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> Of course politics should be out of the scope of a SciFi Con, any Con.

Right, because if there's anything that's been historically unimportant to the interpretation of literature, it's politics[1].

That seems ridiculous to me. Literature, and science fiction especially, has always been about telling interesting stories about the way people interact and consructing allegories to help us understand the real world. None of those facts change just because the story being told is something you don't agree with.

[1] Which in the sense we're using it isn't even strictly "politics" (i.e. things that pertain to the selection and operation of government). These are all issues of social change and conflict, which are to first approximation all any interesting literature is about.
> there is free WiFi almost everywhere

Unless you're one of those people who don't need internet to survive, then this is nonsense. Wifi is far from everywhere and I'm not going to manually connect to wifi just to check if my date is running late. Is this the 90s?
I will not argue about someone's ability to buy a new house in the current environment. But in this thread discussion is focused on existing homeowners moving to a new house.

In your case (assuming $300K original house price) you will sell it for $600K, net $264K profits after commissions. Use profits plus $60K of original downpayment and any additional equity in the old house as a downpayment for a similar house at $600K. The new mortgage will be similar to one you had in 2007. Same rate and most likely smaller principal. Not a big difference.
Hey, author here, and generally a fan of your contributions here. I'd love your feedback if you're up for sharing it.
I think you are misunderstanding the plan. The device will stay on until you turn it off, or 5 mins after last keystroke.
Is it prepared to handle markets like India and China?
Thanks for ad hominem. I never said 'Adobe became "irrelevant" "years ago"'. I also didn't say anyone can replace Adobe easily, but outlined a path how a motivated company can replace their offering. If somebody offers better UX (and there are many options to do better than PS), lowering the switching costs in required training, then it can happen fairly quickly. Beside being a former pro photo/cinematographer, I also worked for one Adobe competitor and invented a bunch of new geometric and image processing algorithms, then went on to study Deep Learning at Stanford, so maybe I know what I am talking about, or maybe I am just a fallacious idiot who has no clue.
So the Lisp-like is Guile. Did they ever come up with the second (algebraic) language?
I really liked the Tomato firmware for these things a while back... Been using OpnSense currently, with a dedicated AP mounted centrally in my home. It's a shame that the FCC rules have pretty much guaranteed that routers will only allow signed firmware updates, though the companies could do it differently. In the end, I miss the plethora of home hardware that can be consumer maintained and upgraded. I've avoided most "smart home" stuff for that reason.
Yeah, a part of it is that there's not really a mechanic class in the way that there used to be. I mentioned that's how my grandpa got his start: He was obsessed with TVs and repaired them/made his own FrankenTVs as a side from his automotive job, which in turn meant that when the computer and arcade revolution hit my dad had the tools and expertise to get really into things like pinball machines, Pong, and Atari leading him to programming which in turn meant I (born in 1988) was raised in a household where pulling apart machines and doing what you want with them (rather than what was taught or what they were 'made' for) was normal.

The decline in basic mechanical tinkering in the population definitely is a factor if only because the mindset transfers to hacking: "This is a human made tool and I am a human with the right/ability to screw with it/alter it to do what I want". Very few kids now grow up being encouraged to play with and take things apart. Both because the adults don't have the knowledge to put it back together or the tools for the kids to use and because our culture is way more risk averse than it used to be.
Any niche story telling will eventually trend towards Nazism.

The real reason Carmack attended was because he wanted to see how different these are from mainstream conventions.

He enjoyed it and politics didn't come up as he said.

So I don't see what the problem is.
New Index of State Dynamism
50k a year is the top 10% earners. I think Americans working in tech how no idea how dire the salary situation is in Europe in general.

SF wages would literally put them to the infamous greedy 1%.
Your reaction was similar to mine: "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!" :)
For a reality check on those large virtual desktop illustrations, while I do like the (same hardware?) NReal Light's 1080p, its 52 deg FOV means looking at such a desktop through a smaller, not-curved, head-pointed portal. Picture holding up your laptop, so it appears 5 fists across diagonally, and then waving it around, likely synchronized with your neck. Which looks something vaguely like these:[1][2].

[1] Phone photo through NReal Light https://twitter.com/mncharity/status/1397553615372529668/pho...
[2] DIY rough analogy https://twitter.com/mncharity/status/1225091755667853318
The woman in the article is a live-in domestic worker, her place of employment is very specific and has to be nearby. I think this type of employment only exists in London.
I did not say that the Zelda franchise has sold poorly, just less well than BOTW / TOTK.

I don't think attach rates offer the full picture. Early on the audience for BOTW was so eager for the game they were buying the Switch just for BOTW. For a period the attach-rate was greater than 100%! But the Switch has broad appeal and the attach-rate of BOTW has declined as more types of gamers buy-in to the Switch. The Gamecube and (to a lesser extent) the Nintendo64 had less success than the Switch outside of core Nintendo fans which naturally means franchises like Zelda would have higher attach rates.

Mario Mario 1 & 2 are both well-designed executions of a concept that appeals to a more limited audience (building and playing user-made Mario levels). BOTW / TOTK hit that sweet spot of widely appealing concept and excellent execution.
different varieties/severity, neither good - arguably Musk is more directly harmful to Americans than Uyghur genocide, (which most Americans probably aren't even aware of) but it's not really an intelligent comparison and probably results in more distracting infighting than anything
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(OP) Thanks for that, the BasedCon "philosophy" page is here fwiw

https://www.basedcon.com/?page_id=85

It sounds - as Carmack says - "intentionally provocative" and not a constructive way of countering what the organisers might object to in other conferences.
Between Google Street view and satellite photos and 3d virtual tours, I would probably be 90% confident that a house layout would work for us.

Maybe 15% from listing photos that are often taken with a lens that makes rooms look bigger than they are.
Don’t you earn inflated dollars to make up for the inflated expenses?
> would you also ask childless couples to pay for schools.

We do.

> people never intent on flying to pay for airports?

We also do.

I think the point I'm making (broadly) is that it appears cheap because a lot of that cost has been bundled into taxes, and spreading taxes over an entire population of people (even those not using roads directly) is going to dilute those costs.

The incidental point then; is that you are not actually paying the entire amount for your usage of the road system.

Heck even if you were to make the argument that "everyone uses the roads" or that everybody at least benefits indirectly: your use of them is adding to wear and tear that is disproportionate to your input to that system.

Please understand that this is not meant as an attack. It's a request to shift your perspective into truly internalising the cost, since you're already paying that cost but not directly; how much would you have to pay directly before you consider changing your mind? How much better do the transport options need to be?

Personally, and I don't require everyone to share my view of course, but living in reach of multiple transport options that are quick, cheap, clean and frequent has really changed my life.

I'm not a heavy drinker, but it's really freeing to not worry about my ability to drink. or to worry about parking, or worry about theft or damage, and also to not worry about getting into a collision (especially when it could just as easily be my fault). It feels extremely liberating. I also understand that cars give similar feelings of liberation in other areas (until you want to drink or park).

So it really is more about understanding convenience trade offs; and really I'm not happy to hear "it's cheap" because honestly; it's not. You're just heavily subsidised.
Customs in the EU have massively cracked down on imports from China in the last couple of years, with new regulations regarding import charges etc.

Every single package I've ordered since then across four different EU countries and multiple Chinese suppliers has resulted in it being held until a fee was paid.

Previously, stuff below a certain value was "free".
my favorite reference to it is in the HTML 4.0 standard https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/interact/scri...

> "where "type" is an content type naming the scripting language. Examples of values include "text/tcl", "text/javascript", "text/vbscript"."

It goes on to list text/tcl as a language, equivalent to javascript and even gives examples. There's a story behind this I read somewhere but I can't seem to find it.

I once had one of those books that was like 500 pages by those companies like Que with a title like "The ___ Bible" which had at least a chapter on web tcl - in anticipation for the presumed support of it which I'll argue isn't around (besides this: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Using+Tcl+to+write+WWW+client...).
Another reason to stop using gas
Microsoft will choose which secure login method you use
GPT-4 works great, super impressive, but I am significantly less impressed by OpenAI as a business. I'm still locked out of creating a work account because I used up the two accounts-per-phone number limit that they have hardcoded (with no way to free up one of those slots by deleting an account) and can't create a new account. Dozens of posts on their support forum about the same thing, basically impossible to get any kind of human support from them to resolve it.
I'm not sure you'd be much different in the US. I find, among "fast casual" (i.e. step up from real fast food chains) burger chains, Five Guys is one of the more expensive.
Pretty much. Core to the belief system of any extremist view is the idea that its adherents represent the repressed views of "real" people (be they traditionalist christians or proletarian laborers). No one shows up and puts a label on themselves or their movement saying "We need radical social and political change to meet the needs of my obscure niche internet community!"
"Too slow" is most always the wrong word. Too much buffer bloat is what causes most of the problems. I survived fine on a 6/.5kbs dsl connection from ATT for years. I had set up a few QOS rules on my router using fq_codel. Night and day difference. I was regularly on voip calls for work while netflix was showing on two different TVs with no issues. It is really depressing that bloat is still an issue.
All EVs are faster than an average car needs to be. It's silly that these days even a pick-up truck can drag race Lambos.
There's paperswithcode which has a ranking of sorts.
You can’t “stay out of” politics; shunning is transitive. I.e. if BasedCon associates with bad people, BasedCon is surely all bad people. If John Carmack then associates with BasedCon, John Carmack is bad. If you then associate with John Carmack, guess what?

People are open about this. A twitter response says “if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis”. Following this principle, if any of those 10 other people leaves that table and sits down with 10 different people, all those people must turn into nazis too, and must likewise be shunned, etc.
Back in those early days with XFree86, it was exciting to get 2D accelerator drivers going so we could turn on "opaque window moves" in our window managers. By having the window contents "blitted" around on the card, we could finally move the actual window around instead of just a thin outline that would repaint after we stopped moving it.

This required the graphics card to do it locally since there wasn't enough bus bandwidth nor cpu speed to have a software implementation copy around the window content in realtime!
I recently read a news article that Sam Altman is attending the Bilderberg Meeting [0]. The timing is perfect.

[0] https://bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2023/partici...
Users flagged it. (Mods didn't touch it or even see it.) We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case I don't think the article is a basis for a substantive, thoughtful conversation so I think they were probably correct to flag it. It's too sensational/inflammatory a story, and there isn't significant information there.

The downside, as you say, is that flagging it will appear to confirm some people's suspicions about suppression, censorship, etc. - but that happens all the time on all such topics, and I've learned there's not much we can do about it. Patiently presenting the facts doesn't help with inflammation of sinisterness. (Fortunately, it does help with the majority of the audience.)

The details in the article may be factual, but that's not a sufficient condition for a good HN thread. There needs to be something of intellectual interest, and 'celebrity attends private meeting with other elite celebrities' is not enough information to count. You can see from the comments that people are mostly flaming for-or-against, and/or just making things up. The meeting being secret makes a vacuum that people fill up with their imaginations. That's natural and human but it's not good for thoughtful HN threads.

Also, it looks like the title was editorialized, which is against HN's rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

p.s. Btw I may be mistaken but I vaguely recall that Sam has attended that meeting before- if so, then his name is higher up in the article purely because AI is newsy these days. Otherwise they'd put someone else's name there - that's how the eyeballs get glued.
I mean, even given how badly the Commerce Clause has been abused at this point, I'm incredulous that it should allow the government to ban social media platforms at will simply because bits travel through the series of tubes across state lines.

Particularly since, if that were the case, porn would have been banned under that rationale ages ago. If free speech protects the likes of Larry Flynt and Vice it obviously protects Facebook and Twitter.
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A lot of them have trouble admitting that their cultural stances are increasingly unpopular and what they view as "common sense" is not and is actually reflective of their politics.

Plenty of right-wingers like to talk about being moderate and not wanting to "make things political" while making political statements. Its a bit mind-blowing that someone can name an event "BasedCon" and try to claim that its trying not to be political with a straight face.
At worst, most troubleshooting guides online (one's phone probably has Internet) and probably even in the manual end with "if all else fails, here's how to factory reset". Someone in the comments of the article said a factory fixed it for them.

I understand the frustration, but after some initial anger, people will eventually get there.
Apple TV finally gets multiview for live sports
In my city, less than 50% have a car. So the minority is not the ones not using it. Can't remember the last time I got a lift from someone. I literally can't name someone living here I know that own a car.
I'd say the Multi-Layer perception itself.

Maybe even convolutional neural networks, because they showed that ANNs are viable and are what really got the ball rolling.
Show HN: Swap.js – a JavaScript micro-framework (HTML fragments over the wire)
Hi HN! I created this lib in the need of a simple and tiny framework to easily do AJAX-style navigation / replacement of fragments in the page, in a web application.

For people who don't want to use client-side-rendering and complex frameworks à la React, there are nowadays a few "HTML-over-the-wire" libraries, like HTMX, Unpoly or this super-tiny one Swap.js :)

One other key thing is that no external tool is needed: no bundler, no webpack, no TypeScript compiler, no minification needed. Just write HTML, JS (+ your preferred server-side language: PHP, Python, etc.) and it works.

The framework makes use of fetch (of course) but also MutationObserver API to be able to launch actions when parts of the DOM change.

Let me know what you think!
It can be an issue everywhere, Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer, after smoking.
Can you clarify what you mean by advocating for their outcomes?
Question fabulously answered by rob whose Stack Exchange avatar is also a banger.
It's not. DirectX is an add-on. WiFi is additional drivers. Screenshot is just a user space application. The only thing requiring deep surgery is different DPI on different screens.

Too bad we have to choose between no spy-ware in the OS andd different DPI monitors.
ChatGPT vs. open source on harder tasks
TLDR: Andy Warhol's artwork was NOT transformative and the 'fair use' argument falls flat. Ask for permission and get a license for that photograph or image.

Sorry generative AI grifters. It's time to ask for permission to train on copyrighted artworks and images for commercial purposes and this will almost certainly be licensed. Even OpenAI already knew this with Shutterstock.

Stability AI on the other hand...
please speculate. I just don't understand what it would even have access to. Are you worried about it exploiting iOS bugs? Otherwise it should only have explicit access to what I grant, right? No audio, video, files, photos, contacts, location.
I would class that as an eggcorn[1] and not just a simple error.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
Any open-source developers available to talk for 15 mins? I'll buy you coffee
We're building a community and monetization tool for open source developers.

Wanted to do some interviews and talk to devs. Built an edtech company previously and take these user interviews quite seriously.

Let me know here or feel free to email jason@openforge.ai

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haha yeah, my comment was mostly a throwback to the genre of articles we saw in the late aughts where people were discovering dynamic programming environments, and would say the line about Ruby/Java but not mention all the cases the Java case was handling that their Ruby `File.read` example didn't. I put it in quotes not to make that exact point, but more to reference how I've seen the conversation go.

Generally I'm extremely positive on Java :-p
PDF.ai: Bring your documents to life, from legal agreements to financial reports
While it doesn't specify on the app that the limit is 25 messages every 3 hours. It mentions that GPT-4 access is limited and usage caps are reset regularly, but doesn't specify how much.
The "Digital Foundry" tech analysis found that it's mostly stable 30fps, with occasional dips in villages but nothing that meaningfully impacts gameplay. My experience matches with that, so I'm inclined to believe their analysis. It isn't perfect, but I think a lot of comments in this thread are overstating the issue.
Just to be clear, you're neither giving Subscriber Only nor the authors your payment details. All of that is handled by Stripe. Their core service is handling this kind of sensitive data.

I can certainly understand not liking recurring payments but it's a pretty standard business model. On Subscriber Only, you can choose between monthly and yearly subscriptions and you can cancel them at any time. You can look at it a sort-of automation of what you're already doing with one-time donations.

Don't quote me on this -- I have no data -- but I think monetizing a personal blog is pretty tough. Unless you'd consider Strachery <https://stratechery.com/> a personal blog. If you want to get paid writing, I suggest specializing in a niche of a niche. E.g. Don't write about the tech industry, write about semiconductor manufacturing in Germany.

But hey, you won't know until you try!
Were some games for the #ColecoVision written in #Pascal? Instead of speculation, Let's validate this assertion by using a quick tool I wrote to check for calls to the #Pascal routines documented in the Programmers Guide and OS Listing.
> the govt recently introduced free childcare for a certain number of hours

I'm guessing you don't have children because they actually promised to do it in a year. Nothing has changed yet. Also the extra funding for free hours works out at like 20p/hour which is way below what is needed for nurseries to break even on free hours.

I think you're massively overstating how good things are. Are taxes aren't high because they're paying for great services; they're high because they're paying for great fuckups. Brexit, corruption, too-good pensions deals, etc.
I think it's fair for the alt-righters that put this convention together to say they were excluded. Probably fair to exclude them too, but imo making their own con in reaction to being excluded seems like a reasonable decision. the rage bait stuff is lame though.
Apple Releases iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5
It's a matter of resources and time imo. Blender is currently about thirty people and started in 1994; Krita and Gimp are each currently four people and both started in 1998. (Also, 3D graphics turned out to have a Blender-shaped hole--it's arguably the first generalist's creation app--while the 2D painting space has gotten pretty crowded since the 1970s.)
I'm a 10 year engineer at a FAANG. My promotion velocity is probably about average, maybe a bit above average, but not exceptional.
How does this ruling impact generative AI?
I don't think so. You can easily play around in the browser, using Javascript, or on https://processing.org/, https://playground.tensorflow.org/, https://scratch.mit.edu/, etc.

If anything the problem is that today's kids have too many options. And sure, some are commercial.
My default browser on Android is Firefox Focus. No history, no tracking, cookies removed on close.
Sniffnet: Open-source, cross platform application to monitor network traffic
It's not clear that it's necessary for the state to engage in housing construction. There's plenty of money for people to pay for houses. But there has been no building for the last decade while the population has exploded.

Why not? People who have land don't want to sell it, and they don't have to. But neither can they build on it because it's trivially easy to stop any building project by objecting.

So you have one group of people holding on to land like their lives depended on it, trying to increase the value, and another group trying to lower the value of that land and increase the value of their own homes by preventing the owners from building on it.
This is a very cool project!

This is a bit of an aside but I'm curious as to why you chose your specific internet traffic routing method for your website vs something like Tailscale, or ngrok, or similar tunnelling solutions.

I think for me it would be especially interesting to have a combination of the generator, battery, control board, power sockets and the single-board computer (everything but the desk frame, essentially) in the form factor of an under-desk bike