skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The early days of Facebook chat where god awful, with tons of missed messages and things not syncing within the web and 3rd party clients. AIM (and even Yahoo and MSN) were over a decade ahead of that garbage before FB eventually caught up with having a messaging system that didn't suck ass.

In fact most things Facebook did originally it did poorly: poor quality photo storage (Flickr offered high quality or even original quality for a fee), garbage messaging, etc. It eventually caught up after it got big, because everyone was already using it .. and all the other platforms lost market share or became niche.
Fires in Brazil
I don't like sleeping more than eight hours, unless I'm completely sleep deprived. Even then, I'll automatically wake up after about eight hours. This has been the case for as long as I can remember, including times of extremely intense mental work, like a compressed exam week at university. The exceptions was when I did manual labour on a construction site for a few weeks.

I'd get home, eat, shower, and pass out, and sleep for ten or more hours. I wanted to do some reading or watch series but I couldn't keep my eyes open.

Maybe I would've gotten used to it at some point. But the experience was unlike anything else I've gone through.
Yeah - I don't think the games even look that bad given it's isometric etc.

Maybe I'm biased having played the original Avernum games when I was a kid though.
Facebook is pushing Instagram to earn its keep
If you like that sort of thing, try doing similar code for the Ackermann function [1]. In a certain sense that can be made semi-formal, if you can do this sort of thing for the Ackermann function, then you can do it for almost anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_function
Sure you could write gibberish for five minutes but why would you waste your time doing that?
Eh, i don't really think the art is what made Braid interesting, or even contributed to that. Honestly, I think in my case it may have even detracted from my enjoyment of it a little because it felt so out of place with the gameplay in some subconscious way I'm unable to adequately describe.

Besides, ask Jon how much he spent on assets for it. It is clear that Jeff is uninterested in spending a ton of money on a portion of the final product that he doesn't really think is that important.
Answer: No. It talks about that in the article.
The restrictions on freedom of speech, etc in the UK during WWII would easily be called facists today, and they are entirely incompatible with the US constitution.

I would also argue that rationing in general is incompatible with a free country. If necessary add a fair tax that is ear-marked to deal with global warming and which ofsets the damage. No reason to add more bureaucracy.
Do Apple make a sleeve for the card? I think there’s a market here for a 29$ sleeve.
Conspiracy of people being on holiday?
This contradicts my understanding of meal times. "Three meals a day" didn't really start until the industrial revolution [0]. In medieval times you ate when you got food.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20243692
Still looking for the Spear of Destiny
The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from Ceos on How to Lead and Succeed
by Adam Bryant
> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10626176-the-corner-offi...
This is about an insincere as Google's lazy abandoned efforts to do something about bringing in end to end encryption for email following its exposure as being involved in PRISM.
Spell check was a godsend for improving my spelling. I don't have as many errors now,but I would stop at every error,and retry the word over and over until I got it. Sometimes I wouldn't be able to figure it out and have to right click to see the suggestion, but it all worked to improve my spelling. Similar but less effective was grammar improvements.
That's what it says, and No, 7 hours for that distance is not particularly fast. Of course it doesn't say what the terrain is like.
In my read of the situation, Google's ads dominate because of their network. Other ad suppliers can't put their ads into Google search results, and it would be hard to build a network of display advertisers as big as Google's.

I wouldn't mind a shake up in the display network side of things. "Carbon" ad network is a great example of what can come out of a niche, well managed ad network and people choose them because they are present where the eyeballs for their demographic are. Like putting motor oil adverts on a racetrack. You don't have to track people around for those types of networks to work.
(usually) log transform your positive data
One problem with this is the exact type of person who would think to do this is probably the type of person we need more of. An Idiocracy will be even worse for the environment.
No. They were created by the individual actions of some billinos of users who (like me) subcribed to those problems (not regarded as such at the time) due to - i will agree - the actions of a few company heads / marketing gurus. But just as nobody was pointing a gun to my head at the time, nobody is pointing a gun to my head now: "Thank you for your services, I think I 'll be leaving now"
Perhaps irrelevant, but I found the original message posted to reddit, and it ended with:

> Please don't take this the wrong way, I know it has been a contention for years, and you are probably very aware of it. I just think you could be reaching a lot more new fans and I feel sad about the lost opportunity.

which was (IMO unfairly) omitted from the original post. Totally goes against the authors suggestion that "What fascinates me here is that the guy seems to think he is telling me news".
Progress in adaptive metalens tech at Harvard lab
> Yet some small developers have managed to build visually stunning games,

That's Voegl's point 3. There, he admits he probably could develop a more impressive-looking single game, but doing so would make him dependent on the freelancer responsible for the art style (risky) or on paying much more for other art to match the style (expensive).
At least one of those games--Brigadier--failed so hard that the team fell apart. The others don't take into account that for every one of those successes there are ten or twenty failures.

JV isn't trying to be a runaway success, he's trying to not be a failure. I don't quite get why that's so hard for folks here to parse.
YouTube autoplays just fine in firefox. What did you mean?
The US is not like European countries, we are bigger and have different issues. I keep hearing people rave about countries like Denmark or Sweden where everything is supposedly so great. Is paying the total amount over again in tax on a new car really all that great?

I could retire right now at 46 if the US adopted govt. run healthcare. Thing is, I would feel extremely guilty about pushing that level of tax burden onto everyone.

We in the US forfeit ~50% of our wages in taxes--Federal income tax, federal payroll tax for social security, state, local, sales tax (8%!), property tax, tax on vehicles ("license tabs"--little fucking stickers that if you don't have them the police harass you). Some states like NY have tax people going around all the time fucking with everyone over piddly nonsense like not having a fire extinguisher in a commercial truck. Other states, like NC, have taxes on things like personal watercraft and off road motorcycles. Tax, tax, tax. In addition to taxes, places like NY have "surcharges" and "surtaxes" which are just additional taxes added after the total amount plus tax got calculated. Americans are already tax slaves. Slavery never got abolished, it got extended to all.

How much more tax would we need for universal healthcare? Would I be up to 80%? 90%? Where does this end? Would there be any amount of my income I would be allowed to keep?
What? You want them to waste all that oil?

Yeah; the analogy does work.
Also edX now requires payment for the ability to submit and check homework.
Thanks for the information and indeed I looked at Kata again. But just it didn't click like the way LXD did. I found with LXD the image repository are so easy, deployment my team can re-use whatever they learned for bare-metal and virtual machines and last but not the least its performant with nice tooling.

Initially when I started using had few networking issues due to different support in GCP, AWS and Azure. But now my team is proficient enough to use it even on them. Also the constant updates Stephen and his team did is fantastic.

If you have time please look into weekly updates and play with LXD. It works great for reasonable sized container cluster which covers most of the startups.

They won't be good for big google size of kind yet without more tooling like Kubernetes.
It's probably covered in the articles, but Cliff changed how everyone approached multi day ultra marathons.
I was a kid when he hit the news and didn't appreciate what a legend he was. I only recently read about what he did and was blown away. Read the articles.
The president isn't the president of “the people” but of the states. It says so right there on the tin: “President of the United States.”

Which means the president is and should be, elected by representatives of the states. The House of Representatives should be the only federal office directly voted on by “the people.” If that were the case, especially eliminating the direct election of senators, you’d see a much less divisive, gridlocked system where governance is more about public service and less about these election soap operas.
I feel like nobody understands what Turing completeness really means anymore, i.e. why this is kinda amusing but also not really remarkable.

Back in the day people did ray tracing by hand on calculators, in PostScript (yes, the document description language used by printers), ... ray tracing is really simple, a basic exercise in vector maths, so we should expect to see it everywhere.
I don't think "army cuts down tree to provide sight line and protect own troops at border crossing" can be described as "gardening job".
the drawback is the same as with all the others NUMA solution, the whole thing (mmu, os, code, controllers etc) needs to be aware of where the data comes and go because moving something from one bank to another stalls the compute pipeline for a lot, which makes compilers and thread scheduling and pagination etc a complex affair.
Well, he cares a lot about story. It takes time to care.

If he also cares about art more, then the other thing he cares about, namely; his one family, are denied that time.

Everything costs something.
New NeurIPS Workshop: ML Retrospectives
I don't disagree with you there are political problems, but this is a measurement problem.

>The fallacy is looking at the sticker price of homes without considering the externalities.

If productivity had truly quadrupled since 1950, it doesn't matter what the externalities of homes are; not even the fact that they're still made by hand. If it takes X worth of labor and materials to build a house at t0 and t1 and societal productivity has gone from y to 4y between t0 and t1, there should be some large fraction of the population at t1 who can afford a house on 1/4 of t0 hours. There isn't. You can't even say that modern houses are better in any sense than 1950s houses; they mostly are not (energy efficiency maybe; even that is dubious).

I think the thing we have to come to accept as a society is that productivity and efficiency increases are a mirage.
Slitherin – Solving the Classic Game of Snake with AI (Part 2)
I started using Android with the Orange San Francisco, as it was branded in the UK, "underneath" it was the ZTE Blade. It was a very cheap device, but you could unlock the bootloader, install a custom recovery and a custom ROM, it was great. The custom ROMs had much better performance than the standard software, removing all the bloatware that the operator included and you could upgrade to a later version of Android. It came with 2.2, iirc and you could get 2.3. There was a massive community surrounding that particular device on Modaco, similar to XDA Developers I guess, but run by a handful of people (or one guy, not sure) for those who aren't aware of it. I started programming when I was 13 or 14. The school I went to was pretty good in this regard, or maybe that was standard, but they taught Visual Basic as part of the IT classes. In my spare time I got a copy of Borland Delphi from a magazine and started hacking on Object Pascal. I created a GUI for an encryption library, for absolutely no reason other than why not and I even got some responses about it. I was browsing Sourceforge, Freshmeat and Slashdot around this time, to be featured anywhere there would be amazing. Well soon after this I completely gave up on programming for no other reason than I was a teenager and probably became more interested in Extreme Metal more than anything else. Android and the hacking communities on Modaco and XDA Developers got me back into programming. Early Android was a place where you could modify and experiment to your hearts content. I mean even back then you had to get the right device, i.e. don't get a Samsung. As time went on, then came along CyanogenMod, to be honest it was probably there when I had my ZTE Blade, it probably wasn't supported and I hadn't heard of it yet. But it was truly a golden age, maybe not secure. As time has gone on, Google has locked down Android with every release, it has become homogenised and now they are now naming Android Q, Android 10. Alongside Windows 10 and mac OS X (10), just how corporate and unoriginal can you get. I get that Google is a company and Android is essentially a product, I guess all I'm saying is, I just miss those early wild heady days.
Wow, I've never heard of that dude before. What a legend!

Didn't sleep. Didn't even know there was a prize!
It means that in Europe universal healthcare is almost a solved problem, according to WHO (World Health Organization) 6 out of the first 10 and 16 out of the first 20 highest ranked healthcare systems are in Europe.

source: https://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper30.pdf
You skipped the last part.

Personally I am not happy going down the route of weighting the value of humans, but if we don't come up a solution to global warming that is politically actionable, somebody will start arguing that the west should do something about the rise of China and India. If we can only support 4 billion people on the planet, nobody will want to be in the group that has to be killed.
Sorry to nitpick, but it is spelled: Colombia (with an "o", not a "u").

EDIT: Forgot to add: Can you cite a piece that substantiates the claim of these precursors being routed via Colombia?
That's a problem, because we don't actually use "perfect" regulators for any system.
I'm very willing to believe those things don't even exist.

So, it may be a correct proof, but it's a useless one.
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Illustration of Binomial Coefficient
Vogel's using the level of graphic quality that work for him, but that doesn't excuse the inconsistent art direction and mixed art styles.
> good art doesn't necessarily need a lot of money or resources

Having spent at least as much money, out of pocket, on a game that never shipped as JV spends to ship something consistent that feeds his family, I can assure you that this is not the case. Art is far-and-away the most expensive part of any game that wants mass market appeal. It just is. It doesn't matter if you're using a bunch of freelancers from countries that lost all their vowels along the way, it's still expensive.

The solution, then, is to build a long-tail audience that'll buy your stuff because it scratches that itch, even if it doesn't to people who are just window shopping. You know--what JV has done.
Well, you're right!

It's not entirely solved yet, we still have to die sometimes...
I really didn't expect this sort of Y Combinator, especially on this page. Still very interesting read, because I didn't know it before and at the same time it shed a bit of light on naming of this company.
Why should Google explain their actions to you? Respect their privacy.
my session:

so i've been trying to use this dangerous writing application for like 10 minutes now and it's been a valuable source of inspiration and a little bit of stress as well. i know that if i stop writing the whole text will be lost and because of that, i am constantly forced to keep writing whatever comes to my mind, and since nothing is coming to my mind right now, i am writing about this very same writing process that is unfolding as i go. i have just stalled a bit and the text started to blur which startled me a little bit and i found the red+blurry effect quite amusing. i believe they have used the red color because it usually means danger/blood stuff for us human beings. i can write very slowly and it doesn't blur, so it's not linked to typing speed. you just need to be consistent and don't stop for too much.

i believe this kind of tool is amusing but i am a little worried about what kind of usage would i get from this in a coding endeavour like developing a system or something. i surely have to stop for several minutes at a time to think about solutions or designs for my code and having it wipe out everything if i stall surely sounds counterproductive, altough i wouldn't know until i actually tried. maybe if the code was wiped out the design would still be in my head and i'd be able to write it down again in a more concise (and revised) manner, potentially improving my structure and forcing me to rethink about everytime it gets wiped out... so yeah, there is a big chance this might even surprise me as a tool to be used in a coding environment. still, the idea sounds really silly, specially when you consider huge files. maybe it could wipe out since your last git commit
Not all constrained programming is demoscene related; IMO demoscene is chiefly a social phenomenon, about competition at gatherings.
If productivity goes up but wages are flat, the productivity doesn't help the person who's being more productive.
Mexico has the worst productivity of the listed countries and the longest workweek:

https://time.com/4621185/worker-productivity-countries/

For a large population working longer gives no obvious benefit.

It might work for you and your family! But globally, for any general population, you can't squeeze out more than the 7-8 hours of productive work per day and for even some fields this is a stretch.

So, even if there is the cultural need to appear ultra dedicated, there is very little evidence of any benefits to that behaviour pattern.

Lots of cultures have their way of doing things, but if it does not make sense, cultures can change.

I don't see how a cultural homogeinity is necessary to respond to cross cultural economic facts.

But the article was not about working longer! It was about being flexible when and how you want your employees to perform the added value function you've hired them to do.

I fail to see even less how cultural homogeinity would be a major factor in this.

You are quite right of course that cultural norms affect lots of things. But I don't know why they would block employers from being flexible (flexible does not mean less demanding).
Better Ways to Predict Who’s Going to Quit
What Will the Moon Landing Mean to the Future?
Show HN: Alpaca, a Compiler for Alfred Workflows
People do come out of nowhere occasionally. But as somebody noted above (and I agreed), the times given are not on their face especially impressive.

Of course there are all kinds of factors affecting the likelihood of the best making it to the championship--injuries, or a bad day in the qualifying rounds, to name a couple.
The Pig War
That list seems false in at least one case.

You don't need to show ID to vote at a polling place in Australia. And you don't need ID to enrol to vote.
I have always wanted to be able to write Alfred workflows exclusively in a text editor. In order to do that, I built Alpaca, a compiler for Alfred workflows.

Instead of using the Alfred GUI for authoring workflows, an Alpaca project defines the workflow in an "alpaca.yml" file, and then the Alpaca command line interface is used to compile the project to a working Alfred workflow.

Only a tiny bit of Alfred functionality is implemented at this point, but I wanted to release something simple for v1.
Working with purchased assets is not so simple; there is no consistent art direction when you buy things from different sources. This usually requires an artists to do a pass and make all these disparate assets work together.

Simply saying "just buy cheap assets" completely misses the point here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjVugzSR7HA for the curious.
And if they don't abide by that? Then what? Who's going to enforce it, and through what mechanism?
Justice Department indicts 80 individuals in business email scam bust
Left the US because of disgust related to this topic, but will vote absentee against him of course.
Landscape with Beavers
I do agree that Queen's Wish looks worse, FWIW. (I think the perspective is maybe not great.) But I don't know if this is actually a significantly higher budget game, though, rather than just one where he has the capital up front. Kickstarter-as-preorder is kinda what it's turned into for games. As such, I totally get the intense focus on not eating the seed corn.
> and then a pile of comments that ask those exact same questions.

It would be nicer if the remarks in this thread were presented as questions, rather than absolute convictions...

I'm impressed that out of everyone who read the article none have lost their nerve and started responding to every zomg-bad-art-hire-an-art-director poster asking which indy game company they've been profitably running for the past twenty years. Or maybe it's only me feeling that compulsion... :)
> Civil disobedience is the only historically effective way to defeat a modern state

No. Ordinary civil disobedience will do utterly nothing. You need a certain amount of violence - just look at France, only after the riots were utterly massive the government caved. The alternative is a massive general strike, which has fallen out of favor in modern times as many jobs are easily replaceable and people are afraid of getting fired.
It is not a norm for non-professionals to provide 2 weeks notice. Leaving a good service job without providing notice will have no ramifications on your food service worker reputation.

I routinely ask my perspective boss for references. I also routinely ask for financial data before accepting a job. It has never caused even an eyebrow to be raised.
My wonder is why it shouldn't be powered by the sugar in the blood just like every other organ. That's where a real miracle will lie. I understand issues with coagulation on silicon parts.
I don't. You and I agree.
A balanced summary of the Go language
I put all of the references, slides, and questions I got here: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/
If "stunting developing world growth" is too much of a cost to endure for your cause, then this isn't a WW2 level emergency. In WW2, the US deemed the ends to be important enough to kill innocent German/Japanese cogs and civilians by the millions.
There are people who stand ready to deny that cartoon too, though... :/ I mean, not even common sense insurance talk works on these guys. Here, kitty, kitty, insurance can save you (and me) from the cancer known as end of the world. No? You'd rather that we both die... Great...