skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's cool that you share your thoughts on this! I hope what I write below does not sound too aggressive.

> It honestly takes nearly 4 months for the game to go from a finished build to a disc you can buy at a store near you.

But we do not buy games in stores anymore.

I do think you miss why day-1 patches are hated. It's not really about the patch, it's about the state of many AAA games on release, in that they are released with significant bugs. I understand why that happens - time is short, testing on PC with all the possible configurations is very hard - but when really basic things are broken as a customer you feel betrayed. It does not help when console ports have completely unusable UI on PC and games have always-on requirements that fail on game launch, etc. All this "vitrol" gets merged with day 1 patches and that's what this is about. At least partly, I think.

> especially in the era of "live" games which receive ongoing support all the time

That's kind of a funny thing to say in a thread about EA when they and others shut their multiplayer game servers down all the time to sell the next very similar installment of a franchise. In the current climate, this "live" service thing stinks like corporate speak for an ongoing stream of new micro transactions. We just had games getting micro transaction + lootboxes shortly after the reviews were over. Not a good precedent to set.

> It's just how it is. Bug reports can take days to percolate through support, then to the right studio, then to the right team, then to the right person.

That seems to be very common in large enterprises in general, but it is also very sad. I think having these crusted large-enterprisey structure on one side is a big factor of why gamers feel developer studios/publishers are disconnected from their reality. But there are means to combat this, Riot for example was very successful in reaching their base with their champion spotlight and nicas community shows while already having a huge number of players, at least that seemed to work well for a while.

> But I can't be in a position where I'm advising people to download and use VPN software

VPNs are not illegal. Is it that your EULAs forbid using one? That would be ridiculous. In a good company you should be able to give that advice.
That does the reverse: allows you to connect to public IP addresses through Tor. This solution exposes your local SSH server as a static hidden service without needing to forward ports in a NATed environment.
How to Create a Marketing Strategy for a SaaS Company to Get Leads, Not Pain
BYTE and Creative Computing are what made me fall in love with computing.
They had wrist communicators in TMP.
3d printing (depending on your skill set that might be focused more one one of the following area: designing (which does use a keyboard and screen, but you can also print other people's design), optimising print settings for best results, painting, post processing)

Cooking

Music (music theory is quite fascinating if you have a mathematical mindset, there are some good video on youtube on the subject to get you started)
Metafont has never found wide adoption, because to be a triple threat of typeface designer, mathematician, and software developer, you basically have to be a tenured stanford professor or their grad student to have enough time to learn everything well enough to make useful type.

And even then, the typefaces made with metafont are often very poor designs compared to those draw in a GUI in a 'dumbfont' format.

Adobe Multiple Master, then TrueType GX, and now OpenType Variations, are a 'best of both worlds' compromise; the drawing quality of visually crafted outlines, and the continuous-space-type-family-in-1-file typographic flexibility of metafont.
Many other groups are, based on the Reddit data, full of "gamers", like alt-right (/pol) politics and pits of despair like The Donald.
France overhauls its special visa for tech talent
Interesting decision to start with Boolean circuits rather than automata. I wonder if that has any effect on students' ability to learn the material.
WordPress accounted for 90 percent of all hacked CMS sites in 2018
It was marketed towards both. Men to go out and buy the rings, women not to accept rings 'beneath them'.

Advertising is absolutely just straight up sexist in a lot of cases, and people (speaking in the broad strokes that you have to when talking about complete populations) eat that up.

I definitely know someone who got turned down because the ring he bought her wasn't expensive enough. Personally I think he dodged a bullet, but that's neither here nor there there.

Advertisers use sexist advertising because it works.

https://youtu.be/85HT4Om6JT4
USB-C is already there up to 4k@30hz, and none of the stuff you're saying is true, unless you consider current USB-C cables insanely expensive. You can get a USB-C dock that provides power as well as the ports you need on one cable for ~$60.
At 21, Kylie Jenner Becomes the Youngest Self-Made Billionaire Ever
You want the government to open and log your mail? You and I are surely very different people :)
People don't haggle on prices because largely in western culture we just assume the price is the price and we can either pay it or go somewhere else.

I imagine a fair amount of haggling goes on in cultures where that's a standard affair.
I’d take Japan’s rate of mass killings and average casualties per incident over ours any day of the week, wouldn’t you?
Even the "doing this once" is us giving into our emotions and assuming that absolutely nothing can go wrong in marriage.

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
> The use of Bootstrap and the spread of templates made Web Design boring.

Boring maybe, but Bootstrap is extremely practical for non-designers like me.

I feel like Bootstrap captured more than 80% of the features I want for less than 20% of the time (or cost) it would take to make something from scratch.

Second, navigation on websites became much more predictable. The examples they show of Web Design 3.0 look difficult to navigate. Aside from increasing dwell time from confused users, there probably isn't a big benefit.

In the future, I see custom website design being accessible for large companies that need their site to evoke a certain brand image. For the rest of us, Bootstrap will continue to evolve (Web Design 2.5) to provide +80% of what we want.
Perhaps we should look at the people rather than the companies or governments. Narrowing down the blame would prevent future executives (and rogue engineers /s) from being too comfortable under the cloak of "the company" when taking such initiatives.

Volkswagen didn't cheat on emissions tests, specific people knowingly lied and cheated to get to achieve their goals. And while the company should be allowed to pay back all damages in a fashion that does't cripple it entirely, those people responsible for the decisions should not be given this privilege. I'm sure there are equitable options in this regard. Of course none of them would ever apply to those people since surely they put all that money to "good use".
Watch out man or the knitters will come for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing
Exactly my thinking too, all I see now are a few categories/tasks and it is hard for someone new to understand how this tool is useful.
Just as an addendum to your 5 9's concept - there's a level of stress that comes with providing this, and it's considerable.

You're paying them to absorb that stress and ensure that everything's perfect without having to manage them. It's me saying - I need exactly this, at this exact time, on this exact date, in this exact location. I need it perfect, no ifs ands or buts, no excuses, no reasons, no failures. Perfect. Period.

When providing this level of expectation, when any kind of failure or indeed anything less than absolute perfection is not an option, when there's no chances for do-overs, the stress load that comes with providing that is huge.

I'm not in the wedding planning business, but I'm a service provider in the tech market. As a service provider, if you want me to absorb that level of stress so that you don't even have to think about it, I'm capable, I can and I will absorb all of it. I will shield you from it all and show up with exactly what you ask, exactly when you need it, no failures, no excuses. But you're going to pay for the stress that causes me... and it doesn't come cheap. But it is dependable.

There's a reason you have a wedding planner for your perfect day and they're not just charging you for their planning skills. You're paying them for absorbing all the stress so that you just have to show up and have enjoy your fairy tale day.

You can only live under that kind of stress load for a finite period. Most people crumble in days or weeks. Forget lasting months or years. Eventually everyone breaks. Do you really want to break before your big day?

If you don't want to pay so much, you have to be prepared to throw out your expectations and go for something more relaxed. If relaxed is your bag (it is mine), then you won't have to pay 5 9's prices because you're not putting everyone under the pressure of delivering perfection.
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The government can already open your non-first class mail without a warrant, and if its first class mail, I'm not convinced it'll be hard to get a warrant.

The problem with commercial mail processors is that you can't forward mail out from them like you can with a PO box or other traditional address. So if you get an address from one of them, and then either change providers or they go out of business, you're SOL. That address is now a blackhole for your mail. Hence, why I want the USPS to sanction and operate the service.
You leave it out and go off revision hash or something. Back when we first introduced build times it was pre-modern-source-control.

The Rev hash fulfils the function now.
You conveniently neglected the last part of the quote where it also describe the narrow and unified interests as well. Are you now going to say someone's identity isn't defined by what interests them? Now that's myopic and childish.
Corning is working on truly foldable Gorilla Glass
Negative, I just activated it and all I had to do was answer some questions related to my credit.
Totally fair, and a lot of those can be done years in advance.
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Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat and Rediscovered Paintings
‘Moral machine’ experiment is no basis for policymaking
My take on this is that once an economic model begins to fail, the society that is based on it will inevitably also fail. Eventually wars breakout (usually resource wars), and a new dominant player emerges and their economic model gets implemented until it fails. Usually what causes the failure is that the economic model has reached it's growth or sustainability limit.

I actually think company life cycles are very analogous and can teach us much about societies and their growth and decline but on a faster timeline. Companies operate very much like mini-societies with their own culture, beliefs and ingrained practices. They have business models which are constantly evolving. Most if not all of them grow and eventually decline if they fail to adapt.

I'm of the opinion we are experiencing this now with whatever economic model we have in developed nations. It's a never ending cycle, at least until the human species evolves or is eradicated.
This is true and it's also the model I use to avoid bugs. Any time I'd add a bug to the codebase, I just look at it and decide not to write the bug. In this way, no bugs are ever introduced.
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In deep typography circles, 'parametric fonts' means typefaces where their attributes are isolated and can be controlled as parameters.

That can be done with OpenType Variable Fonts (eg Decovar and Amstelvar) but is not commonly done with them (eg OTvar fonts with just Weight and Width axes)

Its more common that parametric fonts are made with 'generative font' formats, like metafont and www.Prototypo.io, where there is a turing complete programming language that controls and generates the letter shapes.
I opine she achieved a lot of her wealth courtesy Instagram.

But it’s remarkable she became a billionaire within 6 years of entering the public spotlight.

PS - Haters gonna hate! :D Downvoters gonna downvote :P
Exposed Docker hosts can be exploited for cryptojacking attacks
Games that lack leaderboards or clear winners are often far more pleasant to use.
"Just in case you're unaware, you've seen Container Tabs, right? Now exactly what you want, but a pretty big step towards it."

Container tabs are better than nothing but what I have been wishing for for years is the ability to chroot jail a GUI application.

There would be very little performance penalty (vs. a full VM for each browser) since you aren't emulating the entire machine - it's just a chroot.

The idea is that in addition to their own root store of cookies/metadata/history/etc., each browser container could have its own IP address. I don't want to just keep my banking tab from talking to my throwaway-gmail-account tab - I want them to operate on different networks.

You can do this right now, with significant performance penalty, by running a full blown VM for each browser. There should be a way to run a GUI app in a chroot jail, but displaying to the same display.

EDIT: In fact, I have lamented this not existing for so many years I think I will have rsync.net fund it...
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Well, "senior software engineer" means someone with 5 to 7 years of experience...
directors have insurance for their civil penalties, so that cost is ultimately borne by someone else: the shareholders/creditors/employees.
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Considering the absolutely massive control corporate interests have over politics in the entire western world, I would say that the rules and laws have been ineffective at best, and downright harmful in a lot of cases.

The fact that MS have gotten a few slaps on the wrist, and that the EU rolled out GDPR to at least try to keep some semblance of privacy, is completely meaningless when you look at the massive profits MS gets from government contracts (through lobbying and favoritism), and the absolute havoc the latest EU copyright reform will cause for any internet-based business not big/rich enough to implement perfect automated upload filters. Funnily enough, Google and FB have the resources, so they're putting up a token protest, but in truth they know they will be benefitting from this legislation.

As for an alternative, you're arguing from a compromised starting point. You assume that we even need individual achievers like Bill Gates et. al., which is highly symptomatic of primarily American individualism and exceptionalism, and to a point also Ayn Randian objectivism. You see it everywhere, people put their heroes on pedestals, glorify them and attribute them great wisdom in all matters, due to their skills in one area.

It's the cult of celebrity, and there is a tendency to glorify the singular great achiever, while completely disregarding the foundations, all of the people who came before and laid the groundwork for progress. We are not standing on the shoulders of giants, we are standing on the shoulders of millions of ordinary people, who each did part of a greater collective whole. No man is an island, after all. No one came to where they are today purely through individual will and effort.

We don't need these massive businesses and we certainly don't need the people at the top, the rent-seekers who extract great wealth from the labor of others. Absolutely nothing created under the rule of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk et. al. created required their presence or even their existence. Innovation and progress doesn't happen on an individual level, it is a collective process.

So what I propose is to abolish to cult of imagined singular achievement, and realize that we can only achieve greatness by collective means, by working together. We may each be individuals with individualist streaks, but as a society we are a great collective of individuals.

What we need is to work together, to collectively own the values and value-creating constructs of our society. When people own a fair share, instead of a pittance, funnily enough their enthusiasm and loyalty goes way up.
Building an interactive traffic ticket database
The Caesar of Rome title isn't because the sultans actually viewed themselves as a descendant of the Roman empire but rather the inheritors of their legitimacy to rule and is actually part of the prophecies of Islam. Thus for the Sultan to be legitimate, he must conquer Constantinople and Rome (eventually) and thus fulfill the prophecy. (Source: Empires of the Sea)

The comparison between China and Turkey as descendants of the Roman Empire is a bit of a stretch. China at least uses the same language (old Chinese poems written in the Tang dynasty and even Han dynasty can still rhyme correctly and make sense if read in Cantonese), holidays, culture, etc. Turkey doesn't use a romance language or Greek.
Java/JVM perception changed by learning Clojure.

I did a lot of Java/Android/Hadoop back in college and honestly was under the impression that Java was for legacy enterprise apps, and college classes. With the exception of Android, I felt that it's prevalence was dying as many companies are using MVC type of products in simple frameworks like Django and Rails now.

I was a little disenchanted that I had to do so many assignments in Java in college, then I found Clojure.

My entire programming mindset has changed after working with a FP language, in my case, Clojure. This has got me more excited about the JVM than ever before because I see it as having new abilities I didn't see before, and the added benefit of great libraries that have been rigorously tested.

I highly recommend learning a LISP. A great beginner starting point is CLojure with Clojure for the Brave and True as a way to learn. The other go to is Structures and Interpretation of Computer Programs which is in Scheme.
>I’m not sure you have an expectation of privacy sending mail through anyone like USPS, FedEx, and UPS

One of these things is not like the others.

By law, first class mail cannot be opened without a warrant, absent exigent circumstances (eg: it's ticking), it's crossing an international border, or subject to a FISA warrant.[1]

Those protections do not apply to UPS or Fedex.

[1] https://www.rstreet.org/2014/11/19/yes-the-government-can-op...
They've still not had peer review of their work, but this does seem promising:

https://71republic.com/2019/02/13/mexican-scientists-cure-hp...
Companies that use "total spend on weddings" as a proxy for their total addressable market are either naive or disingenuous.

For couples having a "big wedding", 80%+ of the cost goes to: catering, venue, photographer, dress, flowers. All of those require a business with a local presence - a web startup isn't going to be able to replace any of those.

The companies mentioned in the article are actually tackling wedding line items that represent a much smaller fraction of the wedding's budget: stationary, registries, wedding websites, and wedding planning tools. Median spend for websites and planning tools is probably $0, because most couples are fine with free website creators (often provided as a loss leader) and Excel spreadsheets.

They're also aiming to collect referral fees or advertising spend from the vendors that actually provide the big line items. However, the total market there is "advertising budgets of other wedding vendors", not "total wedding vendor revenue".
My parents live in a small subdivision in the country. they don't always walk to the end of their long driveway to check their mail. they do every few days. (or when they take the trash down, etc) They have had a rash of people going through mailboxes, looking for money, checks, and CC applications. twice now, the ONLY reason my parents found out their mail was stolen was a neighbor found a bunch of ripped open envelopes in a ditch down the road, with my parents (and many of their neighbors) mail in it. It may have happened more often, but they can't report stolen mail to the postmaster general if they don't know it was stolen.

Having the ability to see what mail is coming will allow them to see if there are 'important' things coming, so they can either go get the mail that day, or know if its missing.
I'm pretty sure it's all photographed and stored wether u sign up or not.
I have a few questions to ask you, which will hopefully help you find a more satisfying answer to your conundrum.

1) What is motivating this change? Are you currently unemployed, looking for new work or rather concerned about ensuring your employability over time? Are you looking to earn a higher salary?

2) In an ideal world, would you want to learn this new technology or would you rather stick with building your existing skills / working with tools you are familiar with? Are you willing / interested in learning these tools outside of work, or would do you have other engagements that take precedence (family, non tech hobbies, etc).

3) How much risk are you willing tolerate? Do you have a big enough safety net if the independent contractor thing doesn't work? Maybe plan out this scenario on paper, and do some rough math if possible.

4) You are well within your right to avoid management roles (or anything that doesn't serve you). What are your goals with work, pay the bills even if the work is tedious, emotionally challenging?

My apologies if these questions aren't helpful for you. I'm just yet another obnoxious 20 something in tech.
Yes, for sure. They are both distributed object stores and share inspiration from the Linda/tuplespace lineage, as well as relational and document databases in FaunaDB's case.

FaunaDB supports function execution in the database, if the functions are written in FQL. It has a much more powerful index system and consistency model than Gemstone/Gemfire/Geode and is designed for synchronous global replication.

However, unlike Geode it is not an in-memory system, so it is not appropriate to use as a cache.
There's too many black-box chips on a typical product to make any sort of schematic meaningful.

There used to be full wiring diagrams for cars in manuals, but imagine that now where your car has 200 separate computerized systems, each with their own intricate circuits.
How is it any different than the IRS getting paid first when a company goes bankrupt?

The government is a creditor like any other when there’s a price to be paid.
Better usage would be:

- wget https://gitlab.com/grownetics/devops/raw/master/tor_ssh.sh

- less tor_ssh.sh

- sudo bash tor_ssh.sh
On the User Agent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7lWCqbgQnU
It's fascinating that my comment above rebuking racial purity theories is so controversial (evidenced by the oscillating down and up votes for a full day), yet there are no follow up comments supporting racial purity theory in general, just a discussion about the relative genetic isolation of one group?

It's surprising that rebuking racial purity as a concept would be so controversial today on a forum like this.
Awesome, that's what I wanted - for websites to look like the overproduced glossy ad inserts in magazines that I tear out and throw away.

Be warned, I could be tearing out and throwing away your website too.
Same for those who work at Facebook and Google I imagine.

"It's not my fault my company is hurtling us towards a dystopian surveillance society."

History is full of people like that.