skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Actions are atomic and composable.

That sounds like a downside. Incremental editing with multiple cursors is so much better than e.g. regex based find/replace or long vim commands because you get immediate feedback. If you make a mistake you just undo. You don't have to start again from scratch.

With complex atomic editing operations it is painful to get them right because you only see the final output.

Atomicity of complex editing operations is not a desirable property.
> I'm getting ~60fps on my 4090 at 1440p

> it's not as dire for everyone as it's being made out to be

I don't have the game but your first point makes it sound rather dire, especially for a city-building game, does it not?
haha, that was the first thing I said. Obviously not a curated list because anything AWS maintained is not a good place to start your OSS journey
> Their marketing and story is supposed to convince you that you could save money running their things rather then Dell. And instead of paying for VMWare you get Open Source Software for most of it.

As someone who has dealt with mostly Debian and Ubuntu in recent years, every time I had to deal with even small numbers of RHEL licenses I often asked myself "Why do put up with this?" (I know why, but still… such overhead.)
Not quite a city building but I think possibly comparable - factorio you can at least get to endgame on pretty low end hardware with decent fps. It even runs on the switch.

I say comparable because of the number of things moving around on belts, machines, etc. I think would be a similar workload. Although it is 2D...
Assuming that's all true, it still doesn't explain the magnitude of the markup. VPS providers can do $0.01/gig outbound almost across the board. This includes some very large ones, and because bandwidth is cheap there people tend to host a lot of high bandwidth things there.

GCP, AWS, etc. are roughly 10X more expensive than this. Are they 10X better?

The cost is very high. I can't stress this enough. A terabyte outbound at AWS is roughly $80. For around $300/month I can get 1gbps unmetered at a highly regarded high quality bare metal provider and transmit well over 200TiB in a month. I know because I've done it continuously for years. It works fine. That means AWS is marking up bandwidth by at least 50X at a minimum.

(The above are rough numbers, but they capture the magnitude of the difference.)

If what you say is true and the markup is reasonable then all these companies should be out of business. Either that or they're overselling bandwidth by a giant margin, but that doesn't check out because they specifically advertise as places to put your extremely high bandwidth work loads. If your business model depends on people not doing X, don't advertise as a place for people to do X.
Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38015507 .
Sure it uses CPU but desktop CPUs that gamers use are beasts. Even if it’s a few years old mid level CPU it’s better than any console or mobile device by a long shot. They have dedicated tower or liquid coolers so they can push a lot of power into the chips
Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.
A big part of the high cost of the project is that they know they only get one and they want to get the most bang per kg of payload.

Most of the cost was research, development and testing of new technologies. Building 10x JWST would not cost 10x what we paid for a single telescope. A single launch also means everything has to be perfect, there is no prototype in space, no second try and no learning from mistakes.

The project would also probably have made drastically different design and management decisions if they knew in advance they were sending >5 units instead of one.
I'm wondering about any abuse of GPU for non GFX tasks in recent games.
There's violence, and then there's violence.

Broadly speaking (many exceptions), Americans are fine with young teens watching a movie about a man using kung fu fantasy tactics to bloodlessly shoot his way through a building of bad guys, like John Wick, but don't necessarily feel the same way about something that depicts violence in a more brutal and arguably realistic way, like Saving Private Ryan. Is there a little puff of red CGI mist blood coming out of somebody's chest, or does the movie show one of the 'good guys' with half his skull blown away? These are both hardcore violence in a sense, but most people see a large qualitative difference between the two.

I think it basically comes down to how likely a movie is to give people nightmares, which of course is a function of desensitization. The American public is broadly desensitized to unrealistic violence, but most aren't desensitized to realistic violence.

Incidentally, Saving Private Ryan has a lopsided depiction of violence. The deaths of Americans are shown to be gruesome and agonizing, while the deaths of Germans are mostly shown to be relatively quick and clean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4FeyONCtfc I re-watched Saving Private Ryan after watching this video and found it to be very apparent, but it wasn't apparent to me the first time I watched it.
Let's not set up a double standard here. It's not like non-evidence-based opinions are subject to peer review.
It's only problematic for old people, governments and investors. In fact, let's cut governments and investors form the list, as they are already included in the first category.
Do you mean gear paddles? No they didn't. Unless you mean F1 cars in 1995.

And 1995 is not "back in the day" anyway. It's not "back in the day" unless everything is in black and white!
What science doesn't give good guidance is how to select those goals in a vacuum. The goals at best end up being a version of someone's personal opinion, since there that's the only form of opinion we have access to.

Any opinions you get out of the scientific method were put in there by the person designing the experiment.
No, it is really how it works, (as I caveated) most of the time.

I don't understand what you're arguing here. Is your claim that most of that government deficit was not spent in the domestic economy (therefore stimulating GDP growth)?
That's the same premise as with all "turn-key" solutions. If it didn't come with software support, it wasn't really turn-key.

The rest comes down to execution. Sure, we all have high hopes for Oxide. Sure, we all hate established players like Dell.
Ignoring all of the scientific evidence otherwise, there is not a chance you're actually parroting this nonsense without actually noticing a rather substantial difference when viewing something (say a movie) at 30fps versus 60+fps. It's literally night and day. Me and a few coworkers noticed the difference between 60 and 120 when upgrading phones recently, and that difference is much more nuanced than the difference between 30 and 60.
I like the sentiment, but you’ve gotta admit that being able to skip the “generation” step has its benefits
http://archive.today/jkQw9

The actual site times out on my end; did it get hugged to death?
> belies a deep misunderstanding of their customers. Most C:S fans were more excited for a more realistic traffic AI and mixed use zoning. Yet this experience was made unplayable by an attempt to make it look prettier.

That's not fair. This is a new engine that they probably expect to support for maybe as long as 10 or 15 years. As a AAA publisher, Paradox doesn't get to stylize behind indie-style aesthetics and needs to keep up with where their peers are headed. It's not aiming to be prettier just for the heck of it, but because it needs to maintain a certain mark to keep the franchise relevant.

Knowing Paradox, more rich gameplay enhancements probably are on the update and DLC agenda, and we can assume that their designers really care about that kind of stuff. But for AAA publishers like them, there are also other factor that matter and that may need to take priority.

That said, what a f'd up and premature launch!
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that Slashdot saved my life.

In the late 90s I had developed some very unhealthy habits, and while lurking on Slashdot all day wasn't the best use of my lifetime, it was certainly the best I was able to do and one of the few activities I enjoyed. Visiting my people.

Yes, it was just another dopamine hit, but at least you could read about open web standards and peak oil and how we will all have portable computers in our pocket, and did you hear about the WAP protocol? It will be huge.

I learned so much just tapping into the knowledge and opinions of other people. It was much better than FIDO and Usenet, and I was hooked.

Bill Gates got it wrong. It was not about the information superhighway, it was about the information high. Sugar and news run this world.

I'm still somewhat excessively consuming information. Now mostly on HN.

But I believe Slashdot was what kept me from spiralling out of control, when I didn't know why I would even want to have control.

Thanks, CmdrTaco and Hemos. For everything.
Yes, Spencer Gore is working on it:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-electric-a-start...
Funnily enough, a lot of the illegally harvested wood comes with great provenance information, if not official documentation. Unscrupulous manufacturers need to know where to reliably source it and corruption where these trees are harvested is rampant so they don't even need to hide it. I assume so because there's a significant price difference between those operations and legitimate sustainable ones when provenance is available.

However I think the exotic wood that makes it to the average lumberyard comes almost exclusively from opportunistic small logging operations that stumble upon on groves of trees and cut them down and ship them out as fast as possible, oftentimes under the noses of the land owners (the state, natural reserves, etc.).
Is this satire? If this is real, I'd love to know more.
seems so, i just got a 503 from them after a very long delay. here's an IA link as well for those using Cloudflare's DNS resolvers: https://web.archive.org/web/20231026180914/https://www.dsoga...
The entire history of video cards has been "games that were hard on graphics cards"... leading to... a new generation of graphics cards that run the game with ease... leading to... a new generation of games. It's an ongoing battle.
It's hydrogen that explodes, not sodium. Sodium just forms NaOH on contact with water. Did _you_ skip them classes?
Personally I consider luxury items to be inherently broken and avoid them at all costs. They're just expensive, almost never of any actual quality. Status symbols and whatnot.
Roombas at the end of the world
Bye-bye, Roomba Ernie.

You were taken from us too early.

Bye-bye, Roomba Ernie.

You’re 5,000 candles in the wind.
I'm also pretty sure some people said things like "We will soon have colonies on the moon" shortly after Neil Armstrong stepped off that Lunar Lander ladder.

Fun fact: No human has set foot on the Moon since 1972: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17

Also: When Columbus set sail, he could reasonably assume that he would see his home again. Big boats and long sea voyages were not a new technology in his time. When NASA started the Apollo Missions, they had them planned out from start to finish and knew exactly how that would work.

So yes, once in a while, humanity does something amazing, that seems a bit far fetched, but still reasonable. What humanity usually doesn't do, is something that it has absolutely no plan on how to do it.
You kinda pay in reduced performance. For example, civitai uses r2 for delivering the images, and it frequently doesn't load at all for me or very slowly.

When your users have to use a VPN to move their traffic to another Cloudflare data center so the site actually loads, something is wrong...
Can you recommend some favorites?
Is 50 FPS a huge issue?

I play a lot of city builders and so long as the UI is still smooth I really don't notice any gameplay difference between 30fps and 60fps.

I put 8 hours into Frostpunk before realizing I was limited to 30FPS.
Yeah the model x has a different design too https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-1C20964...
Apollo wasn't really fiscally sustainable, particularly given the expansion that you visualize. In 1965 it was 0.75% of GDP per year and NASA was 1% of GDP per year. By comparison the "pork program" SLS is running at 0.018% of GDP so is 40x more affordable. Expanding the Apollo spending in the 1970s probably wouldn't have helped us any when climate change became a concern.
Seems like this was likely from before the hotfix that was released this morning which has improvements for some of the more egregious issues mentioned like DOF, LOD, and global illumination: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/949230/view/37093367...

Still far from ideal but glad to see movement so quickly from the dev team and as has been mentioned the game is certainly playable albeit with some setting tweaks.
Right but that's not it with Apple. Things like multiple SIMs, microSD, headphone jacks --- early android phones even had micro-hdmi ports and removable batteries. They also used to be a more convenient form-factor before Apple started trending towards phablets. It also took about a dozen years before they would not easily crack because Apple, and thus the rest of the industry, insisted on a design that looked more like a fashion accessory than something you use on a daily basis.

Every move Apple did, basically the entire industry cloned. iPhones are readily available. If a consumer wanted it they'd get it.

Instead of the much vaulted diversity or thousand flowers supposedly blooming, you just get different brands of the same decisions.

This goes back to a Ries&Trout quote from the 90s: If your competitor is selling coca-cola, it's probably easier to start selling snapple than wannabe coca-cola.

But that's not what tech does. Instead, a designated leader is deputized king bullshitter and all the other players chase it. It was anathema to progress when Microsoft occupied that space in the 90s and it's still that way today.
People that watch Fox News/MSNBC and/or are addicted to social media.
> to force a switch to alternative energy sources

Let me start with this part of the framing.

Fossil fuels have historically and still benefit from incredible amounts of explicit subsidies (e.g. government money) and implicit policies (e.g. unpriced externalities like pollution and CO2).

If governments stop providing these subsidies and stop people from treating the atmosphere as a free sewer then nobody has to be forced to use renewables, people will gladly choose them because they're simply cheaper AND better for their personal health and the environment.
WxRuby3 0.9.0 Stable Release
> like most people - only drinking small amounts occasionally

This probably depends on your location, but that it very much not most people in the UK. Drinking alcohol almost everyday would be considered normal here. And a lot of socialising is organised around pubs where it is customary to drink alcohol. So for many people, it may have been a long time since they have gone weeks without drinking alcohol. And they may be curious about what it is like.

Of course, not everyone drinks this much (or at all), but perhaps it gives you an idea of the sort of context in which being "sober curious" make sense as a concept.
Ah, yes, this seems to be an excellent example of "someone caring very much about things I don't care about at all"

Still wish everyone involved the best of luck! Licensed vehicle models, upcoming DLC, hope it all works out!
4090 is the fastest available graphics card. That’s the problem.
Apple does not 'let bad guys use iPhones on screen' (2020)
> Formal methods do not necessarily prove the absence of bugs either.

They can demonstrate the bugs, when found, are in the specifications

Or in the methods....
We need a World Citizen's Number from the United Nations.
I've come to resent sarcastic responses like this.

I think they play into a feeling of superiority that it's obvious from the perspective of a member of technical in-group that this is a terrible idea.

It is clearly not obvious to the general population and almost certainly clear to those pushing for these kinds of legislation changes.

So you get to feel superior for realising that here be dragons that normies can't see. I don't know how to deal with the apathy in the face of relentless attempts from government and institutions to increase surveillance and reduce freedom. I suppose these responses confront me with how much apathy there is.

I don't know whether it's worth fighting to try and improve the future of the country or just to leave.
That only goes up to 6 minutes though.

30 minutes involves a much more extreme change in distances... and then of course in the speed of the knob as the timer runs back down.
As with any DRM technology, the most it can hope to accomplish ultimately is to put more barriers and risks in the way. It won't stop the unwanted behavior completely, but provided it does what it says it shouldn't have zero impact either.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/8576
He got tired of it.
The term is from a book, "Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol" (2018) [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sober_curious
> There are attempts to cultivate little gardens of sophistication, but they are of mixed success.

Mastodon comes to mind, whose openness allows me to browse it from emacs with mastodon.el.

Removing full or even useful content from both RSS and notification emails comes to mind as well.
It's satire, people are reaching way too far in this thread (ex. IGN's review is using 3080 / Ryzen 7 and they were happy with performance)

The site none of us can read probably has more info about this being a RTX 4090 quirk. And it's not exactly surprising the dev team wasn't optimizing for RTX 4090, and the quirky reaction here would be justified if they were.
The general direction React (+ Next) is going worries me a bit at times. I might be too conservative, but I want my JS on the frontend and not hot loaded from the server. For this reason I'm much more excited about Vite/Bun/Dino/etc. Also thank god for shit like Preact.
"The agony and the irony are killing me"
Display pixel counts for reference, a 1440p ultrawide (assuming 21:9 and not 32:9) is about 60% the pixel count of 4K

4K 16:9 3840 x 2160 = 8.29 million pixels (1.00x)
1440p 21:9 3440 x 1440 = 4.95 million pixels (0.60x)
1440p 16:9 2560 x 1440 = 3.69 million pixels (0.44x)
How do these companies make money offering so much for free?
And then you can browse .i2p websites.
I play stellaris on next to nothing and it runs like a champ, even when I zoom in to enjoy the spaceship explosions.
> but the ground you can cover with several manned missions is currently greater.

Wouldn't we able be to build much better robots which would probably be more effective than humans for the same cost it would take to send a manned mission to Mars?
If the issue is occuring even on the main menu and a completely new, bare level, that possibility can be safely eliminated. It's also highly doubtful that someone with a 4090 would have a CPU pitiful enough to excuse 20FPS.
"Let them eat cake!" -apocalyptic0n3
OpenTTD is not a city builder.
It's probably just a very good guess, since that's how it always goes.
Wow. I had no idea a horseshoe orbit was possible.
That's why it was classified. Belief is irrelevant.

You can lookup keyhole imagery from the old days. Keyhole was the original codename for them.
> Might be making a mistake there, it sounds like you are dismissing sports as unimportant, instead it might be impressive that something so abstract and distant was able to rival something so elemental and popular.

My only point is I think geeks over-estimate the popularity of space exploration, incorrectly generalizing "it excites me/my type" to "it excites everyone/humanity." If regularly-held sporting events eclipse singular events in space exploration, it deflates high-flying rhetoric that expects the latter to be "the single most watched event in human history."

I make no comment on the importance of sports. But I'd argue that professional sports are probably more abstract (ultimately counting according to some arbitrary rules) and (practically, in a human sense) about as distant as space exploration.
It's likely not about the brand, but about the location. As a result of the Android anti-trust lawsuit in EU, Google has shown a search engine choice screen at initial setup since (I think) 2018. They also unbundled Chrome and Search from the other proprietary apps.

See https://www.android.com/choicescreen/
The nicest neighborhoods in the country are in cities and these usually come with low crime rates.

Chicago for all the shitting on it gets for it's high murder rates actually has dozens of neighborhoods that are larger than most towns, suburbs and cities, that have seen zero homicides for several years, which places them well below the national rate and makes them exceptionally safe.

And I'm not some crime apologist. Look at my post history. I'm as conservative as they come. Just following the data.
20 fps is playable for a city builder, but that's on a $2000 GPU

A bit unfair since most people aren't gaming at 4K (Steam hardware survey puts it at 3.29%), but still
Expect more interest rate hikes, because of this.
hover like effect with touchscreen was possible in Xperia Sola.
Swampman
> Devices should be truthful in the type of content they request.

I think that websites should assume that devices are being truthful. I should be able to request the desktop view on my phone or request the mobile view on my computer. The former I can do sometimes, the latter I can only do with developer tools (and usually doesn't work because the website detects that I'm on desktop!). Browsers could add a header to switch to the mode in which the website dynamically readjusts based on actual device parameters like window size, but by default I need the view to be what I requested regardless of my window size and device type.

You know how Wikipedia has no table of contents on mobile? I made my browser request the desktop site by default so that I could see the table of contents and don't have to tap to open the article sections. (Unfortunately, Wikipedia changed its desktop view UI by moving the table of contents into a hamburger button. On mobile the desktop view forces me to tap the hamburger button to view a blocking popout of the table of contents, while on desktop the contents are automatically opened in a sidebar.) If Wikipedia had forced a dynamic design on me to restrict me to the mobile view on mobile, then I would've wasted time opening article sections to decide whether I wanted to open them in the first place.
>I'm getting 60fps on a $2000 card, that means it's not that bad!

I hate modern AAA PC gaming so much.
>> We treat our society like a zero-sum game.

This and being a community is not exclusive. Asian countries are some of the worst zero-sum countries, simply by virtue of resource/person, yet simultaneously being very community focused.

People behave in zero-sum way for one thing and in a community way for another.
Most people who have the money to invest in a 4090 are also going to invest in a beefy CPU. It's not a secret that CPUs are bottlenecks for games within the gaming community.
There have been so many Unity games which do not manage to throttle GPU usage. Battletech was another one where at the menu it would keep the GPU at 100%.

Not sure why devs allow this, but with Battletech it was a known issue that was never fully resolved.
Sounds like an Electron app.