skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a mom + pop Amazon seller (manufacture + ship from China to America, stick packaging on it, send it in to Fulfillment by Amazon, collect a check)

He's probably worth $50m as one of the top 250 sellers. Probably ~20 SKUs. Tons of competitors trying to bring him down but his product has so many reviews that it is just a money printer.

He was smart to be at the right place at the right time. He undercut the bigdogs back in the day (~10 years ago maybe?) and gained momentum.

He refused to admit to me that he was lucky. He refused to admit that he had the right idea at the right time. Was his execution great? You bet. Good marketing/product advertising/images/pivoting/getting through hardships/blah blah blah.

But like... he couldn't do again if he had to start from scratch in 2019. Things are different. And he refused to acknowledge that. He wanted to believe everything he did was perfect and he got his wealth purely from skill.

I think that's a bad trait :(
The new terms are undesirable for any kind of multiplayer game, not just those using SpatialOS.
T-Mobile just did the same. I think what you'll see instead is the phone companies selling the data directly instead of through a 3rd party broker.

In response to them claiming there's legitimate uses.. there's really not. If someone needs roadside assistance you can ask if they can get your location or require the caller to have a carrier app installed that requests location data.
Right, but since when are ancient texts reliable sources for historical dates?
This is nice that op gets value. But github has a search feature. Google searches pretty well. I rarely browse user accounts and if someone looked at my account and cared because I had forked stuff, then I consider it a bonus that they exclude me from their job search.

There ar different philosphies to githubbing, the mistake is only when you project your own onto perceiving another’s.
I didn't say the syntax is superficial - I'm an Elixir fan, in fact. I meant the similarities with Ruby syntax are superficial.
As a millennial myself, I would like the need for income taken off the table so that I can find a recurring source of meaningful work.
I'm not sure about the % but i think it is a safe bet that at least over the next 20 years a lot of jobs will be replaced by AI. First are your drivers, cab, uber, lyft, truck drivers. Then you have your fast food employees. Then people delivering packages and probably most of the logistics behind that industry too, the list goes on. I'm sure at some point mid level management will also be automated to a large degree, as humans will come to rely on machines increasingly for decision making process.
How does one see shadow banned posts?
On the picture, the movement of the pole slightly resembles a pendulum: it is slow at the beginning far from the geographic pole, and it speeding up as it nears it. Makes perfect sense, actually.
I hope I live to see the death of publishers.
It was also a product of its time. The computer would calculate things slowly with the sound of a punch card machine, beeps and flashing lights[0] and its voice synthesis was ROBOTIC, because that's what the future sounded like in the 1960s.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evf9SDBgOqY

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZXugicgn6U

>does the sci predict the tech or does the tech imitate the sci fi.?

I think both. Obviously there's a bit of reasonable extrapolation on the part of the writers, but lots of engineers and scientists inspired by the series have also tried to make that future happen.
It's much easier to change your search engine than your ISP.
Many millions of people (or more) have the same lucky factors that you list, and don't have the same success. Hence, those might not have been the most critical factors.
> Bungie and Activision teamed up all those years ago essentially because the former needed a jump-start to develop Destiny

Jump start? I thought Bungie was one of the most wildly successful video game studios out there, at the time? Did they need a jump start?
Direct link to announcement blog: https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/47569

(which I submitted hours ago but didn't get any upvotes due to a bad title)
The article points out that there are significant benefits to single stream:

- 80% recycle instead of 29%
- Fewer trucks
- Less fuel
- Fewer staff

Switching back to multi-stream is misguided. Even with multi-stream recycling you still need to deal with contamination. It's going to be even harder to re-educate people that are used to single stream.

Why not focus on better sorting solutions? It is easier to teach a machine learning algorithm to sort based on computer vision than it is to get 325 million people to change their behavior.
It shouldn't be. PhotoDNA produces fingerprints of known illegal images. But there still must be a human moderator in the chain to flat an image as illegal. Preventing new illegal images from being indexed is an entirely different, and much harder problem.
Yes, everything -- even integers --- are objects in Ruby -- you can say 5.methods and Ruby will respond with a list of methods integers know. I think the best way to learn Ruby is Dave Thomas' classic "Pickaxe Book". This describes pure Ruby, as it predates Rails (not that I have anything against Rails, but a lot of people confuse Rails with Ruby which is a mistake). There is an updated version of the book for sale for Ruby 2.X, but the original is free at http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ and because most of the changes between versions are minor, it would serve nicely to learn current Ruby.
> Fourth, another fork, but this time nothing has been updated for over a year. I guess the user pressed fork by mistake?

A guess: they submitted a PR, and upstream never got around to merging it. My understanding is that the PR points to the fork, so if I delete my fork, the PR dies (or loses its content). Is that true?
Most US cities are lacking a functional transit system. Seattle, Portland and a few others are odd birds in how transit gets dedicated bus jumps/lanes, signal priority, and is generally notably faster than driving during rush hour.

In Seattle specifically, the city taxes businesses who don't provide transit passes for their employees. It varies from the urban core to the further flung parts of town, but if you buy every employee a transit pass, its often equal cost or cheaper than the tax you pay per employee.

Bikers, people walking to work & those who buy passes elsewhere have to regularly recertify they aren't driving, which is a form that can be a tad annoying to fill out.
I wish they'd revisit Pathways into Darkness. One of the greatest games of all time that nobody has played.

How can you not be intrigued by an FPS adventure horror RPG text-based adventure?
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I'm still annoyed that there even was a Destiny 2, when the first one was announced I was promised a shooter in a persistent world with mmo progression that would be supported for years, not a series of sequels I had to buy again and make a new character.
Column names aren't keywords though, are they?.

Using a perfect hash table is definitely cool, but it's hard to imagine a query with so many keywords that this would have a measurable impact on total query execution time.
> I simply want to be a human and behave (badly) like one.

Yeah, hopefully in a few years we'll have intelligent silicon servants that actually care about us.
I remember when Bungie first sold to Microsoft. In one of the levels in Halo, there’s a bulletin board on a wall with a flyer that reads: FOR SALE - CHICAGO OFFICE - INTEGRITY

Glad to see them fully independent again, even if it took almost two decades.
Being a self published studio isn't just about having a lot of money (though that's often a prerequisite, at least for AAA games). There's also experience with marketing, relationships with console manufacturers, market research, negotiating platform pricing. Publishers' knowledge of these things make it useful for a studio to still team up with a publisher even if the studio is swimming in cash.
That's hilarious. What's the difference between AT&T and the federal government ?
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to "tan faced".
This article is incredibly light on details. This either needs a better link or it's not really HN worthy.
If that was true, then no open source software would ever get released.
Don't forget 2019!

https://www.gps.gov/cgsic/meetings/2017/powers.pdf
I still think generals.io is one of the best. There remain significant technical challenges to making HTML5 games at web scale. Making sure actual humans, not bots, are playing is of primary importance. Then there are the actual economics. Cloud traffic can become expensive even at <1000 concurrent players. Majority of revenue will be ad-based. There is demand for great browser based games. Even in LAN configuration. It's a question of who can invest in the web. And who can design specifically for the medium. With the result possibly looking quite different than 60fps arcade style games. Best of luck ;)
I think they might be overstimulated.

Hello, world from a compiler in a terminal is a good start.

You should show them how many lines of code a web browser is and say "here is what it takes to get <p>Hello!</p> on the page" lol

Scare everybody away :)
The latter. Unlike Schwarzschild black holes, a Kerr black hole drags spacetime with it as it rotates.

The black hole in Interstellar was a Kerr black hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr_metric
+1 to this. The pre-ordering based on my D1 experience really bit me hard.
Maybe shadow banned because the story is 4 years old, and has been repeated word for word already?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mike2477&sort=byPopularity&pre...

https://upupgrow.com/how-i-built-a-5000-per-month-side-proje...

https://getsimpledata.com/blog/sales-best-practices/2015828h...

Great story, but may be one reason.
IANAL but really, is this enforceable, for code already downloaded, used and deployed in compliance with the license at that time?
Maybe it's time to put our old "webmaster" hats back on.

Generalist or polyglot developer still doesn't fully capture the broad scope of knowledge you can call on beyond cutting code and may have lost any of its negative connotations over the last 23 years.
On non-retina displays, which... is nowhere near the normal use case for Macs at this point.
That was a great game. I’ve never been fascinated by the secondary world of a game quite like I was with Pathways into Darkness.
Yea this is what scares me. I don’t know what career advice to eventually give my 6 year old. More and more careers are being automated away, and that value is being captured by fewer and fewer people. It is pretty obvious that my child’s standard of living as an adult will be much worse than mine (just as mine is worse than my parents’), and that is heartbreaking. It’s getting to the point where “hang out with rich people and try to marry up” is the most rational plan for those left in the middle class.
You can even get it with straight up Docker, as long as both the host and container are running a new enough kernel+docker. You can even run unprivileged containers: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/13/running-system... - I did this with Ubuntu (Bionic and Artful, but I can't remember if it could work older versions, although this hardly new per the date on the blog). Of course this assumes you are running Linux everywhere and not some proprietary, limiting, OS.
I should add, the thorough guidelines quoted are for writing secure and robust programs, and imply throughout that overcommit is disabled (which it must be, to implement programs robustly).
So you mean no big budget games can be created anymore?
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Oh man, very true.
How much of the Bungie staff is left from the early 2000s?
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Does anybody have any thoughts on how this separation squares with Bungie's recent 100M investment from NetEase? [1]. IIRC this is the same company behind Activision/Blizzard's Diablo mobile game.

It would seem that the biggest change here is that Bungie cut out the middleman.

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/1/17418862/bungie-netease-inv...
Except for Dropbox, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla...
Did you consider alternate approaches like using Ansible to give you more native system options as well, or was the goal here truly to have something 100% cross platform on anything? A hybrid might be a good approach too. Personally I think I'd end up backsliding because if I'm using a platform I really like then I want to be able to take advantage of some of its best native software and interface bonuses, so a purely X-based setup will still lead me to some manual setup on my own systems. Once stuff out of the automatic flow crept in feels like it might build up over time since I'm not that disciplined. Some of the playbooks I've seen though could be enhanced further with this, neat project.
This is true. The same thing happened with the r/pcmasterrace subreddit-parody subs that were taken over by people not getting the joke.
If you measure their tax base as percentage of their total GDP, you'll be surprised at how small government in those countries are. For instance, by that measure, France has the biggest government of the OECD: https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm
In theory memristors should be faster than flash and with significantly better write endurance. Additionally, the memristor can be used as the basis of computing. Meaning you could potentially create a device which had programmable logic like an FPGA but could reconfigure itself much faster and operate at the speed of a dedicated ASIC (CPU/GPU, etc.)
I just like developing in C# much better than C++.

Especially C#7, and the support of the latest 7.3 in the most recent Unity.

C# is my favorite of the common primarily OOP languages. I would take a LISP any day... See Arcadia.
Their MobileVLCKit is a huge help on our projects too.
Getting to market earlier is just one way to better fulfill the needs of the market.
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Any idea how it handles indexing? Does it convert everything to 32 bit chars and ignore graphemes?
> He wanted to believe everything he did was perfect and he got his wealth purely from skill

He did, his skill was to get on it at a right time in a right place. His skill was to keep working on it and believing in himself. Saying it was due to luck is just pure disrespect.
(imo) Bungie seems to really get what makes shooters fun, but has no idea why people like MMO's. Both 1 and 2 had to be released with the MMO aspects severely lacking and the community to criticize them before they got fixed. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again.
They are a fairly niche product. The only real demographic buying them in bulk from consumer outfits are small businesses without big contracts to HP / Dell, the one in a million informed tech "muggle" who knows how to install their own OS, and small IT shops that recognize how practical they are.

You can get some of them with a preinstall of Windows but because they aren't made by the big builders who stock Best Buy and Walmart shelves they don't often show up in front of consumers faces to buy, much like Linux desktops. But Dell / HP / etc have no real reason to risk their business investing in their own NUCs because theres nothing really competing with them in their spaces for that kind of hardware, and they already make the all in one computers that are about one notch too far up the "unmoddable" ladder for most of us to be content with.
The few home schooled people I’ve met were some of the most brilliant, and my bar for saying that is quite high. They were also socially well adjusted. And 100% of the smartest people I’ve met received substantial, although not exclusive, home schooling in the form of parents who were academics. I would like to home school when I have kids, both for the learning and anti-brainwashing benefits, but it seems impractical unless one does not need to work and is willing to dedicate vast amounts of time to it. Also I think the kids would be missing out on certain special socialization experiences. I think the ultimate solution is send them to a school with sports teams and cheerleaders, have thought provoking conversations with them, and hire college students to tutor them on the side.
Due to the desire to have keywords that aren't fully reserved (we have keyword classes that are fully reserved, can appear as type names, can appear as column names, or can appear nearly everywhere) we/PG need to look up whether a specific string is a keyword or an identifier in a number of places in the scanner/parser.

Addendum:
And that indeed means that column references, unless quoted with "", used to go through the binary search and now go through the perfect hash.

Edit: Typo
This article on their blog gets into the compatibility that cockroachdb offers and why they even decided to do that in the first place: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/why-postgres/

It's also very useful to be portable across many cloud providers (in addition to on-premises), which is what crossplane is providing for your apps. In terms of databases, Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, and Azure PostgreSQL are all abstracted away from the developer so that their application should work across those without changes as well.
Excessive filtering (threshold set to take no chances) has started to make people seek Google alternatives. The easiest way for Google to respond to this threat is to push stories that will pressure the competition into damaging results with excessive filtering.
This was the biggest con for me. Earning all of my gear in D1 then not having those available for import into D2 was really upsetting.

The D1 weapons felt great. It's a shame Bungie keeps leaving gear they designed so far behind every iteration.

I wish they at least added something like transmog. I remember going to D1 panel during PAX West one year and Luke mentioning that there were many WoW players that worked at Bungie.

I really wonder WTF is going on over there lately.
I don’t think this needs to be a conspiracy. Bing is far behind. I worked on a suicide awareness project when I was at Quora, and at least at the time Google had help links featured for suicide subjects and Bing had instructions on how to kill yourself. Arguably Bing had the better search results but not the high ground. This could be another one of those cases.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft from whom they had just been spun out. I doubt they had anywhere near the capital to staff a AAA production, and even if they did why not mitigate your downside by working with a publisher? This is standard practice for most large independent developers and for many of the same reasons that people take on investment in the broader business community.
That's a very strange analogy. Honestly I'm not really sure what you're trying to say but your sarcastic quip about serving central bakers tells me all I need to know.
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I vouched for the dead comments.

The story might need to have a missing date on it (4 years old?), but the two comments that the author of the post made don’t seem to violate the terms or spirit of HN rules.

If someone can show me how the rules were broken in his comments, I will gladly unvouch.
There really is nothing too bizarre for some people to believe. Just one daft example I came across this morning: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/09/flat-earth-c...

In relation to the downsides of so-called 'economic growth': when you add personal fear to modern society-wide myths and more than a century of compulsory corporate propaganda, etc, you get a pretty potent brew of motivated miscognition.
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Note that rook is still in beta. I've had pretty bad luck with it not supporting features that I need. First it was not supporting adding additional OSDs on the same node, though I believe that's now fixed. In the end it was that PVCs can't be mounted by multiple pods at a time, even when set to RWX.
That was way more fun that it should have been. Good job.
This is such a modern problem too. No matter what anyone feels about it having to farm crops to eat was definitely meaningful work a hundred years ago. Even if you were being exploited in a factory suicide was common but mostly from abuse and injury rather than the vacuousness of the job.

Its wholly contemporary to invent bullshit jobs and imagine complexity to keep people at desks en masse, leaving them with such a feeling of their lives being pointless.
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>Maybe a future administration will rebuild the anti trust departments and they will start to break apart companies like Facebook, Alphabet, and Verizon.

Zuckerberg 2020
It was even once a thing in SF https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/the-last-ride-of-...
I was really looking forward to Call of Duty 21 and (sport) (year)
The US media has been shouting about an opioid crisis for years now. The stories imply or outright claim that there are "many" opioid addicts for some definition of "many" that exceeds the number there "should" be.

I think that shouting is out of proportion to the number of real addicts, and I'm not claiming to speak for the person you are replying to. But it's not outlandish for someone to mistakenly believe there are lots of heroin addicts.
I'd love to see what it does with my face: https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/250420?s=800&v=4
Do you have additional commentary about the press now that other posters have provided more context to that quote from a website?
I can hazard a reasonable guess based on my observation of various executive life forms and, oddly, The Office. I obviously do not have data to back it up, but random clicks seem to find random non-code related items on GitHub ( I think HN had pizza recipe example kinda drove that point further for me ). From this I can only gather that someone decided that GitHub should be more.. fun, social place where you interact, interface and collaborate in real time. Just be happy no one announced they are moving everything to a semi-public blockchain.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

If someone’s hobby is pretending to be an asshole or stupid... they might actually just be an asshole or stupid.
Even within the Larger Bay Area there is plenty of smaller cities with a well developed and prolific downtowns that have startups, retail, supermarkets, bars and restaurants all within walking distance of a rail system connecting you to SF:
Mountain View, Oakland, Redwood City or where I live - San Mateo.
My family and I have been a 1-car household for more than a decade and mostly walk everywhere including a train station for a 25min ride to SF
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Well that's the (anticipated) bit...
I think it would be great to run systemd as pid 2 with a bare-bones pid 1 that only took on the responsibility of (1) spawning a service manager as pid 2, and (2) killing reaping zombies. This is pretty much what BSD's init(8) does today[0], except with /etc/rc as pid 2 instead of systemd.

(I'm not advocating for /etc/rc — it sucks. I much prefer systemd-style dependencies, service management, etc. But bloating the code size and responsibility of pid 1 is a common systemd complaint that would be trivial to fix.)

[0]: Well, it does some other crap too that could / should probably be removed, like having a notion of run level (multiuser, single user) and spawning getty(8)s. But mostly it's a tiny barebones program that spawns pid 2 and reaps zombies.
Isn't there only 65K passwords/magic keywords in wormhole ?
What if someone constantly bruteforce all of these combinations, wouldn't he get access to the files that you are sending ?
Do you honestly believe that's an apt analogy?