skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Denuvo is designed to be an extreme pain to work with in a debugger or disassembler. Every game is its own unique maze full of dead ends, fake exits, and an ever-shifting array of clever tricks to detect when the binary is being debugged or disassembled, which quietly rearrange the maze to have no solution at all.

It's extremely tedious for a human, and the pay-off is relatively low, as hinted by the parent (what recent DRMed games are even any good?). I do wonder whether anyone has tried setting a well trained AI on the problem though.
it could be shortcoming of ES specifically, since JVM is not ideal platform for heavy data crunching.
You said "Everyone who has ever bet against Microsoft [...] has been wrong", that's not my interpretation, that's your words. Unless you're going to argue that them spending $8Bn on Skype doesn't count as "taking an interest in" or their multiple legal attacks on Android weren't "trying to close up or eliminate" competition?

https://slashdot.org/story/11/03/21/2014244/Microsoft-Contin...

https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/10/01/1936213/Microsoft...
Texas and Florida passed laws aimed at making sure they succeed next time. They were challenged in court, and here we are!
> stopped by the SEC

Seems like it would be more appropriate for the FTC to step in rather than the SEC?
Variadics are rarely useful, but when you need them (generally in highly generic library code) you really need them. (I don't know C++, but am familiar with the pain of not having variadics in Rust, and the piles of macros required to work around it)
First to the "everyday smartphone" market. Kinda. It didn't do anything very well at launch, not even copy/paste, but it was still awesome at the time
> The deal was between Senate Republicans and Democrats. They agreed fully.

No it wasn’t. The bill was negotiated by three Senators (Murphy, Sinema, and Lankford). At no point did Senate Republicans as a whole endorse or vote for the bill.

> To say it was a compromise is absurd, unless you want every bill to be perfect when it is voted on.

Bills don’t have to be perfect, but there’s no reason to make major concessions to the other side when public opinion is on your side. Republicans have a historic opportunity to turn down the ratchet on immigration. Why would they blow it on a bill that gives immediate work permits to illegal border crossers?

> There can always be further refinement of the law, through future legislation.

If republicans agreed to make 5,000 illegal crossings a day—five times higher than the level under Obama—the new normal, it would be extremely difficult for them to later turn back that dial.

> There are a lot of people who think blue states are much better places to live because of their legal/legislative climates. Ask people in Oklahoma who want IVF.

In 2021/22, more people moved from California to Texas alone than the total number of IVF births nationwide. The purpose of government is to serve the overarching needs of the whole public: schools, transportation, safety, housing, healthcare, etc. Enacting policies that are arguably beneficial or more compassionate to this or that small minority of the population is not a replacement for good schools, efficient transit, affordable housing, and safe streets.

Europe actually heavily regulates IVF and surrogacy. For example, Germany and Norway ban egg donation. Those countries are still much better governed than any blue state because schools, transit, roads, and safety are far more important to the median person.

The reason the “culture war” rages in US politics is that neither party can offer effective governance to voters. The only way they can differentiate themselves is on this philosophical and moral issues.
My question is: are there enough talented players? One thing is wanting. Another is finding the talent to play the game at a level where people are willing to pay to see a superstar to make it profitable. I doubt it. American teams are going to be bought by big money organizations but world expansion will only mean a few more teams.
>> On the mountain the limestone shelves and climbs in ragged escarpments...

The interesting twist to me is the mental back-rewrite on "limestone shelves"

I initially read it as the more common {adjective}{noun}, before hitting "and climbs" and having to backtrack and reclassify as {noun}{verb}.

And indeed, there is such a verb definition for "shelve": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shelve

I was a huge William Gibson fan in my youth though, which generally meant I figured out what the hell the author was talking about 3 sentences or pages later.
All planes have wheel brakes, including naval aircraft. But in an arrested landing the wire stops the plane, not the brakes.
And further, buying your kid an iPod Touch at the time served the same purpose (for Apple) as buying your kid an iPad today. It gets them into Apple's products space, develops brand affinity and trust, and gets them familiar with iOS so that they are more likely to buy an iPhone.

It would be surprising if we had stats on iPad versus non-iPad kids and what percentage of them ended up being iPhone users, and those stats didn't show a strong correlation.
Yes there are obviously bad employees but the line for actual incompetent/malicious employee is a lot further away than most people understand.

A lot of bad management is hand-waved as crappy employees (by management - shocking!)
Beware they can make you sick!

A friend was at a potluck a few weeks ago and someone brought dehydrated pawpaw and it made almost everyone who ate it sick within a couple hours.

Another account:

https://nativebatch.com/2019/08/28/my-upsetting-experience-w...
Mocking doesn't mean you have to reimplement the fully featured service. In the simplest form your internal library which calls out to Cosmos is mocked, the mock records the request parameters and returns ok, and the test verifies that the expected data was passed in the call.
I used to sit and stare at the walls in offices daydreaming about a better way. I would stare down at the green space around the office building and imagine small single room office cabins, where everyone had light, privacy, control over the local environment. I thought if it could be made to work this would be the ideal layout for engineering/design/whatever creative work. Funny thing, over a decade later I found out I just described working from home.
Is "well they sold a lot I can just take it" ever a good defense?

>they have taken to only pursuing legal action when an emulator is being packaged up for the masses to one-click install on steam

Well, this breaks that trend. AFAIK Yuzu has none of that. Their general argument is that it made too much patreon money over Tears of the Kingdom.
Well, Apple is part of a duopoly. Nintendo is not. It’s kind of silly to call somebody a monopolist when they only have a small percentage of market share. In fact, they aren’t even in the top three video game companies, and their hardware is just a reason to sell software. 85% of the revenue comes from first party games. Their revenue is less than 10% of the entire gaming industry. For some reason, people insist on thinking of them as a hardware company that also makes games, when the reality has been the reverse for decades.

There are a whole lot of ways to distribute a video game. Three major consoles. Computers. Things like the steam deck. Smart phones. You could ignore any one or two of them, and still have a great business. In fact, lots of companies do. A whole lot of people have access to more than one of these platforms. You could ignore anyone or two of these platforms, and still sell your product to most of the people in the market. It is a highly competitive environment. If you don’t like Nintendo’s policies, just sell on Xbox and PlayStation and steam. People do this. If an environment is competitive, then by definition, nobody has a monopoly or an unfair advantage.

The Earth has 8 billion people, most of whom have a smart phone, all of which are using one of two operating systems. Not many people have more than one. If Apple says your app cannot be in their App Store, half of humanity, cannot use your app. It is a much different scenario.
I'm very happy to see that this package makes use of pydantic. I have been a heavy user of Dash and there is a ton of room there for an improved dev experience via typed models/components/callbacks built on pydantic primitives.

Personally, I probably won't venture to use this as I don't really need the extra client-side flexibility that this provides, but it's an impressive project for an early stage release.

There have been several other web app packages highlighted here over the last week. It's great to see new work being done on open source hobby projects on the web app front for Python/react/rust.
The four wheels on the ground, low fixed platform, arches for handles and support at both ends, is often the form preferred by delivery companies bringing stuff into buildings with big enough elevators. I think what you call sacktrolley is typically known in the US as a hand truck? That form limits the number of packages that fit too much for larger office buildings, and is mostly used for residential delivery, needing to cross less even driveways, curbs, etc.
Just a button, would be better.

Like an AirTag but it does some home automation thing.
Conveniently as of a few days ago, you don’t need to be worried about this anymore. TestContainers is no longer a third-party!

https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-whale-comes-atomicjar-mak...
> Through a mapping of traditional paths into their GoboLinux counterparts, we transparently retain compatibility with the Unix legacy. [...] There is no rocket science to this: /bin is a link to /System/Index/bin. And as a matter of fact, so is /usr/bin. And /usr/sbin... all "binaries" directories map to the same place. Amusingly, this makes us even more compatible than some more standard-looking distributions. In GoboLinux, all standard paths work for all files, while other distros may struggle with incompatibilites such as scripts breaking when they refer to /usr/bin/foo when the file is actually in /usr/local/bin/foo.
Been claiming this for years - been to 3 total eclipses and found it weird how the clouds seemed to almost make way for it. Nice to see some science behind it.
This is a spin on the old debate of "guns kill people vs. people kill people". Both can be right, which is why effective regulation is necessary.

No such limits seem to apply to ChatGPT style word vomit generators, so the open web may literally turn into a no-man's land(fill).

The way to combat this is to zero in on small communities instead of large ones that attract spammers.

- Trusted blogrolls, webrings, OPML feeds

- Discourse-style messageboards over bot-ridden Discords.

- Smart filters on search engines that filter out blogspam sites (e.g. block if they contain social media "share" buttons).

- Return of apps like StumbleUpon for human curated websites instead of Pinterest-style sites that obfuscate original content and tries to add a "BUY ITEMS IN THIS IMAGE" overlay to every post.
I really want to know how they anticipate this will 'motivate customers to visit' or 'enhance customer and crew experience'. I know it's marketing nonsense, but really, how?

They're wanting to spend $20 million on installing plus another $10 million 'earmarked'. Not much in the grand scheme of things but someone somewhere has convinced people it'll be worth the cost.

If they could invent a fast food menu display that stays still and doesn't really break down so I can see what the menu actually is when I'm waiting to order that would be great. Oh, wait...
All my examples are current, and the list would've been much longer if it included their obsession with thinness on their previous set of laptops and phones.

Anyway, I was trying to illustrate that Apple's obsession with minimalism has resulted in a very sterile and boring design language that wouldn't necessarily translate to success in the car world. Vehicles are considered very personal expressions of taste (Which is subjective, I know).

Shiny chrome bits and fake air intakes etc. are added because consumers want them. Car companies do everything in their power to shave a penny here and there, yet time and time again they add these in because that's what consumers generally like. High-end cars are littered with shiny bits, bodywork creases, and even crystal (BMW). Stuff like this is the antithesis of good design at contemporary Apple.

Even the iPhone 1.0/2.0 had a fake chrome rim, and their old Macs had clear plastic and pin stripes!

I'm not saying fake chrome bits etc. are good/bad design, I'm saying consumers have spoken, and the most boring cars are all at the low-end with even lower margins. Teslas seem to be as minimal as the general consumer is willing to tolerate, and even they have something relatively exotic with the Cyber Truck.

Apple's current aesthetic isn't suited towards high-end cars, and they haven't proven otherwise with recent releases. I know some would love a minimal Apple car, but it would still be a very niche, expensive, and not very profitable proposition.
Jewish people have returned home. They fought and won a war over it. I’m glad people like you say crazy shit like this, it makes it easy to dismiss everything you say without having to engage.
Civic nationalism comes from the French Revolutionary ideas that were put into code by Napoleon. Its a (then) radical egalitarian idea that originated from the French parliamentarians who sat on the left side of the assembly, espousing the predecessors of modern left wing, socialist and communist ideas. The liberals you speak of sat on the right hand side, and they wanted to follow a 'middle road' which would allow both privileged aristocrats and some amount of popular power to coexist. The ones who sat on the left side of the parliament won and that is what the entire world follows as an ideology except the Anglosaxon world (as it was dubbed so in diplomacy then and today in history and political science), where the mixed elitist and aristocratic ideology survived because the French Revolution did not touch those parts.

Long story short, yes, as the earlier commenter said, you people seem to be speaking from an exclusively Angloamerican view of the world where you seem to attribute to liberalism things that dont belong to it.
It’s also interesting to point that specific one out because it’s a somewhat widely held opinion that outside of that specific flaw that the iPhone 4 was one of the best industrial designs of the time. Everything else about the design was very iconic, long lasting, and influential to future generations of devices both inside and outside of Apple
I mean, ok, then how do you distinguish yourself from LM Studio (Free)
"At long last, we have created the torment nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus"
Far easier to kill people in Java than other languages.
>The threats people usually bring up are relatively mild

Failed crops on a global scale may result in widespread famine and war. Crops can fail as a result of not enough rain, too much rain, not enough insects, too many inspects, all kinds of climate related things.

I remember reading during covid that there is not some massive food cache somewhere with the government ready to bail us out if they need to. That we are basically living season to season.
And yet we're fine having the draconic business model of phone carriers from the 90s and early aughts carried into the modern day, just wielded by Apple instead of AT&T.

Computers run software the user asks for, phones run the software the phone manufacturer allows it to.
Ah, I wasn't clear. There's a bunch of both in the same giant file.
Births in Japan hit record low as government warns crisis at 'critical state'
That's an interesting take that I haven't heard before. Another theory that I have heard has maybe a little more to do with why modern humans succeeded in general (rather than specifically vs Neanderthal) is that modern humans had excellent endurance. This allowed them to take big game by essentially running it to death over a period of days. I do wonder if that was a capability that Neanderthals lacked, or possessed to a lesser degree.
Terrible compared to what? At the time, mobile applications were universally pretty crap. Browsers were atrocious, not being able to render real CSS or anything (they’d give you a simplified broken layout). I didn’t have the first iPhones (my first was the iPhone 4) but I had a first generation iPod Touch, and Safari felt pretty magical at the time compared to anything else on the market. The capacitive screen, multitouch, being able to decently render pages - lots of stuff we totally take for granted now…

The App Store became publicly available just one year after the original iPhone was released too - people seem to make out as if Apple held on for years and years but the SDK was announced less than six months after the iPhone’s release and was made available to developers a couple of months later.
effect is amplified on hn
Yeah, that's the file I was looking at. I was wondering how that file got created. By hand, or generated somehow?
https://victoriametrics.com/ would definitely recommend anyone having performance issues with Prometheus to give VictoriaMetrics a try.
Yeah, and then you get the product in like 2 weeks. Who has that kind of patience? Amazon's main product is "get this stuff to my door by tomorrow" and it works super well.
Those batteries seem to get old and have voltage drop at high current right at the exact time which Apple is about to launch a new device though...
What steps could they take? The emulator can't tell if the game dump I load into it is from my own cartridge or obtained elsewhere.
This is the kind of take that is all too dismissive of China's textile industry.

Would you accuse the Seattle coffee industry that can roast and drop ship a custom bag of coffee in under 3 days of running on slave labor? Would you accuse the California software industry that can produce an MVP web app over the weekend of slave labor? No, of course you wouldn't. But we do that for China because we assume that it's still the world's sweat shop rather than the world's most sophisticated manufacturing hub.

China is the Silicon Valley of textiles (and it's the Silicon Valley of many other manufacturing industries). Chinese factories that generally pay better wages that afford much better conditions than other textile hubs and can pump out high quality products very quickly. Luxury clothing brands depend on China and generally not a lot of other textile-producing countries for their best quality items.

What Shein, Temu, and AliExpress are actually doing in the market is streamlining the overseas shipping process to cut down delivery times that used to be unreliable and take months with poor tracking and changing that to a generally reliable 8-12 business day shipping infrastructure.

Making the assumption that these websites only sell landfill-bound junk is an assumption that a competing business will make at their own peril. The way I see it, canceling my Amazon Prime subscription and moving most of those purchases to AliExpress has resulted in lower costs with equal quality.

I'm not saying that Shein's quality specifically is any good, but if you haven't been paying attention, clothing quality at mainstream Western stores like Walmart, Target, TJ Maxx, Ross, Zara, H&M, etc, isn't really much if any better than the low end no-brand stuff you find from China.
Some of those abusive billing practices by out-of-network providers are now prohibited by the No Surprises Act.

https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises
There’s quite a big subsidy for EVs though.
Obsidian has add-ons which do much of this.
See also "Open Plan Workspace".
That is literally what happened (though the price was determined by expert estimate rather than surveys), and the show folded.
> I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse anything Apple made of being garish.

Not that I disagree in general, but the Apple Watch Edition is arguably in that zone.

Most recently, he was seen wearing a solid 18k yellow gold Apple Watch on a special gold bracelet that was never made available to the public (the same one that Beyoncé and other celebrities were also rocking). The best part though? He appears to have never actually set the thing up, instead going Andy Warhol–style, wearing it purely as a piece of jewelry.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/karl-lagerfeld-audemars-pi...
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39525212

(Consensus over in ^this thread is "hack" is quite the stretch)
Well there's a pretty good reason this won't work for the given example (newspapers). Why am I gonna wait for an NBC article when CNN (or worse FOX) posted the story already for free?

Some types of reporting I would be happy to fund and wait for but other stories need to be posted ASAP or they lose their value.

The same is true of art. For example, Age of Empires getting an expansion 25 years later is notable because it is uncommon. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/age-of-empires-2-gets...
people are greedy

I think that people are far more culturally and historically specific than they appreciate, so I take claims like this (i.e. non-specific ones about human nature and virtue therein) with a massive grain of salt. I agree in the general sense of the word, of course!

Whatever you will decide to do with Boeing, you will have to make employees, shareholders and numerous clients (incl. Us military) content.

I totally agree with many of your points re:climate change and hierarchies, but I don't see how that responds to my initial charge: that specific companies that are found systematically guilty of some sort of crime should be forcibly disbanded.

What if many of the smart, motivated Boeing engineers would be more productive in a dynamic marketplace of smaller firms? What if there's a warp drive concept lurking in the mind of an underutilized systems analyst deep in the basements of their valley? Investing all these resources, especially public fiscal ones, into a company that has proven again and again to prioritize suicidally negligent, short term, excessively selfish thinking... well, it seems criminally unjust.

TL;DR_1: I don't need him, he needs me!

I own a share of a fund which has shares of boeing. Should I go to jail?

I would separate laborers who have shares as some form of retirement from capitalists who deploy unimaginable sums of money. I know the 1% discourse is tired but the general sentiment is extremely valid: a relatively small group of powerful people pressured the Boeing board to make these decisions. In the paraphrased words of AOC: "..and it's, like, twelve people."

Yes, I think the people who lobbied for cost cutting and dividend/buyback programs within the company deserve to be criminally investigated. I am so far from a lawyer and doubt our exact current laws and policies (esp. SEC) would be enough, so the most specific I can get is "charges related to negligence and greed" TBH.

But no, I was being unclear when I said "owners" -- not all owners of any amount of the stock are complicit, other than in a broad ethical-consumerism sense. You're on Hacker News, so I have no doubt at all that you're living your life in good faith.

TL;DR_2: capitalists != investors
Your amygdala's been hijacked.
Ask HN: Why every Android app is at least 100MB in size?
How can they be so bloated? Even dictionary app can go beyond 50MB is unbelievable. What are they doing with that? Is Call of Duty embedded in the source code?