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_--__--__··on Public trust demands open-source voting systems
Many states require party registration to vote in primary elections, and in states like California the primary is the only election that realistically matters.
_--__--__··on Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is needed for SF
He's never been a 'Trumper', at least not publicly. He got into a very public spat with the Harris campaign over failed attempts to set up an interview in his role as the owner of Time magazine, and seems to have soured on the Dem Party establishment since.
_--__--__··on Seeing like a software company
A substantial portion of the linked article is about the specific priorities of enterprise software customers.
_--__--__··on Analytical review of depression and suicidality from finasteride
Fin blocks the conversion of T to DHT, that rarely causes lower blood serum testosterone levels and can possibly even increase them depending on what else you've got going on hormonally.
_--__--__··on Analytical review of depression and suicidality from finasteride
It's one of the most commonly used DTC prescription drugs and is used for a purely cosmetic purpose, so debates about it are common online and full of low-quality motivated reasoning.
_--__--__··on How did sports betting become legal in the US?
Note that the article uses an outdated name for the Supreme Court case: Christie was replaced as governor while it was ongoing and the final name was Murphy v NCAA. That will make it easier to search for later coverage of the result instead of just early blog posts from when it was brought to court.
_--__--__··on Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students
People in those situations can and should start companies without an accelerator (or at least without this one). The joke around the SF scene is that even a founder with a boy/girlfriend is a sign of a startup doomed to fail, and YC doesn't seem particularly invested in changing that culture.
_--__--__··on Helium Browser
Surely performance is even less of a concern for a set of tools applying one time patches to ungoogled chromium?
_--__--__··on Helium Browser
From a few months of use I think qutebrowser is good enough to prove that a python web browser is not inherently a bad idea.
_--__--__··on Inflation erased U.S. income gains last year
Politicians love communicating about 2nd and 3rd derivatives of prices and debt in ways that even mathematically literate people have trouble immediately interpreting. There's a famous quote about Nixon doing it but it's honestly the current standard mode from all sides trying to avoid blame for the state of the deficit and monetary supply.
_--__--__··on The Unforgotten
Legal approved it but only after suggesting they remove the section with gambling odds on the number of high school players to die this upcoming season
_--__--__··on How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust
>he should be aiming those complaints at his own politicians

Which Kentucky politician supported the tariffs? This one: "But Republican Senator Rand Paul, who represents Kentucky, said the tariffs will hurt local businesses and consumers in his home state"? Maybe famous Trump yes man Mitch McConnell? Or did you mean the Democrat governor?

_--__--__··on Ollama Turbo
Groq seems to do okay with a similar service but I think their pricing is probably better.
_--__--__··on Face it: you're a crazy person
For an independent coffee shop specifically, the important question left out is "How are you going to create a welcoming environment that will attract customers without 1) aggressively kicking out the guy who bought one $5 espresso and then sat on his laptop occupying a 4-top table for 5 hours and 2) aggressively kicking out homeless people who try to use your establishment as a substitute for social services not provided by the local government?"
_--__--__··on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats
There is no safe amount of attention from people who spend their time sharing 'drama' online. The most extreme example is the kiwifarms lolcow stuff, but even very normal and boring internet 'microcelebs' learn the hard way that some insane person somewhere will decide they don't like you and go out of their way to interfere with your life and relationships.
_--__--__··on Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents
People speculate somewhat seriously that Claude (especially given its French name) picked up at some point that you aren't supposed to work as hard in July and August.
_--__--__··on Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors
DLSite (the closest thing to a Japanese itch.io) was one of the first targets of this push over a year ago. I'm pretty sure they just stopped accepting Visa/Mastercard on the site but set up a weird 'third party' where you could buy 'DLSite points' with your credit card.
_--__--__··on FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices
FYI to all commenters: the current FCC chair was nominated by Trump>Biden>Trump and unanimously confirmed by the Senate all 3 times.
_--__--__··on Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis
Most of my experience is with pre team preview singles (where there was an entirely different meta of blindly choosing a lead that would match up favorably against the set of other common leads), but my understanding was that VGC has a handful of Pokemon (Smeargle...) with a P_lead/P_bring ratio of 1.
_--__--__··on Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
California ballot propositions haven given every example you could need of the failure states of direct democracy on specific policy proposals: monied interest groups try year after year to find the magic combination of euphemisms and branding that will get the confused and uninformed voters to give them what they want.
_--__--__··on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
The Devin name/branding is so toxic that nobody will try their current product offerings, so the hollowed out shell of a respected company is actually fine for their needs.
_--__--__··on OpenAI and Microsoft tensions are reaching a boiling point
I can't tell if that line came from the unnamed sources or is just the journalist's understanding, but it seems pretty clear to me that OpenAI did not spend $3B for the source code of an IDE. They wanted the employees and customers to kickstart a shift to an enterprise product focus, which doesn't sit well with MSFT (who entered into a partnership with what they believed was a research lab that would supply things they could upsell in github and office365).
_--__--__··on The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return
Well yeah, the gospels were written in Koine Greek
_--__--__··on The Decline of Battery Life
I believe the PS Vita only got about 6~7 hours of gaming time per charge, but it held charge while sleeping/powered off better than any portable electronic I've ever owned (which to me is a more valuable quality than total battery life).
_--__--__··on Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold
Maybe Apple hasn't shoved AI into all their applications yet, but that doesn't change the fact that 'Apple Intelligence' uses a very meaningful chunk of the non-upgradable storage on their current laptop + mobile OSes and cannot be uninstalled even if you disable every AI feature you're allowed to.
_--__--__··on Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden
In addition to what other commenters have said, the growing market for telehealth finasteride means means that a decent portion of the male population are artificially below baseline PSA levels (and my understanding is that this has some degree of long term effect even if you stop taking the drug).
_--__--__··on Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer
Yeah, most of these are relatively solved problems, but they are nontrivial enough that one of the industry giants couldn't get it right on its first few tries.
_--__--__··on Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer
I think you are underestimating the per frame computation cost or massively overestimating the base model PS4. Remember that all fighting games have to lock 60fps, 16ms is not a ton of time for the handoff from input interpreter (SF has to parse backwards over the past several frames to see if a forward input is completing a quarter circle, double quarter circle, dash, etc) > game state update tick > graphical and sfx update pipeline. The issue with clock syncing meant that the worse your machine was, the more your opponent would roll back and the bigger the rollback windows would be because every single frame of your inputs would come late.

Here's an example of the constant one sided rollback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSB_JlJK_Ks

and an example of how players were aware that mashing caused frequent rollbacks: https://youtu.be/_jpg-ZiE70c?t=105

Eventually PC players learned that they could "fix" this by alt-tabbing out of the game, taking away dedicated GPU processing so they could be the peer that was falling behind.

_--__--__··on Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer
I'm curious how your engine decides to trigger rollbacks without explicit knowledge of which parts of the game state each input can actually affect. Naively rolling back on every missed input can and will be abused - in early versions of Street Fighter V players found out that while being comboed you could churn out inputs as fast as possible to cause rollbacks for your opponent, even though none of those inputs could actually do anything (this was made worse by other issues with that game's inability to keep opponent game clocks synced and constant one-sided rollbacks).
_--__--__··on Perverse incentives of vibe coding
I agree with the thrust of the blog post but honestly most of the increased line count comes from the fact that LLMs have been whipped into leaving moronic comments like

// Create a copy of the state

const stateCopy = copyState(state);

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