skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I’ve been out of the whole controller modding scene for a while, but the xim devs ( they made one of the first mass market K&M converters) don’t seem too worried about this update because they require the use of an official controller to handle the auth challenge & response.

It seems as of now, MS are only targeting unofficial controllers that circumvent the existing auth check (which some of the full custom built cheat controllers as well as other unofficial 3rd party controllers.

So (imo) it will have very little impact on cheat controllers at all and will mainly affect those who just tried to save a few bucks.
> What does it matter what Facebook can sell your attention for? You own your attention.

YES. Our attention is ours. It's not theirs to sell off to the highest bidder. It's part of our cognitive functions and as such it's inalienable.

It's straight up offensive that they think they're doing us a favor by not advertising to us. Truth is advertising should be illegal.
I don't think the OP meant that the rallies were explicitly to support Hamas vs Palestine, but more that there is a general sentiment that the attack on Oct 7th was justified.

Some context https://archive.ph/DzIup

Some more extreme examples https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/support-hamas-terror-anti...
Yeah you are talking to a lot of people who are not salesmen by trade; this is an engineer heavy community. Many of the people here have received stock options, it's part of the status quo with regard to engineering compensation. They do it differently though, you get vested after a time and then you get your compensation.

This bonus you're talking about, it isn't free money like you frame it, you're framing it simultaneously as "free money" and a loan so as to avoid addressing what is actually going on here. It's a way to get people with money problems stuck in servitude and willing to eat any shit you want them to just to avoid the debt they'll incur if they don't. And that's predatory, but that's not the end of it. They then get laid off and still owe the money back. I'm not surprised you're avoiding mentioning these facts about the case we are discussing.
The issue is one of attack surface. A program written in a memory safe language is extremely hard to exploit, especially remotely. But if you're talking about an attacker with local execution (who has already taken over a program) the attack surface is much larger.
Load Shedding for High Traffic Systems
You establish a process before you need it, and code review, especially when starting up is a fantastic way to make sure that everybody is on the same page and that you don't end up with a bunch of latent issues further down the line. The fact that they have no customers today doesn't mean that they won't have any in the future and mistakes made today can cause downtime further down the line.

If you're wondering why software is crap: it is because every new generation of coders insists on making all the same mistakes all over again. Learn from the past, understand that 'good practice' has been established over many years of very expensive mistakes. 12 engineers is already a nice little recipe for pulling in 12 directions at once and even if they're all perfect they can still learn from looking at each others code and it will ensure that there are no critical dependencies on single individuals (which can bite you hard if one of them decides to leave, not unheard of in a startup) and that if need be labor can be re-divided without too much hassle.
> well the person CAN very easily refuse if they care about not selling out to some faceless corporation and fucking their customers, but obviously most of these people dont care about that

Those people aren't spherical cows in an toy ethics thought experiment. They are real people, with complex lives and many things competing for their care (like e.g. families). They all care about not selling out or hurting their customers... to some degree. Some to larger than others.

The simplified algorithm the PE companies are doing is:

- Estimate the upper bound of how much most - say, 80% - of the owners of targeted businesses care about things;

- Express that upper bound in dollars over the value of business, call that number X;

- If you can still make a profit while overpaying by up to X for each bought business, start making offers; otherwise, find a different target.

There's little point blaming the business owners, because the transactions are initiated by the PE companies, and they specifically target businesses they know they can get anyway. They're taking advantage of the idea that people should be free to sell their business for a fair price if they want to.
This is very much how Google is on the inside. And that’s not surprising. People respond to the incentives presented. If you spend years fixing hard problems that actually affect users, and don’t get promoted, you’ll almost certainly become jaded, and start doing things that are pointless but do get you promoted. Because that’s how you make more money. And that’s the actual reason to be working.
I'm not joking. It's true
Only for some categories - SYN floods aren't limited by responses at all.
I interned on Encarta one summer shortly before the fall, and 11 years ago I wrote a Quora answer about why I think it failed, which amusingly still gets upvotes: https://qr.ae/pK2pGA
How hard is it to use Odigos without k8s?
We mainly use docker compose for our deployments (because it's convenient, and we don't need scale), but I'm having trouble finding anything in the documentation that explains the mechanism for hooking into the container (and hence I have no clue how to repurpose it).
It’s all very possible.

I’m certainly not going to be ‘banking’ with Elon.
Youtube's relationship with the music industry has led to this weird situation where they basically cannot separate the licensing concerns, hence the pack-in of the music service. I respect that you want to dig your heels in on some weird principle of not paying for something twice, but on a pure time-value-of-money basis, pretty much any music or video streaming service is worth the subscription if you use it more than a couple of hours each month.
I tried to use an eBPF sampling profiler to produce a flame graph/marker chart of our c/c++ desktop application. I struggled to get it going, seems like the existing tools are for kernel level profiling and more complicated stuff.

Anyone recommend a simple technique to produce a quality profiler report for profiling a desktop application? Honestly the chrome/firefox profiler is so great that I do wasm builds and use those. Ideally Id like a native profiler that can output .json that chrome/ff can open in it's profile analyzer.
> What’s the alternative? How can an employee expect to get paid a salary and own the company?

The fact that this question is posed almost like it's an impossibility goes to show how much we've been subtly brainwashed into thinking it's unreasonable. For example, before the private-equity-in-healthcare boom that did nothing but siphon off profits to the Wall Street class, in Texas all doctors groups were physician-owned (I believe they must still be by law, but PE has largely gotten around the bulk of that). It's really a great environment when the people who do the work are also the owners. Most groups, like other professional organizations (e.g. lawyers), hire people on a partnership track, where they become owners after a number of years. There are also employee-owned companies, like Publix supermarkets.
Will it be better than Tesseract & other OCR tools?
Huxley being a famous author of dystopian and satirical fiction, that might be a quote from a fictional bad guy or idiot written by Huxley.
I think the crappy part is that it works most of the time.
Lol, if I wasn't given a raise, I'd agree to everything, and at the start of my presentation say

"hi everyone, I wanted to walk you how we got to a half-a-million dollar savings, basically I spent a day looking at how terrible the original infrastructure was deployed and removed a code test feature that was causing the problems. This was just complete oversight from every aspect of the development, management, testing, and everything. Overall this code is as bad as it can possibly get, and we just launched it. And basically I was told not to say any of this because it makes everyone look bad, so I was to roll this out gradually to make it seem like managers were doing some sort of work."

Then drop the mic and walk off stage.

Honestly the amount of give-a-fucks I would have lost would have been a lot. And this is coming from someone who's done this for almost 2 decades and cares about his job because bills to pay, kids to feed.
The russian drone attacks are less publicized, but they are numerous. Also while Ukraine uses mostly domestic drones converted to drop grenades, russia uses purpose built ones. Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZALA_Lancet. And the bigger iranian made Shahed drones.
> superhuman persuasion is likely to be next

Some people already seem to have superhuman persuasion. AI can level the playing field for those that lack it and give all the ability to see through such persuasion.
Pi is the scaling factor of the diameter of a circle to its circumference; there's an infinite set of such scaling factors: one for each ellipse (the circle is a special case). I wonder which/what sort of infinite series arise from/for the generalized elliptic scaling factors?
> The “we have to do less” crowd are wrong and bad at math.

Physics, not maths. You can sustain exponential growth as much as you want without physical limits. If that's where your confusion comes from, you can read some vintage Meadows.

> It would seem that way if you think linearly.

Even the optimistic scenarii put us in a bad position... ignore evidence as much as you want, it won't make it true.
$19 is quarterly, so $76/year vs $120/year.

But that $19 is for an average user. Paying users will presumably be your most engaged users that probably generate much more than that
Like a TV show with ads, but where the TV actors put in their own ads right into the shows dialogue, in addition to the network's commercial breaks.

This happens because Youtube doesn't pay content makers a flat rate, unless they're a whale.
Not all protests exist to further concrete political proposals (ex. suggestions to Hamas). Expressions of mass grief, community solidarity, and elevation of an issue which harms your neighbors are all important outcomes for people meeting en masse. You're welcome to impute whatever motives you want onto people you disagree with, but that doesn't mean you actually understand.
Not mentioned: Microsoft Instruments, a wonderful way to experience music snippets from instruments around the world, which was killed via absorption into Encarta.

(I never owned Windows, so I never played with Encarta; it's possible the same experience was achievable, but I like dedicated software to play with when there's no real advantage to integrating it into a larger ecosystem.)
To serve users in what? Their business then turns from attention manipulation/adversising to hardcore social comparison. Hardly an improvement
Hopefully an engineer didn't accidentally delete the prod DB again.
I'm a hacker, but it's not what you think
Facebook will try and get you to choose between personalized ads and payment for no ads.

However, the EU requires a third option: Unpersonalized ads.

Facebook can't require you to pay money to have them not analyze what you do and profile you to get more money out of ads.

And everyone knows that personalized ads are worth 10x more than Unpersonalized ones.
Your comment might apply for unions elsewhere (maybe even specifically the US), but the situation on the ground in Sweden is very different, and it seems you might be missing the context that this is happening in Sweden.

> A workforce that thinks a union is dumb (sans campaigning) is the ideal state of workforce.

So about 70% of the workforce is Sweden is not "in ideal state" according to you, as about 70% is part of a union?
Why not just get an HP Prodesk or dell optiplex or hp elite desk or whatever Lenovo? 6th/7th gen Intel CPU models are all cheaper than this.
They should produce boards from multiple vendors' SoCs.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate that their cookie dialog has a button that says "Do not sell or share my personal information"? I think that's the most clear-cut cookie dialog I've ever seen.
Because "we don't have the budget".
Toyota is perhaps the last auto manufacturer interested in building great consumer vehicles.

The Prius is an amazing car, and probably responsible for the biggest portion of electric vehicle operation given the numbers.

Their philosophy, and it's backed by numbers, is that it's better to put a little bit of battery in a lot of cars than a lot of battery in a few cars.

They're dancing around the EV trend. They'll psy it lip service to sell in the US market, but that's it.

Toyota is not a fan of the EV. Given who they are they probably have good reasons for it.
The author's gallery of poignant HN commentary on their writing is chef's kiss: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/compliments/
This is like the anti-Ford Maverick.

The Ford Maverick, which is wildly successful, took the Escape innards, put a small truck bed on it, and then made the interior incredibly utilitarian. So utilitarian in fact that they give you 3D printer diagrams and attachment points to make your own accessories. Everything is inexpensive but hardy materials with tons of storage. The exterior looks exactly like a full sized truck, but smaller.

Toyota's small truck is choc full of gimmicks, futurism, with looks to match. This is exactly the kind of thing first generation EVs did which consumers hated, and most of the market has moved on from. Even Tesla stopped with the yoke. I dread to think how much Toyota will charge for this, I'm guessing starting $50K MSRP, even with the bZ4X struggling at $42K.

If Toyota were taking this seriously they just would have made it look like a baby Tacoma with a similar but cheaper/simpler interior and the bZ4X innards.
> The rendering is based on the triangle renderer in https://gitea.planet-casio.com/Lephenixnoir/Azur which renders in fragments to the fast on chip memory so it isn't bottlenecked by the slow main RAM, but I customised it to add textures etc. It's using barycentric coordinates over a bounding box which is probably not as fast as scanline rendering but I can try to make it use scanlines at some point.

Ok, interesting. Does it use barycentric coordinates for texturing only or also for single color triangles? I see that the tree is not textured and I wonder whether that's to save texture memory or to use scanline rendering.

> It's using depth sorting which works fine for a simple voxel world like this but if I add things like entities and non-full blocks that might complicate things.

It might, but it should still work fine as long as there's no unusual geometry, like overlapping itself. Depending on how you sort everything, freely moving entities might be complex but I don't think non-full blocks are much of an issue.

> Also, to speed things up it uses affine texture mapping (which I think yours uses too?) but splits the triangles when they get close to reduce the distortion.

Yep. I didn't bother with splitting up triangles (or even using partial Z based interpolation like Quake), as I don't think it's that bad of an issue.
Its not automatic but it has the potential for more isolation by definition.

If your service has memory leak, crash it only takes down the service. It is still up to your system to handle such a failure gracefully. If such a service is a critical dependency then your system fails. But if it is not then your service can still partially function.

If your monolith has memory leak, or crash it takes down the whole monolith.
Separating Stimulus and Response with the Alexander Technique
Huh, I wonder which of the "big-4" advised them on their practices?

Am willing to bet it was 'KTMJ'... (Batman reference, but... strangely similar to one of the "big-4")
Checksum on the resulting csv with a parallel implementation of the whole pipeline ;)
lemme guess, you all converged to Java?
I recently did a bit of digging, and one thing that needs paying attention is CPS jurisdiction. If you stay in a place long enough, the local CPS may, depending on local laws, gain jurisdiction over your kid. If you didn't follow the rules around schooling, etc, you'll have to deal with a whole lot of trouble up to and including temporarily or permanently losing custody, even though you and your child aren't even citizens of the country.
I'm not advocating for having no processes, I'm advocating for a process that matches their situation. A company with no customers should not be worrying about causing a production outage, they should be worried about getting a demoable product out.

Dogmatic adherence to a process that limits developer velocity and optimizes for correct code is very likely the wrong call when you have no customers.
The US government can't legally pay the salaries required to find AI experts right now (just look at the salaries on the open positions). So all this work will end up being done by contractors who _can_ pay those salaries while the contractors skim off the top.

The US really needs a special schedule for software developers if they want technical expertise in house (and they really should have technical expertise in house)
> Pensions are kind of always problematic because you take control away from people and give it to people with misaligned incentives.

Maybe I'm the weird one, but I don't necessarily want control of my retirement fund. My primary requirement is that it exists when I need it. Somehow the financial industry convinced the public that being able to micromanage their retirement investment and pick their own stocks and mutual funds is somehow beneficial. I can probably count on one hand the number of people I know who find this kind of micromanagement interesting.

I just want "money goes in" and "enough money eventually comes out" and I don't think I'm alone in that. You can accomplish that with a well-run pension, a well-run government plan, and so on. Lots of options that don't involve me having to decide between stock and bond funds.
there is a blogger that built a 'momplex' for her mother and mother in law in Alaska out of ICF forms, and she has some great blog posts on how they built it, the steps and work involved, as well as many plans and designs for the furniture, cabinets, etc, she built for inside the duplex. Her site is execellent for people interested in learning about woodworking, but the momplex series is facinating

* https://www.ana-white.com/woodworking-projects/maincategory/...
Armv7. Arm7 is a much older core.
I think it's just the result of assembling a large number of humans. Beyond some size, relationships get replaced with internal politics and aggregated individual shortcomings become organizational pathology.
Geez. Same. Between the ads and suggestions, I barely see any of my subscribed content.

That's a surprisingly expensive subscription.
> There is no reason for people to not getting stock options just because they're part of the union

Stock based compensation is not allowed for UAW so yes, they are very much under that impression because it literally true.

This does not apply for other potential countries of course, but at least in the US and Canada this isn't gone happen.
Yes, not to mention his (completely free) lecture series on the Bible, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn.... an incredibly scholar he is.
FB does not sell to data brokers and because fb is a public company when know exactly how much they profit from user data. Overall FB made about $3.22 per user and the vast majority of that came from selling ads.
> I saved my company half a million dollars in about five minutes. This is more money than I've made for my employers over the course of my entire career because this industry is a sham. I clicked about five buttons.

I'm sorry, but this needs a privilege/gratitude check. You are guaranteed your salary, and you're welcome to take on the same level of risk your company is by starting your own. If you think it's so easy go ahead.
I miss Janet Reno.
This is a look into how The Browser Company is writing Swift bindings for Windows App SDK, an announcement of open sourcing these bindings, and a link to sample code. Not knowing much about Windows internals, I found it interesting, and it’s nice to see another option in choice of languages to use with Windows App SDK.
This node got it just right. You only get this issue for big stateful libraries, like frameworks
I think the grandparent comment was talking about making AI Force a separate military branch, rather than a joint office under DoD.

Not arguing one way or another myself, I think it makes sense for it, at least for now, to be a joint office under DoD (like it currently is, according to your link). Just wanted to make it clear that CDAO is probably not what the grandparent poster had in mind when they made that comment.
Thank you very much. Although this UI is outdated and lacks a subscription option, it still exists.
Author here. The original article I was going to write was about using newer instruction sets, but then I discovered it doesn't even use original SSE instructions by default, so I wrote this instead.

Eventually I'll write that other article; I've been wondering if it's possible to have infrastructure to support both modern and old CPUs in Python libraries without doing runtime dispatch on the C level, so this may involve some coding if I have time.
Yes. Ironically, paying not to see ads only drives up the value of our attention even higher and makes them want to advertise to us even more. Paying to avoid ads is really just paying for the privilege of doing free market segmentation on their behalf.
I support union representation and negotiation.

> others just reconsidered the amount of time and effort they wanted to put towards work so it wasn't detrimental to other aspects of their lives... employers are trying to put the genie back in the bottle.

On the other hand, reading the Sony e-mails hacks: Sony did every negotiation with its team of finance people to tell their execs a number. The other side, a bunch of ICs as it were like production companies, actors, whatever, always asked for their money or needs "formatted" some weird way. This rider or that weird royalty-esque thing or some dates and terms that made no sense.

It's apparent that the people who were on the other side of the Sony execs always lost out. The thing they valued was not as valuable as it seemed. From Sony's POV, Sony was taking all the rewards from the risk, and they were thankful the ICs asked for weird stuff that was no risk no reward.

IMO compensation should model the banking industry. It has sophisticated employees and at major banks something like 40% of all costs are employee compensation. Not trying to turn this into a model but the bonus structures are aligned and the payout you get is in a sense quite simple. However maybe country-wide if everyone operated like this - like if people hated nurses guts as much as they hate bankers' - the reactionary politics would not be pretty.
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I'm hoping this one and many more get stuck in legal hell for ages so we finally move away from proprietary ISAs.
"Undercutting the independents," or offering the independents a lot of money to stop being independent? Sounds like a windfall for those who sell to me.
I don't think that problem is nearly as significant.