skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the hackers were hired by Google (and rest of MAANG) to help target ads and promote consumerism.
Or they could price the games initially the way things like annuities are priced. Or free (or license) the games so that others can run the servers.

Given the throughput increase in computational power and broadband this should be a decreasing cost even if the use stays static in perpetuity.
This is how it works in Norway. Same in the rest of Scandinavia I think.
> Since 2010 the standard deduction has gone up

Nothing special happened in 2010. Beginning 2018 there was a temporary change (TJCA) that increased the standard deduction, but that ends in 3 years unless extended by Congress.

>There are two groups of people who want to keep tax filing difficult.

No, there is a third, much larger group, of taxpayers who want to keep loopholes, grey areas, and little things you can cheat on and get away with. This is only possible with the current system.
It's really hard to imagine what a world without corporate personhood would look like. Legal structures resembling corporate personhood have existed since ancient times. This is because corporate personhood is an emergent economic phenomenon. It's simply a natural activity for persons to pool together their resources and act for a common purpose. Legal measures to make forming and operating as a group easier and more reliable would invariably end up creating something very similar to a corporation.
I am considering this phone and the previous news took it off my radar. Probably cost them sales.
Prett much the same with all software as service these days, you don't own your software anymore.

Even media with all streaming going on it's sometimes just gone.
> I don’t personally know any other field whose products have deteriorated over time like the game industry’s and it being clear because the quality of software developers in that field have went down.

Having been playing computer games since the mid 90's I don't know if that claim is actually true. Once upon a time there were games that would delete your entire hard drive when uninstalled and wouldn't last a 15 minute game session before blue screening the whole system. Honestly, given the complexity that modern games require I don't think it's bad at all.

I think the problems we're seeing with modern games actually being worse (the new Arkham game compared to the old) are strictly dollar and cents choices. The ability is there, but the industry has become far too pragmatic.
Thank you. FWIW, I think the case for Medium over Github + Jekyll is solid. We are a little more user friendly, we have syntax highlighting now, you do not have to put your own articles behind the paywall, potentially we will help with discovery/distribution.
Interesting, link:

https://onemileatatime.com/news/qatar-airways-pilot-loses-si...
Y intercept = Current Y position?
Is it more expensive to find a new customer or keep an existing one?
Sure, for lots of these games, continuing support means pouring money into a product which has already been paid for, and that investment means little to the continuing payoff of that product. However I would argue at this point in VR's tenuous life, Meta is burning its existing customers (its early adopter evangelists) in the hope that new ones will materialize.
But then again they've run the numbers and I haven't,
Where should that strategy come from? In the end of the day, Meta is just the company of one huge and profitable product (Facebook) that just happened to be successful, not the result of a great strategy. There is no history of a great strategy to support the expectation of having one now. But they have a lot of money, so acquisitions are easy.
Do you believe the fat ugly monster that is ElasticSearch would've had anywhere near its current adoption rates if it had a non-OSI license from the start?

It would've been completely overshadowed by some other Lucene-based wrapper or maybe some even better alternative would've come along earlier.
Not really a source, but this Dental Hygienist talks a bit about hydroxyapatite. Sounds like it could be of at least equal effectiveness. Though further studies are needed.
https://youtu.be/kQAPEZaqwfY?t=63
I’m not saying the EPA is perfect but simply asking whether we have reason to believe that this case was due to measurement choices, or if that was simply made up for the sake of argument.
If the AI is properly designed/constructed with the goal of servicing the flesh-bag population, that is what it would do. It's a fundamental error to assume that AIs will just be artificial human minds (with regular human goals, motivations and aversions).

"Properly designing" the AI is still an open problem however, which is known as the "alignment problem".
Hm, it depends how "attrition" is defined. I read it the way it is done in german universities, meaning 70% and above indeed fail the weeding courses (usually math) at the first try, but you had 3 tries and still could attain the next semester, without passing.

But for quite some, it was indeed eye opening and they left for something else. It is a bit brutal, but effective and it gets the message across. If you don't want to struggle to learn the basics, you are wrong in computer science.

That doesn't mean, you cannot become a programmer, there is another formal path of doing so, but attaining a university does mean playing at another level. (or well, if should mean that, I got to learn too many who just learned to play the bullshitbingo)
The problem is not whether "they can find a needle...", the problem is the the pointy things they "find" that are not needles:

"It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So."

-anonymous

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/11/18/know-trouble/
If you get 95% of your calories from hunting you will spend a lot of time chewing tough pieces of meat. Kids who grow up chewing meat and gnawing on bones develop larger and wider jaws (and more attractive faces) and they have space for wisdom teeth.
"Not everybody is Google"

These concepts has worked surprisingly well for us for nearly a decade. We're not Google-sized, but this architecture should work well for a few more orders of magnitude traffic.

Also, you can mix and match. If you have some parts of your system with absolutely massive traffic, then don't use this there, then.

Note that we very seldom use "fire and forget" (aka "send(..)"). We use the request-replyTo paradigm much more. Which is basically the basic premise of Mats, as an abstraction over pure "forward-only" messaging.
This is why TP is not a great example to use. The exact same example exists for essential items such as food. Buying food on sale and canning or freezing is a fantastic way to save money and increase nutritional intake.

At one point in my life I had a paycheck withheld illegally (according to the government of Ontario and incredibly basic math). This violation led to an eviction, interest payments, court fees, a huge time and energy burden, and a boatload of other problems. All I received was the pay I earned, no interest despite it being a year later. The company was fined $1500.

I told the government representatives all of the above to which they said I should have taken them to court at my own expense. With what money I asked? They went on about the government paying the cost to investigate yada yada. The company paid less than the taxpayer despite the company doing the harm. They also got to use my money to invest for an entire year while I struggled.

So really, no matter how you decide to look at it, it is incredibly expensive to be poor. A bidet is not an answer, it is an excuse to help some people feel better about it being a problem. An escape from reality by sometimes blaming the victim.

There are plenty of shitty poor people too, of course.

I'm also unsure why you are bringing the lottery into the discussion. It's lazy. It's inflammatory for no good reason. It's wrong.

I don't mean any offense.
I would like online tools that are purchased for a onetime fee have significantly more regulations.

Give people either a defined time period that their purchase will be supported for or open source the server side so it can be run after the company decides to discontinue support.

IMO, if you charge a one time fee, and stop supporting something for economic reasons, users should be entitled to a refund. Or, more specifically, don't sell an infinite commitment for a fixed price.
If this is true, and we are incapable of identifying a simple balloon, god help us all. Imagine an unfriendly third party did something like hang a nuke off of such a balloon????
It's a valid comment, but my point is it's not suitable on HN, which requires more details of why you said that :)
Having done a reasonable amount of messaging code in my time, I would say the final form of this sort of thing might look more like Cadence[0] than anything like this.

[0] https://github.com/uber/cadence
Thank you. I think that's still a form of metered paywall as in it's a regwall as an option to get another article.
For individual galaxies yes the bullet cluster is the main problem, but MOND can’t explain the motion of galaxy clusters at all.
Nope. They depend on fuse2 which isn't shipped with Opensuse which ships fuse3.
I also agree that the author is overly critical. He also misses a couple of points.

He talks about SBT, but never mentions Gradle which is a massive and powerful tool that handles Scala just fine. When I worked at BigCorp that made heavy use of Scala no one used SBT. Everyone used Gradle.

A lot of the IDE based complaints the author has would be eliminated if they used Gradle. Now I know Gradle has its own issues, but saying IDE support is missing entirely just because it’s not available with your tool of choice seems incorrect to me. In fact it seems crazy to me that the author has the concepts “build tool” and “JVM” together in an article and proceeds to go about writing hundreds of words without even mentioning Gradle.

He also doesn’t discuss the current issues around Play Framework being essentially abandoned by Lightbend. Play is the most robust and de facto leading framework to build web apps in Scala. There is also akka-http, but it’s nowhere near as mature and has the same issue as Play framework does of being Akka based. I think he does bring up some serious legitimate concerns about the ecosystem now that Lightbend has gated usage of Akka. Akka had a ton of momentum before that.
I think there are simpler effects at work here, like less competition and optimistic calculations of the expected future value of grants.
> you've essentially circled back around to clients having to use a client with REST-like "synchronous/blocking requests with retry/backpressure" semantics

Yes, they both do the same thing. That's not even the starting point of the discussion. The implementation from HTTP to a message queue (mailbox system) is the discussion point.

Having the caller (who needs work done) wait to be informed when the work is done (or not done) is less deterministic than telling the callee how long before the work doesn't matter anymore. The callee gives back a transaction ID/is provided a callerID or is unavailable, and the caller knows (very quickly) it's not going to get done or knows where to look for the work (or abandon it). Either way, it allows for optimization on both sides.
Even that requires significant effort that companies are not willing to invest. They'd have to scrub the server of proprietary code, like integration with an account server, and update the client to work with the new system.
Is the switch to always-online game services (even for single player, looking at you Diablo 3 and many more since) really driven by the quality of software developers? I’ve always assumed this was a management issue.
> You go to the US and you have to be careful if you have a boy because they will circumcise your child without asking for permission.

No, they won't, unless they really want to lose a slam-dunk lawsuit and possibly face criminal charges. Outside of a very limited set of circumstances, you can't just perform surgery on a person without their consent (or in this case, the proxy consent of the parents).
I don't think that would change the actual license on the code though? Just that fsf could sue them over using that name
Yet more context. DeGoes was targeted for "cancellation" by members of certain scala communities. His response has been to, with impressive success, create his own community with its own implementations of common libraries.

It's not hard to imagine that he's signalling here that his community will attempt to implement its own version of some fundamental platform libraries or systems.

Fwiw, I've been a scala dev for years and I think his analysis of what works and what doesn't in the ecosystem is quite accurate.
Y intercept is the value of a function f(x) at x = 0. In the analogy, it's the starting position. Someone starting at a higher baseline knowledge is not necessarily destined to stay ahead of a fast learner who happens to start at a lower baseline of knowledge.
> Even in the event of a catastrophic aircraft failure, rest assured that millisecond-granularity data of your last moments will be recorded, as you plunge into the sea.

If you're close enough to shore that an ADS-B receiver can record your planes' transmissions.
His actual statement here. It's very realistic and well thought out.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230206155610/https://uploadvr....
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Scolded is a bit exaggerated, I think. Python starts faster, but as soon as you have long running complex tasks Julia takes off - it's just the tradeoff you were hitting.
I am sorry but the "rule of thumb" website, https://www.logicalincrements.com/ disagrees with you, heavily so. You can still buy an awful lot of computer for $2k, it's right there how. The prices are real, they link -- yes, with affiliate links -- to real sales on Amazon/Newegg/etc. To quote what you can expect from their "outstanding" tier at 1628 USD:

> This expensive tier has the highest possible cards that still maintain a reasonable performance/price. Sure it is pricey, but it is luxurious!

> Expect high performance at 1440p, and solid performance at 4K even in the most demanding games.

For 1865 USD:

> Max most titles at 1440p@144Hz, and solid framerates in 4K, even with max settings.

And if you want to note the 6900XT card for $720 they used here is out of stock then let me note a $700 6950XT: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-radeon-rx-6950-xt-rx6950xt-ocf... which makes it an even better bang for your buck.
Everyones teeth, diet etc are different. What works for you may not work for others.
Reminds me of "Car vs Motorcycle vs Jet" https://youtu.be/Y9YsxO30PXI
Y intercept is where the line crossed the y axis at time 0. So it's the initial state.
Y value at x=0. Also sometimes known as "initial conditions"
What does that say about society?
We've changed the URL now from https://web.archive.org/web/20230206154619/https://www.pcgam....
It sure does.

The sum of people who understand bidets is represented in the following formula:

Population - Sum of people who panic purchased TP for Corona Virus = Definitely not just poor people
Exactly. Besides, "pouring money into something millions would love" is an absurd statement.

1. Success is not guaranteed. At all

2. Things enjoyed by the masses don't need additional support to stay alive
The callsign of the F-22 which downed the balloon off the US east coast was FRANK01, as a homage to Frank Luke, one of the American “balloon busting aces” mentioned in this article.
It's spammy, and doesn't include parallel jaw pliers
I have no data to confirm, but as a relative of a pilot, they are reporting taking a lot of "green slips" (uncovered flights) and experiencing some pressure to come in while fatigued, which they are resisting successfully as they have enough seniority and $ to not make it worth it.
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Note that Leonardo means "lion-like strength" in Italian.
Well it is because it maintains spatial relationships, which is the whole point.
That’s miserable for kids because they will always be too far from their friends at school and will be stuck at home with nothing but video games and tiktok.

When I was in school most of my friends lived in the inner suburbs and had good access to public transport so they could all meet up in the city and do things, while I was further out in an arguably richer area but without public transport so I was stuck inside missing out.
Under all approaches tried so far perhaps, but there are LOTS of approaches that we haven't tried. Heck, very few people can even get their mind to even consider alternative approaches, and actually trying things is a lot harder than that relatively simple task.
I expect you’d have those same issues in a chair if you sit in it as long as patients. As long as you periodically get up and move around, it doesn’t seem like there is any reason for concern.
I can easily imagine both a) countries restoring relationship with Russia with Putin and b) Putin by various reasons being replaced by another server of national capital, with some shifts in money, giving excuse to EU to reestablish relationship.

EU was buying gas and oil from Russia for the last 40+ years, they were okay with pumping Russia with billions of euros even after Crimea annexation (and they still pump some moneys during 2022), also funding Russian military industrial complex, that is now blowing up Ukraine. So I’m pretty sure that when dusts settles, Russia will come back as part of international community, maybe with a slightly different leadership.
The TCJA saves me a day every year doing taxes. Love it.
how about this. lets assume a sphere or egg shape is strongest and hardest to crush. create a bunch of ultralight tubes that are 12-18 inched long and crescent shaped. they are grouped in sets of 6 or more and are all connected at top and bottom by a small plastic ring. you slide them into a party balloon. and then give it air pressure, allowing you to spread them out with 60 degrees in between each crescent like an orange with all the slices. then you slowly let out the pressure so the rubber conforms against the 6 curves an makes a sphere at atmospheric pressure. then you pull vacuum, or simply place a bunch in a vacuum chamber and tie them off or glue the opening using something that wont react with latex
That's the best you've got? He was endorsed by someone formerly from an agency that has nothing to do with the US Department of Transportation that regulates trains? That's literally the Bad Guy on team Bad Guys makes Bad Things happen argument I already gave.

If you'd dug even a little you'd see that the classification of these trains at a lower hazard level than probably warranted dates back at least to the Obama administration and probably further. So again, what does this have to do with JD Vance other than the steel man argument I already gave?
The US military has decommissioned another “object” over Lake Huron
Spot on.

The only thing I could think of to make a moat would be to become some sort of “compliance plumber”. Get FedRAMP High and some other capabilities and it could become the “enterprise” way to transport and transform data between cloud or other systems.

Lots of .gov and contractors struggle with this. But it’s a very different business.
The current prices are indeed high, but if I would upgrade right now my desktop with the best components that I can find, that would cost only $1500.

The $1500 would pay for an AMD 7950X, an ASUS MB with ECC support and a decent configuration of the expansion slots (Prime X670E-Pro), a Noctua cooler suitable for 7950X (e.g. NH-U12A) and 64 GB of ECC DDR5-4800 memory (which for 64 GB costs $100 more than the non-ECC variant).

For the rest, I would continue to use the case, the SSDs, the 10 Gb/s NIC and the GPU that I am currently using.

If I would want to also upgrade the GPU, I would buy a RTX 4070 Ti, for 3 reasons. It provides enough extra performance to make an upgrade worthwhile, it has the best performance per $ among all recent GPUs (at MSRP, a 7900 XTX would have better performance per $, but it can be found only at much higher prices), and lastly, 4070 Ti is the only recent GPU for which the vendor specifies the idle power consumption and the power consumption during light use (e.g. video decoding) and the specified values are small enough to be acceptable in a desktop that is not intended for gaming.
It’s like that old saying: imagine someone at the 50th percentile of intelligence. Now realize half the people in the (US/other country/world) are less intelligent than they are.
Honestly you don't have to adjust the limit: the "power under load" angle just gets completely overblown because people go based on a reviewer's definition of load

They might be 240W under extreme load, but I can play AAA titles on my i9 at 240hz barely cracking 50% CPU load. And that's with a 3090, so not exactly a mismatched CPU/GPU situation.

At those types of loads the CPU doesn't even try to hit boost clocks most of the time, so you're nowhere near the figures you often see touted based on benchmarks.
>The reputational difference between the state schools and the ivy league has been narrowing a lot in recent years in response to numerous scandals like this and a lot of improvement from the state schools.

The elite schools are considered "elite" not because they offer a better education, but because they ensure that your classmates will be valuable network contacts after you graduate.

From the perspective of the school, admitting people who are already wealthy/successful is preferable to admitting people who may become successful in the future. The school's status depends on having a disproportionately large population from the former group.

They act this way because the business world works similarly: you are more valuable if you are already on a first-name basis with high-level executives and politicals, because you can listen to the wind and bring your contacts in on the businesses that you are involved in.

All of that is a long-winded rephrasing of the old truism: it's not about what you know, but who you know.
Like Carmack says in the article, these dimensions of cost are a choice. Games which have private servers that anyone can run last forever at no cost to the company. But studios (excepting Valve with TF2) have never been able to make a game with microtransactions/etc that also works with private servers. So they chose the money instead of making a good game.
Wonder whether a corollary of that would be that more inexperienced pilots are succumbing to the pressure and coming in while fatigued.
No, that's not it at all. The point is to give a small amount of structure to the comments section, so people can see what they want.

Think of it as very roughly analoguous to the different sections of a newspaper.
I guess the positive takeaway is that every death makes aviation safer for the future because we almost always learn from the data.
There’s a chart of the speed - it’s around 250 knots so they’re going fast enough (source: personal MS flight simulator experience). The angle of attack is not shown, I think.
Related:

“A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8055868 - July 2014 (62 comments)
I believe bitcoin mining contributed a lot to the demand side as well.
Yes. Recall my original point is explaining how high earners can still be anxious about layoffs. Even if they have been balancing family, fun, and savings... a layoff would likely mean 6-24 months of job searching. We would survive, but as those months go on, we'd have to make deeper and more painful cuts our lifestyle.

We are very privileged to have the money for a nanny. Having to let go of a wonderful employee and friend is itself worth plenty of anxiety.

And we're lucky enough to be citizens. Plenty of folks in our situation aren't.