skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that’s true. But let’s say I trust my VPN provider and do not trust my cell service provider. Does PGPP add value for me in that case?
This myth is complete nonsense, I'm not sure how people still share it. The author provides no evidence and simply made some sensationalists estimates based on heart rate and blood pressure during games.
I'm with you wrt everything you wrote, except this part:

> People who want to have children should have them, and people who don't want to have children shoudln't have them =)

I think it's fine either way! People who want to have children are often disappointed when it's not all roses as they imagined. Conversely, people who don't want to have children are often surprised at the little joys they bring...
The complaint is against paying 3rd parties though, not owning your own first party and doing it. I guess it would be like if Apple paid Uber, Whatsapp etc to only make their apps for the AppStore and not Android. I don't know if that's a good argument though because music streamers do it all the time.
I think the humor came from the vibe, humiliation, dejection. Like seeing a beloved math teacher caught in an adult video store.

I also saw this one recently from Midjourney. Would not call the humor random.

https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/w73rhv/prompt_t...
I was just there on a short holiday, and it was definitely swarming with tourists. The city itself was difficult to navigate if you just wanted to get from point A to B; finding the right bridges definitely added time. Nice to visit, but I couldn't imagine being a resident there.
What I like about Technology Connections is the level of detail he goes into. Another channel might see that old Mr. Coffee machines operate at a higher power level than modern ones, think "huh, weird" (or not even notice), and move on. Alec goes and buys an old machine and adds 10 minutes to the video to discuss its unique design and the differences with modern machines. He complains about going off on tangents, but really they're half the fun. (The other half is the jokes.)
> Though, oddly enough the one professor I had who was adamantly capital-S Socialist and anti-capitalist was less annoying than many of the students who played at it.

It's easy to hate capitalism, but it's hard to be a legit leftist. Our ideas are morally correct, but need a lot of work and have been implemented poorly so many times--and, of course, if we grew up in the US, we were trained to be hypersensitive to the negatives of "socialism" and to exaggerate the failings of (in fact, not great) socialist experiments like the USSR.

One of the biggest problems with communism and socialism is not that our ideas are bad, because they're not, but that there's nothing in history or science that prevents a complete thug or scumbag from calling himself a socialist. In fact, lots of thugs and scumbags have: you've got Stalin (psychopath) and Ceausescu (rot in hell) and Chavez (fucking idiot) for evidence of this. There's no admission test to becoming "a socialist" in political theater; you just have to say you care about the poor.

At least in the US, the people like your professor tend to have a lot of experience defending their ideas, and therefore have a more nuanced understanding of their pitfalls and virtues--as well as the benefits of other systems (e.g., the computational power of markets vs. central planning) and the strategic need to replicate them somehow... whereas 19-year-olds in the 4.9% who believed in the system when they were getting top grades and told they had the world by the balls, but have gone socialist after losing an internship or a girlfriend to a Preston von Twattenberg VI and becoming redpilled about how our society actually works, are still arguing from emotion (and who can blame them?) and only time will tell whether they (a) build up intellectually consistent bases for their beliefs, and (b) continue to hold their (correct but, in the US, still unpopular) ideological convictions as they get older.
It gave me a good chuckle. Bravo!
I had to look this up to verify, but the actual population of the city is about a quarter of a million, the 50k refers to the historic part of it.
iAPX The first time Intel tried to kill x86 [video]
Gabe Newell said "piracy is a service problem" over a decade ago now.
The only person stand out to witness a use case is a adserverer, I read the 1st 100lines of comments.
It is like california highway system particularly when I witnessed, the billboard is very outstanding. The jams an pits, people are very nice to them.
I love point 7 of “let the audience laugh”. I can totally see this being a pain point of not having a pause before your next joke. Pausing and silence is so powerful and is also exhibited in sales calls, and can drive suspense to the next joke or even a joke you’re in the middle of
Ending this with "tweet your comment" and "discuss this on twitter" is amusingly ironic, given that Twitter has always been a place that's actively hostile to any kind of rich, subtle discussion, and has pivoted away from "keep up with people you want to follow" to an official stance of "keep up with the news" and an actual stance of "here is an endless scroll of engaging content, mostly things to get angry about, that we can slip ads into".
>That doesn't mean it's reasonable to spend thousands of dollars on a single toilet -- even if you would if you absolutely had to. The cost isn't that high.

Check out Toto washlet prices. :-) e.g. https://www.totousa.com/washlet-with-smart-toilet-g450-10-gp...

But I agree with your point. If you have some specialized, almost unique, knowledge, have plenty of demand, and are hard to substitute for--and it's something high value--you can charge a lot.
This has been documented for eons.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/signalsandslots.html

"Compared to callbacks, signals and slots are slightly slower because of the increased flexibility they provide, although the difference for real applications is insignificant. In general, emitting a signal that is connected to some slots, is approximately ten times slower than calling the receivers directly, with non-virtual function calls."
Since we’re talking about what the FTC could do here, prohibiting these businesses from retaining or at least sharing data on their patrons could be a start.
Honest question - if you get deterministic finality in a day (#8), then how can you attack the chain with a "long-range" fork (#5). Doesn't #8 solve #5?
But not being an LGBT ally is not the same as being a Nazi or deserving arrest.
What I would like to see done about this case is the person who inherits the house (and I would apply this to any asset that either can't be subdivided or will be harmed by being subdivided) can choose to get that $1M house with a $300k basis and a IRS lien on it for 14% (140k tax vs 1M of value) of it's value. The lien is not triggered by inheritance or by the sale of a share of the property to someone else who also has a share that has the same lien. The lien is triggered by any other transfer. Should a property become subject to multiple such liens only the largest is active, but all apply for purposes of who you can sell to without triggering the lien.

Fundamentally, this allows passing of property and family businesses without inheritance tax, but the IRS collects in the end if it ceases to be held within the family. (The sales without triggering are about one recipient buying out somebody else's share.) This should cover basically all cases where the inheritance tax is unfair, the threshold for inheritance tax on things not covered by this can be lowered.
Canada (I.e. Canadian politics) seems like a weird place, based on my reading of headline news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf
This is pretty disgusting PR to try to spin what is clearly a systemic failure of business management at every level or other hidden motives of the planners of the business into blame for the worker who doesn't control the system nor what there assigned to do. It's disgusting reporters don't push back on this nonsense, but just parrot whatever press release they get.
True story: A few days back my wife and I were doing Wordle. I could tell the answer was “RUSTY”, her pet name for me. So I told her the answer was sitting right next to her and she says “No, STUPID is six letters.”
Linux builds are nice, but they are a ton of work. It basically doubles the workload testing for PC, which is already complex due to the thousands of hardware configurations out there. It's one of a few reasons why Nvidia GeForce Now has more games than Google Stadia - Stadia requires porting the game to Linux (and they are an "easier" target since devs only have to support Google's hardware configurations). Valve gave up on convincing studios to port their games to Linux and just forked Wine to make Proton.
I'm sure they are burning more calories, but I doubt it's 6000.
It would have worked better if it was something more blatant, like "Ngreedia".
Is there really that big of a population of men dating multiple women?
Texas paid this company to mine Bitcoin during an ongoing energy crisis
And I (and half of my company at this point) am the opposite. Except for the one day a week I'm in the office I'm permanently on do not disturb on teams chat except for my boss and the CEO, and teams calls are forwarded to voicemail with an "if you need to ask me a question, send me an email or request a meetingand send me an agenda. In an emergency call me on my real phone."
Asynchronous communication for the win! Also set email rules. My favourite is any email I am just cc'd in to is automatically moved into my ignore folder (unless it's from boss or CEO).
I have a job that requires being able to concentrate on a task for long periods and instant messaging and calls are absolute productivity killers.
The development is in the open, happening through PRs on GitHub and across several independent client teams. You can join the R&D discord (I’m there as a casual observer) and watch or engage in technical discussions. You can propose EIPs or make suggestions about how the chain should work, and everybody can collectively decide it is a good or bad idea for the protocol.

Overall it’s very open, although they do have to draw the line somewhere and I assume the core dev’s weekly zoom calls and standups are not open to everybody to join lest it degrade into madness (these devs work across a range of independent companies and orgs fwiw). Even these calls and notes are shared btw.
Ask HN: How does your engineering team deal with workflow bottlenecks?
Hey everyone!

For the past 3 years, I have been very interested in running productive and happy software teams. For me, both delivery and people have been equally important.

So, this March I finally left my full time job as a Sr. EM to build a product that would help engineering leaders make their teams both productive and happy.

Now, we have our MVP ready - https://www.middlewarehq.com/ and I want to speak with more engineering leaders to know if we're on the right track.

If you are an engineering leader, I’ll be grateful if you can share your current challenges in running your team’s operations.

If you're an engineer, would love to know what are the top enemies of your productivity today?

You can also have a conversation by sending a hi to dhruv@middlewarehq.com
It was over the course of 10 years or so and I got to see the slow decline, sadly. His final years had really very few jokes (at least in Vegas).
The above is just random comment.
So I have a long time question, how cache miss is handled.
I'm the same way, I may become exhausted, I can feel myself being exhausted by my mind won't let me sleep.
Graphics and graphical processing take orders of magnitude longer than other fundamental machine instructions.

It's just inherently slower than doing something equivalent that requires zero graphical processing or monitoring of user input. It is common sense to anyone who knows the tech stack that underlies the pixels on the screen.

This is no fault of Qt by any means. It's just the nature of the tech.
I don't know the numbers but I didn't say polygamy, I said multiple partners as in not married but sleeping around when you feel like it with anyone as well as being content with that lifestyle. It is essentially a question of having a partner to share life with and marriage isn't as popular now as it used to be either.
No need to get passive aggressive, parent has a legitimate point. Grep is a huge part of my workflow.
Thank you for your contribution.

I am sorry to ask but I have the feeling that something is missing in your comment. You said you have lived in poor areas and observed violence, or did you mean that you witnessed violence only in a subset of the areas you listed?
Inflation is hitting the employed poorest the least, because they've had a recent pay raise. It's hitting the unemployed and the dependent hard, and hitting severely overborrowing and overextended middle-class people hard (and if their house prices go down again, they're in real trouble.)
I used Qt quite extensively about 10 years ago and we constantly complained about signals. Was working in real-time medical simulations and interfacing with the many io devices we had was painfully slow. Also (at the time) keeping an OpenGL frame (we had multiple at a time) required signal communication that was a high overhead. We ended up replacing all of the signal beside setting up and tearing down the application and handling of system events. Signals are a bad design and I’ll stand on that hill forever.
Visualize and Share Go PProfs
I’m tempted to rename "Pictures" to "2D Objects" and "Music" to "1D Objects".
Old ladies, more so.
Which can be easily resolved by taking building regulations from NIMBYs and giving them to YIMBYs and letting people build build more or less anything anywhere. 1000 billionaires having 5000 houses have no effect in comparison with hundreds of thousands of houses not built because of regulations.
> The word fortunate includes an aspect of luck.

Yeah, I think that was what the GP meant: ~ "Back then, people could admit that it's largely a matter of luck."
More than you can possibly imagine.
The new problem is pretty fun though!
You assign users a temporary IMSI which is done in the cloud right?

How does this protect against IMSI catchers and Stingrays if they are done local to you? Local cell tower spoofing?

Also, this is just for data? So if you have another SIM for voice/SMS this is completely negated?
I think those big models all had visual input and therefore understand what they're seeing. You don't really need this for game AIs, it could make those models drastically smaller.
Here's the real depressing part of Assisted Suicide; It is being approved for patients that cannot afford to live because Government Disability payments are too low.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivit...

The profound shame of this isn't shared by elected officials.
Convenient that they only worry about this during recessions, what purpose would management have to ignore these problems until now? It's a sleight-of-hand to shift blame come earnings time and give management something to do to 'fix the problem' (that their mismanagement created) they can point to, nothing more.
Well except advertising dollars did flow to viewer eyeballs, and it’s cable advertising, not subscription fees, that came to dominate the revenue model.
Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam
No, it's misleading because they are quoting someone for something they did not say.
The Panama papers should be all the proof we need.

The Panama papers had enough data to chase tax cheats for decades.

The Panama paper resulted in zero.
> are only equivalent if you evaluate those statements without a social and historical context

This is presupposed by moral relativism, which can disintegrate the whole conversation incredibly quickly if we're not careful.

I think that most people would agree that truth can exist outside of a given context. To argue that all truth requires context is a _very_ slippery slope that most aren't truly committed to.

With that being said, something is racist regardless of who says it. There isn't a differentiation based on any sort of perceived, favored group. It's incredibly difficult to be consistent with the opposing stance.
It wouldn’t solve the problem of those directory entries being present.
> Saying this shows how out of touch you are. Speaking of New York, the recent under-10 chess championship was won by a refugee in a homeless shelter. Yes, hundreds of dollars is out of range for his family.

No, it shows how out of touch you are. You can’t craft general rules for society around the unique circumstances of people who are literally at the very bottom. They need special help outside the regular system.

But for ordinary poor kids, a few hundred dollars is not out of reach. What is beyond their grasp, however, is the cultural and social capital that would be required for upward mobility in the inevitability subjective regime you’d have if you got rid of the SATs. Poor asian kids, who grow up in the bottom 1/5th of the income distribution, are more than twice as likely to end up in the top 1/5th as adults than poor white kids. That’s because the gate keeping metrics in this country are objective, and not based on social connections or cultural knowledge.

> Middle class in Asia can be poor in New York City

Yes, so what? If your family is making $35,000 household income (the poverty threshold in NYC), what does it matter whether your family was middle class back in old country? And these kids are dealing with language and cultural barriers on top of the limited financial resources.
This. A large percentage of "audits" of the middle class and below are oopses, not cheating.
Any update here? I'm in the same boat. Can't find any contact info and a ton of my bookmarks are using the webdesignernews redirect url.
Agreed, TS lasting is really about JS lasting.

I'm not so sure, but I'm also kind of biased because I do wish JS would go away, so I'm probably trying to look for ways it could happen. Realistically it will probably be around as long as the web browser, and the web browser might really be around "forever" by way of continuously adding APIs and shape shifting into whatever the latest thing is. Kind of like C++.

The other way it could finally die though, is if WebAssembly kills it. Right now WebAssembly isn't even usable without JavaScript to access the DOM, so that needs fixing first, but once that's the case, it really will become possible to build a whole front end with no JS, while still integrating with pieces of legacy JS if/when still needed.

This seems more realistic to me than say, C dying of this way, too, because frontends are a lot easier to rewrite and get rewritten or thrown away more often than backend or systems stuff.

By then though, I'll probably be the last remaining person who still has beef with JS...
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It's hard to argue with your philosophy because the goal posts never stop moving.

I'm not the one that picked that list of projects. You're the one who described them as having "promise", not me.

If there's some projects out there that have lived up to their promises and aren't just gambling enablement, please, list them!

I'll take a quick crack at a few:

Helium, which actually purported to use crypto to build a real-world impacting product? Fraud.

NFTs generally? Speculation, gambling, mostly fraud, rug manufacture (not in the textile sense).

Exchanges, derivatives, "yield" farming, etc. Mix of gambling, fraud, and simple wealth transfers.

Various DAO-style projects. My favourite is projects like Spice, buying real-world assets to leverage them in some way. All failures, some comically so.

Cheap money transfers? Nope. Gas fees, etc.

Store of value? Nope. Massively volatile.

Currency usable for real-world purchases/transactions? Nope. Too slow (also gas fees, etc).

And now I'm at the limit of what comes up off the top of my head.

The fact that billions of dollars have swept into a massively speculative market during a period of historically low yields isn't a surprise. The prospect of wealth transfers from the gullible to the rich will always draw in investors. But that isn't evidence of actual value or success, unless your measure of success is "how many people got rich on the backs of a lot of losers".

So what am I missing?
After reading Behave, I hold Sapolsky in high regard. Even if he provides weak evidence for the claim, the grandmaster in the article loses 15 pounds- or a whopping 11% of his body weight- on average during a 10 day tournament which is striking.
I think that the only domain where social networks can be relevant is in the geoloc domain. Dating apps are quite an obvious example where it works very well, but dating is a very limited scope.

So of course, the single problem of anything geoloc is safety and privacy, which is not the strong aspect of any social network right now. Tinder and others work hard to make their users safe, and it's difficult because users are not aware of it.

Social networks always should have been used to meet people OUTSIDE of screens, for discovering other people and things.

I want to meet people through activities (board games, running, walking), (loneliness is a huge problem in the west!) and except bumble BFF, which isn't popular, there is no popular app to do just that. Of course there is meetup and other things, but those are too narrow.

Neighbor apps are nice too, but nobody use them because they're focused on services, which isn't fun.

Don't you think it's a huge contradiction that current social networks don't let people meet?
If a project benefits you, it's worth supporting, whether or not large companies are doing so. If anything I'd flip the argument round: your support is most needed when large companies don't pull their weight. OpenJDK and the Linux kernel don't need your donation.

Also, there are plenty of good FOSS projects that aren't seeing much corporate use, such as perhaps KDE.

(Although Google are known for using Linux as a desktop OS, perhaps including KDE, I'm not certain.)
Rinkeby is pretty rough, and has basically no other reputation than being dodgy either. So someone likes to pick the rougher spots. Maybe someone who likes rap and they are mentioned in lyrics or something like that.
Would be nice if we totally paved ground level for cars and trash and built a promenade above.
The article suggests that Microsoft is attempting to defend against a lawsuit by Sony attempting to block an acquisition here, in which Sony is suggesting it would be anticompetitive because it would make a popular franchise platform-exclusive. This doesn't look to me like Microsoft is "crying foul" at all - instead, they're "crying fair", arguing that they should be allowed to do it because Sony is doing something similar.
The Steam Deck-- at least among PC gamers-- is an extremely attractive option over Nintendo. Bring your existing game library with you, play much more demanding games, benefit from deep discounts on PC games that almost never make it to Nintendo versions.

I bought a switch to play portable versions of PC indie games but since I got the Deck I haven't touched it.

Production of units has picked up so the order bottleneck is easing up, which is part for the course with Nintendo as well: I couldn't find on OLED model anywhere for months & months after it's release for my kid.

The downside of course is significant bulk. Battery is less of an issue, despite what some people say. If I'm playing a demanding game away from a power source I just tweak the power settings, sometimes lower the resolution and let FSR (which works great) help improve the visuals, and getting 2-3 hours on even the most demanding games is then not an issue. 4-5 hours on less demanding games. And carry a battery pack that will supply an extra charge. But yeah, definitely it doesn't work so well if you have to have something that will fit in a pocket.