skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading books is good for you (obvs.) The author is easily distracted. Distraction causes less reading of books ... internets ... Facebook ... handwringing.

OK, I am being a bit unfair but I've just seen the word: "surficiality" and actually want it to not be a speling mistak. It looks like a word that really should exist on its own merit without "pe".

If you can't be arsed with the whole piece, the final para is worth reading and actually does a pretty good job as a precis of the thesis. Give it a couple of goes and roll it around on your mental tongue. A sentence like this is either bollocks or insightful: "We hold in our hands a way to cut against the momentum of the times,"

Anyway the entire article is not too long and worth a few minutes, in my opinion. The penultimate para is stuffed full of sentences designed to get you thinking. The author likes to play with words and sounds (Mairead Small Staid is a poet, critic, and essayist living in Minnesota.)

Read it backwards, para by para. It still works.
If the effect on women will be nearly nil, then does it all become a PR question?

In that case, couldn't it be useful to keep the app if only to keep track of how many people this policy affects?

I drew analogies to FOSTA because even FOSTA's intended effect (as stated) was negative. Yes, it actually made it a bit more difficult to do sex trafficking online (along with adversely affecting tons of other people). As a result, traffickers are harder to catch.

The "don't deal with the bad guys" approach sounds great, but even an embargo doesn't often work: see what years of sanctions got us with Cuba, NK, and Iran (in terms of improving the lives of people in those countries).
That was made so Apple could control the ads. They can decide good and bad. Not a good thing for users.
SF to Sacramento would require a bridge across the bay. Instead the route connects SF to San Jose, which probably serves more people. Then cuts across to the Central Valley where right of way is simpler and the the terrain better for a north south line.

http://www.hsr.ca.gov/Newsroom/Multimedia/maps.html
I mean, that is what I’ve always thought makes more sense. It would be a lot cheaper than trying to avert (or at this point limit) climate change.
I take it you didn't follow the SuperMicro supply chain attack story? (and subsequent fallout due to complete lack of fact-checking)

That was a huge blow to my ability to trust Bloomberg's journalistic credibility, along with several others' trust I'm sure.

Granted that was clearly a different reporter and a different field altogether, but the name "Bloomberg" alone should no longer lend the same credence in this era of fake news.

Food for thought.
I don't think lighting, sound and stunt people have the same influx of young starry eyed people coming into the profession though. That's what makes unions really difficult. Same thing applies to academia, which is arguably worse than both game-devs and actors.
Most of its syntax is now part of JS/DOM natively now. I think that's because of how intuitive it was.

It's not cool anymore but there's little compelling reason to tear it out of existing projects other than a refactor. It still works.
This was always a fun duck idea made mainly to serve Central Valley towns whose population could not justify such an expensive boondoggle. Glad to see Newsom speak some truth and put an end to this lunacy.
> The layoffs, which will mostly be in non-game-development areas like publishing, will impact Activision, Blizzard, and King. In one case, an entire studio of 78 people was shut down—Seattle-based mobile game studio Z2Live.

> The implication is that the positive results reported came thanks to a fairly narrow bench of franchises, with many of the company's efforts outside those franchises not meeting expectations.

Sounds like the good properties did great and the second tier properties did worse than expected. I'm not sure why a company would chase bad money with good, sounds like a reasonable choice to reduce properties and downsize in favor of bolstering properties that are working and growing.
If you're working, you're commuting for your job. Commuting doesn't go away unless you're independently wealthy and can sit at home and not work.
> How many of these are ride-share drivers who purchased a new car for that purpos

Don't think it's that much. Ride-share companies ( Uber and Lyft) allow drivers to lease vehicles from them for as low as $170 / week, so unlikely that there are that many drivers have bought cars on loan for this purpose.

Source: My friend here in SF who leases from Lyft.
Well, with negative interest rates, the more you are in debt the more you earn. Have interest rate go back up to 5% and things get very bad quickly.
The Copper Vapor Laser
Marques Brownlee interviewed Bill about his annual letter.

https://youtu.be/4mxXdCUXSSs

Near the end you can see a younger Bill jump over a chair.
Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week
Its only a matter of time before people realise their time is valuable and there is pushback against the frenzied cult of complexity driven by resume builders, framework builders and job seekers always looking for an opportunity to promote their latest projects and run everything else down.

jQuery remains as useful as ever and the constant sniping here is a dead giveaway of a faddish mindset of not just making one's own choice but trying to force it on others.

Fortunately for those who do not have hours and weeks of time navigating NPM dependency wildlands, jQuery represents a quick and efficient escape. If Vue or React offer better efficiency or simpler use, users will migrate swiftly but given the current state of affairs that seems unlikely, so they can coexist serving different use cases.

The idea that React or Vue can or should replace jQuery is more wishful than real given 90% of jQuery use cases are for websites and ajax calls that would not benefit from the massive overhead of a shadow dom and NPM workflow.
https://gist.github.com/Restuta/cda69e50a853aa64912d

react is 31kb
vue is 20kb
preact is 4kb
The Shinkansen was late and over budget as well. JNR was privatized in the '80s because Shinkansen debt made it become insolvent.
What are you going on about.

These games are closed source with IPs owned by multi-billion dollar corporations.

The engine being closed or open is of literally 0 consequence. Any 3rd party reverse engineering these games to run on a new platform would already be breaking licenses and trademark laws.
Me - a graduate student in a university. Looking around on all servers on the network and found a program called "crack". it was designed to reverse-engineer passwords given a unix passwd file. I thought, what the heck, let me see if I can get some gems. SO I used yppasswd to download all password hashes, and ran crack on it. Needless to say, sysadmin found out in a couple of days, and suspended my account for 2 weeks :(
And enterprise users will block the update and continue demanding that all of their vendors support IE11 and I will continue smashing my head on the desk finding 10 year old bugs.
> In development since 2009 and still lacking SMP, hm.

Er ... what? Where are you getting this information? Haiku has been in development since 2002, and has SMP support since ... 2003/2004?

NUMA support is a little shaky, but I know users who have run Haiku on 32-core Ryzens with no issues. So we definitely have SMP support.
How about having N base graphs and the ability to make unions of the graphs, as well as other kinds of algebra.

It is relatively easy to do this in the RDF world since the graph is composed of individual facts which may or may not be in a particular graph.
Then look at the London-Paris line, goes under the sea. No biggie. Or Paris to Milan (about 70EUR, goes through the Alps https://czech-transport.com/index.php?train=2959&lang=en )

Sure, it's expensive to build, but pretty useful in the long term.
Alternative that uses the system webview rather than requiring Chrome: https://github.com/zserge/webview
The paper is interesting in that it shows the extent to which an untrusted enclave is capable of owning its host. This is not an attack within the adversary model of SGX, as the authors state, because an enclave can, by design, write to host memory. Typically, this would be enough for people to assume that arbitrary code execution would be possible, but, these researchers went through the exercise of actually implementing the attack. They highlight a useful property of TSX when invoked inside an enclave, allowing them to determine the accessibility of host memory addresses (termed caves), without incurring exceptions. What is interesting about the paper is the creation of a code reuse attack to robustly subvert control flow and create arbitrary execution in the host context.
California Governor Proposes Digital Dividend Aimed at Big Tech
Sweet, I like that J&J is using S-ketamine then. I think the dissociative effects of ketamine are fantastic and beneficial, even though they can be surprising. At a low dose it likely won't be an issue.
The Jinghu HSR rail line from Beijing to Shanghai spans 1318 km and cost 32 billion USD. It operates at an average speed of 180 MPH. The California HSR plan is considerably shorter, considerably slower, and would cost over twice as much.
Australian court refuses coal mine permit due to climate change
>What do you actually do in our job?

I work in airworthiness and maintenance, so I deal with aerostructures on a daily basis. You?

>about as misleading as saying "circles are just squares with large radius corners"

What happens if you take a square with sides of length x, and smooth the corners down until the radius of each corner is x/2?
https://surbitcoin.com/

https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-atm-crypto-venezuela-tokens
Unions work by collectively bargaining with the employer to secure terms for the benefit of the group. The terms that get negotiated aren't set in stone: the point is to present a common front in the negotiations so that the employer can't use a divide and conquer strategy against the workers.
And postfix software!
What's the difference between development and publishing?
“Plan S” falls short for society publishers–and for the researchers they serve
But the USA has $22T govt debt although "only" 105% Govt debt to GDP as of Jan 2019 (excluding unfunded liabilities like social security) and projects like this where infrastructure is not built. Neither situation is great but I think as a tax payer I would rather have the fast trains in Japan
Does Mr. Kramer have anything peer-reviewed?
When you compile the document, the numbering is automatically added just like it would be if you had a single large document. The importing gives you the same final result as having a single file, but gives you the flexibility to put individual lessons in separate files for easier editing and reuse in other course plans.

This also makes it easier to do things like print out individual lessons if you need a hard copy but don't want the entire document.
First they came for Diablo, and I did not speak out -
Because I was not an ARPG player.

Then they came for Warcraft, and I did not speak out -
Because I was not an MMO player.

Then they came for Overwatch and Hearthstone - and there was no one left to speak for me.
How Climate Change Will Affect Your City
> on the way in, not the way out.

My employer acquired another startup where I worked and hence I ended up with the new employer. As said above it was immigration status that gave mess less negotiating power because my status in the country is dependent on the employer.
No one is stopping people from making their own game instead of working for scam artist employers. It's a lesson best learned early in life.

Imagine if [insert_successful_indy_dev_here] thought it was a good idea to gun for a 30k/year job at a big box shop because he thought it would impress his high school buddies instead of actually making his own good games.
I also wanted to be a game developer. I think almost every kid who grew up with a computer and got into programming it wanted to make games. But I am so, so, so glad I never went down that path. There’s plenty of interesting and rewarding work outside of games, and conditions are way better.
I'm looking forward to future installments of this series, such 'An Update on Gmail' and 'An Update on Google Cloud'.
More specifically that institutions of government with larger jurisdiction should have more capability and institutions with smaller jurisdiction should have less capability. It isn’t about the amount of power that government as a whole has, but the distribution of it. It is better to centralize power in a central institution to maximize efficiency and enable anti-corruption watchdogs to concentrate their attention.
If your company is acquired, it is reasonable to expect that you'll be laid off, no matter how talented. Acquisition = layoffs - general rule of thumb.
This is noted in the limitations :

> The results are reported after 8 weeks of treatment, so we don't know if they apply to long-term use of antidepressants.

I'm not sure why you would discount an improvement in symptoms over 8 weeks though. Many major depressive episodes will be resolved in that time ("The median duration of MDE was 3.0 months; 50% of participants recovered within 3 months"[1]), so even if they are not suitable, or less effective, for long term care, that can still be a improvement in quality of life.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12204924

(FWIW, it was 21 antidepressants, not 21 studies: "The researchers found 522 studies covering 116,477 patients in total. This included 101 previously unpublished studies.")
This is exactly why I hate it so much. We didn't get Diablo 3, we got some other game with Diablo branding.
Can't this be said at any time? The next is always the next.
Second hand anecdote: In a university C++ class, programming assignments were headed by deducting points for number of compiler errors, once you roughly had all the pieces. So students would write lots of code that roughly looks relevant to the problem and then put a semicolon on the main() function declaration to make it look like there was only one compiler error :-)
> And for AAA titles they're basically fungible.

I would have thought it was the opposite, and to produce a AAA title you'd need the very talented people - the experts - and they have more leverage to negotiate.
Never actually used it, but possibly dotscience.com might do something like what you want?
A first-ever public pension funded by cryptocurrency
A record number of Americans are 90 days behind on their car payments
Couldn't get past the paywall even by clicking on web so I read the story here

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-auto-loans...

it says

>There was a marked difference in delinquency rates between bank vehicle loans and dealer-financed loans as well, the feds noted, with 6.5% of the dealer-originated loans being 90 or more days past due, compared with just 0.7% of such loans granted by credit unions, the Federal Reserve noted.

I'm not American so I'm not familiar with how you guys do things down there; but is it possible that this whole thing came about as a result of dealers handing out easy loans as a way to move inventory?

I mean the risk is relatively low for them right, they can always repossess the car and resell it themselves so it seems worthwhile for them to finance everyone even if they have no hope of keeping up with their payments. Heck even here in Canada one of the local dealers has a radio jingle that goes "no credit checks, no credit checks, we finance everyone." It seems foreseeable that practices like that, when done at scale could result in a large quantity of loans sitting in arrears
>90% of Jquery use cases are for websites and ajax calls

90% of what people used jquery for now is built in to browsers by default. Every dependency removed from your website is a win.
The Intel response seemed odd. They say you need to only run software from trusted sources. But if we only run trusted software the need for the enclave goes away. The only use then is for running code on a machine you dont trust. In the cloud.
https://gist.github.com/Restuta/cda69e50a853aa64912d
react is 31kb vue is 20kb preact is 4kb. depends on the framework but 500% isnt far off
I think it's just the realization that the execution graph in machine learning models at this point are not really different from any programming language AST, which means there is potential in exploring the intersection between writing programs and writing machine learning models with the AD tools.
I read on the train when I commute to and from work. The train is frightfully busy, rammed full, noisy, uncomfortable, but as soon as I open my book it's just me and the page. It's my favourite part of the day, my own little world. The only problem is the trip seems too short, I lift my head after what seems like a few minutes and I'm already pulling into my station.
That's North Korea's method too. If one person escapes, 3 generations of relatives go to prison camp. It's tough to take on that responsibility when you flee.
Well it depends on the black market.

It might not be a feature in your opinion, but other people disagree, and do believe it to be a feature.

There are literally billions of people in the world that currently live in what I'd describe as an authoritarian dictatorship. So yes, I support black markets in these areas.
From a friend, I've heard great things about the treatment they got as part of The Animation Guild, and I imagine that that demographic of artists and creators is quite similar to the "young starry eyed people" going into the game industry. In fact, there's likely a good amount of overlap of artists that have worked in both (supported slightly by anecdata of friends who are 3d artists).
The problem is you switch having almost no negotiating power against the employer as an individual... to having almost no negotiating power against the union as an individual. You're just trading masters and you don't get any more say. If you are young for example, and the union wants pay to be by seniority, then the union may be working against your interests and you could be better off negotiating with the company.
That's a good point assuming that's all under their control.

But one of the highest performers "Destiny" decided to end their relationship abruptly. This led to a bunch of marketing staff with jobs dedicated to a product that doesn't exist anymore and a bunch of under performing products that can't necessarily absorb those jobs.

Its not Destiny's job to subsidize that staff and those B-Tier games. But its unfair to frame this as layoffs amid record profits when its so obvious that next year is going to be a completely different situation that Blizzard had no way to prepare for.
Well, that could be a very complex application... Maybe number of pages isn't the best metric.
America hasn't done a good job of building anything big since maybe the 1960's. Apollo was the last great American engineering achievement, and the Eisenhower interstate highway system the last great American construction achievement.
It is not better. I don't know what type FirstName or Age is. Can Age be negative? Is FirstName an array of char or a string? Can FirstName be more than 10 characters long? It could be a double value for all I can tell from that line of code!
In Hollywood that’s ... complex. There’s nothing stopping you from filming a production with non-IATSE (or any other union) labor, but you wouldn’t be able to get union labor or “above the line” union talent (actors, writers, directors, etc). (In practice, it’s not quite that simple, especially given the ubiquity of international shoots and that many indie filmmakers see even the ultra-low budget SAG-AFTRA sheets as unrealistic, but the basic rule holds.)

So, in the video game industry a “global rule one” scenario would see a nonconforming studio unable to hire experienced and unionized programmers, artists, QA, or even SAG-AFTRA actors or AFM musicians. This wouldn’t be so much an issue for indie developers, but it would do a number on studios who depend on high-profile vocal talent as well as experienced developers, let alone tie-in games that trade on actors’ likenesses.
Same. My first year I brought my Rebel T2i to photo-document the trip, but the trying to "capture the moment" continually ruined "the moment" itself.

I decided living the experience was more important than documenting it and put the camera away on the first day.
As a point of fact, they cannot, because their goal with "controlling their service" is to control what is displayed on someone else's personal property as a condition of listening to the free data stream they decided to emit.. and so Spotify (or anyone else) is not capable of making that a reality.

They could change their service to try to block users who protect their personal property from having certain harmful pieces of information (like ads) mixed in with otherwise freely available data sources. But it would just be a silly failure, since lots of people already circumvent that type of thing easily and legally with technology all the time.

The only thing they could actually do is to entirely shut down their emitted free stream of data all together, both content and ads alike. Of course they are free to do that if they want. Nobody suggested they have to emit a free stream of data.. only that if they choose to then people will just keep consuming it without allowing ads to appear, and the ads will keep being legally and successfully blocked regardless of any type of ban that Spotify tries to implement.
You're right, nothings static and nothings forever.
However we do have a lot of control, as a species.
I think the safest thing to do would be to adapt ourselves willfully to new knowledge.
It's these sorts of comments that make HN.
That covers the 3 million phones a year that Google sells what about the other 1.2 billion plus?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/10/apples-io...
Or if you prefer:

for (const element of document.querySelectorAll('.some-class')) {
// ...
}
In this case, since Blizzard is both publisher and developer, it basically means marketing.

When a publisher is separate from the developer, the publisher is also mostly responsible for funding the game development.
The game development industry would probably start outsourcing even more tasks if unionization takes hold. If relatively cheap roles like QA and art asset production suddenly get more expensive then setting up remote development offices abroad becomes much better from a cost benefit perspective. Unionizing would likely bring better pay to those jobs that still exist, but make it a lot harder to get one of those jobs to begin with.
Start your own business, hire people and treat them well. When people keep working for shitheads, the shitheads dictate their lives.
> Also, why the Dickens are you using Windows when your heart clearly yearns for a nice native i3 setup?

That was explained a few weeks ago in this post:

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/i-tried-linux-as-my-main-dev-...
The basic idea is to have an expressive programming language where all constructs are differentiable. Since the composition of diffeomorphisms is a diffeomorphism, large programs (like ray-tracers) will be differentiable as a result.
Darn, that's what you get from typing on mobile. Ment to use querySelectorAll originally. But apart from null handling (which can be solved using `|| []`), what else would be lacking? I used a similar version of this for a few projects a while back, with some additional stuff for query context and ID selector -> getElementById I think, but that's basically it...
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Amount of funding != value of company

A funding round is for X% of a company at $Y dollars, which values the company at $ ((100 / X) * Y).

Looking at two recent announcements that I follow, Aurora raised $530mm at $2.5b valuation and Nuro raised $940mm valued at $2.7b. Aurora sold ~21% ownership, and Nuro sold ~34% ownership, but both ended up around the same valuation.