skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your testicles will shrink, and your body will stop naturally producing testosterone over time as you continue with the testosterone injections - basically, once you start it has to be for life! Be careful doing this.
You don't give a lot of context, and a lot of comments here are telling you to run away.

My only advice: if you don't get at least 40% of equity, run away. Two "idea guys" giving barely 20% to the technical code monkey and enjoying controlling share while they can deal with "the real stuff" is a huge red flag. If they are willing to treat you as a real equal (and even more, as the guy who will actually do most of the work for at least a few months) then it's worth giving it a shot if you believe in the idea.
I speculate this is not true for China. ISPs in China have to deal with country-wide censorship system which has to be upgraded to support IPv6 traffic. This might be the reason why China has a low IPv6 traffic.
YouTube on iOS has the same scrubber. Which is great once you discover it... oh well.
I think that MVP should be about features, not quality. Things need to work to make people want it.
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Selective appeal is fine. Black and white existential French films don't need to compete with the latest MCU flick because they weren't filmed on a $200Mil budget.

Similarly, making a AAA video game title about ennui is stupid, but small indie studios doing $10-20 releases for a 5-10 hour gameplay art-game is a thing.
What's the solution in such a scenario? If I'm making custom cells, I'm going to constrain my views to the contentView. If I use a library like SnapKit, then the library sets translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints to false. Should I override that somehow and set it back to true? Should I use normal NSLayoutConstraints for all constraints involving contentView? That doesn't seem ideal.
How about safety?

Hard to think about getting robbed or being shot at.
That is could be used to avoid all those annoying banking laws (AML, KYC, etc).
I think the author meant to say meaningful rather than pessimistic.

Something meaningful may necessarily have some pessemism in it.

Games today are not meaningful
Although not strictly a talk, I would highly recommend the first of the SICP lectures[0], if only to expand your thinking about what computer science:

"I'd like to welcome you to this course on Computer Science. Actually that's a terrible way to start. Computer science is a terrible name for this business. First of all, it's not a science. It might be engineering or it might be art. We'll actually see that computer so-called science actually has a lot in common with magic. We will see that in this course. So it's not a science. It's also not really very much about computers. And it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators. And biology is not really about microscopes and petri dishes. And it's not about computers in the same sense that geometry is not really about using a surveying instruments."

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY
Astronomers have adopted Python syntax for further iterations of this. Thus, it is formally referred to as a "moon"*3.
I'm very color blind and I don't think this extension correctly handles red-green color blindness. If you take a look at http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/ and see their examples of Deuteranopia, they are exactly what I see. When the app shows the Deuteranopia view, I think the extension modifies colors that aren't red and green.
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This is one of the wittiest replies I've seen here.

Downvotes must have been because they didn't get it.
That's basically uniform function call syntax. D and Nim use it and a few others.
> And before the mid 90s, Apple was in constant peril of being wiped out.

People always seem to forget this fact!
Some people call it conditioning, others call it education. Societies seem to work better when people don't bash each others heads in all the time, so we try to teach our children that violence is not okay. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
looks like OP got 20% (even unclear if it's documented), while the other 2 share the remaining 80%

Ah, didn't get that. That indeed is not the best sign..
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That's easyish: it's a one-way street. The OP imagined something where everyone checks out code in whatever state it's in, applies their own system, then transforms it back, with no artifacts. That's hard.
You might think this is a joke. It's not.
Some music makes you feel happy, some is depressing, some of it is just loud pulsing sounds. It's all using the same basic mechanics, it's all music. Seems logical to say that if something functions like a game, but lacks the "you are the god-savior of this universe" appeal of most games, it's still a game.

The specific purpose of the OG version of Monopoly was to infuriate the players and make them resent the microcosmic system of economics the game presented. It was literally just a propaganda piece that set out to enrage it's players. Everyone still considers it a game.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game)
> time spent on a task generated by the email as 'doing email'.

This probably accounts for a large chunk of the reported hours, as well.
How about making life more like games, instead of making games more like life? Can we do this somehow?

I've been pondering this a bit recently. We immerse ourselves in stories because, good or bad, they're more interesting than real life. The protagonists, the antagonists, the NPCs - they all (are written to) feel their role is important, unlike us real-worlders, struggling with ennui and the role of a cog in a machine (or a single cell in a large, multicellular body). We've built a civilization and economy that diminishes the role of an individual, and yet our brains crave the feeling of being a hero of a story.

I remember Eliezer had some smart observations on the topic; I guess it's time to re-read his "Fun Theory" sequence[0].

--

[0] - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K4aGvLnHvYgX9pZHS/the-fun-th...
It does, whether it likes it or not. This isn't anything new; there have been 24 hours in a day and limited number of years in a life for a long time now.
That's Whitney's style. My preferred example is http://www.kparc.com/b/b.c

It looks obfuscated, but in fact it is just a lot of information. Many people would claim dividing it in 10 files with longer function names and less tricks would make it easier to understand, but after spending a long time studying (and partly rewriting) this code, I actually find the terse version better.
At my company, there is an list where problems that can't be handled by tech support or customer facing people get raised. Cases where the documentation is unclear or absent, things that can't be obviously classified as bugs, etc. Making a habit of answering those is a great way to learn about the system you're working on.

That said, I don't spend hours on it.
You will learn to hate the word "just"

Can we just.. Could you just.. Surely it's just..
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There's enough games out there to fill about every genre and emotion. Why do we "need" to decide anything about something as large as games? Let the market decide what people want.
I opened in an incognito tab and said no when asked if I wanted to load it in the app. The HTML was very easy to read as you suggested.
As a web user, the ipv6 internet is basically Google, Facebook, and Wikipedia.. and freenode. that's pretty much it.
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Those are not evidence of a bankrupted economy. Yes, the pound has tanked, and yet strangely the economy is not bankrupt. You're entitled to believe a thing may come to pass, but don't be under the illusion it either has (it objectively has not) or definitely will (it probably won't)
To be fair, that's true for all new-fangled package managers including Docker, and exactly what's painful about them: that they're trying to solve a problem (that of mixed libaries on Linux distros) by bypassing shared lib loading, thereby defeating the purpose of shared library loading (that of preventing stale/insecure libs) in the first place.

If that was the goal, why not just distribute statically-linked binaries or distribute into /opt package prefixes, which would be the natural solution? I guess there's no problem that can't be solved by another layer of abstraction, except the problem of too many layers of abstractions. Again, https://xkcd.com/927/ comes to mind.
There are art films that make us feel completely devastated for a long time after watching them. Sometimes they make us understand another facet of the human condition. Sometimes they make us feel hopeless.

Until there are games like that, I'm going to hold off calling them art.
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It would be interesting to see this data broken out by age of children (for those founders who are parents). I'm 34 and I have a newborn. My parents were 23 and 26 when they had me. So my parents' 45 (I was already out of the house) looked different than mine will.
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I love these sort of games, there are a number just now and available on many platforms by indie artists & studios, even on Steam. On the other hand, blockbusters mainly provide fun, escapism or special effects, they are tailored on the masses and rightly so.
Right. I had to get up in t'morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down t'mill, and pay t'mill owner for permission to come to work.

(apologies to Python and the 4 Yorkshiremen) :)
> The appeal of games is exactly that they reward players for their efforts

While I agree with the general comment, this part made me laugh a little. I find that games are incredibly easy nowadays, there is little "effort" to actually reward.

To me it's a worse trend than the lack of "pessimistic games". Building a culture of "what do you mean I didn't succeed after the second try? But I'm entitled to make it to the next level!!!!!"

I might be very cynical, but I think it hurts society a lot. Kind of similar to all these TV shows where the main character transitioning from being a waiter to sales executive or director of marketing in 2 or 3 seasons.
Because games won't be art until they reflect the meaningless yawning abyss that is human existence.
Not necesarrily true. I managed to do the most refactorings while under a non-technical leadership. You just take complete ownership for the code in that situation and do it along the way. You say no to features that would mess up the code or make the UI inconsistent, and you offer cleaner alternatives instead.

As a single tech person you also have a lot of power.
> Being heroic isn't always saving the planet. Sometimes it's just waking up the next day and going to work.

Going to the cubicle and banging out TPS Reports day in and day out isn't being heroic, it's being passive, living life on auto pilot. I hate it. And so do most people who are aware of what it's doing to them.
Yeah seasoning in italian never means “adding spice to some food” but only “keeping it in a cold/dry place and wait for it to be ready“ (usually months, sometimes years).
What do you mean by meaningful, because I can easily point out games that I consider meaningful. For you to say outright that games today are meaningful implies that they once were, and I cannot see the difference.
This is one of my favorite user interface design articles that I recommend every chance I get, and it should be required reading in every design class.

Apple's long romance with skeuomorphism peaked with Bob Bishop's APPLE-VISION, and went downhill from there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiWE-aO-cyU

At the other end of the spectrum of video players with extremely terrible user interfaces, there's VLC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13573499

>[... detailed step by step instructions to demonstrate a terrible usability failure that I wrote up in a bug report that was brushed off and ignored ...]

>This single facet of VLC's terrible UI deserves to be front and center in the User Interface Hall of Shame [2] -- it's even worse than Apple's infamous schizophrenically skeuomorphic QuickTime 4.0 player [3], from 1999! The latest version of VLC in 2017 is still much worse than the shameful QuickTime player was 18 years ago!

At least QuickTime 4.0 serves as a useful ruler by which we can measure the terribleness of other video players.
> regulated stable coins such as the Gemini dollar

I still don't see how they satisfy their anti-money laundering requirements.

You can't have a token which is (a) anonymously traded, (b) freely redeemable for hard currency, and (c) compliant. Even if you modify (b) to "redeemable with approved KYC paperwork for hard currency," you still have the problem that you sold a token for cash to one person, redeemed it for cash to another person, and have no clue what happened in the middle.

One could completely remove (b), i.e. have a non-redeemable currency. But now you're closer to the precedent set by Liberty Reserve [1], in that the people who most want anonymous electronic dollars over real electronic dollars are people laundering money.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/nyregion/liberty-reserve-...
The article explains it, he had a few issues with board members and after bad performance on Q3 numbers, he was told make it happen Q4. They had some sort of tax liability in France that hit them $10 million and because of it didn't hit Q4 numbers. That was that.
The author would probably enjoy Pathologic.[0][1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathologic

[1]https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/04/10/butchering-patho...
Heading down to the Sears Outlet to buy a scratched but perfectly functional version of the company for 90% off.
One interesting thing about Dark Souls is that there is quite a bit of ambiguity around what the "age of dark" actually implies, and there's a lot of hints that it might actually be a beneficial state for humanity.

Personally I found Bloodborne to be even more hopeless. It's all based on a Lovecraftian view of the universe, where we're completely insignificant next to these higher order beings and concepts. There are also almost no happy endings for any of the NPCs, which contrasts with Dark Souls a bit. But again, that's a really good translation of Lovecraft into video game form!
You could make the same argument about books... why the hell would anyone want to read 1984?

I'm glad we don't live in a world where all of the books, movies, and video games have been sterilized and sanitized and pumped full of diazepam.
There are pessimistic and great books, pessimistic and great movies, pessimistic and great music, so there is zero reason to reject the idea of pessimistic game. I think I would like that. I used to like all the above, so I think the game would fly too.

Btw, Nihilumbra is pretty good pessimistic game.

But also, I think that if one looks closely into various niches, pessimistic games will be found.
“sun” is generic but rarely used as such instead of the proper noun “Sun” outside of interstellar fiction, because “star” is available and denotatively equivalent. (“sun” has a stronger connotation that the object's importance is relative to one or more planets, though.)
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We don't have proof, but what would their incentive be to print them but not issue them?
Talking about pessimistic games, are there any good simulations/games about fighting climate change in the next century or so? Seems like it would be a very interesting topic.
If that's the case, why is that true for video games but not books, painting, art or cinema?
That "it could be worse" doesn't mean a person is not suffering with their own "better" condition.

Sure, I could be on the verge of starving while doing backbreaking work in a 3rd world country, but that doesn't mean that I should be OK with my own job being unfulfilling or without meaning.
We need both.

I as a tax payer am paying for kids to attend school because food is not free for everybody - somebody needs to work no matter what system you come up with. It is better a better investment for me to get you educated so you can support yourself, than to remove your staved to death body from the street.

There are some facts that almost everybody universally needs to know to support themselves: you need to know how to read, write and some basic arithmetic. F=MA is useful to enough jobs that it is best for everybody to know it even if whatever job you end up with doesn't need it.

The above is intentionally overblown to make the point.
"Papers I Have Loved" by Casey Muratori is a talk about CS algorithms useful in the game industry.
https://youtu.be/SDS5gLSiLg0
You can close the book and turn off movie or tv-series too. Pessimistic pieces and tragedies exists and have audience.
Very possible. It depends on the operating agreement, but unless any investment or creation of shares requires unanimous consent, they can be diluted to virtually nothing.
It seems pretty reasonable to me too. Indeed, education is supposed to enlighten you to see others viewpoints. Why do we continue to have problems meeting eye to eye with others' ideas then?
The incidence of reflexively negative takes has increased the last few months on HN.
Maybe these games do exist, just not from commercial companies. If art is not sell-able then it may not be funded, but that does not mean a passionate person cannot make the game they want anyway. Just don't expect it to be a AAA game.
disclaimer: I know nothing about specifically Indian internet infrastructure.

Probably because they ran into the IPv4 shortage relatively early (address allocations were based on the distribution of nodes in the 1980s or so), and because they didn't get massive internet adoption early enough to need to fall back on carrier-grade NAT like Russia or China.
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In what context would you use copy/paste in the QT player? Could you copy a file and paste it onto the player to play?
> Games today are not meaningful

Where does that come from? Top of my head: some meaningful games below:

- Deck Nine released Life is Strange in 2015, Before the Storm in 2017 ; Life is Strange 2's first episode was released on September, 27th.

- Mass Effect makes you think about your place in a very, very vast Universe, the consequences of choices, even though you're a "hero" (2007, 2010, 2012).
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Google does not rely on the Chinese market. If anything the Chinese rely on western markets and that includes the startups and factories within China. They’re going to need the western market more than their own in the future. Rich nations import and export. China’s exporting far more than its importing.
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My understanding is that this doesn't require conditioning -- the brightness of screens, their changing contents, and the dopamine hits one gets from interacting with them makes them grab and hold attention regardless of previous exposure.
It is not just Gemini, there have been three other new big "stablecoins" launched in the last month. USDC from Circle, CarbonUSD from Carbon, PAX from Paxos and lots of even smaller players entering the market.
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> Transferring USD through a bank account can be expensive

I keep hearing this, yet can instantly and for no charge electronically transfer under $10,000 between various accounts, and with minimal (often waived) wire charges, much larger quantities more reliably (and with less risk) than using a "stable coin".
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Tetris, Paper's Please, Nidhogg, Skifree, etc.

>and sinking 200 hours into World of Warcraft isn’t going to do anything other than entertain me and make Blizzard Activision’s pockets one one billionth of a percentile deeper.

Is that not pessimistic gaming?
Without getting to deep into the philosophical point I was trying to make as an afterthought in my comment:

"Given the choice between the sweet simple release provided by the revolver, and continuing the Sisyphean task of just living, I consider the human race heroic for simply being"
Maybe because they're the type of person that fills out e-mail surveys.
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still, if you count lives lost per kwh produced, nuclear is the safest source of energy around. that's gotta count for something

wish i had a better source handy, but this forbes article will have to do for now:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
Why would it be important to be able to switch cloud providers and keep the same addresses on your internal network? Changing providers while keeping addresses seems abstractly like a nice capability to have but it also seems that it might or might not end up being just as much logistical trouble as re-addressing everything when it came down to the implementation...
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Some great pessimistic games:

- Papers, Please

- Oregon Trail
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I agree but I’d pick graphql for that instead of typescript.
can someone please convince me that the use of the word "magic" is justified? yes I know sicp is universally exalted in the cs/programming community and even though I haven't read it yet I support the principle of a principled approach to computation (it's math after all in the purest sense) but I can't support the infantilism of words like magic and the wizard on the cover of the book because the two themes are directly in opposition. there is no magic and clear rigorous analysis of programs is very fruitful.
Detroit become human is an amazing example of storytelling and emotional character involvement.

The game takes no prisoners and the decisions you make can mean a rather bleak end to your characters and more importantly your story arc. There is no going back, what happens happens.

There is however an opportunity for glory (depending on your perspective of glory).

This is what games should capture, the bitter and the sweet.
Q:"Just remaining a gigantic private company seemed impossible?"
A:"You have to go public at some point. The way we were structured and the way we had raised money, we were just engineered so that, if we weren’t going to get acquired, that was the only exit option for us."

Why? Is this because investors want to make a quick buck on this?
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