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Cheating at video games is actually an exercise in computer freedom. The game is running on my computer. As the owner of the machine, I can change its memory. I can change whatever I want. I should be able to do this.

If you don't have the power to cheat at video games, it's because you do not actually control the machine. There's something above you preventing you from doing what you want. It's not your computer, it belongs to the game company. The computer does their bidding, not yours.

So people are not "practicing their digital freedom", they are practicing only what the game company allows them to do. They don't "own a computer" either, the corporations own their computers, they're just letting people use them. In the end it's up to them to decide if games are worth their sacrifices. Personally I think that's an indignity. It means your PC is no different than a game console.

I for one want to play games but don't want to make those sacrifices. I look for ways to make the game run on my terms instead of accepting the corporation's take it or leave it offer. It's pretty sad that people will just give up all their power just to play games but it can't be helped. I can only post these comments and try to convince others.
I'd recommend a simple subtractive synth as a first:

>Behringer Model D
>Novation Bass Station 2

Recommending VCV is horrible advice - unless your idea of learning synthesis is getting RSI...I think VCV is a great testing bed for trying modular ideas...once you understand synthesis...i think a huge draw back of VCV is the plethora of choice - it's just way way too much.

I learnt modular on a real life Doepfer modular...it was frustrating as hell until things starting clicking - i cant imagine the feedback loop on software being that good.
These are jobs sponsoring for PERM greencards. They are using AI as an excuse to replace US citizens with foreigners
I feel that convincing people to pay monthly/yearly for something that has minimal monthly recurring expenditure/investment from the provider (unlike utilities, streaming services, etc.) is one of the biggest cons of the modern era.

I have Office 2010 on an old computer. While it lacks some modern features of Microsoft 365 (for example, Office 2010 is much, much faster), it still works seamlessly with any files I create in 365. And I only had to pay, once, about the same amount that Microsoft is charging for a year's use of the same suite in the present day.

So they throw in a few gigs of OneDrive to supposedly justify the cost? That vendor lock-in is obviously part of the con (see for instance the complete and very deliberate lack of portability of documents created in OneNote, if you don't have the Professional/Enterprise version). And there are innumerable better services out there, many of which are even free.
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That is a misunderstanding. Community opinion isn't just expressed in upvotes. It's expressed in upvotes and flags. Countless stories make the front page, only to be flagged off it by other users. This happens many times a day.

I didn't downvote you, and indeed no one on HN (including me) can downvote a direct reply to them.
No they can't have a conversation when they know of a non waivable conflict.
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Not to mention cell phones everywhere.
> This is like telling someone to learn programming by starting with assembly.

Believe it or not, this is some people's preferred learning style. See also: Nand2Tetris, Linux From Scratch
I would think most people would take that for granted. Small startups are often "pre-impact" (or "pre-failure", situation depending..)
Fair enough. Still, for what you’ve described, Aiva is the best tool available.
My RSS reader YOShInOn learned that I am interested in "energy harvesting" systems as much as I am interested in sustainable answers for the global energy problem. So it shows me a lot of articles that I often post.

These "energy harvesting" systems harvest a tiny amount of energy but for some applications that are parsimonious they can be more than enough.

I had a friend 20 years ago who was more than a little bit crazy (lost his child over it) who would challenge me with ideas for perpetual motion machines. Trained as a physicist my first instinct was "that violates conservation of energy" but I learned how to formulate anything like that in terms of forces so I could show why things wouldn't work without starting from that postulate.

He was really into thermoelectrics and with a cond-mat background I got pretty fascinated with them and learned that there was a huge room to grow so long as we could find materials with a better ratio of (electrical conductivity)/(thermal conductivity) and I'm still excited to read about developments in that field today.
It's just garbage in, garbage out. AI isn't the safeguard of everything.
I'm not sure I understand the point here. Are you complaining that your training as a software engineer didn't prepare you to be a hardware engineer?

I'm in software and have made very basic PCBs for some projects. I have never used KiCAD. I'm sure the learning curve would be steep. But I expect that as my classes were focus on software design, not hardware design.
This you?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42640271

You're telling me there were 40+ flags on this? GTFO.

I was seriously using this site for fun, but this is just straight bullshit so now you've turned this user into someone who was enthusiastic to someone who knows this place is garbage. Streisand effect on steroids.
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> It's an upgrade from advice like Joel's who just say "IT NEVER WORKS"

What you originally said ("It must be usable in production within a month") is equivalent to "Just don't do it, because IT NEVER WORKS" for all but the smallest, simplest projects out there in Professional Programmer land. [0]

> But there's no way to really describe it.

There really is a way to describe it:

"The rewrite has to be generally not behind schedule. Whatever that schedule is is up to the folks doing the work and the managers who approve doing the work."

Establishing that schedule is the same sort of cost/benefit and expected-level-of-difficulty analysis that should be done before planning any nontrivial work in Professional Programmer land. All but the most green or most sheltered-from-Process programmers are at least aware of this analysis. Many of those who are aware of it have participated in it.

[0] Or the most well-designed projects, which have small, easily understood pieces with easily-comprehensible interactions with the rest of the system, that can be quickly and easily replaced with new pieces. There's not much out there like that... and I'd imagine the task of "making major changes to how many of those pieces interact with each other" wouldn't be usable in production in a month for most of those systems.
Yes, I was a huge fan of Ultima 7, 9 and Online.
I remember that incredible sense of freedom gave me a kind of liberation(?). It’s an honor to be able to have this conversation with you.
Thinking about how you were already grappling with pathfinding issues and addressing them in real-time back then makes me feel a bit envious. I’m sure there weren’t many people who could have had such experiences at that time.
It’s thanks to people like you with those experiences that today’s programming languages and skills have developed as they have.
My technical level is far below yours, but I want to complete a lightweight pathfinding algorithm for my project, no matter what.
Thank you for sharing such an inspiring story.
Bending Spoons is an Italian sweatshop with a ton of cash lying around. Anything they touch turns into poop, and as an employer, their reputation is terrible.

But somehow, they have a ton of cash influx that they use to acquire struggling businesses quite frequently.
Salesforce core is Java. A smattering of other languages in the mix. I left Salesforce a year ago, their main developer productivity drains had nothing to do with the code base. It's their build process where it takes a minimum of a day to get code committed, even with their git on top of perforce hack which is seriously impressive, but still a process smell, that coupled with massive overhead from when dealing with inter team dependencies and various "edicts" getting passed down from on high that blow up any planning.

In short, you could have agents that code at 2x but it would have only a small impact on deliverabkes since non-coding processes have a higher impact on velocity.
This explains why a number of people in Europe seem to love the idea of having triple phase to DC on board chargers on electric cars, even though it makes more sense to have those at the charging points.

That said, a typical socket likely varies more in the U.S. than in Europe since anything that is high draw in the U.S. gets 240VAC while Europe's 220VAC likely suffices for that. I actually have experimented with running some of my computers off 240VAC. It was actually better than 120VAC since the AC to DC conversion is more efficient when stepping down from 240VAC. Sadly, 240VAC UPS units are pricy, so I terminated that in favor of 120VAC until I find a deal on a 240VAC UPS unit.
Why should they? If they've got a workable solution and are living a happy life, there's no reason to treat it as a problem.
What if a disgruntled software engineer shoots them in the back one day without warning??
Today's microsoft is exactly what yesterday's microsoft always wanted to be; software subscriptions have been the goal for decades.
Do you already have a contact who coordinates the payments? Seems like a better place to start, as they'll be the ones who might care.
I have been there and done that. In a complex SF org with a lot of triggers, any record update will get blocked.

The only solution is to refactor all the apex triggers processes and flows to something more orderly. Technically it is doable. Politically it is almost impossible. SF is an ERP in most companies and touches every department.
What causes the humidity to be so low? Is the fire lowering the humidity? Or the lower humidity causing the fire?
I cannot think of a single non-business oriented user who needs MS365

Trivial personal users moved to free alternatives ages ago, business users are either using organizational licenses or are small-business users who aren't using family plans to begin with.

I'm mystified by who the affected audience is of this.
“As our revenue accelerated through the pandemic, we hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we’re now facing, and I take responsibility for that.”

I wish CEOs would avoid such phrasing unless "take responsibility for that" involves some personal penalty, like a lower bonus or some other way to compensate for the fact that a bad decision cost the company money.
Confirmation emails are great for this.

"I was wondering if you could go over the details of the resolution we discussed on DATE? I'm giving it consideration and just want to make sure I fully understand. On reflection I feel like it could be a great opportunity. Could I put it on my resume'?"

Sometimes they stitch themselves up and it's glorious when it happens.
>doesn't it stand to reason that hiring more engineers would make the org even more productive?

Yes, that does stand to reason, it's the funniest bit about it. When you make engineers more productive the value of an engineer goes up, not down. Otherwise we'd have no game developers left after people went from writing assembly to working in modern game engines.

As others have pointed out it's obviously just a really cringy attempt at trying to sell their AI software, which apparently isn't smart enough to sell itself
Makes me wonder what it would take for governments to actually hit Microsoft hard enough for it to hurt. I remember when they were hit with anti-trust fines here in the USA due to how they were bundling Internet Explorer as the default browser. I mean, did they ever stop? I can't recall ever turning on a new Windows install in the past couple decades and not having IE or Edge as the default.

It also makes me wonder what it would take for IT people to finally stop gritting their teeth about having to use, or having to let others use, Windows and start just dealing with the learning curve of switching to some Linux distro. I mean, Windows Recall is spyware. If it didn't come from Microsoft, Windows Defender would be sure to mark it as malicious... What's the name for a screenshot based keylogger I wonder...

I used to just figure that Windows was just all some people could use. And if that was the best tool for them, then ok. But now? I can't say that anymore. It's out and out malware at this point.

In all seriousness, if you are sticking with Windows at this point, why? Is it just the fact your other software doesn't work on another OS? Or is there something good about Windows that you like?
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I'd expect a suite of features explicitly designed to mimic human intelligence to know, like a dutiful assistant, that if I give them access to my inbox and ask them to "summarize" my new messages, and they see a scam message, they notice and delete it rather than pass it through to me like an idiot. We're supposed to be moving away from the era of computers dumbly following explicit instructions and into the era where "AI" finally delivers on the hollow promises of Siri and Alexa.
I'd say that's just plain old humor, rather than "spin."

Also, given the context is the Consumer Electronics Show, critiques like "this is a weird thing to sell" are fair-game, as opposed to only focusing on whatever technological advances were (or weren't) involved in its construction.

> According to Sybran, the Code27 was created with four goals in mind, which were: [...] Someone with a soul [...] Someone who treasures every moment we share, without forgetting a thing.

That's a pretty high bar. I'm very certain that LLMs do not have souls, and some technical limitations (training costs, context windows) will prevent them from incorporating all the moments a consumer might hope to share with them.
bro what money do you think you are holding on to? Just let it go and graduate or move onto another school. How will they "make it right". They just want you to stop messing with the reg system. Its their school not yours. For better or worse. Hell, you chose them.
As it made it past other filtering it is more dangerous. The last possible protection is the user's attention. If the user reads a coherent summary and then opens the message, might they be more primed to treat the message as legitimate?

I agree with you about other filtering being critical and more appropriate. I understand Apple made a good feature. I don't actually know if it will have a negative side effect. I do think it is a good idea to examine the feature critically due to the scale of Apple and the trust its users place in the company to protect them from harm. I also do not think the title of this article is very reasonable bc it insinuates something sinister.
Yeah, to be honest, the only reason I wrote the comment was because my understanding is HN stories whose comments/points ratio is higher get downranked and I'm tired of seeing clickbait artificial outrage stories.
Yeah, I have installed Termux. And learned to hard way that you need to install extra packages e.g. to access the clipboard.

I also read something about some turmoil in the community with unmaintained packages or what it was. Yet more time needed to really understand the situation.
Any advice for debugging asyncio? I've tried it a few times but every time it got a bit more complicated it felt very hard to figure out what was going wrong.
It's flagged because he has a vested interest in flagging it. He censored my account so my upvotes don't work anymore as well.
If you want to check if some specific game runs well on Proton (basically the compatibility layer Steam uses to run Windows games on Linux), you can check it out on https://www.protondb.com/

It focus on Steam Deck, but if it runs on Steam Deck, it should run at least on any Debian-based distro.
If the product is not getting needed maintenance, then yeah, maybe.

But, man, sometimes software is fit-for-purpose and can really be just be left alone for extended periods. Other times, the users of that software upgrade on a hemi-annual or annual schedule (or even LESS frequently), so they'd never notice a three month delay in new releases.
The problem with fireproofing one building in a fire-prone area is that neighboring buildings that aren't fireproof will build, and they will release toxic substances that make your fireproof building toxic.
The one where John Mulaney roasted SF workers? (60 points, 4 months ago, 50 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41602877
This isn’t true, unless you’re willing to consider the subsidies that cars get when it comes to putting in and maintaining roads and doing urban planning around half the city being car surfaces.
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I disagree. A few of those 999 hookups will result in marriages and families. Others in relationships. This is arguably the whole point of society, to engage with other people, to be in relationships, to reproduce. What we see now, largely due to unrelenting fear (again, disguised as "safety"), is unhappiness, isolation, loneliness, depression and mental illness all dramatically increasing. This is not a coincidence.
How’s that a surprise? Microsoft dangles npm, TypeScript, GitHub, and VSCode, and suddenly people develop collective amnesia about their past behavior.
SIMD didn't really win for general purpose workloads, either.

It's just that execution units are so small relative to everything else that you might as well expend some extra silicon for them.

SIMD is only really wins for very specific workloads (memory copy and 3D graphics, for example).
I went to the trouble of looking up what that Silver Partner thing is. It means you're paying more than $1k to MS annually. You "own" a subscription? What does it do for you?

I still don't understand the rest of your comment.
For those unaware, if you want to use the latest Office Suite (2024), but don’t want to pay a monthly fee, Microsoft still offers a one time purchase [0] for $149.99 which is now cheaper than the (new) one year subscription (with no cloud storage of course).

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/office-home-...
Indeed no proof. By "in practice" I meant "on instances encountered in real-world applications."
Safari and WebKit are not the same thing.
There exist certain classes of prime numbers that should not be used for some cryptographic operations because algorithms exist that reduce the computation required for factoring attacks. This more often applies to cases where smaller primes are applied. Sources for this king of knowledge are mathematics or cryptography textbooks.

For other cryptographic operations, almost any sufficiently large prime can be used. Even a 50% reduction on a computation that will take trillions of years, has no practical impact.
Cheapest robot vacuum I could find ($150 refurbished Eufy). I will be upgrading to more expensive for sure, but even basic one is so good over vacuuming yourself.
50% of their net worth..?
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're asking here.
Heya!

Can you say more? We made this container (for DuckDB) with open source code, that anyone can download and play around with.

(To be clear, I wrote this, and cofounded Bacalhau :), and published it to the docs pages here - so that's what I meant by "we")
I doubt your assertion about circadian rhythm research, largely because of the cave experiments that show that people naturally assume non-24 hour days when removed from sunlight and social cues.
The supermarket this takes place at is now the Trader Joe's in Berkeley on University.

Also a radiolab episode opener takes place at Berkeley Bowl West (the ep on the paradox of choice, they try to decide what apples to get).

These have been your two Berkeley Grocery Store Facts of the day. Reply STOP to unsubscribe.
The hard part is figuring out which half. And figuring out who the right people to make those decisions.
The easiest way to run an LLM locally on your Mac
Could be anything, sadly. Tteck, from Proxmox helper scripts recently died as well but did inform the GitHub community it was appendiceal cancer. Sadly he went quite quick too.

I had a medical colleague who unexpectedly died at 33 after Christmas.

Life is short. Hug your loved ones and let them know you love them everyday.
what is the definition of a rave at this point? Large crowds of people dancing in or outdoors to techno music is still a HUGE thing. There's video of tons of them on youtube. If often put them on while working. Is it only a rave if it's illegal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv33bb-C_bo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wy2WYqD2Rs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEacozH2uXs

There's also huge EDM and other types of events (so I guess not techno but the vibe seems related, at least to me)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7O-7rF0Hqk
This is a paradox of modern life, where we're indundated with gear choices and advice. Any nontrivial activity can be approached in a minimalist or maximalist fashion, and there's no certain way to choose one over the other. It doesn't require the Internet, though it may be influenced. Just mention home cooking at the lunch table, to experience the full brunt of it.

Even the minimalists brag about their (remaining) stuff, which always includes at least one Apple product.

The in-between-alists just smile and nod, knowing that we'll be drowned out.

Another facet of modern life is being able to try everything once, which means having to get the most out of it, with the assurance that it will be great. Heaven forbid figuring out your gear needs on a progression of increasingly ambitious outings, some of which are miserable. This is how we end up with beginners on extreme hiking adventures.
Nothing to forgive, but thanks for the kind reply.
Oversimplistic but basically correct.
The enpoopification of Evernote was already well underway by the time they acquired it.

https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/14/evernote_api_limits/
All campuses have student legal aid offices. I engaged one once myself when I was in university. Even though the complaint is against the University itself, in this case, attorneys are still subject to strict ethical rules and so you can at the very least get an honest read on the situation at a very low or no cost to you. (if they clearly demonstrate a conflict of interest, then you'll have an easy pro-bono case from a real lawyer against the University now for two things)

I would take a look at your Student Legal Aid office and get an appointment. Usually consultations are free.
Thanks. I actually now think it was a bit incomplete or even wrong 3 hours ago when you wrote that :), but then I thought a bit harder, read a bit more (other Wikipedia and https://www.math.uchicago.edu/~may/VIGRE/VIGRE2009/REUPapers...) and then fixed it. I think it should be good now.
Not really a clever observation on your part, this is the trite response everyone trots out but where it fails is in scope. We aren't talking about replacing 95% of a particular job (which has happened many times in the past over a long period of time), we are talking about replacing 95% of all people (in a relatively short period of time).

And on top of that situation, we are also demanding unlimited growth. Good luck with that.
You people don't sleep naked?