skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't need to be bigger than you either. If someone just pushes you out of the way, and are really a bad actor, they could have a box cutter on them or just be more prepared to confront another person. Are you going to directly confront a person that has you surprised? No.
It is being worked on (ahem...)

But in most contexts, it is not necessary to render vector graphics 'live'; caching is acceptable, so this should not be a bottleneck for most desktop software.
All government spending in the UK is funded by government borrowing. That's how the system has worked for 150 years or more.

Every penny spent is initially borrowed. Then as it bounces around the economy tax is raised by the induced spending flow.

It's only if people save rather than spend from that that the 'borrowing' shows up on the books.

Whether there will be any more borrowing show up depends how much people spend and how much people save.

The problem is the deliberate misunderstanding of what government borrowing is, put forward by those who want to see government spending stopped.
> and they are releasing a new taskmgr on win11 to boot

Which is borken. In the performance tab, I often see the right-hand side elements cut-off (like RAM size, etc) even though there's still space left in the window. Resizing it brings the text back.

But hey, at least it now supports dark mode!
> All green-screen and DOS-era terminals work this way, for example

lol no they do not. absolutely not lol

> The Microsoft team has no mechanical sympathy and no interest in quality.

I know people at Microsoft. I have acquaintances on the Windows Terminal team. this is just plain factually incorrect.
That last line is legitimately hilarious. Tidy that up a little and you've got a pretty good SNL skit.
I might have overstated that. Looking at eBay "sold" prices, they seem to go for anywhere from 30 USD (controller only, no accessories) to over 100 USD (used, but in box with accessories) or 200 USD (sealed in box). But even then, there's a lot of price variation - there are sealed controllers for as low as 130 USD.
nothing is sacred! go figure
Unsurprising that one of the world's most successful capitalists is advocating for innovation to drive consumerism rather than anti-consumerism.

I'm not saying he's wrong; it's hard to get people to reflect on, and change, their lifestyles.

But it sends a harmful message; it's like saying it's pointless to teach people to swim safely, because staffing better lifeguards would be more likely than changing peoples' behaviour. Then people count on other people to bail them out from their poor decisions and end up drowning (an actually possible scenario with rising sea levels)
I think your position is a pretty reasonable take but I’ll try to take it on as someone who still has the early 00s mentality.

I think the primary argument against it basically boils down to the fact that the internet hasn’t actually changed things as much as most people of our generation who grew up with it think, and many of the changes are better, not worse.

1) For harassment, it would be hard to do worse than the harassment we had in the past. Open racism has certainly declined since the 60s/70s. There was significantly more actual violence against people during that time than today.

2) Misinformation was certainly more prevelent in the past. Did you know that in 1970 30% of Americans thought the moon landing was faked? The number now is much much lower and has only gone down.

3) The idea that foreign powers were influencing America was certainly a lot bigger in the past. The “red scare” was a thing. People were mistrusting of thier neighbours and accusations of being communist abounded.

I think the main thing the internet has done is surface the craziness so that more people know about the fewer actual number of crazies.
> it's a large thing we've all stood on

Have we? Is it really that common if you aren't a player/cheerleader? I have stood on an American football field only once and that's because I was helping out a friend capture audio of the game. I've certainly seen them on TV, but that doesn't really give a great sense of distance. I've seen the Statue of Liberty on TV a lot and that's about a 100 yards too.

I think that people keep complaining about it because it's clearly a flawed way to measure something, but people still keep using it because we don't really have something better to replace it with. We just don't have enough things around us that are measured reliably and consistently I guess.
Isn't it the natural progression of most technical devices ?

For instance looking at coffee machines, the general direction was:

- no machine, or decent but not so advanced machines
- super basic machines, or advanced but finicky machines
- crappy capsule machines, or super advanced finicky machines

Depending on how you look at it, there is a path from "advanced but finicky machines" to "crappy capsule machines". Personally I think things still improved, even as the low end is still crappier than the middle/high end from decades ago.
To use a pun, these are ballpark figures to give people a general idea, not an exact measure. Also about as heavy as a midsized car. Just gives people a general idea.

Akin to stadia.
Using an older Windows version to run Steam is a really bad idea. Steam requires an internet connection, old versions of Windows, are by definition, not up to date.
Do you have a link to where they've said that, that really sucks, I've had a much smoother experience setting up pages with Netlify than Cloudflare.
UTF-8 worth prize.
It is new, there hasn’t been this much access to free unfiltered information ever. Now, not only can the town crazy rant on a literal soapbox, but they can rant to millions more as well. Your assertion that things are that exact same is laughable.
It's funny how it took Java almost a decade to finally implement goroutines.
Do you plan to support additional languages? I'm working on porting a library from web (ts) to roku (brightscript)
Study basic algorithms and data structures. The purpose of this is not to pass a leetcode test, those are obnoxious and those companies that conduct them should be embarrassed. The purpose is to learn how to analyze systems and their performance on two primary metrics: time and space. This isn't all there is to understanding larger systems (simplistic counting the steps of a loop is not sufficient if you're swamped by IO access times, for instance, but it's a start). But you need to be able to examine a system and understand tradeoffs. When deciding between different data structures you're often faced with a situation like: X is faster at A, but slower at B; Y is the opposite. Which do you choose? I can't tell you, you have to know your intended use-cases. Will A dominate in your application, or B? This is the kind of thinking that scales, too. A database that's better at random access reads and writes is better for some applications than one that's optimized for sequential reads but lousy at random writes, so choose the suitable option based on a reasonable expectation of your system's needs.

Study parallel programming (that is, actually having two or more threads/processes/whatevers running simultaneously). This will help you understand the limits of parallelism in speeding up programs, but also the potential for some programs. You'll learn about how to divide work across N processors, the limits of performance gains, and where you will get performance losses (critical ones: synchronization and communication).

Study concurrency so you can see how to make use of asynchronous patterns. I don't mean strictly async/await style, just how to use whatever language/OS facilities to avoid unnecessary blocking. Like, if you're making a network query it can take seconds or longer to resolve (depending on location, size of the data, remote server load, etc.). Your program shouldn't wait if it still has other things it can do (if it doesn't, then let it wait).

Use a profiler, study your real systems and see where they spend their time. What functions get called the most, what functions or syscalls consume the most time. Is there a file/resource that's constantly being used? I once sped up a program by around 60x just by realizing that the previous coder was repeatedly reading from the same file. It wasn't needed, he could have read from it once (optimal), or at least cached it in memory (though memory wasn't so plentiful then, it would've been a tight fit on a mid-00s desktop, but fine today). Apply the ideas above to analyzing it and improving it.
Unilaterally declaring something not a waste, because it only harms the 99.99% is pretty small minded of you.
What's with the obsession for meters?
I am in the same exact boat.

Just completely burnt out and putting myself first.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Like DRM and subscription marketplaces where you basically rent the rights to a game for some indeterminate amount of time?

Most people seem fine with that, and Steam totally killed the physical games segment. There's GOG if you want a copy without DRM, but they're tiny and the prices are often worse than Steam or a Steam reseller.

Besides, if the game rental model is bad, Stadia does it even worse than Steam: tiny library, horrible pricing, incompatible multiplayer, proprietary ports on a different update schedule, exclusivity deals, all from a company with a proven history of abandoning their customers.

Steam on the other hand is run by one of the oldest, most respected PC gaming companies in the history of the hobby, owned and run by a bunch of gamers (not advertising execs), who singlehandedly transformed the way people buy and get games, and worked tremendously hard to make the service better abs better every year in the service of players. They've earned our loyalty.

And furthermore, Nvidia is the provider of GeForce Now, not Steam directly. Their model is just way better, running off existing Steam and Epic games that don't require a new port or for customers to repurchase or lose their save games. Nvidia is also a gaming company. Not exactly as beloved as Valve is, but at least they're a long term player in the field.

Google just never really got it, at all. They arrogantly assumed they could just make a mediocre copycat and people would flock to it. Oh well.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Won’t Fix Iran Internet Censorship
Everything from Cambridge analytica to TikTok
Why not fire blanks? One must be a real idiot to be firing live rounds into the air.
With a modern data driven or ECS architecture, you actually can do that. There are demos out there with hundreds of interactive things on screen at one time. It's kind of amazing.

It's not like games don't have complex UIs either, where each button or field has a lot of logic to them. Many games have very simple UIs, but others get more complex than many complex web apps. Some are even multiplayer, and the server code... it's nuts how much work goes into this. The number of updates you send each second to keep players in a game in sync compared to what is needed to keep a chat app in sync is really impressive to me.

From a technical point of view, games are really cool!
That is the hard question. Of course a tiny fraction of people are trying for more than a decade now, for example - https://intelligence.org/. However, there is no solution, or even a glimpse of a solution.
It does, but only if you can show its not a derivative work. See also the concept of clean room reimplementation.
Activity threshold
Yeah, murdering a woman for not wearing her hijab properly is just a western plot. Iranians can't possibly have any agency. Is that what you're saying?
I guess it’s more that what is developed is lead by product people and those don’t know how to plan for performance issues and instead inadvertently push for more features in a shorter time.
why the fn heck does "notepad" even need an 'update'? An update to do what.

>c:\copy con FILE.txt

F6
> There is some reason to think the Little Ice Age was an effect of Europeans invading the Americas.

Paragraph four of the article covered that and other hypotheses.
Blender, as a design/creation tool, is something I would classify as closer to a DAW than most contemporary video games. The fact that you can use it to create games isn't central.
This is why I invested many years and $1M of our profits into building Qbix Platform

https://github.com/Qbix

The why in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI

The why in blog form: https://qbix.com/blog/2019/03/08/how-qbix-platform-can-chang...
The answer to this question is not politically correct, and therefore will not be answered. We will all end up with quantum computers and software that runs slower than any software from the late 90/2000s
How long do you think it will take for you to bounce back?
Please. Explain it to me.

How can we interpret this as NSA competence?

Do please share your expertise from working in security about how this guy having access to secrets is a positive indicator of competence. I'm more than willing to change my views given a good argument based on strong evidence.
It's part of the UWP sandboxing system ("AppContainer"). UWP apps chat with the Runtime Broker for potentially insecure operations like opening the common file open dialog or printing.

There's a bit more info about it on page 709 of Windows Internals 7th Edition (Part 1).
Yes, but the editors are (to the best of my understanding) not written using the same software techniques as the games themselves.
Unless there is hot war with mass death, it's not "world war", despite fantasies to the contrary. It's game theory and diplomacy and sanctions and propaganda and other psychological operations.
> When I fire up a single player PC game nobody is logging the days I play, or how many hours that I play to draw inferences about my life and responsibilities.

If you're playing through Steam, Origin, Epic, or even GoG's launcher then yes those two things are being recorded. Unless your PC is totally air gapped it will definitely be sending that kind of telemetry back to the mothership.

> With very few exceptions, the games I play on my computer can't be remotely censored or modified against my will

That's not really true if you've purchased a digital copy of a game (unless it's from GoG I suppose). You're buying a license that can be changed or revoked for any number of reasons, and the actual content you're given can be changed at any time.

Left 4 Dead 2 in Australia is an example of this; for the first ~5 years of its life Australia had a censored "low violence" version of the game thanks to our pearl clutching regulators.
I honestly don't understand what's going on... but in Pascal I'd use short circuit expression evaluation to make the comparisons as I go into the depths.

There's too many layers of nesting, in too foreign a syntax for me to even parse.

I suspect it could be done a clearer manner in pascal.
How We Remember Last Weekend
Fun that they had an octopus playing a piano.

I made the same thing the old fashioned way. Mine can actually play though. https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1423052486760411136 :P
That’s how you get 3 years because everyone is new.
Interest rates move the Inflation Tax to the Mortgage Tax. That's the idea.

What the government has done is cut corporate taxes and left it to the Bank of England to raise the Mortgage tax.

Those paying for the government's investment idea will be those paying mortgages and those selling houses.

There's no difference here to cutting corporation tax and putting up income tax to compensate.
>If you truly think that's why people write long-form prose then I totally understand your ire towards it

Woosh? That was a tongue-in-cheek reference back to the original Socrates/Plato quote worrying about thinking skills atrophying due to writing.

For someone so married to the idea of being a deep thinker, who rigorously and patiently reads thick prose, you sure missed an obvious reference.

>At the risk of being an inaccurate arm-chair psychoanalyst I think that your anger and aggression

There's no need to psychoanalyze. Cercatrova took ~400 words, most of which were unnecessary, to bring up an idea, and not even make clear what part of the article it was related too. That's a really wasteful form of communication, and I pointed out why, then later on showed a better way to do it.

Most people would appreciate being told how they could communicate an idea better, and if there's someone here with a toxic personality, I would say it's the one who's trying to medicalize it and act like it's some kind of mental illness, rather than a request for common courtesy.

If you want to ascribe a personality trait to me, how about "distaste at people who waste others' time making their ideas obscure through poor communication", and I have to ask -- why don't you have that personality trait as well? Do you not like when others understand your ideas? Are you worried they'll better see the flaws?
woman is not a moral
> if any even exist

Fair point.
My opinion: because they went fauxpen source.
High interest rates is the point of the change. Those in charge believe low interest rates discourage investment.
Russia lost a bargaining chip though with this. Before they could hold it ransom. With the pipe being destroyed - they can’t use it as a bargaining chip. It’s just gone.

It doesn’t make sense for Russia to destroy its own pipelines when it controls the valves…

This is like me having a farm where I have all my food - I decide to not sell as to create an incentive for people to do what I want. Am I going to burn down my farm and lose that as a bargaining chip? Why would I do that? That doesn’t benefit me at all…
Tbh, most performance questions I see on SE are bad too. The necessary question here is: what's the profile of the whole thing - does this line of math even matter? The questions that are already researched to the level where the original question makes sense are extremely rare - and I do enjoy those.
What does this mean for our understanding of intelligence?

It trivializes it, in my opinion.

When asked the question of is lambda/GPT-3 and/or DreamFusion and it's derivatives an aspect of sentience? there's always a bunch of people who are repeating the same cliche negative line, of "no, it's only attempting to statistically mimic sentience." I agree with the reasoning.

But have we considered the other side of the story? That yes, the mimicry is All sentience actually is. Nothing more.
Small sample size? It is clear that you are disputing science using whatever jargon you hear in science articles and you have no understanding of statistics.

You would dismiss Newton's theory of gravitation when he proposed it in the 1600s because it can only explain the motion of 5 planets, clearly a SMALL SAMPLE SIZE.

> Science is largely an exercise in bad epistemology.

You have used a very big word here. I am very impressed, you sound very smart and impressive.

My recommendation to you is to avoid science and go back to Javascript.
they didn't use his solution. they began to adopt his approach. began to. they are still not even close to done with it all, and the changes they would need to make to fully line up with Casey's approach can't happen because of other things the code does.

they were not caught using his solution. they published a blog entry describing that they were made aware of performance problems and they didn't mention him. it was rabid fans of Casey that started foaming at the mouth then, even though Casey publicly stated he didn't want or need credit, because the idea wasn't his to begin with.
Like "life isn't fair" and "most vendors have an abusive EULA", if you ever find yourself saying that to defend your side ... you're probably on the wrong side.

Clear communication is good. You should welcome suggestions for how to communicate better. "Try it sometime", as it were.
That’s populism for ya. Watch Italy, Hungary and Russia end up like this over the next year.
Scientifically, one should test multiple “identical” components for each test and average the results (or do something like a box and whisker plot) to incorporate manufacturing variability.

But his results are authoritative as the bar is low.
I've upvoted you for wit and self-belief anyway.
> do you think they only made $26 billion in profit over the time period licensing Windows

Windows was at that point a 25 year old business, not one starting from zero. Why in the world would they have the same profit in that time period? Windows absolutely did not make $26 billion in the first 6 years of its life. Does that make Windows a failure?

I have no idea of whether Windows is more profitable than Android right now. You don't either. But both are clearly incredibly successful products.

Again: what product that successful has Amazon ever launched? Just a single example of something that made $26 billion of profit in its first 6 years. Should be easy to find, given Amazon has probably launched thousands of products, many in extremely lucrative high margin areas. And when you fail to name one, maybe consider that your theories on how good Amazon is at creating projects and how bad Google is might not be entirely correct?

> Do you think either spends anywhere near the amount?

Of course not. Why does that matter? Positive ROI is positive ROI.
I didn't expect it to reach page one when I shared it, but great to see (note: I only shared it, not the author). I had some more difficulty with Lycoris Recoil's flaws (aptly noted in the post) than the post did, but the article made me appreciate how much the team had to do to make a successful and entertaining series. I'd be curious to see what they could do with more time to put a season together, either in a second season of Lycoris Recoil or on a different project.

I'll add for anyone reading this post that this kind of long-form anime production content is characteristic of Sakuga Blog. It is a site worth following if you have any interest in anime or more broadly in media production.
Yeah, was this in an open beta before? I have been using it for my work account for a while.
Our eyes can change colour throughout our lives
They did say you don’t realize.
Just install notepad++ and associate it with the files you want, it will open instantly and has 100x the capability of notepad, even if you don't need it.
> What on earth is going on in the computing industry? Did all the smart nerds get siphoned off to hedge funds and machine learning, so Microsoft and Google can only hire the dregs to write boring desktop software?

They’re grinding leetcode and getting a new job every ~1.5 years.

What happens when owning a home and starting a family near your employer is hard and gaming the interview process is easy.
I've always pronounced "MOS" like "moss" and I think I'll continue to do so.
> that is a very pedantic argument. you completely overlooked the point i was trying to make.

lmao welcome to HN, if you don't enjoy that experience I don't recommend you try to argue here.
and now you've justified all non-free software.