skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their "Pro" subscription gave only a handful of games a month of which were mostly shovelware. And no exclusive deals on games like Cyberpunk in a time where Microsoft is giving a huge library of games for the same amount on tech people were already happy to spend on. At that point I was just questioning how it was even still around.

Saying that, the experience with cloud gaming itself was quite impressive, the fact that I can jump into Destiny 2 instantly on my Macbook felt like the future and I still believe it is. Clearly just isn't that affordable yet for anyone involved.
Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura Overcame Astronomical Odds
This reminded me of another story I saw, where the same chemical diethylene glycol caused another mass poisoning

https://youtu.be/qhN-o2ame-4
Right, well a new type would give them that flexibility because I can opt in to the trap or saturate.
I don't get the point obsessive need for more Twitter, or the need for a protocol. Honestly I think the world needs less connectivity, with more thought going into communication

We already have the internet where anyone can go an put something up for people to see
Unless you dont have a telephone, like me. You get to sign up, then inevitably after your first tweet your account is flagged for review, requiring phone to interact further.

I don't have a phone, I'm Amish, I just wanted an account to see the 4th and 5th posts in a "twitter thread" someone posted to HN and it keeps locking the screen with a signup/login modal after I scroll to the 3rd tweet in the thread.

After a while I just wonder if I'm not the target audience and move on, found nitter.net so that's neat.
I used to have blue eyes but now they're just a horrible ugly green. Still unhappy about that.
The difference between a journalist and a spy, then, is the size of their audience?
Windows is a really good OS to manage windows.

The Gnome and friends defaults puts Linux in 2nd place IMO. However, like nearly everything Linux, if you're willing to put in a little bit of effort and/or go down more esoteric routes (i3 is clearly the most efficient I've ever been...the problem is that I'm forced to use macOS and Windows as well, and switching from i3 to the others is really difficult) it can easily be the best.

macOS seems the weakest. There are utilities that can equal functionality from the other OSes, but even then it feels unnatural (a lot of animations in nearly everything doesn't help)
> Place a persistent banner ad along the bottom of the browser window?

No, they’ll place it at the top, just like Amp.
If they’ve been getting away with paying women less, why don’t companies mostly hire women to save money?
Bots Corrupted Advertising
That seems like an uncharitable interpretation of what the OP wrote. Obviously, employees have varying degrees of power in any given company, not just the CEO. A team lead, a director, a middle manager, and so on all have varying degrees of power within an organization (at least on paper; we can speak of influence that isn't formalized). The point the OP was making is that because CEOs are ultimately employees, the same basic relevant "rules" or expectations apply to them by virtue of their employee relationship. That doesn't automatically excuse them of any wrongdoing. All employees share some responsibility and some culpability (though this part is more complex) in a company's operations. Indeed, CEOs are generally more responsible for the company's direction than any other employee, and they must assent to what the shareholders are asking them to do.

(Also, you've unfairly maligned monarchies. Monarchies are not by their nature despotic, though they can be as can other forms of government. And if you want to make the analogy, then most companies are closer to monarchies than to democratic republics in the sense that at most companies, you don't have a say in who is CEO, for example.)
And still we don't know what other measurements will be taken after the annexation.
never touched any of the mobile platforms (i did a bit, but quickly dropped) . It's possible to make money just on the web. Don't drink the AAPL+GOOG koolaid
I agree with everything you say about the article, except for the idea that aggressiveness (in all its form) has historically been considered more childish that collaboration.

I mean, the ability to go to war, together with being a father, has always been considered as the maximum level of adulthood for men, as far as I understand.

And to be clear, I’m not even say that latest generations are “less adult”, ie “less aggressive”, because they are somehow “better”.

In my view, this is a direct consequence of the fact that in the current society, aggressiveness is simply a less effective strategy, on average.

Civilization is too complex now, and there are simply too many people around, for aggressive war-like behaviour to be succesful. Even the most hypercompetitive youth today, say in startups or such, are usually extremely diplomatic persons, that are able to navigate people.

“We are all children” because there is simply no more room to be aggressive!
Identity is always an issue in a decentralized systems. DNS can be used but not everybody owns a domain name. Ultimately if you want to keep your identity over a federated network you have to rely on an identity provider : Government issued, centralized platform that act as Id Provider (facebook, github, google, etc). I'm not aware of decentralized provider, maybe in a blockchain, there are a lot of writings on the topic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10848...
>I think the world needs less connectivity

Enthusiastic yes here on that one. Internet was a great thing but its ubiquity outpaced our maturity to use it responsibly.
> Are you talking about the Led Zeppelin who get entangled in judicial pursuits for plagiarism every couple years?

Yes, I intentionally mentioned a song "by Page – inspired by Jake Holmes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazed_and_Confused_(song)#Led_...

> The Ninth Circuit stated that the appeal was decided “on narrow grounds” and that the “decision does not give license to copyright a musical style or ‘groove.’”

What a pile of bullshit. I wasn't aware of that case.
I don't think this argument is in good faith. Generally, a CEO does need to focus on the fundamentals of a company. Answering to investors ultimately means answering to a group of individuals or who are more or less interested in the long-term outlook of a company. The stock price is a function of future cash flows (or is when the market is rational), and I find it hard to believe that people don't expect some sort of innovation/R&D investment to protect and maintain those cash flows.
For big companies (like microsoft) software is ultimately controlled by the product teams. They prioritise the work that is to be done not the dev teams. Think of SCRUM for example the priority of the backlog is PO's responsibility not the devs.

Software is slow because it's not devs who make it all by themselves it's now a team and often team members are ambivalent or ignorant of performance. Requirements come first then perf later when often requirements and perf are the same.

Example you can't have a page that shows 100 million pieces of data (a requirement) and be fast. You have to pagination, lazy load ...etc. Those are requirements just as much as the fact you are showing 100 million bits of data.

Good teams have non-tech people that understand this. Bad teams (most teams tbh) don't and so insane slow shit gets put out to customers.
Seems self-evident based on how many products it touched.
(Submitted as "How Bots Corrupted Advertising", but something is removing the "How")
On financial topics there are many emotions thrown around based on very little understanding. Unfortunately my upvotes to comments like this can only affect so little.
Perhaps there are more than two sides, or the sides aren't what you think they are.
Yes, at about the same time the society will have finished taking all of agency from it's individual members, forming beautiful eusocial hivemind.
Yet the only reason those things exist and are allowed to exist is because we have been training users that snappiness is not to be expected. We have been training them to wait, because their computer is busy and has a lot of work to do. The only reason these things are socially acceptable is because nobody is doing anything about them, and the average user does not care.

Also, improving developer iteration and velocity is possible without doing this.
Is there anything we could be doing to prevent this?
Many people play 30 FPS games on TVs that add 100+ ms of latency. Some people will buy 240 Hz gaming monitors with sub-1 ms response times but I think your underestimate what most people are okay with.
Unfortunately, disastrously, it is more or less true, yeah.

Here's a recent episode of the podcast 99% Invisible, about the Japanese TV show about toddlers running their "first errand" alone (which has become popular in the USA via netflix, perhaps because it seems so wild in the US?), and comparing US (and apparently Canadian) physical landscapes for children. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/first-errand/

The episode touches on the fact that in Japan dropping off your children to school by car is generally prohibited, with a principal explaining why. I have heard this is true in Germany. It is definitely not true in the USA -- and the US physical and social landscape has been built in such a way it would be largely impossible. It's a disaster.
Hundreds of thousands is a lot. It's more than the number of Russian soldiers currently fighting in Ukraine. And there are the young men most likely to be drafted.
"You're essentially claiming that the need to prove an effect is removed once something is enshrined into law"

This is a gross misinterpretation bordering on trolling. I'm not sure how you could even come to this position.

Please show me how what I've actually said is illogical and dangerous. Please remember that in the scenario we are talking about neither side has provided evidence one way or the other. Somebody would need to provide evidence one way or the other to shift the status quo, as shifting that requires flipping the convictions of the population, or at least the leaders.
There will be an equilibrium point - but that equilibrium will be between how many mining computers there can be run on the one side, and how much of the economy is parked in Bitcoin on the other side.

How efficient the computers are is completely beside the point, by protocol design.
I've only ever lived in "small town USA" so I guess I didn't consider what a privileged it was to have the space for a field. The current town that I live in (population 10000) has at least 3 or 4 fields. All publicly accessible by anyone for recreation (this probably is pretty uncommon these days with schools becoming more locked down)
What you're describing is how 2A works currently, it's not like it's a wild west, the regulations around gun ownership are crazy strict. Gun owners would rejoice if guns were regulated as loosely as cars. The only thing the gov't can't really do is outlaw them completely everywhere.
see also matrix/element, xmpp, jabber and probably many more
If you want to learn how to send emails in Python, including sending multiple emails, emails with attachments and reaching multiple recipients with SMTP and API, this in-depth guide by Mailtrap team is for you.
"> Who said consentual sex causes any harm? I'm arguing the opposite.

The comment I'm replying to is."

Doh, right, sorry.
It's not speculators that drive prices up on any meaningful timeline. Prices are a reflection of demand relative to supply. Speculators can anticipate shortages and thereby increase prices, and with it rationing, sooner than they respectively would have otherwise, but that has been found to reduce the severity of shortages in the long run.
I think the idea is that faults on sensitive pages are known to be good, because they can only come when running kernel code. They are unmapped when exiting from kernel code, so in theory there's no way for userspace to speculatively execute on those pages and leak sensitive memory.

It does seem to be a good fix for the root cause of the problem, but I'm skeptical about the details. I haven't look through the patch set, but narrowing down what's sensitive and what isn't is going to be a monumental task.
both. but the hackers mistook popularity for quality, and it's not.
I read The Foundations of Arithmetic and On Sense and Reference for my analytic philosophy course. This was in the U.S. fifteen years ago. I agree that he was not treated as obscure at all. We wouldn't have Carnap (the analytic philosopher) without Frege.
The bill doesn't prevent the use of animal studies, it just allows other studies to be used to prove pre-clinical safety. The requirement to prove a basic level of safety before doing human trials doesn't change.

“(1) Cell-based assays.

“(2) Organ chips and microphysiological systems.

“(3) Computer models.

“(4) Other non-animal or human biology-based test methods.

“(5) Animal tests.”.
By "windows keyboards" you likely mean the very common IBM PC Keyboard layout which was expanded many times, most famously in 1994 with the addition of 2 keys: Windows and Menu

I do wonder why my laptop which I bought with Linux pre-installed has another vendors operating system logo as a standard key on an otherwise vendor neutral keyboard.

I wonder why IBM, who created many keys that I commonly use on my keyboard does not have their logo anywhere.

The "fridge" analogy was because the universal sign for "liquid" is not "Pepsi".

But imagine that the keyboard had other vendor logos, the "B" is the Broadcom logo, because frankly it's almost assured that there is Broadcom tech in there. Intel puts an "intel inside" logo for turning on numlock since they're the owners of the patent.

Just feels surreal, silly, and very out of place.

Unless of course you say "all non-Apple personal computers are exclusively Windows PCs" which feels a bit grotesque to cede control in such a way. Even when Intel was extremely dominant in CPU manufacture did we allow them to put their logo into standards in this way. (thunderbolt, USB et al.)

You'll say "ah, but they invented a new key and it was useful so we kept it" except;

1) no: while they popularised a "Windows Natural Keyboard" layout with this key in 1994, Super and Meta keys predate them by about 10 and 20 years respectively; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_key_(keyboard_button) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key

2) creating something useful doesn't grant you license to advertise with it forever, even if it had been original.
I wonder how hackable it will be
The quote at the end is priceless "the
ultimate in garbage collection is performed without programmer intervention"
That's wrong. Most journalists recognise that when there's a risk of causing someone's death if they release certain details, they have to consider whether or not it's responsible to do so. So while they do exist to sell newspapers (or, more likely, get clicks for online ads) the majority of journalists and orgs aren't quite heartless enough to literally name an informant knowing it'd cause them to be exposed and killed.
Do you not have some way to work less hours? Seems very, very unhealthy.
From a quick look at the Wise site, I gather your services can't be used in Japan ?
> He also plainly stated that the thing he wants to start is a protocol…

Yes, but not that one. He wants a protocol he can monetize using various forms of Web3 grifts.
@dang could you replace the link with https://github.com/go-micro/go-micro ?
What's the replacement for Silverlight? Or do you mean it had replacement in a sense that nothing stops devs from going back to JS?
While the transformer model is important that was 1 paper in an ocean they put out every year.

Also it’s one of the only papers they put out that falls completely outside what I put above. They released everything about it including the model code, pretrained weights, the techniques; and it took quite a while for the model to “catch on” while it was peer reviewed and reproduced by others.

Something something broken clock
It looked okay with uBlock, sorry.
In the US (south?) they're called towheads.
Also paywalled.
It certainly seems this way. But something must've changed later on, otherwise Musk wouldn't have tried to buy Twitter.
I think it's unlikely I'll read a wiser comment on the internet today.
> So they shaped a false and convenient image of what it means to be an "adult", such as putting work above family and personal life.

I think there are also substantial geopolitical forces in play. Consider the hippie movement in the 60s as an example: yes it's true that there was no shortage of silliness and plain dumb ideas, but there were also a lot of genuinely enlightened ideas. But letting those bloom and spread at that point in time (considering what was going on geopolitically) could have had genuinely disastrous results. But then at the same time, if it hadn't been snuffed out the very opposite could have also occurred, in which case we might now be living in a much better world than the one we ended up with.
not at all, but javascript programmers cant or dont want to make such distinctions
OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022
Well urbit is kind of, like, a joke, right?
I was hoping for a new Elixir module or something
"Emotional valence" is a sublime way of putting it.

Text is an excellent way of transmitting information. Do this, go there, this is the answer, etc. But unless you have a deep, long-lasting connection with the other person, text will lose a lot.

So much of what's on YouTube is so irritating to me because it's 10 minutes of mostly filler to transmit a few facts that could be read in a minute or less. But I'll listen to a 3 hour conversation between two people who are passionate about history or Lego or whatever and not think anything of it. The emotional valence makes it worthwhile.

Nice comment!
I do not agree that the state of Delaware is the nation’s de facto merchant court, but even if true, in this case it would be because businesses choose to incorporate there, which is a legal right in the US.

If I recall correctly, the reason patent trolls used East Texas is because a judge there has sons that have law firms and coincidentally come up with favorable patent rulings.

There is a completely different reason to use Delaware, explained in the linked Wikipedia source.

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/patent_lawsuits_drop...

>The ruling said the word “resides” requires suits filed under that prong of the statute to be filed in the state where the company is incorporated. The patent law also allows businesses to file patent suits in a district where a company being sued has a regular and established place of business.

>In the first half of 2017, patent lawsuits filed in the Eastern District of Texas dropped 21.3 percent from the same period last year, according to data from Lex Machina cited by Texas Lawbook. In the same period, patent cases in the District of Delaware, where many companies are incorporated, jumped 71 percent.
"Good" speculative execution shouldn't be able to speculate isolated memory - isolation does work against Spectre.

Meltdown-type exploits (Older Intel and arm) can "see" across this isolation in some cases, which is why they were such an egregious mistake. Spectre is kind of inevitable whereas Meltdown isn't.
Just to be clear to some commenters: This isn't my game and I never developed anything for Stadia. I only develop for Steam and Nintendo Switch and you can find my games in my HN profile.

I just found an interesting thread on game development Reddit today and wanted to share. I don't have anything to gain or lose here.

I agree that it's debatable whether that game really required 4 months of work to port. It does look simple. So, maybe the developer isn't that competent. Or maybe the whole integration process takes a lot of effort? Idk.

Thanks.
Don't forget we're talking about his latest works, where he barely put his name on.
If I was well respected actor I would do everything to leave the best possible impression; my agents could disagree however. That was the point.
90m and 120m are close enough for communicating an approximate impression of size, which is what the football field "unit" is for. People aren't going to recall either of these sizes precisely anyway, nor accurately estimate the size of anything else about this big. Not without training in distance estimation anyway.
So it would be much the same as the fiat world for the average person. Just new masters.
This is a strawman because no one has claimed that a CEO must focus on short-term shareholder profit.

The point is that the CEO works for the owners of the company. (In a publicly traded company that's typically shareholders represented by a board.) To keep their job the CEO just needs to be able to convince the owner(s) that they're making the right decisions.

In the case of Apple, most owners (shareholders) trusted Steve Jobs' decision to cannibalize existing product lines with new ones.

In the case of Twitter, I am skeptical that the owners would have trusted Jack enough to let him transition Twitter to an open protocol without some kind of long-term monetization plan.
Hardware support. It is trivial to write libraries that can emulate these in many languages, but the performance drop is going to be pretty sharp if you are coding your basic arithmetic by hand. Unless you are writing code for an FPGA...
> Can someone invite me to mastodon.technology?

I find this very ironic.
Not a kernel developer. It sounds like a useful feature in some contexts(shared hosts, multi-tenant setups etc.), but useful to run without these constraints when it doesn't apply(HPC doing one thing using all available resources). Couldn't this feature be implemented as a feature flag in the kernel to say enable this if you need(and disable if you know what you're doing)?

As a side benefit, over time if smart folks find a way to reduce the overhead from this feature close to negligible levels, the feature flag would become unnecessary..
There's lot of chatter that Putin might start to use tactical nuclear weapons. Would be pretty crazy
A lot of the most egregious, society-warping behavior by monstrous-sized companies is due to paying execs with stock. It was a salary tax avoidance maneuver that started in the 80's, and has led to 1) absolute fixation on short-term stock price, and 2) (also to that end) stock buybacks. Many of our largest corporations have used recent stimulus moneys to fund buybacks like it was sex or something. All it has been is a transfer of tax dollars to the oligarchy, and has "stimulated" nothing. We need some laws that do away with the loophole somehow, either by not allowing companies to pay people in stock, or by taxing the stock on its nominal value when given, making it much less attractive as a shell game.
The story is very much related to this story. From Wikipedia:

> In 1937, S.E. Massengill Co. (a Tennessee drug company), manufactured sulfanilamide dissolved with diethylene glycol, to create a liquid alternative of this drug. The company tested the new product, Elixir sulfanilamide, for viscosity, appearance and fragrance. At the time, the food and drug laws did not require toxicological analysis before releasing for sale. When 105 people died in 15 states during the months of September and October, the trail led back to the elixir, and the toxic potential of this chemical was revealed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylene_glycol#Epidemiology
World peace? Enemies forced to cooperate? Wars won? I mean the list would be almost endless.

Just like the list of their proved fuckups and outright careless evil done because 'we can' and 'who is gonna stop us'