skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Costs for AAA are large already -- why take risks?

You say that, but many of the games that Activision is focusing on, were new projects not too long ago.

Specifically, Hearthstone and Overwatch, are relatively new, when you compare them to the real old projects, like World of Warcraft, and the Diablo francise.

Them only focusing on these projects means that they have effectively given up. They will stagnate, with no new projects. Just merely rehashes of the same old thing that they have been doing for years.

Giving up on growth doesn't seem like a great strategy to me...
I assume I can still use jQuery in conjunction with v5 of Bootstrap, right? I just don't need it now?
According to NHTSA, it was about 2.3[0] accidents per million miles driven in 2016, or one accident per 0.43 million miles. However, you probably shouldn't directly compare those numbers without at least separating highway miles from surface streets, as Autopilot-enabled miles driven may have a very different profile than the national average in this regard (I'm not familiar with how Autopilot is used in practice).

[0] https://cdan.nhtsa.gov/tsftables/National%20Statistics.pdf ; figure obtained by dividing "POLICE-REPORTED MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC CRASHES (Total)" by "Vehicle Miles Traveled (Millions)". See more fun stats at https://cdan.nhtsa.gov/tsftables/tsfar.htm
How is Deskgap lightweighter than Electron if, at the end of the day, it's using the browser on my OS (which, let's assume, is Chrome)?
Crafting Beautiful UX with JavaScript API Calls
Its incredibly hard to catch up. The following is a list of new major AWS functionality delivered just in the month of January:

https://blog.clusterdyne.com/posts/new_aws_features_jan2019....

Two new services introduced and one in GA, plus multiple solid innovations like the Elastic Inference Predictors API. And this doesn't include roll-outs of existing services in new regions.
> Nobody wants to be testing against multiple browser/rendering engines in 2019.

That's why DeskGap uses EdgeHTML on Windows. With toolchains such as webpack and babel, building an app that runs on WebKit and EdgeHTML (which is going to be replaced by Chromium[0]) can't be that hard.

> Nobody wants to wait for a vendor to update their implementation when Chrome has the feature available almost immediately.

DeskGap doesn't mean to be a complete replacement for Electron. But after a glance of Electron Apps[1], I suppose many simple apps do not require start-of-art features.

[0] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...

[1] https://electronjs.org/apps
what about Oracle/Alibaba clouds?
Big companies re-org often so bad employees often get re-org’d around so they can start afresh each time. Some people develop this as their primary skill.
Exactly. The kind of millionaire you don’t want is thd one who hides money under the mattress.

Those who invest or conspicuously splurge are a boon to the economy and to workers.
Good point! I used to assume offsite implied offline, since I'm used to offsite tape backups.
Looks like a great project!

The webpage mentions the app size, but no mention of RAM usage, which is a bigger concern with Electron apps to me. Can you comment on how it compares?
No.

In your best case scenario, where you actually successfully enforced this ludicrous policy, it would create ugly incentives for the government (or corrupt agents in the government) to profit from an untimely death of the self-made billionare. In this scenario, the murder of Jeff Bezos would lead to the nationalization of Amazon.

More likely, however, it would incentivize massive tax evasion, with schemes being cooked up to move money offshore as quickly as possible.
As I read this story, some moving advertisements start along the top and sides. After ten seconds, a floating bar covers the text. After a few more, a modal dialog. Then the 'share me now' buttons, obscuring the text. Then I leave.

Too few websites offer an experience for someone to read the content, and so we will see "Reading Online Content in the Age of Constant Distraction" in HackerNews.
> There are like 2 airlines in the world that are profitable.

Your premise is outdated. The US airlines are very profitable now and have been for many years. Consolidation has brought the market to a state of profitability as the normal condition. Their margins are solid and the corporate income tax cut took their formerly high tax rates down to more reasonable levels that are globally competitive (eg Delta went from a typical 33% effective rate down to 24-25%).

Operating income the last four years combined:

Delta $24 billion, American $21b, United $18b, Southwest $14.5b, Alaska Air $4.7b, JetBlue $4b, Spirit $1.8b

All of those airlines have been profitable every year for the last five fiscal years (both in terms of net and operating income). So that's seven consistently profitable airlines just in the US market. Air Canada has also been profitable every year for the last five years.

This change to their business condition is also why Warren Buffett has gone through and purchased the max position he can in all the majors (Berkshire owns just under 10% of Delta, Southwest, United, American). He regards them as having gone through a consolidation transformation akin to the railroads, which took the US railroad industry from being a frequent basket case to consistently profitable (leading Berkshire to acquire Burlington Northern).
Your project managers, your functional QAs. Your manager's manager.

Outside SV, those people have never, and will never open a terminal.
Great point. I think way to reconcile may be around this data point from the original article:

> For instance, we know that AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. We know Microsoft is far back in second place with around 14 percent, the only other company in double digits. We also know that IBM and Google are wallowing in third or fourth place, depending on whose numbers you look at, stuck in single digits.

Best-case scenario, IBM / Google have 9% each, so with this still leaves 36% of the market in the hand of smaller players that both these companies can steal market share from
Thanks, this adds a whole new perspective for me wrt mutexes. I wasn't aware of all these other usage patterns for them at all.

Most of my work is in the OS, drivers and low level space, and I'm a beginner there as well, hence the short critical sections under a single owner are the only places I had encountered them before.
This might now be an opportunity for a hyperloop alternative. Musks investment in cheap tunneling with the Boring Company could turn out to be one of his best bets yet.
The apps you mention are available on the web, so they have to do these exact things anyway.

What they really want to do is make that web app installable in the OS, no? I use WebPin to "install" websites (until this works natively in Firefox with PWAs) a lot of the time, even when they offer electron bundles (with the browser I already have, nodejs I already have ...).
It doesn't matter how price sensitive your product is, you can raise prices a little and pay people a little more to help with hiring. There's a point of equilibrium somewhere.

"Labor shortage" is just a tactic to get someone else to help with the problem in a way that doesn't require increasing pay. It's the hiring equivalent of "don't miss this exclusive sale!"
Discussion on a similar article from 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19064860
What was your startup about?
The amount of movement to Azure is staggering from AWS (if only from job postings and recruiters I speak to).
There are a lot of businesses that do not want to fund their competitor (rightfully so), even if Azure is half baked (it is, but one desperately hopes it gets better if one is forced to use it).

Also, Office 365, Exchange, AD, Sharepoint/OneDrive, Flow, and other platform lock-ins are not to be discounted.
> Neither company is satisfied with that, of course. Google so much so that it moved on from Diane Greene at the end of last year, bringing in Oracle veteran Thomas Kurian to lead the division out of the doldrums.

> (...)

> Bloomberg reports that he announced a plan to increase the number of salespeople and train them to understand specific verticals, ripping a page straight from the playbook of his former employer, Oracle.

I'm not an Enterprise IT expert, but looking from the outside, it doesn't seem like AWS and Azure got to where they are today by following that playbook...

My personal take on it is that AWS was first-to-market with a 21st Century-ready cloud offering (i.e. you could pretty much hear developers shouting "Yes, THIS is what I'm talking about. Finally!") and Azure got to where it is by responding quickly and aggressively, with an additional pull for certain customers due to the synergy with MS / Windows, as well as being the next best choice for those directly competing with or not willing to sign up to Amazon.

If that's true, then unless Google / IBM can really differentiate themselves, they will always lag far behind. I don't know what other plans they have in store, but opening up Watson to other platforms or hiring an Oracle sales guy are not quite what I'd call differentiators.
Astranis (YC W16) is hiring avionics and power electronics engineers. Join us
I don't think we include average wait times here, we assume the traveler can arrive at the station at about the right time before departure.
No, if anything I'm more convinced they're different because they produce significantly different results when searching for "Kamala Harris".

She slept with Willie Brown, who was already married, and then he helped her get a nice job. I guess if Wikipedia tells you it's not important, it's not important because Wikipedia is unbiased. Did read that on Wikipedia, does it tell you it's unbiased? I'm a writer for Wikipedia, by the way, and I'm biased. In fact every human being has biases.
Googling "nvidia face generator" lead me to "A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks," (6 Feb 2019) a paper showing the faces on the site.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.04948.pdf
Requiring your Windows users to have the October 2018 update makes no sense.
No it's still a Win32 app. As you supposed, It's freed from UWP[0] ;).

[0]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/communitytoolkit/co...
BEM is a decent convention for old-school, global document styling, in the absence of scope. But it's also manual, error-prone, and verbose, making it a poor substitute for actual namespacing provided by components. I sympathize with your resistance to css-in-js; I've been doing webdev since 1998 and only really embraced it in the last couple years. I'm reminded of quotes like
"The difficulty lies not so much in new ideas, but in escaping the old."
"While our financial results for 2018 were the best in our history, we didn't realize our full potential," Kotick said in Activision's 2018 financial report. "To help us reach our full potential, we have made a number of important leadership changes. These changes should enable us to achieve the many opportunities our industry affords us."

wtf does that even mean?
Is the goal to have a "walk around hologram": one that you can look through from one side and see a real image projection on the other?

If so, what you propose won't work for a couple of reasons. First, you're flipping the plate, which means left-right or top-bottom is going to get flipped. Second, with a single laser you'll be illuminating one version as a transmission hologram, and the other as a reflection hologram. That's not going to work, I'm pretty sure.

Another way to attempt to do what you describe is to use two lasers to illuminate the same hologram: one, say, at 45 degrees to the plate coming from one direction, and the other 180 degrees opposite, shining on the plate from the other direction. If the two beams mimic the original reference source (but with one being the perfect conjugate: same angle but opposite direction), you'll get both a real and a virtual image.

However, and this is the big however, the hologram "knows" only about light from the parts of the object that are visible to it at exposure time, and it faithfully images them back into space exactly where they were. That means that the real or projected image will be pseudoscopic. It will be viewed from behind it's original location and will appear inside out or depth-reversed.

An interesting effect, but probably not what you were looking for.

Breaking the plate in half isn't like cloning the hologram, although it's a common myth. Imagine a hologram like an ordinary window. If you look through it, you can see objects on the other side from many different perspectives. Now cover up half the window. You can still see many of the same objects, but from a restricted range of views. And if a fly was climbing up one side of the window, you probably can't see the fly from the uncovered piece: the optical information about the fly is gone. To clone a hologram, you can either recreate the interference pattern (e.g., stamped foil holograms from a master) or reconstruct the original image optically and make a new hologram of the original. Rainbow or "Benton" holograms use this technique (can be used for both techniques, actually).

Hope that helps.
> I know, infalling matter sees a black hole - but we don't

Sure we do; a black hole is defined by the presence of a horizon, and we will certainly see infallers suffering one-way dimming and redshifting into undetectability. Nobody outside will see what has become of any of the original collapsed matter, either, barring failure of the censorship conjectures and ignoring evaporation. (Infalling matter, however, will collide with whatever state matter inside takes, whether that's classical GR's gravitational singularity or some degenerate form of matter that avoids ultimate collapse.)

> "frozen stars" ... "collapsed stars"

Right: collapsed to the point where all the material has become too dim and redshifted to observe; frozen to the point where outside observers cannot track the evolution of the material inside the horizon.

> quark stars (similar to neutron stars)

Similar in that the critical radius is inside the object, rather than the reverse, and that the critical density is not reached within that radius because of terms offsetting internal pressure. Earth is similar to neutron stars in that way too.

An ultrarelativistic fermion gas of quarks inside a horizon is still a black hole to any outside observer; the observables from abolishing the gravitational singularity using such a gas (or anything similar; cf. preon stars etc.) are only revealed, if at all, during evaporation.
I'd love to see the answer to this.
I'm just gonna link the actual Slack author who's already commented on this before and exit the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763449
We use Purescript at work. I don't remember the last time anyone on the team needed to fix a bug in the Purescript code. Our team had to fix around 4-5 bugs in the JS code in the past week alone.
The Purescript code is really well designed with proper usage of types everywhere possible.

Refactoring is done in Purescript fearlessly, if it compiles it'll run correctly or there's a bug in the JS or backend code that sends wrong data to it.

I really wonder how the ecosystem of frontend would be if Purescript became a widely adopted language
You don’t “need” almost anything, the point of new tools isn’t usually that you need them it’s that they make your life easier.

Apollo Client makes a lot of things about frontend apps easier, which is possible because of the well-defined and typed interface that graphql enforces. No, you don’t need it, and there are other ways (like maybe using Swagger) that you could get similar typing for a REST interface. But, FWIW I’m not familiar with any tools that are quite as comprehensive as Apollo out of the box that don’t use graphql.
It is more like "Stop using Flash for video players, use the browser's native support instead"
Apparently $10m is the exact amount Bill and Melinda plan to leave to each of their children.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/05/who-is-jennifer-gates-bill-a...
The names of the 26 candidates can be found at:

https://csrc.nist.gov/news/2019/pqc-standardization-process-...
It's still going to cost 9 trillion Yen (about 81 billion USD) though for the maglev.

https://www.japan-rail-pass.com.au/japan-by-rail/travel-tips...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen
That would be an argument for Microsoft switching to Chromium, albeit 'Edgium' might not entail the bleeding edge 6 week Chrome release cycle.
Mmmhmm. That's cool, although not original.

As I noted in an above comment...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763449

Projects like DeskGap make this out to be a simpler problem than it actually is. ;P
They already do this as much as possible as it is.
As someone who has been in and out of small companies it is usually for a number of reasons:

1) I feel like I can effect more change with fewer barriers in a smaller company - the idea to goal conversion is much more condensed vs when I worked at IBM and the number of processes and approvals it had to go through.

2) If you are in small companies there is usually very little room for progression, smaller companies = smaller budgets - when I was an employee of these the only real way to get any kind of pay increase as experience increases was to switch companies.

3) Some of us enjoy the change, I loved the work I did at IBM but it was still mostly BAU work, there was very little scope for personal innovation over the long term. Sure you could switch departments quite easily and that was a huge benefit but back to point 1 - the innovation momentum is hard to keep up.
At the companies I have been working at for the past 7 years, every day is different, every day is researching the next best thing or how to improve the current things we have with a view to squeezing out more performance, or decreasing costs. Sure I have some BAU work but it's mostly meetings and developer mentoring, hardly painful!

4) To your final point, I am lucky to be doing something I have always been passionate about - this isnt a rat race for me, its not about keeping up with others, my definition of success is how much I enjoy going to work in the morning and not having to fret the little things.
It is you that is missing the point. Their army is not worth noticing because it's "powerful", it must not be overlooked because of what role it serves in the economy. It builds cities itself. Armies don't build (dozens of) cities in market economies. China is in a literal sense a command, not a market, economy in whole swathes of its body, starting with the beating heart of its double digit growth: its construction sector.
They site a lot of stuff from cbinsights. I don't know about others but I find cbinsights analysis a bit sloppy sometimes. They kept crowing about the potentials blockchain and how it was the future all through the crash as though it wasn't even taking place. They also had this piece about we work which painted them in glowing colors right in the aftermath of the additional funding from softbank not coming through, giving fluffy reasons why they think their still going to continue to upend the industry. Plus all their emails end with "I love you" which is getting old and annoying. Not intentionally smashing them but just making the point that aside from the numeric data they collect on startups which is pretty cool, I'm skeptical about using their analysis pieces as a proper source
Inflation issues are also down to another western belief - venerating 'price competition' as the only pure way to resolve resource conflicts.

The Chinese don't work that way. If there is a conflict for resources, those with the power just take them. If there is compensation offered for that, those without the power just get given it - and probably consider themselves lucky.

The Chinese show you can have a system where you set a price, even one as low as zero, and then use coercive power to force people to take that price.

Those with power don't need to get into price competition. And if they don't get into price competition, then prices won't go up. Inflation is killed at source.