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Hilarious that the bulk of complaints come from people who consider themselves "good" at the game, particularly content creators/streamers, because their entertainment product relies on them being the best in the server...

The games I've played/been playing with online MM are the usual ones... CoD (Modern Warfare), Halo (Reach), CS/CS:S/CS:GO mainly, and lately Valorant. Of all the games to do it, I think Counter Strike gets it the most correct. Cheating aside, the amount of play modes and available in CS has always been perfect for dropping yourself exactly where you want to play for these reasons:

1) 2v2, 5v5, 10v10 Casual, Battle Royale, Deathmatch all available natively in the game, on Valve servers.

5v5 Competitive is CS'S only "Ranked" mode. Wingman (2v2) and Danger Zone (Battle Royale) have ranks but I find they're pretty elastic in their MM.

2) The ability to run Community Servers with custom code... e.g. Surf maps, KZ (Platforming) maps, Retakes (now native in the new Operation), Executes, regular DM, FFA DM, XvX casual games.)

These servers are player-owned, player-maintained, and strictly "unranked".

3) ESEA/Faceit/et al. Pick up games for players who want to pay for better anti-cheat, tighter SBMM, and generally a lower skill floor. Also, "pug"s tend to -- more or less -- follow the rules in place for the pro circuit.

The fact that CS gives players the ability to "graduate" out of their SBMM and move into a pro/am competitive environment OR join a community server and play Zombie Mode OR relax for an hour surfing OR play a baseline ranked match is something that has allowed the game to endure so well. If I could suggest one thing to CoD, Valorant, Halo, and any other "competitive" game it would be support community and 3rd-party servers!

EDIT: By the way, SBMM leads to one annoying issue not touched upon in the article. Smurfing. Often, due to SBMM, a high skilled player can't play with their lower skilled friends. That sucks. Or, if I just want to ruin SBMM for 9 other people, I can simply make a new account, throw a couple games, get ranked low on purpose and then frag out. Smurfs are actually the glaring problem with SBMM, IMO.
How did you know? From the username?
Because even on the Left, we still have a sizeable population that is devoted to the War On Drugs and it's stated goals.
You should use sort() and ask whether it's okay to use the built-in?

They will always say it's fine and move. It would be extremely uncommon in the current decade to come across an interviewer who minds using the standard library.
I'm fine with SBMM, and I'm top 10 TDM for one of the recent CoDs (casual/nonpro). I want to play against better people; it's really no fun to me to easily win games.

The main complaint I've seen re: SBMM comes from top level players, including creators, who don't want to sweat / they want to beat players who aren't as good as them. To me this means SBMM is absolutely needed. Unranked play shouldn't mean better players can crush those who aren't as good.

This isn't even considering the fact that creators rely on looking good play-wise for their income, and SBMM makes this harder.
Can anyone tell me how’s their experience has been with system76 laptops
Not sure if there are studies of that or not, but clearly a lot of these decisions are not "science based". Politicians are just taking the easiest path to optimize for a single metric, reduced spread, and ignoring all other concerns.
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There are many people in SV that are very quick to bring up race, gender and diversity whenever a dispute arises. It's becoming predictable to the point of being problematic.

As a POC myself, I understand there is a time and place for this.. and it definitely isn't all the time, publicly, on social media.

I fear that people like Timnit are inappropriately wielding justice rhetoric to benefit their own careers, at the cost of actual injustices that may occur to others. This is just my opinion.
I'm still not sure what any of that has to do with my original comment, he was fired for "breaching the code of conduct". Other than maybe(?) the comment was some attempt at a "but they do it too" sort of reply you find on Reddit.

Judging by your interpretation of James memo I'm leaning towards that direction. Especially considering the fact James made multiple direct claims in the memo he was not suggesting anything of the sort which you are alleging (I have a feeling few people actually read the memo).

Regardless the two stories were very very different. Nor does his story match my comment's 'archetype' of a certain type of employee who always end up flaming out of their job, usually via making non-conditional demands (unsurprisingly coming from a bubble/worldview where it's entirely normal to have things which are not open to discussion).
Interesting, I see what you mean, but in my time working with python I've never seen that as an issue. Perhaps in different domains such as big data it might be a problem.
> Does it look like perhaps it's an artifact of automatic translation from one source to another?

Not that I can see. But I can't see how it could be anything else: I hope nobody is going to painstakingly insert "&nbsp;" manually everywhere.
This doesn't make any sense. Indented code does not have non-whitespace characters to its left.
They have been auto-creating an account if you go to reddit.com on an android phone logged into a google account. Not sure if this is intentional or not.
Every "woke" company in SV is going to go through this. I really want to know how "diversity' will help someone build a software company say a CRM app. How does a skin color/race help with that? If ideas of a different race matter, why should they be employees and not found through user testing/customer feedback? Coinbase, Google, keep it rolling.. No fully remote company has to go through this bullshit.
I don’t know who Graham is talking about—“politicians”?—but this is a very famous claim, or corollary, from Marx: capitalists exploit workers. Why? Because of the labor theory of value. (1) All value is created from labor. (2) Capitalists employ workers in order to extract surplus value from them (what’s the point of employing them if you don’t get more out of your “investment” than you pay it?). (3) Ergo capitalists exploit workers.

Of course millionaires and billionaires can still _work_ themselves in the sense given above, i.e. in a way that creates value. And one could argue that one can be a self-made (no exploitation of others) millionaire. But it becomes farcical to claim that a person can become a billionaire without exploiting people. Any person on Earth would need much more than one lifetime to create a Billion USD worth of value _through their own labor alone_.
> "Do X or I'll quit" is a childish way to negotiate

I disagree with this. It's really the only way to negotiate, pretty common. The wording is important here. If you word it as "Do X or I'll quit" it sounds childish, if you word it as "I believe the company should X, otherwise I can't see myself working here comfortably and will have to consider my resignation" it sounds professional, but the idea is the exact same.
> you most definitely exist in a bubble

Why am I getting so many comments like this - I am pretty explicitly stating that I am aware that I am in a "bubble", my social circle isn't perfectly representative of America. That said, I think that restricting the forums I frequent to one's with primarily people who are well educated is a defensible practice.

My claim is this: among the sort of forums where people are actually having discussions about Timnit Gebru's firings (ie. highly educated crowds of people who pay attention to the goings ons in AI ethics, Google, etc.), HN skews right-leaning.

All this talk about the "median American" is irrelevant to what I'm talking about because I don't really care to be in a discussion forum with the "median American", particularly post-Thanksgiving.
>I'll venture to say 100xers don't exist.

Maybe this is just a semantic argument, but there are definitely 1/100xers out there. Even worse, developers so bad that they are actually net negatives. They take up more of the senior's time through bug fixing and mentoring than it would have taken the senior to just write the code themselves.
Counterexample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Gretzky
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Yeah, I vehemently agree with every single opinion listed. I would add that comments aren't just extra, they are often outright lies.
Band Studio app allows musicians to record their music performances with MULTIPLE phones AT ONCE and achieve studio quality recordings without expensive studio equipment.
I wonder if central park and the other parks brings that down compared to Paris
Another Ocaml-ish option is of course, Rust. One thing it has additionally going for it is a complete node.js JS reimplementation (with deno.js, the runtime is mostly go inspired), a client side web browser JS/Webstack impl with bleeding edge webgpu, webasm, CSS support (servo, which was hoisted up to the Linux Foundation - https://servo.org). I think the ethos of servo is interesting since it should allow the web to more interesting dynamic web pages tailored for bandwidth, internationalization, and localization issues, thanks to the (years) of hardwork by IETF and w3c.
I wonder if the vaccine can also cause those effects? It seems that long term effects are caused by the immune system's response. Can the vaccine bring forth such a response? Would love if someone more knowlegeable could chime in.
>> ...there’s an entire political party who’s big premise is “any and all regulation is bad regulation.”

In fact, since Clinton took the Democratic party in a Neo-liberal direction (and made Reagan's dream of NAFTA a reality, "reformed" welfare, and the Glass-Steagall deregulation) I'm under the impression we have two such parties.
Do you work in an environment where design or code review feedback is anonymous? So why would it be the case for internal peer review of a paper?
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> Most of those people who pass the interview will personally fail to join the billionaire club.

And YC will not make much money from those people. They will lose money on a lot of them.
I don't know why Google is bothering to say anything. It's pretty obvious that those who support the person who left have anchored their opinions and won't change under any circumstances, and those defending Google are anchored as well.
I'm not the one saying people who criticize "domain experts" deserve to be fired. I think both are within the realm of discourse and shouldn't be retaliated against.
U.S. to pull out of Open Skies treaty
About to write some possibly controversial stuff...

My early life, I grew up and had middle to upper middle class all around me. In my late teens and early twenties, there were times I had to scrounge my cushions and rummage through my car to find enough change to eat a meal.

We live in a society where everyone has access to a computer—personal or local library. We have all the information we need to bring (the majority, but not all) ourselves up from poverty to lower middle class or even middle class.

It’s my belief that it boils down to a few things:
- self learning
- dedication

Self Learning: if you must, pirate the crap out of all knowledge you need to get your family in a stable place. You need a textbook, you can find an older version; need a research report, find it online; you need.... just go find it and get it. If you don’t know how to find it, learn how to find it. If you don’t know where to start, ask someone. Just do...

Dedication: it’s so much easier to just come home do what you need to do with the family and then sit down and watch tv or do something that’s not going to progress you. It’s not fun and your mind will fight you every step of the way, but what’s more important to you? The show that’s on in an hour or the stability of your mind and family? Don’t look for those immediate returns, yet rather look for those returns that pay off in a year or two or 5. As i said, it sucks, but what’s more important?

One thing I’ve noticed over and over again is the difference between being raised in middle class or upper middle class vs poverty is the view of the work place—I’m not saying this is true for everyone, but just what I’ve observed over time.
- Middle class and up: not as scared to talk back, speak your mind, or challenge their opinion to your bosses or colleagues.
- Poverty: fearful of doing the aforementioned

I, for some reason see this as one of the largest issues with advancement as it propagates to not just the work life, but also the personal life too and thus creates a fear of challenge—it’s better to go with the status quo than to break out.

How can this change? Learn learn learn and then go find a place where you can apply your new skills and then just keep learning instead of doing the easy thing...

Thoughts?
I feel as though I closely missed out on a friendship that could have meant a lot to both of us.

In September 2011 a group from Utah went to Vegas to start an entrepreneurial effort called "LaunchUp" I was going to go, but for some reason didn't.

A friend met Tony there and was recruited by Tony to head the Las Vegas startup ecosystem there.

I kept looking for a reason to meet him, and spent a month in Vegas back in 2017. I hung out on Fremont Street a lot, toured Zappos, and tried to contact him through every avenue I could, but couldn't meet him.

I became disheartened by the business and startup ecosystem in Utah, and began moving everything from Utah to Arkansas right at the time he was moving in.

It feels like we had a bunch of near misses and I can't help but think that things could have been different if we had connected.
It's also still useful as a general approximation for "how long should I expect to wait for the next train". Same with the bus lines.
If your goal is drug discovery by checking out relevant protein structures, then you'll be lucky with useful structure information ~2/3 of the time (perhaps less, if you are depending on interactions of more than one protein).

If it was possible to accelerate drug discovery by looking at computed protein structures rather than protein structures established experimentally, it has now become plausible to do so. It has crossed a tipping point.

Since I'm not aware that there has been any drug discovery that has strongly depended on computational protein folding, this possible benefit remains to be seen.

[I worked in a lab which was heavily involved in CASP, the protein folding competition, but I was not myself involved]
1. If you use, say, 5 icons and there are, say, 250 icons in the full font, then you would need to download the page 50 times to just equal the bandwidth. That's assuming the cache doesn't expire, or it's not an incognito session, or you're not loading it from a CDN where it won't get cached anyway.

2. If you do find this irresponsible, then by all means create a small SVG file with the 5 icons in it and allow that to be cached, or even 5 small individual SVG files if it comes to that.
Sorry, just to be clear, they are obscure, not secret. Anyone can compute primes. No prime is secret.
"The pandemic has put crushing pressure on me"

What's your perception of why the pandemic has caused a shift in pressure for you?

I ask because, like you, I feel much more stressed, but I can't really put my finger on why because my job has mostly stayed the same (besides going remote). Is it all just because of a reduction in in-person social contact? Or is it something else? In the beginning of the pandemic I got into a sort of manic mode of "do more faster" which was clearly not sustainable and caused me to almost burn out. The funny thing is there was nothing external pushing me to go faster, just my own brain and patterns. Are you experiencing something similar?
No one is forcing him to be the head of Google's Brain division or to manage other people.
Her manager said "effective today".[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334364736457240577
Thank you. I’m not sure what to think. It seemed absurd to submit a paper for internal academic review one day prior to a major deadline. Yet today we’re hearing that it’s common (I can believe that; standard big company stuff) and that Google hasn’t been doing academic reviews at all until very recently / possibly this incident.

So it feels like, suddenly, the cornerstones of the arguments against her are vaporizing before our eyes. This could go badly for El Goog unless they stop making official statements on the matter.

Saying nothing would have been better than giving a convenient post for all the former Google employees to come out of the woodwork and say “That’s not true! Google never did academic reviews; they solely checked whether business IP was being exposed.”

It’s ironic that people are painting her as unprofessional in that context; I’d be frustrated too, if that’s really the situation.
This is a well-written story, but I feel like it was streamlined a bit too much, attributing canceling the invasion to the discovery of Cai Xiaogan's spy ring as the single deciding factor. A similar, yet completely different, single-factor explanation is that a large number of PLA soldiers learning to swim in preparation of an amphibious assault ended up infected with Schistosomiasis, because the Schistosoma japonicum parasite is endemic to China's coastal rivers. https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-fluke-that-thwar...

I was also a bit surprised by one big omission in the introduction of Cai Xiaogan:

> In the 1920s, he left Taiwan as a teenager to attend school in Shanghai. On campus, far from home, Cai was apparently lonely and confused, making him easy prey for communist recruiting efforts.

In 1927, hundreds or thousands (depending on the source) of dissidents were killed in the Shanghai massacre, even though Kuomintang and Communists were theoretically allied. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_massacre Nowadays, killing dissidents would be more expected of the Communist Party, but back then, they were the victims. If Cai was in Shanghai at the time, witnessing the KMT's violent suppression of their political enemies likely contributed greatly to his decision to join the CCP and eventually lead their espionage efforts in his native Taiwan.
SBMM is fine and has been around for more than a decade now (probably longer).

The problem being discussed widely today is that developers have a dark incentive for players to lose when purchaseable lootboxes are present. SBMM is just one (and fairly benign) tool developers use to lower players winrate.
Because this isn't peer review — or at least, it's not meant to be (per the top-level comment). That's the whole issue, really: there already exists a peer review process to ensure the paper's academic rigor, so why is Google hiding behind a claim of the necessity of anonymity for a corporate (not academic) process?
If I storm into my manager's office and demand a set of conditions, or else I resign on some date, and my manager says "Well, fine, we accept your resignation, but it's effective immediately" I don't really have a problem with my manager calling it a resignation.
Exactly. That would be very unfair to those employees. How she treated Yann LeCun and how she now publicly bashes Jeff Dean it is no doubt that those employees would also be named and shamed publicly. She threatened to resign and her resignation was accepted. Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk :)
Because typically your academic journal peers don't work for the same bosses you do.
> Ownership capped at 1 billion, you get a sticker saying "I won capitalism" and all further growth and income goes to the government for social programs. You get a new ticker that estimates lives saved and people homes/fed/educated - that becomes your new boasting figure.

But that would be a lie since most of that money/value was created by other people, most likely their employees.
To be fair Hsieh’s story doesn’t sound like it has anything to do with “pressures of being a founder”.

I mean his “work 100 hour weeks to achieve success” days were long over. He was basically quasi-retired, and clearly had been checked out of his Zappos management role for some time.

This is much more a story of someone who has already achieved all the success in the world and seemed to turn to drugs as many do as an escape or search for greater meaning in his life to his detriment.
My killer unpoly features:

* easy AJAX loading like turbolinks (<a href="?page=2" up-target=".content">)

* easy AJAX modal (<a href="/users/new" up-modal="form">)

* submit a form whenever any input changes (<input type="search" up-autosubmit up-delay="500">)

* respects the way HTML is intended to be used, so the page still works even when JS is disabled
New patterns emerge but not to solve the class of problems that Patterns solve. Many of the problems in OO, emerge due to OO's poor fit as a strategy to write software.
The pandemic happened to hit while we had a particularly idiotic populist demagogue in the White House, but even if we'd had someone more competent I still agree that China would have done better. Assuming you believe their numbers, China seems to be doing better than most of the world.

I chalk up China's governmental competence to the number of scientists and engineers involved in their government. It may be authoritarian and a bit of a nightmare, but unlike the majority of other governments in the world you have a few decision makers in there who have some clue how the world actually works. Most other government are run by lawyers, career bureaucrats, delusional ideologues, or leaders who inherited their position either officially via some line of succession or de-facto via institutional nepotism.

There are some of all those categories in China's government, but there are also apparently enough people who actually know how to do things in the real world.
Nor by forming a B corporation... as far as I know.
Dunno, seems more like now. Amazon has arm instances, there's a bunch of arm systems in the server space already and the world's fastest HPC cluster is already arm.
Nice UI and great idea. Thanks for sharing.
> the textile industry accounts for more greenhouse-gas emissions than all international flights and maritime shipping combined; as recycling markets break down, its contribution could soar.

This doesn't bother you?
If your company pays for your research, expect them to review it. This is not surprising and is par for the course in corporate research environments.
I searched HN; nobody had submitted this story from any source to the best of my knowledge. First I heard about this Project Whitechapel was today when Dave2d mentioned it in a video about upcoming next gen (2021) smartphones, props to Dave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7HxYOaFr88 – couldn't believe it hadn't been discussed here.
Almost. The straw-man is that future billionaires start out to exploit people.

The exploitation is a side effect.
> Which means O_O and OwO are the only emoticons that are also valid environment variable names.

O_o
Intel to Outsource 'Atom and Xeon Based SoCs' to TSMC
This is a place where Go's duck typing really shines. You can create a mock class without having to modify the actual code.
TIL! Thanks for that.