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sounds
·4 days ago·discuss
I guess Microsoft doesn't think in those terms.

Doesn't Microsoft want fewer, bigger games locked into their Project Helix platform? Why compete with Unreal when they can sign a sweet license for the engine?

Why build an ecosystem when they are already a huge monopoly?
sounds
·last month·discuss
I second the other commenters, and recommend watching the linked videos.

General Relativity and Entropy have not yet been unified into a single theory. In the meantime, gravity always takes priority over entropy. Or in other words, physicists don't yet know how gravity could make entropy slower or faster, so gravity ignores entropy and entropy just has to deal with whatever happens within the gravitational field.

A spaceship in a strong gravity field would not know their time was any different. Someone outside the field would give them a different relative measurement. But inside the field, entropy is not slower and not faster, because the spaceship doesn't see any change in the speed of their own clocks, even if they hear from someone else that their clocks are going at a different speed.

Good luck!
sounds
·last month·discuss
Not all cash is fungible for CapEx. For instance, much of that might hypothetically be held in an offshore account. Building a datacenter with it would trigger unfavorable VAT or sales tax or something... Hypothetically...

High cap companies use debt for this: bank loan is located in the market where it's needed most, and the debt is serviced by interest earned from securities in other markets. The net taxes are a small percent (think 3%) relative to simply transferring funds within the company. Yes, this is the low effective tax rate the EU is quite upset about.

Other reasons for not touching their holdings usually have a similar explanation. The securities are fungible for accounting purposes but not fungible enough for actual day-to-day operations. Result: securities get "stranded" and the large company grows a hedge fund appendage.
sounds
·2 months ago·discuss
Please keep in mind this sudden burst of legislation is because Facebook recently faced a combined $1.1 billion fine for intentionally harming children. The judgment took years.

New Mexico Child Safety Case ($375 Million) was an actual judgment.

US class-action privacy lawsuit was a $725 million settlement, with no judgment.

These laws were proposed as soon as it was clear Facebook would not win. They move the liability to the Operating System, exempting Facebook.
sounds
·2 months ago·discuss
Is there any additional info on where it was "published publicly by an unrelated third party"? From the timeline in the writeup:

> 2026-05-07: Submitted detailed information about the vulnerability and the exploit to the linux-distros mailing list. The embargo was set to 5 days, with an agreement that if a third party publishes the exploit on the internet during the embargo period, the Dirty Frag exploit would be published publicly.

> 2026-05-07: Detailed information and the exploit for this vulnerability were published publicly by an unrelated third party, breaking the embargo.

Edit: nevermind, details are further down in the thread:

https://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/12

And

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055863
sounds
·3 months ago·discuss
This is an interesting thought exercise. I immediately thought of the counter argument that Apple's driver quality is worse, especially for laptops nearing end of life (for the sake of argument assume this were true).

Could I then submit a warranty claim and demand Apple replace my aging laptop with their latest model?
sounds
·3 months ago·discuss
Question: did the hints given at https://frame.work/nextgen include any secret messages you want the public to know about? Maybe the secret was missed during the run up to today?
sounds
·4 months ago·discuss
Bank is saying it doesn't want your money, correct?
sounds
·4 months ago·discuss
Didn't they announce they were selling it off a while back? I thought the reason was it's not very much like the other things Google does.
sounds
·4 months ago·discuss
> I just don't know if the human capital is there.

> At my job we use HyperV, and finding someone who actually knows HyperV is difficult and expensive...

Try offering significantly higher pay.
sounds
·5 months ago·discuss
Samsung seems to be targetting a sweet spot. "Costs less than Apple, superficially looks like an iPhone, product lineup includes smaller form factors, good enough."

It doesn't work for me, but that's because I courageously use my headphone jack.
sounds
·6 months ago·discuss
The US clean energy tax credit is only available for equipment installed on or before Dec 31, 2025 https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/residential-clean-ene...

As a result, more used solar should become available on ebay. I'm excited to see what I can do on a shoe string budget.
sounds
·6 months ago·discuss
"Bar Reciprocity" or "Reciprocal Admission" lets a lawyer do something like move to a different state.

Example: Maine https://www.mainebar.org/page/ReciprocalAdmission

Texas State Bar is still a thing. This means that it has split from the American Bar Association, but the legal system of Texas is still part of the US Legal system.
sounds
·6 months ago·discuss
What I don't understand is how this new type of asset is above reproach.

I mean BlackRock and Blackstone creating securities backed by real estate in general, not only single family homes.

What if this new type of asset signals to the broader real estate market that regulators favor large investors?

Even more likely, what if this new type of asset succeeds at the expense of first time home buyers?
sounds
·6 months ago·discuss
Do you think malware creators find out by reading HN or github? I don't understand the vitriol, the request "Github should take a harder stance" could have a chilling effect on security researchers, pushing high impact exploits deeper underground.
sounds
·7 months ago·discuss
If you want to see a comparison against an even broader set of open source compression algos, this is lzbench (it's linked directly from the ZXC github page)

lzbench has added ZXC to its suite. This makes a nice apples to apples comparison possible.

https://github.com/inikep/lzbench
sounds
·7 months ago·discuss
For those of us near Boulder, it's urgent.

But the stratum 1 time servers can shrug and route around the damage.
sounds
·7 months ago·discuss
100% this. Wikipedia article on qwerty:

"The QWERTY layout became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878...

"The 0 key was added and standardized in its modern position early in the history of the typewriter, but the 1 and exclamation point were left off some typewriter keyboards into the 1970s."

There's always a few oddball variations. But desk work will probably use a qwerty keyboard in the year 2100
sounds
·7 months ago·discuss
A college level approach could look at the line between Math/Science/Physics and Philosophy. One thing from the article that stood out to me was that the introduction to their approach started with a problem about classifying a traffic light. Is it red or green?

But the accompanying XY plot showed samples that overlapped or at least were ambiguous. I immediately lost a lot of my interest in their approach, because traffic lights by design are very clearly red, or green. There aren't mauve or taupe lights that the local populace laughs at and says, "yes, that's mostly red."

I like the idea of studying math by using ML examples. I'm guessing this is a first step and future education will have better examples to learn from.
sounds
·7 months ago·discuss
I'm switching to DisplayPort