skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pooling is pretty standard practice though, it would be the go-to solution for any experienced gameplay programmer when dealing with more than a dozen entities (though annoyingly there isn’t a standardised way of doing it in Blueprint).
I have to tread lightly on this subject of course--

While I agree with calls for Hamas to "return the hostages," I feel exactly the same towards the thousands of Palestinians kept in Israeli prisons, often innocent, often without charge, often underage, often beaten, tortured, or sexually abused.
Not the same thing as this article, but I was impressed with the Chinese trend of “fixing” 2015-era MacBook Pros with broken screens by deleting the screen and installing a blanking plate, leaving the machine as a sort of C64/Amiga/ST/Acorn style keyboard-and-CPU single unit that could be plugged into an HDMI screen. https://ioshacker.com/news/people-in-china-are-using-macbook...
Absence of capital letters in texts is a clear sign of low effort b/s to me.
You're conflating age with wisdom - a common fallacy when charisma is valued over education, leading to Septuagenarian Heads of State ruling on partisan lines rather than Technocratic and egalitarian governance.
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I'm my town we also have strict rules on signage. Signs cannot be backlit or flashy. Generally they need to be setback from the street. This makes things harder to find but it's also easy on the eyes when you're just walking or driving around.
That's an interesting law. which country is that? I would love to know more about it.
this discord forum new post Home/End bug completely does my head in. you’re not the only one.
Not really sure what you guys are talking about. I've been using Rider for years and it's been great. I'm using the new UI and I have no problems with commits or anything else.

Recently joined a new team where I have to use VS because we have to work through a remote desktop where I can't install new stuff without a lengthy process, and having used VS for a while now it's so much worse. I miss Rider practically every second I'm writing code. There is nothing that I need that VS does better, it's either the same or usually worse for everything I do.

I hope I'll get a bit more used to it over time but so far I hate it. Feels like it's significantly reducing my velocity compared to Rider.
Israel has long used torture against Palestinian civilians. Some examples.

"Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests": https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-ho...

"Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured": https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/26/israel-palestinian-healt...

"Israel’s escalating use of torture against Palestinians in custody a preventable crime against humanity: UN experts": https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/08/israels-esca...
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Or you can keep the first question or a variant like "Did Russia invade Ukraine?" in the the USA too.
Wow! What a fantastic idea!
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Part of the appeal of refurbished computers is that currently, fresh new laptops and tablets have reached a horrible minimum-quality.
I have chewed myself and our household through a possibly obscene number of laptops, tablets and smartphones over the last 15 years or so.
One of the villains in this story is Asus.

An ugly pattern emerges. In my country, there is mandatory 2year warranty on bought electronics - if it breaks before 24 months, the retailer owes you a working specimen.
Well, what do you know.. I see a pattern of a lot of these items breaking before 3 years have passed. It is almost as if some hierarchy of managers have dictated "can you make this thing last for 25 months, but no further than that?"

- 1 the non-replacable battery will die, leaving the device a brick.

- 2 the power management IC will die, so the system refuses to light up or receive electrical current.

- 3 often, when (2) happens, the motherboard will be toasted as a by-product, leaving you to pay 600 DKK to have the retailer inform you "we have looked at your device, unfortunately the motherboard died, so repairing it will cost you same price as brand new. Thank you for the 600 you paid to have us tell you that".

Within the last year, I have had two separate Asus VivoBooks die on me,
both after about 24 months of use - but critically, ">24", so no repair/warranty.
One of them a DKK-10.000 purchase, the other a DKK-6.500 purchase.
Neither of them have seen particular abuse, they were used by me, as "household pets" - so laptops that never left the couch.

I have taken a long time to learn this, but my learned lesson is that
I have stopped buying these "10k DKK for 24 months of laptop" devices.

I am a pathological computer hoarder, and I have plenty of desktop PCs that are still alive and kicking after 10+ years (in which I may understandably have to replace PSUs).

The scam/grift that suppliers like Asus are operating on comsumer devices,
is that the PMIC is designed to fail, is soldered into the motherboard,
and that they love whenever the failing PMIC kills the motherboard during its death throes.
is what do string theorist smoke these days.

What's with HN commenters, who are likely very unqualified to comment on string theory details, hating on people working in string theory?

Is Sabine Hossenfelder's anti-string theory propaganda working that well?
And what happens if your nose starts running during those 24h?
Sports is a great way to achieve that
That and also the fact most of these "indestructible" cars had to be recalled because of parts falling off randomly.
Depends on the company.

I've worked in places where I was forbidden to fix bugs. Even if it was 1 line adjacent to the code I was editing.

The boss there used to work at amazon. I guess it wasn't a simple coincidence.
and rick and morty :)
nitpick: I'd argue the worse types of criminals are war criminals, like for example Hitler, who is, in my mind, worse than someone like Bernie Madoff.
The Economist wrote about this recently too [1]. The most fascinating part is how they’re evolving to spread faster and faster:

Attempts to control the toads have been going on for decades, yet their advance has accelerated. In the tropics, they now travel up to 70km westward every wet season, compared with 10km when they first arrived. They are thus poised to enter some of Western Australia’s most treasured ecological areas.

Toad biologists call this acceleration the Olympic Village effect. It is a superb example of evolution in action. Only the most athletic toads make it to the invasion front, where they breed. Over the generations, toads on the front have thus developed larger size, longer legs and even an urge to travel in a single direction.

[1] https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/01/22/gene...
> Even if a laptop were built to last 20 years, who would want one when a new one is an order of magnitude better?

Someone living in poverty whose life may be markedly improved by having one?
Last thing I want my pictures touching is some deep learning based thingy.
Got any evidence for any of these allegations?
20 years is a bit much but a 10 year old laptop can still browse normal websites. Just not the javascript loaden addfactories.

Doesn't mean you dump it after 2-3 years because a new fancy models comes along or the battery is not repairable because it's welded shut.
We recently discovered we store 500MiB of email tokens (expired). Then a copy of them in history table. Then this data is replicated. Then there are total of 4 backups of it. Backups that are done every 2 hours for half of each day. And we store those backup for up to half a year. I don't even want to add that up...
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the idea is great by itself. However it highlights a big problem in today western society.
Most tools that sync files (in contrast to mere copies) need a way to know which files need to be copied, and which can be skiped. The expensive way is to perform a checksum, but most sync tools rely on the creation or modified date unless told otherwise.

Now say Alice and Bob have the same copy of file F, Bob modifies it first which gets stored at timestamp T, then Alice modifies her copy at time T+1.

Bob syncs his files on a filer, its timestamp gets reset to now, which is say T+2. Then Alice does the same, but her file does not get copied, since the remote timestamp T+2 is newer than her local timestamp T+1.
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What's different is the badness of the outcome: if children mislabel you as a cheater in CoD, you may get kicked from the server.

If CloudFlare mislabels you as a bot, however, you may be unable to access medical services, or your bank account, or unable to check in for a flight, stuff like that. Actual important things.

So yes, I think it's not unreasonable to expect more from CF. The fact that some humans are routinely mischaracterized as bots should be a blocker level issue.
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I would like to publish on arxiv, in the cs.* (for the paper I have in mind right now, just a front-end/webdev paper). Some guidance on which category to use would also be helpful.

Can some kind soul please endorse me on arxiv? I am posting under my real name here, and my profile is correct and up to date.

I am willing to answer any questions over DM if necessary.

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The data is very limited there
Intel AX210 card worked for me out of the box in Linux.
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There are large protests of the fragile Israeli coalition government, by Jewish Israeli citizens, in Israel, every day. Specifically over this unpopular war. They flared up in size after the most recent cease fire ended.

It means that the global unpopularity of this war by non-Jewish non-Israeli people was always worth validating.

The culture of deflection in response to non-jewish people criticizing the exact same things that Jewish Israeli citizens are is just a meme worth ignoring. The general idea is that there is a belief that non-jewish people worldwide are thinly hiding a goal of eradication. A lot of Jewish and Israeli people are taught that from a young age, so its not easy for them to tell when people are only criticizing the exact same government policies that they are, with the same level of nuance.
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> would want one when a new one is an order of magnitude better

It's not, you're just ignoring two obvious points:

1. a person with no laptop would prefer it

2. a repairable laptop can also have its parts upgraded, so a 20 year laptop could have 1-year old parts
I'm not parent commenter, but TFA is primary reporting containing exactly the evidence you are asking about.

> men [...] held under Israel's Unlawful Combatants Law, a measure by which people suspected of posing a security risk can be detained for an unspecified period without charge, as Israel set out to recover the hostages and dismantle the proscribed terror group

which may or may not be distinct what parent comment refers to by Palestinian prisoners:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vje365rno

The BBC article cites further related reporting:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2yylgze4ro

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies...
I'm not sure show Fedora is derived from Debian...

If I recall correctly, the backdoor was set up to only activate on rpm and deb based systems, so it wouldn't have been trigged on Arch, Gentoo or NixOS, even if they linked systemd to ssh.
Outside of fintech, none of the highest paid devs are in suits. Not sure if it is even still a thing in fintech actually.

I am FAANG/FAANG adjacent. People making 400-700k/yr. I only see suits at holiday parties.
> The more actively the ojisan engages in volunteer work or community service, the higher the chances of their card being upgraded to a shiny version with a glossy laminated effect.

In systems like this, where artificial scarcity is seen as having value, making the cards _more common_ for good works seems like a perverse incentive; clearly, the best approach is to be Victor Meldrew, so as to have a rarer card.
I guess the cooling alone cannot reach the density (and oxygen amount) necessary for the designed power output.

Yes, they put in the energy to compress the air 'offline' and then have that free to propel the vehicle.
The cooling of the charge also improves the efficiency, the useful energy output is proportional to the temperature difference before and after the combustion.

A high capacity intercooler would be an interesting experiment also in utility vehicles.
I like this idea of making the soft skills explicit. Both to the interviewers and the candidate (i.e. in the job posting itself). This would save everyone involved a lot of time, too!
Its not about enumerating all of them but not ignoring or even celebrating them because its convenient and "its different when we do it"
Nehru place was almost 100% scammers than real geniuses but definitely the place if you wanted a custom computing rig. The food was good enough, like you said but the prospect of having a 2GB RAM module made you salivate even more!

The neighboring areas also had electronics importers that proved super helpful. You could find some of the most "lethal" tech with their help. I got myself some powerful FPGA kits that are normally not accessible outside defense, academia, and select licensed labs. I have great admiration for those folks who let me lay my hands over the most powerful technology of that time.
Aren't they process isolated? Surely if an exploit can go as far as to gain access to the browser pw mgr, they can do basically anything userspace, including execute payloads against all the other pw mgrs on the system?
Not a search engineer, but wouldn’t a cache lookup to a previous LLM result be faster than a conventional free text search over the indexed websites? Seems like this could save money whilst delivering better results?
Possibly you can take the negative approach and reject all of these inferior answers to arrive at something.

I've done what's possible in this medium to explain why you will always retain a quibble.

Let me now sign off and leave you the last word.
> Am I fundamentally missing something about the experience upper management has with AI versus the experience of a mid/senior level developer in the trenches?

Yes, the latter group have tried using it to get work done.
I haven't done it, but 7-series is theoretically supported by SymbiFlow tools[0], even though the bitstream generation still requires Xilinx's bitgen.

[0]https://github.com/symbiflow
People in a coma are still considered real human beings. The reason why you'd pull the plug is because there is no prospect of survival, or that the resources necessary are too great. Which, as much as it sucks, is a normal thing that happens. People die.

Intentionally breeding people that have no intelligence is a very different thing and I don't even know why we're talking about it as if it's even remotely similar.
What's your point? The thread is about how other people being fired is stressful.
You can always rent a conference room for an hour or so somewhere in between.
> Let’s say I write a book or record an album and there is no copyright. How do I get paid?

A couple of years ago, I would have agreed that this would be a big and complicated issue. But do we all really think this is a problem in 2025? By now we actually have proof that it isn't impossible.

First of all, there is already, today, a plethora of FOSS projects where the developers get regular salaries without relying on royalties. Good experienced people work, make a career, yet the end product is free. We have hard proof that it won't "become a non-viable [...] career". The field might shrink, or at least change, but it won't die entirely. There is still value to be gained, so someone somewhere will pay to have it created.

Furthermore, now a days there are also websites such as Patreon, Kickstarter, and the like that have clearly demonstrated that the same can also be applied to creative endeavors such as art, music, or writing. You just pay people as they work, monthly salaries, rather than afterwards based on royalties. Yes, it comes with other issues, and for many years it was hard to say if those would be crippling. But by now we can actually see, with real world examples, that it's a feasible way to fund creative projects, and the people working on them, even if the digital products were released for free after completion. It turns out that millions of people are willing to pay for these things, to speed up the development presumably, even though they would have gotten the same product for free later, it's no longer a hypothetical.

I also think that the future will show us even more ways to finance creative intellectual work without making things into 'intellectual property' that you have to guard fiercely with copyright as if it was in short supply.

Yes, it would probably become very hard to earn really big money, millions or billions, in the industry if everyone was working for salaries rather than royalties. The distribution would presumably be less top heavy, and more similar to other industries where "going viral" isn't really a thing. But is that such a bad thing? And it's not even a guarantee that this would change, after an artist goes viral their next project would presumably have a lot more fans and investors willing to ensure they continue working, since they loved the first album/film/etc so much.
That was my immediate thought on reading the article. Is this in dev or prod builds and which UE version is it referring to?

(Not that I expect the UActor code to have changed much but modifying UActor seemed more common in the early 4.x days.)
I like the idea of making things as simple as they possibly can be, which this appears to do.

After clicking 'Create and Copy Download Link' I'd wonder if the file had uploaded, for example if I were uploading an image or video to share on hn or reddit or whatever I'd want to make sure it's there before providing the link to others. So I guess I'd open the link in a browser to make sure. Even so, I still this this saves time where you're confident the file's small enough that it would upload in the time it takes you to send the link (likely, in a lot of cases) or you don't mind that it might take a little time.

Anyway, I like this idea. Nice work.
> If your nation's education is so bad that 51% of the population buys into disinformation with no way of convincing them otherwise, then you'll have to accept you're doomed as a country and deserve that fate. Might as well give up on democracy

Since giving up on democracy in this situation is a good thing, according to you, will you finally stop complaining about it?
The extension seems awfully heavy and it loads every time you run VSCode - not just when you need it.
I literally just bought a 2nd hand laptop, made by $huge_tech_conglomerate_from_pacific_northwest, with an 11-th gen i7, for less than EUR 250. The reason it was so cheap? It has a defective charging port so it only charges via USB-C. So it's not even "dead" dead.

This is mind-boggling, the CPU alone almost basically makes the full price. In what world is this an efficient allocation of resources?
On top of that support team often undeerstaffed and overloaded while feature pushers get more positions.
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I "fixed" broken hinge on a Dell laptop using some mseal. Sort of worked.
In my last company I had like 10 product managers above my head. Each one was managing a bunch of new features ordered by different clients. As a developer you could work with different product manager every day because every task was linked to specific product manager. Do you think any of them would care about such bug that do not block their precious feature for which they will get bonus if it's done in time? Of course not. And if you tried to speak with someone higher about that issue you would hit the wall of "And which client will pay for us fixing our own bugs?" As if better product would not have better marketing and bring more money in the future. Everything is always about money now. Monkey sees money - monkey has neuron activation.
It says that it "just happens" to be available to customers and the main reason it exists is for R&D. That's what I disagree with.
if you didn't mention United States - your statement would have been believable, but you cannot use words like US and civilized and democratic together in the same sentence.

The people on the receiving end of the US military industrial complex won't agree to your assessment. NK and China have never nuked a civilian city, never genocided civilian population with "strategic carpet bombing", and they never occupied one, never bombed one into the stone age, never caused millions of refugees
I really don't understand (from Australia) about this fear and hate of globalism.

The capitalist globalists have done what capitalists do, search for the lowest costs and the lowest quality that continues to sell for the highest price. That's economic globalism.

But the social globalism, of having human rights upheld around the world, a common attitude towards personal liberties, freedom of thought, speech, & work, entitlement to shelter, safe food & water, education, health care etc.

I don't understand why people are against that? You don't think everyone deserves to live with the same level of freedom as you do? They don't deserve to choose their government and leadership like you do?

What is it about that side of globalism that people hate so much?
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> Rather than magazine articles

There are many sources .. I linked to an opinion from two national economic advisors with careers in trade and economics.

You haven't countered their opinon or backed up your opinion, in fact you've strengthen my position that your axiomatic foundation is just another opinion of some.

See:

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* Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

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Are CAD data not sources in of themselves?

My last CAD file was 40GiB, and that wasn't a large one.

The idea that all sources are text means that art is never a source, and that many engineering disciplines are excluded.

There's a reason Perforce dominates in games and automotive, and it's not because people love Perforce.