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> Even then, he/ she is an unknown, for the simple reason, they might exaggerate their experience and AAA studios can guarantee the candidates quality.

This has not been my experience at all. The opposite, in fact. I briefly did hiring at a medium sized game studio. We preferred to hire indie devs with completed games over those with AAA studio pedigree specifically because we can verify that the indie dev actually built stuff himself. He could provide code when asked and talk intelligently about it.

AAA studio developers couldn't share any code (for obvious reasons) and it can be hard to pin point exactly what they did on any given project. When a studio can put anywhere from 10 to 100 developers on a single project, authorship gets fuzzy.

That said, I would discourage the indie dev in question from pursuing a job in the industry. Why would you jump aboard a sinking ship? 1000 people in the games industry have been axed in the last year alone[0].

[0]: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-09-27-more-than-...
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> And why should someone who wants to be a mother and a careerist have to accept more career penalties than someone who wants to be a father and careerist?

Because of clear biological differences you can’t simply substitute a man for a woman.

As such this article is suggesting that we can make men worse off career wise to even things up.

But that only makes sense from a narrow gender-equality perspective.

It makes much more sense to look at it from a family unit perspective where it’s a good thing for the man to take on the career burden to help his family.

> And why should a woman who doesn't want children have to pay a penalty for the choices of those who do?

Because it is critical to the basic maintenance of our society. The same reason I pay a penalty for a large number of government services I don’t use.
You don't happen to be the creator of another indie game Scraps, do you?
Sorry of it appears shady. It's definitely not supposed to be. Although I submitted the apps myself, I talked to a few of the authors beforehand. Some were excited to have an potentially additional source of income as (who would have guessed it) their donation buttons don't yield a lot. Others didn't really care and wanted me to donate any profits. This first version is more an example how things could look like, and I hope that the respective teams take over their apps in the future and that developers submit new apps themselves.
To my mind what matters at a physical level is something I’ll call causal significance. Is the property in question a cause of anything physical such as a behaviour? If so, then that property must have a physical basis in reality even if it is simply a physical encoding in cells or chemicals.

A for loop in a computer program is a property. It causes a behaviour. It can only do that because it is encoded in the materials of the computer. The question is, are there any properties a biological system can have that are not encoded in its physical constituents? Anyone answering ‘yes’ to that question really needs to provide a very clear answer as to how they think that might be possible and how else that property might arise.
You made the mistake of thinking that anyone would care how many hours you spent optimizing some C++ function that does something already solved a hundred times in a hundred different game engines. It's a natural tendency for all programmers. But making a game in 2018 is far more of a creative endeavor than anything to do with programming really. You need a massive amount of top notch artwork, music, 3D modelling, shader effects, SFX, etc. to have a polished nice looking game. That takes either superhuman talent or a large team of specialized people beyond yourself.
You could make exactly the same argument for math research. It is somewhat true, but not entirely. There are many breakthroughs by older people.
And Daimler was also bribed into becoming an investor in what3words? Maybe Daimler looked at the various options and chose the one best for marketing (best to convince end users, press, investors what it is). Easier to add celebrities and puns in ads similar to Apple Siri ads https://vimeo.com/250456705
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100895
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I run a tiddlywiki server (on my server) and sync the files between all my devices. That way I always have a copy of my data, but I always do my editing through the server. Previous to this setup I tried to sync to all my devices and edit them locally, but it wasn't worth the trouble. I find that I don't mind doing all my edits through an online service.
> it has no bearing on the earnings of a specific woman with specific goals and habits.

But who cares about individual women and what they want? We want the top level statistics to be equal!

/s
Not really a replay of a brain scan is just a replay of a brain scan it is not more “alive” or “conscious” than video footage.

If we’re talking about VSI/GAI or some sort of singularity event where people can upload their brains into a computer and remain conscious well then their definition would be which ever legal and common definition society would grant them.

There is absolutely nothing special about intelligence or consciousness and it’s an arbitrary definition in the first place which we put in due to fear of the unknown and our own physical limitations.

Anything beyond that is for the most part intellectual masturbation with little actual value or true insight that can be gained from it.

We created the definition for what is alive, conscious and intelligent based on our limited understanding of the universe and our human centric world view these definitions change as time changes just like every other arbitrary definition we have set in stone in the past.
In a perfectly rational market, neither mother or father would disproportionately decide to make one choice or another to prioritize or de-prioritize work at the expense or benefit of raising children. Equal numbers of men would be making that same choice as women do. But that's not the case today.

Despite all the hemming and hawing over the wage gap issue, it's clear where the wage gap comes from: childcare, childcare, childcare. Even if women, in general, are making an informed decision to de-prioritize work, it's not a rational decision at the societal level if men don't also make that decision in equal numbers. No one faults a woman for making that decision for themselves and their family. But on a societal level, we're not going to see wage equality until men are given an equal chance to make these same decisions in a way that's not dictated by age-old stereotypes of masculinity and breadwinners.

I think mandatory paternity leave would help here. I also think on-site childcare, or subsidized childcare given to employees as a benefit like healthcare, could benefit both mothers and fathers and help influence more women to stay in the workforce. The costs of subsidizing childcare for a 30-something manager are probably lower than the costs of finding and training someone new to replace them if they're forced to leave the workforce to care for a newborn. There are a number of interventions the private sector can take that can be integrated around pregnancy, birth, and raising newborns that can make work a bit more rational for both mothers and fathers and help retain employees.
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I went through a similar situation when I created an Indie game studio with friends. We worked for a year and made a cool $5,000 but it was a "failure" by all sense of the word. We learned a lot and had a ton of fun. Some feedback:

Your website is god awful. Seriously.

The copy doesn't excite anyone to play the game

You make the user jump through hoops to play - if you already are writing it off, make it free to play in-browser without Steam (you want traction at all costs right?)

What did you learn?

Did you have friends or a community playing it as you worked on it? If you didn't, then you really need to look at the Lean Methodology
I built a documentation-orientated static site generating CMS that acts as a git repository.

I lost a bit of momentum with the project as I had paid work to do, but in the meantime the landscape has filled up with competition.

https://www.graphia.co.uk
That's what I did! Most were excited for an additional source of income as (who would have guessed it) their donation buttons don't yield a lot. It's also about discoverability and usability. Some projects have really complicated donation terms and hide the respective links on some nested sub pages. On cliapp.store I want to make it easier and more natural for users to support the developers.
Does anyone think that the current entry level amateur test might be too easy? When I was in elementary school I loved the idea of being a ham radio operator. I checked out books from the county library but found the content beyond my abilities at that time, especially as they were my one and only source of help. In my college days I took another look as the tests were simplified but at the time every license still required a Morse Code test. With lots of other things going on I dropped the idea.

Recently I looked into it again and took sample tests online. I passed every one on the first try. My university degree isn't EE but it's in a related field that required taking a good number of EE courses. Even with that, I couldn't design a radio to save my life. I might be able to figure it out relatively quickly with available material online but it strikes me as being a bit of a mismatch that I likely can easily pass the Technician test while my practical knowledge of equipment used by amateur operators in that of a black box.
If nothing else, perhaps the bank of questions should be larger. I'm not good at rote memorization but others are.

Perhaps there is no real problem here but I can't help thinking that maybe there are a lot of people getting licenses without a real understanding of how much in the ham world actually operates. I understand the desire to make it more accessible, especially given the pressure to reassign amateur band to other uses but is there a risk of becoming CB Radio 2.0?
We already do pay to help raise other poeple’s kids through a variety of taxes, including public schools via property tax. This would be more of a subsidy for reproducing, rather than helping to raise them. I think it’s only rational for a community to invest in good outcomes for children, because the alternatives are not only undesireable and immoral, but more expensive. Actually subsidizing having children though, rather than investing in existing children isn’t something quite so simple. If you want to have children and are willing to make the associated sacrifices, good for you, it entire ask me to mitigate those sacrifices when I’ve chosen to not have children. I’m still happy to pay my taxes and invest thereby in their education and health, but propping up your career? No.
Posting about this on Twitter is apparently enough to get banned, as https://twitter.com/hbdchick discovered.
>"'It is highly unlikely that you will find a large number of statistically significant results. The sample sizes are just too small'."

This is just a tautology. In social science large sample size = statistical significance (there are only false negatives since the null model being tested is always wrong).
But is it worse then quitting after 1000 days building and "1000 days establishing market fit."
I have the same fear of forgetting things and the desire to remember everything I've learned. I'm an academic, so mostly this means references to papers and books I've read, along with notes summarizing their contents.

(My PhD advisor used to say that a sign of learning isn't whether you remember something -- it's how quickly you can re-learn it. So I try to make it easy to find and re-learn things I need.)

Since I need to cite papers, I had to put together a system that can read BibTeX bibliographies and format them into references. I cobbled together a Hakyll config that uses Pandoc and KaTeX to turn Org files into HTML pages, with a simple chronological listing: https://www.refsmmat.com/notebooks/

I've found this useful for my own reference and to share with others -- if someone asks me about some topic I've read about, I can just send the notebook link with summary and citations.

I'd like a version that doesn't need separate BibTeX files (though that should be easy to solve with a couple scripts or some Emacs packages), and perhaps intelligent full-text search, but for the moment I like that it produces static HTML that will last forever.
Yep

Most equipment uses Selcall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selcall
See also: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3294
I'm afraid this was my first thought having watched the video — does it look fun?

I'd like to think that the foundations are in place to make it such, but from what I saw, I saw a lot of [highly capable] box ticking, but not a lot to make me want to take it on.
> adblocker | either AdBlock Plus (ABP) or uBlock Origin, the two most popular ad-blocking Firefox add-ons

Adblock Plus ("ABP") does not block a lot of ads by default, as ABP's "Acceptable ads" is opt-out -- i.e. it is enabled by default.

I wonder if this was taken into account, and if not surely this affected the result of measuring "the effect of ad blocking on user engagement with the web", as you can't categorize ABP's "acceptable ads" as "ad blocking".
We ban accounts for commenting like this, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
matt4077 might be right actually; those who choose to pay to avoid ads are probably not broke and thus more valuable ad targets, so (some?) content creators will get greedy and double-dip by producing content steeped in product placements or equivalent. That, in turn, would undermine the idea and adoption by the willing-to-buy-out-ads segment would be low.
I don't doubt it's an important thing, I'm scoffing at "the most important".

Take almost ANY very important historical figure. Was their most important asset their intellect or talent or Idon'tknow,
OR their ability to convert those into income?
I know lots of people who commute by car into the centre of Birmingham every day. My train commute is only 30 minutes door to door, but I'd be quicker driving. Do you live in London?
As I was reading this post I thought I could be writing it myself...
Although I am in the mobile gaming industry (maybe even harder than steam) and I "only" spent 2 years on my project the outcome was similar.
Conclusion: don't spend that long on a project with such an unpredictable fate.

Shameless plug: https://www.dinorush.com
I havent tried deep-model. To be honest, knowing about 2.6-next/3.0 on it's way. I can let it be for now and then refactor when the new version hits in 2019.

I'm not quite sure about VueX. There's this [0]. Which I'm going to attempt soon. Would be nice if VueX could help. Would solve the UX and postMessage issue that I have.

For context. It's a page builder like leadpages, elementor for wordpress, unbounce, etc. It's one big array which then gets parsed as JSX and then rendered out to the vDom.

[0]: https://forum.vuejs.org/t/share-vuex-store-with-vue-app-in-i...
The basic sentiment has been around since at least the 1890s, and Orwell did during and after WWII criticize pacifism by essentially saying that the only reason you even can be a pacifist is because people that aren't pacifist are willing to protect you. But that particular phrasing is modern.
Beyond the topic and book, I found description of author William Vollmann's manner, style, editorial relations, and biography distinctly engaging. And not unrelated to the result.
Yeah that's me. Still working on it when I get the time - unfortunately I don't have a lot of time at the moment.
That's not a viable option. There is no such thing as a truly effective non-lethal weapon.
> Steam has no way of listing them in an easy to parse overview

I would love to download a list of all games on Steam in .csv (or other simple tabular data) format. Is it possible to write a scraper? I want name, link, genre, price, platforms, and votes/installs if available.
Likely influenced in part by survivor bias. I don't have a PhD either. You can say I have a more practical than theoretical understanding of dropout.

The way to get past HR gatekeepers is to bypass HR. If you ask an employee: "Hey, I'd really like to work at your company for a while now. Can you share some resources/tips that would help me prepare for function x?" and you don't get useful feedback, you don't want to work there. If you send a data science lead a notebook where you solve a problem that is relevant to their business and you don't get a job interview, you don't want to work there (or need to brush up on your presentation and analytics skills).

Do the fast.ai courses. I promise you there are more profitable jobs available in ML than in indie game dev. Become good at using ML tools and data science (Python) and/or data engineering and data infra (Scala, AWS, Docker).
The self driving car will go park outside of the city.
A public dev log, or a discourse channel where potential players can participate early in the development.

Stardew Valley primarily gathered early adopters through regular blog updates about dev progress.
It's the richest country on earth. What's the excuse?
I promise you that posting about the Hajnal Line is not why HBDchick was banned.
In Germany, I'm always the first to point out that it's called "Funkamateur" and not "Amateurfunker". 73! :-)
There is a "Pricing Info" link right below the payment button where I describe meticulously where the money goes. Offering an unlimited trail for an actually commercial product is a standard (and I think very generous) licensing term. Just check out https://www.sublimetext.com.
Good.

It would ironic if an expectation of autonomous vehicles actually forced cities to create public transit if they failed to appear.
I've long suspected that my depression & OCD were caused by some immune response. It all started very suddenly when I had a very bad illness. Unfortunately I have yet to find a doctor that believes me and is willing to do anything other than giving me the standard medications.
You can't trace the stack in portable C.
A clone of a brain state in a different medium would be a Boltzmann brain. It is indeed a freaky concept. Stranger still is the possibility that inanimate matter could randomly fall into an arrangement that mimics a brain state, say a cloud of atoms in interstellar space, or inside a star. Is it conscious?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
People will just “pirate” the web. As for no ads, people who want that experience already get it for free. Given the incredibly low quality of most ad supported content, maybe the real solution is for much of it to die.
And the strongtowns take: https://www.strongtowns.org/parking/

It seems to me it would put pressure on other issues (investing in public transit) which may not followed up on, thus leaving you with a dysfunctional urban infrastructure.
It used to, though. From the original Scheme paper: Note that in SCHEME, unlike MacLISP, the body of a LAMBDA expression is not an implicit PROGN.
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As the other poster commented the article lays down some flaws in Niels’s logic however I don’t have sufficient intimate knowledge of what Niels fully “believed” in.

That said early QM had a lot of metaphysical stuff in it for example CCC had a pretty substantial following at the time due to some of the prominent people that supported it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann–Wigner_interpret...

However it’s highly unlikely that the Avon Neumann interpretation is correct given what we know about QM, in fact it was highly unlikely back when the interpretation was initially conjectured.

And this brings me to a personal anecdote I don’t believe that Consciousness Causes Collapse is a correct interpretation of quantum mechanics, I don’t actually have sufficient faculties to argue with someone like Von Neumann on this matter however it just sounds utterly stupid and rediculous to me that a consciousness would be required for QM effects to be manifested.

This is an utterly flawed and poorly constructed logic but I am most likely right in my assumption.
Pandoc is not a commercial product. By claiming one must buy a license, you are misrepresenting its actual license. If you're actually selling your own wrapper around it, make that clear.

The pricing info link also sounds dangerously like what other projects have done in the past: "we take the money and put it in a pot, and at some point the author can ask us for the money and we'll figure out how to get it to them". This means users wanting to support the dev unwittingly put the money in a pot the dev has then to go through additional effort and potentially expense to access, which the users would have avoided if they'd known, e.g. through a direct donation. If you actually have clear agreements with authors on how this is going to work, you should emphasize that. If you don't, that should be clear too.
If there hadn’t been minimum parking requirements in the past, cities would have been forced to develop better transit. These requirements were a direct subsidy to car owners, which most people were not conscious of.

This will be a painful transition for people who depend on the status quo. But you have to pull the band-aid off sometime, and waiting longer won’t make it any better.
> (screaming)

No screaming here, please. That includes not using uppercase for emphasis, which amplifies it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> There is no technical limitation why it is impossible in C,

Yes, there is. You can't trace the stack in portable C, so you can't build a proper garbage collector.
Where? Great by what measure?
They are also lowering the bar for knowledge required to successfully operate the probe:

"Computer vision algorithms ingest footage from the handset’s camera and detect the probe’s location in real time, directing users through augmented reality (AR) prompts precisely where to position it. (Butterfly calls it “Tele-Guidance”.)"
45 degree satellite view.
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A memorandum is specifically not a treaty.
At this moment there are no MTA-STS support in postfix. But this thread [1] in postfix-users mailing list suggests acceptable solution: use external policy server for MTA-STS discovery. I have implemented such server: package on PyPI [2], source on Github [3]. Works for me.

[1] http://postfix.1071664.n5.nabble.com/MTA-STS-when-td95086.ht...
[2] https://pypi.org/project/postfix-mta-sts-resolver/
[3] https://github.com/Snawoot/postfix-mta-sts-resolver
my notes:

* HardCaml - DSP for FPGA/ASIC,
* embedded SW in OCaml (running on Xilinx MicroBlaze),
* HardCaml example: AXI interface, GPIO, SPI, cordic,
* FPGA: LUTs and regs, BRAM, DSP,

skip to 9:40 if you are familiar with FPGA,
skip to 17:50 if you know HDLs,
go to 37:10 for a demo

* HardCaml datatypes:
registers,
wires (can be used before they are assigned),
memory,
...

* API:
arithmetic,
logic,
`pipeline`, `reg`,
bit selects,
`width` --> useful for HW generation,
`inst` - use VHDL and Verilog in HardCaml

* signed and unsigned types: checks at compilation,
* `bits` = non-synthesizable, `signal`= synthesizable,
* `Always` ~ Verilog `always` - used mainly for FSM

* built-in cycle-accurate simulator:
supports multiple process,
MicroBlaze simulator (instruction set simulator)

* terminal-based waveform viewer and VCD export

* formal verification:
SAT solvers - boolean function --> SAT/UNSAT

* software:
Ocaml -> bytecode -> Ocaml interpreter for MB,
C-stubs in Ocaml library,
no signals, no threads, no Unix

* code for HardCaml available on Jane Street GitHub