skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to the "not open source". I edited my comment to be more specific.
> it shows up at the ballot box but you don't see it when you survey.

Does it really? Last Republican President to win the popular vote was 30 years ago. Longer than I’ve been alive…
Answer: Let's do neither!
I've worked at a few small studios that have shut down games with ~200 CCU peak because the cost/benefit of maintaining the ops for these games was not worth it.

> Another alternative would be spinning off the project: Meta letting it go and allowing team members to leave, take over the rights for a nominal fee of $10,000, and maintain it.

In my experience, studios have a contradictory FOMO mindset of letting other people run the game:

* If someone else makes money off it, they want to be part of it

* At the same time, they don't want to run it themself

* It's not worth the effort to open source it, also see argument #1

What usually ends up happening is the community reverse engineers the protocol and writes their own OSS backend.

Shameless plug: I founded Rivet (W23, https://rivet.gg) to simplify multiplayer game server ops. We talk to a lot of studios with hard-to-manage old games (i.e. 3+ years old can be ancient in gaming). We often help studios move these to our standardized ops so they don't have to worry about it anymore. We also help lower the server cost for old games by auto-scaling their servers based on player demand.
This is a very good article. The bit at the end was especially strong:

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"Be disciplined about your build processes and what you put in your source tree, so there is at least the possibility of making the project open source," said Carmack. "Think twice before adding dependencies that you can’t redistribute, and consider testing with stubbed out versions of the things you do use. Don’t do things in your code that wouldn’t be acceptable for the whole world to see.

"Most of game development is a panicky rush to make things stop falling apart long enough to ship, so it can be hard to dedicate time to fundamental software engineering, but there is a satisfaction to it, and it can pay off with less problematic late stage development."

The last phrase is quite the euphemism for "the game disappearing entirely, forever" and through Carmack's repeated exhortations and examples you get a sense of someone who's very frustrated at seeing things built on foundations that can ultimately prove self-defeating. We've entered an era where even many singleplayer games require some sort of server ping, while other games don't work at all if you're offline (which outside of MMOs has sometimes felt like industry overreach).
Occams Razor is “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate” - “Pieces ought not to be positioned without necessity.”

You must you believe spy balloons are [always, sometimes, never] reported to the press, and the press [always, sometimes, never] reports them to the public, and the public [always, sometimes, never] reads the reports.

These pieces are already in position.

Do you really think “you ought not to position pieces without necessity” really favors “always” over sometimes?

Likewise, there is evidence the air balloons fly over America more than the authorities recognize.

What explanation has the fewest unnecessary parts: we have perfect tranferreance of knowledge from Air Force Intelligence to consumers of the press, or the phenomena are witnessing are normal and expected?

Edit: I removed some parts I placed without necessity.
> As far as an uninformed reader is concerned (think either the typical cable news watcher or the typical apolitical person), "ending single-family zoning" reads as "banning new single-family housing".

I really don’t think that’s true. Yes, the average citizen is uninformed about the average policy issue, but that alone doesn’t support a characterization that most unsophisticated readers has the same very specific misunderstanding of a particular policy issue when identified in the usual terms. There are some issues where something like that is the case, and there is polling to suggest that, but just making the unsupported leap from “unsophisticated citizens” to “this particular misunderstanding” with no evidence is not warranted.
(published July 2016)
I've been thinking about making something like this, but for our actual TV. I just want to it to change channels and not think about what is playing. I want my little one to not have to deal with crazy advertisements, but get the benefit of preprogrammed TV. The current batch of solutions for this are:

1) Hardware modulators. This can get pricey, but it is basically the most like regular TV.
2) Kodi + PseudoTV.
3) ErsatzTV.
4) ChannelsDVR
5) dizqueTV

Ideally, I'd like to have stations pulling from Youtube channels, Twitch Live / prerecorded, local media libraries, and some TikTok.

I was thinking of having channels arranged around interests and genres. A few stations I am thinking of are Classic Cartoons, Artisian crafting videos (primarily on YouTube), Train Rides, Classic Sitcoms, Musicals, Music Production, and Kenji-Lopez-Alt would get his own cooking channel.
Lidar point clouds, high resolution imagery and driver inputs mostly. The high level idea being you want to train the neural network so that when it sees x on the sensors it should do y thing the human did.

As for why other self driving cars don't have lidar that's... A contentious topic. The argument for lidar is that it captures the environment in 3d unlike cameras that only capture in 2d and thus you can save on computation trying to convert 2d images into a 3d scene. On the other hand lidar is very expensive, has limitations like not being able to see through rain and maybe most importantly is believed to be unnecessary since "humans drive with just their eyes".

My personal belief is its a matter of cost vs time to market - lidar makes locatization and object recognition a little bit easier and if for example it saves 1 year of development time at a cost of 100k per car produced it's worth it if you're only making a small fleet of cars anyway.
Q: A week back I had a weak back. What should I do?

A: Something went wrong, please try reloading the conversation

I couldn't get ChatGPT to answer despite multiple tries. It answers simpler questions just fine
When not qualified, "cannot" generally means impossible.
This reminds me of Eisenhower's old quote to his advisors: “Let's make our mistakes slowly"

Which, ironically enough, if you make changes slowly, and have a good way to back them out when they go wrong, you can change much faster. Mostly because you don't have people screaming about a change being the end of the world so hard that you need to go to war in order to change the smallest thing.
> Piping or redirecting output from a native program that outputs raw byte data converts the output to .NET strings. This conversion can cause corruption of the raw data output.

And this behavior is terrible and one of many "gotchas" that PowerShell has. Fortunately, there is a chance it will be "fixed": https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/1908#issueco...
I don’t really understand what distinction you’re making between “replicating” and “duplicating”
Phishing attack underway using namecheap.com infrastructure
Information is being selectively withheld to manipulate public opinion, and legacy media outlets are cooperating because that’s what they exist to do - amplify on demand.
As someone from the balkans, how about you put a uniform on and go fight a war somewhere yourself, and keep us, other people out of your warmongering. Wars are not like call of duty, or whatever your sick fantasy is.
And they seem to be sent by aliens.
Most great theories connect existing concepts:

Darwin connected the specialization of finches to two bodies of existing work — animal husbandry and the nest hierarchy of biology, by explaining they’re both outcomes of reproductive selection.

Einstein connected the idea of Galilean relativity to Maxwell’s equations to explain why Michelson-Morley behaves how it does.
Random question - anyone know how a sidewinder missile hits these objects (whatever they are)? My missile knowledge is non-existent but movies show me it has something to do with heat signature - which these don’t seem to have.
I'd argue it's far superior - no need to be switching windows constantly and setting the domain automatically loads that site in the correct context.
This reminds me more of Apache Camel[0] than other things it's being compared to.

> The process initiator puts a message on a queue, and another processor picks that up (probably on a different service, on a different host, and in different code base) - does some processing, and puts its (intermediate) result on another queue

This is almost exactly the definition of message routing (ie: Camel).

I'm a bit doubtful about the pitch because the solution is presented as enabling you to maintain synchronous style programming while achieving benefits of async processing. This just isn't true, these are fundamental tradeoffs. If you need a synchronous answer back then no amount of queuing, routing, prioritisation, etc etc will save you when the fundamental resource providing that is unavailable, and the ultimate outcome that your synchronous client now hangs indefinitely waiting for a reply message instead of erroring hard and fast is not desirable at all. If you go into this ad hoc, and build in a leaky abstraction that asynchronous things are are actually synchronous and vice versa, before you know it you are going to have unstable behaviour or even worse, deadlocks all over your system and the worst part - the true state of the system is now hidden in which messages are pending in transient message queues everywhere.

What really matters here is to fundamentally design things from the start with patterns that allow you to be very explicit about what needs to be synchronous vs async (building on principles of idempotency, immutability, coherence, to maximise the cases where async is the answer).

The notion of Apache Camel is to make all these decisions a first class elements of your framework and then to extract out the routing layer as a dedicated construct. The fact it generalises beyond message queues (treating literally anything that can provide a piece of data as a message provider) is a bonus.

[0] https://camel.apache.org/
Unless you your inet connection can sustain 10gb then what’s the point of a 10gb nic? I have gbit fiber that rarely gets above 6-700mbit. Is a full 10gb inet connection that common?

Even on LAN do you have I/O that can deliver 10gb/sec to the wire?
For posters who do time restricted eating, how do you deal with the panicked/dizzy feeling you often get when not eating for long periods. Does that eventually go away with IF, or do you just get used to it?
I understand how that was the case back in the 2k's before we had flexbox and CSS grid. It got better. Raw CSS is better, more logical, and easier than it's ever been. And raw HTML, of course, is a fundamental skill.
My conspiracy theory is they fearmonger and grift people for a living, same as religious leaders, politicians, etc.
“The Asgard would never invent a weapon that propels small weights of iron and carbon alloys, by igniting a powder of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur.”

—Thor, Stargate SG-1, “Small Victories”
Surprised you mention Cyberpunk as a train wreck since it was massively successful and profitable for projekt red even after refunds from low-end platform users. They've sold over 20 million copies at $60/copy. Edgerunners also super successful for them.
This smells like pure marketing, incl the company's website. I'd rather use an open-source browser like Firefox.
It’s Steve Jobs’ fault because he offered a browser. Right.

I suggest you try implementing your handwavy solutions so you can see how well they work.
Genolve launches AI Critic to evaluate the aesthetics of generated designs
At Genolve users can create banners, cover photos, slideshows and videos. Behind the scenes Genolve uses simulated evolution on the design elements to generate variations in color, pattern, orientation or animation. Some changes are cool and others are, well, ugly. This is where the AI critic comes in. An AI model was trained to aesthetically rank the generated designs, filter out the ugly ones and keep the good ones. An aesthetic score is also displayed providing users with actionable feedback to help them improve their projects. The model can also critique the user’s own creation while they are making it. Follow the link to see how the model was trained.
That's one reason why nobody who knows what they're doing relies (solely) on email for monitoring. You use a monitoring solution, and if that whole system gets "forgotten" then there are bigger problems anyway.
It takes certain optimistic outlook to imply one is assuredly better at computer programming than Dijkstra.
I think this is a bit disingeuous. I probably fall into the category of "quality of developers in that field have went down", I've been working in games for a decade.

Many of the problems with games are to do with game engine architectural decisions made 20 years ago - anything based on Unreal Engine has code that was last touched in the mid 2000's for example, and some of that is _not good_. Lots of issues around sloppy drivers, bad memory management stem from an overuse of the "old way" of doing things, which is driven by the programmers you're glorifying in your post. Some of the smartest people I've worked with are still working on their first game, and some have been in the industry long enough to be veterans.

The quality isn't deteriorating, the market has expaned hugely. Companies that are now considered "small" would have been considered enormous productions 25 years ago, and those companies are pushing out incredible quality experiences. Companies that are absolute behemoths now are putting out iterative works that people _clearly_ enjoy because there are alternatives to them and yet they buy Call of Duty because it's fresh, fun, exciting, nostalgic.

> I don’t personally know any other field whose products have deteriorated over time like the game industry's

Ignoring the fact that I disagree about the quality having fallen (stray, tunic, and vampire survivors are some of the best experiences I've had gaming, and they're all relatively new), people lament the same way about everything. Cars aren't built like they used to be, household appliances used to be more robust, movies were better in <X> time, children's toys are just ads for <y> show, there's no good music these days. Look on any thread here and you'll see the same thing (and if you speak to your parents they'll say the same about things that were better when _they_ were younger)
A method for solving arbitrary-wall mazes by computer
Maybe would have been clearer to use a nonseqiotor that doesn't involve China- for a second there I thought that there was something linking these balloons to tea trade or sanctions or something
> That balloon’s journey set off a huge debate within the U.S. about why it wasn’t shot down earlier, with Republicans arguing President Donald Trump never would’ve allowed such a thing to happen. Except that it did, many times, including over sensitive military facilities in Virginia and California.

There’s something hilarious about the idea that, if this was the start of an alien invasion, our journalists and politicians started off the coverage not being curious about what on Earth these objects were, but instead slinging political slime at each other
Was it the scar tissue one? https://gist.github.com/gtallen1187/27a585fcf36d6e657db2
From my pal, a 777 United Pilot...

"I was actually flying Hawaii the day after….

I remember because it was the worst turbulence I’d every experienced on that route!

Caused by a massive weather system that hung-out close to hawaii for a number of days while it slowly moved northeast toward the west coast of the CONUS…

So repeating storms: small but ferocious! Heavy rain with gale force winds forcing closure of the airports several times during this period…"

And: https://twitter.com/nwscwsuzoa/status/1605045345691373568?s=...
From Huron in we have to demand answers
You’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s talking about? He is saying you can’t really do GIS without multiple layers. This is basic knowledge for anyone working in GIS.
I had the same thought a few months ago. Unfortunately I cant imagine a ride costing much less than $1000.
Love the feature and use it all the time. It would be great, if you could assign a home page to a container.
And it's fine to patent specific (and novel) varieties of potato. The patent just applies to that specific variety, not to the general concept of improving potatoes. It's irrelevant that other specific varieties may have been bred for millenia.
Quantum mechanics and relativity are both explanations of the interferometer from Michelson-Morley.

Which turns out to work, now called LIGO, if you apply relativistic and quantum corrections.
Scaling on Wayland on popular DEs has been a relatively solved problem for at least a year or two now. Fractional scaling, and scaling in general, used to be a pain I ran into often, but I've hadn't had to think about it at all in quite a while since it just works. Might still be an issue on older LTS distributions, though.

edit: I looked back at some release notes and it's been more than 2 years that fractional scaling worked. The pandemic has really messed with my sense of time for the last few years.

> And the fact that they expect you to power it with Pentium N5030 processor is laughable. Why even offer such combination?

I wouldn't choose it, but it has a <5W TDP according to the specs, might be a good choice if you're just doing glorified texting/programming and want long battery life.

Also, I don't see an option for a Pentium N5030 in the laptop in the OP.
Yes, it is a deal breaker for me.
I love that this website is just Wordpress with the default 2020 theme. Even I did more CSS tweaking when I was building out a business site for my father.
And ukraine managed to use up literally $100b+ and deplete all the european weapons stockpiles [1] and couldn't even defend a few villages.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4eb1af29-2491-458c-9f69-e065cba58... https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/germany-weapons-war-ammun... https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=3_cc-s... ...
>and it being clear because the quality of software developers in that field have went down

I don't think the decisions John is talking about are in the hand of individual devs.
Yes and from within the browser about:profiles

And you can edit the shortcut to ask you which profile you want to use when you start Firefox.
yes but there's sadly no code in what you posted
Seems to struggle with about pages that have too much information.

I get "loading..." for both @matznerd (8 paragraphs of text) and @some_furry (ascii art). At first they don't load but after trying, going back to these two users a few times... I was able to get @matznerd's about page to load.

(note, as I write this... just 7 comments total)

Never had success @some_furry (ascii art + text). Maybe too many lines?

About pages with little information load quickly.

I like but still testing... I've tried quite a few HN extensions and always seem to go back to no-frills HN. There's something about HN's defaults that make it work for me (less external noise, focus on article/comments?).
The fallacy is to neglect how important the delta-x (the time it takes for the red curve to catch up) could be in some cases. An inexperienced-yet-eager-to-learn candidate could be an awful choice for your startup if your project has a hard deadline at the horizon!
Adenovirus 36 prevalence and association with human obesity
China Preparing to Shoot Down Unidentified Flying Object Near Yellow Sea
> The ultimate outcome that your synchronous client now hangs indefinitely waiting for a reply message instead of erroring hard and fast is not desirable at all.

Async frameworks don't eliminate the possibility of long running processes, that continue to process long after responding a request - this is still possible with specific libraries/frameworks, they'll only take away the synchronous interface and provide as asychonous one instead.

It is also important to note that error handling will be different between these 2 paradigms and it's important, whatever the most suitable one is, to acknowledge this since it forces us (developers) to handle the potential errors differently depending on the approach we choose.
Planet.com. Maxar. Etc.

CubeSats are cheap and effective.
That's when you make components
Microsoft would say their biggest competition is previous versions of Windows. I assume the same could apply to games, especially networked games with high replay ability. Given the choice between supporting the ‘competitor’ or killing it I can understand why studios would kill it.
I'm just informing you that your ethics here are without rational foundation. Why should anyone care one iota what you consider to be evil, if you cannot justify it? This merely reflects your irrational phobias, not anything anyone else needs to take seriously.
Well, seems there's more people wanting to write than demand.
No, I'm not assuming they start with the same amount of money. I'm assuming Bezos starts with $200B or whatever his net worth is now. And that's my point - merely having that money is privilege. If you start Bezos and the Haitian immigrant off at zeros, Bezos may have some other advantages (and here's where intersectionality comes in and we can talk about all the other forms of privilege), but most people would agree that Bezos-the-pauper has nowhere near the same opportunities as Bezos-the-billionaire, and would be significantly closer to the Haitian pauper in likely outcomes.
A "well behaved" balloon should also carry a corner reflector, so it clearly stands out on radar.

https://www.overlookhorizon.com/how-to-launch-weather-balloo...
We don't imprison just the robber's hand: it's always the entire robber.

Try paying taxes like a corporation would - 20% on profits after expenses - and see if the judge buys your argument that you're a corporation.
A mid take on AI and venture fund law.
I may have gotten myself in trouble here implying that Sanders is unpopular; he's not. He's just not viable. You can't win the Democratic nomination without the Black vote, and, for whatever reason, Sanders just wasn't able to connect there. It's academic now, of course; Sanders isn't going to run again.

I'm not a Warren fan either. I'm the weirdo in this conversation who was actually rooting for Biden.
There's only one company with that capability and that's the only organization in the world ever to achieve first stage (and soon all stage) reusability for LEO launches.

Because to achieve that you need to put a lot of stuff in orbit and the only way to affordably do that is cheap (reusable) launches.
> would delete your entire hard drive when uninstalled

> before blue screening the whole system

TBF at the time the number of possible configurations a game could run on was close to infinity

Nowadays platform are much more stable, drivers are much more polished and you have 2/3 max manufacturers that make all the hardware gamers use which mostly is top of the gamma components specifically built to run games.

I remember assembling my PCs in the 90s by putting together components cannibalized from everywhere I could, using esotic hardware that took weeks of debugging to make it work, CPU, RAM and BUS were constantly abundantly overclocked, air flow was a joke at best and software configurations were highly customized

The fact that they even booted it's a miracle