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Ask HN: What's your greatest achievement on GitHub?
What accomplishments are you really proud of on GitHub? Build a great project, contribute to a well-known project?

How do you show off your accomplishments?

Point to link/app if possible
I like this method. Earlier today I filled in some gov forms online, and at the end it asked if I'd like to do a short survey on my experience - I was happy to oblige, because I have a personal interest in service improvement.
To reiterate: it wouldn't take many.
I have been using chatGPT with GPT4 since it came out, and I have not experienced decreased quality.

I wonder why you can’t get it to give approximations. I have not encountered difficulties there. I asked it to approximate the weight of argon in the atmosphere and it performed a fairly standard back of the envelope calculation. Do you want to share a particular prompt, so I can try and reproduce the issue you're experiencing?
Why would you install that app on your personal phone? Even in some misplaced sense of rebellion, you're basically inviting spyware into your life.
Yes, and every subsequent generation. I still play, I've even IPS-modded the display on my DMG-01 to appreciate what the console could actually draw in terms of frames.
It lags every time I open ultrahand.
But this ban clearly has nothing to do with that, because it's only about Tiktok and ignores all other short form video.
It seems the author is lamenting that most people are no longer interested in their preferred level of abstraction, and have instead focused on higher abstraction levels that are less interesting to them. Which is fine, it just means they haven't found "their people" yet.

The few meetups I go to, I've also noticed that 90% of conversations stay at surface level, the folks who prefer to go deeper were always rare, its likely that in the past, meetups tended to attract that small percentage in the first place, so there's some selection bias.

In terms of language-level specifics, I will say that in 12 years of experience I have rarely ran into a problem where "soil"-level properties of a language actually made a difference. I'm not building systems-level stuff or libraries, I'm building apps and services for businesses, where IMO the surface or atmosphere-level issues are more important. It doesn't matter that Python is 1000x "slower" than some other language, up to a certain scale. It matters more that I have access to Python's ecosystem, or there are specifics in how a python app is structured that I just happen to prefer because I'm comfortable with it. This is just an example.

The other issue is that most applications we write are going to fall into a handful of categories. The needs of a locally-run stateful application are going to be different from the needs of a stateless web application. For web apps, your bottleneck is rarely in the language runtime, and more in your application design, database, infrastructure, etc.

Language-level enthusiasts (which is how I would describe the author) are incredibly valuable members of the community, but its not the only game in town. There are so many other dimensions to measure technology, and so many other fields to be a "hacker" in. So why do "innovation tokens" need to be spent on the language runtime?
Databases are legitimately the worst part of every company.

All the new, and much better tech is so fucking expensive.

CockroachDB has the worst sales people that can’t even demonstrate their own benchmarks.

Spanner is just unaffordable for most.

Postgres/MySQL are great but making them scale for write heavy workloads is a pain. I also hate managing primary/failover systems. We have consensus algorithms now. Let’s just use them.
>To be clear, we're nowhere close to that... Nobody questions its ability to pay

This is not a statement that will age well.
> Using f2c as suggested seems like a worse alternative, not a solution.

essentially madness.

Modern fortran is quite nice, much nicer than C from a Python programmer's perspective.
But three of those four are in the “a bit shy of 18” camp.
As a rule, the more that marketing language tries to imply something, the less it is likely to be true.

See e.g. "fat free" labels on sugar-candy.
> hard to find a supply chain for manufactured products that doesn't have a significant dependency on China. That makes it hard to fight a war with China, trade or otherwise.

You don't ban those products, you put big tariffs on them. That way, anyone who has the option to source stuff elsewhere does so.

And you deliberately act erratically with tariffs - adding and removing them at short notice - so that lots of companies think it is just too risky to trade with China, and move manufacturing elsewhere as insurance.

This playbook has been done before...
What is this “no other options” bullshit? They could just not attack Ukraine and that’s it. Nobody would attack Russia.
On it's own, ChatGPT makes up answers. Bard does as well, but it's worse. Google's integrated featured snippets are notorious for wrong answers. When Google says they are adding more AI to their search experience, I'm not optimistic.

I've been using perplexity.ai for the majority of my searches in the past month. It isn't ChatGPT but it uses OpenAI's GPT APIs. It sources answers from search results and cites them. Even if the answer may be wrong, it came from other websites and it didn't just hallucinate them based on memorized data.

It is much faster to find answers this way. It certainly meets the magnitude test for speed and quality -- I get answers at least 10x quicker. Additionally, because it is reading through multiple results you can see when different sources are providing conflicting information.

Google has the capability to do all of this. The unknown is what does it do to all of the ad revenue being driven by the users who have had no idea they've been clicking on ads to the tune of $200+ billion a year?

Does that mean there will be too much internal resistance to revenue cannibalization when other platforms have a better search experience?
> I think it proves that nostalgia and brands matter more than anything.

No. That is a western view point of someone that did not play the core nintendo games. It feels like projecting what is happening on every streaming service out there, or on every AAA western studio.

People are not praising new Zeldas because they are new games with the Zelda title, BotW was a complete revolution, it did open world like no other game did before it. It combined really well a huge a amount of features and fun things that no other game was able to do so before. Games like these are very rare.

Saying that is nostaligia when these 2 zelda play like no other Zelda. Saying that's it's because of brand when i've seen so many friends and colleagues that never gave a shit about nintendo buying a switch or emulating it and praising the hell out of this game.
Pretentiousness and fluff of the post aside, there are some interesting points, like: businesses just want to be riskless rent collectors, so they do Whatever Other Businesses are Doing, which is a major contributor to the decline of this "hacker culture"; there's also this "neutering" aspect of today's conversations in your typical corporate environment, where you are only allowed to be "polite", "positive", and "constructive", even if the subject is barely worth talking about at all.

Oh, and the thing about Authoritative Calm Professional Voice is spot-on.

The opening, I'll concede, is fluff that could have been edited out, but there it is.

There is also, for some reason, this subculture inhabiting HN which, if some project is not aiming to become the next multibillion unicorn, scale out hugely, dares not be a product, or someone open-sources his work without a particular desire to bring in a "team" or a "community", starts deriding and piling on the author, because in its opinion, such things (and maybe such people) simply should not exist. This subculture is a huge deterrent for anything tinkering-related that is not aiming at, you know, Changing the World or whatever it is these days.
Some may have different Bash versions installed though.
At this point, with the boom in AI, I would settle for very simple AR glasses. Not trying to make 3D objects meld with the the real world view, but just superimposed graphics, kinda like Google Glass, but better. Imagine if it could automatically subtitle foreign languages, or translate Japanese street signs and advertising in real-time. Join that with a conversational AI so you could point your eyes at something and just say “What is that?” and then get whatever level of detail response you want, from a subtitle, to a voice description, to a full dive into the historical details. This is the market space for a fashionable device, but it needs to be a real view of reality, not video pass-through. Imagine renting one (if they’re expensive) when traveling to a foreign country, or at a museum. The cool think about AI integration is that you wouldn’t have to create the content like an audio-guide does. In a museum, you could learn about the artist, the time period, critical analysis, the school of art, etc. dynamically and organically. As a tourist, you could look at an attraction across the street, read (or hear) reviews, check hours and prices, book tickets, etc. Would also be great for directions.
It was launched in 2017 with a SoC from 2015, and the SoC contained a CPU that launched in 2012.

Contrast this with the PS5, which launched in 2020 with an AMD Zen 2 CPU which launched in 2019.
The Importance of Digital Credential Management in Today's Digital Age – DL3ARN
It's predictable that it's coming from a conservative state. That they are broadly against using state power to ban things is part of their identity and marketing but not reality. Especially when it can be construed as a social-moral problem.
Announcing layoffs 7 years ahead sounds like a way to kill the company.

What kind of culture and employee morale do they expect to have now that they've announced this?
Why should a state my Montana be leading the way on this? Congress should have banned TikTok years ago. Anyways, good for them.
TIL Tim Cook has had a "vision":

"The device Cook will present, say people familiar with a development process that spread over seven years, has deviated far from his initial vision. Initially imagined* as a pair of unobtrusive eyeglasses that could be worn all day, Apple’s device has morphed into a headset that resembles a pair of ski goggles and requires a separate battery pack."

from the actual source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-18/apple-s-m...

* "imagined": https://www.google.com/glass/start/

So, Apple "imagined" that they could turn the Google Glass idea (aka "the vision") into a new iPhone moment, but alas "concrete reality" reared its unwelcome head.

Here is the Bloomberg "inspiration" for Gizmodo's "article":
https://archive.is/YAAvy
No? The n64 was a graphics powerhouse, literally SGI tech in a cheap box you put in front of your TV. The gamecube too was very powerful, at least compared to the PS2. The GameBoy Advanced was a pretty powerful 32 bit ARM system.

It wasn't until the Wii that Nintendo gave up the tech arms race, because making games people want to play and marketing to the people who aren't turbo-nerds about half true specs turns out to be way more profitable.
The Gamecube and N64 were both nerfed by Nintendo's insistence on using proprietary storage formats. The N64 cartridge size ranged from 4mb to 64mb (64mb being the maximum at the end of the console's lifespan).

The GameCube used minidvds that had only 30% of the storage space of standard dvds.

The result was a generational game like FF7 was only possible on the PlayStation.
The Supreme Court just upheld California rules about the sale of pork. Looking at it strictly from the interstate commerce view, this doesn’t appear much different.
You could simply salt the hash, though you'd need to treat the salt as a secret.

Alternatively, you could use a new salt every day, which would only allow you to track an individual for a 24 hour period (likely enough for many).
> We literally did this sort of thing for years on the Internet before all of this tracking was common.

You mean back when your average website was hot garbage? The yearning for the days of static HTML pages is childish atavism
> When people from former empires

What about when people who were under the boot of empires (which is a substantial part of the people of the EU) complain about it?

> it strikes me as sour grapes at best

It's a legit complaint. No one can change the behaviors of previous generations but they can attempt chaining the behavior of current ones.
Facebook bug automatically sent friend requests
>doesn't scale.

Much of the math behind surveys is based on finite samples taken from infinite populations. It scales really, really well. You just have to make sure your samples aren't totally biased, which is a little more difficult. But there are ways to reduce those problems, if you're aware of how the bias is introduced.
a) I was responding to an admittedly off-topic comment, and not the article.

b) Your argument that people solely use empathy as a kudgel to get their way is not reflected in reality. What you describe is emotional manipulation, and as far as I can tell, you're essentially arguing that all calls for empathy in conversation are emotional manipulation... which is ridiculous.

c) Simply speaking about people respectfully is actually important and doesn't change the concrete components of a conversation. Discussing whether or not there should be some concrete action in response to a bunch of people losing their livelihood doesn't benefit from "lol get a new career, idiot." If you don't understand that, you've probably got a serious problem understanding the effect your words have on other people.
But pretty-printing is not all that one does with JSON. If that were all one ever did with JSON then JSON wouldn't exist.
Sure there’s a few bad eggs, even in the Zelda series there’s a couple, but the trend is not in that direction.
Mmm... depends, I guess. We had a team of JavaScript programmers and we (me included) needed to maintain the Scala back-end our client consumed, that was built by contractors a year or two previously and not really been worked on since then. It used Spray for routing, which IMO was the worst part of it, but there were a lot of other quite "cerebral" Scala-specific concepts in there too like implicits and other stuff that I forget now. A lot of it I'd never really come across before in any other programming language.

Maybe if you're familiar with something like Haskell Scala is more straightforward to decode?
Queue the citizens of Montana leading the charge in "vpn" searches on Google. Good luck Utah!
> because of his sympathies for a mainstream American political party.

That's not generally why.

But I do agree to this extent -- if we're to be banning Tiktok, we should be banning all social media companies, foreign and domestic, that do the same as Tiktok does.
It’s expensive to maintain. It’s slow. It doesn’t scale. It depends heavily on weather. It can be interfered with by a bad party pretty easily.
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Ask HN: Should Companies Allow Devs/Engineers Admin Access on Their Machine
Context: I am an Info Sec engineer and going to discuss with my boss in a few hours a proposal to remove employees admin access to their machine.

I am firmly against this but for the sake of the engineers in our large org would love any additional arguments in favor of why we should allow them to have admin access.
Semi-related: I find the seemingly simple (or basic?) issue of cooling to be really interesting. Mainly because so much energy, effort, and cost is spent on cooling, and our tech and manufacturing industries depend so much on it, yet I don't see anyone trying to "disrupt" it. I very well could not be plugged in enough to know if anyone is or isn't though.

That being said it seems like one could offer cooling solutions that would cost them very little after initial setup, like providing infrastructure in places that are "naturally" very cool. This would probably be either deep in the oceans (I believe Microsoft piloted deep-submerged servers) or high up in the atmosphere, or even space itself.

Just a thought exercise I suppose...
It’s an expected perspective from someone steeped in the humanities as there is no objective ground truth in the subject.
That usually means the initial team did not describe the experiment sufficiently accurately.

(Unless it is fraud.)
> If it contains any personally identifiable information that is not required by law, then yes. Yes it fucking is.

wahwahwah
Good graphics don't save a lame game. It at most improves an already good one.

A great game on the other hand cam have outdated graphics no problem. People will still love it.
Thank you for sharing your experience. The linked blog post is great!
I don't understand. Every once in a while we get a mention about Microsoft being super retro compatible allowing you to run old win32 binaries on even the latest windows and how much better it is to linux with its glibc incompatibilities.

And then this, you would need an old OS to run an old Photoshop.

So where is the truth?
Has this been tried in any courts? It could be argued that this is the case.
I know, yet I think the conclusion to draw here is that those other polluters are really terrible, not that the aviation is something to ignore because it’s a relatively small part of the pie.
https://www.thethings.com/shirley-temple-tragic-life/
Which Zelda games are bad in your opinion?
To be fair, I don't think anybody is undermining the effort/ingenuity some of these technical artists/engineers have. Its moreso the overwhelming focus of AAA game studios on this over gameplay.

These artists/engineers have accomplished absolutely amazing things and really pushed the limits. But somewhat ironically... gameplay/story is still king when it comes to 'games.

I will say, when a game does blend the two, they are usually highly applauded, it just rarely happens nowadays that a game has both very good graphics, and very good gameplay.
> I can't even say how many users this site has now.

> I cannot test new features and see if it makes users happy so they come back more often.

> I cannot see if the site has issues on some hardware, software, language. Because I wouldn't see if users affected come back less often.

> I can't test if an introduction text at the beginning helps users discover important features. Because I can't make the connection between showing the text early on in the user journey and usage of features later on. Because I can't see a user journey.

Why don't you just ask your users about these things ?
> They hate the government

Judging by their positions and actions, they don't hate government at all. They love government. They just hate it when government doesn't enthusiastically support what they want.
Yeah, my gut feeling is the rich see the writing on the wall. If they can keep a grip on things for a couple more decades then they can just replace all the poors with robots and either stick us all in UBI slums or find a more final solution.
The theory is that the government should enforce competition, so savings go to the consumers. Or tax the monopolists to fund the democratic government.
> the last two generations of Mac Pro systems have been built in their own plants

As far as we know, Apple doesn’t own any of its manufacturing directly. The Mac Pro plant in Texas is operated by either Quanta or Flex[1], depending on who you ask.

You could argue that it’s largely a semantic difference, though, because those facilities are dedicated entirely to Apple and they’re usually the ones funding their construction.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/23/apple-will-make-the-mac-pro-...
I was being facetious, apologies. I have no desire to see the Mona Lisa as it's of no interest to me. But for art that I am interested in, I want to see it in person. There's no need to, of course, but I want to. If you don't want to see art in person, don't worry about what why others might.
It was not inevitable, it was a decision, a choice made by specific people.

They do everything in their power to make you believe that is was inevitable to divert the blame.

Same with Taiwan. It is a choice for China to make - to invade or not.
I don't recall what FireWire drive prices were ~15 years ago, but that could easily be several percent of the final retail price.

$2 for two ports would have been a tiny percent of the final retail price 15 years ago.

Today we're used to portable 4GB drives for $99. But back then, drives were more expensive.

According to the Wayback Machine†, a 1TB FireWire drive was almost $400. So those two ports would have been ½% of the retail price.

† https://web.archive.org/web/20080128203022/http://www.lacie....
Passkey support has been on iOS since the release of iOS 16 -- so more than a half-year!

Google has actually had support for passkey for many many months now, but for whatever reason, waited to formally announce it until just recently.

Cross-platform is also already solved. See the FAQ directly from the FIDO Alliance: https://fidoalliance.org/passkeys/#faq
Nobody was forced to do anything; migration started almost immediately after 1989-90, simply because the eastern economic and social landscape was depleted after the failures of the '80s. Delocalization took a bit longer simply because it required institutional stability, which some countries achieved faster than others. Volkswagen were already making parts in Chzechia in the mid-90s, do you think they were making twice the parts they needed...?

> basically admitting the plan has always been to keep those people poor

That's not what delocalization does; in the long run it inevitably leads to wage growth in target countries - it happened even in China. The "plan", or rather intuition of some political players of the time, was simply to exploit lower salaries as long as it was possible, knowing full well that it wouldn't be forever.

> What was initially sold as a continuation of the marshal plan has taken a very dark european shape.

As I said, nobody is forced to stay in. If those countries stay in, it's because they know which side their bread is buttered.
Specifically CPU. The Wii's internals weren't much more powerful than the GameCube's.

... but as peer threads have noted, this is a relatively new vector for them in terms of value brought to the marketplace. They were competing on grade-A computing and graphics tech in the console space, but did the math and (IMHO wisely) concluded they weren't going to win that fight against Microsoft and Sony (and the manufacturing deals MS and Sony could cut and the manufacturing they could do in-house). So they instead noted those two firms were competing on making the same kind of game and pivoted to providing a platform to make the kinds of games they couldn't put on those consoles (but were starting to show up in arcades, where the inability to compete with the home console market had led to the need to incorporate more interface gimmicks).
Given how much distrust there is of DHS/FBI among Trump supporters/GOP base, I’m not sure this is true; especially with many neocons returning to the Democratic Party they came from originally.

Elected GOP officials are a completely different beast from much of their own base.
Anyone know why open source
Photoshop replacements dont get traction like Blender has for 3d?

Krita is good. Gimp is bad. Nothing seems to be as good as Blender is for 3d, but the problem set is undeniably simpler.
You can also try finch from AWS which combines a similar stack

https://github.com/runfinch/finch

Disclaimer I work at AWS and helped with testing finch during development
It's just the nature of software license agreements. You say that they used third party shit that they should not have, but why should they not have? The inclusion of Pantone swatches in Adobe products was of huge benefit to users, and therefore Adobe, and also to Pantone themselves.