skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's sort of how things ended up, but I don't think it was the intention. Doom and Doom2 were (and are) magnificent single player and co-op games, if you like that sort of thing, which I do (Doom was my lode star when I was working as a gameplay programmer / designer on Soldier of Fortune).

The better single player levels in Quake are actually really intricate and well-designed single player levels too, in exactly the way that Doom levels were great.

Some of the enemy design in Quake is actually pretty good, too, with sharply distinguished silhouettes between enemies, and good discrete gameplay property differentiation between them - well, at least for the zombies, the fiends, and the shamblers. Some of the others are fine, too (scraggs, grunts).

I think the bigger issue is they bit off way more than they could chew.

Specifically, Doom's single player mechanics thrive on having hordes of enemies interacting with highly interconnected levels in interesting ways, making space management a big part of the single player game play. Trying to figure out where you're safe to pick a fight, or how to steer the hordes around to create a space where it's safe to fight, is a big part of the draw. But, because rendering 3d monsters was so expensive compared to 2d sprites, Quake couldn't do hordes when it shipped, and fighting just a few enemies at a time (with their health highly jacked up) was a totally different experience. It could have been made to work, but they would have had to stray a lot further from the Doom gameplay recipe than they did.

And they also would have needed, I think, a lot more monster variety. A single player game with 30 different enemy types that were interesting and differentiated would have been much stronger.

That's my two cents, anyway.
> Any substances widely consumed by people should be regulated and tested before they are sold to the public. Even the substances some people don't like other people consuming.

I suspect this is the beginning of reform. Politics moves slowly. At least my translation of the article implied that further steps towards decriminalization will come in the future.

In the US, states often pass laws that undermine federal laws. I'm less familiar with EU and German politics.

I always wonder how we as a society could legalize "hard" drugs. Do we sell them like alcohol / tobacco, with minimal restrictions? (Just age limits.) Or, do we require obtaining a license, or only allow taking hard drugs in a controlled setting? I don't have the answer; but it's an important discussion to have as drugs are decriminalized and legalized.
He could use Siri, as he noted in his blog post[1]

But the issue he raises is quite serious. Getting your Amazon account locked out isn’t funny at all, given how many services they provide.

[1] https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w...
I would love to see the source, I don't think this is a common phenomenon anywhere in the world.

Nor does it particularly make sense to me... why not just spray on delta THC-8 or 9, the whole point of synthetic cannabinoids is they don't show up on drug tests.
If they can't block a substance from being distributed, they should regulate it instead.
It's important to remember that it doesn't take very long to fill or drain reservoirs, it's all about inflow versus outflow.

Inflow and outflow (consumption included) need to be both stable and relatively close in order to maintain a stable water supply, and that's not the case here; outflow usually massively outpaces inflow, and decade-long droughts interspersed with full reservoirs after torrential rains is not a reliable or secure way to ensure water access.
Being able to discuss ethical positions independently of one's ability to live according to those positions is critical to the advancement of society.
The absurdity of this article has me emotionally confused. I don't know whether I should laugh or be angry.
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I did wonder about that, but then you wouldn't want the police looking around and probably asking you about it (as someone working there, or identified as the persom who found it) when your supervisor reported it either? Nor would you talk to the press about it (or report it later as GP pointed out did happen) probably?
The (likely less obvious) thing the author meant was that the person in question was locked out of the "smart" parts of their home. But yes, the title is clearly bad and you can already see confused people in the comments here.
Sometimes people see it as losing 10% performance that you never get back
I was astonished with that phrasing too. It immediately takes out all the impact of his rage. You take away all of your services for a week and he's only considering not using them anymore? It's the empties threat I've heard in a long while :-(
> Second, “addicts” is a tiny subset of “drug users”.

I think you are absolutely wrong.

e: Okay, now some are disagreeing about whether 30-40% of users in the last year is a 'tiny subset' or not, but I think my point has been made.
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That’s an interesting thought, I’m not really sure how different the risk tolerance is. If you’re allocating 5% of your fund into a deal I imagine you’d be similarly conservative at both levels as the dollar amount is different but the risk is still the same portion of your fund. If anything the smaller may be more liberal as the multiples are higher in early stage. Both are expected to have failures but a larger VC has more resources at their disposal; A small VC can’t do the same diligence that a large VC with an army of financial analysts can do.
This is talked about in this book

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0...

In short a manager's job is smooth out the bumps, make all the little things go right. A leader sets the direction, inspires people, etc.
We can’t completely stop people from smoking either. But we can prevent people from starting and we can perhaps prevent those who have already started from increasing their consumption. Slowing down the rate of use by banning advertisements isn’t “hypocritical virtue signaling” it’s a real, measurable improvement. Perfection is the enemy of progress.
You mean 15? ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_(JavaScript_engine)
dfxm12 is asking a question of you.
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> I have to say that I find Rust just as ugly and cumbersome as C++

Ok, so you don't like it aesthetically. Do you have problems writing unmaintainable software in it? What about incorrect software? Is there any specific feature in the language that you object to that will cause confusion and lead to people writing bugs?

C is a very beautiful and "simple" language, people also write a lot of security vulnerabilities with it.

Beauty is a useless concept in a programing language. Most of the time it just relates to someone's bias towards what they are familiar with. A lot of people find Python "beautiful", I'm unfortunately very familiar with python and as I've become more and more familiar with it I find it uglier and uglier.

Same with C, I remember all the many hours I've spent in valgrind debugging problems other people have made for me and I find it ugly too.

When I look at a programming language, I don't think about aesthetic "beauty" or even "simplicity".

I think, does this programming language allow me to represent the concepts I want to represent accurately and correctly?

If it is not memory safe, does not support static typing with algebraic data types, and does not have null safety it does not meet those minimum requirements and is not suitable for use.

Edit: I want to add, it's not just accuracy and correctness that are important. Performance is very important too and many functional languages absolutely flounder because of strict immutability and the adoption of patterns that have terrible memory access patterns.
Evolution of Django back end: from SignRequest to what's left of it at BoxSign
Easy interop with C is one of the core selling points of Python. It's not just about performance - it's about Python being able to be a glue language that can interface with any legacy or system library written in C or being accessible via FFI. A LOT of systems exist that take advantage of this, and changes to the C interface impact all of these. Unless the porting story is thought out extraordinary well, it would be another disaster like Python 2->3. Since this affects C code, it won't be anything but tricky.
ARM should be worried. In anticipation of their new IPO, they changed their licensing model to be based on the value of the final device, not the chip itself. Manufacturers are profoundly unhappy with that, and hey, there happens to be ann alternative to invest in now.

Talk to someone who works at a RISC-V startup. There’s a lot of energy there. It’s going to take a while, but startups are working on every class of chip.

ARM changed the fee structure because growth has been flat, and this is a way to get money short term, not grow the addressable market. It will settle into Intel-like stagnation as a disruptor takes its markets. What's ARM's moat?
You don't think the law could basically make them infeasible? Right now they rely on leeching off content generated by real humans. Cut that off and they're going to have issues even training them.

Get something by Disney included in the training data by mistake and just watch what happens.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. You explicitly do not own any of the devices or the services they provide in this context. It's good the guy realizes now the way forwards is running software he controls on computers that are his property. It's too bad that as a software engineer he didn't realize this beforehand like he should have been able to.
I'm honestly shocked that some of the most powerful LGBTQ people in finance and tech haven't come out and told the Republican party to knock this shit off. They have enough $$$ to sway lots of non-MAGA middle-of-the-aisle politicians who don't really want to be spending government money enforcing the religious views of a loud but small minority.

Cook, Theil, Rabois, just to name a few. These guys wield incredible clout and overall have elected to not use it to prevent people who were born a certain way from being persecuted. It's pretty disturbing honestly.
>I still don't get why today people care so much about single thread performance.

For about 10 minutes a few years ago, when the M1 had the best single threaded performance per buck, people cared.

Now that the M1 isnt the leader in single threaded, we are back to the 'multithread is most important'.

Which has always been true. If your program needs an improvement in speed, you can multithread it. The opposite isnt true.
The "to one degree or another" is doing all the work in this argument. Does my knowledge of how a full adder works now grant me the ability to discern malware at a glance? Similarly, should we start dismissing psychologists because your average neurologist can just cure depression and other mental issues? Should we do the same with sociologists or economists? Maybe even neurologists could be replaced by physicists or mathematicians.

Or maybe the abstract, high level understanding the brain provided by psychology is enough to explain its dynamic behavior? Maybe I can become an expert in IC design by learning React?

We know how neural nets work on a fundamental level and we know how they work on multiple levels of higher abstraction, yet explainability is one the biggest problems in machine learning right now. These models can solve complex problems which computer scientists long struggled to develop algorithms for, even though every aspect of them, except emergent behaviors due to complex interactions, is known by us.

The issue is that consciousness is a strongly emergent property - touching every level of abstraction and comprising patterns from the specific to the general. Knowledge of how a system works on the ground level or how it works on some coarse levels of abstraction, does not allow you to classify it as conscious or unconscious.

Additionally, consciousness is ill-defined. There is no agreed upon definition that is free of contradictions, does not accidentally include systems that we would not see as conscious or does not accidentally exclude a significant portion of humanity.

I invite you to think up some properties of the human brain that you would classify as essential for consciousness to emerge, and then try to think up exceptions. I'm very confident that you can come up with at least one for every single property.
I’d prefer the Donald Trump treatment for people who don’t have a history of killing people.
Ah, thanks. Speaking of "shooting" I also wondered if it was a technique to help disguise a CCW carry (supposedly secret service agents are trained to spot the gait of someone carrying a concealed firearm).
I personally would prefer not raiding a home with weapons.
One of us is a replicant and it might be me!

But it sounds more like you’re describing a Purple team [1], where the compliance and sec ops teams work together with vulnerability researchers and pen testers to perform attack surface analysis and develop threat detections.

In my experience Red teams generally perform adversary emulation using a certain amount of surprise and deception, and attack your defenses in depth with a _little_ help from inside (if needed). Essentially an outside group paid well to try and steal your lunch.

Liked and subscribed, and thanks for the comments and all the work.

Edit: Let’s split the difference, I’ll call it magenta, and flip this here turtle on its back. Why did I do that?

[1] https://www.sans.org/purple-team/course-faq/?msc=purple-team...

(because reddit was down)
Kean and Blumenthal have been pushing these stories for a half decade now. They are the same people behind the 2017 F-18 story.
Living in Germany, I've never heard of it happening, and given the types of people and places I hang out, I think I would have by now.
From your first source, directly contradicting your interpretation of what it says:

"In the first five years after the reforms, drug deaths dropped dramatically. They rose slightly in the following years, before returning to 2005 levels in 2011, with only 10 drug overdose deaths recorded in that year. Since 2011, drug deaths have risen again but remain below 2001 levels (when there were 76 recorded deaths)."

The point of de-criminalization is that people that "can't set limits for themselves" are treated as patients, not criminals.
Some of the things in this are a bit much, but I think some of this comes from the cult of the 10x developer. I feel like I'm a 10x developer on some very specific things, and a 0.5x developer when it comes to others, but that I'm mostly an average 1x dev. I think a lot of devs are like this, they get really good at some specific stuff, but feel lost as soon as they start looking at some new project on a totally different stack or in a different area. Like when I first migrated to using git from svn I definitely had a productivity drop from screwing stuff up, but I eventually adjusted. Most devs I know went through something similar, shot themselves in the foot a few times and then acclimatized to the new tool, not many instantly switched without a productivity drop.
Click bait title - but still a concerning issue.

Wow - that's absurdist reality for you. How does Amazon allow for that to happen and lock you out of all your accounts for a non reason?!

The shoot first ask questions second nature of this is baffling. Not to mention there is zero reason that they should be allowed to do that in first place.

Smart home is a failed product at this point.

I don't condone racist behavior but that is 100% not the job of Amazon to determine who is or is not racist and cut them out as a result.
It's a rhetorical device
One thing I haven't seen mentioned in the comments here yet: once again, this shows the risk of using the same account for more than one purpose.

If I understood the article correctly, a report from an Amazon delivery driver locked the user from his Amazon account, and the same account was also used for the Amazon devices linked to his home automation. Had he used separate accounts for deliveries and the devices, the mistaken accusation might have affected only the delivery account, leaving the devices working.
With the importance that tech company accounts have today, the bar for blocking access should be incredibly high.
It's political gymnastics because getting a majority for legalization is much harder than getting a majority for quality control. Germany is now legalizing cannabis, but that's still very far from legalizing heroin or cocaine. Remember that about 60% of German voters are over 50, and may be less open to radical changes.

In principle I agree that many drugs should be legal, and we should instead spend more resources on mental health and support for addicted people. But if all we can get a majority for is the latter part that's still an improvement.
Gov. DeSantis signs bill banning most direct-to-consumer auto sales
Tesla is exempt...
Do we ever learn what the 'racist remark' was supposed to have been?
Consumer GPUs are great for inference at scale.

We're a distributed GPU cloud with 10k+ consumer GPUs on our network.
We can crank out 4500+ stable diffusion images per dollar (highest in the market), all on consumer 3060s.

The high-end GPUs definitely have a role but for a bulk of production/inference serving can be done on consumer GPUs at 80-90% of the cost.
He's navigating for a payout.
Racism is the de-facto state religion of the United States – so people who are not Americans need to understand this as in he is accused of heresy and being a heretic. Which is the worst crime of all in a religious society and in the eyes of zealots.

Amazon won't mess with your house if you're accused of worse things, such as violent crimes. But they will take it upon themselves to enforce the state religion, not even questioning what they are doing.
Are your current python programs slow and it matters?

Why havent you implemented multithreading?

(don't get me wrong, I know the cost of implementation, but if speed matters, multithreading is a very reasonable step in python)
Reduction is also item number 1 in their linked factsheet:

https://fcarchitects.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/20230206...

> Modernize building standards
to favor low-carbon materials
and circular use

> Promote low-carbon practices
in industry and curricula

> Update building and
infrastructure regulations
based on required performance,
instead of prescriptions on
material conten
This is one of the flaws with prohibition... you lose all effective authority to regulate the prohibited product.

We'll see how well it works in Germany, but in the United States, such a program would plainly be nothing more than an intelligence asset for cops. For that reason dealers would order their customers to refrain from using it, and would exact retribution upon those who did.

Besides, trailer park meth cooks aren't really capable of producing a safe, unadulterated product in measured doses. They don't have the competence or the resources to do that. But addicts still need the product regardless. Do you even get to keep your meth if the state-run quality control lab says that it has too much rat poison? Why would an addict risk getting it confiscated for their own safety?

Just legalize the crap and sell it out of liquor stores in plain retail packaging manufactured by pharmaceutical corporations who have some cap on the profits they're allowed to earn over cost.
From sometime in the past: "Leaders lead people. Managers manage things."

Etc: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Leaders+lead+people.+Managers+mana...
I really think, he was just making a joke!
Why? What's your experience with dealing with populations of habitual drug users? Do you go to clubs? Parties? Raves? Backs of offices? etc?
Imagine leaving the future of your high-development-cost products and even your giga-dollar brand reputation in the hands of a single delivery driver.

It's a malicious actor's picnic.

Somebodies in some chain of policy creation may be fired.
It's likely the clickbait title was intentional. Otherwise they could have simply clarified "smart home gadgets".
Because they're benefiting from it?

I'm not sure how true it is, but I have read N Korea uses cryptocurrencies to trade ?
Civilised society might prefer no weapons?
To add to your point, I’m on the Buvidal once-monthly shot. I get the mood boosting effects (albeit in a much subtler fashion due to buprenorphine being a partial agonist of the mu opioid receptor) of my previous heroin addiction, without all the downsides. Super neat tech too, though the injection stings something fierce.
The usual driver vulnerability
It's certainly true in San Francisco that many more people now are dying of drug overdoses & they have also implemented a number of harm reduction measures in recent years.

But of course there are plenty of confounders during that period.
But it generates angry clicks!
I noticed that java with a connected debugger can be very fast even with breakpoints, but stepping over can be very slow. Which is a big weird, since "step over" is basically just putting the breakpoint on the next line.
Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296250
Sure, but what if an infra change that is not part of that automated deployment also needs to happen?

It's one thing to allow anyone to *call* for a rollback of a deployment. It's another thing entirely to allow anyone to, independently and without sign-offs, *perform* a rollback.
This article isn't very clear on the fact that CO2 can be re-injected back into the cement later in the production stage. I work with a startup using direct air capture tech to capture ambient CO2, store it, and inject it back into cement production. This has a massive offset in the CO2 produced during the calcination stage.

https://www.carbon-direct.com/insights/direct-air-capture-to...

There is also lots of work already underway on electrified calcination. Plenty of industries, such as carbon fiber production, already take advantage of electrified kilns in their production process. This tech just needs to be scaled up. As the article mentioned, cement manufacturing isn't exactly on the cutting edge of technology.
Not reading the content -- but being part of the team trying to figure out new people trying to influence youtube could be an interesting problem to work on probably from an academic perspective. In actuality you probably deal with a lot of garbage content.
I'm going to admit that what I really want to see is a strong push to standardize and fully incorporate package management and distribution into python's core. Despite the work done on it, it's still a mess as far as I can see, and there is no single source of truth (that I know of) on how to do it.

For that matter, pip can't even search for packages any more, and instead directs you to browse the pypi website in a browser. Whatever the technical reasons for that, its a user interface fail. Conda can do it!!!!! (as well as just about any package management system I've ever used)
Board games have exactly the same tropes and design patterns as computer games.

Once you've played enough games, you begin to recognize the pattern and can tell if it's going to be a new and engaging game or just another trope.

But they are a nice stimulus to get together in person, that part is right on.