skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://imgur.com/XwyReNw

The above is a fairly interesting flowchart detailing where all of the core employees moved on to after leaving Blizzard. Some have met success, most have folded.

To me, the only employee that ever mattered was Chris Metzen. He was the one who developed the core of all of their stories and personally approved every quest in WoW. If you're going to try to get players to emotionally connect to characters and story arcs, I would think that the writer would be the best place to figure out how.
The banks service all of them and nothing much happens to them. Who are the real crooks?
The British Interplanetary Society (JBIS is their journal) has a great history of publishing the first engineering studies for grand projects -- crewed Moon missions (1938), geosynchronous satellites (1945), interstellar missions (1973), and more:

https://www.bis-space.com/what-we-do/the-british-interplanet...

I agree with your general point (why send humans when robots will do?) but the engineering feasibility studies push the envelope of what we can imagine -- and reveal where more work is required. I tend to read JBIS from that perspective.
Thanks for reading! Yeah it's certainly a dramatization and speed up of a few things. It was more to illustrate what I think is coming down the line, and how they will all interplay together :)
To the best of our understanding, the surface of Venus is isothermal, meaning that there is little variability in temperature, whether on the pole or equator, day or night. That 2016 rash of articles about "cold poles" on Venus were rather misleading interpretations of a single scientific paper about a measurement from the upper atmosphere.
> This looks to me like the EU doing its typical thing of issuing memos to generate more memos, that will then generate more memos ...

Last time we had this shit, we ended up with Article 13. EU parliament has historically been rather unimportant so many parties, especially the conservatives, took pride in using the parliament (and the commission, see Oettinger) as dumping ground for toxic waste politicians or for party soldiers who needed a stable income.
We shouldn't go to Venus because it's like Africa?
None. No, seriously.

The biggest advantage of RaspPi is the Linux support. Install and play.

Atom? Only recently it started to run without hopelessly freezing and a whole lot of patches on top of mainline kernel.
I'd love to know the overlap between Linux users and those who prefer Edge as their main browser.
You could trivially (or rather, mechanically) emulate HW bounded stack with a heap-based stack collection (like std::stack).
Oh I did not think about that or know that. That’s true.

“Recent studies from September 2019 concluded that Venus may have had surface water and a habitable condition for around 3 billion years and may have been in this condition until 700 to 750 million years ago.”
Oh wow! I'll make sure to check them out. Thanks a lot for reading :)
Heh, HPL... Fitting name
I’m not saying that making the basic machinery for PPE is easy compared to say, simple firearms. They’re obviously more complex. But they’re also a known problem; we’ve been making PPE out of the same basic materials since 1972. Compared to other large scale efforts the US has undergone to fight wars or handle other national pride situations, making more PPE machines is both cheaper and simpler. It does not require the creation of new technologies, nor the whole sale mobilization and re-organization of our society. All it requires is the application of enough money to buy an F-35 or two to rebuild the machines that were dismantled back in 2000.

This is not complicated, we just lack the will as a society to fix this.
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I played through the first and part of the second. First one is quite scary and has an engaging story!
I agree, and that was my point. You seemed to brush off that a previous leader made a mistake because it was less significant than a current leader. I'm saying it's important to recognize that both messed up and in the future we should avoid both mistakes.
I mean contributing as an outsider. I really have a problem contributing to open source projects of a company where I get the feeling that the upper management is simply filling its pockets.
Me thinks they used the Fantasy Place Name generator. . . https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fantasy-town-names.php
Easier said than done. Being concise is hard. Even this comment has 3 sentences when 1 would have sufficed, and one of the sentences is an overly meta multipart monstrosity that is adding no value and should be removed.
I was using fish, wasn't working there either. thanks :)
There's really no need for such a salty comment. OP just described their stack and the current server load. I didn't detect any arrogance.
> floating cities on Venus are not as cool as "normal" cities on Mars.

For me floating cities are much cooler.
This is really cool to see. I'm always recommending to students to implement a CHIP-8 emulator as a side project (https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/challengingprojects.html)

The Octo IDE discussed here looks awesome. One of the problems that I had with CHIP-8 implementations in the past is that my games would run differently on all of them.
It turned out that some things were just too hard to really understand. The weird thing is when you realize that actually we never understood how to do these things. People doing them are as competent as they need to be AND good storytellers/presenters about how they "know" what they're doing. Trying to tell a computer how to unambiguously do these tasks only revealed that nobody actually knows how to do them.

This is also why a lot of business logic software is a lot more crappy than it seems like it ought to be. For sure some of it is written by people who don't know how to design a good software product. But there's also a lot of it that can't be made well because the people asking for it to be made don't understand (on like a logical or specification level) what their job actually is.

If machine learning is a half-arsing industry, then it's only there because every industry that machine learning is attempting to augment is also an industry that is half-arsing.

EDIT:
And I think it's worth mentioning that I very well may owe my life to one of these "half-arsers" that I'm talking about. He found and removed a precancerous mole. The tests came back showing pre-basal cells (iirc). I asked a lot of questions about how he was able to identify the mole as problematic (and he saw it right off the bat even though my general practitioner and myself ignored it) and he really wasn't able to give a satisfying answer that didn't also identify other moles he said were (and have been) safe. He just knew it was bad and he was right.
I've wondered about the feasibility of transporting the abundant CO2 in the Venus atmosphere to Mars for the purposes of terraforming both planets at the same time.

It's been a while since I've done the the envelope math but if I recall correctly there is more than sufficient CO2 on Venus to provide an atmosphere for Mars the issue is just transportation.

The last time I thought about it I considered some sort of massive floating solar powered comet builder that would cool the atmosphere into large chunks of dry ice that could then be wrapped in a metal sabot so that the comet could be accelerated to mars via a mass driver.

As with everything in space and terraforming the key is scale so the equipment used would need to built in situ out of carbon from the Venusian atmosphere.

We are of course still a ways away from mastering self replicating carbon based engineering but the idea of terraforming both planets at the same time is neat to me.
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KaiOS shipped 100M units by May 2019, no idea what the number is now but it's much higher. Not quite "fundamentally irrelevant".
You could make the same argument about the ISS, yet it exists and we send people there all the time. A research station in the atmosphere of Venus would, naturally, study the atmosphere of Venus. If we ever ran out of things to research while there(unlikely) then it would simply be abandoned, just like the ISS will be one day.
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The Chevette was hugely popular in Europe as marketed by Opel and Vauxhall, part of the GM empire. Effectively it was an Opel sold in the US rather than an American car sold in Europe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543510
Thus the Nova, Chevette, Cobalt, Sonic, Neon, Gremlin and other names you don't remember.

Three of these models have seen refreshes and a resurrection in the market in the last generation, dunno if your intent was to suggest they don’t exist anymore and were forever lost to history but they do but they most definitely were not.
Well, except for the 'walking' bit, it being 50km above the surface.
Without FoxNews and Limbaugh, this isnt possible. So why do they want Americans to die? Why do they want them fighting each other?

That's the real issue and one that I am sad to say far too many HN posters are working on and against daily...

Advertising and content engagement. These two things and their unfettered pursuits have destroyed America. When the only thing that matters is the pursuit of money, based on false metrics and false promises, we die. And yes, we're watching America die.
Thank you very much for your advice! I will definitely work on it.
Oh, there is still time :). This is just part one...
Next chapter will be much more of a dive into how it's affected everyone.
What dictionary or translation database or service does this use?
I love that website! I use it all the time to get some inspiration for my hobby project names
Calorie restriction traced back to protein/methionine restriction. Better to just fast and take melatonin (sustained-release). 16:8, 18:6, 20:4, 24:24, 36:12, 36:36, etc. I am biased toward 36:36.

1-2 extended fasts per year.

I am wondering about another approach involving a bumping up of protein (0.75 g/lb for 2 days, 1.00 g/lb for 2 days, and 1.25 g/lb for 2 days) and a 42-hour dry fast wrapped around the 7th day. Melatonin (and calories missing on the 7th day) would be taken on the 6 feeding days. Last meal 3-4 hours before bed either way. The fast resensitizes to protein, same as happens when it's bumped up on 3rd days.

While many cry out against mTOR, it is responsible for synthesis of many relevant proteins: creatine, glycine, collagen, etc. The issue is more with mTOR being out of balance with AMPK. Melatonin and dry fasting helps restore the balance.

Ideally, one would increase IGF-1 as much as could be done naturally (ie, vitamins/minerals and eating frequency rather than excess protein or direct supplementation). DHEA, melatonin/progesterone, and hGH would then be adjusted to match the associated growth/pubertal year (eg, matching hormone levels of a 15 year old).
Also, based on our leadership (and the likely reelection of that leadership) and how many Americans are refusing to follow basic sensible health guidance, this pandemic is going to go on for at least another year, maybe multiple years. It makes sense to start now if the payout is 6 months later.
Yes, it absolutely is :). I <3 Kurzqeil
That is a very nice summary, much better than I could have written it.
Twenty five years ago, I couldn't think of a good name for a klein bottle company/hobby, and my wife said, "Acme". It stuck (and so did she).
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TRWTF is that they still have a link to share an article on (long defunct) Google+.
Not all therapy works that way.

For a lot of people seeking therapy, their issues do start with a personal sense of lacking. Starting with helping them to love themselves first makes sense.

If someone goes to a therapist with narcissistic tendencies or anger issues, I would expect less of the "me first" approach.
> A lot of the math competition winners I know are doing startups and HFT, so there’s that.

That's in line with my experience, too. Selecting olympiads is a preference for highly competitive people. In math, at least, collaboration is much more important.
Ask HN: Any boards / sites that advertise Non-profits / Charities for SWEs?
Hey there,

Was wondering if there was a board / site that specifically shows companies / charities needing Software Engineers? OR around that area.
I think there is a large community on android for this kind of stuff DIY style.

Probably why monkey island was released on ios only, so it has some drawbacks too.
DST is idiotic and disruptive in all sorts of health ways.
Ideally (IMO) you want your app to be recognisable - using plain material design feels bland - sort of like programmer art - as a user I'd gravitate towards a more custom/tailored look - when done well it communicates effort and thought was put into something (at least to me).
Those are some pretty big names. The gaming industry has shown over and over how smaller companies fight toe-to-toe with giant companies if they produce games that people actually want to play. I wish them the best. Everyone loves an underdog.
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Hah, and here I thought I only stick out when I ask for cawfee.
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Well, they managed to suppress this for 31 years so far. I wonder what other things are hiding in plain sight.
Frictional Games has always had good Linux support as well. I wish other companies would follow suit and release some of their older, abandoned (not that I would call Amnesia either) titles to the open source community.

Warzone 2100 had something similar happen and it gained a community revival.

Edit: I can't believe Amnesia is 10 years old!
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't most people who stutter not stutter when they sing? I always found that fascinating.
American exceptionalism isn’t just “we’re the best”, it’s also our (historical) optimism that we can solve any problem and that tomorrow will be better than today. There’s a baby in that bath water.
Exactly. Logo is a real programming language and it is a shame that it gets reduced to "that children's toy for doing turtle graphics" in pop tech culture.
> What does your typical work day look like?

A typical work day has me working in at least two different projects. Visual Studio/Rider is so heavy that I don't want to keep two instances of it running all the time and it's so slow that switching between projects in a single instance carries a heavy context switching cost. I also have a set of markdown files that I use as a second brain which I like to open periodically to check notes or jot down ideas.

> Do you work on multiple things that don't require coding?

I also write documentation, answer emails, review PRs, occasionally modify art assets, maintain team documents, etc. I don't always want Visual Studio/Rider hogging all of my memory or chewing up the CPU.

> Why does launch-time matter at all?

I hope what I already wrote made it clear but TL;DR I jump between projects, don't want multiple instances consuming all my resources, and (bonus) I frequently need to restart Visual Studio because it can get in to a weird state when working in C#/F# hybrid projects.
You made the right move, especially if you are doing graduate school in science (paid). I can't agree more; paying these fees to take Khan academy classes in your parents basement is absurd.
Idea for a freelance platform: Writing Software Tests/TDD as job specifications
Hi all,
I was recently looking through Upwork for some part time freelancing. Whilst reading through the job specifications, I thought that some of the specifications are quite ambiguous/unclear, which inspired the following idea:

- Instead of writing job specs in a written language (e.g. English), those requiring jobs write a set of software/TDD tests that exactly define the job requirements. If the test pass, the freelancer who wrote them gets the payment.

- I appreciate this requires some knowledge regarding how to write software tests, so perhaps would be aimed at people who simply want to outsource some of their work.

Does anything like this already exist?

I'd love you hear your thoughts? :)
Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the next 10 years?
There has been hype around hydrogen fuel cells being a source of green power for decades, but the hype cycle is currently ramping up significantly. Hydrogen fuel cell stocks such as PLUG and FCEL have gone up 10x despite the lack of any significant new breakthrough technology and a history of loss making and value destruction.

Just today, Bank of America research released a 103 page "Hydrogen Primer" in which they predict that the hydrogen space will generate $2.5 trillion in direct revenues and $11 trillion of indirect infrastructure potential. They believe that a tipping point is coming soon because of the falling cost of renewable energy and electrolysers used to produce "green" hydrogen, as well as better efficiencies in fuel cells.

My question is for the experts in the crowd here, either based on engineering experience or on first principles and physics, does this seem likely to you? Why do we really need hydrogen? It seems we are getting to the point where wind power and particularly solar power are now cost effective. Once we have better batteries for storage, what problem do we have left that requires hydrogen to solve? Is this just a giant promotional bubble being pushed by Wall Street and unscrupulous companies trying to sell a dream? I may sound skeptical but I genuinely don't know and would like to hear from people with more expertise.
Not sure if it's my connection, but the website seems to not responds.
Does cold fusion not have sub-problems that could be tackled at a master’s level? I don’t think OP was necessarily saying that they were proposing their master’s would be about solving cold fusion completely.
I can't wait for the "If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear" refrains to be trotted out yet again.

Inverted totalitarian klepto-plutocracy wins against any individual who doesn't take extra-ordinary measures when it builds a panopticon. "Let's see your 30 year search history and find a crime in there to persecute, I mean, prosecute you with. Or even a professional technical illegality would suffice. Searching all records." It won't be used so much to target the "baddies," but for unaccountable, omnipotent, NSA-style mass-surveillance.
Hey just install a growling speaker for sound and you're good to go. That's what they do on the pickup trucks.
>How could he support gay marriage without negatively impacting his ability to lead his devoutly conservative employees?

There’s no point in making this argument. Mozilla is company headquartered in San Francisco - and AFAIK, has the most “out” LGBTQ employees I can remember of most tech companies.

Just like I wouldn’t be surprised if Mitt Romney got raked over hot coals for not supporting a RBG replacement, I’m also not surprised Eich got kicked out for not supporting gay marriage. It was incredibly deaf on his part.
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That makes sense. In that case, then, is saying something 'is domestic terrorism' the right test of whether it's the right thing to do? It sounds to me like if you used that gauge you'd never overthrow a fascist government.
> low quality 1080p jpegs

imagemagick reports their quality as 75, based on a few I picked at random:

identify -format '%Q' marnie007.jpg
75

--- which is not terrible but not great either. The thumbnails are PNG. It's too bad they didn't use that for the full-size ones.
In the interest of driving conversation away from nostalgia-ism let's talk about the economics of a high-tier game career.

Morhaime has now left the company he helped found, and one he sold off eons ago. Now stepping into a new vessel he gets to sell a bit less equity this time around and bring along the cream of his leadership team. No doubt he funded the initial paperwork out of his own pocket, but soon accepted one of the flood of investment offers.

It is an old play book yet no one talks about it when the play succeeds. Remember that falling out Martin O'Donnell had with Bungie? Did you notice how Martin moved on to found his own studio, one which successfully shipped a non-trivial game? Now not only does he get all the creative control he wanted, but even all of the financial upside.

Video games are so successful even those people getting pushed out of the "golden castle" have the skills and connections to build their own castle. No doubt this would change if games were not such a quick growing industry, but we've maintained that growth for a couple decades now.

This I think leads back to a fan favorite topic: unionization in games. For the opposite reason one might think: those successful enough to be "too important too lose" for studios are more likely setup new studios before they ever spend their political capital on unionization. This leaves the suits, who by definition are incapable of setting a studio, and the "bulk of the creative team".

Hollywood could unionize because no matter how famous no star alone is capable of walking out the door to make a new studio. Thus the stars and more importantly directors saw the studios as overlords, not future peers. Games does not have that, and it is a core problem the games unionization movement needs to figure out a solution to.
The breakage problem is interesting. Right now, a.b parses just fine, so existing code will break when this is turned on. And that is an issue as people often turn extensions on per project, but it's also something a code formatter may be able to fix.

(Hopefully britanny will get an update to handle this correctly!)

They could, In Theory, rename the composition operator selectively when this language extension is enabled. That'd mean Prelude has to change what operators it exports depending on what extensions are enabled, which would be horribly magical.
Tesla sold ~50k cars in 2015. They sold ~250k cars last year. They are on track to sell 500k this year. See a trend there? And they just laid out concrete plans on how to grow by ~50% annually over the next 10 years. You are on hackernews. Surely you know how compounded growth works. Where do you think all this added market share comes from?

Toyota's sales dropped by over 20% this year compared to the same time last year. Ford's global sales dropped over 30% this year and they lost billions of dollars. In the same time period, in the midst of a global pandemic, and having to shut down their main factory for over 8 weeks, Tesla's deliveries grew 20% YoY in the first half of 2020. The Model 3 outsold even the Camry and Accord in California earlier this year.

"The horse-breeder laughs at the automobile man because he thinks no one can afford to buy one. Where is the horse breeder today?"
> How long until you'd need to revert the law, because all legal traffic is now exploitable, while the criminals are still using good crypto?

That's a common gun rights argument -- "If guns are illegal only criminals will have guns". How controversial could it be?
Ask HN: Should political social media posts be captcha’d?
Simple question, should we require users that make references to politics in their post be required to pass a captcha before their post is submitted?
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