skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. I think what's being seen is that some things are easier to diff and update than others. If a game has a large file for map data that's indexed into, and update to any portions of it are delivered the most easily (where easily includes reliably) by updating the whole file. If that file is 2GB, then you have a 2GB download. If a game has lots of relatively little files, you could update multiple maps with a few tens of megabytes of downloads.

An actual patch utility that goes in and applies binary diffs would be much more economical in terms of bandwidth, but then that complicates Steam's ability to confirm a game is in a good state with file checksums, and is much more likely to have odd errors as a diff somehow correctly applies to a file with an incorrect starting starting state.
London is unpleasant and stressful, but as Reason077 says, traffic is slow. Compared to the American cities I’ve seen, though, it’s second only to Davis.
Yep exactly. Especially for smaller, faster growing companies: what you choose to not work on is usually more important than what you choose to work on (once you remove the core work to support the company's current state). Without someone with product experience - usually either a PM or an experienced software leader - adding additional engineers often paradoxically hurts total productivity.
On the other hand if talented teachers can get paid for doing what they do best then they can offer a personal experience as opposed to a diploma factory. I strongly suspect that there will always be a market and mechanism to support that.
>opening Steam means queuing up 100 GB of downloads and a long wait to actually play games

just set it so games only update when u decide to play?

>100 GB of downloads

does this really happen
What made you then decide to switch to project management?
Personally, I wouldn't go that far, I've found a decent number of managers to be value-adding. I think it is more about the sloppy mindset that tends to underplay the contribution of other producers on a team, to instead heavily over-value their own contributions. Engineers can go too far in this way too, of course. Managers can produce strategy, operational efficiency, organizational support for ill-understood projects, elevate performers, eliminate underperformers etc.
Rockstar has been “working 100-hour weeks” on Red Dead Redemption 2
What I've played:

You start in a space station, you have a set of four ships you can take out to go explore -- a quick racer, a speeder-bike, a small multi-crew gunship, and a mining vessel. You can fly around a single solar system at super-light speed, doing missions, mining, pirate hunting, and generally doing space game stuff (like deliveries, commodity trading, etc.) The basic game loops are there, including player driven quests.

For example, I received a notice that a player had stranded themself on the surface of a moon with no fuel, and needed transport back to the station with some cargo. They were offering N credits. I accepted the mission, got a marker, flew out to the moon and rescued them. They turned in their mission, payed me my reward (I think this was automatic), and then went on their way (presumably to refuel their ship.) It was super slick.

You can buy upgrades for yourself and your ship, and you can fly from space station to the surface of planets with no loading screens or barriers. There's little to no consequences for failure, so that part still feels very demo-y. Lost a ship? Click the 'Gimme my ship' button back at the space station and wait 10 minutes.

It's still janky from a performance and stability standpoint, but it's a prerelease game, so expect that. (FPS stuttering, difficulty connecting with other players in my squad, etc.) Initial load times are very long, and sometimes UI elements don't work correctly.
> will not have any GPL'd code in the base OS, as it's not truly free.

"My freedom to lock down someone else's code is more important than my user's freedom to have access to the code."
Until some random IoT device from 2016 without updated firmware requires some weird old configuration to access it ...
> Maybe I'm underestimating the extent to which money is fetishized in your culture

I worked in the Bay Area and currently in Boston. I live in the startup culture.

> Also, being able to save 2/3 of your net salary is... a ludicrously privileged position, underpaid or not.

Yes! We software engineers are lucky. Even when we're underpaid (I'm paid $90k and my friends with similar experience, same education, same interest/skills are paid $150k--$250k) we can afford to have a comfortable life. It seems like I won't be able to afford to buy a house any time soon compared to say a Google engineer making $300k a year, but that's the only disadvantage I can think of now. (I hate mortgage and what not)
I think the above comment was claiming that they could issue stock to generate the cash that they'd use to pay back the convertible notes with
relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Oh please. Child psychology is a real field, and the idea that someone who has a low IQ, no education, and doesn't understand child psychology at all would somehow raise children better than someone with such educational background and training is laughable.
Reverse engineering WhatsApp
> My comment is intended to speak to cryptocurrency as a whole (the OP topic) rather than Bitcoin specifically

You said bitcoin twice and linked to btc's price over time, I'm not sure why anyone would take that to mean crypto-currencies in general.

This seems like a textbook example of moving goal posts.
re: "Lister and Garcia attribute this crash to climate. In the same 40-year period as the arthropod crash, the average high temperature in the rain forest increased by 4 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperatures in the tropics stick to a narrow band. The invertebrates that live there, likewise, are adapted to these temperatures and fare poorly outside them; bugs cannot regulate their internal heat."

No doubt, this is alarming. None the less, couldn't this suggest that the species in question simply moved to more suitable climate? That is, there is a difference between being killed off, and leaving an area that no meets their needs.
Viking ship burial discovered in Norway just 50cm underground
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Is “Cognitive Tech” a Better Term Than “AI”?
If your data is not end to end private key encrypted, then you are inviting the government in to look at all your shit; photos, documents, logs, everything.
> It's an oversimplification to say that Moore's law is over. Some important metrics have stopped improving. Others are still going, for now.

It's not over, but we're seeing trade-offs that we didn't see in the past decades, like clock rate stagnation and exotic cooling but most importantly, architectural changes.

Architectural changes present the biggest difficulty IMO because they require a change of mindset from the user's perspective. Multi-core was supposed to be an easy transition but it's still underutilized, GPUs for general purpose computing is doing well, but it's based on a popular 20 year old technology (and it's still not as accessible as CPU programming).

However the move to heterogeneous platforms will require substantial effort from a developer's perspective (however good the tooling might be to abstract things). Programming a CPU is one thing but programming a CPU with embedded GPUs,FPGAs,AI dies, etc. will certainly move a lot of people out of their comfort zone
The Model 3 became the fifth best selling car in North America in Q3. Take a look at the sales numbers for any car BMW makes that you want — the Model 3 beats all of them. The only cars that outsell them are the Honda Accord, Honda Civic, Toyota Camry, and Toyota Corolla. And it looks to be on track to become the fourth best selling car as of current sales numbers.
Ionex batteries may become the swappable light-vehicle battery standard we need
OT (and pretty random, apologies in advance!) but my company is distributed and might be a good fit for your spouse (we're an international e-commerce marketplace) if interested at all or if she'd like to chat, feel free to hit me up (email in profile!), thanks!
First of all, we don't know whether the production is "all over the place". Your are quoting the weekly numbers from the Bloomberg tracker. But this tracker does not know about actual production numbers. It mostly looks at VIN allocation, which is not directly coupled to production numbers. Typically, Tesla allocates about 30% more VINs than the production numbers. Based on that, Bloomberg came close to the total quarter production number, but it does not give information about the weekly production numbers. We only know the average production number of over 4000 cars/week.

Tesla has more workers in their Freemont plant, but they have a very high vertical integration. They are producing their own seats for example.
Meanwhile, over here in London, last time i was looking, i asked a recruiter for 10% more than i was then getting, and they audibly paused before ending the conversation as quick as they could!
I personally still feel like it is a set of tech demos at this point. Star Marine could easily be built out into it's own game, but at this juncture is just a way to test FPS mechanics. Arena commander is a focused place to test dogfighting. The hangar is still totally disconnected from the "world", and mostly just a place for you to view your shiny bling.

Probably one of the biggest steps of "convergence" is on the roadmap, in that ArcCorp is currently a separate location from the persistent universe: You can spawn into it and walk around, buy stuff, etc. But the planet isn't in the persistent universe, you can't fly to it. The next major release, 3.4, is supposed to bring that really into the main "world" of the game.

Probably the biggest thing I feel holds it back at this point is that there really isn't a realistic sense of progression and accomplishment yet. There's some missions you can do, you can technically pick up some beta currency that isn't necessarily persistent between releases. Ship insurance times are extremely short, you'll get your ships back free by the same time tomorrow. You still can't get ships without real money, so there's nothing to strive to accomplish in the game at this juncture.

There's a lot of cool mechanical work, the universe is really starting to come together, but unlike other games I play, there isn't yet a "reason I need to go get on Star Citizen".
You're telling me that an American lied about the reasons for going to war!?

Next you're gonna tell me it was just a plot by wealthy white men to enrich themselves by subverting a foreign government.
All this dough and no time to work on the Linux port they promised from a long-met stretch goal, or the only reason I originally backed it, something I now deeply regret.
I’m going to hazard a guess and say exercise - yes, even outside in the pollution (though you should probably favour a park over a main road).
99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality
> The United States had no income tax or reporting requirements for over a third of its existence and experienced growth; now that the tide has shifted, the US tax requirements would be causing a much greater exodus if it weren't for the fact that there are not currently many places worldwide in a better position.

I believe that the initial taxation was for import/export, but that's also a time when the social welfare state didn't exist. Though the first income taxes came along to pay for war - I guess all the United States needs to do is stop being in the business of war and the income tax could go away. Any day now.
Also non blockchain Escrow can be quite cheap, for example transpact.com:

>Our flat charge means that your costs are normally limited to £2.99 per party for (GB) Pound transactions or €3.49 per party for Euro transactions – that really is it for transactions up to £10,000 / €15,000 !

That tends to be a problem with arguments about crypto/blockchain in general saving money - the alternatives can be cheap and buying/selling crypto costs a bit. It only really seems to come into it's own as a way to skirt the law when fiat transactions are banned by securities laws and similar.
In my (limited) experience; a lot of our best PMs were once engineers, and they usually transitioned to PM roles because it let them actually execute on their visions, in addition to potentially more career growth potential.
Ya, you’ll see lots of Tesla’s in Beijing these days because of the lottery, even though they cost 2X what they do in the states (rich Chinese don’t want to be seen driving around in a BYD).
This is SOOOO important.

I once worked for a startup where the female CEO did a few things that got close to the line. Not illegal or immoral, but enough to make me wonder if a similar female leader in a similar situation would cross the line towards her male employees.
> They made millions/billions and they have a simple choice: try to have sex with a subordinate which most of the time will not be the best sex in the world and it will be possibly ruin my life vs escort/model. They made millions of $ and can't make a simple decision.

What a bizarre, transactional view of relationships. The answer is pretty obvious - you do the former because you want to have sex with someone you actually like and have things in common with, not just someone "hot".
I stated from the start that lower density smaller cities (which Copenhagen or Amsterdam are - having density 1/3rd and 1/4th of San Francisco for example) may allow for luxury of letting people to enjoy their commute on bikes.
I doubt many VC angels are reading and voting on HN.
Perhaps you will still enjoy Squadron 42, Star Citizen's single player campaign that's an on-ramp to the MMO.
I can't comment on topics such as rioting, but just to clarify, are you talking about bill C-16, or something else?

From what I've read, C-16 wouldn't likely result in sentencing jail time for something such as pronoun usage. The Canadian Human Rights Act's central focus has to do with topics such as employment, services, and housing. [1]

[1] https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/H-6.pdf
I tried to find "truly new" models (rather than generation refreshes or name changes). The first five I thought of were the Lexus RX SUV, the Fiat 500, the Mini Cooper, the 1965 Mustang, the 2015 Mustang (a ground-up re-platform, not a restyling effort).

It would be possible to argue that Tesla outproduced the Mini Cooper (depending on how exactly you shade the first year of production).

The others handily beat them, with the 1965 Mustang crushing Tesla...
It's not clear why exactly the airlines are so upset about this. If the passenger isn't present they can just shoehorn a standby onto the flight, or at least save on fuel costs.
Can I register a trademark for “University of Gradient Descent”? Something tells me it will be worth a ton of money in a few years.
The study cited in the paper was carried out on Puerto Rico. There isn't exactly another more suitable climate to migrate to.
That's not how it works WRT voting.

You show residency when you live in a location and register to vote. If you move overseas, you remain registered in the county/precinct where you were last a resident.

You then vote in elections. I've got my ballot for the November elections, ready whenever I am.

And as for taxes, If you live in a higher tax location, you're not going to pay anything to the US. If you earn under 100k, you aren't going to pay anything in the US. You do have to file a return tho, which is a pain.
Is Great Zimbabwe University the Best in Zimbabwe?
I think there is definitely a stress ceiling after which I wouldn't accept any paycheck to let me do the job. But this is my personal opinion, I would imagine more stress => less demand on the job market => higher paycheck. For me, money isn't the end goal, but a necessary part of the adventure. When you play RPGs you don't try to make crazy money, you make enough to buy things you want in the game. That's kinda sorta how I see my financial situation.
The whole point was that you don't have to be a celebrity to get harassed and bullied. You don't need to be anyone in particular. Social media can be used to magnify your old-fashioned highschool bullying to completely different levels. And even if it didn't, if cyberbullying was "just" at the level of IRL bullying, it would still be a problem, of course.
Most polished maybe. Space Engineers is like minecraft in space. Some friends and I have been messing around the last two weekends. We've mostly been concerned with getting our production facilities up so I don't know how well it supports multiple crew members controlling the ship independently (i.e., turrent control vs. pilot vs. whatever else)... but then again SC doesn't have that yet either, I think.
Just xtrapolate from these numbers.
The survey shows nearly 20% of respondents experienced some kind of harassment or assault and your only comment is “what about men?”.

I’m sure if men within YC experience this kind of behaviour they can use the same reporting tools on bookface.
One thing to remember here is that BNW was a book written by one guy; it's not a reliable look into a possible future timeline, it's just one person's idea of it. I'm pretty sure there have been primitive societies (small villages, etc.) in the past that lived collectively and didn't require having a whole class of citizens to "look down on" to stay stable, so I don't accept this as a necessary component of a stable society. It does seem that some people feel better this way when they're in a bad position, which is why we have a lot of racism (e.g. poor white people want to be able to look down on black people) but it's a non-sequitur that a society requires this.

As for a "higher purpose", what kind of higher purpose do we have in our current society? Perhaps trying to make it better somehow (by various measures of "better"), with better technology, medical science, etc.? I'm not sure why a BNW society wouldn't have these as well. There's always room for improvement. BNW's society did seem overly stifling as far as creativity and such, but I don't really see why that's necessary in that society either.
A single S-curve will not.

However, completion of one line of technological development often unlocks new possibilities. Over the last several centuries, we've ridden many S-curves of varying scales; it has certainly hurt when a particularly large S-curve, such as energy extraction or sequential computing speed, has saturated, but there have always been more than enough promising underexplored possibilities to keep humanity's brightest minds occupied. Both the known laws of physics and the amount of biological activity we still haven't replicated indicate that this state of affairs won't end within the next century. (We might stop exploring due to some sort of apocalypse, of course, but that won't be because there was nothing meaningful left to discover.)
Gotcha, makes sense when I think about it. But it's tough to say MN a given case whether complications wouldn't have occurred without the epidural. Sigh, it's a tough call.
That amount 127k if I remember correctly is after taxes (net) in the country of where the earning occurred. In Canada 127k USD equates to about 175k CAD. To earn 175k net in Canada you would need to be earning over 250k CAD. I don't know anyone in Toronto earning more than that as a developer. Actually I know many who can't even break 100-110k CAD. The best paying jobs are in the Valley and USA, if you know of any Canadian outfits paying over $250k CAD please let me know.

Many of the posters who brought up PFIC are probably referring to Investments they made before they became US Citizens. Even then you would only pay taxes on what your investment earned and that is after any write offs you might have.

Like OP said, this procedure is difficult for the very rich or people who are looking to evade taxes. Otherwise it is a simple procedure and doesn't affect the average person.
The new Real Time Rendering book is good. Also, the sidebar of https://www.reddit.com/r/opengl/ has good tutorials
Sometimes you get to enjoy it as a challenge, depending on context and urgency.
Interesting. Has anyone come across really well written job descriptions for what PMs really do?
The way I understand it what the previous poster was saying was that they're building a high-volume pipeline which is likely to have issues as it's new to them, and the delivery issues can't show until there's sufficient volume coming in from manufacturing, and the service problems can't show until there's sufficient volume of vehicles delivered.
I would just like to say that as someone who has never used Passenger, never used Oat++, and hopes to god he never has to write a line of C++ again this comment (and the linked code review) really warmed my heart. Not only is it a positive/helpful comment in a world with so much focus on tearing down and picking apart but it's all of that from the author of a competing framework. You go even further to review the code and suggest ways to make your "competitor"'s (I use the word lightly in this context but "framework wars" often take on an almost religious zeal) product better.

I will probably never use either of your frameworks directly but I'd like to just say thank you FooBarWidget for this, it made me smile.
I watched the game play demo they presented at the recent Citizencon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-fkMHOyswU). As I don't follow Star Citizens development closely, it was a fascinating view into that universe and the developers behind it. To me it felt they're getting lost in all the little details on the planets, instead of concentrating a bit more on the space and its use with space ships. After all, selling space ships is what they make a lot of money with.

They're talking about an incredible level of detail on the ground (e.g. a working subway system, physically correct ice cubes in drinks and plans to receive damage, when you're in a room with a fire, which consumes the available oxygen), but there was literally nothing about new stuff in space (or is that already completely done and working?).

Given their ambitions I hope they succeed long term and will continuously develop the game, similar to EVE Online.
Yemen on brink of 'world's worst famine in 100 years' if war continues
I’m not saying it’s expensive, but that the service they’re offering is obtuse and anxiety inducing because you’re economically “punished” as soon as you stop playing.

And they offer this service under their own brand and never leaving their site, so I don’t agree with your dismissal that this is just an integration. It’s a service they offer and they are taking my money for it. Money I gladly paid, I just wish the service I got was simplified.
Japan is launching its first survey on “overtourism,” or the phenomenon of a
Yes, the arms-race character of Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is grating, and I don’t see an easy way around it with proof-of-work. If only there was some central institution we could trust.
I think it's the games you're playing more than it's Steam. Steam definitely does do partial / cumulative updates for a huge library of games. I cannot think of a single game I own on Steam that has had an update even approach the size of the original download.
Top climate scientist blasts UK’s fracking plans as 'aping Trump’
First ever set of Same-Sex parents for.. a Mouse?
Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of WatchOS 5.1 to Developers
Docker has raised $92M in new funding
The Netflix Media Database (NMDB)
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