skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see those two things as being materially different. If the CCP is going to mess with their finances unless they make the right noises, that's a chilling effect.
> How does a team grow to ~300+ developers ($89M R&D) to figure out how to attach PDFs and videos to tickets, and email people when there's a change in status?

As with most of these companies, user-facing feature development is only a small part of the engineering workload.

I would assume the majority of those engineers are working on less visible tasks: Devops, build systems, infrastructure monitoring, security, backups and data integrity, internal tooling for customer support, billing and accounts management, and other critical but otherwise invisible tasks.

Duplicating the core 80% of Asana's features as a one-off product wouldn't be extraordinarily difficult. Scaling it into something that can operate as a business with hardened security, reliable data storage, consistent uptime, and reasonable internal tooling for customer service is where things get difficult.

That said, companies often go overboard with hiring in the run-up to IPOs or acquisitions. Excessive R&D spends can be fixed on the road to profitability. Restoring a company's reputation after a major data loss disaster or a security breach is much more difficult, so it's safer to err on the side of throwing too many engineers at polishing everything. If they can't scale revenues to match, expect the engineering workforce to be cut down significantly.
My general suggestion for programmers trying to understand something strange or seemingly odd in the games industry is to check for an economic/value incentive rather than a technical one.

Unity has a lot of warts like your article indicates, but it gets a huge amount of bang/buck producing a not-big-budget multi-platform title with a multidisciplined team. I think that provides a lot of value for developers; so much that it outweighs the snags involved in Unity's technical shortcomings. Unity's roadmap is probably about expanding shipability for smaller developers and why Unreal is trying to commoditize that with Godot.
I'm not sure I'm really buying your statistics. There are ways to go about prioritizing roadmap items that aren't rooted in customer size (think UserVoice). The company can also have a well documented and published roadmap so that I can easily see what's coming down the pipe and whether or not it's going to factor into my buying decision (I get item x which is something I really want - in a couple of months).
Some things you might not be aware of:

Hearthstone cards have several texture maps per card for the foil card effects. When textures are stored in ram they are not compressed (not as png or jpeg anyway). Its closer to a full 4 bytes per pixel. Textures also use mipmaps which take up an extra 33%. Not to mention the animations, effects and and the texture memory they bring. Its much more RAM than you think. Just look at the (fully compressed) install size of over 3GB. The menu textures do not take over 2GB.

The game came out in 2014 when the latest iPhone had 1GB of RAM (less than 512MB usable for the whole app, essentially.) Its tuned to be under that cap, which forces a lot of disk reads instead of keeping things in RAM.

>During every single match of Hearthstone all the cards are also known beforehand (to the device), and they are a fraction of the full card collection.

This is actually false as some cards can spawn a random card from the full collection.
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He's advising people not to build these businesses because they are hard.

I think that is generally a gate-keeping attitude.

Possibly you misread.
I understand the emphasis on getting users to sign up, but I wanted to read more to see where this might fit into my workflow.

- Does it support markdown?

- Can I export my notes?

- Are there any to-do list features?
I don't think React vs Unity is the debate that we all cant wait for it to happen?

After all, Web has DOM tree as its fundamental data structure to fiddle with, while Games are just a series of objects that can orient/interact with each other however they like.

And obviously performance reason will affect abstractions as well, e.g. the Micro/Macro Kernel debate.

To say Unity isn't good enough because React is good at abstracting Web development away doesn't seem to hold too much ground in terms of logic coherence
I think there’s a huge difference between a fighter jet that can fly itself and Skynet.
Do they actually anymore? Aren't many male and white dominated organizations actively trying to be biased the other way?

When I studied engineering, my university had a "women in engineering" club which did a recruitment evening and I went along. When I talked to an employer, they told me "this is really for women, you should go to the general one instead". From what I understand, that kind of bias is widespread in America too. Where is this male and white preference happening?

I know many fields are dominated by white men but that fact alone doesn't show that it's because of systemic bias. Wasn't that stuff mostly stopped in the 1960's which is before anyone working today got started?

Just the other day there was a story on HN about an AI fighter pilot beating a real pilot in a simulation. But the company that did it was given special priority for government work because it was owned by a black person! A white owned company doing the same thing might not have got that contract.
I thought it was a very helpful article — and it made clear that what happened to this patient will not necessarily happen to everyone. It informed me that vitamin D is a hormone (I did not know that!), and that there are things to monitor if you are taking a bunch of it. I have family members who take calcium and vitamin D, and I will ask them if they monitor these things.

It would be bad if this article pretended this patient's experience was the norm, but it didn't. It provided information about what can happen and advocated for people being more circumspect about a particular vitamin/hormone.
They weren't claiming. Your scores are all posted on the wall in basic training.

I walked the dorms and saw ~5 aces or very near aces out of maybe 200ish total people's scores.

It's just somewhat odd because starting out as an E1 isn't terribly lucrative. It doesn't surprise me that 5 of 200 do that well. It surprises me that 5 of 200 that do so well actually enlist.
Reputation-laundering is a thing, you know?
Why would the engineers designing the opposing guidance systems not do the same?

If modern fighters are missile platforms, why not design a fleet of cheap no-human drone missile platforms and put most of the intelligence into the missiles?

The "wild tech" would mean getting rid of super-expensive low-reliability fighters altogether, because it's not obvious what they bring to an automated conflict.
And the author of the library has great knowledge in this domain. The latest release has the new SSR features added (https://github.com/ryansolid/solid/issues/109#issuecomment-6...).

I would also recommend to anyone to read his blogs about different approaches to client side rendering, and the technology behind Solid. It is a really good read regardless of the choice of using the library.
This article is awful and does a terrible job explaining the facts, and specifically blurs the timeline in a way that paints a different picture than the facts.

https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2020/report-regarding...

Does a far better job.

1. Jeffrey Epstein gives 9 million dollars to Harvard researchers. 6.5 was for PED, with an additional 23.5 from his foundation. This funds PED's creation

2. Jeffrey Epstein gave $200,000 to Department Chair of Psychology, he applied to be a Visiting Fellow. The Chair supported his application, and Epstein was granted Visiting Fellow status for the 2005-2006 academic year.

3. Jeffrey Epstein was arrested, so he withdrew his application for being a Visiting Fellow for the 2006-2007 academic year.

4. Epstein tries to donate to Harvard again, and Harvard denies him due to his arrest record. He makes no more donations to Harvard despite several professors lobbying administration. He does however introduce several professors to rich philanthropists who do make donations.

5. Epstein maintained a relationship with Martin Novak (director of the PED, which Epstein funded), who let Epstein on campus 40 times between 2010 and 2018. There is no evidence he engaged with any undergrad students. He used these visits to speak with prominent faculty.
I believe these types of trusts (without knowledge of the exact trust setup) are to limit the inheritance tax when he dies, by having the trust own the shares at an early stage (lower valuation, lower inheritance tax). It can appreciate within the trust without accumulating additional inheritance tax on the appreciation. The downside is the trust owns the shares and he can't liquidate it for his own use, which he doesn't need to cos he's already rich enough.
"total size of requested files (105 GB) is too large for zip-on-the-fly"

Bummer, I was going to download and watch offline using a USB in my TV.
> Should society ban individuals from spending money on research? No

Agreed. No one is saying otherwise!

The actual question at hand is whether large institutions should allow their faculty to take money from arbitrary sources. This is a question both for the institutions and for the institutions' major stakeholders/clients (which, in the case of Harvard, includes the federal government).

Epstein could've started a stand-alone research institute and hired a bunch of people away from their tenured faculty positions. I doubt many excellent researchers would've taken him up on that offer, but he surely could've recruited some bright young unknowns in any field other than CS with less-than-FAANG salaries! He could've also donated to someone else's research institute.

I think it's fair to say that Epstein cost these institutions far more in reputational damage than he provided in cash. So the choice re: him seems pretty straight-forward.
Problem solving ability is basically just IQ.
> BTW, I see no difference in version negotiation and primitive negotiation. You can't say "primitive negotiation is bad!" and "protocol negotiation is not bad!". Especially since negotiating protocol versions without crypto primitives is just screaming for downgrade attacks.

Primitive negotiation involves primitives being decided at runtime. This means you can, for example, tell a system that normally does RSA verification to switch to HMAC-SHA256 instead (but using the RSA public key as a HMAC shared key). This is what bit many JWT implementations.

Protocol negotiation involves primitives being decided at the time that a protocol version is defined, and then you can only select the version to use. You don't get to tell the server "use this encryption algorithm in this mode", you can only say "use v2" or "use v3". There is no mix-n-match potential.

You can't use v2 age with RSA.

This isn't a subtle difference. Most cryptography vulnerabilities occur at the joinery between primitives.

See also: https://paragonie.com/blog/2019/10/against-agility-in-crypto...
My team lead pings me with "got a minute?" and I reply with "I'm fired? Sweet Freedom!"

We have fun.
That's a fair question. I am not a lawyer or accountant or anything in that field, but I can try to answer anyway.

1) Often trusts and LLCs are used for liability protection and anonymity; you see this used by investors owning multiple residential real estate properties.

2) Your comment on tax is interesting; of course, capital gain in the US is taxed at 20% (plus your state), while income tax gets to roughly twice that. So, potentially, that could be a way to reduce how much taxes you will pay.

However, in relation to #2, I doubt that Moskovitz really cares to save 100k-200k a year in taxes. It's probably more about #1.

Again, this is my $0.02. Please correct me or improve my comment if you know the subject more than I do.
I think individuals simply shouldn't have that much influence over the brightest minds via having more money.
For those unfamiliar with academic research budgets, my lab's NIH budget was recently renewed and totaled to 2 million. So in the same ballpark as this.

2 million is not that much. When you add up research assistantship labor costs, scientific equipment and consumable reagents/materials, it depletes faster than you'd like. And our lab is quite small (~5 students); large ivy league research labs often have a couple dozen people.
Great points but all of what you've described can also be solved by teleoperation.

In terms of tactical decision making while flying, I think AI's advantage is its ability to integrate (much) more data into overall situational awareness. If you were somehow able to integrate all of this directly into the human proprioception system I have a feeling we would fare much better. It seems like we're probably quite a bit further from humans being defeated in contact sports by an AI-powered robot of equivalent strength/weight/mobility.

Not that much further though. :/
The thing about politics is that it never works as the median middle-class programmers think.

Politics involves murder, assasination, bribery, local interest (which sometimes reads as Mafia) and other ugly things and trying to solve these by proposing a "system" is like trying to solve war by asking everyone nicely to sit down and play a war game.

The hard point is that people are wired as animals who fight with their teeth and claws, and political instituition is simply a nice facade because for God's sake we are civilized people so we can't let others see that we fight with our teeth and claws and cheat to death whenever we can.

That said, prepare to get really dirty if you want to play politics.
But you can still use developer tools on Windows
Hey thanks, this is a neat tip.
The listed price for the "Essentials" plan is about $70/Month for each GB of daily ingest. Retention is charged at S3 rates, so $0.023/GB/Month.
500 RPM corkscrews and 50Gs are firmly in "missile only" territory due to the limits of material sciences. The square cube law is a harsh mistress and engineering is a game of trade-offs. If you want to design a re-usable platform it's typically better to concentrate on other things like sensors, stealth, speed, networking, and payload which could allow you to get a shot off from outside of the enemy's range or before they are even aware of your presence. It would be interesting to see the inevitable version of this contest for BVR combat but I suspect that's going to end up being classified territory given that it's much more relevant to actual modern combat. AI systems will certainly play a huge role in future fighters but it will probably be more in terms of perfect coordination and execution of long range aerial combat rather than something like dogfighting.
Mind blowing, imagine paying $5 for each newspaper one wants to read.
The second point is really interesting - how instrumental was having a semi-public feed in them taking off? I use venmo b/c everyone I know has it, it has my bank info anyways, and it's easy to find people. Even now with a gazillion options I still default to venmo.

On the latter point of finding people though, a public feed has been useful. Often when I venmo someone new (ex. dinner), it's helpful to see my friends also having venmo'ed the person so I know I have the right account.
Because it's bad ux for your users to see a spinning loading icon forever.
I know Asana is prettier than MS planner but:

1. Planner is bundled with 365

2. Planner works with Azure AD SSO for free.

3. Planner is 100% integrated with Teams.

This makes Asana an outside bet for me.
There are over 7 billion people on Earth. You aren't extraordinary, so you're going to have to get used to it. If you think you are you're probably either in a small pond or not paying attention.
> No, they build their own servers. They definitely aren't racking Dell or HP servers.

Yes, they buy from Quanta, Supermicro, Wistron etc, the ones who make servers for Dell, and HP.

> Let me repeat that: Intel literally makes custom processors specifically for AWS.

Some unlockable features, and perf profiles. Those weird SKUs popup on liquidation sale websites from time to time.
It’s imperfect, but probably the best possible way to gauge market potential. It’s going to depend upon what value your app provides, and to what type of merchants.

Kylies a bad example, since her dev team can presumably afford to build the specific custom features they need.

Merchants in the $100K to a few million a month range aren’t likely to be able to afford much custom development, but won’t blink an eye at paying hundreds of dollars a month for useful apps. A $10k a month merchant might balk at spending a $100 a month on anything but mission critical apps, and a $1K a month merchant probably isn’t buying any apps.

But when Shopify sales volumes are at least 5x Woo Commerce (more likely over 10x because I don’t believe Woos numbers), odds are Shopify is much bigger in every customer segment.
I'm just going to point out that to people that have a concern about wealthy people funding research that is how science has been done long before research grants or anything like that came on the scene.

For a long time art and the sciences were funded by wealthy merchants and kings giving money to people like Lenardo Da Vinci to eat while they worked on their ideas.

Also another point, people worry about the corrupting influence of money on research but there is nothing that stops someone with money from setting up a research lab independent of a university and producing their own research. In fact I would think having the research done with a prestigious university would be a better check on the results because the individuals doing the research are tied deeply into their communities and as such their is more oversight and discussion on the topic.
It is pretty cheap, it is just the free beer crowd that is upset.
Why would you want cognition? Besides the billions of edge cases it may create why would you want to make a tool you can or would have to reason with?
True, but everything will go wrong with letting your enemy get there first.
Yes and that's a big part of the problem. It does not have a concept of "after" the victory.

So if it gains autonomy there is high chance of it destroying everything else before dying itself.

I found the story of Horizon Zero dawn highly plausible. The main takeaway - dumb military AIs destroy all the living things. The only bit we are missing is fully automated fabrication.
It's not a question of intellectual honesty. The problem is, in the OP author's words, "taking unfair advantage of the student's immaturity by indoctrinating him with the teacher's own opinions before the student has had an opportunity fairly to examine other opinions upon the matters in question". I agree with much of what the 1619 project pulls, but I don't want those threads or any of my other political beliefs incorporated into school curriculums as though they're simple facts.
What's the importance of that date?
I can sell digital subscriptions on after market for console games

Can I sell my iPhone apps?
I would happily pay more for the service to pay delivery drivers more. I tip a ridiculous amount on each order.
Reading the comments I think the central problem is one of money. If you're living hand to mouth you don't care about problems like this. You've got immediate problems to worry about. If on the other hand you're not - and honestly what I'm talking about is a person living in the first world - than the impetus to action is much shakier then people in the thread are assuming.

Someone said, "They'll want to act when Washington, D.C. is under water". Really? You think that will ever happen? Think about how much money is floating around D.C.? Then think about how much a sea wall would cost. D.C. is never going to be underwater.

Even if it were. Say the sea rises so fast or the price turns out to be so high that sure enough D.C. is under water. Then people will happily pay right?

No. Not then. Because the people there still have tons of money. They can all afford to buy a house that's however far inland it takes to be high enough above sea level. And they have enough money to keep moving.

I'm not saying it's insoluble. Maybe you can scare people into acting. Maybe.

I think the better chance is when people talk about polar bears going away. That's what rich people care about. I'm not sure what the solutions are but I know they involve a lot of money and that means you need a lot of rich people.
That would only be a problem if the expansion didn't pay for itself. Maybe it won't pay for itself if it dilutes their brand.

Businesses that aren't based on restricted supply are often expanding. That's how you make more money!
San Jose's coming budget shortfalls are likely infeasible.

They had the option of betting on the future - without risk because it was a fixed-price proposal - and they've chosen to stay in the past.

We've seen this movie before with basic stuff like rocket reusability, electrification of the vehicle fleet, etc., all over the howls of naysayers.

Meanwhile, the Boring Company tunnels in Las Vegas have been such a success that they are extending it!

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/12/21285741/elon-musk-boring...
Any import tool from major notes app?
I welcome the end of free beer culture, so I am quite alright with their change.
It’s wildly backwards that this is where things are.
Despite all the Smedley Butler memes the US actually spends a pretty normal amount of money for a country with a large economy. Most people don't grasp how much the US economy dwarfs that of other nations.
Your theory doesn't seem to have stopped WireGuard from becoming a successful high-performance VPN protocol/implementation.
What happens on Novdmber 3rd?
Intel is investing heavily into Linux for more serious stuff in automotive, like this cluster instrument that is in production already:

https://projectacrn.org/acrn-project-chery-exeed-launch/

For deterministic high frequency real time, like controlling an internal combustion engine or the damper control of the chassis, for heaven's sake use a deterministic cpu running a real time is.

However the parameterization of that real time control, based off sensor fusion, object detection, trajectory planning, all high data volume highly dynamic processes, that can happily live on Linux.

Linux thrives in high performance volume data processing in networked environments.

The challenge is to not show but to rationalize and "explain" it's dependability. It works. How can we explain why this reliability is not random, but explicably dependable?

That's what https://elisa.tech is all about, and my gut feeling is, that Linux will move from infotainment to certifyable functional safety within the next year or two.
I would question that assumption. Autonomous military equipment (vehicles, planes, etc.) doesn’t require cognition in order to be useful.
an aside, being funny in this context is where everyone gets a benefit of being happier. some types of humor is denigrating to a particular group or person and that's generally not going to take you very far in a lot of fields.
Do you bring your PS5 with you in your pocket?
Arches and Chains
Or maybe your organization is a public institution, where each penny spent needs to be authorized/accounted for.
> However I don't have a marketing team, and I'm not a hip hot girl.

Why not hire a marketing team?
Just drop a Sonatype Nexus instance on a Docker container somewhere on your network. Alternatively, use Squid if you don't push to the public Docker registry, although you might need to mess around with internal CA for SSL...
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