skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably starts at picking a game engine that doesn't absolutely suck dick at any multiplayer workload.

SC was from the start supposed to be a giant multiplayer world, yet they picked cryengine, which can barely handle simple shooter multiplayer gameplay. Half of the updates Chris has given on development are just over-explaining simple multiplayer game engine functionality that they've had to implement from the ground up, while you can download unity or unreal and replicate it in the next hour.

I've always found him to be full of bullshit. The kickstarter video had him spend like ten minutes waffling on about how the ships have thrusters on them and all the physics are calculated off those actual thrusters, as if 1) that's not just a useless implementation detail that changes nothing about the actual game, 2) as if that's impressive in 2012 instead of the exact thing the rest of the industry was doing, 3) as if that was hard work instead of just a normal thing a video game developer should be comfortable building, 4) AS IF IT MAKES THE GAME MORE FUN

I don't understand how he sold anyone off that video. The sales pitch wasn't even aspirational, it was clearly and obviously a grift, though maybe unintentionally, from the very beginning.

It's a great example of someone thinking "more simulation detail === more better". Every game developer should really attempt to take a class on the human psychology of games.
Really? It's more engaging to show nine than an endless river? I don't understand.
So from an attackers perspective nowadays it sounds like focusing on encryption weaknesses and/or hardware issues (e.g. glitching) or firmware vulnerabilities is the right place to look?
Women are more vulnerable to heat wave related mortality than men
Here's the application and search warrant.

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-08/23mj4244_application_reda...

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-08/23mj4244_warrant_redacted...
Because there couldn’t be a relationship between ‘causing brain lesions with frequent use’ and ‘acting weird?’
>I can't understand it. The network operators should save their vitriol for the vendors who are selling them equipment that sucks, and for whoever in their own organisation is continuing to purchase equipment that sucks.

I think you fail to realize that the internet is a bunch of disparate networks that no one person controls. When "fixing" a router means you break half the internet, you just don't fix it. This isn't some walled garden where you can just say "tough shit if you broke, fix it".

Most of the "issues" these researchers find are well known, but backbone operators are more militant than Linus when it comes to: rule #1 is don't break user space.
It mostly doesn't. There's a huge controversy any tools like this being used to accuse students of using AI and the false positive rate is bad.
"Law of Diminishing Returns" .. your case is weakened by the repetitive confidence of the assertions, whether it is true or not remains to be seen via actual practice
>Yes, which is why I likened this to what was in my original comment: "just like people make video games all by themselves or with a small group of people"

You're reading that out of context. I intentionally separated that comment. The original post I replied discussed all of the work being done by a single person. That what this is about. You introduced a small team. A small team is not one person. A small team still has the potential of having discussion on edits, creative, etc vs just the ideas of one person.
The way this question is phrased has changed, during my lifetime, from "Did God create the universe, or was there a big bang?" to "Is the universe the result of chance or of intelligent design" to "are we living in a simulation". And now it's changing again.

The vocabulary in which the question is phrased changes according to the current parlance of our times, but it's always the same question. And it will always keep being asked, because we don't like the answer: we've known since at least Democritus that we're just dust in the wind.
I think you're incorrectly discounting that time aspect. If you leave a glass of tap water sitting out, eventually there will be a bunch of bubbles clinging to the sides of the glass. This doesn't happen immediately, but rather over many hours. Similarly, I would think that boiling water won't reach its gas equilibrium during the course of making tea, but hot water sitting around waiting to be used will.
Then maybe that's a shortcoming of absolute immutability.
No, the meaning of "moot" is clear. It simply means a question that at the current time has lost its relevance, or that at the current time has just become the only question that is relevant. Easy.
A lazy wrapper for NPM/yarn/pnpm
Since there are numerous package managers for node now. And if you work with multiple projects on daily basis with various package managers for each of the projects, this short bash script might just help you.
DSL = Domain-specific language (I guess).

Always a good idea to expand an abbreviation the first time it's used.
When someone who doesn't have a giant undisclosed conflict of interest does the testing, it works well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otknSUQ4ICY

Still, clever bypasses need to be taken seriously. Fortunately, Tesla has a track record of doing just that and closing loopholes: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/zv5xp9/a_warni

A bypass that requires completely vacating the driver seat is probably not easy enough to be widely exploited. If you have evidence to the contrary, please do tell, but while we are exchanging memes, let's review the Green Hills Software standard of excellence, just to contextualize the shade they throw: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UdSVMgay0MI
The way that these contracts work is that they get paid for their costs, plus a percentage. They were just fraudulently reporting costs incurred from other contracts on this contract to inflate their profits.

Cost-plus accounting is a horrible way to do business, it's basically designed to facilitate this kind of fraud.
There is a huge one missing in northern Michigan. The site is used for winter testing by several auto companies. They have a website here:

https://www.smithers.com/industries/transportation/automotiv...

It was a large airport with 3 runways in a triangle configuration. Last time I was there I thought it was owned by Continental.
Horrors beyond my wildest imagination.
Stephen King Isn't Afraid of AI – His Books Have Trained It
I'm saying I would have picked the unhealthy option. I know this, because I spent decades doing it when I certainly wasn't hurting for money. Maybe on a population level it would work, and I'm just atypical. Can we look at sin taxes on cigarettes and draw any conclusions?
> Ruby also was more or less a Japanese-only thing until around 2000

And after that it still took quite a few years until "English support" really became first-class and comparable to Python. I looked at Ruby around 2002-2003 or so (I was looking at many different languages back then, pretty much anything I could get my hands on), and lots of Ruby stuff was in Japanese or poor English.

That's all fine, but I specifically remember that was the major reason I ended up not using Ruby at the time.

(I did end up programming a lot of Ruby many years later, and for what it's worth I do prefer Ruby for most things now)
That's not an example of product market fit, as the actual product: the game, never existed. The "product" in this case is a dream. "Star Citizen" means something very different to pretty much anyone who has thrown money at them.
Arizmendi and Cheeseboard are separate companies though, same with Cheeseboard and Sliver (which is btw not a co-op). Not sure about Mondragon's structure since it's headlined as a corporation/federation of co-ops, which sounds like the workers don't collectively own the entire business and there's a higher level that's just a regular corp.

Anyway, I'm not saying co-ops can never expand while still maintaining collective ownership, only that it's harder. Also harder to start, or to exist in general.
he's right in that windows is horrible spyware cancer made continually worse by an insanely anti-consumer corporation and would be better off gone at this point had it not won the capitalism game
Yes, that too. Indexes and caching
[Author] As an end user, you pay the published price of $1 per million tokens for alternatives (such as Anyscale Endpoints -- https://app.endpoints.anyscale.com/landing, but there are others -- Replikate, Fireworks etc). This isn't just the compute price -- there's some margin in there as well.
That's pretty fascinating stuff, thanks for sharing.

Was there ever a situation were you were tempted to just go by the measurable metrics alone?
For quick and dirty data-oriented projects, xBASE is wonderful, there's something clean and minimalistic about it. But I do prefer interpreted versions.
> all extant models

"all" is a word I avoid, because of 2 reasons:

1. It's hard to have 100% knowledge of anything.

2. It is possible that it's currently being done, just not discovered yet. Consider the Volkswagen emissions scandal, Amazon ring spying scandal, Tesla spying scandal, etc. They aren't known about until they are discovered and reported to the correct place. That's the nature of people who flout privacy. It's probably happening somewhere already and just hasn't been found.

I assume that anything that has the ability to leak my private information, probably is leaking it to someone, and then take whatever steps I can to mitigate it. I'm not claiming absolute success, but at least I'm trying!

Furthermore, the more technology that you know about simply makes you more aware of the possibilities. I worked for a cell phone company a decade ago who also sold services to electronics manufacturers to add SMS-based communication to otherwise unconnected devices. In other words, if wifi is down or blocked, an SMS could be sent (small payloads, of course) as a backup. In grad school I listened to a presentation by a small, local newspaper that bragged about tracking people around town via bluetooth and wifi that people left enabled on their phones, and that their sensors were hidden in the newspaper stands around town.

So, yeah, I don't trust anyone who has a financial incentive to spy on me.
Thank you for your great feedback
AL requests a date to execute an inmate via nitrogen hypoxia for the first time
> Does anyone keep a phone for close to 8 years?

Ask and ye shall receive: I'm actually a little over 6 years into my BlackBerry KeyOne (though I will concede that I am an outlier).

> if you could replace the battery, the physical wear and tear is quite substantial

That's why I'm still using it. Parts are dirt cheap. There's scant little glue to dig through for anything that needs to be replaced, and it's easy to work on. It's been dropped so many times the only original-to-this-phone parts are the mainboard and damn SIM tray.

Beyond that, there are no other options. There is nothing meaningfully better that includes a notification LED, physical keyboard, reasonable battery life (due to chipset and smaller screen), SD card slot, 3.5mm jack, and has spare parts for reasonably low cost (ruling out later BlackBerry handsets).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Democracy

A decade of perfectionism resulting in a mediocre product.

That reference going over peoples' heads is just more evidence that I'm really, really old.
imho the thing that makes film the pinnacle of art is that it is the amalgamation of many artists' vision and interpretation. And what makes great film great is when those differences form a cohesive story.

And at the end of the day, art is a reflection of the human condition. Removing humans from the process is not a feature, it's a bug because it reduces the scope at which the art can address.
It's obvious that a sound card is the most affordable oscilloscope, the obvious downside being quite limited sample rate. You would expect that an oscilloscope would go into MHz. But if it works for you, fine.

I remember an article about ball mice disassembled and used as a cheap reliable rotation sensor somewhere in oil pipeline industry.
3M agrees to pay $6B to settle earplug lawsuits from U.S. service members
1Password Open Sources Rust Passkey Library
It's chartjunk and should be used sparingly (e.g., on covers) rather than the actual content. I think it would be used frivolously in the hands of an undisciplined person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk
To an engineer, maybe it's trivial.

To a business owner, that's a whole other vendor to diligence the security, privacy, terms, and, if it is used at scale, negotiate a deal with.
As someone who worked in government contracting _everyone_ knows this game, and the people on the government side of the contract aren't stupid. This kind of fraud is on literally every cost-plus contract. There's a revolving door between government work and contract work, where government employees overseeing a contract will go to work for the contractor they were supposed to be overseeing for a large bonus and for doing very little work.
CERN campus in Geneva is full of roads named after physicists: https://goo.gl/maps/t1x4MBXwXKE1mdGb9

but I guess those are more internal roads :P
> And it’s simply not viable to follow that hundred-chain length sourcing tree for everything used in an analysis.

Maybe not for the passing reader, but I would imagine it's totally viable for those especially interested. So why not make it available anyways?
>Stephen King Isn't Afraid of AI

Why would he be? He already has like a billion in the bank...
The syntax and semantics of the language change in non-reverse-compatible ways between every minor release. This is independent of project management.

As an example, between 2.3 and 2.5, the syntax for package variables was changed (and then the semantics were changed between 2.5 and 2.7). There is nothing you can do as a python user to ameliorate the impact of such changes other than to not use those language features.

Can you explain how "managing my project better" would have allowed me to avoid the impact of this change?
Am I reading this comment correctly - don’t US workers get pensions that aren’t tied to their employers?
And yet people have 36kW water heaters and they can't boil the water!

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rheem-Performance-36-kw-Self-Mod...

/s
I’ve seen videos from Russian social media where their soldiers are picking up the submunitions left behind after an attack… Talk about scary.
When things are dire, or you're worried about them becoming dire, actively and purposefully do not lose hope.

Do some exposure therapy. Think about the worst case reasonably likely scenario, then the next one assuming the first happens, then the next, and so on until you can't think of any more.

Get some options. Think of all of the possibilities you have for moving forward. Yes, the practical ones that are actionable, but also the impractical ones that would make you happy. That helps you to learn a bit about yourself. It also helps you to problem solve your situation without getting locked into a local maximum.

Are you tired? Burned out? In a rut? Want to travel? Want community? There are specific solutions for specific problems. Think on it to understand what specifically you need and how you might get it before a flimflam man convinces you to sell cutco to raise money for their megacult.

And get help if you can. Yes, professional help. But also support from family or friends.
Might be redundant, but it looks like the Chrome devs fixed this issue back in 2020.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=820976
Do you think cloud development environments will be the norm by 2026? Gartner predicts they will be.

Disclaimer: I am a Gitpod employee.
Why weren't your processes dropping messages? Also I think you can tell the VM to not allow the process to exceed a certain message size and trigger some sort of rate limiting or scaling out

Edit: huh. I could swear the VM had memory limit options. Guess not. Time to rewrite it in zig!
In my mid 20s, I was about $100K in debt, failed in the career that I thought I'd have after undergrad, compounded my problem by running to a grad school program because I thought it would give me a new chance at money post program and make my family proud. In my late 20s I was about $200K in debt, in a bad marriage, still unsure of what I wanted to do in my career. Fast forward to today (early 40s). I make more money than I ever imagined I could, I have a wonderful (2nd) marriage, I'm out of debt, life is good.

Learnings that led me here (in no particular order):

* don't think about what others think of you, think about what you want and what makes you happy. i know that I can't force myself to work hard on something i'm not interested in, so this was very important for me to figure out

* read "7 habits of highly effective people" - there's timeless advice there

* read "non-violent communication" - changed the way that i communicate and made my second marriage much healthier than the first, learning how to communicate in different contexts will help in your career as well

* learn to forgive, especially yourself

* accept responsibility- you're responsible for your life, no one else

* your 20s are for taking risk and figuring out what you're interested in, don't be afraid of risk, learning how to take risks and becoming comfortable with risk will help you in the long run

* luck is certainly a big factor for success, but you can set yourself up to create luck or take advantage of luck by cultivating your network, reducing debt, increasing your skills

* this was advice given to me by someone I respect- "don't chase a network or career, be interesting and add value, the rest will take care of itself." If you're interesting (had interesting experiences, have interesting thoughts and are able to communicate those things) people will be drawn to you, if you add value people will want to work with you and you'll capture some of that value back.

* Edit, one more: you can train your mind like you train your body. If identify something that's holding you back, you can change. Concrete example- in my 20s I was one of those people at parties that sits in the corner and doesn't talk to anyone because they dont know many people there. I decided that was holding me back, but I couldn't all of a sudden become "social" (just like when you first start training your body, you're not going to squat 200lbs), so I devised little exercises for myself to make me more comfortable talking to people I don't know- complementing people on their shoes while in line at a coffee shop ("those are cool shoes!"). Then when that becomes natural, asking follow up questions- "where did you get them?" and building from there.
I think it will create a new middle class artist category, much like youtube, commodity video editing software and good 4k cameras have done today. Certain kinds of niche content will become more viable.
Ask HN: Current best GUI and render window stack?
I'm interested in learning a new stack to accomplish my side project which is a desktop app GUI with a rendered canvas. Ideally i'd like to have a GPU-driven OpenGL rendered window integrated with either a traditional CPU-bound GUI or even better, a GPU rendered UI.

Looking around, it seems that the most advanced of UI tools peaked with WPF in terms of diversity of prebuilt controls and the complexity of those controls (think tree views, data grids, reflowing, etc), but WPF is practically abandonware at this point.

Seems like there are lots of good render surfaces out there, so maybe the actual ask is for a render surface that pairs well with an existing UI option.

I would really not like to have to design UI controls, layout logic, repainting, etc, all the low level UI tasks.

Any suggestions?
Don't more modern AC units use VFDs that can run the compressor at arbitrary speeds, which is an improvement over both fixed 3 phase power and a starter capacitor? Maybe this tech hasn't made it into the house-sized units yet, though.
the happy path may very well be "simpler," but I get the impression a lot of the newer parsing techniques focus on error recovery which is what made clang and friends game-changers because they emit helpful and often actionable error messages on malformed input

it's a whole other ballgame when writing interactive parsers (as one would for IJ or I think tree-sitter, too) where the document spends the majority of its life in an erroneous state

now, I can appreciate diving into such an 80/20 topic may be too much for a compiler course, but as for really rolling out a compiler or editor plugin, it's the difference between "this is crap" and "wow, that's genuinely helpful"
In a world with something UBI-like, sabbaticals are handled by default via the safety net of everyone having a minimum viable income to fallback on.
What about obese adults that used to be obese children?

Regardless of the cause of the obesity epidemic, it should be addressed compassionately and efficaciously. What makes that difficult (at least in the US) is that the most efficacious treatments aren't aligned with how the healthcare system works. Maybe you won't blame being fat on diet and exercise, but there's almost certainly a diet and excercise plan that will make you lose weight.

First-line treatment should be,
- Walk/jog 30 min, 3x per week. Pace for a mildly elevated heart rate.
- Eliminate super sweet foods from regular diet. No more than 3x per week. This could be VERY hard for sugar-addicted folks, so start small and work up.
- Fast occasionally. Intermittent is great, but longer is even better.
- Take a multivitamin.

The end goal is to replace your sweet craving with a fat craving and be ok feeling hungry for periods of time.
> Whether you are picking fruit, flipping burgers or building tech

The thing is that the first two of those were always commodity jobs. "Building tech" was a specialization that until recently was not commoditized. And there are still niches where that's not true.

This hasn't only happened in software, of course. Look at medicine. It would be gut-wrenching to have spent a lifetime gaining specialized deep knowledge in healing people only to realize it's treated more and more like complicated burger-flipping now. And under constant threat of lawsuits, unlike most burger-flippers.
I had the pleasure of meeting Eugene during Figma's Config conference where he gave a ton of similar pro tips to designers. Really a kind dude who truly has a passion for design and accessibility.

One thing I'll give a big shout out to in this article is APCA, which will likely be a successor to WCAG 2's color contrast algorithm. We used it internally here at Figma for our own accessibility revamp for a final result that ended up much better than it would have otherwise. Eugene provides some great examples of when WCAG 2 fails, and we were continually running into those.

That really brings me to my main piece of advice here: color is really hard to get right - any tool you have can help you along the way, but that said at some point you also have to trust your eye. At the end of the day, all of these tools are just providing some mathematical approximation for how your eye sees color. Your eye is the final source of truth, not the algorithms. If you're encountering areas where a tool or an algorithm aren't providing you the right result, switch it around or fall back to basics.
If it catches on it would make it a lot easier for people to invest in Bitcoin and it could boost interest in it and also the price.

The Bitcoin network has limited liquidity and ability to handle volume so it could run into problems.
Perhaps those computers count as evidence and they don't want to mess with it?
I'm sure it's fun for a small minority of players. The kind that like truck simulators. Takes all sorts. Other than that, it has incredibly shallow game elements. With long grinds of those shallow game elements to get new ships.

Lots of E:D's own player base acknowledge this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/qk6kqs/why_...