skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Windows/Linux developer my reason is that both Windows (at least historically) and Linux offer far more opportunities for customisation than macOS, as well as being far less about hiding things and dumbing-down for the computer-illiterates, or locking the user out in the name of security.

I agree with your observation about those who prefer Apple products: it seems to be more of a fashion statement.
I worked at EA for eight years.

> I feel the level is a bit low for my age

My experience is that game companies don't value experience out of the game industry very much, so you should probably expect to take a bit of a ranking hit on your first job. From their perspective, you're a blank slate. In theory, you'll climb back up quickly once you've shipped a game or two.

> salary as well

Game industry salaries have always been a notch or two lower than salaries for comparable jobs in other fields. Working on games is a perk, and there is a lot of competition, which drives wages down.

> Knowing that i feel i already have a good "product sense", but i may be lacking in terms of execution.

For what it's worth, everyone thinks they have a knack for game design. In practice, very few do. It's very easy to make a game that sucks and incredibly hard to come up with a novel yet fun play experience.

The game industry tends to be long hours and a lot of stress. The emotional and professional maturity of your coworkers may be less than you're used to. It could end up being a death march.

But it can also be very rewarding. If it's something you want to try, the sooner you find out and either get on that career path or get it out of your system, the better.

Even if it works out well, don't plan to stay in the game industry forever. Few do. So try to make sure your resume and network is in a state where you can gracefully leave the game industry if that's what you want to do later.
Your fundamental error is philosophical.

I'm not against medical intervention. I think vaccinations are a good thing.

I'm against government mandated familial interventions.

I think there are 1,000 other more important things the government could be doing to improve people's lives. Alarmist, breathless hand-wringing about personal medical choices or parental responsibilities isn't the only way to approach pandemics or public health issues.

The last thing we should be doing is using government resources to apply retaliation or punishment. There are plenty of reasons to inflict harm, take money away from people, and generally stifle the hell out of people with laws, and all of them get over used, and just simply spread misery. This gives people more reasons to rationalize and passive-aggressively resist anything with a government's fingerprints on it.

Meanwhile, you said it yourself: those who do get vaccinated have nothing to fear. They'll live lives untouched by disease, so it's none of their business what happens to the rest. For the vaccinated, this is already a non-problem by default.
You could fire projectiles, like a blow gun. A poison-tipped dart could be made to work underwater.
I'd recommend reading Tao's blog post "There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs":

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-...
What about birds? Crows display surprisingly intelligent behaviour, like understanding water displacement or fashioning tools from sticks or wire.
Not to mention that if someone had several hours of CPR done to them they are almost certainly going to need to go to the hospital anyways. Not to mention the average person can only sustain effective CPR for a few minutes.
Terrible argument. Surely for every influential decision one can find somebody who was influenced negatively, especially if one wants to go deeply enough in hypotheticals. The question is not whether having competition between search engines is good (we know it is), it is whether Google should participate in a sham competition controlled by Chinese government, on conditions set by them and under their supervision, and thus participate - directly or indirectly - in many atrocities this government perpetrates. Serving better ads sounds like a pretty weak case for this - especially as we can't even be sure it would be the case at all (it's not like Google never served ads from shady providers).
Internet radio might be up your alley since it's hard for me to follow long narratives when I fall asleep at some unknown point during them and then have to search to find the last thing I remember.

I usually listen to the news for a country I have no connection to to avoid the problem of hearing names / events I know IRL. Easy to jump in and out, the content is always fresh, and the speakers are calm and collected.
Thank you for sharing these details! I value the insight into how diverse the "making ends meet" dimension can be, even among people connected to tech in some way.
Somewhat unrelated but this article reminded me about a passage from "The Book of the New Sun" where the protagonist of the book meets with the master of the guild of librarians. The library is pitch black and the librarian in his old age has gone blind but still holds onto his position as master librarian and his apprentice who is now a balding man in his middle years still attends him waiting for his master to pass away so that he can assume the mantle.

The master in the story still exceeds at his work despite his blindness and his blindness is actually what enabled him to discover via touch that the material of the books themselves was just as impressive as the contents :)

I imagine the result of removing something like forced retirement ages is similarly nuanced
Naive question: why can't they just have more tenure positions?
All languages are complex in some way or other.

Japanese is rather simple in many ways (e.g., number of sounds, syllabic alphabets) but very complex in others (Kanji, counters, and so on).

Spanish too has few sounds, a Latin alphabet, simple accent rules, there's generally only one way to write any word you hear pronounced... but it has thousands of irregular verbs, four regular kinds of verb irregularities, and irregularly irregular verbs.

English has more sounds, spelling is a mess, has no diacritical marks so you just have to know how written words are to be pronounced, and has developed or and imported hundreds of thousands of words, but its verb conjugation is simpler than most every major European language.

A language without verb tenses can still express complex time relationships -- it's just done differently than in a language with verb tenses.
I was once an avid rock climber, but stopped for many years. One night on a surf trip in Indonesia I had someone hold my beer while I climbed a palm tree, which was only about 15 feet high, but that's still high enough that you don't want to fall.

I got to the top of the trunk and reached up to grab one of the branches, and it was like, 'oh man, I'm so out of condition, I can barely grip this'. But then, accidentally, my feet cut loose.

A jolt of adrenaline shot through me, and I managed to hold on one handed to this slippery, slopey palm tree branch as my body swung away from the trunk of the tree. This whole chain of muscles from my fingers down to my lower back fired at once. I used to use those muscles all the time when I climbed regularly, but on the tree I didn't have access to that strength until the adrenaline kicked in, and then it was all there like it had never left.

Of course, because I was out of condition I strained every muscle in that chain and I had to skip a few days of surfing. But it had me thinking about procedural memory, and how it relates to skills where raw strength is a factor. Strength is memory. There is physical conditioning needed to utilize that strength without hurting yourself, but how strong you are is about neural pathways in your muscles, and how they fire, not the muscle itself. Your muscles are actually strong enough to rip the tendons from your bones.

Now I'm back into climbing, but when I was first starting out I had this weird experience where a hold that I was too weak to latch at the beginning of a session became easy by the end. It's counterintuitive, if anything you should be getting weaker as you wear yourself out, but, after a decade of not climbing much at all, my finger muscles were remembering how to fire the way they needed to to stick that particular hold, and they got stronger. Now I'm at the point where my strength has mostly returned, but my tendons aren't yet resilient enough to handle the stress when I'm at my limit, so I've got to be really careful. This was all a big revelation for me.
Unconfirmed but ya likely
There are a couple levels to this.

1) How a painter learns to get the image onto the canvas that they have in their mind. This requires a ton of intuition. You're literally using your hand muscles, so it's not like you can get out pen and paper and calculate how many Newtons of force to apply to the brush. This intuition very much lines up with the three rules of the article.

2) How a painter learns how the audience will respond to their work. This definitely has a slower feedback loop, since they have to complete a work and show it to people. But otherwise, all three components are there. Almost every successful artist has a long history of making work and showing them to people. Art school is all about critiquing each other's work to train exactly this intuition.
Was a move to Gerrit or the email patch workflow ever discussed?
The main reason to study mathematics is to build and fix your intuition, hence studying rote solutions is a waste of time. It might help you pass the class but it wont help you much at all in other parts of life.

For example, at work nobody will care if you have rote memorized a solution or not since they will have already done the math, you will just apply formulas others have came up with. In order to do anything important with the math (not just solving school problems) you need to have intuition for it.
How did the mocks do the damage? Lack of integration tests, wasted time, or something else?
I can agree with this statement of fact. I'm missing the part where it's relevant to the conversation or informs some conclusion.
But then we have "I was cleaning house and found Kevin." too.

Both "a Kevin" and "the Kevin" would feel weird, especially "the Kevin". One might do it on purpose as a sort of joke, implying that Kevin is an ordinary inanimate object.

More oddness is that "cleaning up" doesn't involve an "up".
A little late to the comment party, but I was wondering the same. I'm working on a web scrape workflow that's currently using Tika. I'm very interested in to see how well this does in comparison.
Yes, I have added the data table filter to the TODO, and I am working on the docs, examples and the kitchen sink. Thanks!
hi I have a programming assignment for setting up gumpba with rilkef, can you share the codes
The core issue is that you need to establish a norm, but without an absolute point of reference such as enlightenment it’s like trying to walk strait in a dessert which is not possible. But if you bring this point up of going in circles they act just like Plato describes in his Cave Alegory. So it’s not a new issue. I don’t know if anyone has written a book specifically about psychology being a faux science, like eugenics in a way, but someone should.
Most of the violence is coming from left extremists or black blocks.
At every protest in France (and we are specialist), you can see them attacking banks, insurance companies branches, luxury stores, burning expensive cars... I don't understand why the governments are not tougher on them. Maybe intelligence services are too busy spying on islamists which are an even more serious threat.
Does anyone find anything odd or unique about the fact that we don’t forget how to ride a bike? I can’t think of any similar activity that people do forget.
The project originally started with JS. It wasn't possible to make it run fast enough on iOS. iOS requires AOT, or a byte code interpreter. JS isn't very suitable for AOT, and JS byte code interpreters tend to be pretty slow too.

Also quoting one of the project founders:
"FWIW what we've seen in usability studies is that people who know JavaScript can pick up Dart without even noticing. (Literally, after an hour in a usability study we'd ask people what language they'd been using and they would respond with surprise, having not even noticed that it was a new language."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16477143
Now you can buy fresh air in a bottle in India
I mean, the planet is literally "global"
haha that's so random. What sort of great leap of logic lead you to write this?
Symbolic AI fell out of favor because it was overhyped. It was delivering quite impressive results--just not the promised results. Neural nets fell out of favor in the 90s for exactly the same reason.

Both failures ultimately were caused by not enough computing power. Even though Deep Learning and Convolutional NNs look like major advances today, they never could have been practical before about 2005: There just wasn't enough computing power.

If modern computer power were thrown at symbolic AI the same way it's been thrown at NNs, it highly likely symbolic AI would experience similarly-impressive gains.
Pretty much. It’s also got to do with the fact that blue OLEDs are less efficient and you need more of them.
Dithering in lossy compression algorithms destroys picture quality for me. No matter if it's 1080 or 8k. Particularly with dark scenes. Anyone else feel this way?
You seem like a provocateur with your motivated meta-commentary. Especially given your use of italics.

Instead of obliquely admonishing the supposedly politically-slanted audience at large (in an attempt to shape and slide the topic at hand) why don't you directly engage the individuals that have posted the comments you simply don't like for personal reasons?
I believe he is Finney. Finney was one of main developers of PGP so he had a strong crypto knowledge.

Do you remember Satoshi Dorian Nakamoto? It turns out he lived near Finney. Maybe Finney knew him and thought it was a nice name.
* Excellent IDE

Yes. It's well-written C++. Any IDE can handle it, but the also have their own which gives you a few more things, like drag'n'drop design.

* Hot reloading

Depends.

Old-school Qt? No. It's more powerful, but can't hot reload.

New-school QML? Yes. But you are limited to QtQuick, which is only on-par with Electron's features.

* Ability to target mobile and desktop, etc.

Yes. Supported targets include: Windows, UWP, Linux, macOS, Andorid, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, QNX, and other embedded platforms.
Nice.

I tried to start something similar which tried to explain all weird maths symbol via code. It went nowhere.

But feel free to check https://github.com/mkagenius/mathsymbol2code
Why Tech Companies Should Invest in WordPress
Amazon FBA Experiment
You are on the cusp of major salary increases for your age and experience outside of the game industry. Time spent inside the game industry is generally viewed outside of the game industry negatively . Only gamers give the game industry respect, in a professional sense, as technical creatives tend to view the high levels of unpaid production overtime as mismanagement and abuse with the game industry's eternal crunch time schedules. Those less on the inside think making games is "playing games all day". If you ever leave the industry, your time in the industry will be treated as a professional negative by any company outside of the entertainment industry. Speaking as a 15 year veteran of the games industry, I strongly do not recommend taking the job.
That reasoning is like, 70 years ago deciding smoking is fine because there are few and conflicting scientific studies that conclude no, smoking does not have serious impacts on health.

Insect deaths are acutely reported in the last decade.
http://lmgtfy.com/?t=sc&q=gumpba+with+rilkef
It's a good point, but by then we'll have software to model the relationships between all of the known sources - New York Times Journalists, Reddit Trolls, etc., and filter out some of the craziness.
I don’t think that the confidence requirement is a major factor. I suspect that activities that require similar coordination of motor skills but which aren’t dangerous to fail at are also hard to forget. I’m thinking of things like juggling or tying a shoe.
> they need a business model that is better suited to the modern world

The model that works under such constraints is a hard, high paywall guarding differentiated content. A consequence of such regulation is one having to pay for content with dollars, not eyeballs.
I think the missing part - symbolic reasoning - can be handled by graph neural nets and attention mechanisms. Graph neural nets take as input a set of objects and their relations and predict information about the objects, their relations and the whole graph. They learn invariance in relation space, while being permutation invariant in the object space. This kind of invariance is what we need to improve on. We already have some promising attempts such as the GCN. This and creating environments for artificial agents - a child AI needs a place for playing and experimentation, not a mere static dataset.
Obituary: Stanislav Petrov (2017)
Exactly right. 24fps has that cinematic feel we love. I spent some time when living in Europe tweaking Samsung TVs to make them stop adding an extra frame which made movies look like a cheap soap opera.

Weird how we are trained to dislike what is a better picture quality.
H-1B is the one of the few legal stepping stones to become a citizen (and get permanent residence) if you don't go through routes like marriage or family sponsorship or a silly lottery.

So while yes, you cannot start a company on an H-1B, it is for many people a pre-requisite to become a green card holder (and thus being able to start one).
You can write it in Python is you're scared of C++. QML let's you inline JavaScript, or call it from a file.

Qt comes with 5, 000 classes for every situation to back you up, before you need to go to the community.

I think that a lot of developers are simply scared of it, without just cause. They believe rumours, without ever actually trying to use the thing. They don't evaluate first.
> Phabricator's nonstandard workflow, which requires installation of the Arcanist command-line tool

I was just going to eval Phab for my team, your comment identified a deal breaker for us and you've saved me more than a few wasted hours. Thank you
Here are some possible answers to your "why??"

Insect population may be down overall, but not down with crop pests.

Insecticides may require a certain density of use to be effective; that is, there may be a non-linear dose/response curve such that it's not really meaningful to reduce the current levels.

The goal is to maximize income. Reduced insecticide use, even with the relatively low corresponding insect populations, might still reduce the yield and/or quality and therefore profit. Think of how the oceans are overfished, but while there's a good reason that everyone should greatly reduce their catch, there's no good reason for any one fishing crew to do that on their own.
The inconvenient truth about love and divorce (2016)
"You'll never guess who I saw?"

"Who?"

"Elvis"

"Elvis? The Elvis or a Elvis?"

"The Elvis"

The doesn't imply someone is inanimate, it just means that they are a specific one.
It's easier to just get the result empirically. I once literally did this experiment in an office where we had a bunch of similar-looking Dell displays from different eras, with a range different native resolutions:

It was pretty easy to set up a blind trial with 5 monitors by putting cardboard around the monitor bezel and stand, and asking people which one looks better.

Everyone, even nontechnical people such as HR and sales, can identify the 4k monitors, super reliably, at a distance waaaay beyond what optometrists claim should matter.

Of course you could argue that the experiment was confounded by backlights or color calibration or monitor age whatever. But IMHO the result is so stark that it would easily survive even if you repeated the experiment with a bunch of identical 4k monitors, and set some of them to crappy low resolutions.
Well, this is both property and knowledge. I'd argue that the information content is more "real", since information is a real property of things in the universe. Property is a (useful) abstraction that humans have collectively agreed on, so that people don't get clubbed as often as in the past.
I'm a big fan of Bcachefs, but why hasn't it attracted any corporate sponsorship? Is ZFS/XFS/Btrfs "good enough" or is everyone burnt out on "next-gen" filesystems?

Edit: Oh, it looks like it does have a corporate sponsor now!
I hope it doesn't happen but if earth becomes inhospitable to mankind and we all die it won't be the end of "life".

Earth had mass extinction events where 90%+ of living things died, and life just came up with some new stuff and recovered.
So why aren't all birds as smart as crows? They have similar anatomy.
I honestly don't see where the distinction is. What do you call fluid reasoning? As the article says, cephalopods' ancestors used to have shells, like snails. Finding a replacement when it is available seems pretty instinctual to me, if only as a vestigial behavior.
Correlation != causation.

And even if that was the reason, your response didn't make anyone any smarter. How is it bad? Which you can't answer, because your only line of reasoning is that it has to be bad, because it's not as popular.
Amen. I'd love to find a way to access Tensorflow directly from a native compiled Common Lisp like CCL or SBCL. This would be ideal for combining symbolic AI with DL.
They can't access YouTube anyway to watch this video. /s
Big AAA games companies are like any other big entertainment product companies as far as I can tell, or any other industry that mass produces stuff on a production line for that matter.

If you can manage the drones, whether they are crapping out a risk free uninspired committee designed, game, or film, or screen door, it hardly matters I think.
Anyone who doesn't care about protecting people's privacy don't care because they don't understand how the data can and will be used. If they did understand and continued not to care (or god fodbid, continued to violate) then they're morally bankrupt.

GDPR is amazing because it forces companies to think twice about the data they collect. Uneducated users tend to blame EU because some of their favorite websites (e.g. imgur) suddenly have a overlay that forces users to consent to them allowing themselves and a hundred random companies to violate users' privacy and force those who don't consent to manually click the opt out button a hundred different times. This should be a wakeup call for people to abandon these evil websites/companies rather than to blame EU.
For spider intelligence and an absoutely brilliant science-fiction novel, try Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-tim...

This book really made me realise (once again) how strange and wonderful good science-fiction can be.
"Parenting with reason" by Strahan, Dixon, and Banks. I liked that they actually cite evidence and it's not just someone's anecdotal ramblings.
And look where ORCL is in relation to M$FT.
https://drzwig.com/blog/detail/Psychologys_Fake_Science_and_...

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/13/news/la-ol-blowback-...

> That's right. Psychology isn't science. Why can we definitively say that? Because psychology often does not meet the five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability.