skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But all those 'Red Wall' Tory MPs representing poor Northern constituencies are going to lose their jobs either way at this rate. They might calculate that they stand more chance of being reinstated under Rishi Sunak (or whoever) than they would of winning their seats again at the next election under Liz Truss. I don't think the Tories as a whole can let Truss carry on for many more days though as they are burning credibility faster than an Saturn rocket burns fuel. The country hasn't had an even vaguely competent leader since Cameron, this has mostly been ignored by people as they have been able to go about their daily lives as normal but the current shambles is affecting peoples finances across the spectrum and people are waking up to the fact that the Tories have dropped the ball.
Forgive me for having chosen pseudo js for the example - and npm. That conflates the issue. I meant to convey an attitude - let some random package do the work, who cares whether it is deep and complex and handling cases I won't ever need, offering API surface that will go unused, and perhaps doing simple things inefficiently. The language doesn't much matter if "ship ship ship rn" is the ethic that drives decision making.
Is there a noticeable difference in battery life usage with option 1?
Let's not throw out the baby with the bath water. Inequality is clearly a problem but at least way more people have basic necessities and modern conveniences than at any point in history. Capitalism isn't perfect but it is immensely more positive than anything else that has been tried.
VSCode launches instantly for me.
Yes, and you also had to register to the waiting list to be able to buy one (refrigerator, TV, car...). Or you needed to know somebody who knew somebody who was able to get one for you faster, for an appropriate material reward.
> Over time, I’ve come to see many “senior” or “success” behaviours as refined versions of childhood ones. Political sniping, business competitiveness, standard hierarchical power dynamics, etc. These are all “playground tactics” but grown up. I don’t see (many) “successful” or “leader” type people publicly engaging in so called “adult behaviours” - supporting, sharing, collaborating, taking time out to understand one another’s needs, looking for win-wins.

It isn't very hard though to find plenty of people acting out those behaviors, both in their own behavior and in the perception/description of the behavior of their in-group members. Adults in 2022 can be conceptualized as being a lot like children "playing house", except we lack a physical frame of reference representing superior competence and wisdom to humble us, as adults provide for children.
But Gab's purpose is racist speech so why go there? They don't allow free speech because if you go there to argue with the racists they ban you. In fact, Gab has even more censorship than Twitter.
> No website I have worked for has ever called users the product.

Sure, and folks putting lead paint in children's toys don't call their wares "poison". Doesn't change anything.

Advertisers wouldn't buy all that fancy ad tooling "product" on a platform with zero users.
From another Musk's conversation [1], if you ever wondered how you reach high management positions - hard work:

Musk: Please send me anyone who actually writes good software

Steve Jurvetson: Ok, no management good coders, got it.

Musk: Yes

Musk: Twitter is a software company (or should be)

Jurvetson: Yes. My son at Reddit and some other young people come to mind.

Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson texts to recommend former Uber exec, Emil Michael, for the Twitter CEO job. When Musk says he’s looking for people who can code, Jurvetson volunteers his son.

[1] https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/elon-musks-text-exchang...
GDP is a mere indicator based on the total cash sum of all transactions in an economy. Increased consumption of goods and services doesn't necessarily equate a healthier economy.

The former communist economy of Bulgaria was a very different beast altogether. Services were practically non-existent, or entirely in the gray sector where individuals were repairing cars or giving music lessons to children for cash and mutual favours. The structure of society eliminated the need for whole classes of services which are in the private sector today - think private healthcare, travel agencies, consulting agencies, analytic agencies, etc.

The current IT industry in Bulgaria is not a game-changer for the whole country. It consists mainly of outsourcing companies concentrated in Sofia, exploiting the relatively cheap labour there. Few local companies develop their own product and accumulate their capital locally.
> Sometimes, though, there will be a need to access sensitive memory. An important observation here, Weisse said, is that speculative execution will never cause a page fault. So, if the kernel faults while trying to do something with sensitive memory, the access is known to not be speculative; the kernel responds by mapping the sensitive ranges and continuing execution.

So, is the isolation patch a real solution to speculative execution attacks? Or is it just adding another hurdle for the attacker to jump?

I.e. (if I interpret this correctly) the attacker would just be forced to add a "priming" stage, where they will trick the kernel to map the sensitive ranges they need for their speculative attack. So the effectiveness of the patch boils down to (a) the feasibility of this priming stage, and (b) for how long can the attacker keep the mapped memory in place.
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Box64 actually comes quite close to Rosetta in terms of translation speed and apparently that's with optimizations which have yet to be implemented[0]. Would make sense to just use that instead.

[0] https://box86.org/2022/03/box86-box64-vs-qemu-vs-fex-vs-rose...
I think Elon is a shit person, and deserves tons of scrutiny, but this line of attack is not really true.

It's hard to square the idea that he inherited all that money with his life in Canada as a student, where by all accounts he was living with a lot of debt, paycheck to paycheck.
Brushing teeth with a cup of water heated over the gas stove. Good memories.
Minunat, acum discutam despre romania in engleza.
I'd like to know if other constitutional norms have been restored as well (e.g., are supply bills & major manifesto bills automatically considered confidence votes?)
On Chrome, I had to use an extension that redirects it. It's annoying, and overrides the content of the address bar if you start typing too quickly -- but it's better than ads.

I switched to Firefox earlier this year, but the blatant memory leaks are making me strongly consider switching back to an old version of Chrome (v70 or so), which did not require a monstrous page file to run days or months without crashing.
If you're in the US, £510 might turn out to be pretty cheap by time 2023 rolls around.
We are restricting our long term rights and privileges though...I know it is hard to get people to see that, but that is what is happening.
OK, fair enough, a search for JSX doesn't give any results either. To step back a bit though, there's 1 job with Clojure listed on my country's biggest job board. React? 3200.

My whole point was trying to prove that you don't have to have something new and obscure to enable something but it's already there in something that almost everyone is using already. And then you replied that you can do it cleaner in something objectively vastly more obscure. Yes, yes you can. I'm sure you can.
For the steam deck valve added support for games to only include the relevant texture quality tier to save space. Hopefully that expands and rolls out more broadly, but it's also a bit awkward to specify your game quality settings before launching the game.
Friedrich Glasl's model of conflict escalation
Argument Injection in Git and Mercurial
This comment reminded me of the 1997 episode of The Simpsons, "Homer's Phobia", the adults thought the best way to ensure Bart would grow up to be a proper man was to send him off to war to kill someone, but lacking a war they go hunting so he can kill a deer instead.
From the Army War Collage in 1998:

"The Mind Has No Firewall"

Timothy L. Thomas

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.55540/0031-1723.1871

Recommended Citation:

Timothy L. Thomas, "The Mind Has No Firewall," Parameters 28, no. 1 (1998), doi:10.55540/0031-1723.1871.

https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol28/iss1/12/
The program terminates - depending on context, I suppose. I don't know what all toolchains/backends do but some will generate an unaligned load or some other architecturally illegal code (__builtin_trap). or you could trap to some handler.
On parallelism:

Sufficient attentiin applied to parallelism/concurrency, is indistinguishable from management, without any of the benefits or recognition, or most other practitioners bothering to even try to to grok it.

Does that mean you shouldn't do it? No. However, there comes a point where if you breach that barrier, you will discover that the fundamental problems of today arise out of willingness to inflict pain stemming from the component actors in the Human Virtual Machine.
I looked through the generated binaries from unreal engine, and they inline sort algorithms almost everywhere in their code, so even their binaries becomes huge not just the assets. Inlining sort algorithms is in my experience a very common cause to binary bloat, and not at all helpful for performance, forcing the cpu to load that much code everywhere hurts performance. It will look good in local benchmarks though since then the CPU can keep all the code in its cache.
Yeah, good catch. The invasion started in 2014, that's 8 years ago.
I don't know, using Firefox for many years (100% of time since FF Quantum), never encountered any issues anywhere.
It's a setting. You can enable the home button and then set it to be a custom address.
> Why do I get the feeling this is where everyone who got banned from twitter goes to hang out...

we need to let go of this mindset that there are undesirables in this world. there will always be a 'stable diffusion' seeking equilibrium between the places that censor and the places that dont, and the people impacted by those rule parameters will move to the places that dont censor, which will bring non mainstream ideals. Non mainstream ideals are the essence of what solves hard problems.
The home icon only appears next to the refresh button when you have a "home page" configured. It is separate from the New Tab page.
Wait, I though shutting down of Stadia was a public knowledge for months now?
I know they are talking about new sexy distributed / federated stuff, but we actually had what they were talking about a long long time ago, and it was distributed in a very similar way - orgs, corps and just plain people used to run NNTP and IRC servers as they pleased, and cooperated with each other as they wanted.

Glad to see good ideas don't die, they just get reinvented.
The CIA continues to cover itself in shit and serve as a national embarrassment. The time has long since passed that we need to unravel this mess. From botched coups, to exploding cigars, torture chambers, and burned informants the CIA seems only capable of pissing away money and making us look terrible internationally.
most federated projects work this way because of the homeserver model
maybe "lets do some roleplay bullshit for the future court proceedings to discover"
> I'm curious if this could be addressed with laws that force companies to either be utilities or publishers.

In theory yes, but maybe envision the lawmakers as a monopoly with vested interests and no accountability then project the result.
And in what circumstances would you hear about their successes?
Porting the game in the first place was 5 months of wasted dev time. By the time they had fully committed to the decision to port a game to Google Stadia, they had then taken the time, money, and resources of developers and put it in a burn barrel and set it on fire. It was the "best thing that happened" because it made what would've been a guaranteed worthless waste of time anyway into something that could actually help them.
> as long as people are sane about how they do things and don't assume.

Ime this expectation of developers doesn’t scale reliably. We can’t even trust engineers to keep feet and meters straight. Relying on conventions for correctness is a recipe for disaster.
USB kills off SuperSpeed branding
> We’re doomed

That depends on how you define "we".

If you define "we" as "homo sapiens", or even "biological creatures evolved (and therefore specialized) for survival on earth" then you are almost certainly correct. And such a "we" is almost certainly doomed even if "we" do spread out because a "we" defined as organisms specialized for survival on earth cannot survive anywhere except some place that is very similar to earth. This is true by definition. This does not necessarily mean that "we" have to find other earths. "We" can engineer earth-like environments. But that is a lot of work.

You can make the problem a lot easier simply by redefining what you mean by "we". If by "we" you mean "systems that think in a manner akin to what we (humans) do" that dramatically expands the scope of possible solutions. Being biological is (almost certainly) not a pre-requisite to thinking. By redefining "we" in this way we open the door to solving the problem by sending robots or even just raw information out into the universe. That is still a significant challenge of course, but it's a hell of a lot easier than trying to keep bags of water and meat alive (to say nothing of mentally competent) in interstellar space.
Same boat. Sony has great embedded software engineering power but they are just not that good at these upper layer applications. Look at PS Store web, it's a hot mess. PS App is also terrible. Xperia has some fancy photography/videography apps and that's it. But that also means you get zero of the LG/Samsung nonsense.
That's accurate I think. Hobbies are about building something to scratch an itch - and my itch has absolutely nothing to do with configuring editors and build tooling. If I was working on a paid Clojure project, I'd just put in the time.
Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer
1. The gun is always loaded

2. Don't point at anything you aren't willing to destroy

3. Booger hook off the bang button until you are ready to bring the heat

4. Know your target and what's behind it

Even with misinterpreting 2 as "I'm pointing at 'nothing'", well you still need to know what is behind that nothing.
I'm French by the way. Incidentally the US has bombed my country well beyond what was justifiable.

So you know, I fear much more the US's mad leaders than Putin.

Good day
I'm not surprised by this. Isn't it the case that most founders usually get pushed out within a matter of a few years when a company finally finds its footing in the market? It doesn't seem to be all that common to see a founder stick around unless they've done everything they can to ensure they have the controlling stake in the company they created.
I call it propellor but someone told me to call it splat in Chicago.
Statistics Are Being Abused, but Mathematicians Are Fighting Back
Yup, once you come to appreciate the elegance of Clojure, most other languages start feeling very clunky. Completely agree that defaulting to immutability was an excellent decision.

I also find that having everything operate on a common set of data structures makes it very easy to build data processing pipelines. If I use a library, I just have to know what data it takes as an input and what it produces as its output. The data is transparent and inert. I don't need to know anything about the internals of the library worry about any special behaviors.

On the other hand, if I'm working with OO based language, then library APIs are object graphs, and objects are opaque and volatile. I now have to worry about the behaviors of each individual object in the graph, and their state.
Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion [video]
Doing so without being advised to by the PM would trigger a major constitutional crisis.
Validate All the Things with Zod
Free markets only work for certain markets - and it works in those markets exceptionally well. HOWEVER somewhere in history we decided as a group of people that free markets worked so well for these specific markets that we will apply this ideology to all markets and that will solve the problems of appropriate capital allocation.

This is indeed a fallacy and has led to the rampant problems and the perpetuation of the simplistic & naive belief that free markets will allocate capital properly and efficiently and if the free market doesn't its a function that the market isn't free enough.
Prediction: This is going to reduce the cost of producing non-stylized animated motions and lead to a lot of movies that look something like Polar Express.
Watch a child for 15 minutes, if he/she is not sleeping and you have been wise enough not to turn on a screen, you will see that his/her movement in that time is equivalent to what adults do in a crossfit session.

In the words of someone who was in medicine, it is not our metabolism that slows down, but we adults who slow down our physical movements.
> Being a cunt has nothing to do with gender

Surely you see, though, how it could.
Apple VP Cancelled for Crude Remarks on TikTok
I heard that ad blocking will not work after January. I am going to wait until ads actually start appearing in my browser again to switch because the internet is full of bad information but assuming it actually happens I, and all the non tech dependents I influence, will be giving Brave a try. I am attracted to it because it says it blocks ads by default, however I am concerned because it doesn't appear to have even 1% of browser share. I don't know where else to go though because Edge...just I can't believe myself ever using a Microsoft browser again after the IE drama and Firefox is a zombie from a by gone era that only exists on the fumes of massive payments from Google to prevent anti trust so not worth investing in either. Slim options and no clear path forward.
Are those good conferences?

I don't know, but the PHP UK conference videos for 2016 to 2022 are on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/phpukconference/playlists

Gopher UK conference videos (2015 to 2022):

https://www.youtube.com/c/GopherConUK/playlists
Stadia has contributed almost nothing to linux gaming. We never saw any of the stadia games released natively for linux. All effort that is done is by valve, with proton. And proton runs windows games.

I'd argue that linux native is dead, but that doesn't matter much when we can just run windows games.
The company pays 1.2 million? That is no more than the cost of a couple of houses. Even with the prices from 10 years ego, was the price of 10 houses?

Is the number wrong in the article?
They've probably got a case based on promissory estoppel. Roughly Google made promises that Stadia wouldn't shut down. The devs work on a port based on that promise. Thus Google is liable for their effort.

But then again probably there's some sort of "eat shit and die" clause in the agreement developers have with Google.
Windows keyboards are designed around the Windows OS so they feature that logo? I have an Ethernet adapter with an Apple logo on it but it's plugged into a Dell running Linux. Is that absurdly out of place? I just don't understand this thread at all.
x86 has had the `INTO` (interrupt on overflow) instruction (just a one byte form of `INT 4`) for decades. After an `ADD` or other arithmetic operation, you would `INTO` to trap it. However, because compilers love exploiting undefined behavior for speedups, they don't emit that instruction, so it's actually fairly slow on modern processors.
He was roughly quoting the movie Arthur:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-vMsjd0ccM
> Old computers are just so much more responsive.

Because the software on them predates the explosion of GCs, JITs, and hundreds of layers of abstractions & dependencies. All those techniques that improve developer iteration & velocity came at the cost of runtime performance.
Does HN give you the ability to downvote after some threshold? I still don't have it.
Russia may see it as a proxy war, but Ukrainians don't. To them, it's entirely about the future and freedom of Ukraine.

You've got to understand that while the current generation of Ukrainians grew up in relative freedom, their parents and grandparents grew up in the Soviet Union. And now with Putin trying to subjugate Ukraine, they fear that their children may grow up in a similar situation, and possibly worse, with all the Russian talk of genocide.

So that's why they're fighting so hard. They're fighting for their lives, their freedom, and that of their children and grandchildren. That's an incredibly powerful motivator, and I'm absolutely convinced that they'd fight just as hard without foreign support. But that support does give them a better fighting chance, enabling them to fight Russia on equal footing, instead of relying mostly on partisan/guerilla warfare, which is actually what NATO expected to happen.

With or without support, I don't think this is a war that Russia could possibly win; there's just too much at stake for Ukraine, and not enough for Russia. People are generally eager to fight for their own lives and freedom, but not to subjugate others. Especially not a brother nation, as Ukrainians and Russians used to see each other before this.
Build and deploy your own PagerDuty with Go and Slack in 30 minutes
I'm speaking with 15+ years experience in the games industry, often explicitly in marketing.

It's very possible that I'm wrong: obviously we don't have the knowledge of what their expectations from Stadia were, nor is it possible for anyone to now know how successful or not their Stadia launch would've been if Google had decided to keep trying to make Stadia work, nor do we know how many sales the game will get from this exposure.

But I still stand by my view despite agreeing with your first few sentences about the industry generally.

edit: It's mainly coming from gut instinct, so I've tried to think more about why my gut says that. I think the main thing is that the exposure is going to people who are interested in games industry business, or tech industry, or Google specifically. That's what everyone is discussing, not whether or not the game is actually worth playing (and unlike if it was some planned PR, there's not even any subtle suggestion within the story that the game is worth playing - nor to be fair that it's not worth playing).

Sure, a few people might click onto the steam page out of curiosity, or buy the game out of sympathy to the poor people getting screwed by this situation, but it would be surprising (to me at least) if the amount of people converting is more than if they actually just had a marketing person spend a day writing a piece of content for Hacker News / GamesIndustry.biz with the goal of being both interesting tech content and featuring mentions of what makes the game worth playing. And that's just thinking about doing targeted marketing to not-very-good target audiences (for promoting indie games - sure there are some areas where HN traffic is incredible and businesses that would love a front page post, indie games not so much).

SteamDB's data on the game doesn't seem to suggest that I'm wrong here, but maybe with time I'll become wrong. (Side note, while writing this comment I couldn't remember the name of the game we're talking about, so I had to go look it up... because the name of the game wasn't the interesting bit when I read about this earlier!) https://steamdb.info/app/1787630/graphs/
Any reasons for not adding these as a library and expect it from the language? C++ gives you all tools for that