skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong. I think a major issue is a lack of talented writers. A large number of show, like the Netflix Originals, seems to have a good idea for one season. When season two comes around it's clear that the creators/writers just had ideas for one season and the quality of the show suffers.

The Marvel based shows Netflix produces just wants to capitalize on the success of the movies, but they couldn't secure the right to top tier super heros and they're struck with charters that can't carry multiple seasons.
Agreed. My point was simply that the level of "support" you get by paying for software can actually be zero. I don't claim to know what's typical.

My estimation is that typical support consists of listening to customer complaints and suggestions and prioritizing development around that and available resources. I doubt many companies do extensive analysis or hire consultants to do security audits or much of anything that isn't directly customer driven.

The company I mentioned previously actually does extensive design, testing and regression testing on most of their products but the smaller side project just didn't get that attention. YMMV even within one company.
Only way is to either make it a hobby project, and work a day job that pays well.

Or, take the risk and go indie - effectively a lottery ticket.
Is it possible to hire an agent to do this for me for a reasonable price?
I failed to use quotes on that.
Indeed in terms of cellular connectivity, the new iPhones boast a significant jump as we’ve seen an upgrade in download speeds to a gigabit for LTE networks.

I would like to see this speedtest and know the location, please.
The stock market has priced in those future increases in the present day inflated stock price. That's a pretty decent indication.
Physicist’s ‘Inappropriate’ Music Video Resurfaces After He Wins the Nobel Prize
I think you’re right about the value of Made in America and societies where honesty (even about problems or risks) is valued.

The book I referenced included a number of instances where factories actively undermined individuals so that they had very little choice than to either go along with the situation, or press the ‘nuclear’ button and scupper the entire arrangement, including their own livelihood and career. That’s a tough choice for people to make.
But do retailers actually 'make' anything? Those grocery store brands? Made for them by the same customers that make other brands.

Its a marketing gimmick, not actually any new product coming to market, far as I can see.
The advantage that these personalities have is that you learn if their tastes match up with yours.

I have learned to never listen to Dunkey when he says a game is "Boring" but his idea of "Fun" matches well with me.

Also I watch some of the Angry Joe reviews because despite his tired theme of being angry all the time, he does a good job extensively covering a game from a semi objective standpoint. And I know when he is hammering home the negative points he is just hamming it up for the views so I don't take them too seriously.

Meanwhile gaming press is just a random assortment of editors with different tastes and values making it harder to discern how well the game will be for me.

That's why I like giantbomb since they are only 5 ish reviewers and you get to learn their tastes pretty easily.
The only way to create such an environment is to totally disconnect it from the outside world -- I'm talking even power source, phones, internet, all of it has to be disconnected or else I can exfil data all day long and nobody would ever know.
Sure, but an iPhone isn't really a step towards a post-scarcity society. It's an entertainment device, for the most part.
You made the allegation, you prove it.
Tangent: I have never used VHDL, but conceptually I find it mind-blowing that we have programming languages for automatic hardware design. I wonder if anything can be learned from it when designing "regular" programming languages.
Or better yet, let’s consider him not getting the nomination because he lied under oath. Irregardless of where you stand on the Ford allegation (which is currently he said / she said, and nothing more, despite me believing what she said), it’s easily proveable that Kavanaugh lied under oath.
Once a game company has a hit they become their own angel investor and try to find the next hit. The odds are really low though so most die before finding it. It doesn't help that most companies have no idea why the first game was a hit.

It's easy to hide for a long time because a hit can be so profitable. Look at Riot Games. League of Legends remains their only product even after trying to find another one for a decade. Zynga is still around because in a few short years they got a couple billion in the bank.
Even as you sit with an extreme-right president and near-state-sanctioned hard-right media, you claim that "Democrats are in control".

And why exactly do you claim that? How is it relevant? I'm answering a completely different question, about "coming out" as republican.
I wouldn't call them an upstart. They've been around for 23 years and produce some impressive content, but you are correct regarding the story about the families of the Chinese leaders and potential conflict of interest given Bloomberg L.P.'s business.

After the Xi story appeared, terminal sales in China slowed because government officials ordered state enterprises not to subscribe. The Bloomberg News website was also blocked on Chinese servers, and the company was unable to get visas for journalists it wanted to send to China.

In 2014, Grauer told staff at the Bloomberg Hong Kong bureau that the company's sales team had done a "heroic job" of mending relations with Chinese officials who had indicated their displeasure about publication of the Xi revelations. He also warned that if Bloomberg "were to do anything like" the Xi story again, the company would "be straight back in the shit-box."

On October 29, 2013, during a conference call, Winkler told four Bloomberg journalists in Hong Kong that the findings of their major investigation into "the hidden financial ties between one of the wealthiest men in China and the families of top Chinese leaders" would not be published. Less than a week later, a second planned article "about the children of senior Chinese officials employed by foreign banks," was also killed, according to Bloomberg employees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_News#China_coverage
>The problem with this is that it's built in the backs of brands who were at one point well recognized brands on Amazon. Amazon took their sales data, determined it was a good market to move into, created specifications and reached out to their hundreds of sellers for a "private label opportunity".

It's different imo. They see what private label products sell on FBA (and the specs they need to fulfill), and then can just negotiate better deals from the same suppliers, because most FBA sellers ship straight from chinese factories to Amazon warehouses it's no secret where it's coming from. And for many product categories there aren't that many high quality factories anyway.

The important part are the specs and quality of the product, if you don't specify and interact with the factories, you'll get crap, if you spec by focusing on the wrong things you pay too much and still get crap. The FBA sellers are basically just testing the right mixture until Amazon steps in adopting their formula. A successfull low cost product is just that, a good enough quality at an as low as possible price.
Get a teacher.

Learning on your own will get you at best to 70% of your potential, at which point you'll hit a wall because of all the bad habits you've developed which impair "effortless" play style. You'll get tired faster, injure yourself more, and you'll be so tense or badly positioned that some things will simply be impossible for you. From there, it's nearly impossible to fix things because you'll have to deconstruct almost everything and start afresh.

Put in the work & effort. There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it again.
JIRA is slooooooooooow. I don’t think any fancy integration can fix that slowness if their APIs are just snail slow.

On the other hand JIRA UX and moreso Atlassian UX needs a lot of work. A number of common things take wayyyy too many clicks. It’s hard to discover etc. A good integration can definitely fix that mess.

GitHub knows how to do good simple UX.
> It shouldn't be too difficult to distribute synchronous languages, and it is a quite natural idea. Most have a semantics based on Kahn networks [1], which is already a distributed model of computation :).

I don't think this is correct. Kahn networks are asynchronous (and therefore well-suited for distributed systems), but synchronous languages are – well, synchronous.

For every pair of nodes that exchange information, there has to be a rendezvous between them after every non-instantaneous step [1], which is terrible for performance in a distributed system (but virtually free in typical single-clocked, synchronous digital circuits).

[1] You can devise heuristics which reduce the frequency of those rendezvous in some cases, but conceptually, they're still there.
Maybe GP here's phrasing didn't communicate the idea well, but just because one item might be seen as magical to some particular people doesn't mean that anything we might see as magical is possible.
UK cyber security agency backs Apple, Amazon China hack denials
Indices will necessarily get the same net return as the average active investor, by definition.

For extant index funds there are trading costs and tracking error. The more correlated the markets become, the more index funds are going to be liquidity takers (paying to trade) and the further fund performance will fall behind the indices they're supposedly tracking.
The finance curse: how the outsized power of the City of London makes UK poorer
> manufacturers who sell on Amazon are crying foul because Amazon is undercutting them

... which has been the warning to anyone selling on Amazon for at least a decade or so?
Speaking of Kansas, one of the other things the article mentions is that turbines slow down the wind. It might not be such a bad thing for Kansas if the wind was slower. Less topsoil erosion, for one thing.
This is all well and good but I don't think the thinking is wrong, Jira is built and sold to managers who have the authority to impose it on their engineers, (typically dumping a lot of management responsibility onto the engineers in the process but that's a different issue). There's really not much you can do in a lot of orgs except hope that Jira starts to stagnate and rot.

So I understand the frustration when someone from the engineering side builds something for it -- "why, oh god why are you trying to extend its life?!?"
The fundamental difference between all of those games and what I would consider a battle royale game is you only get 1 life.

As an aside, I loved Tribes 2 construction mod.
Ease of financing?
Why is it we believe these companies statements?

Is the PR of fortune 500 companies bound to tell the truth always?

I'm a capitalist, but I cannot deny that it is in the best interest of companies to hide and deny negative news.
I think with housing you could consider it as overvalued because the product hasn't changed much while at the same time its price has increased a lot. Another indicator could be that for most people the share of income they need for housing has increased. In 2008 an indicator may have been that a lot of people relied on ever increasing prices in order to afford their mortgage debt.

But in the end "value" is highly subjective so there is no clear method to determine if something is overvalued.
Hit LinkedIn and UpWork and try your luck. Initially, both projects and pay would suck. But, with more experience (that includes soft skills and business wits) and as your network gets bigger, you'll fare better, will find new sales channels, and higher quality clients and projects.

Reach out to me if you have any particular questions.
We're still living in the Stone Age, only instead of using rocks to cannibalise each other we use language, marketing, economics, and politics.

Cognitive Violence is a thing. It won't (usually) kill you as directly as a blow to the skull, but it's not exactly life enhancing either.
Just as a counterpoint - I've worked for 4 years now as a programmer at one of the biggest publishers in the industry, and honestly, the work life balance is great, the pay is ok for the region(plus I get decent amount of shares every year), the work is varied, interesting and I like both what I do and people I work with. I think the last time I did overtime was 2 years ago, and even then it was only for a week around launch of the last project(in fact in every studio meeting we are constantly reminded that managers can NOT demand us to work overtime, if they do we need to report it higher up). Normally I get in at 8am, leave by 4pm, never work weekends or anything like that. Plus the usual for EU 25 paid days off(plus the studio is closed christmas to new years), unlimited paid sick leave, private health insurance.....really, it's pretty good.

But then again, I am aware that most studios are not like that.
I think there was the implied question "can we scale up wind power or are we going to run out of space?" Not all locations are equally suitable for wind power; one of the observations was that capacity per turbine has gone up but overall area required remained constant. That implies that builders have got better at siting them in precisely optimal locations - but everywhere nearby is less optimal.
The paper also proves that there is a slight negative return to scale on huge wind farms.

The implications of these are that more area than expected will be required. I don't think there is any consideration beyond that of implications in this paper.
> How fungible are game dev skills?

That depends on the role taken. Artists are fairly fungible (probably unfairly) because they can be shown a bunch of examples and told "make something that fits with this". Coders are fungible only if you're comparing wizard-level coders who can read, understand and fix / improve a game's codebase.
“EOS is a useless scam token of a centralized worthless platform” (Tone Vays)
Autonomous Everything: How Algorithms Are Taking Over Our World
The Rise and Fall of jQuery
Novel per se means nothing, for business the more the standards the better. In ML/DL for b2b we badly need unified best practices and, above all, sensitivity (ablation) protocols to demonstrate our models are neither overfitting nor cherrypicking.
You had a problem with counterfeit items on Amazon so you switched to AliExpress because... You're "okay with cheap/counterfeit"? I'm confused.
All fair points. I didn't really consider creating processes in a non-fork way. I'd probably miss the easy transfer of unnamed shared objects you get with forking. How do unrelated processes usually initiate communication?
So we had this idea of a new feature for our product. The only way to quickly do it was to somehow implement a machine learning algo and that would give us the result that we wanted. Viola!! It seemed simple.

Now our company doesn't have any machine learning expert or a data science genius. Going for hiring one would take time. Taking someone up on contract would be very expensive (our CEO wasn't ready to shell out that kinda money). So the task fell on me. They asked me to go through the multitudes of Machine leaning MOOCs out there and get a working prototype ready in 2 weeks.

I had already done Andrew Ng's course back when it came out for the first time. But my memory had faded for the lack of practice.

I re-ran the course again. I went over a couple of online ML books too.

Then I started thinking of the problem at hand. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a chicken and egg problem. For the feature to work perfectly we needed a large amount of training data to train our models.
But without the feature actually deployed, we didn't have any way to collect any training data.

So we ultimately fell back to simple algo, that took it's decisions based on a few hard coded rules. Things have been working fine till now.
Would tellico[0] ("a collection manager for KDE") work for you?

[0] http://tellico-project.org/
I don't think republicans have ever been respectable except back when they were actually "democrats". In 1860 the democrats were largely racist southerns bent on states rights and the republicans were northerners who viewed the expansion of the Federal government as a good thing for social justice and the country. By 1930 the parties had effectively swapped names which the modern political reality reflects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_State...
There are a whole lot of words in that article that don't prove the assertion in the headline.

You literally cannot in any way prove anything he said was a lie.
I think I gonna try https://github.com/driusan/lmt

I like that it is markdown and that it has a many-to-many mapping of input to output files.
I agree with you. I mean, I wish that Madden were progressing a lot more as a game, but the level of hatred that really singles out EA is really unwarranted.

And you are right that a lot of the problems are really industry-wide. I really hope that this pay-to-win system can start to fade away again.
Like Fox News???
A few disparate items I've ordered from Amazon recently like a ping pong table, 6ft. ladder, storage container all are resellers directly passing your order through to Walmart. I've started visiting the brick and mortar Walmart store more often. Shopping online (essentially Amazon) used to be cheap and convenient.

Now the expectations on quality have gone down to "OK if this works great, but do I really have the time to print the return label, package it again and ship it back?" Basically my level of trust in stuff sold on Amazon is much lower than what it used to be a few years back. For. e.g. 10 yrs. back - Plasma TV on Amazon? No problem. Now its Costco all the way for expensive electronics stuff.

On one level, Amazon is just fleecing the sellers on their platform - all sorts of charges for combinations of ad words. A lot of sellers have figured out how to game the system. It's just an awful mess. I have been considering cancelling my prime membership for a couple of years now... inertia keeps me from doing it. I've tried Ali express as well. It was an OK experience. Now I'm browsing Etsy. Haven't really bought anything, but it's looking more attractive for household stuff.

In summary, like theossuary, I believe figuring out your niche stores will be beneficial. Watch out for those Asics warehouse sales for workout clothes and shoes etc.
> GP might be trying to argue that alpha generation is a zero-sum game, but alpha and beta are notoriously slippery concepts. If you want to define beta as the index return, I think you're going to have a hard time convincing me that alpha is zero sum without assuming the EMH or something similar.

Alpha is zero sum because the total return of the market is the total return of the market. So the money-weighted average return to stockholders must equal the money-weighted average growth of stocks.
I'm pretty sure I had an E3500, back in the late 90's, that had two power supplies. I may be misremembering...

No, you are correct. That second power supply was apparently for "peripherals only", not the main CPUs... http://www.tech-specifications.com/SunServers/E3500.html !
I dont know if its different in UK but in US the warranty is provided by Apple and the Apple Store would repair any Apple product as long as an authorized retailer sold it
Are you saying the home-made baklava was usually disappointing or the bought baklava was? The middle eastern ladies at my Orthodox parish make delicious baklawa.
"Pass the message" or just "whispering game" seems to be the same.
What's rather galling about the streaming part of the Prime subscription is that a good chunk of content is now hived off into "Prime Video Channels", where they expect you to shell out another GBP4.99/month or more to watch previously "included with subscription" stuff. There's even films where you might have paid a couple of quid to watch that are now in these silos with no other option but to pay for the channel sub to view them, i.e. there are no other payment options. And to add insult to injury many of these channels are full of absolute dross.
These high-profile disappearances have become normal in China[1]:

> Chinese mega star Fan Bingbing has been fined around 883 million yuan ($129m; £98.9m) for tax evasion and other offences, authorities said Wednesday. The star, who disappeared in July, posted a long apology on social media.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45728459
Just cobbled one together – LMK if it works https://www.lesspenguiny.com/feed.rss
McMasterCarr's mobile app
apple is deeply commited to discouraging people from reversing and inspecting their products, just like oracle.
> "These sources, who were granted anonymity in order to speak freely and without fear of retribution,..."

What retribution? They were fired with no severance or time to prepare. Why don't they just speak out against the company that doesn't exist anymore and left them on the street?
I did, and I think she made up the entire thing.

For a while I thought maybe she was assaulted in some way and was completely confused about when it happened and who was involved, but after the polygraph comments were refuted by her ex-boyfriend that sealed the deal for me -- it's almost axiomatic that because of her field of study she would be well informed on the subject, her denials to Ms. Mitchell seemed odd, but it appears clear now that she in fact did lie about it. That's not a minor detail, it's a very big deal.
Even for augmentation, I'm bearish, short term. We'll eventually get it right, but not before any kids I have are through schooling.
Any chance of a download link for your current screensaver, please? :) Sounds interesting.
>In the movie and tv biz, I think everything is basically unionized for regular crew and actors, so they have basic decent pay. Is there any down side to this?

Well it seems like for average rank and file actors, directors have a lot of power of choice, which is how you end up with all the sexual harassment scandals that keep getting reported.
Just to add - the book "The Friendly Orange Glow" is an excellent, readable history of PLATO. Absolutely fascinating, and one the other of this article probably hasn't see, or else they wouldn't be putting so much stock in this one email chain.
> Hardly. They’re nowhere near a simulation of a “reality.”

Misses the point. The point is that each such instance is an example of something where the fidelity of the simulation is restricted by technical ability, not desire. It answers the "why" by giving a concrete example of an area where we keep pushing the boundaries of simulation, because more fidelity gives more believable interactions.

We went from SimCity and Civilization with really dumb AIs that never seemed remotely real, to games like Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri where the faction leaders had distinct personalities, to Sims with large sets of competing traits. And yes, they're still crude. But you have game designers out there today toying with individual neural nets for the NPCs to augment the generic AIs.

And keep in mind it's not a question of whether or not we can do this tomorrow, but whether or not *our descendants from now until the heat death of the universe - or the end of civilization - will do this. If they do it even once, it's 50/50 whether you're in the simulation. Every additional run reduces the chance that we're in the "real world".