skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Engineer Bias – and why Valve is doomed if they don't restructure
I find it a bit crazy that despite a near 0% track record in companies creating new and interesting IP, more companies haven't picked up on what Epic is exploiting.

Kids are flocking to Epic not just because of the regular content updates, but because Epic has enough sense to realize that art, aesthetics, pop-culture, and theme are important.

There is an old saying in creative fields; you never want to make it before you have the skills to create in a consistent manner.

This happens most in the music industry, a band will stumble upon a sound purely by chance, then a song will go plat, but when it's time to create more "they just can't make anything as good as the first album."

Engineers, like average people, only have a couple killer ideas in them because creativity is a muscle that needs to be trained.

Fact is: engineers refuse to believe that creatives spent the same staggering amount of time honing their skills - because that means engineers possess about as much creativity as we do OOP skills.

As a private company, Epic was free to break hold of the incestuous lateral promotion cycle. Instead of promoting the guy who spent his entire life coding, they hired the guys who spent their entire lives working on art. A good designer needs to live and breathe art/culture. But again, with these skills you can't just backload them any easier than I can backload the skills needed to build engines.

I see Activision-valve in the decade if they don't make some pretty radical changes. They need to return to making genre games, and need to drop this "only the top of the top will do"

Imagine if music functioned like Valve . . . Nothing but 21 pilots, Imagine Dragons, Beeber, and Lil Yachty because they are at the top of the charts, and obviously the best, right?
If I'm understanding this glorious hack correctly, this allows Nix to determine if Chrome has an update available:

1) Nix network access is only allowed for things where you guarantee the hashes of what's output. This is generally used to do things like "download http://example.com/release-1.2.tar.xz, it will have SHA1 93f3025c7802a1a11e4f16186089b583ef1095b8"

2) There are known pairs of strings that have equivalent SHA1 hashes.

3) To determine if a fetch would succeed in a "pure" way, write a network-accessing function that will return a "true" or "false" string with identical hashes, then you can use that (supposedly deterministic) string to return a (nondeterministic!) True or False to the caller.

4) This is used to run a command like `curl -s -L -f -I https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-of... `. If the command succeeds, we know we can use this version of the browser to update.

I don't know how it reads the channel version data without running into the same determinism issues.

Here's the latest update to the hack, moving from MD5 to SHA1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/ed8f3b5fa3cebfc3662a...
I believe it means (from using their iOS version) you can save your connections, keys, etc, and access the same configs no matter what OS you use.
15.3 mil to 11.1 mil/day on SEMrush.
please tell us the amount of time it takes! It must be an incredibly small time, but no one in the discussion or the brief abstract did I see it.
Thank you for linking this paid article. GCP on pair with AWS what a joke...
Imagine transition from MS Word 98 to Google Docs that is what we did to Putty.
You have five commands you need to know: zpool, zfs, imgadm, vmadm and man. The rest are the same applications as on GNU/Linux. I don't know of any other system where five commands suffice to run it.
How did you manage to get free assets for OpenTTD?
It's a barrier for including many of the listed games in, say, Debian.
The free Stadia tier is 1080p at 60fps. Ctrl+F "Stadia Base" at stadia.com.
OK thanks, I added it
what are your thoughts on League of Legends?
> This article honestly read like something out of a bullshit self-help book.

There's a reason for that. That reason isn't that what he's telling you is largely bullshit, because much of it is true enough to be useful at a first approximation (although one could argue that some points aren't a fully articulated picture of reality -- in particular I'd assert he's mixed the concerns of status and values and that's going to make certain muddled conclusions easier).

It's that part of what he's doing here is in fact playing a version of the status games he defines, partly on a direct level (wealth creators are high status on by a certain measure of values, critics are just downers for competing values into the ring), partly on a meta level as the narrator who is telling this revealing story to an eager audience who, if they take this advice, will also almost certainly be successful because THIS is the mindset of SUCCESS and of course there is no survivorship bias.

It's pretty standard if quality work in that respect, which is why it has a ring of aspirational self-help.

One good response is to learn from what he's doing as well as carefully weighing the merits and limits of what he's directly saying.
Why do retailers use mail-in rebates instead of just lowering the price?
Just as you realize I was suggesting an oversupply of examples.
Here is a book from the soviet era, about Venus

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23302599

"Тайна утренней зари"/"The Mystery of the Dawn"/"Taina Luceafărului".

As for their space program, I do believe they had almost similar investment for Venus and Mars, just Venus was more approachable and the missions were more fruitful(?). They canceled some Mars and Venus programs in time. Some wikipedia page about USSR space program:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program
Not their passwords, tho. I am not trying to be difficult here, just trying to understand the reasoning behind leaving the passwords stored in plain text.
The thing with actix's web stuff is that things like these are just not well documented yet.

I also had no idea about this macro until I was digging through documentation for something else.
I like it for the same reason. It's super nice when your doing some oss development, and have to ask something.

If you head into the xorg channel, you will find yourself talking to all the people who were also attending conferences about xorg 5-10 years ago. Those are exactly the people I want to talk to, when I have questions about xorg.
>Having said that, if Google wants to delight customers

It'd never happen, "delight" is an Apple principle.
CO2 has carbon in it. Strip off the oxygen to breathe, the rest makes very strong building material.

Attach hydrogen, you get rocket fuel. Or plastic. Bind in some nitrogen, you can have proteins. There is probably silane lower down; send down a balloon to collect it, for silicon. Or all the way to the surface, to collect rocks.

Nuke power is totally practical there; no shielding needed, or worry about leaks; you just hang it a mile below your living-space balloons.
Also rivalry is favored over collaboration in our not species-appropriate economy and society.
The lifetime hosting was clearly never going to work. Even when they launched it, anyone with any sense - and me - knew it.

But it got them cash and publicity, and didn’t kill them when they cancelled it, so, on balance, it made their business possible
This still has absolutely nothing to do with a nightly compiler vs security of an application.
It 'keeps coming up' because it's a strawman people love to punch. People literally only bring up this concept in order to tear it down - because it was only created in order to be torn down.

Nobody actually argues for 'trickle-down' policies. It's a sneer term signifying a deliberately oversimplified version of right-wing economic policies. It's not a real position people hold and push for.

I guess it's a lot easier and more fun to feel righteous attacking strawmen than it is to do the work of interacting with real ideas with serious intellectual backing and real influence.
There's a huge effort on the documentation part recently, and the community is kind. Any specific pain points?
This would be very relevant if Valve made games. Valve doesn't make games, they make a game store. Their competition is more like gamestop and gog, than Capcom/Ubisoft/Acti-Blizzard/EA etc...

Maybe now that they are entering the VR market we might see some VR experiences from them again. I always wondered what the hundreds of engineers they employ do since it has been more than a decade since Portal, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress etc came out.

EDIT: They didn't even bother to keep their source engine updated and appealing to use. Source 1 was used by many big titles back in the day. And Source 2 was was really really big among modders. Lost opportunities, but seeing how well Steam did, why would they bother.

I believe they could have eaten both Unity's (keep updating source engine) and Discord's (adding built-in chat/video to steam) lunch with ease, if they tried to do so back then.

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Blizzard is in a similar position. Starcraft 2 kinda failed to pick up as much steam as the first one did.
Diablo 3 was... umm.. remember the real money auction house? And of course they kept milking WoW for as long as they could (predictable). What comes after? Oh right, licensing popular Chinese mobile games and rebranding them as "Diablo" to be released in the west. Mama Activision is making deals with companies like Fromsoft for being the distributor of refreshing games like Sekiro. It's all a big strategic play.

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I kinda envy and admire companies like Rockstar games. They enter a period of a 7 year silence, and come out of it releasing Red Dead Redemption 2, which for all the criticism it has gotten, is fantastic on all levels. Technical and artistic alike.
What restrictive policies ruins your experience on freenode?
I use freenode all the time and have not noticed anything unusual.
God tell me they check len(bytes) as well..
Much better: the air at normal pressure is much denser, so ordinary breathing air supports a balloon.
"25 is not young"

really it depends on the person's fitness & genetics. its just a number. I know people who are 23-27ish, they either look like 17 year olds or 39 year olds.
Book subtitles are getting longer because of SEO
If they did it willfully, sure. But even then, I'd still prefer paying them $50 then losing access to basically everything.
That was actually was cooler than I thought it would be.
I'd love a screenshot or video or gif or something. I'm on mobile at the moment and I can't try this out. And I totally understand that it would have to be a camera pointed at a monitor. That's fine.
CPython Bindings for Clojure
What you're saying is that video will cease to be a useful tool for exposing flawed-yet-entrenched viewpoints for what they are. If you have any idea of the role expository media has played in civil rights and anti-war efforts, this should terrify.
Don’t miss the “view full essay” link. A user in the comments mentions a different take, worth a read as well.
Automatic mouse mover: Minimalistic Go library/app to prevent mac from sleeping
فيد اوت لمشاركة الفيديو والافلام والمسلسلات
The torrenting community is on it. I was getting some help setting up software on a seedbox there yesterday in fact.
i'm just trying to highlight some important factors beyond debt ratios that tell the story of an economy and quality of life for its participants: education levels, trade policy, portability and reliability of health insurance, population growth trends, murder rates, etc. we are "the new Japan" in only a very rough sense. i guess we might say we're the new Italy and the new Portugal and the new France, too? IDK.
I think you are so right.
Society seems to think that how children turn out is fully the result of the actions of parents. Whilst this is correct to some extent, in most cases from the early teens children are distinct individuals who will make their own decisions and mistakes. I think this is even more true now than it was when I was a child, the diversity of information and views they have access to pretty much ensures that there would view will diverge from that of their parents.

As a parent, you can provide an example of behaviour and whilst the child is young provide restrictions and discipline as necessary, but beyond a point, your work is done and it's up to them.
Thank you for the quick response. Also, Is it possible to strip down the memory usage as well? Because for 5 ssh sessions the memory usage along with core app was standing at 300M+. https://imgur.com/a/muh1zTs
Notion.so?
> - The downloaded COM file is almost 64k

I don't know how you did that, but now I've downloaded it and I get:

ls -l invaders.com
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user group 518 Jun 7 00:00 invaders.com

The boot sector version is:

ls -l invaders.img
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user group 512 Jun 7 00:00 invaders.img

The .com file is bigger because it has "more features" -- it allows one to "exit" the game, and in the com version it doesn't have to be less or equal of 512 bytes to fit, the boot sector version has that limitation.

I also see that even the first commit had both the .com and the .img 512 bytes:

9e7101f
BIN +512 Bytes invaders.com
BIN +512 Bytes invaders.img

I was also able to configure a virtual machine to boot from invaders.img (512 bytes) as a "floppy disk image."
I don't work as an SRE, but isn't that covered by providing engineers physical access to secure facilities in the absolute worst case?

The article states:

> The defense in depth philosophy means we have robust backup plans for handling failure of such tools, but use of these backup plans (including engineers travelling to secure facilities designed to withstand the most catastrophic failures, and a reduction in priority of less critical network traffic classes to reduce congestion) added to the time spent debugging.
IRC needs to evolve to meet the standards of now. Which means, make it more easily accessible, like easy as opening a website.

And two, I feel there should just be a single network. Either that or make it easy to explore other networks. The kids these days are not going to bother understanding or picking and choosing which network to go.

It's got to be super simple.
Clive Palmer was elected to the House of Reps but had sway over a number of senators from his party. I live in that electorate and it was a shocker how so many Labor and possibly Green votes went to Palmer. Good example of how naive tribalism such as always voting the opposition party last can go very wrong.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/guide/fair...

The damage he contributed to by supporting the repeal of Rudd's emission trading scheme and the mining tax was right up there with Trump's rollback of EPA standards and attacks on renewable energy. He promptly retired and went back to his mining interests once he got what he wanted.

His reappearance at the last election was bizarre and pointless, but may have contributed to the Liberals looking likely to only need to deal with Jacqui Lambie to pass any legislation in the Senate.
It is stunning that this concept emerges as something physical in the form of an event horizon.

'Dark stars' have been around as a concept a lot longer than black holes.
Why don't we just switch to the full essay. URL changed from https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/man-becomes-t.... Thanks!
set up systems that take money out of your bank account and into investment vehicles (people have suggested a few in this thread) right when your paycheck arrives. Leave a pre-set amount in your bank account to pay your credit card bills, rent etc.

Usually retrieving those amounts from investment vehicles is painful, so you'll be forced to watch your spending, and perhaps budget.
But at a greater multiple!
Funnily enough I did a similar thing - I was given a list of players with a "point score" and a "price", and I had to choose the best team I could get. One goal-keeper from a set of N, a couple of forwards, a couple of defenders, etc.

The solution my program "evolved" was the best in the company.

https://steve.fi/Software/Football/
I would think glass is easy to break under heavy vibration or worse. How is that concern handled?
What I also like about Excel is the easy way of making your own Form for entry
Is the implication of this article that people should be having kids to avoid loneliness? Because that's a bit of a twisted reason to have kids IMHO.

"Low on friends? Have kids! They're pretty much required to be your friends." Yikes.
What in the Hell Was Google Wave Trying to Be Anyway? – Gizmodo UK
"Atmospheric pressure" is basically "total mass of air on top of us, per surface area". So it doesn't (directly) depend on temperature.

Edit: Sorry, should be "total weight of air". My physics is rusty.
Canadian Trying American Snacks: Dakota Style Salt and Vinegar Kettle Chips
They are designed for a 1 million mile lifetime (and 500k mike battery lifetime currently but this may improve). So that’s not a problem.
What if I'm already doing that, and the CO2 emissions are still going up every year?

What if the feedback loop is causing a run away effect?

I feel as an individual, mostly helpless. You say buy local but most of the things your suggesting actually cost more (like buying local and becoming vegetarian).
The first step of solving the problem of being "a depressed man-child, living on grant money and parental support" is to recognize the problem. You did that.

Fixing the income source will help. Note that the women will be looking at long-term prospects, so being on a path to near-future graduation with a viable degree is about as good as actually having a good job. Since you are "supposed to be graduating next week", you are probably have a decent status right now. The better ones are wondering if you can reliably support a family for decades, not if you can buy them toys today.

There isn't much physical aspect of dating for most of the people who are serious about starting a family. For those people, that stuff still waits for after the wedding. Suggesting otherwise would be a red flag for them, and you might want to view it the same way. If you can get yourself to honestly view it that way, then you have a legit answer to any questions they may have about your experience.
This makes it a good thing, doesn't it? Cocaine is healthier than crack.
Majority of our users are hobbyists and novices
> The fact that you have to pay full-price for games AND rely on a cloud service makes this a nonstarter for me.

I'd say it's not an issue. Why should cloud service equal subscription (renting)? Imagine a game that uses too much computational power to run on any local PC (a game using some complex AI that requires a cluster of servers for example). Cloud service is a good target for it. Why can't it be offered with "pay once, play as much as you want" approach? If it's just for pushing more pixels per second, then I agree - there is no need for cloud service for that.
Out of those I only have substantial experience working with Superset. We replaced Superset for one of our biggest client a few months ago. We built a ton of features in the process. My take was that they ended up meddling with the user's query which raised issues with SQL injection and performance. For example filters only going on the end of the query.

In Kato filters can be replaced anywhere. Plus we offer a ton of integration and data manipulation features. One of the biggest things that the client really liked over Superset is the ability to set up drilldowns where when you click on a bar chart on any graph you can see further details about that bar chart in a table, or any other graph. And this drilldown can go however many levels deep. We can link different reports from entirely different datasources with drilldown. I don't think that's available in any of those mentioned above and it completely changes the user experience.
shame they didn't stockpile but I guess once you start stockpiling, its admitting you didn't mean to do START after all.
Humans from the POV of Aliens
U-Tech Electronics
Tesla cars are no longer just for the wealthy. TCO over five years for a Model 3 is lower than for a Honda Accord.
Great list! I was surprised to see that wesnoth is not tagged as playable though!
>Not sure where you're getting this idea.

The amount of smog observed overseas. Just reading the news.
Government stats for Japan are here[1]. While there is a stigma around suicide here (particularly families wanting a death to be 'accidental'), I don't think it's common enough to really affect the statistics.

To quote the source:
"For men, the most common method is hanging (首つり, 69.3%), followed by jumping (飛降り, 8.8%), and suffocation by burning charcoal or a similar substance (練炭等, 7.3%), and for women the most common method is hanging (59.8%), followed by jumping (14.2%) and drowning (入水, 6.3%)."

For both sexes, jumping appears to be significantly more common for children under 19 than other groups. Train jumping (飛込み) is much less common than you might think, but is common for the "age undermined" (不詳) group (men 14.3%, women 42.9%), presumably because the remains are hard to identify.

[1] https://www.mhlw.go.jp/wp/hakusyo/jisatsu/18/dl/1-6.pdf (page 30)
I never used Termius but I used similar SSH apps on my iPhone which did the trick for me.

What I'm curious about is, what is Termius monetization strategy? From what I can tell, it's 100% free?
FWIW when I asked the "what's Joyent all about" question I never expected or hoped this would become a "let's blame Bryan Cantrill for random shit" flamefest. I'm not sure where all of that is coming from and I'm sorry if somehow I triggered all that.

You've been a great example to me and many others, in doing open source, in taking a principled stance (even if I subtly disagree with some of your principles) and also in showing that yes, it's totally possible to found a company with an incomprehensible business model, grow it, have it contribute lots and lots to awesome open source, and somehow despite all the free work and the incomprehensibilities, flip it for a profit. One day I hope to do the same and all of HN will be like "huh?"
Towards Federated Learning at Scale: System Design
Have you tried heating blanket?
So...wealth is profiting off other people’s labor. I swear, can someone give my honorary MBA now?
Federated Learning: Collaborative ML Without Centralized Training Data
At first glance there are free market options. 1) Used electric; 2) Cheaper electric; 3) Lease; 4) Ride hailing services. Note option 1 includes used Teslas which will become more and more plentiful in the future.

The problem is so many gas cars are going to be dumped on the market that they are going to become dirt cheap to the individual consumer, while the external costs spread to everyone will be more and more burdensome. That’s where regulation will be needed.
If it is to be run self hosted on a RPi how will you solve the problem of being behind a NAT router?

I recently tried NextCloud and was unable to configure my router so that I could access it from outside the LAN. It seems that my ISP (Telenor, Norway) is making it difficult, whether intentionally or not I don't know.
It's amazing what you can show with a little creative book keeping.
Well, it is if you are deaf.
The cheap way to return more complex data than a boolean is to return more booleans -- i.e. split the version number up in bits and return them one by one. Not saying you should do this though :p
That seems heavily female biased. It's more realistic that 1/100 men is right for a woman and 1/100 women is right for a man, but the woman will at least meet a 100 men whereas the man will only meet 10 women. It would explain the amount of sexless young men.