skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For tech workers, I think that making video games is "not a dream job" is an understatement. Except maybe for a select few.

That's what I wanted to do. A short look at what the reality looks like was enough to make me run away really fast.

I suppose the industry manages to lure in new talent who don't know any better, that's how they still manage to get people to work for them despite the terrible conditions. They project an image of an industry that is young (no shit, "old guys" jumped ship long ago) and fun to people who grew up playing video games and want to see the other side.

That's not just the big studios. On the indie side, the good thing is that you are not exploited, the bad thing is that it is even harder, with low chances of success. The only team that I've seen personally and was somewhat successful are the guys who made Crosscode (I highly recommend the game BTW), and the process looked like hard and stressful work. The others ended up doing gigs completely unrelated to game dev in order to eat.
It's also inaccessible to non-English speakers.

A11Y is not the bottom line to judge everything by. That dilutes it's importance as a niche. Judging by a11y is a power that should be used responsibly, not as a last resort to just find something critical to say.

It's inaccessible to non English speakers and that's not a problem because it just doesn't matter enough. Same thing with disability. There's just not enough disabled people to justify critiquing everything that's not usable with screen readers.

The world is not accessible to every group within it, and that's okay, that doesn't mean everything that isn't able to be used by some group is somehow bad or deficient. To discriminate against apps that don't have certain abilities is just the same bias as discriminating against people with different abilities. Be more tolerant of apps that are serving their special niches and nothing more.
How else should they let you note who you spoke to? Using their actual name? They're not unique. You need some kind of reference number on each call.

I'd love it if each call I had to make to a company started with a call ID number and then I got emailed a transcript and recording afterward.

I think some call centres give staff pseudonyms so they're unique.
I think most or at least a significant portion of people will remain news junkies, but a lot of people are waking up to what "news" really is after witnessing how much of it is actually "breaking news" that's hardly fact-checked or not at all. People are believing journalists less and less, yet journalists on the whole don't seem bothered enough to take action to correct their image. Having worked with journalists, a lot of them are concerned with their image; I'm just not sure that an appreciable amount will ever actually try to do something about it.

Even taking an extended break from Facebook can be beneficial. Back in 2015, I took a 9 month break and came back to it with a different set of eyes. It inoculated me to the need to constantly check my feed. I kept my profile for a long time because it served as a contact list, but the other day I decided to up and delete it. I couldn't be happier. Everyone who actually mattered is in my email contacts. There are actually people claiming "email is out", yet there's nobody I know who doesn't have an email or who doesn't respond to them. If you've got someone's email and phone number, the chances that you'll lose contact with them for good is very small. Just have the courage to reach out to them every once in a while rather than wait for others to post a photo of their dinner plate so you can "like" it to let them know you still exist. People feel special when others reach out to them, even if it's just to see how they're doing, and I know I would rather get a text from one person saying "s'up?" than a bunch of "likes".

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Places like HN, Reddit, Discord, etc., are all far more social than what people dub "social media".
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It’s in the Metro section of the New York Times.
I can't tell if this is "finished" or not.

It'd be cool if somebody benchmarked this to show just how "fast" SQLite is comparatively, even if they are by no means equal functionality wise.
Well, in IT it definitely is :)
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I don't think VR utopia is going to start anytime soon (that will be a slow generational shift), but VR already has sparked the interest of a lot of consumers, that are holding of for now.
I wouldn't be surprised though, if one of the next headsets, i.e. Valve Index, if prices reasonably, suddenly showed unexpected high demand and sold out. There are tons of people, who want to try it, even if its just a gimmick for now. We've seen things like the Nintendo Wii selling tens of millions of units based on a gimmick.
At that point the average consumer might become more aware of VR, and things might start picking up on the software-side.
I am thinking the same!
Meanwhile i9 9900k still has only 16 3.0 lanes ...
You're assuming I don't know what the codes are and that they are potentially harmful, neither of which is true.
(source: I'm 58)

I think another challenge that is already happening is reduced accessibility to older people of household devices that are app driven.

I'm in the process of buying some new high-ish end audio equipment. All of the systems I've seen pretty much involve having a smart phone / tablet to control it and access to streaming services (e.g. tidal or deezer) if you want high quality sound. There are several challenges right there for folk who just want to insert some physical media and press 'play'.

I can handle this, for now. But who knows what the interfaces to these systems will be like in say 10 or 15 years time. Voice control may address some of these challenges, but I think for a lot of people, a whole range of devices they rely on will become alien and scary.
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About passwords, when I really need to enter them, I use the following 3 lines of VBScript:

Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
WScript.Sleep( 5000 )
objShell.SendKeys "The Password"

This gives 5 seconds to alt-tab to browser and click in the password input box.
I gotta say I found forums really hard to browse, the UX was terrible.

People has huge signatures, they'd often quote another page long post, there was no upvotes or downvotes so you had to go through 87 pages of junk, the search functionality was terrible...

It's why I like Reddit, even though it's not perfect.

Reddit's like the forum of forums

Edit: although. One thing I do miss with forums is people knew eachother by name. Reddit's too big for that.
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As a Haskeller, I am extremely wary of seeing this study linked to over and over again.
Eh, outside of desktop CPUs things have continued to move pretty quickly.

Looking at GPUs, the Voodoo3 came out in 1999 and had a fillrate of around 150 MPixels/sec. Today's GPUs have a fill rate of around 300 times that, which gives an annualized increase of over 30%, for 20 years. This doesn't even consider the fact that GPUs went from highly specialized parts to general purpose compute chips.

Lower power CPUs are also impressive. 20 years ago the state of the art was the DEC/Intel StrongARM. A modern smartphone SOC is around 50x faster than that per watt. If you look at floating point stuff it's more like 1000x faster.
Most call centres I deal with will happily give you a call reference number on request, rather than saying it first thing upon picking up the phone. That seems... more natural and human, even if it's a bit less efficient.
Hi. I am Georgy. I found your job post on whoishiring.
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6 months of indecision and I'll just make the call for them!

If they come back and say "Wait, that's not what should be first on the page" then we know we're on our way to figuring it out.
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And in that industry, workers are lucky that this is the contractual norm. In my industry, enterprise software, it is common for contracts to have "at-will" clauses that let the company cut your employment short at any time for any reason with immediate cessation of pay and benefits.

Word has it, this is the norm in video games as well.
And sat solvers. And many graph algorithms. I'm partial to dlx. Even permutation algorithms help considerably if used certain ways.
These kinds of tactics usually require a lot of time from tax attorneys and only work in uncommon financial situations. If you've just got W2 income, there's probably not much you can do.
Do they? The 5th commandment is "thou shalt not murder".

Parables: yes, that's certainly true. But can you create an adaptable moral framework without a lot of ambiguity? Even the law is ambiguous and it's far too large for the widespread adoption a moral framework requires.

The fact that christianity is so divided while claiming to believe the same thing should be all the proof you need of this, and its not just christianity.

There are a billion different religions when you break them down, but, they all agree on the basics. Every branch of Christianity agrees with principles like "thou shalt not murder", "feeding the poor is virtuous", "love thy neighbour", "care for the sick" etc.

I'm not saying Christianity is an awesome moral framework mind you. That's not my argument. My argument is that the vast majority of people no longer have any framework that guides them in how to act. When faced with the outrage of people who do, they crumble as a consequence.
Considering that i'll have to learn C for this as well, i think going with Rust just looks more interesting.
Sure, but not enough to add 100k to my mortgage.
This is what people who argue for the expansion of the welfare state don't understand. The ultrawealthy will always find ways to protect themselves from taxation (as they did back in the days when "tax rates" were "80 to 90 percent" as they love to tell you) and the brunt will be borne by people like me, who are relatively comfortable in providing for my family but still worry a lot about saving adequately for retirement and college payments down the road (which if I am restricted further from doing properly, will simply increase the burden on the welfare state).
>So what's the acceptable format? "guys, gals, and... others?"

Folks,...
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>> place more blame on the binary political parties, as well as the mainstream media.

Those are also just different mirrors. Social media is a greater number of faster-responding mirrors, but the concept remains the same: the content reflects the desires of the audience.

I place all the blame on individual users. They are the ones that must alter their behavior. Each individual must come to understand how they manipulate the content they see. I don't blame talk radio and facebook for turning my aunt into a crazed right-wing conspiracy theorist (the really bad type. She believed pizzagate, probably still does.) She has done this to herself and only she can dig herself out of the hole. The family can support her, as one would any other addict, but the individual must want to change.
They reported on the claims that were made. Once again, newspapers are not oracles. Facts change from day to day and stories develop over time.

There's a reason that the Times puts out a new edition every day, instead of releasing just a singe one 2000 years ago that we all worship as indisputable truth.

"Fake news" is reporting that Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter, and Anonymous are planning riots in 37 city centers at 7 pm on July 15 2016, as Breitbart, the Daily Caller, and other far-right news sources reported two days before. The story was entirely made up, and most of the text was copied from a chain email from the 00s.
Of course you can stop being exploited as a game developer by leaving the games industry---but why should people be forced to change their career in order to avoid exploitation?
Well assblaster2, i think this reporter is what we call a race baiter
See my comment elsewhere about app-driven audio equipment. The option of not using 'the internet' or apps, etc is already being taken away right now for entire classes of household devices or services (e.g. banks with a friendly human).
Most other places, yes. But Manhattan is a very high cost of living area.
Emacs is great in many ways; I'm saying it as an avid user.

For ultimate multi-workplace setup, you can run Emacs in server mode on a cloud instance, and allow network connections to it, or port-forward to its Unix socket via SSH.

Now you can run Emacs in client mode from whatever machine you may have, several of them, or ssh to the cloud box and run Emacs in terminal mode in a crunch. All your sessions will share the same set of files, but workspace layout is per client, so you can work comfortably both from an 11" laptop screen and from a 27" 4K screen.

As said above, you can use tramp to access whatever other remote files accessible via ssh, and also run a decent (though a bit limited) terminal right from Emacs, to say nothing of running REPLs of all kinds directly, and excellent git integration with Magit.

This can even give you a sort of VPN-like access, when the cloud box where the Emacs server runs has access to machines that are not directly accessible to you from the machine you're connecting from.

OTOH VS Code likely can be run in a similar setup.

In general I very much like the modularization of IDEs: instead of a monolith form 1990s you can mix and match your favorite editor with language servers, REPLs, build servers, etc, all separate and in many cases running remotely.
Living in Downtown Jersey City (2 years ago) was the noisiest and most rage inducing experience of my life. I also made the stupid decision of living close to Marin and Columbus, and experienced sirens at all hours. Those included cops who could seemed to turn on their sirens to go through the red light at that intersection and turn it off as soon as they got through. Sirens + all day construction noise was just torture.

Jersey City cured me of my desire to ever live in NYC. Parts of NYC are quieter, but there's always noise. The suburbs might be boring, but at least I can WFH without going crazy.
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The video game industry has the same problem a lot of creative jobs have: the work force is large. Companies can afford to treat employees like shit because there are so many fresh grads who want to be game devs lined up to take the place of anyone who complains. Compare that to writers/graphic designers who are often undercut by their peers who are willing to work "for exposure". Hopefully unionizing helps these guys out, but I think as long as there is such a big pool of people willing to suffer to have a shot in the industry, it's going to be an uphill battle.
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The engine isn't magic, you can read the codes yourself, figure out what they mean, look up the replacement guidelines yourself, etc. It's really simple actually, anyone can do it.
"Not unionized since unions cannot seem to stick to protecting my rights and always expands into supporting socialism and meddling with foreign policy."

Seriously?

You honestly think your employer, who you support with your daily toil, does not contribute to any political causes you might find objectionable?
> -and let's face it, taxi and food delivery are not differentiable- won't there always be another disruptor?

Drones and perhaps, down the road, teleporters.
And because of reddit
These topics matter for a Google AI board. Google uses machine learning for information classification and filtering, and they've had issues in the past with over-broad or misapplication.

"Why Has 'Transgender' Become a Trigger Word For YouTube?"
[https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-has-transgender-become-a-t...]

Having someone on the board that is starting from a premise of "That outcome is fine" runs counter to Google's existing stance on the topic.
Typographic note for future headline writers: If your headline only parses properly with line breaks, then it will probably cause confusion when someone else links to you. I thought this article was going to be about a hybrid material called "graphene-borophene" because there is minimal visual difference between hyphens and an em dashes here.
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Then you'd probably love ADA! Does Perl 6 have postconditions, too?

https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-31

Gem #31: Preconditions/postconditions

>The notion of preconditions and postconditions is an old one. A precondition is a condition that must be true before a section of code is executed, and a postcondition is a condition that must be true after the section of code is executed.

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rat/html/Rat12-2-3.html

>We will look first at the simple case when inheritance is not involved and then look at more general cases. Specific preconditions and postconditions are applied using the aspects Pre and Post respectively whereas class wide conditions are applied using the aspects Pre'Class and Post'Class.

>To apply a specific precondition Before and/or a specific postcondition After to a procedure P we write

procedure P(P1: in T1; P2: in out T2; P3: out T3)
with Pre => Before,
Post => After;

>where Before and After are expressions of a Boolean type (that is of type Boolean or a type derived from it).

If your language supports preconditions, postconditions and invariants, then you can pursue the "Design by Contract" approach to programming, coined by Bertrand Meyer for Eiffel.

That's when you guarantee that if all the preconditions are met before calling a function, then all the postconditions will be met after it returns (but the object may go through intermediate states where the postconditions aren't met before it returns, like while inserting an item into a doubly linked list). Unfortunately that idea breaks down when you have multiple threads that might enter a function at the same time, so you have to use object level locks, which have their own problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language)

>The design of the language is closely connected with the Eiffel programming method. Both are based on a set of principles, including design by contract, command–query separation, the uniform-access principle, the single-choice principle, the open–closed principle, and option–operand separation.

>Many concepts initially introduced by Eiffel later found their way into Java, C#, and other languages. New language design ideas, particularly through the Ecma/ISO standardization process, continue to be incorporated into the Eiffel language.
We do not have a welfare state. There are simple ways to get people to pay their taxes, there simple isn't political will.
Where I work, we have a different person pick the lunches every week. It could be their favourite place nearby, or somewhere that they think everyone will like. Usually the only limitations is being roughly in budget, and catering to everyone's dietary requirements.

I think a voting system sounds like a cool idea, and in your use case could definitely lead to happier people with less food waste.
Once upon a time, Edsger Dijkstra, the inventor of the stack (data structure) attended a lecture by a prospective faculty member at UT Austin, who discussed topics related to a (network protocol) stack. Hilarity ensued.

Yeah, that's got nothing to do with the article.
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Initial estimation (over many sprints, with either a greenfield project or with a new dev team) is always very hard, almost a completely foolish attempt.

After the first few sprints the uncertainty reduces.

And after the team gains experience with the system (business domain + codebase + infrastructure - if applicable), they are much better at scoring tickets (SCRUM poker), which then can be converted back to time from points.

Directly estimating time (asking for time estimate from programmers) is just something that never works (or if it does, then it means the programmers does the following adjustment internally), as humans get into the confusion of constantly having to recalculate their intuitive feeling of required time based on how long actually that took the last time they felt that.
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I suppose the plug-in/Applet approach is why it didn't fly - same reason Flash has gone away.

It's unfortunate Oracle hasn't adopted the approach of treating the browser as a target platform. TeaVM and CheerpJ have just a couple engineers working on this and they've done great things. A fully supported effort could really make this take off.
Serious question, Are the days of native applications UI (be it Windows/Mac/Linux) are numbered? Does it make sense to develop a native application now days? (games and heavy CAD software aside)
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>A Daimler spokesperson said that they were cooperating with investigators, but that the company does not expect to be fined as a result of the probe.

Why?