skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that the developers of Slay The Spire were taught by complexity loving professors, no. But education does more than influence the people at universities. Education informs norms, traditions, and styles that permeate through industries. An example from outside tech: the music notation app Finale found a strangle hold on the education market, and now it's one of the standards for notation, despite being the worst option (source: have you tried Finale?).

I've never played the game, but my understanding is that Slay the Spire largely impresses on a design and artistic front, not a technical one. Its engine requirements were not based on feature set or code quality, but on what developers knew. So they probably picked Unity because it was ubiquitous. Education starts the problem, and then devs who need something common they care hire for continue the problem. I don't blame devs for this, it's the right choice to make and obviously Slay the Spire is great, but I am saying that this is a force that drives down the quality of game engines.
I didn't realise Krebs was a person, I thought it was a collection of people using a unified moniker. To your point though, we're lucky to have 'unreasonable' people like him, I know I don't have the courage
I sweat a lot and hiking with jeans would feel disgusting.
The Truth About Musk, from His Biographer
Same considered 22 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42434105

This bloomberg article IMO spends most of its time Cherry Picking and making a subtle case for privatisation. Choosing results or outcomes of one country (Poland's move away from communism - 1991 onwards) which had some success privatising government facilities, is not a good basis of argument if that country was significantly different in size or population. Choosing to run comparisons between smaller state and private facilities as more or less the same outcome might seem fair, but doesn't ask if that state's facilities could have had the same outcome and standards for less money while finally arriving at the common situation where govt has some self interested private company fleecing the govt out of money it didn't need to spend. Note: few companies are not self interested, they're almost always about making more profit for their shareholders.
From Oz to the US knocks 5 years off life expectancy, knocks a whole 1 point (out of 10) from your democracy index, reduces your human freedom rating, increases your health care spending, increases your 10 year cost of living, etc.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu?tab=t...

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...

etc.
Hack a days FLOSS podcast is pretty good.

https://hackaday.com/tag/floss-weekly/
When even Mozilla is introducing AI summarization services, I find it's really hard to blame Apple.
This is on par for Meta. Don't forget that Cheryl Sandberg was their Democratic Party liaison.
Nor did they sue ActionScript (Macromedia Flash's implementation of JavaScript), CoffeeScript (a separate language that compiles to JavaScript, and has a name very much evoking Java).
Yeah, I thought about that too, but I'm also trying to keep pre-processing work as light as possible.
This is an optimization though, when you just get started, start with what you got. In situations where someone is just starting and doesn't have gear, AND it's actually an ambitious day, my only requirement is some kind of grippy shoes and a headlamp. Anything below an ambitious, unpredictable day, and you can probably just roll with basics. Couple hours is nbd and I do most days in jeans. Comfort is usually more important.

That said, definitely some situations I'd have preferred not to have jeans
But it's also Serverscript due to Node.js.
> Since 2020, especially after the 2024 election results came in, theres now even more evidence to suggests democrats rigged the election.

Really, what evidence?

Are you just assuming that

1. swing voters don't exist so each person always votes for the same party every time

2. when a swing voter votes Republican that's their "true" vote but when they vote Democrat that's a "fraud" vote?

Because both those assumptions are very unbelievable.
People overestimate their risk of an extreme situation occurring while hiking and underestimate their risk of being in an extreme situation in everyday life. They are roughly equal.

So if you were really that concerned, you’d be wearing hiking pants everywhere, even when not hiking.
If advertising were to disappear overnight, I'd argue the internet would go on.

First, there was an internet before there were ads. When there's a need there's a way and BitTorrent and Napster taught us that P2P is feasible when the users care about it.

Then there's the issue of competitive advantage. If the newspaper from the next town over has a website then my local newspaper has to have a website too. So the incentives would switch from "I'll finance this service with ads" to "this website costs money but that's another cost of doing business".

And finally, people do pay for services. Patreon and Wikipedia are examples where a bunch of users provide the funds for those who can't/won't pay for a service.

Would all services survive? No. And it would certainly be a different experience. But I believe an internet driven by a mixture of fans and sensible economic strategy wouldn't be a bad thing.
Server components + RN + Expo.... Could it get any more pointlessly complicated?
This sounds wrong to me. Cloning exists, IVF is a routine medical operation and now this headline. IVF is basically the science version of two teenagers going at it.
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Is Oracle wasting people's time and money (including their own) just for the fun of it? I don't see any practical reason to fight this.
I don't see how it matters where the mods are located when their instructions still come from California.
I second this approach. I've utilized it successfully in an ongoing migration. I also second the need to have engineering knowledge from the previous system available. I was lead for 5 years on a previous system before being tasked as solution architect of new total rewrite to cloud native. The hardest part of such a migration is maintaining sponsor buy-in while you build the parallel run evaluation strangler fig integration with the old system and get some existing flow polished enough to take live. If you happen to have a rule or scripting system in place piggy pack off of it so you can do an incremental migration.
I've used LaTeX, online resume generators and Google Docs templates, but they were unfruitful. I've applied to 350 jobs and only got one screening recruiter call (then was ghosted). Despite having 2+ YoE and published research as well as having worked as a contractor for FAANG (I even made one loads of money in stock after they applied my recommendations)!
Not to be confused with EczemaScript or AcneScript.
What a good idea to get people used to clicking on a link in an email to login. Magic opportunities.
Or Webscript
“Time” is the answer almost always.

Standards evolve over time, as do the languages and frameworks. Old code is rarely rewritten, so you end up with layers of code like geological strata recording the history of the developer landscape.

There’s a more complicated aspect of “Conway’s law, but over time” that’s hard to explain in a comment. And anyway, Casey Muratori did it better: https://youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY?si=hnrKXeknMCe0UPv4
Jensen did say that in the presentation that compute performance isn't increasing at large enough scales to make enough change. The shift is moving to reliance on using AI to improve performance and there are additions in hardware to accommodate that.

Isn't not being kept a secret, its being openly discussed that they need to leverage AI for better gaming performance.

If you can use AI to go from 40fps to 120fps with near identical quality, then that's still an improvement
Hardware, too. I worked in broadcast television in the 1990s and we used these very large Sony three-quarter inch videotape decks for editing. Two of them paired together and a monitor.

Once I learned how to edit using the buttons and the scroll wheels, I could fly through putting together a news segment with all kinds of cuts, fades and overdubs. I remember thinking, I couldn’t believe how fast my fingers were flying.

The closest thing I can compare it to is learning how to play a guitar; after a certain point muscle memory takes over.
I recently wrote a case study about how a lighthearted Facebook Messenger meme group, Ninja Nonsense HQ, unexpectedly became an exploration of human connection, engagement, and filtering social networks. What started as a space for sharing dumb memes turned into a reflection on community-building, humor, and digital relationships.

Takeaways include:
- Humor can build bridges, but purpose sustains them
- People crave authentic spaces
- Filtering connections is necessary for growth
- Memes are fun, but belonging keeps people engaged

Would love to hear thoughts from others on building purpose-driven digital communities and managing engagement in social spaces!
It depends on order size. I think orders for one or two people over time you'd save close to 50% between deals and using points. For larger orders 20% off once a day is about the best you can do. (I'm my area/experience.)
Except at smaller companies, your network just gets you a referral and interview. You still have to go through the same interview process.

The two exceptions I have had were when a former coworker who is now the director of an f500 non tech company was going to create a strategic position for me. He needed someone he could trust.

The other time was when a CTO and the director of application development were both former coworkers from another company and it was just a matter of me saying yes.

The first job would have been more stress than I was willing to deal with and I don’t do large companies (I was suffering from PTSD from my time at AWS). The second didn’t have the budget to meet my compensation target.
I think there are two distinct branches of reasons. The first is probably what you're asking about - what environmental factor(s) could be lowering IQ. And I think there are countless possibilities there, but many are quite subjective or at least unproven. The trendy one in academic circles is air pollution as a cause (seems uncompelling to me, unless China suddenly sees a dramatic decline in urban IQ). I'd also add endless entertainment, urbanization/industrialization creating low trust societies, labor swapping from widely skilled self employment to narrowly skilled employment, chemicals/microplastics/etc that we consume in food/water, and so on.

But there's also the most objective and straightforward reason as well - evolution. As far as evolution is concerned IQ isn't good or bad, it's just another highly heritable trait. When it correlates against fertility (as it currently does), IQs will decrease over time. When it correlates with fertility (as it likely did when life was more difficult), they will increase over time.
What country are you referring to? The American middle class is objectively very wealthy: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-the-us-is-not-a-poor-societ...
When I researched it in the past I thought that multiple studies corroborated that while blood sugar doesn't increase from drinking artificially sweetened drinks that people who drink them still tend to gain weight. I'm not sure how those studies adjusted for things like people that already have metabolic syndrome who simply choose artificial sweetener for health reasons though?

It seems the most I would be comfortable concluding from recent reviews of studies is that there are some worrying findings, enough to warrant caution. If you can simply reduce your consumption of sugary foods and beverages I suspect it will reduce your craving better than a replacement stimuli. You can review some studies here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=obesity+artificial+swe...

It's a fallacy to draw conclusions from the number of studies/reviews supporting a given hypothesis, but the majority conclude that artificial sweeteners are associated with negative health effects and not a helpful tool for adiposity-related diseases.
Fine - for each industry "X", when will a CEO of a company who is given oligopolistic control over software which is deeply entrenched in a stranglehold over "X" decide to fund desperately needed improvements to said software?

Presumably the CEO would believe that improving the quality of their company's products will lead to increased profits/revenue.
Indeed.

I wonder if such acquirers tend to reduce marketing spend? This could make sense, if they're operating on a shorter time horizon. Seems a little silly to try to both accumulate and spend down brand equity at the same time.

If so, lack of advertising could be a handy indicator of dropping product quality ;-)
What a horrible reference. I hope this doesn’t become a thing.
And if I take a ballon, fill it with the right helium/air ratio so it sinks at exactly 1m/s²? It's a provable scientific fact that it's falling at 1m/s². Even if I leave off the part that it's a balloon, and talk antigravity fields or aliens or some crap, and "let you draw your own conclusions", the fact that the ballon fell at that rate would still be demonstrably true.

People want to sell you lies and get you to believe them, and they'll give all the half truths they can to support their version of the truth.
they'll use misleading graphs with real numbers, so you can fact check the numbers on the graph and come away thinking the graph represents the truth of the matter. But X axis that don't start at zero, logarithmic Y axis that don't say they're logarithmic, Or pie graphs viewed from a funny angle, with slices that don't represent the percentage they're labeled by, or with percentages that add up to greater than 100%.

If all we wanted to run were trivial physics experiments, we'd be golden. The real world of social media facts include things we can't run science experiments for, or go back in time to redo, like economic stats that use a different formula today and there's not enough information to see what it was in the distant past. So we get these narratives from people who are trying to convince us to believe theirs by leaving off important context. Which is totally dishonest of them, but they have a vested interest in us believing a particular narrative.
It’s covered if you major in computer engineering rather than CS

Digital circuits, FPGAs, microcontrollers, basic electronics, lots of making stuff on breadboards

One of my big undergrad projects was to build a CPU from scratch on an FPGA and write an assembler for it

Hot take: CE is a better foundation for programming than CS
Discussion (18 points, 9 hours ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42626114

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What are more examples of duckspeak and is it context dependent?
This is great! With Ghidra I had to look for the corresponding libs of a very specific RiscV vendor, your SRE did it by itself. You should have your own HN thread in front page!
There are so many non-techy folks that are getting run over by phishers. If tech workers can also be targeted, the rest really have no hope.

I really wish someone would make movies or enticing thriller series out of these post-mortems. There are some good stories to be told, plus it would help the most vulnerable to be better prepared..
Node.js enables TypeScript handling by default
There are multiple falsehoods in your comment.

EFF have been putting some significant distance between themselves and their (admittedly, true) Libertarian origins. Cory Doctorow (long-time public-face, current special advisor) has distinctly non-Libertarian leanings.

<https://www.eff.org/about/special-counsel#main-content>

The more-libertarian John Gilmore and Brad Templeton are both emeriti:

<https://www.eff.org/about/emeritus#main-content>

I've raised the question with Cory previously, response was, effectively, that there's a considerable overlap between viewpoints, regardless of ideology. And I'd personally heard Templeton express concerns over Google over two decades ago (Q&A at a Stanford event).

My read is that viewpoints at EFF are diverse, and that concerns over commercial surviellance are also longstanding. E.g., Privacy Badger, aimed directly at same, was released over a decade ago, 14 July 2014:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://www.eff....>
> I feel like people don't get modded for opinions here.

Agreed. That's why I used the term "low quality". The comments that get downvoted or flagged are usually either blatant spam/trolling or rude. If someone makes a quality argument, regardless of the opinion, it generally sticks around. I'll even up-vote comments I disagree with, if the author is making a good-faith effort. Not everyone does that, but enough people do and do so often enough that it helps to keep a complete hive-mind at bay (about most topics...).

But, I think that it's that simple level of moderation (which, I consider to still be moderation) that helps to keep discourse around here civil and interesting...

Yes, there are some threads that start where you just know nothing good will come from it, and in those cases we do see some admin moderation (hi @dang!). But, even then, I think the idea is that when discussing some topics, the thread will invariably end up going sideways. Those are the topics that end to get immediately flagged. And that's okay with me, because who has time for that, when we have so many other, more interesting things to argue (civilly) about?
Not a discussion about "the world."
> I wasn't aware that WebAuthn didn't have this requirement. I prefer TOTP because I actually like having a second factor in addition to a credential stored on my computer's hard drive (whether a password or a private key in my password manager), but I might be willing to reduce my security posture to get rid of this annoyance.

I've seen passkeys support something like what you're after. The browser will produce a QR code you scan with your phone, and then you authenticate with the passkey via the phone, which then authorizes the original browser.

I'm not absolutely certain that this is part of the spec or how it actually works. I'd like to know. It solves a couple different usability issues.

You could always use something like a Yubikey.
Maybe for you—we were devastated by two hurricanes last year
It really depends on how well it works.
ah you're right, edited.
What? I’m a lot more likely to get cold and wet with no access to dry shelter 3 days into a 7 day thru hike in the Sierras than when I’m within a 15 minute walk of my car in the city.
Note: This is type stripping only, no transpilation / code generation is done.
I was addressing your question as to what the alternatives were, not their efficacy.

Abstinence does work, in that it's effective. It comes with its own significant consequences, of course.

I don't recommend Russian Roulette.
Reading the bug report https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=973138 feels reasonable.

It must be hard to be in a position to be blamed for someone else's bad code - or even malware - one comment said it was 1/3 of the total crashes on Vista at the time.

As a GPU driver dev I 100% understand this position - no user cares that gamedevs are hacking things left and right, they care if it runs.
I have a friend who works on COBOL for banking. He said he saw someone working at a bank with a fancy new GUI, painfully poking around and trying to get something done. "Ah forget it," they said, closed the modern GUI and went to the old terminal interface. In a couple of seconds, it was done.

I also worked on an ancient terminal interface for a complex service business. It was amazing. Everything was instant, and after a short learning curve, we had incredible power at our fingertips. If I had to do that job on a modern web interface with 4-5 seconds of spinners on every page, productivity would plummet! How often do I stand in front a desk with someone eeking through a more modern system, wondering, what is taking so long?
let me just apply my super proprietary machine learning architecture... ah yes it's done, behold, I can generate 3.69 trillion frames per second, because I compressed each frame to a single bit and that's how fast the CPU's memory bus is
WW2 fighters in space has always seemed really weird scifi to me. If we ever fight wars in space it will be done by computers trying to out maneuver eachother over millions of miles.
I think it's more acknowledging the gain in development efficiency you can get by working on something with lower fidelity.
Effective and Equitable Congestion Pricing: New York City and Beyond [pdf]
Yes, but now the ads watch us.
So instead of magneto-optic media, we can now have opto-magnetic media?
Similarly, Kevin Kelly says "Buying tools? Start with buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones that you use a lot. If you wind up using something as a tool for a job, buy the very best you can afford."

https://www.neil.blog/full-speech-transcript/68-bits-of-unso...
It is a horrible mess. The systems we use have no way to safely delegate control over some portion of a computer to a given task. We have to trust that things work as intended and just blindly trust code we didn't write.

Imagine if electric power happened the same way. We'd be hiring electricians every time we wanted to "install" a new device, like a light or fan. It would require an inspection by the local power plant, and a state inspector. We wouldn't have outlets or fuses. Houses burning down would be commonplace.

It was the same, but worse, with steam power. Horrific accidents were an occupational hazard.
In most cases you could eat multiple pastries and still have significantly less sugar than a soda.
I've used and liked that as well, but honestly I'm not too discerning. Where I am in Mexico atm it's hard to find in a similar liquid form.
> Metabolic syndrome is dysfunction at the mitochondrial level.

It might or might not be involved. At this point, it's not clear. Obesity and insulin resistance are the most likely proximate causes.
Sure they want user data to observe people's purchasing habits. But they already have that if you always use the same debit or credit cards like most people do.

But the more people use the app, the less cashiers they need and the less ordering kiosks they have to install. Plus customer satisfaction goes up because you can order ahead and your food is ready when you arrive. And getting used to the discounts means you probably won't switch to Burger King or Wendy's.

I think additional user data is a relatively minor part of it.
Purchasing Power Parity (PPP): This adjusts for cost of living and inflation rates between countries, giving a more accurate comparison of living standards.

In 2023, GDP per capita in terms of PPP for Bangladesh and USA was $8,242 and $74,578 respectively (per World Bank).