skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was already covered extensively in the media for raping under age girls. Brockman brought him to that party and then proceeded to take pictures with a bunch of young women that Epstein brought along.
I recently visited Berlin Germany and was impressed by how literally everyone uses bicycles there.
100% agree, it just an unfortunate interaction between

1) ?: syntax
2) [] for dereferencing
3) [] for literals
4) ? for null chaining

Each of the decisions is correct in isolation, but together they’re a nightmare. Which decision you made first determines what you end up with in the other areas.
I just keep a crappy Windows laptop next to my desktop and use that whenever I absolutely need Windows for something. I don't need heavy software, just sometimes a program to reproduce an issue a consumer has. I have a Windows VM, but it stays off most of the time, and I have a separate disk in my desktop running Windows in case I need something more serious than my laptop can handle (I boot to it once a month or so to run updates).

I've tried making WSL work for me, but I just find Windows gets in my way more than it actually helps. I'm a little sad that I can't use Visual Studio (the number of times I've had to hack together a CMake build to make small change is way too high), but it's not worth the pain of using Windows. How to do X on Linux is usually much easier to remember and faster than the equivalent on Windows, and I spent enough time on WSL/git bash that I just stopped bothering.

Now, if I can get a hackintosh VM going, my life will be complete.
If I buy and you lease for 4 years who will come out better at the end if keep mine for 8-10 years?
Google doesn't need to sell it, they're the consumer.
Cool thing! But I'm not sure how to add that into a Jekyll theme. All I need to do is add Turbolinks in `Gemfile` and `bundle install`, right?
Permitting Nested Arrays Using Strong Params in Rails
I recognize the point you're making, and I think it's fair to an extent, Epstein was a weird disturbed man. But my general point remains: who can make this clear for me (us?) ahead of time. If the rule is "give people a second chance, except those accused of the following sex crimes -- they must be shamed forever" fine. But I want it clear. Otherwise I worry we will find ourselves in a world where everyone, in fear of their career, avoids ever associating with the wrong person.

If we think our laws aren't working, so we need Twitter vigilante shame justice, i would prefer we rework our laws
Who says all guilt must be criminal?
Games are part of the hits based business which means there is potentially infinite demand for new games. The correct comparison isn't software development but entertainment industry. Music, movies etc.
" How often do you need a whole collection of string manipulation functions? Never! "

Always! The Javascript world lacks a good standard library or something like STL that covers most of what you need during normal development. Instead you have thousands of little packages of varying quality. I would much prefer a few big libraries with more power and consistency.
Supply and demand. People want to work on games so they put up with it. You can see the same effect in the sports equipment industry, aerospace, health care and academia to just name a few.
In contrast tobacco, arms or insurances pay and treat better because they are either condemned or considered boring.
Previous discussion (Δt ≈ 12 hrs):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20804998
Correlation doesn't equal causation or else you have to start charging Ben and Jerry for all of the murders and drownings and the whole justice system becomes the Red Queen's court.
Lots of people, especially young and fresh out of school, want to get in. So there's no need to pay well or improve conditions, plus young folks tend to have plenty of energy and motivation, and no kids or spouses waiting for them at home. It happens a lot in media and entertainment (movies, theater, games...). I've heard it being referred to as "the Tower records effect".
The person I replied to was saying that it likely to cause cancer. What are they putting in specifically that you think will cause cancer? It seems like people saying this are full of vague handwaving and won't give any specific reason or ingredient for why they think that.
That is a valid point. There is a tendency for things to go the java way.
Your comment reminds me of the parable about the dictator who noticed that the provinces with more sick people had more doctors, decided that doctors were the cause of illness, and summarily had all the doctors executed.

Try and use a little common sense about the direction of cause and effect here.
That is one hell of a list.

According to friends, Epstein showed up at a TED conference circa 1999 with 6 plus-ones, all listed as "Mrs Jeffery Epstein". (The tickets were something like $5k in 2019 dollars.) They don't recall them as being under-age, but it definitely seemed sleazy. Their recollection is that Epstein used them to meet people; the women would go chat somebody up and bring them back to Epstein.

Abusers are well known for grooming victims, but they also groom allies. So it's not surprising that among this list we find people who are either hopelessly naive or of dubious character themselves. In retrospect it doesn't seem like a coincidence that around the same time Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey were zooming around on Epstein's plane.

Let that be a lesson to all of us. If we suddenly experience an overwhelming amount of positive attention, it's worth asking ourselves whether it's the love-bombing [1] common to narcissistic manipulators.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing
I'm generally of the opinion that the way we treat registered sex offenders is counter-productive and that this article seems to be implying for more guilt than is reasonable, but saying that Epstein served his time is a stretch. He settled MANY civil cases out of court, and every judge involved that I'm aware of stinks to high heaven. First case found about 40 underage victims of things like paying them to undress and massage him, yet he comes away with a single assault charge. Eventually he is sent to jail, but basically comes and goes as he pleases - with a pretty generous work release schedule and probation agreement that he ultimately didn't even have to stick to. For a year.
> For years I have heard that being a game developer is a miserable job, with long hours not matched by an adequate pay.

> Does somebody have an explanation for such cut-throat industry? Software development generally offers good jobs, so why isn’t that true for game development?

I think there are miserable jobs in software industry overall as well. With game development maybe it is a little bit more about passion for the industry, so the employees are a little bit more exploitable than in other fields.
I'm glad that this type of yellow journalism is starting to be recognized by the general populace. It's been getting worse for years.

These are the same activists posing as journalists that label someone like Joe Rogan "alt-right adjacent" because he's willing to have a conversation with people right of center.
It's also somewhat ironic that a tourist complained that other tourists ruined the vibe once they've arrived, and concluded that everyone else but him was the problem.

Meanwhile, no word from the locals who are living their life catering to those tourists.
This quote: "Ecologically, these Archaic hunters and gatherers had moved one entire link down the food chain, thereby eliminating the approximately 90-percent loss in food value that occurs when one feeds on an animal that is a plant-eater."

This is just completely false. All meat consumed is bioavailable protein and nutrients. Even more so when it's cooked. Plants have reduced bioavailability due to high oxalate, phytic acid, and lectins.

Humans would have never evolved the ability to eat meat if it didn't confer a natural advantage over foragers.
> Should we shame and refuse association with people who have already been tried and convicted and served their punishment?

1) His "punishment" was an illegally arranged joke.

2) There's a vast chasm between shaming someone convicted of a crime and Epstein's welcomed return to polite society. He should've been working a wage-slave job like the rest of us.
Solution: write in whatever way you want and hit "reformat code" before you git add/commit. Reality reconciled, opinion great again.

Addendum for clarification: part of the appeal of autoformatters is that what you type into your editor does not matter. I don't see the "difference of reality" because thanks to black, I don't need to care.
Which vegetables are they using that you think will cause cancer?
You wouldn’t find it odd that someone who had no children of his own was constantly surrounded by teenage girls? I sure would. Yes, that’s not the same as knowing that they’re being raped, but I’d sure want to distance myself from someone who was behaving like that.
I spent hours / days to figure out a color palette for labels in an non-game app, and the result still looks like shit. I tried using kuler (Adobe Color now?) and it wasn't much help at all.

"Picking out a few colors" is not something that's easy if you are not an experienced artist.

Sure, he could probably learn to do it, if he spent some time learning how to do it, but he needs to budget his time, and he decided that story / gameplay is more important than fancy graphics.
Also check that person isn't null, probably.

person?.firstName?.trim();

What (s)he means though is in Java if firstName is there then it will be a string.

In Clojure firstName might be anything, a string, a number or even an entire other hashmap or type, literally anything. This might or might not cause a runtime crash if you are doing something that assumes it's a string. So you check.
Semi-offtopic, but you've clearly spent a lot of time studying Nintendo's code, from a range of eras... I'd be curious to hear, if you had to make a very broad assessment, how would you rate the quality of Nintendo's programming?

Nintendo is quite clearly second-to-none on the design/creative end, how much does that translate to the technical aspect of game development? Speaking purely in terms of software.

I find this particularly interesting in the context of a company that appears to retain many of the same programmers today as they did 30 years ago, when software development was obviously much different.
They were/(are) selling order flow to market makers. Calling that front-running is a bit of a stretch though.
On the other end, we might not be able to reinvent nuclear technology. Quite a bit of that was based on the Shinkolobwe mine which had 65% uranium ore deposits. These days finding 1% uranium ore is a lucky find.
Got the same thing just yesterday.
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It’s irrational to believe we could rebuild what took nature and evolution millions of years.
Though kind of lost from the perspective of our bit of space time even if there's scope for historical recreation.
I don't think this is that unclear. 99% of people would not invite a convicted child rapist and his entourage of young women to a party, take pictures with them then fly in a private jet (already called the "Lolita Express") to his residences that have already been in the news for being the locations of child rape.
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There was a difference between Epstein and the typical victims of overzealous moralizing sex offense prosecution, like 19yo boyfriends of 16yo women and drunks who urinate in public.
> I've done 3 projects on my 2004 BMW post 2012 (where as time passed, more parts become available); one of the last years before everything became more computer integrated, where there weren't significant, cheap, readily available parts

This is a far cry from there being no parts, cheap or otherwise. And even if there aren't OEM parts I'm betting there are tons of knockoff and third party/performance/budget parts you can get too, which these Tesla owners also cannot.
I agree my consciousness may be lagging behind your test equipment. I have no idea how much impact this sentence that I did not finish formulating would have on me, but clearly finishing it, is providing me with some experience that I didn't have before (unless it's something that I've said before, but even then the context is already different).
There are a number of options that allow you to store React (or any really) type boilerplate in a git gist and then access it via VSCode if that is what you're thinking of. Often via a VSCode extension.
Uhm..........that heavily depends on many factors, some of which can be hard to predict.

Do you already have an answer in mind?
Worth noting that when a merger or acquisition happens the company sends you a big ass document with details of everything
The other comments in this thread got most of it. But let’s also remember the other side (suburbs) are heavily subsidized by urban communities.
You don't understand mathematics,
you just get used to it - jvn

I used to want to understand math (intuition); now I think of it as learning a language: lots of vocab and rules with some pattern. You need to become fluent - practiced, like a cellist or cricketer.

It's also a language when someone is teaching it.

Prior knowledge is assumed; so it's difficult to detect that it is a gap that's making it difficult. When I finally realized my hard-won breakthroughs were about prior material, I dropped back to do that prior level... again and again.

This thorough approach is far too time-consuming for your needs. I really hope you find a quicker way - and please tell me!
I hope these details come out (despite the attempts of powerful people to prevent that). This story is likely to get even weirder as it all unfolds.
Just people talking more about it.
It's just really hard to recognize and compare such a subjective experience. If you can visualize, it's "obvious" to you and you think everyone does it. If you can't, you don't know that others do or what it's like.

If you check the aphantasia subreddit, every second post is "Do I have it?"
So if some Church pastor gets convicted for sexual abuse of children, Can buzzfeed publish the list of all church going members in the area with their photographs ?
There was a lot of discussion after Elon Musk said that Starship (aka the BFS aka Big "Falcon" Spaceship aka the second stage of their starship) will be able to do SSTO, however it would only be able to SSTO with virtually zero payload whatsoever, so isn't very useful.
I wouldn't group all of those three together. My personal opinion is:

-Foucault is quite interesting and accessible (his writing contains much more facts and observations than jargon)

-Lacan is a complete fraud

-Derrida might have interesting things to say but it's extremely hard to tell
Looking to buy my wife a car next year and it’ll likely be an Audi ICE or similar.

The two biggest problems are no superchargers where I vacation in Florida and parts issues which include fixing manufacturer defects.
Working in the gaming industry is a highly desirable career choice for young men. Many children grow up dreaming of making video games, boys especially. People are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve their childhood dreams, and willing to ignore a lot of negative aspects of that choice... for a certain amount of time. Young men are particularly vulnerable to this, which is one reason why gaming and startups both hire young men (usually fresh out of college) at an abnormally high rate. If you're 23 years old, don't have a family or strong social life, and spent the last 15 years dreaming of this job and the last 4 years training for it, you're going to pour everything you have into it. You'll move across the country for it, because again you don't have a family or strong social life.

And then burnout sets in, which is one reason why gaming and startups both are dominated by 20-somethings. When you get into your 30s, having a family becomes more common. You don't want to spend 80 hours a week at the office. You want more money, more benefits. You go to Microsoft or IBM or one of the older, established companies where work is more steady and pay is more competitive.

If you spend 15 years dreaming of something, it takes a while for that dream to be shattered by reality. The time between entering the workforce and the dream being shattered is where gaming companies and tech startups turn their profit.
What makes you think so? Product may be great in it's main objective but slow as compared to what could have been, ineffective in spending computing resources, unable to scale as much as it otherwise could, insecurely handling data, etc.
That's a great video showing what planners are thinking!
> sadly lacking nowadays in most western universities.

Where do we still have "honest academic debate" then?
China Is Sending Keyboard Warriors over the Firewall
I agree, this witch-hunt journalism is BS.

It's fine to bag politicians and 'other tycoons' who associated with him. There are legitimate concerns about influence and, you know, who else is a pedo, in those cases.

But I think if I had been a scientist in need of funding, I'd gladly have taken his money, even knowing about the convictions. In fact, I'd have tried to to take as much as I possibly could, and then tell him to FO once I'd done my breakthrough study.

It's different if the scientists were 'bending' their results to his benefit, but I don't think that's the case here.
Game dev is a labor of love for many, and so the market takes advantage of that. Any labor of love is going to be priced less than some job that is not personally satisfying. It isn’t about difficulty, but satisfaction.
If you want to keep your car then you should pay the full cost (no free roads and parking for you to use) and externalities (carbon, noise/particulate pollution) of car ownership. Car owners currently receive trillions of dollars worth of market distorting subsidies from the government.
He probably takes pictures with hundreds of fans after each talk. Taking a picture with a random fan having a frog flag is not an endorsement of nazism.
Typical disconnected comments from the author about JS as usual. Why would they focus on axios error handling and not fetch? Even dredging up some left pad....

People complain about standard libraries in languages that have them. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Let's just chalk it up to a different way of doing things. I personally don't mind leveraging NPM for packages I need. I make use of utility libraries like lodash-fp or ramda to provide the functionality I want.

Bugs actually have a pretty decent amount of resolution for popular JS libraries. I think this is true for all languages though. Popular libraries get worked on, unpopular ones don't. Cherry picking bugs that the author thinks should be easy to fix isn't doing any service to anyone. Everyone who has worked on a product intended for longevity knows there are a ton of easy bugs that never get fixed because of something called.... priorities.
Reinforced Imitation in Heterogeneous Action Space
> What was the conclusion?

The richer people are the more they drive, the more likely they are to drive to work and the more cars they have. The poorer people are the more they walk by foot. Bikes are pretty evenly distributed among different incomes, public transport is mostly a middle income thing (fewer rich and poor people).

It's in german, but it allows pretty extensive working with the data:
https://www.mobilitaet-in-tabellen.de/mit/
TMSC has always been a contract foundry with customers who have potential IP conflicts, I would be kind of surprised if they were sloppy like this.
I don't think there is a hockey stick to chase in game development. At least not the way Jeff is doing it.
I didn't notice the timeline of the OP's post, but they could pressure Youtube to implement something that requires manual review before action is taken, instead of automatic action. Especially with a genre that typically has lots of similar recordings of out-of-copyright compositions.
I mostly use nontracking search engines, or the build-in dictionary in iOS, so I'm not super worried about the first.

To me, right-clicking is way simpler than pulling a book off a shelf.

Power could I guess be an issue, but I can't imagine writing at this point without using a computer. ;) 30+ years at a keyboard have done a real number on my handwriting, which was never very good to being with.
Teslas might not be at the required reliability to day, EVs one day might be.

EVs already are, they’re just not made by Tesla.

—

Happy Leaf Owner for Eight Trouble-Free Years
I also don't believe programming should be taught in schools, but for different reasons.

Not everyone is cut out for programming, and schools will inevitably teach it in a lowest common denominator style, where the bright kids will be bored to tears doing and redoing for loops in scratch.
This thing has changed orbits many many times over its several missions:

https://www.space.com/9000-secret-37b-space-plane-changed-or...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a28496447/x-37b-di...

http://spaceflight101.com/x-37b-space-plane-maneuvers-into-l...
I vaguely recall reading that the multiple characters in SM64DS were a feature that was cut from the original game. Am I hallucinating or did Nintendo say that somewhere?

(The additional characters in the DS remake were horribly unbalanced, so I wonder if the earlier implementation would have been better...)
There was a discussion only recently about "no-nonsense" themes for Jekyll et al.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266932

Note that people's definitions of what constitutes a minimalist/no-nonsense theme seem to differ, with some emphasizing appearance, others dependencies and elegance of the generated code.
It's not a solved problem in rust or go. It's still easier to write understandable text processing code in Python, Perl, Ruby, lisp than in Go or Rust.

Also for web backend Go, Rust cannot close the gap with Python or Ruby or lisp easily. Rust and Go are strong in their own domain writing web backend is not one of them. It does not mean one cannot write, it's just a lot of work.

When dealing with MIME types or REST or HTML or XML etc. dynamic typed languages are still easy, readable with reasonable performance. Only when one wants high performance, will go through the path of writing API in go or rust.
The single coder games made in your spare time:

People want to write games for pay or not.. they just want to write games. And they want others to play them.

Very few want to write a crm and the few that do write a personal one and don't care if others use it.

Why do people work in sweatshops for other companies making games? It doesn't make a lot sense because you lose that freedom. People want to be around games, see games before they come out... play games at work. Some want to see how games are made.. it's the Hollywoodication of development, like working on a superhero movies compared to a cooking show. You feel successful even if you are not..
FYI, here is an (almost empty) blog using concrete.css : https://louismerlin.github.io/blissue
that statistic, unlike some of the others, isn't a space comparison between parking spots and apartment square footage. it is instead a legal requirement.

if somebody wants to build a building with 25 2-bedroom apartments, they have to also ensure 50 new parking spaces get built.
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I pay the road tax, car tax and fuel tax on that, so I’m fine, thanks. There are no government subsidies for cars in Europe. Parking here is also quite expensive.
I could be one of naive “art-blind”.But I cannot decide which ones are better, and for me both look same.