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While it's amazing they've got as big as they have, I have to say I'm utterly disappointed with the quality of the steam interface.

Trying to watch friend's streams breaks half the time, files often get corrupted for downloads, and feels like every other week they change the UI layout.
Intentionality is a central concept in AI philosophy - from debates
between Dennet, Churchland and Searle going back to the 1980s.

Aat this stage I agree that we are dealing with "blind machines", with
no more "intention" than a steam engine.

However, the central argument in Schneier's piece seems to be that
robots inherit the intentionality of their creators.

If I create a machine that kills someone, my "intentionality" is fair
game to be dissected in court, and ultimately I may be found guilty as
if I had killed with my own hands.

That is the kind of high bar I think society expects, and is certainly
one that should scare the crap out of robotics developers (aside: I
have been one) to ensure the highest standards of engineering
discipline and industrial ethics.
super interesting link! thanks for sharing
Just curious. I use Ubuntu on my servers (as many do) and I deploy everything as standard Systemd service (even my apps). However, when I wanted to try out Caddy, I realized they don't provide you with one, so you have to write your own scripts putting systemd config files, enabling the service etc. Is this what everyone does these days? Seemed kinda strange for mainstream software.
Big fan of Steam here but I wouldn't say it was _always_ amazing. In the beginning, it was a friends network that was almost always down and a launcher for games I already owned and played without a launcher for years. I hated it for a long time but it is a great platform right now.
Don't quote me on that but it's pretty crude: if it receives N upvotes in a short amount of time, it's promoted to the frontpage quite quickly. If it takes two hours to get the same number of upvotes, it probably gets lost in the neverending ocean of /new.

So it's basically a game of pure chance, a topic that's not too niche, a topic that one upvotes without even reading, and/or good clickbait technique.

HN's algo optimises for popularity, rather than meaty content.
Firefox has a nice solution which gives an extra layer of sandboxing which can be applied to individual libraries rather than a whole process: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/12/webassembly-and-back-again...
A benefit that I'm surprised I don't see more often for offices is catered lunch. If you estimate that the employee was probably going to spend 5 to 10 dollars for a meal anyways, then that's effectively a roughly $1200 to $2400 raise. However, I'm guessing that the company can probably get less than $5 per meal since they are effectively buying in bulk.

This seems like it would be a win win situation. The effective value of the employee's "raise" is more than what the employer has to spend on the "raise".

Of course that's assuming that the company actually caters high quality, healthy food. If they try to cheap out then that all falls apart.
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Depends on how it is managed.
We have unlimited PTO, AND I require _all_ team members to have a minimum (22) vacation days.

It it is a concern to you, please ask during interview.
Those may be small teams, but they are most definitely not small companies.
File Explorer is using it. Much of the Windows 11 shell, including the taskbar, Start menu, Settings, notifications, and Microsoft Store is using WinUI 2 (only because WinUI 3 wasn’t ready at the time). Even apps like Notepad, Paint, Sound Recorder and Media Player use WinUI.

WinUI 2 and WinUI 3 currently share the same look and feel but new apps should use WinUI 3.
They keep suggesting "#" and "$" but those don't work.
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I just tried it on my now account. It asks for the account's username, phone number, email and then sends an email to the email address. Perhaps he didn't add an email address to his Twitter account?
Fly.io is involved with YCombinator at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fly-io. One of the core contributors of Phoenix also works there and Fly.io tends to tie in with Elixir as a language.

I'm just speculating here but I think a number of posts are curated to land on the home page when you're directly or indirectly related to YCombinator funded companies.
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Food isn’t speech.
Painting wind turbine blades black help birds avoid deadly collisions (2020)
I thought T-Mobile significantly cracked down on SIM-swapping internally so this couldn't happen again?

I know there's still no patch for human stupidity, but I really am concerned that T-Mobile still apparently seems to be the carrier of choice for easy SIM-swap attacks.
From a look through, it's less complicated than this, especially its config files. I don't see any edge on simplicity here.
Hall Effect
twix can’t be valued in dollars. it is worth so much more. think of the dissidents it can dragnet.

that wasn’t so much a new investment as a change in mouthpiece. once bin talal was allowed to check out, it was back to business as usual.
What you're defining is possible future feature parity, not feature parity.

A project does not have feature parity until the features are actually built—promises that the features are possible and if you really wanted it you could build it yourself are nice in their own way, but they're not features.
But the author isn’t defending analogous behavior. The author isn’t defending Google.

There are better ways to make a point than sharing a fantasy about having someone stalked. It’s a joke until it isn’t.
We can't address and fix a problem if we fundamentally misunderstand it.
You are right, Valve being private removes a lot of the incentives to mess with Steam in ways I would consider negative.
Thats not Bethesda, Nexus bans mods like that for any game
Incorrect. The Fifth Circuit upheld the injunction. They found, specifically, that the officials from the FBI, White House, and CDC likely violated the First Amendment.
U.S. v. Google
Oh my, I don't care much for blackcurrent, but absolutely love redcurrant and whitecurrant. The best one is a pink cultivar.

I tell you, the pines aren't worth it.
https://archive.ph/cUBoC

E: NYTimes has a live feed up now[0] but unfortunately it is paywalled. You can bypass it by disabling JS and then refreshing once in a while if you want to keep up. I don't see BBC or The Guardian running a live feed, but if there's a better (non-paywalled) link then comment below.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/12/business/google-anti...
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SSDs aren't new technologies and nvme drives can be found at similar or lower prices than ssd. so in this case, Todd Howard is correct, upgrade your PC. cyberpunk's new update is also dropping support for HDD

> Starfield is a big game, yes, but what exactly is it about it that makes so much better that it require so much more hardware power?

no other game allows you to do crazy stuff like this https://proxitok.pabloferreiro.es/@placeholder/video/ZPRWoBA...
and have the items persist.
There are a few specialized languages for hardware description, Verilog is common, as is VHDL. A good point for starting is the Wikipedia page about hardware description languages [1]. This is a slow moving area, so even old resources should be useful. I only encountered HDLs during my university years and that's longer ago than I care to remember. I recall we did something with MIPS (back then we did everything hardware-near on MIPS) and used a book by O'Reilly, something something Systems Design or so. Couldn't find it, probably wrong name, but I found this [2], maybe useful?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language
[2] https://freecomputerbooks.com/langVHDLBooks.html
I messed around with it, thinking it seemed interesting and could be useful to know Just-In-Case. One thing I didn't get, until I started messing with it, is that COBOL isn't a general purpose language. There's a whole category of things it just can't do, and if you ask about it you'll just be told "COBOL isn't C". There's another set of things it's really effective at, primarily transactions and large iterations.

Mess around with it if you want, sure. Just realize it's a limited language with specific use cases and you're unlikely to ever touch it outside of those, even as a hobby/"for fun".
I was "cyberathlete" competing in counterstrike 1.5 and if i recall correctly counterstrike 1.6 was steam exclusive so I joined steam rather quickly.

Kind of wish I could change my login/email as I havent used said yahoo account in decades.
I'm not saying it's hard if you know what you're doing, but "correctly use IPv6, DNSSec, Rspamd, Dkim, Dmarc, Spf, autoconfig/autodiscover" is a lot of technology for simply sending and receiving email.

Considering that emails are insecure by design, and any email will have at least 2 participants, and you have no control over where the remote participant sends/receives emails, self hosting for privacy concerns is also pretty much pointless, except of course if you encrypt emails, but then the server doesn't matter anymore, and you might as well just use a public provider.

My argument is that by using a custom domain with a public provider, you will get almost all the benefits of self hosting emails, but none of the disadvantages. You're still in control of your domain, and even if your provider shuts down, you're just a couple of MX records away from your new provider.
>I have a very low tolerance for rewrites so we go in hard against companies offering them: we make far far more profit than any of them; we run well over 50% with far less risk. Once I discovered containers (chroots in the late 90s and now docker etc), I knew rewriting things is never needed.

Vernor Vinge figured this out 25 years ago. A Deepness in the Sky depicts a human society thousands of years in the future, in which pretty much all software has already been written; it's just a matter of finding it. So programmer-archaeologists search archives and run code on emulators in emulators in emulators as far back as needed. <https://garethrees.org/2013/06/12/archaeology/>

(Heck, just today I migrated a VM to its third hypervisor. It has been a VM for 15 years, and began as a physical machine more than two decades ago.)
> spinning rust

That's your reason right there, you used rust! It's both performant and secure!
I don’t care about streaming, I never had a corrupted download and have been using steam pretty much since it existed, and the recent UI change (not a fan, though, it’s now slower than before) was the first big one in years.
Everything I've heard is that this is the least buggy release for a Bethesda game ever. This does not mean it doesn't have serious quality problems; it means Bethesda has never managed to do better, and people love their games despite that. Expectations have been satisfied, because they started low. The savvy gamer knows to wait 6 to 18 months before playing.
A mine is a machine, not a robot. At least the more simple mechanical mines. The distinction for robots in general is some kind of automated intelligence where it is actively selective of its targets. Some modern missiles and drones would be far better examples.
It also assumes well behaved individuals with a buffet.

My job serves food at cost of the food. They cover the culinary employees wages.
There are so many great games out there which can run on anything 64bit, that I'm still letting my old desktop PC chug along with its 740 and whichever harddisks I've had thrown at me over the years.

Might upgrade at some point to try some of these high profile releases, but I have to say I don't find it appealing enough to go through the hassle atm.
I still have a few hard drives in my computer for things I don't really care about. Hard drives last for ages and a computer used for most professional work doesn't need much more than 250GB of SSD storage. Using an old hard drive for games has worked well for me for ages, even Cyberpunk ran fine from a hard drive for me.

Having to upgrade your system because one game doesn't handle hard drives well sucks. Previously, many games were huge because they repeated assets on disk so that hard drives could load them up faster. With the SSD requirement, this is no longer the case. Logically, the game should be much smaller because of that, but it's still huge.

There's an easy solution for all of this, though: just don't buy the game. If the game wasn't built to your liking or your computer can't handle it, you can simply not spend money on it and play something else.
Yes and no. It's true that there's some portion of the kernel space code that can't be written provably safely. But there's good reason to believe that a lot of it can and that belief is what's driving this integration.

Whether Rust in the kernel succeeds or not will likely be determined by whether or not a sufficiently clear boundary can be drawn between the bit that must be unsafe (in the Rust sense) and the rest. And how much code is in the latter. I don't think we know the answer yet but some knowledgable people are willing to run the experiment on the basis that the probability seems quite high that a safe subset can be determined.
I don't think so. I can understand SSD/HDD difference and SSD requirement, which is probably due to tons of random, small reads.

Yet, Valve has shown us it's possible to have great graphics, atmosphere and playability with modest hardware with HL2 series.

They tuned it so hard, so it crashed on AMD systems like crazy in the beginning. They called gamers to their labs and debugged on real hardware when this happened. I remember installing 3+ hotfixes a day.

They did HDR on a card (Radeon 9600XT) which supposedly can't do these things and ran with almost no performance penalty.

I believe so many things can be optimized further, yet it's not seen worthy of the effort. When games are made for passion, but not for money primarily, everybody wins. When you want to milk something as quickly as possible, this happens.
Out of interest, what book was that?

I've had a brief look into the ecosystem, but I found it quite hard for me to understand how a multinode Erlang cluster is setup.
With the greatest respect, I think you answered your own question. Maybe some companies purposely don't have them to keep employee expenses down?
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> Is there easy tooling for deploying to something like AWS ECS and having nodes communicate with each other?

libcluster[0] has a bunch of strategies to form clusters. It seems that ECS supports service discovery through DNS, so the DNSPoll[1] strategy should work.

[0] https://github.com/bitwalker/libcluster
[1] https://hexdocs.pm/libcluster/Cluster.Strategy.DNSPoll.html
War kills millions, starvation kills hundreds of millions.
I think the short answer is "trivial in some cases, impossible in others". It's almost certainly possible that your compiler could inspect every allocation and tag each pointer with it internally. The problem comes with everything else - once you add loops and conditionals the length of that pointer can be all over the place. You'd basically need a symbolic executor tracking every pointer.

There are some big issues with this:

1. It's slow. Symbolic execution involves the interpretation of your program.

2. It would be imperfect and you'd likely have false positives.

3. It would likely be incomplete - for example, how would you handle the situation of only having a header?

So it's a good idea but it's very hard to make practically useful.
I read elsewhere that there's an issue with audio being loaded on demand causing performance hiccups, that might be improved with an SSD?
I think you might be right, and maybe I should change my perspective.

Nobody really wants to deal with that, I do it, and I don't _want_ to.
I remember having those concerns. And Steam performance did take a few months to solidify if I remember correctly, so not everything was unfounded. Before it, only MMOs had login screens separating gamers from gaming ;-)

Nowadays, the only problems I have with Steam stem from my credit card's security mechanisms.
This really should be titled "Why WERE Black Currants Banned in the USA". They are no longer banned in the majority of states as the article itself says. I can buy them at the farmers market in Wisconsin when in season and my garden store sells bushes of multiple varieties of currants.
You also need to do extra work to build in slots and signals, which tou don't need to do with many, many other frameworks. If tou don't put the extra work in learning that stuff, and it does require effort to learn, then you wind up with an application whose interface locks up if it's doing anything non UI related between UI calls.

QT is great, until it's not, then it sucks.
As far as I know, the closest thing currently being developed that fits the sci-fi model of 'killer robot' is an autonomous airborne drone programmed to fly to a particular set of GPS coordinates and then kill every human it can recognize with its built-in AI-powered target-recognition system within 1000 meters of those GPS coordinates. This fits into the 'fire and forget' category of munitions - and rumors are that something like this has already been used in Libya. Note this kind of system isn't really subject to jamming as it's not being controlled by a human operator. See:

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/was-a-flying-killer-robot-us...

As far as the effort to regulate LLMs, it seems more about the desire to keep them from generating 'bad ideas' or teaching people how to do bad things (which they can already learn how to do in any library or on the internet already, incidentally). Unaligned LLMs are not likely to go around killing people, although they could be very offensive.
I have SDDs but my Steam library is on HDDs for cost efficiency. It's not "shitty" hardware, it's actually a reasonable choice. I'm sure has hell not going to futz around with copying the current game I want to play from HDD to SSD each time my mood changes.

That said, I have 64 GB of RAM and use Primo Cache to cache my Steam drive, so I don't generally notice any stuttering after maybe the first minute of the game.
> raw berries in general don’t travel well,

A quick search for bær (berries) on the website of the biggest online grocer here in Norway shows: blueberries from Poland, Italy, and Spain, raspberries from Poland and Portugal, blackberries from Belgium and Netherlands, redcurrants from Norway. Perhaps they only travel well inside EFTA.
From experience, in many cases it's 50% savings when done correctly and considerably makes the app\website faster on large images when you have 20-50 images to load on one page.
Nah. Idiots walk into machinery all the time. Put up signs, do safety training, yell "Stop!" and still Darwin takes his share.

It's definitely fair to consider the 'intentionality' of the idiot too.
Not to mention that account termination is only one way email providers can screw you over. They can bait and switch, take your emails hostage, and start charging premium. They can put ads that look like legitimate emails. They can cut costs, and open your emails up to hackers. They can peek, censor, or tamper with your private emails. They can even impersonate you.

Some people might laugh that away as ridiculous. But who can predict what'll happen in the next few decades? I find it highly unlikely that any single email provider will continue to keep the current level of service for the rest of my lifetime. Enshittification is real.

Your email address is inextricably tied to your online identity. If you don't own your email address, you're handing over control of your digital life to the whims of a company. Because what can you do when your email provider goes rogue? Shed your entire digital identity?

Sure, using your own domain can open you up to mistakes. But at least, you're the one in charge. By borrowing an email address from a company, you lose control. And for what exactly? It's not going to protect you against the loss of access to your emails, contrary to what the article implies. Worse yet, there are no preventative measures you can take unlike with domain expiration.

With all due respect, the article gives the worst advice ever. There's nothing worse than irrevocably handing over the keys to your digital life to an advertising company, whose business model is fundamentally at odds with your best interests.
I'm pretty sure time and time again dang has confirmed they don't promote any post coming from a YC-affiliated company, and in case of Elixir, its just one dev at one YC company. A tenuous connection.

I explained what is probably going on in a sibling comment. Less of a conspiracy, and more about a handful of people seeing the hyped language du jour in the title and upvoting it in a matter of minutes.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but " someone learning about kernel development who happened to be using Rust" sounds to me like anecdotal evidence for the assertion that most rust contributors don't know how kernel development works.
Physicists create elusive particles that remember their pasts
It was my first exposure to...scalping? I remember that for some reason, chocolate was very valuable in the game. There was a chocolate shop in the game that was consistently sold out, but if you hit refresh often enough and at the right time, you could catch it right when it "restocked" and nab one of those rare chocolates. Then I would sell it in my personal store at a tidy profit.

Timing the refresh just right and grabbing a super valuable chocolate was quite a thrill, probably even more than the games themselves.
The domain is not the problem. The ip reputation might be.

Use a reputable email hosting service with your domain, problem solved.
Couldn't really believe that just 100 years ago the United States had Iranian or Taliban style Moral Police.

"The Comstock Act also gave the law’s author, Anthony Comstock, enormous authority. Already the executive secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (a private organization financed by the city’s elite), the federal law enabled him to search the mails, secure arrests and convictions, and destroy material seized from the mails. "
I guess reputation can be valuable but I’d rather have my Twitter account compromised than my email or banking.
Let’s not mince words

Military organizations globally are now working at breakneck speed to create *literal* “terminators.”

I know cause I make them.

Replicator is skynet v2…we tried it and weren’t ready with MDC2 in the teens ABMS etc are the follow on attempts.

Every “unmanned” “cooperative” etc… system are the terminators

As Bertrand Russell said : “until there is no more war, all technologies will be used for war”
Sure, that’s definitely relevant. It would be great if we could talk about the influence of money in US politics without veering through “the President’s kids married Jews” territory.

FWIW it’s not quite 50%/25% of donations, but a napkin math estimate of donated money. I.e. there are a few mega-donors (about 50) who are more likely than the general population to be Jewish.
I've planted two Josta bushes that I hope will produce next year. Haven't even tasted one yet.