skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has more to do with the fact that Activision doesn't have any games that aren't Call of Duty. I was looking at their website and it's just Spyro Remastered and Crash Remastered. Destiny 1 and 2 were huge commercial successes until the players ended up hating the games and they cut Bungie loose which is really concerning if I were an investor.

Blizzard meanwhile just maintains their flagship products but some are no longer growing like WoW (over a decade old but man it's time to let go) and Hearthstone (Magic Arena is making a huge push for the more competitive crowd, Gwent is struggling but is releasing new content, Artifact was a bust but valve has money to burn and no investors to please). Don't get me wrong, these games are the market leaders but they aren't growing anymore which is what investors worry about. Overwatch seems very promising but I think OWL is overvalued with franchise fees going from $20 million to $60 million in a year while CSGO; Dota 2 and League tournaments have a greater amount of viewership at a fraction of the cost.

Diablo Mobile is pretty much DOA from a fan perspective but mobile games can make a ton of money especially when targeting the asian market which they have a lot of experience in. And the WarCraft 3 remake is a crowd pleaser but I can't imagine it selling like hotcakes, but I could be wrong.

Again, If I were an investor I would jump ship and probably invest in another publisher.
I attended an elite institution for my grad degree, but attended a state school for undergrad. My parents are also middle-class but reside in a low-income area of the country. All of this being said, I can attest (anecdotally) to the following:

(1) There are low-income, middle-income, and upper-income individuals with student loan debt so large it will never be paid back. I know at least two people in each income bracket. The ones from the upper-income bracket come from families that are well-off, but not so well-off that they are willing to throw away a quarter of their life-savings to payback their child's student loan debt.

(2) I know people with $200K+ in student loan debt, but who pursued degrees which have career trajectories not aligned to paying off such debt.

(3) Even at elite institutions, and even within different acclaimed grad programs, the 'country club' experience of American undergrad education is creeping in. That is, even at elite grad programs, students are beginning to treat education as secondary and socializing, partying, etc. as primary. Grade inflation, among other signs of systemic institutional rot, is rampant.

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Having graduated and joined the professional class, as well as being connected to various professional social circles spanning different industries, I can also attest (anecdotally) to witnessing only ~20% of the people I know spending the vast majority of time at their job doing work rather than playing around. To those with limited data on what actually takes place at the mid and senior levels of management in large corporations and firms, I can tell you many stories of people making ~$130-$200K/yr while spending a non-trivial amount of work time shopping on-line, scrolling social media feeds, etc.

Take that FWIW.
I am not saying analog sports is going away. And I think it is still a big thing and people will be drawn to it.

However, I think the way you described esports suggests you may have personal bias against competitive gaming. I watched both the Super Bowl and 2018 True Sight. Perhaps, it is you, sir, who are living in the bubble.

The fact is that people are watching nerds move pictures around on a screen at rates rivaling major cable networks: https://www.investors.com/news/technology/click/esports-chan...

45,000 people attended the 2015 League of Legends final in the same stadium used for the 2002 World Cup. 27 Million people watched it online.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/30/the-rise-of-esports-as-a-...

This thing is real.
Wow this is so sudden. Sigh. One of my cofounders can't move to the U.S. due to personal responsibility. I guess YC ain't for us! Good luck everyone.
I got a bunch for my parents who have a pretty large house in western new york - they are just okay.

I'd recommend a Ubiquity Access Point, Ubiquity Security Gateway, and a Ubiquity Cloud Key instead. You could add one of their managed switches too if you need more network ports.

They work great, aren't that tough to set up and have better performance.
Of all the stories Rust tries to sell me on, concurrency is by far the weakest of all. Rust concurrency is a mess compared to (yes, I'm going to say it) Go.

Async/await are still far away from being anywhere near figured out nor implemented, CSP primitives in the std. lib like std::mpsc are basically DOA/obsolete/half-functioning and tokio/futures are still early alpha.

There's a lot more to concurrency than just compile-time verification of safe usage of a mutex or moving data in/out of a thread. A lot more.
Rust does not solve all race conditions, unfortunately. Even world domination has its limits! It does solve simple data races, which means that use of concurrency within Safe Rust is indeed memory safe. This is better than what some other languages can claim, such as Go (only the _sequential_ subset of Go is memory safe)!
Thanks, sorry about the suspicion.

Contracting as a software engineer is usually worth it, though not always. But it certainly depends on location ie demand, unless you have a very good network already.

And also depends on experience. Contracting without 5-10 years experience is a big gamble as your CV is a harder sell to people that expect you to be running from the start. Though no need to be a guru, imposter syndrome prevails for contractors as well :)

Also from the survey questions remember contracting income is fluid. Payments to your ltd company often gets delayed a month or two due to missed accounts payable dates etc. Happens to me all the time but I have never had a non-payment, just delays. You got to have buffers (ie bank balance) enough so that you don't have to be paid every month, as a company and personally.

Seems like you have already dabbled in contracting so may not be relevant anymore but I did once write up an intro to contracting in the UK: http://blog.flurdy.com/2015/10/contracting-101.html
Jen went into her masters for public policy. How is that a vanity degree? That sounds like a "not sexy but it should get me a job" degree. Who is Karyn, I don't see her in the article at all - there's a Kathryn, but she was a teacher, clearly a non-vanity degree.
It’s the CLR (common language runtime) running in a JIT environment.
Thanks! I'd recommend the spiped source code (https://github.com/Tarsnap/spiped) rather than the Tarsnap code though -- tarsnap is built around libarchive, which (while it's still great code) is not organized the same way as the code I personally write.
I found HN somewhat amusing when it came to physics, now I find it increasingly irritating. I don't think the same arrogant know-it-all attitude coming from laypersons would take place if the topic were neurosurgery or the theory of integro-differential equations. For some reason physics gets the "they don't know what they're doing" treatment by people that haven't bothered to get any formal training on it.

Well I have, and even though I'm not too keen on superstring theory I just couldn't dismiss it like this. It makes sense, it's important and it's a possibility worthy enough to be explored. Will people here just try to understand that they're talking about another profession with a really high skill access barrier that takes many years of hard work to become just acquainted with? Can we please just admit that if we don't know what we're talking about, we really don't know what we're talking about?
Make non-dischargeable loans more like an investment for the bank, in which they get back something tied to your income, when you earn it. And let them offer what they will according to school/major/SAT score/etc.

Then indeed expensive useless degrees will (like a gap-year in first-class hotels) be available only to the rich. But useful job training will not be.
I'd definitely recommend checking out Goodreads. There's a lot of great niche groups, as well as following other people with similar interests you can discuss books with them in your feed.
WordPress plugin flaw lets you take over entire sites
Technically you don't even need the cloud key if you're feeling cheap!
Some acquisitions make sense, some don't, but the propensity for founders and investors to push for an exit depresses the free market consumer in me. I want lots and lots of choices for anything I consider buying, yet nearly every acquisition making headlines lately seems like it falls into 1 of 2 categories: 1) a marketshare power grab, or 2) a mechanism to gather more customer data to an already massive empire.

Somewhat related: are there any viable open source mesh network solutions for home use?
The system is designed to only allow people that made their money 'the right way' into the over-class. Which in this case means passive capital gains vs active or earned.

So you can 'invest' half a million and 12 years to become a doctor and get hit with close to 50% taxes if you are successful. And the amount of your student loan expenses that's deductible is nil.

Compare with borrowing half a million to 'invest' in stocks.
>We don’t rely on facial recognition, instead taking in visual cues from all features across the body.

This is somehow better?
No, it just lets you add the misleading marketing point that you don't use facial recognition. Get it guys? IT's not facial, because it's seeing ... the whole body!

What the actual heck?
I have the 2700X and love it unless AMD release a 16/32 zen 2 at a decent price I’ll be keeping this until post AM4 so at least 2021.

It’s an excellent machine as is the 1700X I have at work.

Honestly day to day for dev I can’t tell the difference between the 1700X and the 2700X.
Unless you started saving in the year 2000, then you would have had a negative return 10 years later.

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/
Implement the Marc Andreessen Productivity System in Trello
Part of why I loved my Eero was that wasn't Google or Amazon controlled. Sigh...
Put schools on the hook for a portion of the defaults.
I agree with all of this. I ask because there are places on earth that will pay you to live there. [1] In most cases you don't even have to do anything. On Mars, the first few generations will have to contribute, follow very strict procedures, be mentally and physically sound, or things will go sideways very quickly for everyone.

[1] - https://smartasset.com/mortgage/us-cities-that-will-pay-you-...
And you need to reactivate windows if you've swapped the motherboard / cpu.
No, those things all used to be considered basic journalism.
It's still a problem, just not quite as big as one and often one that gets shunted off to a different team than the developers (eg. SRE or PMs). At Google one of the leading causes of cascading failures was RPC retries - service gets overloaded, RPCs start failing to return, client code automatically retries, service gets more overloaded, eventually everything grinds to a halt. Then you ameliorate that problem (eg. with timeouts or backpressure) and suddenly failing RPCs are visible to the application code again. You end up needing to make product decisions about what can fail, what can't, and what an acceptable level of latency is - for example, in search, if the Ad system doesn't return by the time the results do, the page just doesn't show ads. However, if a click on an Ad can't write to the logs, it blocks the redirect until it can because you can't just drop actions that you charged money for without ensuring the transaction goes through. If the RPC to either the cookie store or user database fails to go through, the page just won't show personalized results (and the rest of the search code needs to be prepared to fall back to not having that data as a result). If the search results themselves don't come back, the system retries until they do (and pages on-call SRE).

This can also introduce big problems with 95th-percentile latency, because the retries aren't free, they trade failure for slowness. In user-facing services this often isn't a problem, because the user eats the slowness and grumbles. But in services way down in the stack (eg. BigTable), it can be a big problem. High 95th-percentile latency can make services that previously weren't on the critical path suddenly part of the critical path; it can trigger timeouts in higher-level code; it can trigger retries in higher-level code; and it can cause large increases in load (with the possibility of further cascading failures) if those additional retries put some other service over its capacity limits.

TANSTAAFL. RPC failures still result in complexity, it's just that there are possible systems that can shunt that complexity into where it's less of a problem for the user. The only time you can outright ignore them is if you're a junior developer, though; anyone at senior/TL/architect level needs to think about them and be prepared.
It's not so impressive if all you're doing is generalizing frameworks or cherry-picking the subsets that happen to agree with experiment. You have to show something new.

For example, (going from memory here, so don't quote me), your basic (Von Neumann's?) formulation of quantum mechanics was basically a generalization of Newtonian physics that specified an unreasonable number of non-real possibilities, and you can only recover meaningful results by taking Newtonian physics as an axiom a la the 'classical limit'. This would have just been mathematical over-complication had it not been for the fact that this model predicted things that differed from Newton physics in measurable ways.

So to reiterate, if your theory is unfalsifiable, it is not impressive that it agrees with every measurement. All you'd have achieved is restating what is already known in a language nobody wants to use.
I didn’t see how they proposed to pay for day care for all.
This is such a tricky thing. I like to speak honestly, and I use my blog/newsletter to help formulate my thinking about the world.

But, always, in the back of my head, I think "should I really say that about Apple/Amazon/Google/etc)?" Self censorship is a tricky beast.
Define something else that does.

Now, you may call something very similar the same sport, but a 100m vs 400m sprints are really different races even with just one slightly different number.
I think this was not so uncommon, although often phrased differently -- in many places conscription was obligatory, but could be deferred while in university... and after graduating you'd be useful enough not to spend 2 years digging ditches. And perhaps by the time you had a PhD would be exempt.
Free everything for everybody.
To me a bigger deal is that New York law by default grants copyright on work done in your spare time on your own equipment to your employer. Therefore if you try to grow a side hustle into a business, you can unexpectedly find that you don't actually have what you thought you had.

I know multiple people, directly and indirectly, who have been caught by this. Knowledge of this problem contributed to my desire to move from New York to California. Most of the stories of squashed startups will never be heard because they never got anywhere. But it limits how dynamic New York's startup ecosystem can become.

This is not to say that there won't be successful startups. Just fewer than they would have been. And people who you'd want to be able to start them, are shut out.
Here I was, eagerly ready to drop $60 on a new Diablo, but no, I have to endure cartoony multiplayer "Battle Royale" crap, because all gamers are spastic high schoolers I guess? The only way Blizzard can sink lower is if their next game is a multi-player only zombie survival + shooter + crafting DayZ wanna be. Because it's what all the kids are raving about on twitch?

Screw it, I'll give my money to indie studios, they can still deliver.
Although a very cool and thorough approach to the data, it's very complicated code-wise and doesn't help sell the Wolfram Language. (Python/R admittingly can't do as much with LaTEX equations formatting for data analysis/visualization.)
Fuck you ya sjw cunt. Take your pussy ass guidelines and shove them up your ass.
I'm not sure you can say that the standard model and gravity fall out of a theory if an almost infinite amount of other stuff falls out of it too.

Currently the theory "predicts" around 10^500 vacuum models, all of which have different properties.

That's quite a large number, and makes specific predictions rather difficult.

There was a vague hope that maybe something stringy would fall out of the LHC. That didn't happen. There's now an even more vague hope that it might fall out of Son Of LHC instead.

Outsiders might wonder if this is really just throwing string at the wall and hoping some of it sticks.

It hasn't yet, but it's always possible it might.
> And that NYC was too tainted by its banking culture and the drive to make money.

Doesn't this imply fairly clearly that he believes the Bay Area is not plagued by these two things?
> I have high hopes for lsp-mode.

I do too, but I've had no luck at all with it so far.
Okay thanks. I could Google that.

So it's code written in C# or VB or another supported language, compiled by JIT to a common bytecode running on a virtual machine and probably a whole slew of libraries that target that VM too.

Okay. I have no idea why I'm struggling so much with that.

Thanks.
Navigating the site on desktop is really hard. There should really be a horizontal scrollbar because I accidentally keep clicking when I'm trying to scroll. Or just don't use horizontal scrolling on desktop, which would be my preference...

Besides the scrolling issue, it looks really good.
I'm curious why you say don't charge hourly. I've been charging per half hour (with half/full day for meetings) and it's worked fine for me. I tend to work about 1-4 hours/day and I think it's fairer to the client because the variation is so big.

With MVPs I like hourly charges because it gives them a lot of freedom to pivot, and it helps to justify why we should put aside a few days early on to design UI/UX rather than go with the flow.

Also what I do is kind of a prepaid thing. They put in 10 hours into my bank account and I'll do 10 hours. After they gain confidence, they start putting a month in advance. It doesn't necessarily stop when the money runs out, but it doesn't start until the first paycheck. It also helps a lot with international projects, where payment can take a week to go through and might be held up by money laundering laws, etc.
Emacs – orggrasp browser extension for orgcapture
"boycott x", number of google results

x = israel -- 616k
x = china -- 57k
x = saudi -- 50k
x = russia -- 28k
x = turkey -- 15k
x = america -- 15k
x = iran -- 11k
x = korea -- 11k
x = uae -- 10k
x = britain -- 6k
x = sudan -- 4k
x = venezuela -- 2k
This is possibly the most interesting reply. I hadn't thought of FF as an eSport but I can easily see how it can be packaged under that tent.
It would be great if folks could run COS and leverage tools like Falco. I realize there is a trade-off between having a totally locked down OS and being able to flexibly use such tools.

However, Google and Sysdig announced a partnership around Falco and GCSCC integration. It would make sense that such a tool would be able to be run on COS.

Perhaps I'm guilty wanting to have my cake and eat it, too. But this seems like an area where GKE and COS are somewhat limited.
15 years ago, the conventional wisdom (for whatever that is werth), was that C++ and Pascal produce similarly efficient compiled binaries. You could cherry pick examples that would show one or the other was "faster".

Clearly C++ has has a whole lot more neurons grinding on how to better optimize it over the last 15 years. That should be good meat for an rich and enlightening article.

Instead we get bunk. Code times for Pascal vs. C++ with experienced developers are similar. I've written quite a bit of both. If you want to play ridiculous code-time games you might as well argue that Python is faster than C++.

I would be interested in a real head-to-head of modern pascal vs C++ including compile time. But that require a lot of real work where a fluffy thing like this only requires an opinion.
Right.

It's pretty convenient for the creditor that we do not teach finance in American high school. It's pretty convenient for the creditor that student loans are unique in that you CANNOT default on them. It's pretty convenient to the creditor that these loans are being offered to children, optimistic at the whole life they have ahead of them, eager to sign whatever terms to make their dreams a reality. It's pretty convenient to the creditor that although he has ZERO risk of the debtor defaulting, we don't enforce any regulation on the amount of money that can be loaned out for certain fields of study or to certain schools (for-profit private colleges).

But, sure, blame it on the stupid millennials, 'cause they dreamed of being a success and listened to what society told them to do and went to college. Don't blame it on the debtor for lending money to people that shouldn't have ever been loaned money.

If only they didn't go to that Art school and eat avocado toast for breakfast...

Look: if a bank gave me a loan to build a six-thousand foot marble statue of my asshole, and I defaulted and couldn't pay it back, pretty sure no one would feel sorry for the bank. They'd say, what a dumb fucking bank!

But oh how the tables turn when it comes to millenials. Give them some money for school, even when we know it's a bad investment, and we blame it on the kid for taking it!

Next up, we'll be giving loans to drug addicts and blame them for spending the money on drugs...
It's about increasing the costs to the attacker.

Now a Windows/browser zero-day requires months of research and can be sold for $100k+.
But some very useful degrees are expensive, like medical school. I'd make it explicitly tied to what you earn (in the contract not the bankruptcy court).
Exactly. Schools have been pushing the idea that college graduates make more money for decades (and that graduates from elite colleges make even more money), and somehow it's the students' fault for falling victim to the constant brainwashing.
Reminds me of a story from about 10 years ago in Arkansas about a woodpecker https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Colleges already provide an entire department or two of professionals to guide their students through the process.

This is why schools should bear more of the risk. They are ones that are recommending that the kids takes the loans and help them select majors.

I couldn't believe how much financial aid (all loans) I was offered for law school. (I took about 10% of what was offered.)
and a time.
Also, self modifying code typically requires full pipeline serialization via an instruction like cpuid (x86) or isb (arm). There are comments about this in the architecture optimization manuals, but in general try not to go around munging code all the time. While I'm thinking about it, you should consider an out of proc JIT architecture like Edge has, as JITs are fragile and easily exploited [1].

[1]: http://wenke.gtisc.gatech.edu/papers/sdcg.pdf
Microsoft already have what you're talking about; it's called Windows IoT Core.

(This is in contrast to Windows IoT Enterprise, which is the more traditional "Windows Embedded" experience with many of the features you're complaining about. This is mostly because Enterprise customers want to be able to slap their coded-for-a-desktop apps onto a kiosk and declare the job done.)