skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so.

By way of context: I'm 49. I graduated from high school (US) in 1988. I sort of grew up with the net, in the sense that I got my first Internet email address in 1987. I definitely grew up with computers; it's people my age that hassled their parents for those 8-bit machines that plugged into televisions.

People of my cohort were definitely aware that we were on the leading edge of computer-mediated societal change. In 1985 it was still possible to hear folks suggest ridiculous things like "Oh, I just run a $small_business; computers will never help here" from people who did not yet Get It. It was bizarre.

I thought, from my teens through my mid-30s, that this sort of fundamental technological illiteracy was the transient phenomenon, and that once people my age got to be 50 or whatever, it would be extinct. This has not come to pass.

Today, I work in software (surprise!). Our product does a particular kind of project management only interesting in very large contexts. It's a staid and conservative market. And yet there are people my age or a little older within our user community who are still clearly baffled by the idea of having multiple applications open at once, or by the basics of file manipulation, or by the idea of importing data from one location to another. It's bizarre.

My boss is 14 years older than I am, so into his middle 60s. He's like me; he's been in or near computing his whole life. Neither of us understand it, but there appears to be an inexhaustible reservoir of folks who just look at anything with an integrated circuit in it and say "Nope!" From our POV, though, it's just NOT OKAY to have worked in data intense business for decades and still be baffled by something as simple as "save-as" or whatever.
The following is also good:

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/

While you asked for a course, checkout my introductory presentation on the subject here (PDF slides available for download):

https://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Session/2014/introduc...

An attendee, claiming to have read 1.5 books on NLP, called it the broadest coverage of NLP he had ever seen. Some of the attendees told me that I had inspired them to turn their careers to NLP.
I recommend listening to Clive James' wonderful Point of View segment from Radio 4 (2009): https://soundcloud.com/pointofview-clivejames/london-undergr...

It's only about 10 minutes. Very tongue in cheek, but people really are doing this.
I read this someplace.. thought it is fun to share.. we went from spaghetti (mainframe) code to lasagna (stacks / tiered architecture) to ravioli (micro-services) :)
Folk is fine in the UK and works well, as does "everybody".
"An older person will simply choose to not use the product."

I completely agree. The older you get, the more you realize that patience isn't always a virtue.
They will, just in light grey; and they'll also see its not an acceptable argument.
I am not measuring it, that's the point. Synthetic benchmarks are useless when real life experience shows the opposite.
Does not the majority have index fonds, which mean that a drop for BA is rather minor overall and stock money released from people selling BA stocks will then be invested in other companies on the market?
I’m not knowledgeable enough of unions to take an informed position on their merits. My impression was that unions are often an image of protection and nothing more. I could be wrong about that though.
They are not being exploited. They are free to take on another job. Especially coders could certainly find jobs in other industries.

And "Fortnite" is not the games industry. There are a variety of ways to make a living making games.
Yea, it was a hack. A good hack, but a hack.

Speed-wise, 3dfx decimated all but the high-end boards at the time. GLiNT and Intergraphs low-end ards were still $3000-$5000
Those were 'real, workstation-level cards' with accurate rendering and all the OpenGL features.
On the highest end were the Intergraph realizm cards which were 2X the price. Then you had the SGI systems that started out at 2x times the price of a loaded Integraph Workstation...
This works and helps with storage/transit. Word of warning though that many AV like to flag UPX'd executables (only important if it's not an internal tool), and it'll take even longer for it to start, and will use more memory. My understanding is it essentially does standard compression on the executable and appends the decompression part on the front of it.
Amen to that
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So he deserves a strongly worded Nytimes article? Sounds pretty harsh.
I don't understand what you're getting at. So offering someone employment (do this for money) should only be allowed if it's at a consistent frequency (full time) and at a guaranteed non-variable amount? What if the job they're being hired to do does not have consistent demand? Or the service provided has competition, or varying costs, which requires price changes?
I've a CPU from 2013 - a Haswell, and I was going to upgrade last year until I realized the performance increase wouldn't justify the price at all. Thinking back to a decade earlier and you'd wait 2 years to upgrade your CPU and it'd be a significant increase. Weird times.
I live in downtown Jersey City and large construction projects essentially have free reign over the physical and mental peace of the neighbors. My apartment would shake with each jackhammer strike for months as soon as 7am hit. It made WFH nearly impossible. I couldn't even take important phone calls during business hours. The construction is still ongoing. On the bright side, my rent isn't increasing any time soon. The real estate barons can do whatever they want around here.

In addition to that, the same real estate developer built another unsightly building only feet away from 50% of the residents' only view. Resulting in zero privacy, beauty, and sunlight. Not to mention, a 30% decrease in each owner's property valuation.

Fuck Shuster Group.
Interesting concept! Please nominate your project for "Project Of The Month" award at https://www.gyrocode.com/articles/project-of-the-month-2019-... to get more exposure.
All,

Please make sure to put a cover sheet on your TPS reports.

Team,

Please make sure to put a cover sheet on your TPS reports.

Everyone,

Please make sure to put a cover sheet on your TPS reports.

Good Afternoon/Morning,

Please make sure to put a cover sheet on your TPS reports.

Staff,

Please make sure to put a cover sheet on your TPS reports.

I just quickly browsed through my emails I've received this year (coworkers, customers, vendors) and that covers all the ones I've received. All of those are perfectly acceptable.

I wouldn't be personally use "guys," "gals," or "guys and gals" in a non-friend situation.
I get to hear jake brakes at literally any time of day (nearby paper mill runs 24/7), hourly freight trains (see paper mill) and police sirens slightly less often (in case the paper mill didn't tip you off that I don't live somewhere that's highly gentrified). I'm not gonna feel bad about rich people that have to listen to heavy machinery during business hours no matter what day of the week it is.

I'd be more sympathetic if the constant noise was before 7am or after 9pm but the fact of the mater is that it's not so I'm not.
People in prison have had a trial.

He has not had a trial, so he neither belongs in prison nor doesn't belong in a prison. He needs to have a trial first.

Do you use the same argument for people that jump bail? "He's on the run because if he wasn't on the run he would be arrested and face trial, therefore he has no choice in the matter?" Because that's the argument you're making, and it's a ridiculous one.
>They should grow a spine and say no to ridiculous work conditions.

YES! You're absolutely right!

> They don’t need to unionize.

Err... Why on earth not? That would literally be the definition of growing a spine and saying no to ridiculous work conditions but also having it be effective.
Most modern superhero movies are indeed first level, bottom-of-the-barrel content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs
Isn't there an element of supply and demand to it - lots of gamers become programmers and want to work as games devs. Databases on the other hand aren't cool, but businesses need them.
same, unfortunately ... I loved my time in the game industry, but I also loved spending time (and more money achieved elsewhere) on my family.
Yea, but sometimes one persons ravioli tastes like lasagna or spaghetti.
C++ in 1994 was quite a different animal.
I've noticed that too. I think it might be that these days "idiomatic high-performance JS" might just be another way of saying "makes use of Chrome's quirks, strengths and optimizations". I imagine there's some things Firefox just can't do quite as fast as Chrome because of design decisions. The reverse probably also holds true, but that doesn't help as much if you aren't the market leader.
This whole comment reads like AI generated a 'woke college freshman' parody
Here's a screenshot with all the CCS chargers either currently operating or under active construction in the state of Washington:

https://imgur.com/a/JEQv9a2

I don't see how you could consider that coverage in any way inadequate.
That was a more thoughtful response than I expected. Thank you. I largely agree, but I do think that a reasonable and intelligent person can disagree with transgender activism or gay marriage, for example, and still make a useful contribution in many areas of society, including the one under discussion.

Conservatives will almost always be "behind" progressives where progressive social issues are concerned, by definition. Even when they aren't trash-talking outrage merchants, they are inclined to support traditional institutions and social arrangements. There needn't be any malice in this: they want to conserve the good and are hesitant to overturn age-old ways of being for fear of unintended consequences.

That's precisely why I think theirs is a position worth listening to in debates around the ethics of new technologies and their possible impact on society. It's an important consideration and one we're not going to hear from techno-utopians or many on the left.
in the past two years .NET has become (normally/probably) the best performing GC runtime out there. With some nice features as well, and a better cross platform story.

hipness has increased
People act like portables are the only machines that exist.

Any Mac user who needed 'real power' moved to an iMac (or even an iMac Pro) when they outgrew their 15" BMP
In March, I quit using Facebook cold turkey, for a variety of reasons. During March, I read six books. I normally read about two books a month.

Was I really reading four books a month worth of Facebook? Quite possibly.

I recommend reading Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism for a solid basis on how to deal with social media - where it's necessary, where it's okay, and where it's actively harmful. I also recommend reading Gary Rogowski's Handmade: Creative Focus in an Age of Distraction, which isn't so much about getting off social media as what your life can look like when you're not on it in the first place.
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What is your opinion on the compile time though? No matter how I feel about what it actually can do I just can NOT get over the compile time.
I would agree if the goal is just to build a web app, however, if you want to run natively on multiple platforms, Java still has its good points. If you really run a particular app on a daily basis, it can be nice to have an option for a dedicated desktop app.

We may see more of this with WASM. And JavaScript can get a little unwieldy beyond 100k lines of code.
they need to realize that they have a unique and valuable skill set

The competition to be a low-paid drone in game development is huge; significantly more than in non game dev. The games industry is powered by huge numbers of low-experience software engineers. They get paid in glamour and the thrill of being able to tell their friends they work in games. They could leave and go somewhere else for more money, but they don't want more money as much as they want that glamour. I've seen it myself; people take low-paid QA jobs at games companies for the love of spending 12 hours a day following mind-numbing instructions, repetitively playtesting a greyscale wireframe without sound or graphics assets. For the glamour of it.

These people have skill sets that are unusual amongst the general population, but not in the realms of software engineering job candidates and even less so in games, where strongly talented people take Godawful jobs for the glamour of it.

Yes, there are highly skilled, experienced software engineers in the industry too, but they're not the ones being fucked over in huge numbers on a daily basis.
Long hours is a failure, we should know what failed so it doesn't happen again. Their response? That's just the way it is in games.

In my experience, that attitude is common and not limited to game developers or even programmers in general. American working culture tends to respect those who go above and beyond, or at least maintain the appearance of doing so.
Ah, OK. It does seem quite snappy on my system.
Show HN: A turn-based strategy game with emoji graphics
We changed in those 50,000 years. We are nowhere genetically the same. There was more change in the human genome in the last 50,000 years, than in millions before then.

We changed. Into something different. Which is different in kind, from the other animals.
I probably jumped the gun on the unionization part. I don’t know a lot about it but my impression of unions is not so bright. Maybe my ignorance is showing with that regard
I admit that I am reading into the line "abnormal memory allocation and execution" and thinking it's intentional.

You are right that they don't seem to know what code was being executed. Just that some code (be it real code or random garbage) was injected and executed.
This should absolutely be an expectation set early on ... I often wish that our industry had an apprenticeship model, so that our senior talent would invest in training newcomers. Coming from the IC level would remove a perverse incentive for employers who offer on-the-job training to teach them to be compliant early on.
It seems two wrongs don't make a right.
Not everything has to be accessible. 100% blindness isn't that common. And even if it was, there's nothing wrong with making apps for people with good vision.
LA LA fricking Land.
Out if interest is writing games any more fun than writing web / database apps?
It's not a novel idea in the abstract. Ron Sun wrote a lot on something like "marrying connectionist and symbolic techniques" 20+ years ago. See, for example:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=SERIES10535.174508

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=54iyt6Jcl_oC&oi=f...

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134802067

etc...
If you want people to believe something unreasonable stop trying to reason with them, this is the result of deplatforming.

Resorting to ostracisation is proof that your point of view is unreasonable, which then makes their point of view seem more reasonable as there is no counter.

This society seems obsessed with the idea of ostracisation and deplatforming its ultimately a breeding group for fascism and bigotry.
In all working aera the fault is not on the employees but on the compagny period.

The fault is also on users that buy crap video game and make theses big compagny following this scheme you big win like Minecraft of work for nothing.

Same apply for movie/music industry. This are not there fault. If maybe you stop paying Apple for running a streming service and talking all the cake.

Users are more to be blammed than game developers.
A good project manager will wrestle a more realistic estimate from their developers before forwarding it to leadership.
There are a lot of downvotes to this comment and I don't think it deserves it. I think the comment adds something substantive to the discussion. If you want to rise far in our economic system, a willingness or eagerness to figure out how to exploit others legally is a definite advantage. All the HN discussion here is about, "Those workers should find something else to do!" All about the self, maybe a bit about unions. But no one has mentioned the people at the very top who make money.

So, HNers, are all these companies closing (Telltale, Capcom Vancouver) because some courageous entrepreneur put their ethics, heart, and soul into a game company and just couldn't make it work, ending up penniless alongside their former employees? Or were they just not making "enough" money anymore? or what? What are the profits like in the game industry? Who gets them? If I follow the money, where does it go? Genuinely curious.
I was actively involved in the BBS scene back in the mid-1990s. It had most of the same problems Facebook/Twitter does today - and the same attractions, albeit not as refined.

Unfortunately, it's taken me 25 years to recognize the toxicity to the point of quitting.
I don't use Keychain to manage most of my passwords (because I have Windows devices), but when I click a password field, the space above the keyboard says "Passwords". If I click on that, it lets me choose between LastPass or Keychain.
The answer is, get a valuable skill set. If you are the only neurosurgeon in the world, and somebody needs a brain tumor removed, I'd like to see them try offer a minimum wage for the operation.

It's people's own responsibility to make themselves valuable. It's nice if some people offer pathways to becoming valuable (education, traineeships, whatever), but I don't see how anybody would be entitled to it. That would imply somebody would be responsible for delivering it, and who should that be? Why would anybody be responsible for it?
This is the cost of living in a city.

Anything else is NIMBYism, and NIMBYism kills progress.
I felt sorry for them until I got to the part where it said it was the best neighborhood in the city. If that's the case, then I'm sure they can all afford to sue the crap out of the people who are causing this, and they've got plenty of problems that have cost actual money to bring to court already.
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I have Facebook and Twitter - I dont really use either, I might spend an hour a week interacting with facebook, and an hour a quarter with Twitter. Twitter is full of angry people trying to one up each other, and FB is full of falsehoods circulated like chain letters. Both have little use for me.
Game developers don't stay in business by being great places to work. They stay in business by staying afloat long enough to get one .. more .. game to market. I know Firaxis (makers of Civilization) has at least once laid off large parts of their development crew once the game is substantially complete.
Discussion from 8 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507225
...and we changed, in the last 50,000 years. More change than in millions before then. And it was probably civilization that did it. Adapting to live in larger communities has had a profound effect on us genetically.
>The traditional VC backed tech startup growth curve is an exercise in giving something away for less than it's worth, such as selling a $10 bill for $5.

This gets it fundamentally wrong. Only Moviepass was in the business of selling $10 for $5. Most of what appears to be $10 for $5 can be broken down into two things:

(1) Software is a very high fixed cost and very low marginal cost business. If you spend a million to develop a piece of software your profit is going to look like crap for your first few customers, better for the next bunch, and so on until you are wildly profitable (or so you hope).

(2) Discounting recurring revenue. Spending $10 to get $5 in revenue is stupid. Spending $10 to get a customer who will give you $5 in revenue every year is smart. If you only look at year 1 the smart move looks stupid.
Yes. Workers should not be at the mercy of an unreliable paycheck.

> What if...

Can you give an example of what you're talking about?
Great question. They have pet features. Features with long estimates are targets for being cut. Give a long estimate, you risk not being able to build your feature.

I once asked, how long to add analytics to your code? (I wrote a one line utility that could bundle up objects and fire them off for you.) The response was "three weeks per event". Guess which part of the code didn't have analytics.

Now, at some level this is leadership's fault. They own the culture, but many of the engineers I worked with in games were the least interested in being a part of a team I've ever seen.
A violinist and a professor of philosophy are unlikely to fall under the category of rich people.
I create a page in Microsoft Onenote and add the name hyperlinked and export it as PDF or Single File Web Page. I just open this page in any browser.
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It's all the propaganda corporations have been feeding you about how evil unions are. The wage stagnation of employees and stratospheric rise in senior management pay can be directly correlated to the decline of unions in North America.
I'm running on a surface. Seems fine.
Because there's a line out the door of young, fresh-out-of-college programmers and artists ready to replace them the instant they consider unionizing.
Border patrol chases have spun out of control, with deadly consequences
This seems a silly article, where the primatologist says 'we're not different' then proceeds to list all the ways we are different.
I reverse-engineered the website traffic of the 50 biggest SaaS companies
Making videogames is a great hobby though. One of the traditional appeals of writing roguelikes is that you can spend minimal effort on graphics and related cruft and boilerplate, and jump straight into implementing any fun mechanic you can think off. If you like the idea of creating games, do something less stressful as a day job, and make games as a hobby. A single person can release a game made as a hobby. This way you have full control, no stress, and don't need to take financial risks.
Correct, if you are a 9-5 slave prole
This turned out to be an article about tech workers unionizing ... which I just don't see that as a solution in the tech industry in general, especially when companies have the choice to offshore their staffs. At the end of the day, we developers are well compensated, and have great mobility. If you find yourself getting a raw deal, just pickup your keyboard and go somewhere else.
IIRC the problem with MCAS is that it will "reset" the maximum of 2.5 deg every time it kicks in, so it goes: MCAS kicks in -> apply max 2.5 deg -> pilot correction -> MCAS kick in -> ANOTHER +2.5 deg max, and it goes cycling every 10-20 seconds.

At least I recall reading this from some comment here in HN from someone well versed with the 737 MAX.
And anything in Go?
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A blind person can lose their job because an application that's required for the job is inaccessible, even though the job function ought to be perfectly accessible (i.e. isn't inherently visual). That happened to an acquaintance of mine. May it never happen again.