skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect, I was a responsible user for the first year too. Good luck to you and I hope you never get addicted.

Unlike alcohol addiction, which can come on fast, weed grabs a hold of you over a longer period. It starts out as only beneficial with little to no downside. You won't notice you're addicted until much later.

Also, I find your decision to call the plant marijuana interesting. The names weed and pot have a negative connotation. But "marijuana" sounds a lot more acceptable. Nothing to do with you. Just something I noticed.
The only positive perspective here is that at least Texas is disconnected from the rest of the country grid.
You are then no longer selling the toy, but the “My one is OG” status. And the certainty that it will work. Once you reach a certain age fucking about returning stuff to save a few bucks seems silly.
Do your views on smoking cannabis apply to alcohol as well?

Or do you adapt a more reasonable appropriate time and place for that type of drug?

I not sure if it hurts peoples ability to learn, even if some people have some memory impairment. But cannabis and other drugs change the way people think, and that can be good or bad depending on many factors. Have people created great creative works under the influence of cannabis? Yes. Would they have been better art if the artist had not consumed cannabis? Maybe not.

I know high functioning executives and parents who work and take care of family all day and eat an edible to go to sleep. And on Sunday night, they might smoke a joint and eat a meal with friends and discuss their next book or investment in between diaper changes.
What's so objectionable about the new UI?
Who is saying safety rules are being overridden?
Games haven't had that "dell identical" issue for years on end. Would you really believe Hollow Knight, Genshin Impact, and Pokemon Brilliant Diamond were all made on the same engine?

>And then open-source it and let the creativity roam free.

Well now you're just hoping for the moon. Many studios do indeed have their own engines in house, but I believe CryEngine is the only one that eventually became open source (over a decade, an aquisition, and two forks later).
That's fantastic. Thank you.

If anyone is interested in supporting them, here's the link (so many clicks later!) https://opencollective.com/tosdr/donate
So... I just save my 2FA stuff in keepass... Works fine and can be backed up and replicated for free vs needing several yubikeys.
Obviously this is not a real argument against what you said, but the same thing happened with smoking. The tobacco companies said that there might be some set of factors that both caused lung disease, and caused smoking. As opposed to the alternate hypothesis that smoking caused lung disease. As is generally thought now, umbrellas do not cause rain but smoking does cause lung disease. Cannabis is federally illegal in the United States (the same way manufacturing machine guns without a license is for example), so if you live there don't use it. In some other places, I'd highly advise you to consider only the known benefits of using cannabis (and actually known, not something from a crappy study that you never read past the abstract or something a stoner buddy told you), and weigh that against known and potential risks of using the drug. Treat any form of smoking, including smoking cannabis, with high suspicion, as it involves inhaling large concentrations of combustion products. In conclusion, I would suggest you treat cannabis like how a rational person would treat cigarettes in the 1950s.
Lets call it as it is, an oligopoly share.
I hate the word "silently" in headlines like these. How else are the supposed to do it? By throwing a press event?
There’s nothing you can do with a stolen famous painting. It’s essentially worthless as your clientele know it’s worth and that it’s stolen. Stolen art only gains to make the art more famous
Society does this all the time though realistically. If there is a 1:N chance of harm; and N is low, and we have no idea who will be harmed, we tend to regulate or make illegal.

How many societies have legalized marijuana?
Many of the top replies are about "I'm a top programmer, why would I need a union? change my mind"

And, you don't. Not right now. When you're just "a common worker" you do. Because your bosses have convinced you everybody has to be a top programmer or they can die in a ditch even when it's impossible. It's called Stackhanovism.
Nothing more virtuous than a reformed smoker:D
How did you go about hiring your one dedicated sales person and what’s their compensation like?
How is the competition not working right?

https://www.zennioptical.com/

Pretty sure you can go to most Walmarts and find much cheaper corrective eyewear than Luxxotica too.

https://www.walmart.com/browse/health-medicine/prescription-...
Given that this started in 2022, I’ll just remark that both Covid and the mRNA Covid vaccines have been reported to cause tinnitus.
I mean, in the medium term, isn't this exactly how it goes? Aren't current incumbents relatively recent, and didn't they get there by being substantially better than their competition (Amazon, Google, Apple, Uber) or creating an entirely new business model (Facebook, Twitter). Isn't the dominant position that these companies enjoy only as fragile as the continued use of their product? If everyone switches to OpenAI for their search needs, Google will have a hard time surviving.

> Maybe you just want to run a laundromat? Is that not enough these days?

It's enough, until someone comes up with something that disrupts the industry. In a fast-evolving world, standing still is a doomed strategy. Do you really want to be the bookseller when Amazon comes along? Or the taxi driver competing with Uber? or on the board of RIM watching the Apple keynote in 2007?

Edit: Come to think of it, this rather parallels the natural world. Very few creatures have been able to stay relatively unchanged for tens of millions of years. They have been able to do so because the niche the evolved to optimally fill has remained unchanged and undisrupted. The rest of the natural world undergoes constant churn as new species emerge and others go extinct. It's the same in business. The less likely your niche is to be disrupted the more insulated you'll be from the necessity to change (assuming you've optimally adapted). Prime examples are best-in-class restaurants, whose proprietors often do just about the same thing their entire lives very successfully.
They don't want developers choosing to target older Unity versions for their games, they want to milk cent they can out of their users.
I avoid all 4 of those last things you mentioned as much as possible. Now you have me worried about milk! Will casein really fry my synapses like the vegans tell me? I thought that was just a scare tactic to save animals.
That doesn't constitute a framework for answering "who do you punish" or "how do you punish them", so it's not relevant to my assertion.

It is a popular secondary/tertiary/N-ary axiom, though, as demonstrated in the article.
Who would get to join this United Music Artists?

Would it do them any good?
I mean, not everything. It was criticized all over but Forspoken was still a 2023 release for Luminous.

On top of that, FF16 is using some custom engine as well. People assume it's a fork of FF14's engine, but nothing official.
That "whitey" effect people getting smoking weed and hash for the first few times is from a sudden release of glutathione, a powerful antioxidant stored in the liver, and a supplement Asian people have been known to take to whiten their skin.
Typical corporate shenanigans. What company wouldn't do this ever? Probably none.
They hate crypto, and they hate Texas, so they can take a cheap shot.
Compared to the cost and power of any of the hardware and software we are talking about it is insignificant.

If you want to do toy programming on a budget there are a million arduino-like things out there.

I recently saw calculations on the price of say, just iOS alone. It being equivalent to multiple Manhattan projects. Regardless of how accurate that estimate is, the general point remains.

Do I think Apple should make developing for non-distribution on the iPhone free? Yes. Do I think there is an argument that is almost a moral obligation? Possibly.

But what you get for like 30 cents a day with a developer account is mind boggling. I mean, that was the initial point wasn’t it? These are insanely capable and meticulously engineered pieces of technology.

Edit:
I can even argue it is an ethical obligation that Apple should allow all users to install non App Store apps if they explicitly so choose. And I have argued that in the past.

But I separate this from the evaluation of the value proposition offered by an Apple Developer account.
I can see the case for a local UI option (perhaps even on by default) that warns you when you make changes to a local branch that's tracking a remote branch that's marked as 'protected' there. The option could also have a setting where it outright stops you from making that change.

Of course, you could always opt out of that setting.

Git doesn't know what 'protected' means, but you could teach it with a relatively small change to its code. Similarly, it might be useful to teach git about 'volatile' branches (in the same sense as C's volatile variables); a volatile branch is one where git would always checks for upstream changes first before any operation. Eg origin/main would typically be marked as both protected and volatile.

Again, volatile would be something you can override locally, but it might be useful as a default.
Most games on the Switch and Quest devices for sure. A lot of mobile games as well.

Over 1B games sold on the switch: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/1-billion-switch-games-hav...

We can assume at least one game per Quest was sold: https://www.roadtovr.com/quest-sales-20-million-retention-st...

Hard to figure out the mobile numbers.
Do note, that any "satellite trains" you see are from freshly launched satellites. The "trains" are from still relatively densely clumped satellites that are still separating from each other. After they separate, they re-orient which makes them almost invisible from the ground. You need long camera exposures or a telescope to see them at this point. They then start gradually raising their orbits to a parking orbit. After they reach a parking orbit they begin to drift the plane of their orbit so as to separate a single launch's satellites into multiple different planes, after which they then raise their orbits again into the operational orbit.
The author claims that the concepts are platform-independent and that they give examples for Linux when needed. I don't know enough about the topic to know if that's sufficient.

https://rayanfam.com/topics/hypervisor-from-scratch-part-1/#...
You can have newly created github issues automatically post into a discord channel.
Other tech companies
Ask HN: What's the smallest dedicated Android audio player you know?
Hey HN,

in the last few years I collected a few dedicated Android music players (also DAP or Hi-Res DAP), because I like enjoying my music and audio books without distraction and these devices are much smaller than most modern phones.

The problem is, that they still are all quite bulky and all of them have some caveats.

QUESTION: Is there anything smaller with a pretty recent android (>10), support for custom apps and best case earphone remote support via OMTP / Audio Jack?

Here is my Top 3 so far:

# Fiio M6 [Hi-Res DAP] (~120 bucks used)

+ Pretty small and lightweight
+ Custom app support
+ Decent audio quality
+ Earphone remote support (OMTP via TRRS Audio Jack)
+ Push buttons for volume, play
+ Hi-Res incl. Bluetooth Licensing
+ Affordable when buying used one
o Acceptable battery life
- Pretty old android (v7)
- Pretty slow
- discontinued

# Sony NW-A306 [Hi-Res DAP] (~300 bucks used)

+ Modern android (v12)
+ Custom app support
+ Decent audio quality
+ buttons for volume, play, next, hold etc.
+ Hi-Res incl. Bluetooth Licensing
o Acceptable size and weight
o Not the fastest
- NO Earphone remote support (only via USB-C->TRRS Adapter)
- expensive

# Unihertz Jelly 2 [Phone] (~100 bucks used)

+ Modern android (v12)
+ Custom app support
+ Pretty fast
+ Earphone remote support (OMTP via TRRS Audio Jack)
+ Affordable
o Programmable Button, buttons for volume
o Acceptable size and weight
o Acceptable audio quality
- No Hi-Res

Honorable mentions:

Google Pixel 4a [phone]
LG G5 H850 [phone]
Shanling M0 Pro [audioplayer, non Android, but small]
iPod Nano 6G, 7G [audioplayer, non Android, but smallest]
Exactly. I consider it much like "types" in programming languages: middling to weak "formal verification". In the case of most calculations I've ever carried out substantially 'by hand' in physics / chemistry / etc., it still made / makes a substantial difference in error rate.

Without propagating dimensions, my error rate can be a real issue. I wouldn't trust the final number on a full, say, roughly "letter-sized" (US 'wonderland' system) page. By propagating, I might trust the result 75 or 80% of the time...

(I do rather doubt I could have been an even average NASA "computer" given the opportunity to do a great deal more of these kinds of calculations than I have had to... my mind is much better at generating random numbers and nonsense than doing anything 'mechanical'. AFAIK, NASA had no call for such skills in the "age of human computers".) :)
Ambiguity-Aware In-Context Learning with Large Language Models
> Simply, they could have not made this retroactive

How can they make this apply retroactively though? For already shipped titles, if I'm no longer providing updates anymore, how can they force me to pay money?

I'm aware that games no longer have a final shipping date, with early access and all, and as a dev I'd likely would want to offer continued support in such a scenario.

But the way I understand it from the overall public reaction, is that they're trying to charge customers for existing titles, retroactively, in perpetuity going onward. This would be a one sided ToS change which only benefits them, which they push the customer into agreeing. Such a practice is mostly unenforceable in a lot of jurisdictions around the world.
The main issue occurs when nobody can fix the car themselves. Then you are forced to go to the stealership for repairs and you pay over a barrel. It won't just cost more; it'll cost bank.

So even if you don't want to repair the car, you most definitely want a car that you could repair.
I wrote this reply several times and scrapped all of my drafts. In an inspired moment I came up with this ridiculous conclusion/theory. That Bethesda intend to release city maps as paid DLC - and in the mean time not having those maps helps to increase the number of Steam and XBox game pass "hours played" stats.

Or maybe they just forgot, I mean, that can happen.
Bullets, bleach, and knives also can't be used to heat water, but I'd be afraid of those getting in my body.
Wait until you see what alcohol does to you.
Because people buy AAA games with no second thought.

This game is objectively an underbaked game, but it’s by Bethesda so it’s going to make its RoI with no real effort.
I've been dating a 6th grade teacher in a SV adjacent town, and hearing how she attempts to teach with these things is hard to imagine for me even though I was a computer nerds as a kid.

They have like 5 different saas programs/platforms they use. They also have video platforms. Reading, library checkout, digital media, quizzes, tests, who knows.

If I was a kid without add, I would for sure have it having to use that stuff at 11 years old.

I'm not sure who thought doing away with pen and paper and a simple book in front of you was a good idea.

I assume it was an IT/software salesperson with ability to give kickbacks.
acknowledging and treating mental illness doesn't include potential jail time for the mentally ill
The security policy of the OS and the performance characteristics of the SoC are two different things.
Damn, I knew I was forgetting one! Thanks.
And best part is, it means you can ditch windows comfortably in case they piss you off enough.
And others were released before git:

> The first open-source DVCS systems included Arch, Monotone, and Darcs. However, open source DVCSs were never very popular until the release of Git and Mercurial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_version_control#Hi...
They aren’t being charged with policing the language used by their employees.
They didn't make space for cars, they made space for people who own cars.
But cf. knocking shop?
I always thought it would be cool if Steam did that for their games. Kind of like the little feature tags they already use, "local multiplayer," "controller supported," etc, but for EULAs (technically they already track whether there is a third party EULA).

So you could just look at a game and it'd have bubbles like "phone homes > sends your data > IP, operating system, language," "not responsible for online interactions," etc whatever other legal nonsense they stuff in those things. There's tens of millions of them so I assume they can be compressed into some couple thousand of rote legal "chunks" that can be filtered and sorted on.
Linear code is more readable
I suspect Linus' position has radically changed with io-uring and proliferation of NVMe storage devices.

I use io-uring with O_DIRECT at work and the performance graphs of TLB pressure are beautiful.
btw, if you need help with issues or just curious whether Sublime is dead or not, head over to their unofficial Discord server -> https://discord.com/invite/D43Pecu

the community is very much active in there!
> Sometimes you want to keep 2 different copies of Main with different names and state

Wouldn't that just be two different branches? What does it have to do with 'main'?
People are dying.
> Did Unity recently get acquired, new investors or new management?

EA's former CEO, John Riccitiello took over last year.
He inaugurated himself with quite a few statements, one of which was discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32097752
Curious, what kind of revenue model do you suggest?
Yeah, Humans are very adept at killing other groups of humans
Learning C in 2023
I’ve got a need and interest in learning C for an upcoming project. I’m quite familiar with C# and JavaScript/Typescript, but have never dove into C. I know there’s a lot of resources out there but given that C has been around for so long it’s hard to tell discern what’s relevant what’s not.

I’d like to start with fundamentals and work my way into being able to navigate and contribute to an existing C codebase. I learn great with books and by creating little projects, but am open to any resources available.
> The only way to escape this is to take on a huge pay cut and work at a company that doesn't care about growing profits. Go ahead, you first.

Gladly! Where do I sign up?
Everyone says that, every website has tos against scraping but search engine scraping for seo is welcomed and encouraged against their own policy so who cares. This Firefox addon does the change client side so how does that affect the org?
The actual positive is that Texas is the largest producer of wind and solar, by a pretty large margin. The problem is that it creates an excess of energy production from morning to mid afternoon. Having flexible users, like crypto miners, buy that energy offsets the occasional energy crunch where they are paid, with energy credits, to cut usage.
Gives me chills. Great picture! Looks like he’s looking at the camera
I also host with Hetzner and I also received the notice. The consensus on reddit and the plex forums is that the hosting provider in question is Hetzner.

Very poor decision on Plex's part. I've been using the service for over 8 years and will now have to start considering alternatives.
if you installed via steam, check if the ultra-wide resolution fix will help - if you're trying to run in 4k. The 2080 ti has 12GB of vram, right? This is a mod that allows 2550x1440 or whatever it is to display properly, and yes, you will get letterboxing (or whatever it's called) - but it may run and then you'll know it is something about 4k on your hardware/software combo.

if you're not trying to run 4k, there is a vague possibility that the number of threads is hampering your ability to play. I know, i don't really believe it myself, but lots of people mentioning that trying to disable SMT (or whatever) helped.

FTR: RTX 3090, Ryzen 5950x, 128GB, game installed on sata SSD, and never had a graphical issue related to the hardware.
We're well past "shouldn't be", unfortunately. Mobile tried premium games and it didn't work. They became free to play and there's only 3 real ways to monetize: ads, subscriptions (which include battle passes), and MTX.

Gabe Newell is always quoted for saying "piracy is a service issue". But it turns out it's a issue you can eliminate if you keep all your content on a server and the app is just a free, thin client. Mobile found its own way around piracy, and it found new markets even when "core gamers" left.
I'm just glad the game isn't "File system creator or killer"
Or doesn’t exclude and.
Mercurial came out essentially simultaneously, solved the same problems, with a much more coherent UX.
Hmm, I think the authors point is more towards attention addiction, rather than specific average types of people. It’s more a matter of setting a low bar to encourage more people to be distracted by your app when they really shouldn’t be using it. Basically increasing the number of apps that people check in on, especially when those users are in their marginal time (before bed, while cooking, etc.).
I'm updating the workbook this morning and I just typed out this little anecdote. The topic is 'whether to put the JD number in the filename or not'.

---

Last year the boss mailed me a five-year-old file. "Is this the latest version of this?", he asked.

The file name started with the number. I even remember it, it was `31.17`. This allowed me to go directly to the now-archived project folder, immediately navigate to this file's home, and see no, the file he mailed me is the latest.

This took me literally one minute.

I could probably have found my way there just by the filename -- the folder structure was well organised enough to allow this -- but it would certainly have taken longer and I would not have been as certain that I was in the right place.
Interesting. I'd thought that Plex was a self-hosted streaming platform? Am I to understand that while they may provide that functionality, they are maintaining another set of servers in the stream that can be used to cut off end users from streaming backends on servers that are operated by private individuals? I.e. I set up plex for myself, use their app, and then conceivably they have a gatekeeping capability that could cut me off from my own stream box?

If that's the case, then WTF Plex? If I actually cared, that'd be a custom Server/client rewrite and loss of business from me.
I’ve absolutely seen it abbreviated. The wikipedia page even shows a photo of a “1000 kc” crystal resonator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_per_second
> Ethics is a superset of good laws.

But not a superset of real laws. You can't avoid gray areas even with 100% ethical behavior.
That's super interesting I'm totally going to try this! I have mild tinnitus. I was in a band. I always wear ear plugs at other people's shows but did not wear ear plugs at band practice or our shows. I guess in hind sight, the situational need to be in the zone and hear everything overrode the common sense notion of "oh yeah of course I should always be wearing ear plugs".

Anyway, the tinnitus does sound somewhat like noise with a peak at a certain frequency. I guess I just think of it as "blood noise". Susanne Vega reference? Anyone? Okay, I'll leave the room now. (great song, check it out)
The market already got hit hard last year over this issue. I think they are or already have worked around the "collecting minor's data" issue.