skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the user cannot point at an arbitrary part of a rock wall and say "move this over a bit and make it bigger".

In some games, you can.
You'd be amazed if you were working with networking in the early 90s before TCP/IP "won" over NetBEUI/AppleTalk/IPX, and the same was said then, those huge weird numbers were unwieldy and nothing an admin should have to remember.

Answer still the same, use DNS and stop caring for the large numbers.
It's a bit more complicated. Murder on TV is pretend, but nudity is real. Even if you think nudity is ok, showing it needs all parties to consent and we decided that children can't give consent to such things.
UK defined benefit pension fund trustees have been quite risk averse actually. The main purpose of these investments was to avoid a mismatch between the funds assets and its liabilities (which can fluctuate wildly as actuaries make small changes to their assumptions). Their actual investment strategy is often very risk averse though, heavy on bonds and on buying insurance.

Any deficit has to be covered by the original employers but trustees don't seem to have taken the temptation to chase returns. A recent report from the regulator showed most funds with deficits has less than 40% of funds in what they called 'return seeking assets' (ie things like shares as opposed to boring (usually!) things like public sector bonds).
I like your take that human tolerance is the limiting factor.
I'd agree that is a major constraint. The rest of it is just economics.

When I started programming, people I learned from would optimise code in assembler, use clever algorithms and write highly unreadable code that was impossible to debug. One bit of code I remember interleaved various operations so that it's access would line up with disk reads. I rewrote it to just hold the data on memory. It wasn't much faster than his disk based code in practice.

But the only reason to go to that kind of effort was the severe constraints hardware placed on software. When those are largely removed, the imperative is to write code fast that other people can still understand.
Wanna bet? Cuz I think I’m 2 years Spanish language tracks will increase streaming by 20% and AI won’t even break 10% of listened to material.

You know how I know? The Rolling Stones are still touring. Most people don’t go to Spotify or YouTube for discovery, they go for convenient on demand.
That's somewhat of an exaggeration. There were "troika" meetings in the late 1990s and in 2003, but France and Germany remained in the US' orbit.

The Iraq War was probably the time of maximum German/French political autonomy, when they publicly opposed the US on a major issue, but there's very little of that spirit left. France and Germany have hitched themselves even more strongly to the US now, to the point that the German foreign minister is talking about decoupling from China (a policy that makes no rational sense for Germany, but which signals that Germany sides with the US in the geopolitical rivalry).

As far as their attitude towards Russia goes, Germany and France have had terrible relations with Russia since 2014, at the latest. Germany tried not to sever all economic ties with Russia, and it tried to negotiate a settlement to the war in the Donbas, but that doesn't mean that relations were friendly.
I think that this is going to further the reputation damage for trusting Google with anything.

The fact that this was handled on such short notice is a huge problem, but who is going to want to invest in another Google technology with such a risk?

See also, trusting Microsoft with a new UI technology and how their reputation in this area is really bad.
Wow, this guy is proposing the use of neurotoxins and biological weapons in warfare. Not to affect populations but to alter the thinking of specific individuals (for enhancing soldiers or degrading enemy soldiers, diplomats, and politicians). A lot of what he talks about is vague and no where near realization (nanorobots to alter biology as a weapon, an FMRI helmet worn by soldiers). This seems like an incredible provocation to Russia and China to develop new chemical and biologic weapons. He also seems to think that crypto millionaires are financing this kind of biohacking and chemhacking for terrorism purposes. He suggests that some of these things should not be used, but that some should be assessed for use as weapons. He names a few DARPA programs along these lines that might be considered "dual use".
Hate speech is literally speech.

You're welcome to argue that not all speech is good and some deserved to be banned by censoring it. But please at least be honest about what you're trying to do.
I feel the same way about the IEEE article about immersive 3d audio - where’s the market?! It’s not the future of music - people crave live or festival / social atmosphere, not getting into an alien pod to jam out Lizzo.
Noise is not behind the paywall tho
I'm guessing he fell for some internal honeypot, and that led to his immediate termination and subsequent monitoring. Then he also transmitted the honeydocs and the rest.

Sure they traced the crypto but that's not how they got him.
There are always options. And always those looking to exploit untapped opportunities. And in the subscription age, you don’t refund, you just stop renewing.

There is no market for a photoshop competitor with half the features but runs faster for example. Because every tool is already tuned to be just fast enough that customers are satisfied.
The mainstream media are still talking about the Pound sliding.

Ignoring the fact it’s grown strongly over the last week.

It’s clear to me why public trust in the U.K. media is down to just 34%.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/trust-in-news-uk/
> Would topic forums see a rise in popularity

I highly doubt it

> or would sites like Reddit draw in some of those users

probably. I get the impression reddit is doing more marketing to non tech people, and more people I know have said positive stuff about reddit out of nowhere

but also... I feel like this is unrelated, but reddit has seriously gone downhill since what it was in like 2015. It's a good idea but the users make it insufferable
No it's not about the level of interest rate, it's about the duration. I think they go long/short a short term and long term bond, creating some duration exposure to manage the discount risk of their pension liabilities.

You can't really create the arbitrage you are describing. Whatever the gilt yields is pretty much what you would pay to borrow against it.
First of all, no one gets car sick while driving - already a major difference to VR. Secondly, most people who can get car sick can avoid it by sitting in the front row and looking only straight ahead.

Finally, even for people who get hopelessly car sick as passengers no matter what they do, the advantage of a fast safe private ride often outweighs the discomfort - especially since no one is spending more than 1h in a car more often than a few times a year. It is very hard to imagine what application could make VR give even close to the amount of utility that cars give you.
Textures are big... bigbly big! And to be fair, game devs even have middleware solely dedicated to compression (such as Oodle http://www.radgametools.com/oodle.htm). I am sure that some % of that space can still be recovered, but it's definitely not significant. I'm sure you can't drop to half and maintain the ultra settings.
Responsible gun ownership should prevent anyone from bringing a gun in a situation where they will be drinking, or leave the gun in a safe place before staring to drink.

Sadly, a lot of people in the US own guns to make a political statement and have little interest in safe & responsible gun ownership.
According to a quick Google search the typical sizes of football fields I've grown up with were either 32m or 44m long. Pro league football fields are anywhere between 100m and 120m long. However if I add "American" to the query, I see 90m and 110m being "the" answer.

So, which is it? :)
No, no, performance should be part of the requirements.

Not in the sense that every project needs awesome performance. But in the sense that requirements should not what performance goals are required.

So you should note down target throughput and latency for different scenarios in your requirements.

That can be as simple as saying that any user interaction should give feedback within one second. (Be that either doing what the user requested within that one second, or giving some indication that the program is working on it.)
This sounds bad for the legion of devs who worked on it, but does anyone here actually use Stadia? The bad thing here isn't that stadia was canceled, but rather such a big company like Google is unable to pivot te incredible underlying technology
Using Tor Browser should be very simple, if they know how to operate a web browser they should be able to use Tor Browser. They literally start the program, there is a window that asks if they want to use a direct connection or bridge. They click bridge, enter a bridge and are connected like a normal browser.
Audacity on my computer also starts 20s
> I'm a game developer and game performance is better than ever.

It could be, if users would have more control over the graphics settings of the games that they want to play and they were allowed to scale back further to accommodate older hardware.

For example, the Unity engine by default has a setting to allow downscaling the texture resolution that the game will use 2X, 4X and 8X, yet many games out there actually disable that. Same for some options menus not having framerate limits, dynamic render resolutions (though most engines support that functionality in one way or the other), particle density/soft particle options, options to disable SSAO/HBAO or other post processing like that, as well as enabling/disabling tessellation.

The end result is that many games that could run passably on integrated graphics or hardware from a few generations ago (e.g. GTX 650 Ti) instead struggle greatly, because the people behind the game either didn't care or didn't want to allow it to ever look "bad" in their pursuit of mostly consistent graphical quality (and thus how the game will look in the videos/screenshots out there).

The only real exception to this are e-sports titles, something like CS:GO is optimized really well for performing across a variety of hardware, while also giving the user the controls over how the game will look (and run). Games like DOOM are also a good example, but they're generally the exception, because most don't care about such technical excellence (though it's useful when you try porting the game to something like Nintendo Switch).

Most other games don't give you that ability, just because they try to always do more stuff, which isn't that different from Wirth's law (software gets slower as hardware gets faster). Of course, this is also prevalent in indie titles, many of which don't even have proper LOD setups, because engines like Unity don't automatically generate LOD models and something like Godot 3 didn't even have any sort of LOD functionality out of the box.

Engines like Unreal might make this better with Nanite, except that most people will use it for shoving more details into the games (bloating install sizes a bit), instead of as a really good LOD solution. That said, Godot 4 is also headed in the right direction and even for Godot 3 there are plugins (even though it's just like Unity, where you still need to make the models yourself), for which I actually ported the LOD plugin from GDScript to C#: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/porting-the-godot-lod-plugi...
Heh, I see what you mean. At the same time, since I grew up in an unknown town with 2500 people, it's not often one comes across it randomly online.
Tumblr had an issue with pedos on the platform and was on the verge of getting kicked off the App Store. For some reason they decided banning porn in general was easier than just removing pedos.

Only Fans was about to be kicked off the banking system entirely and would have been ruined but the publicity caused the bank to back down so OF could continue as normal.
On metrics, it's the #1 anime on viewership polls, "radio" events have a big following, and it has pretty strong reviews in general.

It's a surprise in the sense that it's trending at the same levels as SpyxFamily while having no existing manga following or dumpsters of money pushed into promotion. The "dark horse" monicker could be applicable I guess.

On taste, well, to each their own ?
Well Greenpeace is selling gas so it seems to be yes.
I came to say that - and it's not just tech: plenty of finance, sales, etc have significant portions of their annual income come from non-fixed wage/salary sources. RSUs, stock options, etc are particularly common in tech, but there's also bonuses, commissions, etc that from my reading of the text would not be included[1].

It's interesting the SB-973 (the report to actual compensation to the CA gov law) specifies earnings. not wage or salary - clearly there's an understanding that non salary/wage income does actually exist :D.

So it's conceivable at the lower end of the income spectrum (where generally non-salary/wage income is not as significant) this may help, but I've always got the impression that as you get closer to the bottom you approach "everyone is paid equally: the absolute minimum we're legally allowed to"

[1] The bill explicitly states that "pay scale" is understood to be salary or wage range, so excludes additional remuneration. That the bill itself makes this clear makes me, a non-lawyer, think that would pretty quickly shut down any "but the legislature clearly meant X" lawsuits.
The curious thing about Hackers is that, while the technical side of hacking was obviously not even wrong, the culture and ethos got a much better exposure. I mean, it actually had the Hacker Manifesto read out loud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvK7V7U5Mck
"The consumption of electricity in everyday life was limited (it was forbidden to use a refrigerator during the winter, and the use of a vacuum cleaner was banned all year round), hot water was supplied to apartments twice a week,"

This is all false. Source: I was there.
This is a wonderfully concise response and I plan to use it verbatim in the future to evidence my sincere and perhaps bottomless disdain for something. Bravo phrasing.
because its optimized to serve ads not to be useful
Thought experiments are mostly interesting, hardly to be useful. Something about speed of light, how can we make use of it. Nuclear bombs, he didn't like it.

“all models are wrong but some models are useful” tells us just to go find useful models, and the beautiful truth is not important. I don't think it is not important.
As far as I can tell, it's quite common to do work to improve the performance of existing systems?
Can you expand on the explanation as to why Intel said they designed the 286 as they did?
Context is also that Russia trained their invasion forces in a modern German built facility.
Perhaps in a “Life finds a way” sense, too.
Yet anecdotally I see an _awful_ lot of Azure use in traditional corporate IT teams looking to move away from onprem...
btw guys stable diffusion img2img consistently applied frame-by-frame will get us some insane CGI for movies yo

"transform this into this realistically"

ILM's holy grail
Blood tests are well studied technology but Theranos was a scam.

It’s never “ignorant” to think critically.
Indeed, I've hired many people. The nice thing is that as an employer in most of the US, you can just fire them for any reason or none at all. I don't think the possibility of doing multiple interviews only to discover that the candidate you've had ample opportunity to question is actually a complete incompetent justifies underpaying/attempting to underpay the rest of your, presumably competent, employees. I promise you, if you stop structuring compensation with the assumption that your employees are worthless, you'll stop getting so many incompetent or recalcitrant employees.
The GE-McKinsey Nine Field (or Box) Matrix framework offers a systematic approach to prioritize investments among products or business units.
Never tried Stadio, but do you have access to the game files? Can you make a backup of your savegame?
Interesting comment but the link brings up a 404 now for me.
Anybody got a comparison chart or data for Excel handy to compare the “reality” of celebratory gunfire versus large hail thrown from the sky at our mushy little water meat bags by nature?

I seem to remember a storm here in north Texas at Mayfest in the 90s turning canopies into Swiss cheese…
I would venture that it is not that your opinion has changed but that the fabric of people engaging online has changed.

Free speech absolutism worked 20 years ago when you just hosted a PHP message board on a server in Iceland or Romania and a few hundreds of curious people got together around a specific topic or hobby.

The problem now is 1) the volume of people online. 2) the normal distribution of people online (no longer just the curious one).

edit: no obvious solution though.
Trigger is doing the second season of PSG, very exciting~
Obligatory - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...

Missiles don't really need GC or RAII. They have their own special resource clean up.
Quote: a charming, surprised-looking face with wide, slate-grey eyes – similar in shape to his father's brown eyes, but closer in colour to his mother's green. By his second birthday, however, the pictures revealed he had become a happy toddler with eyes the same dark brown shade as his father's, with all trace of the dark grey of those early photographs gone.

The article talks about a study where those with blue eyes changed, but it does not definitely say only blue eyes change color.
His video on Water Purifiers only measures one dimension of water purification: TDS measurement. This leaves out a whole world of other aspects to consider when testing water and filtration quality. While TDS can give an indication of cleanliness of the water you can only glean from what you can measure, to this end the TDS measurement will not catch all contaminants in the water because it relies on electrical conductivity.

Also he does not disclose that his TDS measuring device is actually bundled with one of the devices he is testing. Should have used a third party tool to verify that it is giving an accurate reading instead of a unit bundled with one of the water filters as a marketing ploy. It gives some doubt as to how seriously he takes his other tests. These are the things you miss if you don't actually know any better(I assume the majority of his audience have not looked into what makes good water filtration before watching his video).

Nevertheless, the fact that he is really the only one doing these kinds of tests is enough to give him some sort of super reviewer credibility.
> if I'm a bad programmers and I care about slow software but I don't know enough to make it fast, how do I go about learning?

Learn how to use a sampling profiler.
I'd say it's also instructive to consider different aspects of performance. For example, many games start up unnecessarily slowly because nobody bothered to optimise it. Users will load the game, then spend a fair while playing it, so the slow startup time doesn't hugely impact their experience. Hence, improving frame rate is a much better investment
There are 9 topless women on the page, and 2 topless men if I counted right, who are both obscured and in the background.

Like it or not, in some US workplaces, a background shirtless man isn't probably a big deal.

A front and center topless lady in a thong probably is.

I'd make the same declaration if it was a front and center pic of some dude in a banana hammock.

I'm making no judgement on laws or society, just trying to give a heads up to folks who might not expect that from a wikipedia link.
I think some of these issues should be looked through a lens of incentives though as well. At my previous job, management didn't care much about performance improvements or bug fixes, they care more about delivering projects or big features. Fixing stuff like this wouldn't help you get promoted.
That’s power cycles of the disk firmware, isn’t it, not power cycles of macOS? I don’t know how things work, but guess it might decide to shut down when idle.

It also could crash often, but if that’s the case, I guess you’d have seen data loss. If you run disk repair in Disk Utility, does it find problems with the SSD?
Too early for this but obviously Starlink's recently announced plans to start offering connectivity to phones in very remote areas would also work wonders for people in countries like Iran. The scale would be an issue obviously. But maybe combined with e.g. mesh networking, it would enable people to bypass government controls.

IMHO, this is the biggest threat to police states like Iran, North Korea, etc. in years. They are very dependent on controlling access to information and breaking through that threatens their power and they have treated the internet as an existential threat by raising firewalls and imposing very strict controls and limitations. However, phones are a weakness. At least so far.

Information is basically a weapon that can be used to influence large amounts of people. The Russians just used propaganda to sell their own population on a war that they wanted to start. That didn't just happen overnight; the propaganda started years ago. That would have been impossible without strict controls on media and freedom of press. Iran, Russia, North Korea, China, and a few other countries are at this point very dependent on controlling access to information. It's a strategic weakness that is exploitable. Break through the information blocks and things start changing.
There's a lot here, so perhaps you'll forgive me for not responding point by point. But to the critique that we need to be more transparent, I just want to share that we've gone so far as to share our product strategy publicly: https://flutter.dev/go/strategy-2022

Modulo a few minor redactions, this is the entire document. I don't know of many other projects of our scale that has shared something like this. It's reasonable to have divergent opinions on whether we're successful or popular, or what that means about our developer base. But I hope you'll see that we're trying to be pretty transparent about what we're focused on. We're just trying to build something valuable and useful, and that benefits Google as well as the broader community.
> Facebook (Meta) cannot innovate. Their growth since inception is almost exclusively through acquisitions. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus.

Innovation at this point != success

Just look at Oracle... they're still alive and doing OK

They don't need to at this point. They have FB, IG, WhatsApp, and Messenger

That's already a lot to begin with, they could've just coasted and they'd be fine

But instead they have their idiot CEO creating PR nightmare after PR nightmare (just look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8q2BQOGRGE and tell me he isn't a liability) and funneling billions into what's going to be the biggest business mistake of this decade
Would it be ok if a company didn't care that a user is gay or not, but they hated that he celebrated gay activities? Even straight people celebrate gay pride and rights. Can we discriminate against them? Seems pretty similar.
There is some criticism and skeptics of Vivoo out there:

https://truthinadvertising.org/articles/vivoo/
The story was not retracted by CBS, they only removed a quote.

You seem motivated to hide corruption lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Ukraine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_mafia