skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism is failing America
Teens 'not damaged by screen time', study finds
You need to also provide a (plausible) reason for why this "insignificant" motion would be judged as significant by the SEC, else your argument is not coherent.
Very interesting! However I wonder whether it's possible to do it on OOP languages such as Java.
My knowledge of unions is based entirely on the UK. They allow groups of employees who are subject to poor conditions to group together and participate in collective bargaining.
Most programmers in the UK are not a member of a union as pay is fairly high and conditions relatively good, but the majority of public-sector and a lot of private-sector workers are.
Unionising would be an excellent first step for employees fighting back.

I see a lot of anti-union talk on HN, I don't think a lot of the criticism of unions I see here is fair.
I know one guy who is like that, he realized his dream by doing it as a side job and it look like he's been successful so far (released one game, worked as a writer for a handful of other games)
I get the author's point that they don't like investing in companies that hoover up investment dollars, but the selling $10 for $5 example annoys me. Any GAAP-based income statement starts off total income minus cost of that income equals gross income. Check out the income statement for Amazon...

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/amzn/financials/

Amazon lost money for a bazillion years, and they continued to get investment dollars. What is one reason that Amazon could do this? Because they were selling things for less than it cost to make or acquire these things. If Amazon's business model was to buy a book for $10 at Barnes & Noble and sell that book for $5 on Amazon.com, they would never have gotten off the ground.

None of the companies in this article buy something in this spend $10 make something they sell for $5.

Interesting article. Bad example.
Wasn’t that AOL. Email, instant messenger, profiles, chat rooms all in one place where everyone spent countless hours?

You could say it was a starting point/portal...but where else was anyone going back then to spend significant time?
TLDR: property owner renovating extensively. Neighbors don’t like noise. Not sure how this is a news story except it’s happening in New York City.
I have gone down this road before - but I think this is why many people saw Java as "Write Once, Debug Everywhere". It's just hard to write an abstraction that fronts for so much different native code on different platforms. Something is always going to break. Whereas if you run the same code everywhere, it might actually run everywhere.
Would be interesting to know exactly why you think (even if you know you don't know) unionization are not so good.

So far on HN, I've noticed that people from the US seems to not like the idea at all about unionization while people from EU (me included!) see unionization as something good that protect workers. I do know that efforts around unionization are very strong in Europe, and helpful for the workers. Maybe there was a previously unsuccessful attempt in the US and peoples impression comes from that?
> This is the cost of living in a city.

No, it's not. In Europe, construction and related noise is regulated. This shit would not fly here for long.
In that case, you pay for it with a lower salary.

If that's not an acceptable tradeoff, you can always make your dream indie game on weekends.
I'm fairly sure I've written a book's worth of HN comments. I've seriously considered trying to extract the top-rated ones and weave them into a book.
Everyone worships something. You can worship deity, the State, or yourself.

Those working tirelessly to shut down contrary thoughts and opinions and playing semantics games are doing so with a religious fervor and to redefine social norms to their own worldview.
If you're into this topic, I highly suggest How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong by Jason Schreier, published on Kotaku this week. A deep insight into game development culture, and one particular AAA game. It's a long read (11,000 words), but worth it.

https://kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731964
This will give us servers for deep learning that can have 8 GPUs and a couple of NVMe disks on PCI 4.0 (32 GB/s). With very good inter-GPU I/O and access to NVMe, it will enable commodity servers that are competitive with Nvidia's DGX-1 or DGX2, that include SXM2 (Nvlink with 80GB/s between GPUs).
It runs significantly faster on my iPad than my laptop.
It's because being the top dog feels great, duh.
i work for google and now i'm confused
I think AAA scale in general leads to some of the "suckage" issues since the problems occur in all large productions. With the capital comes risk aversion and to recoup the costs they go more lowest common denominator in addition to coordination issues with large teams and scaling. Even less overtime intense efforts like live action movies show these flaws.

Now they certainly do have unique pathologies related to their "cheap" talent pool churn - the lack of experienced people leads to some shockingly bad mistakes reoccurring, and lack of attention to detail from passion often shows.

Later Civilizations (V and later) for instance often came out with some shoddy AI doing things like pathing algorithms clearly designed before they added the one military unitn one civilian unit per hex limit, spamming absurdly bad trade deals, or deciding the proper thing to do against a technologically advanced power who thanks to game mechanics gives research points for every technology they lack is embargo them over conquest of one militant city-state, making it even harder to catch up.
It runs at native speed on my iPhone. Sounds like your browser has an issue...
When I was in college a few years back I had many colleagues that wanted to get into the game industry. Most all were pretty serious gamers and many seemed to have false expectations of what the industry was like, namely that: Playing Video Games === Creating Video Games. While I'm not one to tell someone what they should or shouldn't do with their careers (hell my mother wanted me to become a lawyer), I always made a point to tell them they should research the industry a bit more before making the leap. I know quite a few that ended up pivoting what field they went into after learning how brutal the gaming industry can be.

Making games might be your dream job, just make sure you are fully aware of the realities of your dream job and decide if you are willing to accept that reality day in and day out.
This doesn't support native high DPI rendering. I think it's rendered at low DPI, and upscaled/blurry on my laptop. Other commenters have stated that it uses canvas.
I'm mid-30s and deleted my Facebook a couple years ago. Although most of my friends and family sympathize with my reasoning, very few have followed in my footsteps. I find that mildly depression.
This comment right here is why I love HN so much. Nowhere else on the internet do I see such civility and humility. Thank you for actively being a part of making this community so wonderful and inclusive.

Not to say that the mods don't work hard at this as well nor that there aren't others who contribute positively here. This is just such a perfect example that I'd like to draw attention to it.
> they have a unique and valuable skill set.

They have a valuable skill set, but making big games takes large groups of testers, tool programmers, texture artists, etc. Who are talented but not unique.

Like movie productions, games depend on a lot of skilled labor. And like movie productions, they tend not to be steady employers. So like film production in the US, it makes a lot of sense to have guilds or unions to protect work situations. Maybe also to create a framework for long term benefits, though I guess that is more debatable.
Really? Even just your version of the story above sounds AWFUL to me.

No, it's not okay to 'experiment' with effecting the outcome of an election, even if they say it did not effect the outcome.
Collective bargaining is the most effective way of "saying no to ridiculous work conditions". Unions are as imperfect as any human institution, but they serve a purpose.
Not unionized since unions cannot seem to stick to protecting my rights and always expands into supporting socialism and meddling with foreign policy.

That said my views on unions have become less negative: as someone pointed out - at least around here the construction companies with highest percentage of unionized workers are generally the most profitable ones year after year.

Why? I can only guess but I guess people work better when they know they are safe and also get a fair pay based on their work.
Had a Chicago landlord that rented me top floor on a brownstone and promptly started construction refacing the entire brick facade. Construction workers wake up pretty early.
No there are usually permitted hrs for construction. In New York City it’s probably 7am.
Chrome's JS engine is optimized for real-word usage.

FF's is not.
Could We Blow Up the Internet?
Show HN: Sell code, make babies I mean $$ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As an enlightened individual as I'm sure you are, we strive to remove personal bias when possible. This includes measuring statistics. Which can take the form of synthetic benchmarks, but also real life tests, like page load times of notoriously bad news sites, or heavy cpu bound tasks like image resizing in the browser.
I remember a million years ago at an arcade, seeing stand-up pods where you wore a VR headset and could play Duke3D
> while extracting value through some kind of exploitation.

In your view, are there ways of "extracting value" that are not "some kind of exploitation". Is "changing the world for the better" incompatible with "extracting value" somehow?
The main problem with the game industry - I believe - is that for a lot of people it's a dream job, which means the supply for people to work in the industry far outweights that of the demand - meaning, if you're not doing crunch time, there's ten others waiting in line to take over. This is I think the problem in a lot of big employers with dubious worker practices - think Amazon, Uber, etc. They get away with it because the people are easily replaced. They can just fire any Amazon worker who even thinks about joining a union. In the gaming industry, they can - and will, and have - replace a voice actor with one that isn't unionized. Because they can. Because if not everyone is in the union, it is powerless. Because if they can offer a job to someone not in the union, who is willing to get underpaid to just have a job, they will.
With respect to the password-creation problem, I find the entropy of the passwords LP creates too low in any case, so I create them from /dev/urandom + base64. I've never had LP fail to recognise these hand-generated passwords.
production isn't the issue, multi-user is the issue.
At least you don't have to deal with NIMBYs.
This is not NIMBYism at all as it has nothing to do with new construction. This is more like a HOA problem; a neighbor who paves their garden, paints in garish colors, or decides to run a car repair garage on their porch. None of this rises to planning but it is slightly annoying. The pools will get built and they'll move on to the next reason to complain.
There's a difference in perception between blasting music for fun versus paying people to landscape.
The golden age of YouTube is over
To be fair I have only really used SQLite for early development stages so haven't investigated workarounds in much detail.
The 16x links will usually get split out to 4x nvme slots, and that's where you're going to get limited by the PCIe bandwidth.
It's not 24/7, it's 8am to probably 5/6pm. I had a building go up literally next door for 2 years. We lost two windows in rooms that have no other natural light. It was annoying, but we dealt with it.
Never heard of these, but matrox impression plus could full 3D for serious CADs (tho without textures I think) for $700.
Probably a sign that doesn't conform to some regulations.
If the engineers are obstinate in acting in bad faith, who consider the pm the enemy, there's only so much a pm can do.
"Only on weekends and the holidays of the politically potent — Christmas and Rosh Hashana, for example, but not Martin Luther King’s Birthday — does it cease."

Why does the author feel obligated to inject race into this story? The author could have said Labor Day instead (which would have been ironic).
The tech industry in general has a bit of a toxic machismo problem, but it seems to be far worse in games. Probably it's coupled to the wider culture there.
Java applets are back?!
That just means they have to pay you for some time after they fired you.

You can still be fired in an instant and be escorted out the door, especially if you have/had access to critical systems
How is that the application creator's fault?

That's a problem with the employer, not the application. Applications do not need to cater to every edge case of humanity.
Exactly.

My dream scenario is to be in a situation like Tarn Adams, who works on a game he loves and lives off donations. Ideally, by that point I'd have enough to sustain myself without donations so that source of stress is gone.

I don't want to work in the AAA game industry, I want to work for myself in the indie game industry on a project that both I and my supporters love.
> Maybe that’s why most AAA games suck these days.

This comment shows lack of historical perspective.

All of these complaints have been hot topics since before the term "AAA game" was invented.

AAA games "suck" (if they do, which the customer base's wallets seem to to think so) because they have gotten too good at making money even against their customers' stated preferences, not because they are bad at anything.
It's more about form than flavour. Two different raviolis can have totally different stuffings, but no reasonable person will confuse a lasagna for a ravioli... although I suppose you could put a ravioli layer inside a lasagna...
First of all, how do they demonstrate that? It's not like you can go back in time and test what a Bay of Pigs 2.0 would have resulted in.

Secondly, you don't have millions of refugees, genocide and an entire generation not in school, in Cuba. So there's that. Venezuela I don't know anything about.
We are hiring :) https://rainforestqa.com/careers
> Everyone worships something.

I don’t think someone following the tenets of Buddhism would worship anything. Correct if me I’m wrong.
That's what it sounds like from the last paragraph.

> And they shit and piss on our streets, block sidewalks, litter profusely and otherwise do whatever they feel like.
This was one of the original selling points for Java back ~2000.
Why discriminate against rich people?

Edit: Yes, my gut feeling was that I would be downvoted for asking this, but it's a genuine question. Thanks for correcting me HN 
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b1970. I remember when it became September Forever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
When I lived in Cedar Park, TX, a neighbor decided to dig a swimming pool. That area has about 18" of limestone 1-2' below the surface. The builders used a backhoe with a jackhammer arm. Fun times.

Also, there was a limestone quarry three or four miles away. You could set your clocks: 10:00 and 2:00, the blasting shockwaves went through.
Now that hurts :-). Java has been pretty amazing for many years. Many Java desktop apps ran poorly because they were written poorly.

I used to give demos of the Swing version of this app 15 years ago, and people would try to convince me that my app was written in C, because a Java app can't run that fast. Those were weird conversations. I'm not even that clever - I just try to write simple code.
CHAdeMO has, IIRC, 4-5× the number of chargers in the US that Tesla has and CCS is probably in the same neighborhood because most are dual or multi standard.

Tesla has the biggest single-provider network, but that doesn't really matter.
And earlier Civilizations had game-breaking exploitable bugs. People have been pining for the mythical good old days since the age of Pliny.
You're trying to stop a tidal wave by standing in front of it instead of addressing the root problem: you have no trust in our systems to not abuse this technology, including law enforcement and the federal government.

Stopping Amazon's poorly implemented facial recognition system won't stop the N start-ups in the space who are doing it better. It won't stop the Chinese government, which is already using much more advanced versions of this technology to police a significant portion of the human population.

Let's say you do manage to stop Amazon from offering this service. Do you think the problem is resolved? Will police departments in the US stop trying to use this technology or will they likely source it from somewhere else with less publicity?
> I agree with this. Having a private corporation that's invested in engagement, which is also headquartered in the US (very far geographically and culturally from some of the places it moderates) be in charge of defining what's right and what's wrong, is and has been a recipe for disaster— let alone the implications it could have around the sovereignty of nations.

What? If Facebook decides it, it's a threat to sovereignity of countries other then the US, but if the USG decides it, it isn't?
I think the estimation accuracy is not the main point nowadays, but instead the simple fact that the viability/rentability of every project matters, and even if there's an up front pile of money to spend (quarterly/yearly budget), there are probably multiple competing ideas on what to spend these - and of course these usually consist of and involve software and its development.

Of course this is why having a low-fluctuating empowered team (project ownership, refactors, etc) can usually deliver changes faster and with lower cost and with greater consistency, than every time doing a new project (which might involve new people who never saw the stack, nor the business domain) to modify something on a system.
Would anyone care if they weren't rich people?
VR Modes Coming to Super Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Switch
> The competition to be a low-paid drone in game development is huge.

That's precisely why unionization is the best course of action. Game development companies aren't threatened if individual developers demand better treatment because they can be replaced by the next starry-eyed young dev seeking prestige and glamour. But if enough of them unionize and collectively bargain for better conditions, the industry has to listen.
Same goes for J2EE, Flash, and a bunch of other technologies. Your focus on ASP.NET seems rather biased.
Software engineering for video games is pretty darn complicated. Surely it must be hard to get hold of the next John Carmack or at least someone remotely close to that. Is demand for good talent really filled here?
You know what happens when you're in a saturated job market and you "grow a spine and say no to ridiculous work conditions" without a union? You get fired.
“Maybe my ignorance is showing with that regard”

I commend you for saying this. Usually people just keep digging in and stick to their previous statement.
Not every employer has the same conditions, and even within a single employer there can be a wide variance of the work conditions (generally based on project and the mid-level management's competency).

The success of a studio does not seem to correlate with how poorly or well they treat their staff.

In CA overtime is always paid for more junior staff (QA, junior artists/designers) as there were a number of high profile lawsuits against games companies back in the early 2000s. For senior staff and most programmers the salaries are (in my experience) competitive with general development work outside of the Bay Area and FAANG space.
While I agree with much of what you said, I don't think we can drop the notion that PR related activity is in shareholders' best interest and use of that ambiguity of motive as a basis that corporations aren't typically acting in their shareholder's best interests. We can look at historical evidence to see how PR activity is typically used in cases we have evidence (the tobacco industry comes to mind, there's many more).

While as an exercise, measuring intention is nearly impossible since determining motive is highly subjective, unless we can read minds (or internal emails/paper trials which are often guarded or intentionally avoided), we can at least look at public evidence and trends that we're aware of.

In today's economy, perceived value reigns supreme over functional and monetary value, and utility takes a back seat. Manipulating perception is highly impactful on most fronts of increasing revenue. Advertising, marketing, branding, the amount of psychology utilized, data mining and tracking (for targeted marketing), etc.--most all of this effort is about manipulating perceived value to consumers by painting an idealized image of a product/service (propaganda)--and it works.

Part of that perceived value manipulation is also painting a picture to the public that your company is "great." I've taken quite a few marketing surveys and you'll find quite a few questions about if you think a company is "good" or "bad." What your opinions are about the company (your perception), very emotionally tied questions.

If you look at historical evidence, you'll see misinformation campaigns everywhere: from the tobacco industry to bottling industries to fossil fuel industries to the lead industries.... all these sort of campaigns have been about shifting public perception in the interest of the business, and therefore, the shareholders. It's not in societies interest (unless you support social darwinism) that we have rampant lung cancer or other cancers caused by lead contact. It's not in the world or societies interest that we pretend global warming isn't an issue when the scientific consensus, the method leading to humanities greatest leaps and discoveries, tells us otherwise.

PR activity exists almost for the sole purpose of keeping the general public and your consumers happy (they also provide product/service information, when it's in their business interest). While not all PR activites are as calculated, most all efforts are to protect and foster growth of a business, and therefore most activity is for the shareholders. If a PR group's activity or business marketing campaign does the opposite and harms revenue, you'll find a lot of those people will lose their jobs. That's quite telling of the motive, at least for me.
Firefox always has lacklustre performance on JS-heavy apps.

That's why I still haven't made the switch despite all the claims of "it's just as fast as Chrome in benchmarks!"
Judge warns Elon Musk that even “big fish” need to follow court orders
A good PjM won't wrestle anything; they will measure.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...
Yes, the employer is at fault in that case. But the application creator is as well, because they erected the barrier of an inaccessible app.
Materials separate by MACROSCOPIC density. However, heavy elements can be chemically bound in light materials. Uranium, for example, is highly concentrated in the Earth's crust compared to the mantle.
It's not happening in San Francisco?
They could, and after that time you fall back on 'unemployment wage' by the government. Which is less than what you'd normally earn, but by the time that happens you probably have another job already.
If you earn $120k a year but happened to invest $100k in a brownstone or apartment many years ago that is now worth $3-5mm, you're rich!
Would you like to not have to hear that?