skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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?

The possible explanation is the race to the bottom to offer games for cheap or free, as the article mentions. But then, why does that happen in games? There is plenty of software orders of magnitude simpler than games that gets sold for much higher prices.

What am I missing?
It sounds like you have something against cryptocurrencies as a whole and not their tokenomics as to me it seems the reasons for creating your own token for this case is fairly clear.
This is a disturbingly misguided exercise in Western psychology. If you think that the endless stream of thoughts in your mind is your self, then you have not realized your true self. When we are day dreaming, we are in a kind of dream, which means we are not awake and not in the present moment. This can be highly destructive, for example if you are constantly day dreaming when you are around your partner or your children, then even though you are physically present you are not really there for them and that can have long term consequences for relationships and development. The way to break the cycle is through meditation.

In his books, the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh describes a cartoon he saw depicting the Western philosopher Descartes raising one finger in the air and declaring “I think, therefore I am.” In the background a horse is depicted saying, “You think, therefor you are what?” Thich Nhat Hanh goes on to assert that Descartes should have said, “I think too much, and therefore I am not in the present moment.”
In a way it reminds me of the later funding patterns of the Pioneer Fund. I wonder if there's any overlap..
> they where pretty clear

What was the conclusion?

Also, Rich people may own more cars;

It's another question whether they drive more, whether they need to drive more (or can choose not to), and whether they park (in congested areas) more.
My assumption is that you get to this for some subset of highways in some subset of weather conditions with some special rules in place (maybe mandatory maintenance schedules?).

Which is actually a big win as long highways drives are boring and probably have a decent chunk of more serious accidents.

It doesn't give you the robo-taxi use cases that are what a lot of urbanites care about the most. But it would be a nice safety and comfort add-on for how a lot of people spend many hours of their weeks.
How to patent your innovation in Canada?
There doesn't seem to be any suggestion of fraud in the linked article? Nevertheless if Drs are relying on companies for unbiased data, that again seems like that should be addressed.

I'm not saying there's one point of failure, note in my prior reply I wrote "primarily" their fault. But Drs are the professionals here, they have a duty towards their patients. If a Dr prescribes something for me, I expect them to have weighed up the pros and cons. If Amazon recommends something I have no such expectation.
Right, but replacing textures at the d3d level doesn’t really constitute a game supporting user content.
Heatmaps 101: What are heatmaps and how to use them?
It is now accepted that all politicians are scumbags. So when they meet with Epstein, fly on his jets, visit his house, party with him, it is "only" as bad as expected. That does not rile up reads and doesn't produce clicks. So now the media has to go over associates where the internet expects better - scientists (and to some extend the tech crowd).
Memory Loss, Dementia Understudied Widespread Phenomenon Among Chinese Americans
Because Taiwan recruited Morris Chang to help promote Taiwan's economy, and Morris Chang decided to found the first foundry (i.e. fab-only) in the world.

Ever since, TSMC has been more-or-less leading innovation in semiconductor manufacturing. Taiwan has a lot of high tech factories because it is a high tech country with smart people.
The digging is skilled, but the assumptions that go with them don't appear to be supported?

> "John Brockman knew. Here he is with one of Jeffrey Epstein’s rape victims on one side, and alleged abuse coordinator"

Being photographed with someone isn't the same as knowing that they're being raped. Is there more to that?
Los Angeles covers a large area so you need a car to get around. I've tried only Ubering for a few months and it was more expensive than owning a car. The public transportion is half there but getting better. Bycling in the Santa Monica area is safe but outside of that it’s more dangerous because of oblivious drivers and road rage and LA streets are notorious for pot holes. I see some new apartment complexes being built with underground parking right below it which is the way to go but we do need more metros all around.
Should we shame and refuse association with people who have already been tried and convicted and served their punishment? And should we then shame those who do work with people who went through the justice system?

What about hiring people who are ex felons who served time?

Who should decide what ex-cons we can and can't associate with? I'd like to know ahead of time, because I want to give the right people a second chance, but also avoid having my career ruined for giving the wrong person a second chance. Which twitter mob will enumerate this for me?

Perhaps in this case the problem is that corruption resulted in Epstein getting far too light of a sentence. I think it did. Is it the fault of normal civilians for not realizing and compensating for judicial corruption? Should we ruin their careers for the failure of our elected officials to prevent corruption?
Gene editing humans was not per se the problem. The huge issue was that it's not obvious that this gene would in fact not cause other issues to these people, and the fact that it was done at a later stage in fetal development, causing possibly some of the cells not having the same genetic code as the rest. This is reckless and stupid, apart from the whole experimenting on humans thing.

Someone who jumped off a cliff while trying to build an airplane, was not lauded as a visionary, but as a splat on the ground.
That particular aspect of his persona may be somewhat interesting, but I dislike how they need to list names of scientists and walk them through. It makes it uncomfortably transparent why Buzzfeed is doing this and I disagree with them. If anything, pedophilia can be expected to be a very privately held and guarded part of oneself and none of these persons can be expected to have known. Acting on pedophilia is one of those crimes that really, REALLY need to have a smoking gun for associations not the least because it can be so damaging to others being falsely accused.
std::vector is entirely defined in a header file (it has to be, it's a template), so whole program optimization (which is what I presume you mean?) doesn't enter into it. The entire definition of vector is within the same translation unit.

I don't know enough about compiler optimization algorithms to say how trivial it would be to figure out these two things don't alias, but when you have a type with the magic property "this guy is allowed to alias ANYTHING", then I imagine it gets pretty tricky.
What prevents us from using traditional selective breeding on humans? Why can't women just go to a sperm bank and buy premium DNA?
I often have to read articles published in the MLJ, or the proceedings of IJCAI and AAAI in the 1990's. That was the time when machine learning was predominantly preoccupied with modelling the world with logic languages, particularly propositional logic (and, less often, first-order logic).

Although I have a background in logic programming and I study logic-based machine learning for my PhD, I find that I often have trouble to understand important terminology - and I mean "important" in the sense that entire papers are based around it, but take it for granted that the reader is very familiar with the terms, what they mean, and how they're used.

For example, I recently struggled with the following terms: "finite axiomatization", "explanation-based learning", "constructive induction", "knowledge-level learning", "weakest preconditions", and others.

I eventually managed to get on top of those terms, sufficiently to read and understand the papers that used them. I did this by searching online for an explanation ("finite axiomatization" is used in mathematical logic) and by digging in the literature for terms that were defined in previous works. I found all of that material online, of course- and where I couldn't find a copy online, I basically had to "wing it" and hope I grokked it right. Searching for anything published even in a major AI conference or journal before the 1990's is a big pain and even university libraries seem to lack physical or electronic copies.

To conclude- yes, there are going to be various works left behind if civilisation collapses. But a lot of them are going to be like maps without the key. The people surviving us will be able to read them, but not able to understand them, because they will miss key knowledge, that is currently spread around hundreds of thousands of sources that only experts in niche sub-fields are even aware of.
Money is power, and that power is necessary for continued scientific development. The problem isn't that scientists came to him for that money, it's the fact that the system is built in such a way that bad actors get to retain power.

The problem isn't that scientists went to him for his wealth, but that he had wealth after the first set of convictions. This should be our focus.
"accepting money from a sex offender (which in itself is really awful)"

No it isn't. Not if you didn't know he was a sex offender at the time. How do you know you have never accepted a grant, a paycheck, a contract, whatever, from a sex offender? You can't possibly know if you have or not. And if you did find out one day that if fact you have, do you owe a grovelling fake apology to every gutter press "journalist" that spams your inbox for ever more?
No on has ever explained where he got all his money from. It seems like he blackmailed a bunch of extremely wealthy people into giving him money to ‘manage’ and then used that money to ensnare more and wealthier and influential people. He probably contacted and funded far more people than he managed to compromise.

It looks like he started with the current attorney general’s father, who hired him to teach at a school despite him not having any relevant credentials, then managed to get to one of the kids parents who brought him to Wall Street.
> Morozov declined the offer of an introduction.

Looks like someone was able to read Epstein from afar and keep the distance.
That SVG (https://github.com/huangyz0918/moving/blob/master/github/ban...) is huge! 3MB - maybe you can shrink it somehow ;)
Casio have a brand called WaveCeptor that picks up radio time signals transmitted from around the world; GPS is an enormous power-suck (receiver and processing) so using it for time is impractical on a low-power device.
> Software development generally offers good jobs, so why isn’t that true for game development?

If the public doesn't like the game that was produced, whoever ponied up the cash to develop it doesn't recoup their development costs and goes out of business. Happens all the time.
in a similar vein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZWAntOnrx4
Wont happen Decision makers have nice homes and nice cars and a self congratulatory philosophy that says the status quo is just ok dokey
> So everyone who ever worked or met Epstein is guilty by association ?

I think “of interest by association” is more what is going on,and appropriately so.

> Is this what journalism is ? - Naming and Shaming people where there is no crime or unethical act committed.

“investigating and reporting facts related to matters of public interest even before it is clear what the import of those facts are, in part because that both provokes people to come forward with related information and enables additional parties to do their own related inquiries” would be more accurate than your loaded language, but, yes, reporting on matters that provide context to matters already in the public eye (which, in this case, do involve both crimes and other unethical acts) that are not themselves clearly criminal or unethical is an important part of journalism.
Same as any other in-demandindustry, people can be seen as replaceable. It’s not really any worse than the Silicon Valley startups being paid in options and working insane hours.
Isn't spacetime an all time storage system? You can't burn it, chafe it, erode it. Its is going to be there forever. Even if there's something that you think has been lost(like the library of Alexandria or the Roman empire) is waiting to be seen again. It is never lost. These `movies` of spacetime is being saved on a forever store.
Certainly. Those parameters and the geometry they're in can be distilled into impedance (see: S-parameters). The larger the difference in impedance, the less power gets through (see: return loss). For microwave ovens you only really care about material properties at 2.4 GHz, since that is where the power is. I'm under the impression this was chosen because water has a resonance at this frequency, and absorbs a lot of power.
Hollywood has millions of underpaid acting talents. The chance to be part of something famous is a powerful drug.
Close, but no cigar. The day dreams are part of the distractions. The lack of a sense of self can only be resolved through meditation, which is quite a bit different from just day dreaming.
I could be wrong here, but I think it's that there are so many people that are passionate about games that they are willing to work for less in order to get the opportunity to work on something they love. What I've seen at local game dev companies is that there is a pretty high turnover for this exact reason.
None, actually, you should be congratulated for taking it despite the crimes and putting it into good use. That is a sum he can't spend on getting out or abusing more children.
Yes, it's not a good idea for high profile people (or anyone really) to work with convicted sex offenders. It was well known at the time that he got off very easy for his crimes. There was a lot of media coverage.

Optically it's bad, morally it's bad. There's also more to this than just "work" as well. If someone was a convicted child rapist, would you invite them and a bunch of young women to your parties and take pictures like this?

https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1165266579560521728
> The fundamental issue is that while replication of information is effectively free, generation of (valuable) information most certainly is not.

This is a complete delusion. This is what about Goebbels said, "the bigger the lie, the easier it is to believe in."

People are so indoctrinated in that way of thinking, that some times I have to show this though experiment:

1. Set up a machine that will "destroy" the IP value of something by copying it.

2. Make it do so a billion times, and watch if the company whose IP being "infringed" goes bankrupt.

Now, will the company go bankrupt? Would they "run out" of their "IP generation resource?" Definitely not, that would be completely inconsequential to them. They nor lose nor gain anything. And then, all those guys run to make up some smart "economic theory" to explain that, often mutually contradicting, one sillier than another.

My idea is: if though process coming under IP generation is an unproductive process, that does not make money, why does the society goes nuts to encourage and facilitate that? A basic understanding of economic principles tells this is just like throwing money away.

See, US always brags of its informativeness. What was the last "big thing" an American company ever came with? I will say it was transistor, and it was more than 60 years ago, when no monstrous IP protection regime was in place.

It was not American companies who came up with: hoverboards, e ciggaretes, selfie sticks, stick computer form factor, an untold number of innovations in construction materials (MgO board is a Chinese invention, as well as FRPP piping, modern foam concrete manufacturing machinery,) an untold number of advances in materials science which allowed for $200 laptops being made from carbon fibre (A US made analogue will cost you $2000 just for the casing)

Just how many new products are coming from China in virtual anonymity and never given acknowledgement for their innovative nature are made without any consideration for getting remunerated for their "IP"

Now whose system make more innovation US or China's?

I clearly see, the moment IP protection began verging on extreme, US began stagnate in science and technology, and Chine went ahead.
I'm pretty sure Python's `None` is a singleton object
Games aren't just simple software. All the non-code assets (graphics, music, writing) take just as much, if not more, time and money to produce. The amount of work to produce software generally hasn't changed much in the past couple of decades, but the systems that games are expected to run on get more complicated (from being higher definition and more powerful), further requiring extra people to get it over the finish line.
How FaunaDB's GraphQL API Solves the N+1 Problem
Before the late bronze age collapse, they were very very well connected: regular commercial trade between the entire mediterranean is attested through massive numbers of letters found. And it wasn't just Greece: Egypt, Mitani, Hitites, Cannaanites, etc etc were all regularly interchanging knowledge, tech and commercial goods.

You can find temples in Egypt decorated in Mycenean styles. Mycenean style pottery got everywhere. It was very modern.
I keep email notifications completely turned off, and only turn on app notifications for a few select apps.
e46? I had a 2000 and it was extremely easy to find parts. Denso AC compressor, idler pulley, belt tensioner, coils, wheel bearing, and a window motor. Everything was reasonably priced and I had choices of OEM, Aftermarket, or Genuine BMW. The AC compressor was the only part I didn’t buy Genuine because of the massive up-charge. Amazon had lots of OEM options that were the same brand as Genuine BMW.

I would’ve changed the gasket but I “totaled” it. A cheap gasket is going to cause problems.

BMWs are expensive and you have to be very careful of aftermarket parts or you’ll cause more issues.
This is interesting due to the concept of Oodi being totally different from most libraries and only to some extent fitting the definition of a library [1].

Oodi is more of a living meeting place for people where you can play board games, video games, make art, 3D prints, music and such. It might be dubbed as a library to ensure that its visitors have a vague understanding of the place i.e. it's free to use all the services and open to anyone.

[1] "A library is a curated collection of sources of information and similar resources.." as per Wikipedea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library
> The company that would never deal with likes of China.

This is disingenuous. They basically locked themselves out of China voluntarily many years ago. They're really scary otherwise and I agree with you, but don't lessen your point by including exaggerations, in my opinion.
Linux package managers are slow
I have had the same thought many times. I find it annoying that part of my mind insists on sub-vocalising the words when I know what it is I am thinking already. But as others have said sometimes it is useful as you re-analyse the words once they are formed. Yeah, but most of the time it's an annoying waste of time.

It's like there is a big mess of interconnected thoughts, intuitions, sensations clustering into a thought, fumbling along nicely on it's own... and then the apparatus in my mind responsible for flattening it all into words jumps in, totally unrequested
> Who should decide what ex-cons we can and can't associate with?

The answer to these questions is: It's totally up to you who you associate with.
I'm curious, but surely there are some rules regarding, for example, the number of hours per week of work, right?

Employers can't just ask anything from their employees, like being available around the clock and that kind of thing I suppose. Or can they?
I just got like 10 of these iPhone ones overnight.
Very interesting. The author may also be able to use throttling functionality on the Network tab of Firefox dev tools. I think chrome has something similar. It probably won’t simulate disconnects through. Using ip tables works nicely.

I found webrtc to be quite tricky to get working. It feels like a house of cards when you’re starting out but it genuinely does work if you persist. Kudos to the community for making a truly amazing technology. STUN is magical.
Ooops, thanks for reminding, I'll do it right now.
> The amount of work to produce software generally hasn't changed much in the past couple of decades,

Disagree, I think it really has, generally. For similar reasons.
Alexander of Macedonia conquered a vast empire right up to the Indus River.

Then there's the Silk Road who connected the Eurasian continent economic, cultural and political influence for centuries.

So, the spread of ideas across cultures is pretty much established.

The problem is that the survival of specific historic records across centuries or millennia is tenuous at best. First hand accounts are extremely rare and most of what we know about those times was handed down by copying what was deemed relevant throughout time.

Lesson number one each historian learns is to ask critical questions about the source material. Who wrote this? What do we know about the contemporary context? Does other material corroborate with what we are reading now? How about our own hindsight bias when reading records today? What about other biases that played out at the time?

Oftentimes, it's not possible to ascertain a theory or a hypothesis, how things actually went down, simply because we lack the source material. And just as often we may get caught unaware by our own assumptions that were handed down to us by teachers, authors, movies, art,...

As such, most historians will tell you that while it's plausible that the origins of some technologies root back further in time, there's little point in looking for evidence as there is simply no historic or archaeological record available. That's where you'll find that a falsifiable theory turns into mere speculation.

A historical researcher therefore only builds on top of verified sources. Much like a criminal investigator trying to establish the raw facts that support a given narrative.
There was nothing private about it. There was a ton of media coverage at the time about Epstein molesting young girls. Ethan Zuckerman urged Joi Ito not to get involved with him but was ignored:

http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...
I feel like this article is trying too hard. I've kept a journal with thoughts from the day for years.
I won't start even bigger shitstorm by naming better languages in my opinion. Suffice to say I've never had problems sending headers or getting HTTP status code in any major language, except JS(examples are linked in the post).
Just started listening to Dreamland, already hooked, thanks for the recommendation!
Lots of people want to make games for personal rather than purely economic reasons. So supply outstrips demand and even many free games never get played.
I believe the term you're looking for is Eugenics. If you google it for some background, it has been tried before and uh, didn't end out so well.
It's essentially the music business but for programmers. Non-essential consumer product, everyone wants to do it, discovery is terrible, and the companies that are lucky enough to get big aren't incentived to treat their employees well because there's so much competition to get into the field.
That's when you go to Google. Asking us is akin to using us as a proxy for Google.