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> As silly as it is, professionals can't get good tools, because the
tooling is caught in the gravity well of more generic, mass market
products.

This also happened in hardware.

Back in the day we could design wide range devices using quite widely
available "mil-spec" semiconductors and components - a common
difference was in logic circuits where you had 74-series in consumer
and commercial (0 °C to 70 °C and −40 ° to 85 °C temperature ranges)
and milspec 54-series that would suffer −55 °C to 125 °C.

Following something in the 90s called the Perry initiative IIRC, the
rules changed to test-based performance that enhanced "market supply"
rather than prescribed manufacturing methods, so after STD-883 almost
all wide range components disappeared.

Sure if you're NASA or the US DoD you can get stuff made, but
increasingly everyone has to source from the same few commercial
suppliers. The upshot is that if you're organising an Antarctic
survey, or going into the desert it's almost impossible to kit our
with modern gear that won't fail. You're stuck trawling eBay for some
1980s Soviet stuff.
Why do there have to be so many different:

C libraries

shells

window managers / desktop environments

package managers

Think of the global man hours wasted achieving basically the same thing slightly different ways
A lot of folks forget that the US's advantages and opportunities derive directly from the fact that individual citizens have a far greater amount of freedom and power versus the government here than people do anywhere else in the world. Freedom of speech, religion, gathering, and many other things.

Those freedoms are defended by individual power. All power in the world derives from force. The benefit of private gun ownership is a much higher level of individual power and thus the ability to defend that freedom vs the continuous encroaches of government. Mass shootings are an unfortunate side effect, but one worth accepting. I'd rather have a few thousand gun related deaths a year than hundreds of thousands or millions die when a too powerful government takes power.
If you have the anxiety to need all those airtags, I would just not use the service! Send the heavy stuff you can afford to lose. Keep your money and passport with you. Maybe a single airtag is enough.
For a weather forecaster this is a really strange take.

Anybody who understands what the big words 'climate change' mean, could have predicted this. HAVE predicted this. I personally have predicted this and I'm not even a weather forecaster, I just know what chaos theory is.

Adding energy to the system produces a wider range of possible outcomes. This is absolutely one of the possible outcomes.

A few degrees less warming and it might not have been possible.

Chaos is STRANGE. It's sensitive to initial conditions. One of those conditions is the total energy in the system. This is what happens when you add a few degrees to the whole planet. It'll act normal, sort of, maybe for quite a while… then bam.

Because this is what you get when you add energy to a chaotic system the size of a planet, and it will happen again. We just got a picture of the new range of possible event… or of something WITHIN the new range of possible event, which by no means is guaranteed to be the most dramatic climate outcome currently possible.

This was probably on the high end of possible events but might not even be the most extreme thing that can now happen with this level of climate energy.

Climate energy is still increasing.
Is it now bad to have a few offerings that you can tailor to your needs?

With compute one size doesn't fit all, maybe you need more disk space or maybe you need GPUs... I'm sure Oxide will come out with different spec modules over time.

The idea is similar: It's a rack which runs virtualized workloads and you don't have to think much about individual machines.
Not really, if you have no interest in doing so and people keep asking for it. There might not be any particular reason, it's just a FAQ.
There's always poor quality reviews.

I'm just talking about from my own personal experience of playing Skyward and TotK both pretty soon after each came out, it was easy to tell which would age better.

> From the outside, I can easily imagine people in ten years saying "then I needed to craft a slightly different car for the billionth time."

Doesn't sound realistic, I mean there's a whole mechanic in the game to avoid that problem. I get that that's just an example, but it seems indicative of what I mean, you really have to work to find much to complain about beyond nitpicks. The devs clearly understood their game and worked hard to fix many of what otherwise would have been issues.
Are there reasonable string implementations lacking 0(1) amortized append runtime?
I didn't know this, interesting.

I don't really like DoF anyway :P
Most of my last trip to Japan was: 1) leave hotel, 2) take local train / bus in City A to the Shinkansen station, 3) Take Shinkansen to city B, 4) take local train / bus, 5) walk to hotel.

So there wasn’t a lot of taxi usage but a lot of (busy) street walking and (busy) public transit use. Plenty of people did successfully haul their stuff themselves, but luggage forwarding saved us a lot of headache. Felt very worth the price.

e: There wasn’t a lot of waiting either. We shipped our stuff 1 full day ahead of time (so if we were checking into our next hotel Wednesday we sent our bags Monday afternoon-ish). Maybe it can seem annoying to keep a day or two of clothes with you in a backpack, but cramming into a packed bus in Kyoto with two roller bags seemed like a far worse bargain to us.
ISPs are, especially in the wake of mergers in many countries, large corporations with lawyers. An I2P node might be run by an individual who lacks that security, and this is just something that can be used against that person if he comes to the attention of the authorities for whatever reason. It’s like the risks of individuals’ running Tor exit nodes, which are well known.
The complete guide to WebSockets with React
It’s comparing apples and oranges, since Hamas deliberately targets Israeli civilians, while using Palestinian civilians as human shields. Many Palestinian casualties are Hamas’s fault, not IDF.
This is neat. As someone recently laid off and looking to stay sharp with coding while searching for a new opportunity, a suggestion (if possible)…

Maybe add an option to sort by issues?

I’m currently working on a personal project to better understand how to stand up both the backend and frontend (one of the awesome things about my former team was we had templates that made standing up a new service a breeze) but I would really like to use my time to try and resolve issues in some OSS.

Unfortunately, a lot of my more recent experience was project management and features/fixes, so I need to brush up on the fundamentals but it would also be nice to utilize my productivity to the advantage of others.

Thanks for sharing
Off topic but 42% of VR headsets are Quest 2

Woahhh
So look into Valetudo if you want local control of your vacuums.

It's a open source application that (after rooting the vacuum) replaces the cloud with a self hosted control webUI.

I am a big fan.
Oh we are posting emails. Here is one from google I have been ignoring because updating the app is so far down my todo list it will just never happen.

========

This is your final reminder: By November 1, 2023 version 4 will be deprecated and any updates to existing apps will first require you to migrate to PBL version 5 or newer. We are sending you this reminder as one or more of your apps is still using Play Billing Library (PBL) version 4.
Important notes: If your app is targeting Android 14 or higher, you must update to PBL 5.2.1 or PBL 6.0.1 or higher.
In May we launched Play Billing Library 6.0 with updates to subscription features, in-app purchase logging, and new API insights. We highly recommend upgrading directly to version 6.0 to future-proof your integration for the next two years and take advantage of the latest tools and features our commerce platform has to offer.
Is it? If this is your stance, expanding upon the why only opens the door for others to attempt to change your mind. If this person does not wish to engage in that conversation then offering more information, in this case, does nothing positive for the person posting this message.
I get that, but it is all relative. I'm not seeing any indication that lithium is the most difficult aspect of battery production. It seems like a short term problem compared to graphite, nickel, and (seemingly) cobalt.

It seems like time is the bottleneck in basically all cases rather than overall capacity as well.
I think it requires reframing travel a bit.

I just got back from Japan ~48hrs ago, and I would’ve agreed with you before the trip - we did take a taxi to the hotel from the airport with our luggage. It seemed easier.

In Japan, taxis and road travel are VERY expensive (2x big American cities?), and they have amazing transit infrastructure. We took trains from city to city, exploring and staying at different hotels. In America, this would have required driving. japan has amazing transit, so we wanted to avoid getting extra taxis when the trains go exactly where we need. BUT lugging big bags on trains is a massive PITA for everyone, especially when it’s crowded. The trains are great, and they’re desirable if you didn’t have luggage.

Yes, it seems inconvenient, except the framing is bad. We didn’t wait for the bags. We just went about our day, and they showed up in our hotel room when we got back. We took a backpack with one change of clothes, laptop, etc, and the rest of the luggage just showed up later. When it’s time to go to the next hotel, you just pack tomorrow’s clothes, give the concierge your suitcase and start walking. Sure enough, your bag will be there tomorrow when you get back from being a tourist. Until reading this article, I didn’t know they’d hold your bags too, which seems great if you wanna see the city for a few days on a ski trip or something similar where you know you don’t need all your luggage at once.
If Gina is reading this, can I just say: wow! It's so cool that you've had hundreds of sponsors on GitHub (almost 1000!) and that's really exciting size for a user base!

I see you're seeking corporate sponsors. Awesome -- I think this can offset a significant amount of your expenses and pave the way to sustainability. IME it is much easier to sign on a handful of business sponsors than it is to get hundreds or thousands of users to commit to a few dollars a month. Your ROI will likely be much higher.

If you want to make it even easier for businesses to sponsor, can I suggest adding significantly higher tiers to your GitHub Sponsors offering? Most companies probably won't even pay attention to the other funding venues you list, but GitHub is likely already an approved vendor. Try to add a few tiers in the hundreds of dollars per month and the thousands of dollars per month.

You're doing great with this initiative. An earnest yet professional SOS is not a bad thing to do when a project is in peril.

For more inspiration, I hope this can help: https://matt.life/writing/the-asymmetry-of-open-source
Blake: Prophet Against Empire is a well known though older book on him... https://archive.org/details/blakeprophetagai0000unse
iOS is not a feasible long-term solution to browser monoculture. It's just not. And the (heavy quotes) "equilibrium" between Chrome and Safari is not really want we want, we don't want 2 giant corporate browsers, we want diversity.

Google is currently involved in a potentially historic antitrust lawsuit in the United States over its search engine dominance. Maybe after that's done we should look at Chrome under the same lens. You don't have to pick a winner and loser and decide whether you're going to carry Apple's water or Google's water. You can just break them both up and force both of the companies to stop doing anticompetitive crap.

It's so dystopian to look at the current browser duopoly and to say, "well, which of these two companies do I want to rule over me, I have to pick one of them." We are capable of better.
If both parents are from a country and their child is born in Sweden he could qualify for dual citizenship. If the child is under 18 deporting both their parents is effectively deporting them, even if they were born in the country
I would guess a combination of tech evolution, legacy code and disagreements between design departments. I once worked at a gamedev company that had an in-house scripting system and a purchased system from an engine fire-sale (not a fire-engine sale). The in-house one was better for complicated situations, but was relatively a lot of work for large volumes of simple situations.
Cool and overall sane, so lemme just pitch in from my perch on the critical side:

*Advanced*

> Can use advanced Python libraries like numpy, pandas, matplotlib.

You're a data scientist and this is not "Python".

> Can use regular expressions for pattern matching in strings.

Not Python really again.

> Understands and uses Python's memory management and optimization techniques.

Wait, like thinking about how a `list()` looks like from the (false) C-level perspective? Can you fix my CPU transistors while you're at it? (yes, /s)

*Experts*

> Can use Python's C API to extend Python with C/C++ code.

Do you mean whatever FFI Python has? Otherwise this is like asking your mechanic to also make it a plane, and a submarine. After all these are all just vehicles.

> Understands and uses Python's garbage collection system.

Ref counting? Wait what?

> Have a good understanding of Python's internals, such as bytecode, the Python interpreter's execution model, and how Python's data types are implemented at the C level.

Submarine :D

My perch also lets me see here the aspects I usually don't care about. Thank you!
Being a “data junkie” myself, I would also like to have access to various anonymized statistics for HN users just out of curiosity, but this isn’t possible.

See some previous posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397332

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS lists what I would call significant improvements, in particular,

> Linux kernel 4.8 in August 2016 added a new feature, "reverse mapping". This is the foundation for a large set of planned features: snapshots, copy-on-write (COW) data, data deduplication, reflink copies, online data and metadata scrubbing, highly accurate reporting of data loss or bad sectors, and significantly improved reconstruction of damaged or corrupted filesystems. This work required changes to XFS's on-disk format.
One of the maintainers added an inclusion statement onto the footer of the website and a few developers thought it was pushing an LGBT agenda so they quit. This was from a quick search, I’m sure there was more to it than that - one part was that some were mad they weren’t even consulted before it was added and misrepresented their views.
This technology doesn't seem to be limited to existing limbs and organs. After replacing a missing arm you could add a third arm. A man could grow a uterus since he has the X chromosomes and with a transplant that includes Y chromosomes, a woman could grow testes. Parthenogenesis could become a choice. Another head seems possible. The limits are more likely to come from regulation than a reluctance of people to transform themselves.
Software engineering interviews are broken. I have been casually looking and interviewed a few places. All of which have been terrible experiences.

I recently applied for a startup who is active on HN. The first step was a take-home challenge which I spend a decent amount of time completing. My solution executed all provided test cases and I thought it was pretty clever. I received a rejection saying it didn't pass an internal test case, no other details provided.

Not sure what the solution is to a better interview and hiring experience but I commiserate with your sentiment.
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Most Steam customers play games like Counter Strike, Dota, Team Fortress, PUBG, GTA, Call of Duty which have modest hardware requirements.

I wouldn't read too much into these stats.
software optimization as a practice is dead
We get to compete on editorializing it for votes here in the comments!
To be fair this is AUD$70 not AUD$110-120 like some recent actual AAA games. (They probably plan to add a buttload of DLC though ;)
I was in Japan when the quake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown happened on 11th of March 2011. More specifically my fiancée and I was on a train bound for Tokyo on some slow train from Kusatsu; a charming winter wonderland with thermal spring goodness. Our schedule that day was to stop over Tokyo for a bit of sightseeing before meeting up with friends in Osaka. We obviously didn't want to lug our belongs around, so had the foresight of takkyu-bin all our luggages to Osaka. After some excite.jp translator services with some Kanji the inn staff managed to made a booking and we went on our way.

The train ride was atypical the whole way, the train would've stopped randomly and carriages were very full. We even got to see some angry men loudly complaining and tapping the train driver's door; quite a rare sight in Japan. We later realised it was the small quakes that had struck before the big one.

We arrived in Tokyo delayed, we had some food around Ueno station, just when we were about to board the train the big earthquake struck. It was loud at first, then slow rolling. But it went on for too long. You know it's a big one when the local middle school students are cowering and some even started screaming. The station's lights shorted from swinging so much and some spark flew as well. Then news came, the bullet train would be cancelled, in fact all trains were cancelled. We walked around aimlessly trying to find accommodation for the night but couldn't, everyone was stuck in Tokyo. It was quite funny to see even when almost everything's sold out in convenience stores, same food/drink were left alone everywhere.

At the end we sat and slept in a lobby of a 5 star Hotel nearby Tokyo train station who were nice enough to invite all the people still out and about at 2am. The next morning the bullet train was declared fit to run again, phones started working too, and on our way to catch the train to Osaka, we received a call from our accommodation in Osaka, the staff simply said your luggages arrived yesterday and are here waiting for you.
Yeah, AFAIK Becker's "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life" is pretty much all there was until Michael Levin came along and picked up the torch.

IMO it's one of those weird "holes": why so little interest in human tissue regeneration?
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Results from a 15-year experiment on finding happiness
Thanks for taking the time to say this. I'm trying to get better at explicitly encouraging positive behaviours (instead of just wading into arguments like this!), and you've inspired me to recommit.
I don't see Reddit as one place like Slashdot was one place. I'm sure it still has horrific subs, but the ones I'm on are little islands of well-moderated chit-chat, local jokes and retro-computing.
But no TV maxes out at 24hz, that is a lower bound meant to support things like blu-ray players for judder-free movie playback.

60 hz has always been the bare minimum any display supports, so if any game is picking something below that then something has gone horribly wrong. But really, games should be using the current desktop refresh rate as the default, because you know it's supported and makes things like alt+tabbing considerably faster even in exclusive fullscreen.
Didn't they try this already with a _much_ easier problem ? How's apple maps doing these days ?
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Yes, coordination is a common theme among them. Another way of looking at it is that these systems all have a partial ordering but no full ordering, like a game of rock paper scissors. This is something that shows up all around us, space time itself can have different ordering of events based on the observer so it is embedded in the very causal geometry we live in. I've tried in the past to have a more rigorous explanation for this all but I lack the time and honestly the intellect.
It's basically an emulator versus native C code, it's completely relevant
Is this related to any new research? I’ve been interested in this stuff for a while, but this just looks like a rehashing of previous work.
I’ve always thought that the safety effect of the roundabouts - is not anything related to it’s traffic flow properties, but rather the fact that roundabouts are confusing and people slow down and proceed with caution.

We could accomplish the same with other forms of creative driver-hostile road construction and deliberately unproductive signage.
That number was just updated, it was less in 2021.

We’re about 60 people, currently.
I am not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to argue so I will re-state my concerns.

I am more concerned with the human beings using super intelligent algorithms to manipulate people than I am about the algorithms taking on a mind of their own and manipulating us with their own internally generated desires and out-of-control behaviors. But the trope I run in to is people spending all their time talking about the latter, which only serves to shield the former from further scrutiny.

Also I am using fantasy in the narrow sense, meaning something that has not yet occurred which we are imagining. Super intelligence is likely to occur I think, but super intelligence which is beyond our control is much more speculative. Meanwhile powerful people using technology to manipulate people is a story as old as time.
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This game sure is getting a lot of free marketing from all the complaints about the hilariously bad performance for such a mid looking game.
I imagine for an extra arm you'd need to also figure out how to grow the right neurons to control it.
"For example, what if the parallel sums are of different lengths? On GPUs, fast parallel reductions only work when inputs all have the same length. [...] Vexpr’s vectorizer groups the inputs by length and performs a reduced number of operations—one for each unique length."

I'm surprised this is necessary, I thought modern vectorization on both CPU and GPU handled heterogenous vectorization cases like this handily with conditional execution (on SMT GPUs) or mask registers (on SIMD CPUs)
Unprecedented diarrheal outbreak erupts in UK as cases spike 3x above usual
You mean the Martha's Vineyard residents don't have to deal with thousands of people crossing the border? Taxing their emergency and educational services?
But they have signs on the front of their homes that say in this house no human is illegal!
You can’t feel linear/unaccelerated motion, and biological organisms aren’t great at indirectly deriving it from acceleration and rotation over time the way inertial navigation systems do.
Very few experts out there. Also many folks using Python daily professionally that aren't at the beginner level.
>Do modern AAA games support dual (or multiple) GPUs?

The problem is that modern GPUs don't support multiple GPUs lol

iirc the series 30 was the last to do it and only 3090 and ti
Self-assessment is so messy that lists like this are just misleading.

Among other issues, many of the criteria for "expert" sound more like the criteria for "library developer". Many conventionally-expert application developers and data scientists would smartly not use those features and may self-assess themselves out of the category for lack of active practice. Meanwhile, too many conventionally-junior developers would sophomorically insist that they can and should use them and self-assess themselves as experts.