skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember trying out MDA software like Bold for Delphi in the early 2000s. UML was big at my university at that years and MDA software like Bold felt like the future. I imagined sometime around 2005-2007 that everybody will draw UMLs and use MDAs in the future and that is the way of programming.

Reality hit me very hard when my profession was going clearly towards web development (frontend and backend) and OOP and UML became more like a side effect. Still undecided if it is useful in a big context especially when I see what happened in the Java world (which made me hate OOP).
Google is shutting down Area 120’s popular ‘Rivet’ kids reading app
Feel like this going to kill any chance Stadia might have had, if they have enough games and they give you a couple of months for free / reduced price if you have a Twitch Prime this will probably own the game streaming market.
> they would absolutely not have ignored the precedent they set and did the opposite thing now

The same Democrats who filibustered other federal judges for years under Bush and then removed the filibuster under Obama to prevent Republicans from doing the same?

On this topic (judges) in particular, the examples of partisan hypocrisy are obvious, for those familiar with the history.
Given a year on grass and 6 months on feedlot, that already mean that they only use 33% compared to a factory farmed one that only eat grain. A pretty large gain for the climate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_refugee_children_...

https://www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/asia-pacifi...

https://www.ucanews.com/news/caged-like-animals-inside-bangk...
Does it make sense to learn Delphi in 2020?
rocket league is going free to play so I guess your wish is becoming reality :)
> Rather than using external capital to buy investors out at a premium, the usual way to take a firm private, Mr Samwer has used company cash to buy back €223m ($260m) of its own shares. This pushed his clan’s stake to over 50%. He plans to use another €1bn of Rocket’s cash to buy out minority shareholders at €18.57 a share, the volume-weighted average price in the past six months but down from the ipo price of €42.50.

> Investors are under no obligation to sell their shares, of course. But those who stay put will have little power to affect the course of the firm now that the Samwer brothers control the board with their majority stake. Rocket has stated it will be “better positioned” for long-term development if not listed on a stock exchange.

It seems like the main tipping point is one group (the Sameer "clan") getting into a control position. Presumably enough other investors agreed to the earlier buybacks that allowed that to happen.
I learned React in two days with almost zero effort after trying the same with other resources before. I really recommend this platform and I don't have any affiliation with it
Not historically, surely? People didn't tend to rent chess boards.

Even something like billiards, players with enough wealth to have a room with a table would do so.

Personal libraries were a commonplace shortly after the printing press, as were broadsheets and then newspapers, all of which were purchased and owned. Music was impossible to 'own' before recording technology, but ownership of musical instruments, and the ability to use them, was quite widespread.

Same with TV: as soon as it became possible to record (and hence own) broadcasts, people flocked to VCRs, and had to win a court case to retain the right to do it.

My conclusion is that some people, maybe most, do wish to own the means of entertainment, and have historically purchased said means whenever they are able.
It all boils down to $$$, of course.

1. You cannot touch the sacred cow $60 game price. You can go lower, you cannot go higher.

2. Reoccurring revenue & upsells/addons are every business' wet dreams. The game is done, sell it at $60 and shift 9/10ths of the team onto the next game. 1/10th of the team remains in bug-fix/content-churn mode to fulfill whatever season/battle pass scheme they're peddling. Release a new game with the same stuff ~2-4 years later.

3. Singleplayer games are dead because studios haven't figured out to get cheap secondary/ternary monetization out of them (for cheap.) A lot easier to make a digital hat than keep your design/narrative team making expansions.

To address the actual post: Amazon is hopping on because they have the technical capabilities... Unfortunately they don't have the game-industry/consumer-oriented know-how to make this a success. It's going to be a 'neat tech demo' but they'll never get a foothold because it's not solving an actual problem consumers are having at the moment.
Futurist Alex Pang on why we need to rest more and work shorter hours
On this episode of #TheArtistsOfDataScience we get to hear from Alex Soojung-Kim Pang!

Dr. Alex Pang studies people, technologies, and the worlds they make. Since 2000 he's worked as a technology forecaster and futurist, helping companies understand new technologies and global trends, and their strategic and business implications.

Some highlights from the show:

[00:12:03] What can we do now and perhaps going into the future to mitigate our distraction from technology

[00:14:41] What is rest and what's the problem with it?

[00:17:13] The problem with the “hustle culture”

[00:18:54] Deliberate practice, deliberate rest

[00:23:02] The default mode network of the brain

[00:27:51] How can we convince our boss that all we need is a solid four hours?

[00:29:11] What are some horrible ways that people are resting and we should probably stop resting that way?

[00:33:42] How does having a daily routine help us be more creative? How does that help us be more productive?

[00:49:02] How to work more effectively as a knowledge worker
What I Wish for Rust2021
Were they, or were they marketed as such until the perception stuck?

Manipulative advertising is an act of malice, particularly with addictive products.
I realize it, I just don't care.
It'd be cool if something innovative launched in Europe for once. Nearly a billion people with very few global consumer technologies originating there.
Air Force, SpaceX mum about sky-high rocket costs
With Google Stadia you can still purchase the game and play it forever.
Records were exclusively owned. Theaters and DVD rentals were never subscriptions, they were rentals.

We had game rentals too. Either way, I would argue that the shift from rentals and subscriptions based around exchangeable physical goods, to an exclusively streamed experience is a big shift, and a big deal.
I'm not too worried about it personally, the only tech company I think that has a competitive offering in this space is Microsoft (with Game Pass and potentially xCloud). All others are doomed to fail.
I've got a 2 TB Sabrent NVMe drive right now. Apart from budgeting for a replacement drive every few years I don't do anything special.
I feel the gaming industry is segmented in a few universes these days. There's the universe of high budget AAA games, where decisions made by corporate execs often ruin great ideas, or you get the same exact game re-released every 1 or 2 years under slightly different name. There's the world of mobile gaming, where every single game seems to be the same gacha experience that trains you to open the app every minute to get timer-based dopamine drops. There's the indie games, where great ideas are implemented on low budget. There is the retro game universe. And others.

I feel that streaming can't really take over all of these universes. Sure it may dominate some of the AAA titles I don't care about where latency is not an issue, but I can't see it taking over everything. And for it to become even remotely popular we'll probably also need some breakthroughs in terms of latency.

Some gaming communities even have a lot of power in terms of pushback for bad things. Look at the fighting game community (FGC) where they basically boycotted Street Fighter x Tekken, Marvel vs Capcom Infinite and other titles there were either doing crappy stuff.

We can resist crappy things pushed to us.
That's pretty close. It's a bit different since the letter is part of a visual instead of as an initial, but it is surely a type of acrostic. Thanks!

EDIT: You're totally right. Here's another one for STAR, which is along the exact same lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDqwB6GMaGo They do refer to it as an acrostic poem.

Finally I know what they are. Double Thanks!
Sure, kiddo. Does your mommy and daddy know you're using the computer?
Sprints that don't ship something (i.e. "deliver user value") are just arbitrary timeboxes. They probably can just be progress checkins without all the overhead of Scrum ceremony.
Taking this to some sort of terminal conclusion ("all games will be rented and streamed") is going too far.

The current situation doesn't serve everyone either. You need a decent desktop computer or console, the space for it (desk, monitor, tv, peripherals), and an interest in even owning all that crap to play many modern games. And more to enjoy them at any decent fidelity. That's a crappy deal for whole segments of the population.

Imagine if we were going the opposite direction, from streamed games to locally-run games. You could ignore the upsides and just focus on the downsides all over again. Ugh, the greedy companies now want me to invest $60 just to play their ONE game, and put wear and tear on my own $1000 machine? Hell no, capitalism suxxx!

I built a desktop computer just to play Stellaris on anything more than the tiny galaxy. I bought $900 of parts that fit in a shoebox sized case I could carry onto a plane. A subscription service with a good CPU would have let me enjoy the game without all that. There's downsides, there's upsides.
Not being able to use apps that Apple deem inappropriate: there's no PornHub app for anyone who wants that. Or more recently Microsoft's xCloud streaming app has been blocked even though it's not different than something like Netflix.
Could you elaborate on why it's sad? I'd like to know the answer. I always knew the bat-soup hypothesis was little more than guesswork, but I never got the news of a more recent, more accepted hypothesis with solid evidence. Is there one?

Maybe we're interpreting "official" differently.
> Neutrality doesn't just happen. No matter how neutral a system it is at one point in time, people will continue gaming it and it will cease to be neutral. There must be continuous active response to maintain that neutrality.

This is a scary thought - an algorithm that "decides" what neutral is, and pushes all its users towards its predetermined neutrality.

All of this talk is nonsense if we can't define neutral - which we can't. If Facebook is going to be an arbiter of that, they need to be responsible for the content because they choose what content is shown and when - if it was just a timeline feed, they would bear no responsibility.

Facebook wants to make all the money and not scare off customers - a clear conflict of interest.
No; when are you thinking of? [0] gives a good overview of the North Korean struggles over the past few decades, going back to the Korean War. You might be thinking of the famine in the 1990s, when the government took total control over food supplies. However, this was not UBI. It was not cash handouts but food handouts, and it was not a supplementary diet but a restriction on total food per household.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXaIpTj3vOs
Rocket Internet has the amazing skill of buying healthy companies, assure founders they are not going to shut them down on third party interests and shutting them down on third party money settlement.
They are plain old assholes.
Because people who support these measures are all about the intentions and never care about the results. 60 years of welfare and things are worse off now than before.

We know the solution to poverty, here and everywhere else in the world, is to teach, help and allow people to generate wealth. Instead, programs like welfare only make people completely dependent (for generations) on stealing money from others to the benefit of politicians.
What other app store is there on iOS?
I agree. Your unit tests should focus on testing individual pieces, the fundamental building blocks (classes and functions) that you have in your system. The changes should be isolated so when a class API changes only those unit tests would need to change.

I find the key thing here to be separation of concerns. Aim for testable classes and functions and that will make you also thing about the depencies.

For example I have class implementing NNT protocol. Initially one could think that this class needs to deal with IO or even worse with socket based data transfer. But if you think about it doesn't. The api can be based on an idea of getting a buffer full of data in and getting buffer Full of data out. Class coupled with IO/socket functionality = coupled hard to test without its trivial to unit test. (Reduced functionality class only maintains the protocol state doesn't concern itself where the data comes or goes)

Reference.

https://github.com/ensisoft/newsflash-plus/blob/master/engin...
It has been nominated for best comedy podcast year after year.
A Guided Tour of the Precursor Motherboard
Both Scrimba and the language it's written in, Imba, blow my mind! Truly an amazing job on helping the web move a tiny step in the correct direction.
Ok, but what are the implications of that? If I own 0.001% of a private company—having decided to opt out during this process—am I at the mercy of that company in the future to determine how much they're willing to buy me out for?

How hard would it be to locate another 3rd party to buy my share? There's no longer an exchange to trade it on, and there might be all sorts of additional rules about how and who I can sell to.

Those are the questions each investor is asking themselves, and I assume that even with the large discount they're being offered, it's probably the better choice unless you hold a significant minority stake.
I went with standard domes but it took a second visit to get the size right since they take time to conform to your ears. Custom molds are another option but they told it I would get a more plugged up feeling so I stay with a more open dome unless really needed. Also there is some time for adapting to any changes in settings. They also bump up the gain with each visit to reach target levels. A big jump might be too much.

I think there is room for optimizing the whole process but anything medical related tends to move slowly. I still find the phone app a little slow and cumbersome. And switching between bluetooth devices is a pain. I wish Apple and Google would put more effort in improving that aspect.
This is roughly equivalent to DRM - you can play it so long as the service is available, but after that you lose it forever and are not getting a refund. So you aren't actually purchasing the game, you're renting the ability to use it so long as Stadia is operational.
You can't on iOS because there is only 1 store.
My comment was more directed toward the grandparent, which had their own set of comments regarding Open Source software. By and large, I'm happy with the announcement and how you're handling these terms carefully.

My only nitpick is the repeated statement of:

> a source-available license that was open-source in spirit

Which, um, it's not. I understand you're trying to thread a needle here and protect your business but it's not following the "spirit" of the community. You're removing a rather fundamental freedom by introducing your own license. That's rather antithetical to the whole idea of Open Source
> Really the only practical limitation that I can see now is if you're AWS you can't launch a competing service with Timescale by leeching off their software without paying for it

If you're calling your potential licensees leeches, you probably don't have Open Source in mind.
This is exactly the point I'm trying to make.

Downvoters: please explain why censorship would be identical to moving feeds away from filter bubbles.
Two major points:

* Many subscription services have managed to return good value to consumers, for example Netflix. Other services are more contentious but I would argue are also good value: Amazon Prime, Spotify, and Costco.

* I've never worked at a large tech enterprise company but I believe the following statement to be true: Large companies are risk averse and can only focus on a handful of board-approved moonshots at a time. Seeing another large company do it serves as a carpool lane for it being approved. Employees at company #2 are incentivized to work on (and be bullish towards) those cloned projects because they offer the most opportunity for quick advancement.

I personally find it hilarious that the "smartest minds" at "the best companies" are still doing little more then a grown-up game of monkey-see monkey-do.
But it's better overall for a user because it allows competition for the marketplace. Do you only shop at Walmart because it's convenient?
NFR is extremely important when you’re actually trying to solve specific problems. If the ideal solution involves some output randomness then neutral networks on their own are useless. Poker for example is a terrible fit.
Support for Epic never took root anywhere.

Because everyone can see Epic for what they are: a billion dollar company who wants their own monopoly.

Do you think Fortnite will be available on competing stores ?
C++ rewrite of Apache Spark yields up to 20x performance
Not necessarily, it will also come down to exclusives. Google has already been buying up game studios and the games they release will never be on Luna. I anticipate we're going to see the same fragmentation as we're seeing in the streaming world.
This is true. I got a lot of downvotes for my GP.
"United States President Donald Trump insisted a photo of himself on Twitter that made him look poorly spray-tanned was 'photoshopped, obviously.'

The photo, which began making its rounds on the internet on Friday evening, is a close-up of the president on the White House Lawn."

https://globalnews.ca/news/6525816/trump-tan-line-photo/

Whether the photo is actually manipulated is an exercise for the reader.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/us/politics/trump-tan.htm...
I haven't been on Facebook for about 6 years, so I'm kind of out of the loop. I need more info about this. That's wicked.
Doesn't negate the point.

Epic would have exclusives not available on other stores.
Definitely understand the conflict. Im not sure which direction is best, all I know is that the internet feels a lot smaller now than it did 10 years ago.
Library content is strongly curated. You don't self-publish to a library, so in the sense that anti-semitic works exist in libraries, they do so because of historical relevance.

If you're a guy who advocates the supremacy of the white race on lbry, I challenge you to make it into a library
Idk about that. The iOS developers I've seen have largely been supportive of Epic's actions, even Epic's motivations might be unsavoury. It's the users that have pushed back, out of fear that a more "open" iOS could turn their iPhone into a Windows XP-esque privacy, security and UX nightmare.
> 3. Singleplayer games are dead

While they certainly aren't as common as they used to be, this is quite a stretch. Some of the Playstation's most popular exclusive titles have been single player games: Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us 2, God of War, etc. Same thing for Nintendo: Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey.
Sounds like the F-35 might be a better analogy then. Astronomically more expensive, extensive but questionable feature set.
God those awful Republicans and their wars. Too bad the current democratic presidential candidate was the person that drummed up support for the invasion of iraq. How awful it would be if you could watch videos of him doing such...
Fortnite’ Maker, Spotify Form Advocacy Group to Push for App Store Changes
Ask HN: Why do recommendation algorithms suck?
I see plenty of discussions about recommendation algorithms sucking (ex: YouTube).

When I hear about recommendation algorithms someone always brings up Machine Learning. I've been thinking about how to make a better recommendation algorithm, here's my idea:

First, we ask the user to select topics he likes from a given list.

Second, we ask the user to select topics he dislikes from the same given list.

Then we present recommendations of 4 types :

(Familiar) : Content from topics the user clearly likes.

(Fresh): Content from topics that the user likes that intersects with topics that user does not dislike.

(Novel): Content from topics that the user does not dislike.

(Hit-or-miss): Content from liked topics that intersects with disliked topics or content from liked topics that intersects with not-disliked topics that intersects with disliked topics. (more brefly: [like and disliked] or [liked and not-disliked and disliked])

We present those 4 types with the following ratio :

(Familiar) 50%

(Fresh) 30%

(Novel) 18%

(Hit-or-miss) 2%

Each time the user watches a video from type (Fresh),(Novel) and (Hit-or-miss) we give the opportunity to the user to add the topics of the video that are in doesn't disliked or disliked to the liked category or not-disliked category. If the user does not do anything it stays in their respective categories.

At any time the user can change his preferences in the settings.

I wonder if others think that this is a good idea for handling recommendations? Do you think that it is better to do it that way as opposed to relying on machine learning or the tiktok 5 sec rule.

Was inspired by this discussion specifically : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24578603
> I think thats an unfair, and frankly agist extrapolation.

Is it ageist to point out that Facebook is ageist in its hiring and operations? Or that Facebook encourages its employees to be overly dependent on Facebook?

What some would view as a "perk" — the company providing every meal — others would view as a downside. What if you prefer to be home and have meals with your family?

"A major sell to candidates is our office perks include free food"

"with work from home, we’ve lost a huge financial part of our package"

For those who prefer not eating meals at the office, how fair is it that this is considered a significant perk of Facebook employment? I'd say that whole thing could be considered kind of ageist. It's certainly highly unusual, compared to most other workplaces in the world.

You mentioned "inefficiency", but it seems that efficiency is ruling out relationships with people outside of work. ;-)
I know a lot of people who game I don't know anyone with stadia. Even Microsoft's Xbox streaming is better. Stadia was a solution looking for a problem that can't justify its own subscription costs.

The recently launched Xbox streaming is a better solution with a ton of included games and I don't think that's any good either it's just an add on to their game pass ultimate subscription.

Google will either have to dump a ton of money into it while looking at what their competition is offering, or let the time on their contractual obligations run out and shutter it.
Delivery Hero too, they just entered the DAX
I'm not a smoker, but adding a nice flavor to a (previously unflavored) cigarette seems to be 'superior and novel'.

You originally posted that:

>"Advertising is an act of malice, particularly with addictive products."

But changed it to:

>"Manipulative advertising is an act of malice, particularly with addictive products."

What do you see as the difference between "manipulative advertising" and regular "advertising", and how is either (or both) malicious? Advertising is basically telling people that you are offering them something, and trying to persuade them to buy/use it, and I am not sure how that is "characterized by unscrupulous control of a situation or person."