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Going to hijack the top comment to provide my own observations as a player

As a War Thunder player myself, here is some insights off the top of my head I can provide from the player base point of view, and as someone who has also submitted documentation to the devs to fix historical inaccuracies of some vehicles in the game...

-Players can submit bug reports for vehicles, reporting incorrect characteristics, missing features etc.

-In order to do so, players must research and compile documentation supporting their cases, from at least 2 primary sources. This means those devoted to such a report can spend hours or even days gathering material for their sources, sometimes going as far as digging through the historical archives of companies or countries for information

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Here's where problems start to arise:

-The bug reports are overseen by a few volunteers who review the bug reports and decide what gets sent to the developers and what does not, who have a track record of arbitrarily choosing what gets passed to the developers for fixing, and what does not. So even a well made bug report with more than enough documents and source materials can be denied, and all the efforts of the reporter are in vain.

-Even if a bug report gets passed to the developers, there is no timeline on when the missing features or inaccuracies of a vehicle will be fixed, and no communication from the developers whatsoever. It may be one month until its fixed, it may be 5 years, it may be never.

-The most heated discussion and reports revolve around modern day vehicles, where source materials may still be classified, or is available but marked as export restricted. The developers are very inconsistent when it comes to which bug fixes the accept or refuse when it comes to modern vehicles. For example, there were multiple reports of the Abrams and Challenger tanks armor being weaker in game than they should be, these reports were declined by the developers despite the multitude of sources. And yet on another occasion, a player submitted a report on the T-90 missing it's spall liners, and they were added by developers with the only source provided being a youtube video.

-The developers recently changed the bug reporting system so that once a bug report is submitted, only the bug report reviewers and the author of the bug report can see the documentation submitted; the lack of transparency leads to lack of trust, some believing some reports which get submitted may be approved and implemented based the personal biases and views of the developers or bug report reviewers

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So basically you have a playerbase of passionate players who like history and military vehicles, who go out of their way to perform the jobs of a historian to provide the correct information to the developers to correct historical inaccuracies in a game, only for their efforts to be disregarded due to arbitrary decision making of the developers or bug report reviewers, even if the compiled reports follow all guidelines.
> Sounds like that'll push retailers to switch from a system where they give points/discounts to everyone, to one where points/discounts are "targeted", which of course requires opting into tracking. Like I said before, the whole premise of loyalty programs is that you're being tracked in exchange for rewards. You really can't expect to have your cake (discounts) and eat it too (not being tracked).

As I said, in Germany you can indeed have your cake and eat it too in this regard, if you’re okay with the offers you receive being less targeted and therefore less appealing.

My understanding is that GDPR requires them to offer the option to decline the personalized targeting without being blocked from participation overall, and this is probably the same anywhere in the EU. But I don’t have personal experience with this in other EU countries and could be misunderstanding.
Is it pride or is it hard to shake the (reasonable, I'd say) fear the reviewer will judge regardless of their claims?
How on earth is this legal
Enemy? A bit overly strong and dramatic, no? I mean if they're an enemy why are we allowing any business with them? They might be an adversary.
But it raises the price for consumers!

But it also employs nobody. If everyone's jobless what's the point? Is the end goal really manufacturing everything offshore and employing nobody? How the heck is that sustainable? What would such an economy even look like?
That is assuming everyone has a working survival instinct. Religious fanatics notoriously do not have this instinct. You just need one country with a religious fanatic at its head, who thinks that it is better we all go to heaven than to let evil win, and boom.

Now you can you argue the current US president is a fanatic if you want. But I do not see how adding more bombs to more countries reduces the odds of nuclear warfare in the future.

The current equilibrium has worked well enough. I do not see why we need to hand over nuclear weapons to countries currently embroiled in bloody civil wars.
I didn't follow it close, but had an impression that C# and .Net still have a significant Windows ecosystem bias. But this article, and comments from happy C# users, may just convince me to re-learn modern C# and start using it in everyday work. I'm kinda tired of C++/Python ecosystem, and have fond memories of working with C# around 2.0-3.0.
Does this allow the container access a hardware USB device? I have Mooondrop FreeDSP usb-c cable with an PEQ that only works with a terrible Android app, and it takes forever to change the EQ settings via an Android tablet I have, that has terrible touch screen. I wish I could just use my linux laptop to do it.
Yeah I’ve seen the buggers inside shrink wrap. Only dead ones though.
That ended yesterday. Trump's new tariffs apply all the way down to $0.

Not clear what happens now that Customs and Border Protection has to look at all those little boxes.

This isn't unexpected, though. There was a notice of proposed rule making back in September 2024, and it was probably going to happen this year, anyway.[1]

This is going to complicate the "dropshipping" business. The dropshipper is usually the importer, and they now have to pay customs duties. But they're not the seller of record (the one Amazon says is the seller), who collects from the customer. Amazon likes to consider the customer to be the importer, but that may not fly. Amazon sellers are going to have to deal with the wonderful world of customs brokers, bonded warehouses, and e-filing customs paper work.

Dropshippers who order in bulk and then ship out individual packages now either have to pay duties when they get the bulk shipment, or use a bonded warehouse (inspected by CBP) to store stuff on which duty has not yet been paid. DHL has a bonded warehouse service.

[1] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/cbp-proposes-to-modify-the...
We do the same thing. It's perfectly fine for candidates to use AI-assistive tooling provided that they can edit/maintain the code and not just sit in a prompt the whole time. The heavier a candidate relies on LLMs, the worse they often do. It really comes down to discipline.
Youtube used to add mid-roll ads to videos that were at least 10 minutes, so your video would basically make twice as much if you stretched it that long. I think the threshold is 8 minutes nowadays.

Short form is hard to monetize (if you are Google 8 years ago) since you need to split ad revenue and attribution among the several videos you watch between ads. This goes against a ton of prior trends in the ad industry where last touch attribution is still king and ad fraud is hard to combat. If course tiktok did it late with creator rewards.
Hacker News Guidelines

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Same. Worked for years for a company that offered VSOPs. They never went public. Hopefully I negotiated a decent base salary. So, as long as they offer a decent base salary and on top of that they add vsops, I’m fine. The moment they offer your less base salary in exchange for more vsops, avoid them.
I hated the Biden administration. I think they focused on the wrong things and they deserved to lose.

That said, I also hate how the country has gone down a path where laws are useless. We might as well be a lawless country at this point.
Does this problem disappear if you specify your own font for your site, like Roboto?
I wouldn't say it runs a "random ROM from the internet" - LineageOS is a very well-established project and is fully FOSS (free and open source software) except for firmware necessary for specific devices. It is the natural choice for any project, such as Waydroid, that requires good community support and ongoing availability.

Over a number of years, Google have progressively removed many of the original parts of AOSP (the FOSS foundation upon which Android is based), which means that alternative components have to be developed by projects like LineageOS. In spite of this, I suspect that LineageOS makes fewer modifications to AOSP than most phone vendors do, including Google themselves!
Finding a kernel bug triggered by systemd from userspace
If your interview process is susceptible to AI then you don't need to hire for the job. Just use an AI and prompt it.

The job you are therefore hiring for is now trivial. If it weren't, no amount of AI could pass your interview process.
I am excited about this but one of the main reasons for the success of the original Pebble was the accompanying software support. The web sites "Watchface Generator", "CloudPebble" and the "Canvas" Android app.

If they or equivalents don't return then I don't think this new Pebble will survive. The return of the Sparkly Code Princess would help enormously.
> Centralizing the processing was an important innovation by von Neumann

a.k.a. the "von Neumann bottleneck" that we're now trying to get rid of.
NASA Citizen Science Projects
People are sending us emails that are not just written with chatgpt, but I think they've automated the process as well, as parts of the prompt slip in.

You can see things in the emails like:

"I provided a concise, polite response from a candidate to a job rejection, expressing gratitude, a desire for feedback, and interest in future opportunities."
Yes, but there is a reproducible difference between when different adhesives break the PETG.

He concludes that those adhesives are causing the PETG to become brittle, and you should prefer others which don’t.
The guys at Coder Radio know more than I do. They are not impressed with Deepseek. Anything is cheaper when you don't count all the costs, and open source doesn't matter so much as the indexing does.

My own take is the PRC CP is giving away an AI that will propogandize for them. Brilliant idea really.

Coder Radio episode 605 The Democrats Behind DeepSeek

(the title refers to that, it is claimed, Biden was frightened into action on AI by watching a Tom Cruise movie)
People also use YouTube in different ways than they used to. Leaving it on in the background while they do something else.

I’m sure YouTube’s algorithm is good at detecting which videos perform well even when you’re only listening to it.
Funder publishing requirements are actually one of the few contractual things my university usually refuses to accept.
A common discussion these days is the threat of a foreign app (TikTok) being used by a hostile government to track and influence Americans.

From my non-American perspective, the same thing is happening here. I distrust non-EU software by default.
If you really don't penalize them for this, you should clearly state it. Some people may still think they'll be penalized as that is the norm.
I back up important things on SLC USB-A flash drives and write refreshed copies at least annually. The drives are small (<=8GB), expensive, there are only a handful of manufacturers (mine's an ATP), and you're probably ordering it from Digikey or Mouser. SLC will supposedly hold data at rest longer, and USB-A means I can find readers for at least another decade. We'll see if retention at rest is actually good.
Paul, I agree with most of the points you've raised in this thread and share your concerns about the way troubled people may be manipulated online in ways that make their problems worse. However I just want to caution you on the point of your experiences on Mastadon. As people in technology industries, it is natural for us to spend a lot of time online, particularly in places which are off the mainstream beaten path like HN, Mastadon, IRC, etc. But for much of the general public this isn't normal, they spend less time online and when they do go online it's usually in mainstream places like Facebook. People who are "very online" and off the beaten path, if not in a tech field, are very often people who have a lot of problems IRL and retreat to online spaces as a refuge of sorts. So there's a selection bias in play here, the trans people you encounter online, particularly outside of mainstream social platforms, are less likely to be socially healthy than the average trans person IRL.

In short, nerds and nutjobs are overrepresented online so any conclusion you reach about groups of people using experiences you've had online need to be taken with a massive grain of salt.
There isn't, there are multiple threads on the topic going on right now and there have been for several days straight by this point.
Nice. Even Japan (jp) and Japanese (ja) lose out with this.
> Claiming heat from a fridge would be like grabbing a cup of water for a minute a few times a day.

Did you know that people do this? The brits love making a cuppa tea. It's free energy and the heat pump in the fridge is already doing the work.
It’s also handy for making a special rule which can be toggled to totally block YouTube on the kids iPad.
My tried and tested remedy for disrespectful dogs is a hearty slap on the muzzle from above with an open hand. They don't expect it and it seems to hurt them quite a lot. I even put a rather dominant Ovcharka female in her place with this. (At the time, I didn't know how hard they can bite.)

Running away is not a good idea. Better run towards the dog. Then it will probably turn around, unless it is really sure of itself. In my experience, being convincingly dominant towards dogs is enough to fend them off. Grab something as a weapon if it helps you to be confident. If the dog bites, it will probably only bite very briefly and then let go again. Holding and shaking people like prey is unlikely if it hasn't been conditioned. I don't know what you can do in this case. Try as best you can to injure the animal. You are also dangerous and should let the dog know.
Not to mention what happens when the people that have a clue pull back spending to stack cash while a multiprong trade war erupts. "A little pain?"
I think the arguments is there is no way to validate it was you that did the work. There's been too many instances of groups that do interviews for others or the work for take homes to help get people placed. There was a big deal about some H1Bs a while back where the people that showed up didn't look anything like the people that interviewed. So I understand both sides.

It's frustrating though when you've done a lot of work, as you've listed. I think in a good interview maybe going over that code and getting the chance to explain things you did, why you did, or issues you had, could also go a long way.

Interviewing is tough, more so at scale.
£14 billion is the industry revenue. Gambling taxes to the state are £3.3 billion. Gambling harms are costed at £1.77 billion, of which £1 billion is death from suicide and £0.5 billion for depression. Those costs are conservative estimates (the government "expect that the true costs are higher because the lack of evidence meant that it was not possible to cost all types of harms or the wider harms to individuals or society")

In what other industry are those societal harms acceptable?

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gambling-related-...
I don’t think the rise of shorts is mutually exclusive with longer videos being pushed on the platform, as well.

Many people leave YouTube on in the background, but it doesn’t make sense to do that with TikTok style clips
Pretty much this. A short video is a fairly strong indication that the author did his work and respects your time, while a long one is a fair indication of the opposite. I've come to recognize some red flags in longer videos, such as including unnecessary bloopers, reading very slowly, reading long and frequent definitions, going on tangents, and generally not synthesizing the information enough such that all the bits presented tie into the main topic.

I would lie if I said that I don't consume long form documentaries on Youtube. I do and there are some channels that I deeply enjoy. But for a while, especially since they removed the dislike button, I've become wary of discovering new channels. It's often hit or miss, and the overall time investment doesn't look justifiable in retrospect. For this exact reason, I've removed all my subscriptions, and disabled all recommendations. I mostly poll for channels that I remember had good content that was meaningful to me.
…or install a font with support
> during which I’ve gotten a lot of value out of doing. has been a erroneous retort to the value of space repetition for decades, during which I’ve gotten a lot of value out of doing it.

I imagine spaced repetition is not actually a cause of repeating yourself. That's just caused by being too lazy to proofread before you post.
That works great until you end up paying more in processing fees than the value of the item.
Or when you pre-pay the tax online when buying an item, the shipper doesn't mark the package correctly and the local post service tells you you have to pay the tax a second time and ask the seller for a refund of the prepaid tax. Of course that involves a long time spent chatting with a CS rep who doesn't seem to understand the problem, and they refuse to refund you for the extra processing fee. (Looking at AliExpress here. Still, don't have much of a choice.)
Or a friend decides to be nice and send you a gift for Christmas but you end up having to pay more in taxes and tax processing fees than the actual value of the gift.
Oh and did I mention the tax here in Norway is 25% of the item value _plus_ the shipping cost?
If the font contains the missing emojis, sure. Emoji fonts tend to be huge though. The base Roboto font doesn't contain the emojis IIRC, there's a separate Roboto Emoji font for this reason (it's several dozen MBs).
Panels and live programming assignments are such an awful idea. Is that what the workplace is like? Doo they want people who can work under those conditions? I've been a working professional for 18 years who gives public talks regularly and I can still see myself clamming up in that situation. Everyone knows it's hard to think and type when you are being watched.
Interesting. I hadn’t really thought of global state as being a problem (I mostly think of caches as affecting performance but not semantics but I guess I didn’t really think about cache invalidation/poisoning either). My main worry would be more something like making a cold start very difficult or making things harder to change.
This is fairly easily answered through legislation like the GDPR which classes this data as personal data if it’s associated with an identified or identifiable person.
I live in New Zealand - until 2019 things used to work this way for us too. A law was introduced to require overseas sellers selling more than $60,000 NZD/year into New Zealand to collect pay our Goods and Services Tax.
Now Amazon/Temu/AliExpress others all collect 15% NZ GST at the checkout. It's pretty seamless as a buyer, just that GST is not usually shown until checkout unlike domestic sites.
https://www.ird.govt.nz/gst/gst-for-overseas-businesses/gst-...
Many of these industries would take a decade or more to get running or remotely competitive. But he's also killing all sorts of motivators for domestic manufacturing, infrastructure, and research. And his irrational behavior and frantic changes are discouraging to investors.

Some of these industries, such as aluminum, are genuinely unfeasible in the US due to the facts of geology and geography. Some are not feasible due to labor costs.

The reality is that Trump doesn't understand economy and just latches onto random concepts. In his prior administration, career professionals could reign this in, but since then he has become increasingly paranoid and angry toward "others". The only requirement for his cabinet and civil servants is now loyalty to him, opposition will not be tolerated (see USAID employees being fired for - required by law - refusing access to confidential information to unauthorized SpaceX employees).

So, yes, this is just nationalist garbage.

If you wanted to take it to a conspiracy, though, one could argue this plays into the recent tech billionaire reports that there is a coordinated plan to burn the US economy so they can buy and rule over the cities they build on its ashes.
You can still make money writing blog or article if you have a sponsor. Just because you are on some platform it doesn't mean you will get free visitors. Its very competitive. You need to be among the top creators to be featured on YouTube et.al. Almost all creators have sponsors because you make so little money on the ads because the platform takes a crazy huge cut. The platforms are just middlemen rent seekers profitting on mindless zombies who are cunsuming content and just watch the next video in the recommendation flow.
Correct! This is how some advanced systems already work in multifamily, where one room's excess heat is routed to another rooms lack of heat -- "Variable Refrigerant Flow" or VRF
Good luck putting the genie back in the bottle.