skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the things I never understood. "Cheap drones" is a code word for Chinese made quadrocopter toys. Military drones will be fixed wing and have combustion engines. Suddenly things start getting expensive and you can no longer have a million plastic toys for the price of one F35, you'll get 3 reapers or maybe a dozen "Wingmen".

The closest analog would be converting cessnas. Half a million dollars plus drone kit = 1 million dollar bomber => 75 bombers or one F-35.

At that price point one might start thinking about sending the bombers first (to deplete air defenses), then the F-35s...
The article includes "-fhardening" as well. I agree that it's most likely to be -fhardened though.
Ease of porting and platform support.
More insidiously, they also hide that censorship is even taking place. If they were honest, the review section would be closed, stating "This is where content that violates Google policies often appears. To prevent this, we have disabled publishing."

Instead it's open, tricking you into thinking reviews are allowed. You are only told they're not after you try to post, and they can no longer maintain the deception.

Call it shadow-censorship. It's everywhere, and the most common form. The censor isn't happy just censoring information - he wants people to believe he's not even there:

Not only did Occupation censorship forbid criticism of the United States or other Allied nations, but the mention of censorship itself was forbidden. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Japan#Occupation...
I meant from a point of view of a normal person.

At least that has been my experience. Microsoft hasn't done anything that made me angry enough to remember in quite a while, multiple years. The last thing that's on my mind that Microsoft did that was negatively received was Windows 8 and that was quite a while ago.

Could just be my ignorance. But I did submit the original comment knowing that it'll get downvoted to oblivion, so it's okay.

I still welcome Microsoft's acquisition of Nintendo.
Well, the UK does both. It has both incredible barriers to entry that exclude anyone other than consulting firms whose central skills is dealing with them from participation, and it also has VIP lanes for routing work to your mates.
Huh? A better question would be what are the similarities? I think.
Godot seems to be the clear winner in all this.
Mosquitoes are now bred to help prevent the spread of dengue fever
There was a small bug indeed, we have just fixed it, thanks for notifying us!
They've been in subway stations for years and years.
Good Q & A here:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...

Including interesting details of the over/under performance condition.
It's not being built by Eskom.

The solar in question is mainly being installed by individuals at their own cost because the power grid is failing around them due to corruption and mismanagement.

Example article on Eskom

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africa-corruption...
I think the reason they gave up is because the Linux kernel has a LOT of syscalls, and every single one would have to be implemented flawlessly in order to properly support all of userspace. They'd basically be implementing a second Linux kernel.
> their tactics have more or less pushed them outside of the mainstream conversation on technology.

They always have been on the outside. There has always been, and will always be, a concerted campaign by those who benefit from closed software against the FSF.
That doesn’t work if the culture in question doesn’t use family names. For instance Malays use their given name followed by their father’s given name. Would you really refer to somebody as “Mr [their father’s given name]”?
I just tried 2 http examples from https://commoncrawl.org/get-started for an old dataset and the most recent one and got 110Mb/s (my full download bandwidth):

wget https://data.commoncrawl.org/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125937193.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20180420081400-20180420101400-00000.warc.gz

wget https://data.commoncrawl.org/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643388.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20230527223515-20230528013515-00483.warc.gz
Unreal is a viable option for most people. Epic is the devil we know.
I suppose these days, it is useless to point out that these are unconfirmed accusations. Oh well
> one, two or more years

Are you sure it's not just dry British understatement?
Just like private land ownership has been a dominant economic system since the invention of agriculture, despite its incredible negative effects.
Wow. That kind of decision does not inspire confidence in the product.
Also, why is this thread been removed from the home / front HN page?
The lack of interest in developing a custom game engine today surprises me. It should go without saying that using a tool like Unity can help you get going quickly, but when it doesn't exactly fit your original game idea, it can and does often turn into an uphill battle. Directly utilising the SDKs without the use of middleware grants the most freedom, and technologies like DirectX were actually designed to simplify life to begin with.
This is Youtube - a transnational subsidiary of the US Alphabet group.
He does, but the writeoff can't be bigger than what he invested.

Except when it can. It's often possible to do several investments at roughly the same time (within a few years of each other), lose massively on one and write off more than you invested on that one as long as you make a profit on the others and the profit is larger than what you want to write off.
Do you really think all those women in proprietary software jobs aren't doing free software because of one man? They probably haven't even heard of him.

There are many more obvious reasons for the disparity that don't involve anything malicious let alone singling out one person and attaching the blame.

Anybody can make meaningful contributions to free software. Nobody has to interact with RMS or anybody else. I've made many anonymous and pseudonymous contributions just fine.

Given that there are essentially no barriers to entry to developing free software but there are significant barriers to being paid for it, I wonder why proprietary software is only 72% male when free software is 98.5% male. Are there any other fields that exhibit this disparity? Are there more/less paid male/female car mechanics versus car enthusiasts/hobbyists, for example?
Show HN: Scripion – open-source lightweight script manager for macOS
Wow, a lot of people have died recently.
Maybe I’m thinking about this wrong, but wouldn’t it incentivize people to try as hard as possible not to live in the same district as people who need redistributive government services?
Hmm, I think I am not following. Why using msys2 bash on top of WSL2?
You either using WSL or cygwin/msys2.

GIT is slower on cygwin, especially stat() with do hacks to check for +x mode.
But once cache is warm, it works fine. Albeit, I didnt used GIT under Win10 from quite some time, im doing most of my stuff on older windows using my very old Cygwin fork thats is more snappier :)
>No one has a right to a social media platform.

No, but the question is on what basis dominant platforms _should_ be allowed to terminate someone's account.

>If you don't see the hypocrisy of celebrities leveraging social media to their advantage and profit, then whining and complaining about "free speech" when they cross the line or break the terms of service or otherwise run afoul of the rules, I don't know what to say.

If the only rule he has broken and the only line he has crossed is to be accused of a crime by others then hypocrisy is entirely irrelevant. Terminating an account on this basis should be illegal because it undermines the rule of law.
I also live in Japan, and I have exactly the same problem.

I think the people with the biggest name problems in Japan may be ethnic Chinese. Many use the Japanese readings for their name characters in daily life, but some official purposes require the Chinese readings. Some Chinese also use yet another given name in English. I've had some friends who ran into serious problems proving they were who they were.

Addendum: Another problem that some people with Chinese names have in Japan is that the hanzi/kanji in their names do not display properly or at all in Japanese fonts, and even if the characters can be displayed they don’t have well-known Japanese readings, so people using phonetic input don’t know how to type the characters.
> I don't see how this would be a negative for anybody.

I think it would be a large negative for NYC bond-holders and NYC pension holders.
> . . . girls. One as young as 16.

16 is the age of consent in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_reform_in_the_U...
> Such apps leverage the native platform’s interface, including windows, buttons, text areas, and everything else. They look right and familiar, and they behave this way.

Nope, they don't look familiar because they look different on every platform.

Give me consistency. If I buy a phone of some different brand (or use the family tablet which happens to be of a different brand), give me the same interface for each app as on the old phone.
There are a number of symptoms, but the main root reason anyone leaves any relationship is...no future.

That is, I identify myself as X or Y in the future and I sooner or later come to realize the relationship stands between me and that future. The way around that is to use the exit door.
If you want to try bard alongside google search, then here is a addon which will show response from bard when you do google search

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bard-for-sear...
If for some reason I were mentioned in a written communication from a surname-first country I would absolutely expect to have my surname first and I wouldn't care. I would also expect my name to be transliterated into other writing systems should that be required.

Is this really an important issue for people from surname-first countries?
Azerbaijan launches ‘anti-terrorist’ campaign in disputed NagornoKarabakh region
Very valid points. But I would argue that guiding the user through a set of basal questions to exclude a bunch of fields and pages would do wonders for the whole thing. I get by alright but most of my friends and family find it utterly complicated and have to consult a tax advisor because they don't even know which fields are even relevant to them and the explanations in them often leave them with more questions than they had when they started.
> it can be easily embedded in a self booting Linux distro contained in a pendrive

Very interesting. Is there a framework or helper for this?

Seems useful for things like games or audio DAWs in particular.
I wouldn't call a an Electron app strictly a wep app, because you can control the browser version it uses.

For a real wep app it's the user's choice.
FWIW from the comments i've seen on Reddit it seems that some of the reasons he brought up for wanting to do so many raycasts are already covered by Godot's functionality (in C++).

Also IMO unless you want to share C++ plugins with others (via GDExtension), if you are making a game with it you'd want to modify the engine itself for any non-trivial functionality anyway. Again, the situation he describes sounds like it would be much better done by writing the reusable controller itself as a node written in C++ inside the engine itself (not via GDExtension) that uses the fast physics API directly.

Basically what he describes is an issue only in specific situations and not something that would really stop someone from making their game.
I develop free/open source software and I've never joined an open source group. I'd say that goes for the majority of contributors.
Brexit was negotiated for us by people who didn't want it or believe in it. That surely doomed it (if it wasn't doomed anyway, which I consider a big "if").

Even Bojo himself was ambivalent about the EU pre-2016, and famously wrote a pro-Leave and pro-Remain version of the same article before publicly announcing his position. It's pretty clear that he was motivated more by opportunism and personal advancement than by any strong belief in Brexit's merits.
Wondering if the future will lead to more or consolidation long term
VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III
> back when prompt-hacking was a thing

It isn't anymore?
Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping Gnome X11 Session Support
I don't get it. Even if all allegations are true.. that would mean he committed crimes over 10 years ago. Aren't ex-convicts allowed to monetize a YouTube channel that's completely unrelated to the allegations? Why does YouTube need to penalize him? Is there a YouTube policy that explains this?
'The Origin of the “MIT License”':

* https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9263265

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34636092
> Brand has been the subject of a joint investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 where the claims are backed by a significant amount of evidence vetted by their lawyers. These aren't reckless publications.

Try as you might, the above will never create the certainty in an reasonable person's mind as an actual legal conviction would. As we all know, even some of most well put together cases fall apart under the scrutiny of cross examination.
Yes, at this point the current generation of feminism has an awful track record: by conflating online rumors about "creeps" and "sex pests" with actual women's rights concerns, they've ceded cultural ground to conservatives who have promptly used their new influence to do stuff like limit access to abortions. (Stallman is unwaveringly pro choice.)

Nadine Strossen comments on this problem in one of the links I posted:

> So we see the term sexual assault and sexual harrassment used for example, when a guy asks a woman out on a date and she doesn’t find that an appealing invitation. Maybe he used poor judgement in asking her out, maybe he didn’t, but in any case that is NOT sexual assault or harassment. To call it that is to really demean the huge horror and violence and predation that does exist when you are talking about violent sexual assault. People use the term sexual assault / sexual harassment to refer to any comment about gender or sexuality issues that they disagree with or a joke that might not be in the best taste, again is that to be commended? No! But to condemn it and equate it with a violent sexual assault again is really denying and demeaning the actual suffering that people who are victims of sexual assault endure. It trivializes the serious infractions that are committed by people like Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein. So that is one point that [Stallman] made that I think is very important that I strongly agree with.
I mean, yes, obvious the UK's position would be "give us all the good stuff without any of the responsibilities". That's not "held up by the EU", that's just the actual negotiation.
I mostly don’t miss wsl on Mac because most software I use works well in both Linux and Mac, just not windows. When I want to test something on linux from my Mac, I use and recommend Canonical’s multipass.
Most people use two platforms at most. Phone and PC, and these already look different because of the screen sizes and orientation.

And a web app look rarely like the most used desktop apps people are used to: Excel and Word
Lovely project! Same annoying form in Austria as well. Thanks for it!
Does the tool also suggest how to properly fill the form when you have your main residency in another country?

The first year I moved to Austria I still had my main residency in Italy, and filling the paper unproperly could have impacted my taxation. Please have a look at DTA if you don´t know what I mean.
We get on reasonably well with one neighbour, who we often discuss house maintenance but whenever I've offered to help fix something in their house, they only want advice.
Strangely this person will stop and have full on conversations for 30+ mins in the street with me, but nothing comes of it aside from catching up on local news.
At the back of my mind I do wonder if not being more social is something to do with one of my kids being mentally disabled and somehow that's awkward or intimidating for them (e.g. they might not know how to react, or might think I'd like them to babysit etc).
Maybe this will change and improve over time.
I read the name and was looking for where the corruption scandal was, but instead it is a consumer protection site.
This is a bit wrong for Thailand as it doesn't mention nicknames. Or rules for using the given name vs. nicknames. Unless in very formal context it's normal to use nicknames not given names. In day to day life nicknames are by far more commonly used than given names.

Family names are almost never used expect in legal documents or formal setting. It's common for people who have been friends for years to not know each other's family names as they are so rarely used in day to day life.

It's also common also for friends/coworkers to not know each other's given names -- though less so than family names. Especially as you would never call someone you're friends with by their given name as it would be a bit rude. Usually in offices (unless very old fashioned) or with friends and family you'd use nicknames exclusively.
To be fair a native iOS app will look the same on a new iPhone and same with android apps on a new android based phone.
I enabled the generative AI feature in Google search. Huge mistake. Its It's worse than useless and I can't find a way to turn it off. And this is coming from someone who uses GPT-4 and other LLMs all the time.
This leak likely killed any chance Nintendo would even entertain the talks and may setback Microsoft-Nintendo’s relationship. But Microsoft never have had a chance to buy Nintendo and likely never will.

I don’t think Nintendo would ever sell unless they absolutely have to. And they are in a position of strength right now. They have some of the most valuable IP in the world and are just waking up to all of the opportunities they have to leverage that IP with moves into toys, theme parks, and movies and a Switch 2 is likely coming next year.
"and JavaScrip is an interpreted language, not a compiled one, so by default, it will be orders of magnitude slower than an app written in Swift, Rust, or C++."

This statement is misleading and false.

The distinction between "interpreted" and "compiled" isn't as clear-cut as it once was, especially in the context of modern languages and runtimes. However, when it comes to JavaScript, here's the general understanding:

-Interpreted: JavaScript is traditionally known as an interpreted language. This means that it is typically executed line by line, on-the-fly, without a preliminary compilation step to machine code. When web browsers first supported JavaScript, they essentially had interpreters that read and executed JavaScript code directly.

- Just-In-Time Compilation (JIT): Modern JavaScript engines like V8 (used in Chrome and Node.js), SpiderMonkey (used in Firefox), and Chakra (used in older versions of Microsoft Edge) use Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation to execute JavaScript code. With JIT, the JavaScript code is compiled into machine code just before it is executed, rather than being interpreted line by line. This approach can greatly improve performance because the machine code can be optimized for the current machine and can be executed much faster than interpreted code. So, in this sense, JavaScript is compiled at runtime.
- Ahead-of-Time Compilation (AOT): There are also tools and technologies that allow you to compile JavaScript (or languages that transpile to JavaScript) "ahead of time" into machine code or other languages. Examples include the asm.js subset of JavaScript and WebAssembly (although WebAssembly isn't strictly JavaScript, it's a target for languages including C/C++ and Rust, among others).
> Python doesn't really scale though and it's fine only for simple games/scripting

IMO GDScript (and any scripting language in games) should be treated exactly as a language only for that (scripting) and anything non-trivial should be done in C++ anyway.
You can this as a comment to the Freelancer thread https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring This month's thread (September) is closed, a new one will automatically be created on the first business day in October.
This sounds great. You mean something like the African Union and its 2 letter acronym, AU?
> Nope, they don't look familiar because they look different on every platform.

When I use an app, I don’t care what it looks like on somebody else’s phone, I care that it works the same as all the other apps on my phone.

> Give me consistency.

I want it to be consistent with all the other apps on my phone. I don’t care if it’s consistent with what’s running on somebody else’s phone.
It's not. Most of Unity games are mobile games, or indie games that don't require the GPU usage bloat Unreal has in order to achieve better graphics.

If Unreal was ever an option, developers would've been using it instead of Unity in the first place.
There is a proposal for C++ to zero-initialise automatic (ie local variables):

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p27...

If that goes through, zeroing automatics would just be doing the same thing.

(FYI the feedback section of that paper is quite funny)
Convicted of no crime. The fix is in.
Not sure exactly, but not happy with the non-answers in the thread.

From my understanding, mirrored network mode is essentially duplicating the Windows host network interfaces into the WSL2 VM, so that they have the same IPv4 (and IPv6) addresses. This also allows you to seamless access network services between the Host and VM over localhost, and also expose network services (say SSH) over your LAN without futzing around with firewall and port forwarding (as you would have to do previously).
I'll be honest, my postulate is based on 100% anecdata. But in my experience the least opinionated frameworks, tend to crumble the most. I've heard countless stories about React apps where you'll have to use loads of third party frameworks, where each one has the potential to stop being maintained. In the end I guess this boils down to risk management, some teams might prefer not having a single point of failure with the trade offs that the looser coupling comes with.

In my own experience when encountering old Angular applications, there's been a straight forward migration path to the latest versions, that feature in it self is pure gold in my opinion.
The article behind it (which is paywalled) does go into some detail of the problem of what temperature range various sorts of heat pumps work.

The story I heard about 10 years ago was that air source heat pumps were good if you lived in Ohio or further South but not good if you were in upstate NY. Here we would need a geothermal heat pump which is a much harder install.

The air source heat pumps have greatly improved and now even work in Alaska, and that’s the story of the linked article.

Note in Upstate NY we have a major hydro system at Niagara falls, some nuclear plants, wind, etc. so we have a major low carbon component to our grid already.
Let's look at it the other way. Brand has a substantial following, but he doesn't get nearly as many views in such a short space of time for videos that aren't denying sex offences. The private companies could reward him for this notoriety by advertising, or not. Did they make the wrong choice?

And ultimately the actual consequences Brand is suffering from which people are expressing concern over aren't losing access to credit or mobility, it's losing ad revenue from his infamy, a booking agent and charity figurehead status. I don't think you can argue these should be inalienable rights, and it's especially tough to make a good case that the charity working to end violence against women should be forced to continue using the alleged rapist as a figurehead unless and until he is actually proven beyond guilty in a court of law.