skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extremely detailed and good analysis, and I agree with just about every point. A lot of it feels like a mystery story, 'why did this game that had good convention vibes not sell?' and I think their ultimate root cause analysis is spot on:

> we think the biggest factor is because it’s a local-multiplayer game with no online play.

Ultimately it's important to think about who the people on the other end of the console are who buy the game are looking for; in 2023, multiplayer games without online play don't fill a critical niche. I think it's easy to see people at festivals enjoying a game and think it's guaranteed money, but festival games atmosphere is unique, and not necessarily the same as just some dude scrolling thru steam looking for something to play.
No, pixels can't be more off than completely off.

That's why OLEDs have "perfect blacks", it's not an exaggeration, it's physically impossible to create better blacks.
Cities: Skylines II Development Diary #1: Road Tools
While this is true, the masking is more important for control flow in the loops. You can sometimes replace if/else statements with the masked registers allowing loops with simple conditionals to be vectorized.
Traditionally, autovectorization works by doing some prefix of the array vectorized, and the remaining elements with a scalar loop, e.g. 108 items may be processed by 6 iterations of a vectorized loop that processes 16 elements at a time, and then the last 12 (108-6×16) are done with 12 iterations of a scalar loop.

This change, as far as I understand, makes handling those 12 be done via a single masked iteration. This is especially important if, instead of 108 elements, you had just 12, where what previously was 12 loop iterations, is now a single bit of code.
It should probably link directly to https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/18/on-the-road-to-plasma-...
These accounts are apparently of one of the participants (called "mission specialists" in Ocean Gate Expeditions parlance):

https://twitter.com/ActionAviation0
https://www.instagram.com/p/CtmxGHvs1yE/
> read the actual book she’s reviewing

For the available-time-challenged, there's a free sample that is a good read in itself:

https://www.amazon.com/Inheritors-Intimate-Portrait-Africas-...
It’s white nationalist propaganda.

I don’t mean to suggest that there aren’t very serious problems with crime and the power grid in South Africa, but overall this author is writing a piece of white nationalist propaganda and picking their anecdotes to suit their deeply racist narrative.
Elon Musk's Starlink is just used by criminals, says Amazon State Governor
The main Brazilian newspaper reports that Starlink network is just used in Amazon region by outlaws.

Ex-president Bolsonaro announced the partnership with great fanfare. It would empower education, but just 3 schools have it
Maybe you asked too many questions and she was getting annoyed? Hence the short answers, then nothing? Maybe chill out and don’t talk to her for a while?
There are different meanings of the word "compromise."

Integrity can be "compromised", be it physical integrity (the structural support of the building was compromised and so it collapsed) or moral integrity (their values were compromised and they did a bad thing).

But compromise can also be a concession in pursuit of a value. My wife and I want to go see a movie. I want to see a horror and she wants to see a romcom. So we compromise and see something that was not a first choice for either of us but that we're both happy with since the superior value being sought was spending time together. The specific movie was a secondary value.

In this second context case I disagree that compromise CREATES value, but after I read the blog I realized that the author didn't even mean what the title literally says. The author is saying that it is difficult for someone to have NO values (in a literal sense this would have to be a very depressed individual who is contemplating suicide since they do not even value their own life). But that some people move through life mindlessly and aimlessly, oblivious to what they value. So much so that they do not consciously value anything. And so once such an individual is "forced" to make compromises then the recognition of values is then forced. I suppose the author's thesis is that forcing a recognition of values could lead to the adoption of values previously unconsidered.
This account is well over a decade old, I think that's something like 5 or 6 points a day? Literally one or two meaningful comments a week will do that over a decade. The above comment has over 40 points, I guess I'm good for a few months now!

And am I the only one that finds this kind of response creepy? It says to me that you didn't like my comment for $REASONS, so you went to my profile to try to find something you could bring up. If it wasn't the karma it would have been the age of the account or some poorly aged comment from years ago.
> What is Apple going to do next? Try to get a patent on rounded corners for rectangular electronic devices?

For those that haven't seen it

https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3614506/apple-patents-rec...

yes, they actually did.
I think a lot of middle America sees a tech crab kicking blue collar crabs down to get themselves out of a bucket (true or not).

Having spent all of my career outside of SV (worked remote for a company in SV for a while), but having spent a reasonable amount of time interviewing technical people from SV, I came away with a general sense of hubris that was not justified that I never saw from other parts of the country (n = several hundred at a FAANG and unicorn startup). Perhaps I was unlucky, but 9 times out of 10 I was astounded to find individuals commanding 6-figure engineering salaries who couldn’t code or even seemed put out that I was asking them to write code in an interview… for a role that required writing code.

From an outsiders perspective, if one was laid off from Twitter (with a generous severance package), they either will find themselves in a new role fairly quickly and it’s Twitter’s loss, or they were dead weight and may or may not want to consider adjusting their career path. In either case they’ll have more job opportunity than a laid off factory worker typically has. The whining about it only reinforces the perception of petulance.
> The perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are capable of retaining over 90 per cent of their initial performance after 600 hours of continuous operation

600 hours, so like 25 days? That doesn't sound like a very high bar. How does it compare to the current generation of cells?
If wrecking was cheaper there and environmental regulations laxer than in Rome, yes!
Project Kamp
Indeed, but strangely 2 wheels is the sweet spot for fun as well.

Such a hard choice.
Reminds me of Resources from Scala. I keep seeing features being carried over from language to language--I wonder if we'll eventually reach convergence where all languages, perhaps within several broad groups like OOP vs FP, look the same with minor syntactical differences.
I’m afraid not, but other companies could be contracted.

Regardless, for a sub like this to just go missing, likely means something catastrophic happened. At those pressures, the individuals likely died instantly and felt no pain.
> Those proceedings are expensive, and I can’t imagine Apple expects to win. I suspect it’s one of those proceedings that they feel compelled to run because they expect to lose the value of their trademark if they don’t.

Or bleed other side out of money till they yield
I see a lot more hate, election-denying, conspiracy, racist, sexist tweets.

I guess, for some people, this is an achievement.
You can just say that this feature is only local to the current file and does not affect included files, nor files that this one is included in. There are already some preprocessor features that act like that, e.g. __FILE__, which contains the name of the current file being parsed and obviously is local to it; or "#pragma once", which indicates the current file should not be parsed if it has already been included once. The information for which file is being parsed currently is not lost after the preprocessor stage, so you can have file-local directives.
Not to be rude, but your vision is very exclusivity focused, which is at odds with the era of free software that RMS emerged from.

Chrome is very resource intensive. If I'm giving machines away to people to make computing "free" your description of an acceptable standard is not compatible with mine. Specialized machines, Chromebooks, now exist for this purpose but they're still arguably expensive and sacrifice other "free OS" capabilities and standards to make this possible.

On the note of Apple I didn't even bother mentioning them. Their whole business is exclusivity, incompatibility, and avoiding standards/sharing.

Today's free software is optimized for business congruency, which is another valid side of free software but I'd argue we've over indexed in this category at this point.

To some of your original points about PulseAudio I agree that it's old and shit for today's age. I think there's some WIPs that aim to replace it with a modern stack, but I haven't checked in a bit. That said, I'd also argue that Bose had to work with Microsoft and Apple to develop drivers for their headphones. I don't think it'd be much of a stretch for them to do that with the Linux community. I'm not blaming them for how shit Pulse is; I'm disappointed that the standards of audio are not shared so that developing one product that works everywhere is possible in that category as it is in other categories of computing. This is what free software organizations harping on standards do for everyone. They also do so mostly behind the scenes.
> Other commenter got it wrong.

Are you sure?

> There are multiple dialects/languages (eg Gallego, Catalan) spoken in Spain that aren’t really common in the new world, the new world dialects are mostly based on the Castilian (castellano) dialect which was and is the prestige/official Spanish dialect promoted by the government and which settlers likely had in common.

Let’s see if e.g. Catalan is really relevant here.

It clearly is not. Why? The original commenter brought up the supposed differences between “castellano” and “español” in the context of Cuban Spanish. The minority languages of Spain are completely irrelvant here.

There are places in Latin America where they call their Spanish “castellano” (in Spanish). While other places call it “español”. And in that context they do just mean “Spanish”, since they have no reason to care about the minority languages of Spain.

So my shot in the dark guess was that the original commenter meant to refer to the difference between Spanish spoken in Spain and Spanish spoken in Latin America.
but every antenna is a transmitter? so the implied directionality isn't there.
MIT license with a donation message.

I like your phrasing of "pay-if-you-want" more than "donate". The former anchors you to think about the fact that this could have been paid software. ie: What would have been an acceptable price if you had to pay for this.
It would be nice if ONCE the court said "well, they were first, you need to stop using apple logo"

That would shut them up from trying for a decade or two
While there are a lot of Rust UI frameworks, none of them are really recommended for production use yet. I suspect a few of the will die off and work will coalesce a few once things mature a bit.

Another nice feature of the Rust UI ecosystem is that lots of it is being built in a modular way. For example I maintain a layout engine [0] library which just does layout and can be easily integrated by anybody creating a UI library. And there a bunch of similar composable libraries covering rendering, text layout, accessibility, window creation, clipboard access, etc.

[0]: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy
> Temporarily complying then reverting the censorship in 2021 then suing the Indian gov in 2022 is not "capitulation".

Capitulation is the cessation of resistance. It does not stipulate perpetuity. A person/entity can capitulate and then at a later point change their mind. This does not mean they never capitulated.

>Only recently did Twitter stop fighting back

Complying with censorship is not what I consider fighting back. Once you have aided the government in censorship at the moment when dissidents have the opportunity to create change, the damage is done.

>and Musk just announced it - it wasn't something hidden.

I did not state or imply that "it" was hidden.
Show HN: Digger, an OS Alternative to Terraform Enterprise Now Has RBAC via OPA
Digger's (https://github.com/diggerhq/digger) Open Policy Agent (OPA) integration for role based access control that we shipped last week extends Digger's existing capabilities by enabling you to define custom policies for fine-grained control over who can do what within your infrastructure.

This feature was highly requested by users as it makes it easier to enforce compliance requirements, implement security best practices, and maintain a well-governed infrastructure environment with granular control.

Please do share your feedback!
The Matt Curve (2019)
That’s the current story and I completely agree that employees must be made whole. However, the disdain for Musk started long before his acquisition of Twitter.
Maybe. But there is always the possibility that the case gets sucked into some bigger legal action (e.g. a reorganization), and when that happens, compensation amounts may drop substantially.
This can become an accesibility nightmare :_/
1307 out of 1331 (98.20%) reproducible https://reproducible.nixos.org/nixos-iso-gnome-runtime/

see also https://reproducible.nixos.org/
If Discord works - it will adapt. It and its users will grow together.

This is a fundamental point that a lot of great companies miss.

They are built by their users and corporate partners - humans at the core are what drive value.
While not a big failure money-wise, I'd still consider it significant that they completely bypassed YC's strict due-dilligence checks. Theranos and Juicero are obvious frauds in retrospect, however, a game aiming to everything being developed by two people with no prior experience should have never been given the greenlight.
ELI5 what this does?
You can only play so many small narrative focused games before you realize they're pretty boring. Especially if you're saying they have few art assets. People say these things are great, but part of that appreciation is for the novelty of a game being so stripped down and devoid of gameplay that it feels interesting.
This is a good proposal, but I'm worried about the choice of syntax. Simply swapping `const x = ...` for `using x = ...` feels like it's not a "weighty" enough piece of syntax for such a complicated automatic disposal feature. I understand that the idea is to make it very low-effort and easily applicable to multiple resources, but I think intuitively I wouldn't exist "using x =" to call any sort of complex code "automatically". Instead, I think the block-scoped proposal in the "withdrawn" section makes a lot more sense

using (x = ...) {
console.log(x.whatever)
}

Thoughts? I feel like the current proposal has a lot of the same issues I dislike with C++ (a focus on "terser" syntax obscures what is actually happening e.g. initializer lists don't actually tell you what constructor they're calling).
Chicxulub (Easter Egg)
Absolutely agree. There are more nuanced strategies to migrate off a cloud provider. Could even enable a soft export for idle accounts, leave it where it lie and move it when customer re-engages.
> Why not use a forum-like solution

Because it's serverless *badum tss*
The article mentions $250k/person
I went back to read more to see if I had missed the mark, and jesus it gets worse and worse.

The page for WingetUI isn't too bad in terms of actual info, but it's a mess in terms of the language. It mixes different voices, contains way too much detail in some sentences just making everything harder to parse, and has strong opinions that just read weirdly, like having a dark theme "to prevent your from burning your eyes. [sunglasses-emoji]".

But navigating on to other pages on the site, things get worse. There are things that are jokes that are highlighted as such, and then there are things that should be jokes given the context, but appear to be dead serious. If the site was satire, pick a type of satire! There's a "project" that is literally Google in an iframe. Typos galore.

I don't get it. I guess the author is just a bit over-confident and lacking in feedback loops.
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Sure, but the idea that "well there's no way that driver who just made eye contact with me would pull out in front of me" is not a thought you want to have; they may not have actually seen you.

If they really were all you to get you, you'd be dead.
That is true. That argument also got Apple Records off Apple's back in the old days; they weren't in the music business (until they did with iTunes and were sued again). I think the lawyers are being too ambitious with this lawsuit, and will lose, but my comment was just clarifying why lawyers would bring such a case.
A different interpretation of "you tried your best" is valid. It's not a remark that one has reached their capacity but that one made their honest best effort for the moment they made it (even if it often doesn't feel that way). In fact, because of that effort they'll have learned things that will make their next best efforts even more effective and less prone to the risks that reduced the desired outcome of the prior effort. Bests are a constantly evolving target.
This one? https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/net/struct.Ipv6Addr.html

That's actually a very good example. Because sooner or later, you'll find yourself ten libraries deep with a FE80::1234 that you can't use because nine of the ten thought Ipv6Addr was enough.
nix: automating running scripts from random readme.md as root.

the amount of JavaScript devs just learning SE in this thread defending the maybe-good-enough-for-your-dev-box nix is so amusing.

it's like seeing second year CS students thinking they mastered system programming because they wrote one toy compilet that optimizes one loop they were looking at the time. not saying it's bad. it's a very essential first step and everyone will step on this starting their journey, but the amount of misplaced self confidence is too funny looking from a more experienced vantage point.
Late reply but figured I would share what worked for me. Once a week, spend 15-20 minutes writing down what an ideal day would look like for you in as much detail as possible. Visualise it and feel it. Don’t worry about anything like realism, consistency, selfishness, what other people would think, how you could possibly achieve it, etc. “Ideal day” doesn’t have to mean a crazy one-off like “I wake up and skydive into a safari park and then eat three chocolate sundaes”, it can be as simple as “I wake up feeling refreshed, I look around my room and enjoy my plant collection, I eat eggs and bacon for breakfast…”. Include some feelings in there - does your ideal day involve feeling relaxed and calm, or energetic and exhilarated, or loved and surrounded by family…? Let your ideal day evolve as time goes on. Do that for a few months and you’ll start to notice the patterns of what you want.
Only some places and people have the weird US "at will" condition. Others have contracts, in which people must be given notice, and failing to do so is breach of contract. Some places have legally required redundancy processes, which have not been followed.

(A particular example: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-apologizes-to-di... - as a senior employee of a company acquired by Twitter, he had some sort of golden handcuff contract which guaranteed him a large payment if he was ever fired)
This lawyer is maximum snark. Which must mean he is an idiot or supremely confident the law is on his side.

"...Twitter then communicated that promise to each of its employees by email and in its Acquisition FAQ, and detailed in writing what they could expect in severance if they statyed through the merger and were laid off: a minimum of two months of salary, accelerated vesting of their RSUs (paid in cash at $54.20 a share), payment of their pro-rated bonuses, and continued contribution to their healthcare. Instead, the severance and benefits you've since offered in various iterations - in your first communication to the laid of employees in your FAQ communications to employees who didn't "click the button" in your second round of layoffs - falls far, far short of your promises: one month of salary, no bonus, no accelerated vest, and no contribution to healthcare."

"...The doctrine of promissory estoppel means that Twitter can't promise its employees a severance package to get them to stay at the company through the merger, and then renege on that promise once they do. Your insistence on including that "no third party beneficiaries" clause in Section 6.9(e) suggests that you were always planning on playing this game, so we'll be including a cause of action for fraud in our arbitration demands - and seeking punitive demands on top of pre- and post-judgement interest".
Id argue this isn’t true until your spend surpasses $100MM. Lower amounts don’t justify the extra headache of on-prem.
> Are you against products in general [...]

No.

> Furthermore, if software is not allowed to be a product, can you sell a service based on software as a product?

Yes.

> If yes, where is the boundary between the software and the service?

At... the boundary...? I think it's pretty clear that services and software are different things. You even called them different things.

If I write software for you, that act is a service. What is produced is software. The former should be monetized rather than the latter.

If I let you use my computer (ie for storage), that is a service. The software for accessing my computer is software. The former should be monetized rather than the latter (which is true in the case of Netflix).

> Finally, who are you to tell people what they can and cannot sell as a product?

Nobody. Just spitting my opinion into the void.