skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it's not. Books like Factfulness show it quite clearly. We have our fair share of problems but quality of life has been steadily improving almost everywhere and almost exponentially in some areas.
Honestly it is hard for me to see how Microsoft can ruin Bethesda any worse than ZeniMax was already....

the new Doom was ok, but the new Fallout was TERRIBLE, as with many other recent Bethesda ventures...
I agree with your sentiment, but tracking is fundamental to mobile devices: for you to receive a call or message, the network needs to find your device. Therefore, your provider knows where you are (within some radius based on there cell tower triangulation anyway). I assume they keep this data and, possibly, monetize it.
> Do people actually enjoy using Teams?

Yes, I do. I think it's great. I agree that it's a bit of a resource hog, and I agree that the search isn't particularly wonderful, but none of those impact my day-to-day experience (which is about 50% in Teams at the moment).

Some things that I like:

* The 'conversation' system works extremely well to keep discussion grouped by topic so you don't get the Slack issue of having to read every message of the last 3 days to see the 25% that relate to you. Yes Slack has threads, but I have yet to encounter a channel where they were used consistently well.

* The seamless transition from chatting to voice/video chatting smooths co-working. We have several team members who have joined since the start of lock-down and the low barrier to starting a video call smooths the process of me supporting them and helping them feel part of a team.

* We are a consultancy so the multiple 'Teams' concept maps well on to each client project giving us good organisation of conversation and data.

The performance issue does rear it's head when I'm screen sharing - my WfH solution involves an x240 plugged into a large monitor and it struggles to both encode that and do whatever else I want to do. Zoom is similar but not as bad. Otherwise it works well.
SEC is nowhere to be seen. What I'm interested in is to see who actually bought into this scam? Is there a list of all the (smart money...cough) hedge funds, retirement funds and others who invested significantly in this scam? A clown basically masquerading as a visionary founder/tech with everything outsourced to other companies is literally walking away with billions by scamming the so-called "smart money".
There is OpenAI gym interface for Webots:
https://github.com/aidudezzz/deepbots

The interface simplifies usage of Reinforcement Learning algorithms with Webots.
Demon Souls remake?
I bought xbox game pass just to play The Outer Worlds. Best fun I've had playing a game since FNV and watching Firefly. If they pooled the resources for their studios it would be amazing.
“Their business model would make money even if they started the fleet with gas powered trucks”

Here, I have this nice bridge, would you like to buy it, perhaps via a SPAC?

Their business model seemed to be centered around building out a hydrogen fueling station network, which is phenomenally complicated. Tesla built out an electric charger network, but that was not particularly technically challenging. Lots of legwork to work with local zoning and businesses, sure, but it’s still just fancy chargers on the electric grid. Building out a giant system to produce hydrogen and safely fill vehicles with it? Again, I have a nice bridge here for sale.
Monitoring all sensitive employees for Tor usage is rather easy (or at least much easier than tracking down superhet radiation).
Moats are about switching costs, towards protecting existing customer relationships. From a career perspective, your services are a product. Ideally your service offering is understood in your market to be valuable, and differentiated. The idea of the article is to be better than the next alternatives to your service in your market. I don't agree with "moats" as an image here; "ikigai", frpm the article is far more interesting. I think overall professionally you don't want to be associated with moats. You want to be a bridge - predictably useful. Bridges are easily understood, and get somebody someplace they would not otherwise get to.
I think one of the problems is that a lot of the management methods are built for the lowest common denominator. Juniors and mediocre developers who "need" direction and strict structure. Micro management is easier than creating a culture where developers are empowered to make independent decisions, based on shared goals and understanding.

At some point talented developers grow out of that role and start looking for an escape.
No idea, I know I've written a few.
(Bribe with) money, (to serve an) ideology, (application of) coercion or (as an outlet for) ego - “MICE”.
I tend to agree but I think what’s driving this stuff lies in the changing software product- and project - culture, and the glue-like nature of modern work is an outgrowth of that.

On the engineering side we’ve fully embraced the ephemeral, disposable nature of code, which tends to run counter to business needs which may require hastily constructed code hack jobs to stick around indefinitely. Really makes taking pride in workmanship impossible. You’re allowed to feel good about what your company is doing, but if you feel good about your code then perhaps you’re indulging yourself on company time and could be more productive... so you end up feeling guilty about doing good work.

I also think over the last 20 years there’s been a concentrated movement to remove technical expertise from the product design process. Engineers are present to provide estimates and gauge feasibility, but aren’t granted much leeway beyond that. Decades ago, you needed dev skill to actively shape technical projects since there wasn’t even that much user-level experience with computers and technology to make judgements.

This loss of balance tends to mean software is driven forward almost exclusively by either new features or redesigns. Technical enhancements are rare, unless they exist to support existing features. Nobody wants to spend a few sprints on "Make this thing feel 30% faster" or "Deal with our memory usage issues in these cases" until it reaches crisis levels or customers complain. So you get bigger, bloated software that runs slowly because nobody is authorized to make anything faster or use less resources until a product market position is threatened because of such technical deficiencies.... although sometimes the answer by product leadership to such problems can be even more features.
I guess this effects all companies that run a platform whether it be social or market based. The question is what can a company do prevent bad internal actors without put their employees under draconian rules?
> Compared to the first steps I took as a developer about 15 years ago, almost everything about software development seems better to me.

If you mean this is better, I hardly agree with you:

https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/810885087214637057?la...
Deathloop too, which was just shown off in the PS5 event.
Boeing whistle-blower says proposed 737 Max fixes aren't enough
The Assange case has been dragging on for, what, about a decade now?

The EU has not shown a particular interest all that time. The EU is a trade-bloc, the rest is posturing.
As someone who works on engines and writes code, let me tell you that the feeling is exactly the same. All complex systems stir up the same emotions.

It's frustrating as can be when it doesn't work, and it feels great when it finally does work.

As a human, dealing with complexity is all the same, no matter the medium.
That extra time, and the effort it takes you to get through this obscurity, all makes it easier for the blue team to find you.

It is not enough for a perfect defense, but it can help as defense in depth.
The healthiness of fish is cancelled by the batter to make it palatable.

Why fish sticks and not battered broccoli sticks or steak sticks or battered anything else sticks?
Damn, I really wanted to play Skyrim on the PS6. At least GTAV will be on it.
Experimenting on Myself
Nintendo is self-sustainable, Apple is exerting a lot of influence among smaller studios with Arcade. Like Annapurna Interactive (which is nota bene funded by Oracle).
Internal tooling and infrastructure teams that work on Firefox are still Firefox teams though. If you work on the build pipeline you still count as a Firefox development in my book.
…did it not trip anyone’s early-warning sensors that they named their company Nikola, so that they could piggyback on Tesla’s name recognition?
https://archive.vn/xd8fH
Seems like it would be pretty easy to place a laptop running Zoom/Meet/YouTube-live in the gallery so that the public could watch what is taking place in their name.

Sunlight is good.
I was expecting you to finish with valve pivoting to hats.
I was looking at my list of favorite games when I realized that all my favorite games are indi, except for Fallout/Elder scrolls. KSP, Subnautica, factorio, minecraft, papers please, FTL, EVE, x-plane, city skylines ... they all at least started as indi titles. Then I look at fallout and oblivion, the only non-indi games I've really enjoyed in the last 10+ years. There is something difference about them. So when I see microsoft buying Bethesda, I worry.
>Soon we'll just have Microsoft, Epic, and a conglomeration of EA, Activision, and Ubisoft

And, you know, all the other independent developers. Of which there are a legion.
Sure, but we are talking about Microsoft here.

You should look at the rumoured purchase price that Microsoft was willing to pay for TikTok.
Because game developers mostly don't pick the backend, game engine developers do. The vast majority of game developers pick a game engine and that drives most of their other technical decisions. There are really only a dozen game engines that have enough market share to matter, and a decent chunk of the biggest ones were built on top of DX for various reasons. OpenGL, while a great concept, was a fairly flawed execution for quite a while (its gotten a lot better in the last 10 years or so), so I can at least partially understand why in the past someone who doesn't care at all about cross-platform support might have steered clear of it.
Thin-film cylindrical agrivoltaic solar tubes for agriculture
Ugh fucking finally. Too many hours wasted learning the complexities and template macro nonsense of lenses.

I am so elated to see this change, even if it is 15 years overdo. Nested selectors in particular are beautiful.

Maybe it's time again to do me some haskell for great good.
It's consistent with the BBC acting as a propaganda arm of the British state - something that had become more true ever since the Hutton enquiry and the raft of new political appointees at the head of the organization.
This should be filed under the "Tell me in 2 years" section.
Pricing Low-Touch SaaS
I use this solution myself.

I have a domain name I own and only have A records configured for use on internal DNS.

Externally it is managed by cloudflare, and certbot uses the cloudflare plugin to renew certificates before deploying certs to my hardware over telnet
I prefer the JVM over .NET primarily for one reason: Microsoft's pervasive telemetry, i.e. exfiltration of my private data, which is now part of all of their tools and enabled by default. For each tool you have to research what the trick is to disable it (when at all possible), but even then the disabling mechanism is sometimes broken (e.g. for .NET Core) or supposedly local data is sometimes accidentally sent to Microsoft anyway (e.g. for the new terminal).

Also, although C# is pretty nice, Kotlin is nicer.
Only 6 days ago I opened a massive short position on this company, wish I shorted even more.

Reference:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24473631
Microwaved bread crumb batter? Not even toaster-ovened?
You really missed what that songs about.
Isn't Minecraft a bigger game than anything Sony makes? It's owned by Microsoft but isn't an xbox exclusive.
What makes you think, that new ideas, techniques, skills, etc. do not reach old places?
Microsoft VA acquérir ZeniMax Media et son éditeur de jeux Bethesda Softworks
yes I think I'm confusing you two, my bad.

I do think that the conservatives have done worse than the others would have, but that's not really supported with any evidence other than it couldn't have been handled much worse.

The real fact I'm trying to bring home is that the healthcare capacity is one of the most important things and it is one of those things that has been in atrophied for many years.

The current governments approach, while quite slow, miscommunicated and contradictory: would have worked better if we had a working and well funded healthcare system.
Yeah, that argument gets used any time new technology arrises. Sure it wasn't hard, doesn't mean you need to stop working on making it even simpler.

> So we've mostly solved trivial non-problems if/not regressions?

While I agree some developments have worsened the experience of particular things. What developments would you rather have seen?

By the way. VR was already a thing in the 80's. It's hardly new, only improved as the tech came available. And popularity of sci-fi also shows the common dream for many of these technological improvements.

As a fun reference. When the mobile phone got introduced in the 90's here in the Netherlands they did surveys in the street[1]. Everybody was brushing it off as unnecessary.

- "I don't need one"

- "Oh, then you get called while riding a bike haha"

- "I have one at home, and if I'm stranded there's always a landline somewhere"

- "They can send me a letter, and if they need me urgently they can call me on my landline"

[1] => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwhIHqM60g
It's Fallout: Firefly. Space western fallout game with quirky characters, hard moral dilemmas, and no one telling you what's right/wrong.
After reading a bunch of the comments in this thread, I have to wonder if people here have ever actually spent significant time outside of IT. It seems not.

I had a continuous stream of manual labour PT or FT jobs between 15 and 23, before getting my first IT job and when I started it was a fucking revelation. People would pay me $40k/y to sit at a comfortable desk and think and write?! No baking and sweating the hot sun, no threat of injuries, no freezing in the winter time, no clocking in/out, no petty criminal coworkers?! I don't think memory of that feeling will ever go away. And yes, I did do some woodworking as well.
App Trimming in .NET 5: Reduce Your App Sizes Dramatically
You'd need better stats to assert that though, you can die of pneumonia without having the flu. We don't know how many people got the flu vs pneumonia
The lack of corporate oversight is key to why the podcast is so popular. Spotify should be careful not to mess up what they just spent $100m on.
So the ps5 will never see a single Bethesda game? It's huge.
There’s a cultural aspect.

If you have a team all within a certain range, they’re going to mesh. It’s less likely that someone significantly older will. I liken this to the old smokers problem. A lot of political machinations happened when people went outside to smoke together. If you didn’t smoke, you were left out of important conversations. I’m 56 and I’m already left out of a lot of discussions that younger coworkers have. There’s definitely a problem in the IT works in how it builds teams and excludes older workers.

We’re expected to be managers or executives. Not a part of implementation.
You're supposed to use DHCPv6 or Neighbor Discovery -- like everything else in IPv6-land, it's significantly more complicated than it is over IPv4.

I don't run the whole network IPv6 -- for hosts I care about having an IPv6 egress for, I use a Wireguard tunnel in IPv6 private address space to a bastion host. If I want to expose a port, I forward it from the other side. It's a sad state of affairs :-(
If you're writing research papers, you need to distinguish between a lot of related and similar-sounding but importantly different concepts, and it makes sense to invent some technical language to make those distinctions clear. (Entropy vs enthalpy, centrifugal vs centripetal, concurrency vs parallelism, converse vs inverse vs contrapositive.) I think the problem shows up when you don't know how to "turn it off" when you're teaching the material.
I had a similar issue with window management on MacOS. I switched over to using Yabai about a year ago (a tiling window manager in the style of BSPWM on Linux) and haven't looked back since.

I've even managed to get Windows-style window management working in my config.

Link: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
It's a good start, but their market cap is still 11 billion. For reference, Ford is 27 billion.
I think many agents are in place since many years tracking everyone, accumulating information leaked from different breaches.

I believe it is widespread today at least in several countries their intelligence really have a kind of "global human database" where everyone is tracked and all digital traces are carefully collected and can be used at appropriate moments for different interventions (like elections, policy change, trade agreements, etc.)
I chose my ISP for much the same reason (idnet), well the combination of IPv6, static IPv4, and not being one of the big four.

(And it's always entertaining to ask the folk trying to sell BT/Talktalk/Sky/Virgin broadband deals on the street about IPv6 for the utterly blank looks that you get).
Seems like it is more than women that it endangers potentially. Is there anything in the app that exports information to the outside world only if the user is female ?
I would never want it to happen because of how much I love Nintendo. But I have always thought if there is any gaming property Apple can really benefit from buying, it is Nintendo.
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No Job, Loads of Debt: Covid Upends Middle-Class Family Finances
Cowboys and rodeos are just as Mexican as they are American.
It's pretty clear the UK Government wants as few eyes on this as possible while still not being seen to egregiously break the law.
Getting a hit on port 22 doesn't mean much. Getting hit by a full port-scan is more of a signal of being specifically targeted though.
Cromwell’s Revolution
I mean, one of the founders (Megan Ellison) is Larry Ellison's daughter, I'm sure he helped it get started, but does Oracle as a company have any official activity with Annapurna?
Well, I find this even more ironic, giving how wannabe game developers just blindly following Carmack's advises.

> Speaking to bit-tech for a forthcoming Custom PC feature about the future of OpenGL in PC gaming, Carmack said 'I actually think that Direct3D is a rather better API today.' He also added that 'Microsoft had the courage to continue making significant incompatible changes to improve the API, while OpenGL has been held back by compatibility concerns. Direct3D handles multi-threading better, and newer versions manage state better.'

A few paragraphs below

> 'It is really just inertia that keeps us on OpenGL at this point,' Carmack told us. He also explained that the developer has no plans to move over to Direct3D, despite its advantages.

https://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/pc/carmack-directx-bett...

And for a more up to date remarks

> "Lets fix OpenGL" http://cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/media/papers/opengl-snapl201... some interesting thoughts, but the shading language is the least broken part of OpenGL.

> For everyone saying "Vulkan!", the conclusion is that there is an opportunity for an API between Vulkan and the game engines. I agree.

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/851397231320150017?...

So I can definitely feel the irony.
I guess more and more people will hopefully notice that the BBC is completely biased in its news "reporting".
Unity just had its IPO, and the technology is powering a huge fraction of games across all platforms, from recent hit Fall Guys to Pokemon Go, to thousands of indie efforts, not to mention wide adoption in both the AR software industry and as a platform for many AI research projects. I don't know what its financial future will be as the company has been focusing on growth over profit, but it's a significant player.

Tangentially, open-source game engine Godot keeps getting better and better, and it's just a matter of time before a significant game is made using its tools: https://godotengine.org/
Probably missing the largest gaming company in the world Tencent here. I believe they will still thrive.
No, it's not. Life has been much better overall. What things are you seeing that is getting worse? I would say things are getting exposed and change is taking place. And you are just being introduced to the harsh reality that exists outside your initial bubble.
Nintendo is just two bad generations of hardware from being vulnerable enough to sell itself (IMO.)

They had only $4.3 billion cash on hand as of 2018 (surely more by now thanks to the success and maturation of the Switch.) But Microsoft just dropped a little less than double that on ZeniMax.

I wish Nintendo were in such a rock-solid place where I'd feel confident about them existing forever like Disney but I don't think that's ever been the case.

Edit- The people downvoting me have apparently already forgotten about the Wii U. Imagine if they had two such systems in a row, without the DS/3DS line as a profitable fallback. Such are the possibilities of the future.

When Nintendo's doing well, they're doing great, and everyone seems to forget the bad times. The GameCube era wasn't much better, but at least the GameCube and GBA were profitable/break even from their launches, as opposed to the Wii U and especially 3DS post-Ambassador price cut.

Would be interested in a discussion or any kind of rebuttal from others who are actually familiar with Nintendo's financial history.

To be clear: Nintendo as a company operated a loss from 2012-2015. An incompetent CEO could easily exacerbate that into a death spiral. Don't take Nintendo for granted, is all I'm saying.
There are more:
- paradox interactive
- rockstar, which is strong from gta v online and rdr
- cd projeckt red, which also get income from gog and hyped cyberpunk
- valve won't exit software devs in short time, their investment in vr is big. I won't be surprised if they release vanity knives with lootbox though

IMO Bethesda decided to sell to MS because their recent games cannot generate enough popularity. They can only hoped for skyrim and are struggling with their old engine.
You mean hack something out that doesn't actually work ?

Paying people even if it's below market is fine. We all have to start somewhere.
“Most shocking, there is a child on the back of one of the motorcycles. When was the last time you saw that?”

The writer is only talking to his friends. The comparatively small group of people who happen to share his privileged corner of the world. Because I see that every day, and so do most people.

As to the book: I read it many (many!) years ago, relenting after being hounded to do so by a couple of friends who assured me of its depth and importance.

Of course I could have missed something. And some of its ruminations on craftsmanship were interesting. But, on the whole, I found it to be a quasi-mystical, obscurantist, facile, waste of time.
Minecraft is just a single game. Sony has a bunch of very good console exclusives under its name.