skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I agree with the overall thrust of your argument here in that I far preferred the world of casual servers you could hop on with your friends, make goofy rules, ban whoever you wanted, etc., and I see how dissolving that into shared servers with automated matchmaking makes certain anti-cheat measures infeasible.

What I’m not sure of is to what degree the new shared servers/auto-matchmaking pattern is due to catering to competitive gamers? Is that really the reason?

(I legitimately have no idea so I’m curious how you’ve come to this conclusion)
Google can always require it to be CDD compliant, and then those RISC-V Snapdragons simply won't run Android. Just like NEON is required for all ARM CPUs since API 21.
inference, based on how corporations are run vs small business
This is an interesting social phenomenon.

Given HN's user base, if the author is correct, his hypothesis would predict that the users of HackerNews are disproportionately likely to hold these luxury beliefs.
What does the D in TLD stand for?
PC gaming is loaded with tons of cheaters despite rootkit level anticheat systems. Having locked down hardware ecosystems reduces the rate of cheating, I've had far fewer times of running into cheaters on console games than on PC games.
That's precisely what I meant by my comment. The 'cleaner' the integration test, the less it will behave like the real-world system.

> Bad integration tests will share state with each other

The real-world system shares state.

> If I set up an integration test that sets up a database from scratch and tears it down and tests only the behavior of the app in that rigidly defined context

... constructing a particular set of circumstances which will never occur in the real-world system.
I love storage and filesystems, and I am really looking forward to play with bcachefs. Now bcachefs can be tested easily by millions and build a solid reputation as a true next generation Linux filesystem.
"and in general there where tons of issues with multi threaded code during the time Java did move to the "current" memory model"

I wrote code or managed Java development teams from around 1996 to ~2010 and I don't remember any problems with multi threaded code or memory models. But of course you might be right if you did run Java on an ARM mobile like the Nokia.

The only challenge I remember with two high load (thousands of write transactions/sec - back then) websites were GC pauses, where we had to hire consultants to help with tuning the GCs on different machines for the high load.
That doesn't help. The system is already infected when the backups are taken, therefore the backups are infected. That's why these criminal organizations wait months until actually locking your system down, so that your oldest backups are deleted by retention policy. If they have access to your system and can figure out what your backup retention policy is, they'll set it to go off at the point when all your backups are infected.
A very cool series, well presented. Incidentally, a search for 8088 on eBay also turns up curious new laptops with this CPU inside.
Is a humorous robot more trustworthy?
No, you deflected by immediately discounting the author as being predictably, in your estimation, anti- feminist / anti- anti-racist.

Is this so different? It's saying the thing without saying it.
> For a friend, how can I get a job like that?

Ask around inside Alphabet, Inc.
What a strange, unexpected tale. I’m used to the same families constantly reappearing in ancient history, and the importance of marriage in Roman politics. But still: Cleopatra’s children raised by Augustus’s sister, ex-wife of Antony, his greatest rival. And when she grows up they marry her to the son of another of Rome’s great enemies and send them off to rule a kingdom together.
After pause, there is still ongoing development on embeddable engine: https://servo.org/
> All else being equal, people would rather get things for free. But you can't run an economy that way.

I have an alternative ideology to sell you...
Interesting to note the use of libarchive to accomplish this, which also means very limited support for password-protected archives outside of zip.
Explorer in Win11 (for me) is absolute hot garbage
If any work is used for AI training, then the author should be paid. I hope that artists will be protected.

Abide the law, or meet consequences?
Generative AI Is Playing a Surprising Role in Israel-Hamas Disinformation
It stands for Delgium.
I wonder what’s going to happen with https://notion.so

> Oof, sorry about this We chose .so when we were starting out (lots of other companies named Notion, and .so was available). Does it help that we own notion.com now? Automatic redirect for now, but we'll be switching to .com as soon as our engineering team has the bandwidth.

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/f6x9mk/why_the_so_d... (3 years ago)
Reports of Putin's death might not be greatly exaggerated
And? In my country, where socialism is one of the four pillars of the political system, child labor is universal.
I didn't get that from the poster you're replying to. I agree with you that people will create because people are people and want to create.

But people also have to eat, need shelter, want kids, have to take care of health issues, and so on. For that they need money. If they can't get money from their creations they'll spend less time creating and more time engaging in activity that generates returns.
tl;dr

Generative AI does not play a role because:

While, yes, gen AI theoretically lets people proliferate misinformation at a futuristic rate, those who seek out this misinformation—often those who have “low trust in institutions … [or are] strong partisans”—already have a surfeit of familiar nonsense to pursue, from conspiracy theory websites to 4chan forums. There is no demand for more.
Want to and forced to pretty much covers it.
The vast majority of players are likely using the stock controllers or controllers they picked up at a normal store stocking pretty much only OEM or approved 3rd party controllers.

The vast majority of players will never know this is a thing.
Or if you read the article, it seems that this group was previously using NameCheap, but instead has moved on to NameSilo. So maybe NameCheap has gotten better about combating fraud?
the new iMac is 4.5k at 24"
Potentially improving user experience but another big one is opening up consoles to the huge and still growing esports market.

See super smash bros tournaments/other esports tournaments. Controllers are restricted to certain types.

But tbf there's only so much that can be done with a controller, it's usually software based hacks that are the main problem.
Very insightful, but is x265 really that bad? If you’re willing to wait, does slower presets help?

I tested NVENC, X265, and DaVinci Resolve Studio’s H265 encoder.

x265 was best by far. What more am I missing on?
I disagree completely -- there's no significant money to be made here. Microsoft wouldn't even bother if this were a financial play, it's so small. Not that many people use non-Xbox controllers to begin with, and whatever licensing fees Microsoft will charge manufacturers may very well be offset by the costs of running the licensing program itself.

This seems very clearly to be anti-cheat. Advantages are not "trivial to detect" "after only a few minutes" -- there's tons of issues with false positives and false negatives. Any software detection, cheaters can learn how to go right up to the line but not cross it, and that still gives them big advantages, while genuinely really good players get unfairly banned.

This is a single-purpose gaming console, not a general-computing device. One of the big benefits of console gaming is precisely protecting gamers against cheats, which makes it different from PC gaming. Microsoft wants a fair gaming experience for everyone, which makes it more fun for everyone who wants to play fair. If your idea of fun in gaming is cheating, then use a PC instead.
That's interesting I just opened a large tar archive to try to replicate your issue and it worked fine for me, no freezing.
Why Brave?

Privacy, speed, stability, compatibility, availability.

At least there is no crypto/ad model there.

I'm not a crypto fan so I don't use it. It is easily ignored and has no effect unless you choose to enable it.

Seems to me like FF is still better option here.

Seems to me FF is beholden to and needs to appease Google. This is why they talk privacy but don't offer it by default.

Brave doesn't suffer from these "political" contradictions and complications that run counter to user interests.
Chrome v Firefox on mobile (android at least) is pretty noticeable, but in a good way IMHO. Firefox on mobile supporting extensions makes it 10x better out of the gate, but there are also little thought-through things like not having the horrendous "pull down from top to refresh" which 9 out of 10 times I trigger is an accident and not at all what I wanted.

I think this is actually a good example of where Firefox could really make a difference on desktop. Introduce a very powerful extension framework, allowing things like what Chrome is removing in manifest v3. Killer extensions will be built and people will switch for that. For the users who would inevitably install malware extensions, there will always be Chrome. Firefox doesn't need 100% market share, just one big enough that it can't be ignored.
Alternatively: "People can pick up and throw small lead spheres whenever they want, so all gun control is pointless."
If they were trying to stop cheaters they could just ban "unauthorized" controllers for online play. This would give a much more understandable message "Unauthorized controllers can't be used for online play to ensure that no player gains an unfair advantage."
Boost your confidence with AI-generated interview questions and answers
If you want to run node, why a full-blown VM and not a container?

> Learn how to, you know, run software on a Linux computer.

I know how to, I run NixOS at home. If you own the VM, you own the maintenance on the VM. Optimizing for the cost of setup is usually wrong, most people are better off optimizing for running costs and maintenance.
A couple times I've found my flight taking a detour: https://dropover.cloud/253a84#33241fcd-b58a-4c23-9c77-779072...
Yes.
(I am not American.)
As long as y'all show up before dark. That's the courtesy.
I could fully relate with this post. I personally share a similar mindset: someone who can take criticism with pleasure, who has sorted out thoughts about how the industry operates, who has not subscribed to the belief that people in leadership positions are world apart from us, and who can openly express that wrong is wrong.

I think many of the people who disagree have either been serving in non-engineering roles since past couple of years, or have bought in the pitch of rosy world created by managers and so-called leaders.
> I'm really looking forward to the EU framework around "AI"

After GDPR and the cookie pop-ups my expectations for things coming out of the EU is quite low. Every company I have worked it has a different and often conflicting interpretation of GDPR, and some places uses it to play politics, and governments of individual EU countries are not doing their part to clarify how things should be interpreted. It's a dumpster fire IMO.
I mean Xbox is already a controlled platform, you can't run unsigned code, etc.
I deeply crave the ability to create finished software like the author talks about, but he skips over a major cause of never-ending updates: business model.

The web and mobile both enable a cycle of extreme optimization where ad-based or subscription-based models are continually squeezed for every last dollar of possible value. This is why if you’ve worked at a tech company that is thriving, a ton of your work just goes poof over time.

The best modern pieces of finished software I use are either free, donation-based, or a one-time paid price. My favorite modern app like this is a little utility called Simple Pacer, which solves distance, pace, or time calculations for runners. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-pacer/id1273474255 It’s perfect and the version history on iOS is sparse. I’d bet it makes only a little money though.
There are some rules in English pronunciation, but there are a ton of exceptions and inconsistencies. To give you an example of a reliable rule: when a plural word ends in a vowel or a voiced consonant, the "s" is pronounced as "z" (eyes, dogs), but when it ends in an unvoiced consonant, it's pronounced as "s" (cats).
Our BoldVoice, we like to teach these rules because they are quick wins for most people. Then, a lot of the hard work comes in practicing and memorizing the many, many exceptions.
> If AIs are good at art they'll be better at coding.

Not sure about that. It's like saying if AIs are good at art, they'll be better at math.
Scientists Solved the Mystery of an Ancient Continent That Disappeared
Even if there is a top down policy of not paying ransoms, the attackers still have an incentive to format the drives and leak the data to gain credibility for their next attack.

Many types of attack don't actually know where they're breaking into at the time they break in. And once you're in, you might as well try running a ransom attack.
Just because the child labor isn’t happening on our soil, isn’t it still valid to say a lot of our supply chains are supported by it?

Chocolate, coffee, clothing, rare minerals from electronics, electronic assembly all have slavery and child labor issues globally. I don’t think the US and other wealthy countries are absolved of that horror just because we outlawed child labor for our own citizens but allow (and incentivize!) it when it’s outsourced.
> I have two young kids and I'm constantly humbled by how fearless they are...There's this tremendous power in "not knowing what you don't know" that sometime in university disappeared from me...

"The teenage spirit." There was an interview[1] with one of the founders of Teenage Engineering (makers of the OP-1 synth) that drew from this line of thinking when naming their company:

> They took their name Teenage Engineering from an early prototype that they never launched, but it fits the company and its philosophy well. “The teenage spirit is sometimes about doing things without having any knowledge of how to do them,” he says. “You just do it. That’s often how we go about things. If there’s something we don’t know, say electronics, we learn; we don’t let it stop us. It’s about having more will than knowledge, which is a more rock ’n’ roll way of solving things.”

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220421192821/https://www.sandv...
> tremendous power in "not knowing what you don't know" that sometime in university disappeared

This.

By now I believe university does at least as much harm as it does good if not more. The good mainly boils down to building up contacts and connections. If you’re able to find a substitute for that, then skip university!
Hey, your comment made my day! This is exactly why I write. Thanks!
What could someone do with your DNA? Make a disease that targets only you?
I agree. I even wrote about this. [1]

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2019/11/finishing-software/
Saving money is another good reason. IO domains are inflated due to popularity, at least last time I checked.
> Uyghurs weren't subject to the 1 child policy

It is far worse than the one child policy. Many were subjected to sterilization and involuntary birth control.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-we...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713
While I haven't kept up to date with Event Sourcing, the README referenced is a surprisingly in-depth tour of Postgresql functionality and internals, and typical relational database gotchas related to sequences, queues, transaction reliability and using notify. Worth a read.
Same applies to "pay to win" games, yet they make a ton of money.

Cheating is definitely its own kind of fun though - I remember cheating in single player games using something like a Game Genie back in the day. It's fun because you feel like you're "getting one over" on the game. In multiplayer it's a plague, but some people (mostly kids/teens, I hope) seem to be very amused by the angry reactions they get.
It's funny because yeah that's exactly what happened. NameCheap still isn't _amazing_ but is way more responsive now.
My mistake. Thanks for the correction
Do you suggest that you need intellectual property for new ideas to be created and propagated? THAT'S silly! For most of the history of this species there were no intellectual property rights and people still were sharing their thoughts and ideas for various reasons.
> I like that it finds my location, even without asking or requesting permission.

I actually found this quite concerning!
Just because it's on twitter doesn't mean it's true. I think a court setting where things are contemplated in a rigorous and reasoned way has a somewhat better chance of arriving at something resembling the truth.

We've been here before several times: Silhouette painting, Photography, Airbrushing, Pianos, Synthesizers, Sampling, Photoshop, Ray Tracing, and many more. "It's not real art", "they're stealing from us", "we'll go hungry!" .

Some of these are already quite old. For others, I've actually been asked the question back when I was in school: "Are you really making music if your instrument has a microprocessor in it?". Um, yes, yes I claim I am making music thank you very much.

First people complain, then they adapt, and then they end up making awesome art with the new tools and/or instruments. Which isn't to say historically it was all rainbows and roses, but it was never the end of the world either. Seeing the newer generation of AI tools and how the tools end up getting integrated into regular workflows, it seems to be going the same direction.

To quote the song, I think it's "all just little bits of history repeating".
Clojure has a lot of these “finished” libraries and and another functional language like Elm really never gets any updates because it’s considered “finished”. Maybe it’s a functional programming language thing.
That's an interesting observation indeed.
This is something I’ve seen several times. often in aerospace the threads are supposed to be lubricated but if you get lubricant under the head you can get way more preload than you expect. Same for changing the washer material for a thermal or other reason and not realizing it has much lower friction.

For unique applications in aerospace, it’s common to do testing to determine a non-standard torque-preload curve.

In some industries, preload is measured more directly using hollow bolts (so you can measure the before and after length therefore determine preload), ultrasonic measuring devices (same reason) or preload sensing/indicating washers (there are many types).
While it's certainly not an exclusively American phenomenon, cultural appropriation is vastly more likely to occur here than nearly anywhere else, both because we live on (recently-)colonized land, with the remnants of the people we stole it from still living among us, and because we are such a cultural melting pot, so people can much more easily come into contact with the cultural practices of marginalized cultures.

In most cases, Europeans don't live close to the people their countries colonized (though there are some exceptions, like the Basque and Catalonia regions), so there's less of a likelihood for people to want to appropriate them.

And no; cooking African food, no matter whether you belong to a culture that colonized that particular African culture, is not appropriation (unless, as I mentioned in another post, the food is part of a closed religious/ritual practice).
Another bug on FF/Android (private mode): it first showed the map, then overlayed a message saying I had to enter my email to access, but once I did it asked me to click a non-existent "Got it".

I clicked on one of the social media buttons and immediately went back, and then I could see the map. No hotels, though, but that has been mentioned already.
You might not have a good CTO then
It's more like "if a bad thing happens and you knew about the risk and lied to investors about it".
I still prefer 7zip and its dual panes GUI manager.
Politics that the speaker personally happens to not care about.
so, something like eslint then (sorry)
Been looking for an open-source survey alternative tool for a long-time! Congrats on the launch.

(sharing this great article btw => https://staltz.com/time-till-open-source-alternative.html)
> I’m surprised to see this reasoning (well all billion images can’t have been registered, so they can’t sue).

Well, here's the actual text from the decision:

> Each defendant argues that McKernan and Ortiz’s copyright claims must be dismissed
because neither of them has registered their images with the Copyright Office. They also move to “limit” Anderson’s copyright claim to infringement based only on the 16 collections of works that she has registered. See, e.g., Declaration of Paul M. Schoenhard (Dkt. No. 51-1), ¶¶ 5-6; see also Compl. ¶ 28 & Exs. 1-16.3

> In opposition, plaintiffs do not address, much less contest, McKernan or Ortiz’s asserted
inability to pursue Copyright Act claims. At oral argument, plaintiffs’ counsel clarified that they are not asserting copyright claims on behalf of these two plaintiffs. July 19, 2023 Transcript (Tr.), pg. 17:1-5. As such, McKernan and Ortiz’s copyright act claims are DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.

> Likewise, plaintiffs do not address or dispute that Anderson’s copyright claims should be
limited to the collections Anderson has registered. The scope of Anderson’s Copyright Act claims are limited to the collections which she has registered.

TL;DR: plaintiffs didn't attempt to argue that the copyright claims should be construed broadly, defendants argued they should, so defendants win at motion-to-dismiss stage. The defendants actually lost their argument that they should win because Anderson didn't identify the specific registered works, the entire case should be thrown out--the judge said there's enough specificity to let the case go to discovery to figure out which registered works may have been infringed.
Wars have been won and kingdoms lost in the space between “pretty much” and “complete”
I don’t have an informed opinion about Portland or its police. But I think that’s not exactly the issue here.

Others have already noted that the author overstates the support for true police abolishment. Let’s set that aside.

The police are much more unpopular these days than before and the author offers their theory that it’s some deranged attempt to flex on others. There is a much simpler explanation, like the fact that you can watch a supercut of police killings on YouTube now. This prompts reflection and reassessment, and some people end up in more extreme places.

I just don’t buy this idea of costly dogma in the educated elites. You support police reform. Maybe you know people who support some form of defunding the police. Are you losing friends over this?

The author may be on more secure ground when they assert that strong political beliefs are now more untethered from lived experience. But that seems like a predictable outcome of social media. And not always a bad one - if it’s motivated by evidence and empathy.

Sometimes it’s motivated by group processes that inch that group towards radical beliefs, where one derives status from going further down the rabbit hole. That’s bad but it’s not limited to one group.

My colleague works remotely from a more rural area, the land of “Fuck Trudeau” flags. One of his neighbors recently asked him if he was worried about COVID vaccines sterilizing him. Vaccine denial is one of the most “expensive” beliefs of all time. Some sociologists have proposed that such beliefs are strongly professed - despite lived experience of it being deadly to do so - because the person will suffer a “social death” otherwise.

So even if some educated elites are being memed into weird beliefs, this phenomenon is hardly isolated to them.