skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're coming after in-game chat. Microsoft is already participating in this inevitable crackdown, with the recent snitchware changes they made to Minecraft. Microsoft is tight with the US federal government.

I know some gamers wondered where Microsoft's firm insistence on chat reporting in Minecraft came from; the game became a runaway success without such a system and there were no major media scandals that seemed to prompt this change of attitude or priorities. I think this is the answer. There is a general push in the government and big tech corps (the line grows fuzzier by the year, a hallmark of fascism...) to consolidate and centralize control of digital discourse so it can be monitored and moderated by them.
>I'm curious why you think this sort of conversation would only happen between wealthy people.

>But in reality, population control and an 'architect' view of their place in the world has been a normal feature of the well-to-do classes for pretty much forever.

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To be fair, there was a good decade and a half, maybe two, where Usenet was the place to have deep, meaningful and respectful conversations. Most netiquette conventions were first established there.

Then Eternal September happened, binaries and spam flooded the network, and users looking for good discussions moved on.

Reddit went through a similar change more rapidly, and even today, despite of the shitposting, bots and Reddit Inc.'s disregard of its userbase, there are niche communities where well-intentioned discussion takes place.

There are also even more niche old school forums or IRC communities where people can take refuge from the rest of the internet.

But I do agree that HN is still a surprisingly respectful forum. Not necessarily because of Y Combinator's shepherding or a small team of herculean moderators, but because the community is self-moderated. I do think this will change and become more difficult, as more new users join the site. Longtime users have surely noticed the change already.

> You do it in person, with people you trust and respect. It's always been this way, even during the heyday of the free internet.

Sure, that would be the preferred way. But the reason we communicate online is because it's often easier to find communities of people with similar interests, than doing the same locally. Anonimity also has a positive aspect, in that it makes interaction easier for getting points across, as we don't let our human biases influence the discussion, and the merit of any point is weighed on its own. Discussions in person, especially around hot topics, often devolve into shouting matches and personal insults. Not that online ones don't, but typing text is often enough to assemble our thoughts in a calmer way.

OTOH, there's the obvious lack of human connection missing from online and text-only discussions. But then again, once a community is well established, in person meetups can happen. :)
This is a revolutionary sentiment that may be felt by some people— but you would not expect the United States Treasury and the Federal Reserve embrace these ideas.

If you believe that the banking industry is predatory, you shouldn’t hope for a disruption like this. The US banking industry is among the most competitive in the world, with thousands of institutions competing for your business. If you don’t like the fees charged by the big banks, you can find a credit union or community bank that will give you a better deal. If a digital dollar is released, it is these smaller institutions that will be most affected—along with consumer choice.

If the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve intend to undertake a revolutionary restructuring of the U.S. banking sector, they should do so in an orderly fashion, engaging in a democratic process with full disclosure of the implications of their policies.
It's hilarious how many of these stories there are. I remember debugging a DNS issue on an embedded system; the resolv.conf changed but the program continued trying the old DNS server. Turns out GLIBC will read the resolv.conf once on startup and never again after (unless specifically invalidated). Except most people will never notice this behavior because (1) most distributions carry a patch from 2004 that reloads it transparently or (2) use libraries that just always invalidate it, just to be sure.

This stupidity surfaces everywhere; here is a Go bug report for it:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21083
I don’t see how one can read that from “To avoid greenhouse effect you can't have things that require CO₂ to constantly remain in the atmosphere.”

The natural greenhouse effect has CO₂ constantly (I think at least since there’s any carbohydrate burning on earth) remaining in the atmosphere.
I haven't used their spam filter for over a decade. (Fast mail's spam filter is good enough.)
My 7th grade teachers in the 90s already where averse to my cursive (moved from latin america) and honestly had a hard time reading it.

Which is an indication that cursive is not in fact clearly better.
> why would someone senior even want to join this team?

Well, money. Why would someone even want to join any team?
Try a good eink device.
Cursive helps you write faster. Some even claim that it makes you better at spelling, forming words and sentences and thus overall better writer ( https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/raise-a... ). I can't attest to all that, but I recognize that it does create more neural pathways and involves more motor skills to learn which are beneficial to a young mind.
I recently bought "Code" so it can be discovered by my children when they are older.

This is the only reason I ordered a hardcopy.
Are you tokey of monetary cost or the total amount of energy needed to actually build/deliver/install/maintain/dispose of these technologies?

If the former, you are clearly right.

If the latter, I'm not so sure (with current tech).
Fully agreed, I was tasked with using an old library and my first order of business was to make an analysis of dead code branches. The GIT commit removed 17 out of 80 files and about 10-11% of the code in some other files (that were not deleted) and the library works 100% the same -- confirmed by tests that I painstakingly added during the last weeks.

Less code, less confusion.
I believe this is about allowing this kind of markup (that exists on old web pages that haven’t been updated for a long time) to still work:

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dQw4w9WgXcQ"></embed>

… by roughly translating it into

<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ"></iframe>

Probably also the <object> equivalent, maybe only that and not <embed>, I’m not sure. I never had a great deal to do with those two tags.

I don’t know why it has to be done this way. I’d have thought that without this extra code it’d roughly fall back to being an iframe on the original URL, and then YouTube could just check if it’s in a frame and behave as an embed instead of the main UI. But there’s probably a reason why they’ve all done it this kind of way.
I could welcome any comparison with aerc (https://aerc-mail.org).
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There are some strong arguments here
Is there anywhere left on the internet where the general consensus on a three letter agency going after edgy children playing video games is that it’s a bad thing? Does anyone distrust the government by default anymore?
Sunsama – The daily planner for busy professionals
Only ebooks. But books themselves, the good ones, are a really useful resource that I still haven't been able to replace despite the availability of many other free resources like blogs and video tutorials.
Accounting for economic units is evident as far back as the Akkadian empire 5,000 years ago. Double-entry bookkeeping, central banking, ACH, SWIFT, etc. are iterations on a theme. CBDCs represent an incremental shift away from batch processing toward real-time messaging.

The current paradigm of universally KYC'd accounts, easily surveilled ACH, and a government-run interbank FedWire service already offer complete transparency to law enforcement and the treasury department.
> People weren't leaving because reddit had threaded comments

Please tell me more about why engagement has dropped precipitously. Here I thought it was the superior UI of other sites but I can't wait for you to tell me why I really left.
What Columbia's college ranking debacle reveals
They spent $20B for a 16B market opportunity that only generated $400M a year? Thats revenue. Even if that was profit, it would take 50 years to recoup if no further revenue was added.

Even if it doubled, it’s still a weird investment of $20B. Can’t read the FT article but is Figma even profitable?

From a Fortune article:

> Figma’s products “address a $16.5 billion market opportunity,” and this year, they’re expected to add $200 million in net new ARR [annual recurring revenue], surpassing $400 million in total ARR by the end of the year,” Durn said.
If only I could pipe Netflix or HBO through mpv. Stallman was right yet again.
I get that VMs have certain advantages, but I was surprised that they are the default (only?) choice for namespace management. Is it that unusual for containers to mix and match, e.g. have different filesystem namespaces, but share a network namespace?
James Clear is an incredible marketer. I blogged about the same stuff ten years ago and read books covering all the same material at the time as well. The only stuff I actually learned from James Clear was a few mnemonics, i.e., there were a few times he rephrased existing knowledge in a way that was easier to remember.

Mostly, though, he is just fantastic at marketing. He's a good writer, but that's not the thing to learn from him, in my opinion. He has email lists, a podcast strategy -- I forgot the rest but he gets deep into it.
Thanks for your work, Dale.

IMO this was good practice to keep the web running smoothly at the time.

It is reminiscent of Windows 95's specific code to see if SimCity is running, and allocate memory differently if it was.

> Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn’t free memory right away. That’s the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.

from: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii...
Here's the nice thing about DLL files, your code can stay C. You just make calls to another library, and it doesn't matter which language was used to build that DLL.

So you get to use LibJXL as long as you have a working DLL file.

(For non-Windows, substitute the appropriate file type for libraries)
I attended school in the 70s and 80s. We spent a ton of time on cursive. At one point I could write in cursive, but I preferred print letters. At this point, I haven’t written cursive in 35 or so years. I could probably relearn it fairly quickly, but why would I do that?

As for signatures, my kids use print letters for their signatures since they have no clue how to even write their names in cursive.
I was in the same boat once upon a time. I actually overhauled it all but spent the next six months trying to convince 80 yr olds who self taught themselves visual basic (version 3? I think)that the code I made was faster, more sustainable, and ready to hire more staff to build into it. That was pretty much a failure, they agreed it was faster, but it just wasn't written by the guys who originally wrote it. Shucks. So here's what I did. I left. Sometimes you lose and can't win even if it's to save a company from itself. Businesses might choose to hire retirees as consultants for decades, well past the point where they can control their bowels in public.

Not saying this is your only option, but I am saying, if the tech work is hopeless, the culture is unreasonable, and it's not gonna change until two-three people go through it and are honest at exit interviews, you have to make an honest assessment of your goals. Last I checked the company decided to hire someone for 2x what I worked for, and that person put "open to new roles" on their LinkedIn a few weeks ago...
Many tools allow you to set the existing output as a baseline. That's your 0 or 100 or whatever. You can track new changes from that, and only look for changes that bring your number over some threshold. You can't necessarily fix all the existing issues, but you can track whether you introduce new ones.
I continue to hope that people will vote with their wallets and kill this garbage... but then I remember, look at the current state of 'smart TVs' or even the dying industry of residential printer ... adware bloated fake-limited trash

Govs at a UN-level need to kill this shit... but sadly, capitalism is a core tenant of most UN members, and these scummy tactics generate revenue... so.... I've used a lot of words to 'fuck. we're fucked.'

:(
What is a stochastic terrorist?
Accoring to the citizens united finding, their rights extend to free speech (and specifically to otherwise-illegal political speech), and therefore presumably this law.
Yes. I didn't get it. Hated it. Then got it. Completed it. Now I love it. Sign of a good puzzle... though the frustration/challenge balance is on a knife's edge with this game.

Overall, yeah. It has the feel of a clever, loveable game... how it comes together.

Great work. I love these postings. Very artistic.
I think those are meant differently.

I don't think "Unix philosophy" means "communicate via streams" in this context. I think it means things like the single responsibility principle. Once we introduce APIs, we can't just chain services together with pipes.

But I agree that this use of "Unix philosophy" is confusing.
I like to buy technical books. There's some inexplicable satisfaction from holding them, and I like the way they decorate my house on a bookshelf.
I still buy physical books, I just find them easier to read when I really want to concentrate and take the material in.
I'm really tired by all of these click-bait articles essentially saying my entire generation is retarded. I can read cursive, where's your god now?

Seriously though, if at all this might be an American thing. Here in Germany we definitely had lessons on cursive writing. I write cursive. Hell even most lined school notebooks for children start with a page that has cursive writing in it, so that children can train on it.
You don’t manage this team directly. You don’t have authority or responsibility to fix this.
The idea of being a "stranger" as opposed to a "normie" is deeply seductive. I've had the tendency to believe it myself, but then I stumble onto some book or argument or discussion that acts as a reminder that it's all a lot more complicated and much has already been written.

Do you have any examples of specific ideas that are actually strange and shouted-down? Not to be too cynical, but sometimes what people qualify as strange is just controversial but classic opinions such as "restricting the poor or another group" or stuff relating to IQ, or a "what they don't want you to know about" type deal
Would an equivalent bike with the extra features cost the same or more? Am curious if turning off the features makes it less expensive to get started with a basic bike.
How would a USD CBDC interact with Fednow? My understanding is that Fednow will provide a way for fast interbank transactions with instant settlement because the accounts will be held directly at the Fed, by commercial financial institutions, on behalf of consumers. Rather than the current ACH system where banks settle between each other after several days via the clearing house.

If I have deposits in US CBDC, who will act as the equivalent of my credit card company or credit union? For example, who protects against fraud or reverses transactions? What would be the benefits of having CBDC deposits vs having a Fednow-enabled account at my credit union?
Tycoon Gautam Adani is now richer than Jeff Bezos
Why we created Sui Move?
Is there an option to buy it without the additional hardware?
People are mourning Queen Elizabeth – & buying lots of commemorative merchandise
Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power
Same with Oregon. I’ve wondered about this since my signature is the first letter of my name followed by a random assortment of peaks and valleys.
Not the team’s manager. OP says so in the first line.
Systemd can manage virtual machines already, see systemd-machined and machinectl. It has no support for clustered/distributed state as of yet, however.
Nobody would pause for a moment on studies investigating the cultural impact of messaging in movies or TV; in fact we talk about it regularly. Games and the culture of discussion around them have started to have a huge impact. This is worth studying.

The YouTube channel Innuendo Studios has done some interesting reflection on gaming in general (I really like "Adventure Games About Jesus" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr5qgaasOYY ) and some specific stuff on cultural conflict and radicalization in gaming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y8XgGhXkTQ&list=PLJA_jUddXv...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYWHpgIoIw
I'd reckon everyone is seeing greener grass on the other side, it's hard to believe that Markdown is more time-consuming than plaintext. The entire point of a "notes system" is that it works well for you. If you only need to take weekly notes, you won't need organization at all. If you're studying a variety of academic topics, then yeah, you're going to want a notetaking schema of some kind, even if it's only hierarchical folders.

I'll still agree that notetaking doesn't need to be complicated, but... I don't see Markdown or Zettelkasten as complicated at all. It's like telling someone "version control isn't rocket science" and encouraging them to uninstall git in favor of versioned tarballs.
I’m inclined to believe the op if it’s a team of juniors with no version control or tests.
> But you just told me they built a $20M revenue product with 3 bozos. That sounds unbelievably productive.

This doesn't indicate how profitability, and seems to ignore that management/owners might have had something to do with it. A well-connected industry player is better poised to start/found/build/grow a company to that level than someone with 0 experience.

And... yes... quitting to something which matches the OPs expectations will likely be better all around than trying to 'fix' something people aren't asking to be fixed (it seems).
That might still be an indication of your and my familiarity with English cursive.

With something that I only know well enough to sound out even when printed (e.g., Cyrillic), I have a hard time making head or tail of it in cursive form.
>At least five former employees who spoke to Rest of World say that this rapid expansion came at a hefty cost and was not executed properly — ultimately contributing to the company’s unraveling.

>Inside these warehouses, there was a lack of essential business acumen, strategy, and vigilance in the way inventory was managed

>often had to navigate sudden inventory surges caused by automated systems

This seems to be a pretty familiar story in the pandemic startup scene. You have a completely new market born overnight (either COVID testing, med equipment, delivery, etc) with essentially a captive consumer base. Founders and management usually realize that the pandemic won't last forever, and try to prepare to pivot, but do this by over-investing in existing revenue streams, trying to capitalize on this once-in-a-lifetime (hopefully) golden goose. Unfortunately they don't have the experience to realize this stretches infrastructure too thin and breaks down communication chains, and what results in messes like these. A manual, 15 min fix for a bug that occurs once few days is allowable when you're at a small scale, but you can't 20x that infrastructure overnight because you'll now be spending several hours troubleshooting and have no time left to build any solution. While founders don't necessarily need to know _how_ much duct tape holds their company together, you can at least assume a lower bound and give your engineers and managers time to improve things and build out.

Combine this with onboarding new employees, who haven't been fully trained, haven't become swayed by your charismatic founder, and are disgruntled by the dubious infrastructure and what happened at Airlift is a pretty familiar case study.

>In a blog post, Gul highlighted a quote from Walton’s biography: “It was the lowest point of my life. I felt sick to my stomach … I had built the best variety store in the whole region and worked hard in the community. I had done everything right and now I was being kicked out of town.”

It sounds to me as though Gul wasn't a malicious person or even particularly unsavvy (at least with regards to charming his team and investors), but the early success caused an overestimation of him and his company's ability and this miscalculation spiraled all the way down the chain of command. Doing "everything right" is completely different depending on when you're in a boom time and when your market is disappearing.
Different author for that book: Mark Manson
"as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades"

hasn't that happened already?
I wonder if it was auto-transcripted. It reads like it was done by someone unfamiliar with the rhythms and idioms of "English as she is spoke".
Is it really so much to ask for a player who doesn't want to listen to voice chat to click through a menu to turn off voice chat? Or click one or two buttons to mute a player in chat/voice? Do we really need a heavy handed approach like "remove online chat features and custom banners"? If the company provides no method to turn off chat/block/mute/etc then that's one thing. Ask for that. But I've yet to play a game where you can't do this.
The other 43 grants awarded with similar $ amounts (totalling $20 Million) are interesting to browse: https://www.dhs.gov/tvtpgrants and address a range of different angles to prevention of targeted violence and terrorism prevention, from local to national. Some interesting "learn about propaganda" and critical thinking type of programs look good to me.

Of particular note to NH readers with it's interest in surveillance, is that only one program has the word "monitoring" in it's brief, and that's the one mentioned in the article.
I get most of my national news from NPR. What news am I missing about Texas? I guess I forgot the Uvalde school shooting police response in my list.

I do hear bad things about California - homelessness, drug use, lots of petty theft that doesn't get prosecuted, ridiculously expensive housing, NIMBYs - but that's unrelated.
Weird perspective from an infosec person. Controls are like brakes - they let the car go faster.

There’s a lack of context as well… while intelligence agencies have a perspective fueled by lots of cash, many companies are working over their heads and adopting a “hold my beer” attitude with customer data.
can we have a "formal semantics for multi-threading" ? why it's not a thing?
Replacing a GPU fan is generally a lot more involved than other PC fans. Some you have to take the GPU apart (sometimes involving glue) and some fans are harder to get than others. I'd say it's harder than building the PC itself, but still fairly easy.
That book is not by Cal Newport