picked loyalists.

(Disclaimer: I have friends and/or relatives who where on Secret Service protection details back in the 90's and 00's. They have said nothing whatever concerning events of the past few years. All opinions are my own. Etc.)
Oh yeah, he sold it very, very slowly, over 20 years. The hypothetical I was responding to is suggesting that these billionaires' fortunes be liquidated within a year.

Even so, you don't know how much higher the price of MSFT would be if not for Gates's selling. Other factors just drove the price up faster than he drove it down.
Islamic laws on such matters are "surprisingly" progressive - as one of the few religions that recognises and accepts divorce, it is the only one I know that also insists on a prenup which specifies a lump sum a prospective bride is entitled to if the couple divorce in future. (This is negotiated between the families before the marriage). Note that in Islamic laws a muslim man has implied responsibility to care for his child, divorced or not and whoever has custody, and thus this is not a part of the prenup.
It’s clearly not a copy and paste. I just visited that link on my phone and got blocked from viewing because I’m using an ad blocker.
@a2_4am got banned from Twitter for linking to a video on the Internet Archive. The video is of an Apple 2 computer booting up an old program. https://mobile.twitter.com/textfiles/status/1536378776094908... He ended up fighting for days and the appeal was never granted, even after someone on that thread said they escalated internally. He ended up moving to Mastodon, @a2_4am@mastodon.social
The rampant historical revisionism about vaccines is absurd. It's 1984 level stuff.

The trials didn't even measure "severe illness", so no, we definitely didn't know that by any definition of early. Actually that claim only came to the fore as effectiveness against infection collapsed and a new justification was required.
As I said, I've tried to customize things, so how it looks is not a "sticking point". The issue is that once you start to really customize things, the desktop becomes unstable. For example, remove one application and all of the sudden the desktop might no longer work as it depends on so many things. I also don't feel like I should have to customize and work on the desktop for a few days just to make it usable. GNOME works fine once you use the GNOME Tweak tool, install a custom skin and a few extensions, it's just a few clicks done in 15 minutes. But again, my current desktop of choice is Cinnamon.
I like Mountain Project sitting at my desk but physical guidebooks lend themselves well to the half hiking involved in most climbing expeditions (despite the weight of a physical book). There's just something about being able to tick off routes and hold the book upside down to orient yourself that I don't think translates well to an app still. The book writers seem to put more effort into good maps and diagrams too.

They're fascinating, for a good utilitarian example check out The Dixie Caggers Atlas by Chris Watford. For pure art Southern Nevada Bouldering is just beautiful. I'm sure others may have some good recommendations.
Depends on the TLD, I searched gandi with a very random set of characters the keyboard (to ensure I could probably get many results) and here's a selection of country-level ones which are above $25/yr:

- abcedasdfff.io = €59.29/year

- abcedasdfff.tw = €25.20/year

- abcedasdfff.nz = €25.40/year

- abcedasdfff.mx = €48.28/year

Most of them appear to be €10-20/yr, but it's certainly not uncommon to see them go for €25 or higher. Note: EUR and USD are roughly at parity so I don't think it's really necessary to do a conversion.
I disagree.

For example, SO copycats are legitimate in that they respect the license and otherwise just serve the content to whoever sends them an HTTP request. As far as I know they don't spam links to their domain anywhere. They are low-quality and of dubious utility for sure, but I'd rather not make the Internet a place where you need to prove quality & utility to someone to be able to host an HTTP server.

The real problem is that a dumbass like Google comes along, sees this and decides that it should rank higher than the source content.
The irony here is that I deleted my FB years ago and back then at least, FB only permitted deleting one photo at a time. Took me well over an hour to delete all of my photos.

In hindsight, I should've just done something obviously ban-able instead.
I think Google can probably not fix it. Users will have to be manually reporting as spam.
These websites on seeing traffic from Google's crawler bots show a perfectly legit and highly SEO optimized website, but for anything else show other spam. If Google starts indexing from random IP ranges, most websites would probably block indexing from “unofficial IPs” or some companies (esp in EU) would file some lawsuit against Google. The reason being that some pay-walled news article websites won't be indexed properly, as the “unofficial IP-ed” Googlebot will not get the paywalled content.

If a website lies to Google itself, I believe the only way to solve it is by reporting the search result as spam or Google contracts people to somehow visit all billions of web pages (again the same problem – from different IP ranges) to verify it as a legit page.

I would like to know how Google currently handles it and probably how it could be improved