skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just came to say it makes me happy to see the term "discovered" used in a what is essentially an engineering/software context, instead of the term "invented." The more that people in our industry speak clearly about that fact that many of the constraints in our problem space are universal, and thus much of our solution space is discovered, not invented, the more we shift the culture to understand e.g. the absurdity of software patents, etc.
I could keep playing shooters for as long as my hands could hold out as I aged, but all of the new ones are so bad. The last shooter that I saw that wasn't a student project/impeccably tiny indie venture and actually managed to capture the spirit of shooting while applying good modernization was DOOM 4 (the DOOM reboot). I'm super excited for Rage 2 and DOOM Eternal, and I say that as someone who was bored to tears by Rage 1 to the point where I put 45 minutes into it and stopped. The last good multiplayer shooter was Tribes Ascend, and that had plenty of flaws apart from being developed by Hi-Rez.

Meanwhile, JRPGs are there for me as the shooter market has been swallowed up by the battle royale genre and Overwatch. If anything, I'm enjoying JRPGs more now than I did when I was younger. Indie (FTL, Immortal Redneck) and Doujin (Momodora, 100% Orange Juice) games have also been coming along in a big way as well. Age of Empires 2 is there for me in the modern day on modern systems with the HD release and the expansion packs, but it and Brood War Remastered seem to be the exceptions for RTS rather than the norm. I also picked up Smash Brothers for the first time in give-or-take 15 years, and I'm having a blast. There's so much work being put in to making these games fun.

I wish shooters were as interesting as they used to be. Even relatively new stuff like Tribes Ascend was a blast; easy enough to get into, but with enough of a skill ceiling to really sink your teeth into it. If anything, getting older has just left me for a want for something other than CounterStrike and far better than battle royales and Overwatch.
As a different example:

A company dumps toxic chemicals into the air/water, and it results in horrible deaths and destruction to the environment which makes everyone's lives worse.

However, they've managed to do this in a completely legal way. Maybe they moved the dumping to a region without strong regulation. Maybe they found some legal loophole. Maybe they funded a politician's campaign who then carved out a legal loophole for them.

Would you still not blame the company or call their actions unethical in this case?

I personally would blame the company. I would consider their decisions unethical. I would also want to fix the laws so that I could legally hold them accountable, but I wouldn't absolve the company of responsibility until those laws were fixed.

How is tax avoidance all that different? Sure, it's not directly harming anyone. However, the lack of funding for the government means fewer social services and those services often are used to help people avoid horrible deaths (such as homeless freezing on the streets, veterans receiving medical care, or safety improvements to roads) and to improve the environment we live in (national parks, clean water initiatives, etc.).
Tax budgets have a direct effect on people, and for people who have to work for a living, while it appears to be taking money, it is equivalently taking their time, a fraction of their life.
Demand has always modulated. The article points out that there is excess wind/solar capacity available. More than enough to cover current demand. In the US, energy consumption per capita is declining.
These are all true things, and this is why the company pays all its domestic taxes.

When the company then goes on to do business in another country as well, where another nation is providing security, safety, infrastructure, perhaps a public education system that creates a workforce the company wants to invest in... How much does the company owe its home country?

If you graduated university, how much do you owe your alma mater in annual donations beyond what you paid for the diploma program? ;)
Well, I'd agree that John Carmack is more comparable to a film director than a crew member. On the other hand, John Carmack is better compensated for that, as he is worth $40 Million[0], the same as film director Spike Lee[1] (who has been active a bit longer).

0 - https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/busine...

1 - https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/direct...
A three-stoplight "town" is a village at best, more like a crossroads or a couple of junctions :)

Cities are urban. They have congestion, nightlife with noticeable quantities people on the streets in the evening, chance encounters as you walk around, and a general feeling of lots of stuff happening within a walkable distance.
They even have their own IT consulting firm:

https://www.iecisa.com/en/digital-solutions/
The other day I was looking at the gallery and I found this "Complete XML Parser":

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/780538/

LOL I want to hangout with that kid!
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I have a suspicion that any American President would have had to do this. Its true that these things did happen under Obama, but I am hesitant to think that someone else could have done better.
It's got the power of billions of dollars of media money pumping it, so of course a heavily marketed item will be purchased. But that's not the discussion, which is loud music being played in such places as restaurants. I mentioned hip hop because loud hip hop is more distracting to a conversation than loud, say flute music. The fact that I loathe it just adds to the pain.
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I am interested in working on projects/products with a positive social impact. Other characteristics that drive my interest are a well defined product vision and a great engineering culture.

Even though the technology I used in my most recent work experience was JavaScript and Node.js, I have solid software development skills that can have a meaningful impact in projects developed with different technologies.

I'm looking forward to new experiences and challenges.
Can I deduce 97,5% of my wage legally?

Because that's what we are talking about there. 100 million gross and 3.5 million taxes is a drop in the sea compared to 22B gross.
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I found this a really thoughtful read, I've lived here for almost 15 years and have been below the federal poverty line as well as in the 90-something percentile of US wage earners. It's heartbreaking to be surrounded by people struggling and also to know that if you slow down too much, you could pretty easily find yourself on the streets.

I think the author hits an important point that, if nothing else, it's important to be aware of ourselves. It may not be my or your personal fault that things are the way they are, but we're living in a system that substantially rewards what we do over everyone else around us. I would posit that this also harms us, as the author notes - a person making six figures with a busy job can easily feel like money is just going through their fingers like water.

This is part of why I'm going back to school to study economics. I want to live a rich life, which to me doesn't mean having substantially more than other people. I want to live in an enriched community where everyone who plays an important part can live comfortably, raise a family if they want to, have savings, pay a reasonable amount for housing, etc..

There's more to life than computers. <3
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I have found doxygen useful, but only in the context where you don't have the source code. QT has a doxygen like tool which means I don't have to understand how the source is structured to know how to use it. I know of other closed source projects (which I'm not allowed to name) that similarly use doxygen like things so that you don't need the source code.

Note that to be useful someone needs to their full time job to edit it and make sure there are good examples.
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Haha, fair criticism, but don't miss the forest for trees. My point was about simplicity - I don't need to worry about this when making a website, but there's this new language and now I have to worry about this? It just feels like a step backwards.
> Has this actually been concluded? That it is the "tech industry's fault?"

A lot of people believe it. The idea that this dystopia is the tech industry's sole fault has common currency, especially in young-and-progressive circles.

Among other things, it means not really having to come to terms with decades of policy failure. It also means not having to examine how local government seems to keep failing, such as with public transit or public restrooms.

Tech is an excellent newcomer and outsider. This makes it collectively an ideal scapegoat. Which is not to say the tech industry is innocent! But it is to say the way blame is apportioned could be better aligned with reality.
It would be nice to be able to control the volume of background music while watching a show/movie. I wouldn't be surprised to see that sometime in the near future.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/537101/deep-learning-mach...
I find 'Pythonic' more of a higher level philosophy about what "good python style" looks like more than elitist, but I can see how it can be warped by an elitist mindset.

Whenever I write Python I try to keep it 'pythonic' and that mainly means keeping things simple, very explicit, and concise. These are obviously traits that all developers want their code to have, but sometimes the syntactic sugar of a language can make it difficult, I think the Pythonic philosophy provides guardrails against this.
This complicated failover setup took huge amount of time and resources to setup, delaying the project by months.

Hmm - failover shouldn't be that hard to set up. If it was then that suggests that other issues (technical debt, inexperienced management) were the more likely culprits.

Not the simple fact that they chose not to ignore the need for failover.
I grew up watching Japanese anime which reference ancient Greek mythology.

Pollon[0], for example, focuses on a daughter of Apollo.
I didn't even know the "man on the moon" thing was called Apollo until I was in high school.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Pollon
EDIT: s/compiler generator/parser generator/. Though, ASN.1 parser generators are also typically compiler generators, I guess, in the sense of generating code to "compile" data structures to the encoded form, which is probably what was going through my head when I muddled the terminology. The benefit of fixed-size, pointer-free structure fields in C is more pronounced when initializing a structure to be serialized.
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There is a discussion about Instagram's approach to migrating to python3 around the 34 minute mark in this talkpython podcast
https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/155/practical-steps-for-...
Lisa Guo's presentation starts around the 13 minute mark in the 2017 keynote linked to on that page.

Here's a blog post about Dropbox migrating from python 2 to 3
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/09/how-we-rolled-out-one...
Indeed, it would make much more sense if dialing 911 from the ISS would contact emergency services that can deal with emergencies in space, than to route it out into Houston's emergency services.

This then begs the question, if an emergency happens in the ISS, do they call a number to Earth, and what is it?
I'm fairly sympathetic to abolishing corporate taxes, since corporate taxes are a flat rate on all shareholders, and some of it even falls on workers, however...

Corporate taxes provide an additional incentive to reinvest the profits of your business, rather than just sitting on them.

They also allow national governments to extract tax revenue from foreign shareholders.

And it's that second point that is really the biggest deal, since a unilateral lowering of corporate taxes and replacement with income taxes may increase the tax burden on your citizens.

Ireland likes having a low tax rate because it has a comparatively low tax base and can incentivize these extremely large companies to pay taxes in Ireland, but as you can see, this harms the rest of the EU.
Absolutely. Want a computer that works like a brain? Obviously we need to know how a brain works first. We've certainly made huge strides compared to what we used to know, but as far as I'm aware we are still staggeringly far from a working model. Maybe we've increased our knowledge 2000% since the turn of the twentieth century or whatever, which sounds great and really is great. But to look at that from the other side--what if we're only 0.02% of the way to an adequate, functioning model of the human brain? We shouldn't be getting a big head just yet.

These are the kind of problems which have profound amounts of complexity lurking in every unexpected pitfall. We are going to discover that it's a lot more of a tangle than we thought before it becomes simple again. I think most of us here know a thing or two about that sinking feeling when you're attacking a problem and discover that what seemed like a minor pothole is actually a wormhole leading into an entire universe full of waist-high bullshit with submerged landmines, but this problem will be in another class entirely. Figuring out the brain is a species-level problem and it's going to be VERY long and arduous.

I also resent the article's assertion that "if an AI is a safer driver than a human, who cares if it's a black box?" Fallacious argument number one around self-driving cars. Hear it all the time, almost always from laymen. It's a nice way to sneak in the assumption that AI will be better than average human drivers any time soon. The way that metric has been measured has been very deceptive so far, and no AI has come close to matching human safety and robustness. Not in real life applications in the field at scale. Not even close. There's been shenanigans like discounting all driver interrupts, which by nature disguises any flaws of the AI and offloads that responsibility on a person as a sort of PR heat-sink.

We don't give ourselves enough credit for how well we handle driving. Reality is chock full of exceptions, quirks, and legacy systems that aren't going to go away for many decades, and compared to the progress we've made on AI so far it's going to be many, many times more work for us in the future to deal with those niggling details. The devil's in there, he really is.
Was it? Once scale problems is gone -- you assume that all code can be checked out on one machine, and you have enough buildfarm to build all the code -- the most of the article's points no longer apply.

The downsides which still apply are Upside 3.3 (you don't deploy everything at once) and Downside 1 (code ownership and open source is harder).

And those are pretty weak arguments -- I would argue that deploying problems exists with polyrepo as well, and there are now various OWNERS mechanisms.

The fact the polyrepos are harder to open source is a good point, but having to maintain multiple separate repos just in case we would want to opensource one day seems like sever premature optimization.
The word "workflow" is suspiciously absent from the OP.

Annoying workflow is my #1 complaint against polyrepos.
I tried to check it out, but it was taking forever to load. Downloading the assets at only ~500 KBps on a 150 Mbps link. Also only got maybe 10% through the download before I gave up, and the Chrome tab was already using 500 MB of RAM.

This might be an interesting POC, but seems very impractical in reality.
It has a low P/E because it's revenue is falling, not growing.
This is being downvoted, but I would curious to hear an argument for why it isn't true. It seems to me the skill set for a star in the movie business is rarer than a skill set for a star in the game industry. Also Tom Cruise isn't only a paid well because because he is a good actor, he is also paid well because he is a movie star. People go to the movies just to see him. Are there many people in the gaming industry that engender that kind of loyalty when they work on a game?
It matches SQL, that is the one language one is most likely to write at the same time as any other language.
I get the nausea shivers when something is described as "curated"
There's an analogy, but it's a weak one. Again, money isn't people. Abusing labor laws gets people killed directly. Failure of a government to collect enough tax can get people harmed or killed indirectly, but it's the government's responsibility to set tax policy, not a corporation's.
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Building a Sentiment Analysis Python Microservice with Flair and Flask
Wasn't there an overpass over I-5 in Seattle that got replaced, maybe ten, fifteen years back, due to fire damage from a truck fire? (please don't stop under an overpass if your vehicle is on fire!)

I think that took a month or two to replace but the actual bridge work I thought only took about a week and a half. Can't seem to find it on Google. Anyone remember when that was?
That was likely my own comment; and it was comparing a company that didn't pay dividends to the exact same company which does pay dividends. In this scenario with equivalent cash flows, expenditures, and expectations of future growth the non-dividend company will have a higher share price.

Share price _increases_ however only occur when the market expects the company to _grow_ revenues (profits), not sustain them. In other words, your comment isn't accurate, that would not cause the share price to increase. Only actual growth, expectation of growth, or market manipulation will cause share prices to increase.
My understanding is that since 2018, tax deferral is no longer possible and all the offshore profit of US corporation has since been taxed.

Was that wrong?

Also my understanding is that even before, the income moved to tax haven was still subject to US corporate tax, though companies were able to defer taxation until it was repatriated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_St...
Having previously had experience with their old server line, I'd prefer they don't enter the space.
So it's a vicious cycle now: when times are good, stuff is built few can afford; when times are bad, nothing is built at all.
> To play, all you have to do is notice a person and try to decide if they’ve caught your eye because they’re famous. It will feel like they’re famous. But more often than not, it’ll just be a regular person who looks like a celebrity, with that polished glow they always seem to have.

One of the first things I noticed after leaving SoCal was how rare it was to see a plastic surgery disaster - something that's a daily occurrence there. Most times I saw one I thought, "is this a B-list celebrity that jacked up their face?"
This is called the Freidman Doctrine [1], and didn't exist until 1970. Before this stupid idea got popular, companies were actually concerned with how their actions impacted society. They weren't the souless profit-seeking machines you see today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
I get some weird lighting bugs -- one side of everyone's face has massive shadowing from the centreline...

... but yes, surprised how well it ran on my old laptop!
Same goes for music and movies, or pretty much any form of entertainment.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I will check out Seattle and Portland electricity portfolios. Looks very promising though.
I think the article misses the point slightly, in a way that I notice a fair amount. A better title would be "The Best Skin-Care Trick: Spend Money". I often notice that we talk as if there is this magic group of "rich people" that has enough money to spend on anything and everything, instead of a bunch of people that spend various amount of money they have (or don't have) on things that they want.

Famous or Just Rich, or taking on debt to try and make it as an Instagram model?
> it's already on of the most sensibly built places on the planet - and so "redeveloping" anything beyond selected corners of it would basically be pretty stupid.

What? Almost everything between Midtown and Downtown is a 4-5 story walkup, how is that ideal? It's why they're redeveloping old office buildings in the Financial District to be apartments -- it's one of the few spots in lower Manhattan that allow high density housing.

> You know perfectly well this isn't true. Not even half of the lots in that area meet that description.

I was being slightly hyperbolic but the effect is the same. The strict height/density restrictions are intended to preserve the "historic" neighborhoods.
Strengths only: A peer review philosophy
I feel like the programmers and artists are far more important to a game than the grips and extras are to a movie. For sure, there are some programmers and artists that work on trivial grunt work, but I'd absolutely consider lead P&As to be the equivalent to star actors. If you change any one of them out, you'll probably end up with a very different game feel.
This post seems to try and refute really technical philosophy with simplified to the point of being wrong science.

It just seems awkward as a result.

But thinking really simplified science is enough to completely dismiss other serious thinkers is why scientists get called closed minded: to use their parlance, this rant isn’t even wrong.
Yes, but those are all forks. I was answering the question only, nothing more. If Oracle took on Linux (whatever that would mean), I have no doubt another fork would start as well.

edit: and this is a really contrived subject and example, because honestly, I can't think of how Oracle would take control of Linux anyway.
of course electrons don't think! they are merely the chaff and dross thrown off by the real movers and thinkers in the universe, which are monads[0].

"Just when one is about to judge Liebniz as having the strangest mind of anyone who ever lived, one remembers Newton and his lifelong obsession with alchemy and his strenuous efforts to predict the exact date of the End of the World by ransacking the Book of Revelations for encrypted clues"[1]

[0]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/

[1]: http://faculty.cord.edu/andersod/Stephenson-Metaphysics.pdf
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As a fellow old-schooler who's been getting back into JS myself, I've come across a couple of these types of resources that I found particlarly helpful. Here's the links:

- "Modern JavaScript Explained for Dinosaurs," by Peter Jang: https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-...

- "Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers," by Gina Trapani: https://postlight.com/trackchanges/modern-javascript-for-anc...

(Don't let the "ancient"/"dinosaur" stuff scare you off -- they kid because they love.)

Hope this helps!
You know how the left makes it hell for Republicans to go out in public around DC? Whichever group is mad enough, is going to start going after all these executives. It's going to get uncomfortable. Class warfare is coming and it's going to get nasty.
I did not make the justification but yes that is what society considers ethical as a property of making them laws in the first place.

>> It's crazy to suggest that anyone complying with the law should be immune from criticism.

Never suggested this. My point was to focus on the root cause if you want to create change, regardless of why.
Yeah I'm sure this phenomenon is happening in other large metro areas. I'm sure it's just as bad in NY.
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