skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, what if ebola and covid-19 had a baby, and then that baby, and then the flu and plague had a baby, and then those two babies fucked?

That kind of disease would totally wipe us out.
Good catch, thanks! Should be fixed now.
I agree with most of your comment, but want to point out that you're falling victim to the framing set by the IP maximalists:

freely cash-in on existing IP

I would reword this as "freely remix the culture that suffuses their minds and experiences"
No, no they weren't.

The problems we have is an organization tasked with transporting millions over the timespan of a year at speeds approaching Mach 1 ended up in tge position whereby financial growth outpaced it's primary reason for existence. To manufacture and support the distribution, operation, and uptake of safe passenger airplanes.

Until you get rid of that modus operandi from the upper management, you'll not see a significant culture change.
The big weight around their neck was releasing it on the last gen consoles. I suspect it wasn't that high on their priorities to optimise it on 7+ year old hardware.

It's a tough one, maybe they could have bit the bullet early and said this will be a PS5/Xbox SX/PC release only, but hindsight is wonderful thing...
Hunger Threatening to Kill over 4M Africans Soon, WFP Launches Hot Appeal
There are many ways to pay for hosting. Ads are just one way. Since they have proven so lucrative for some well positioned businesses, those businesses have pushed the meme that the only choices are ads or paid subscription. There are other ways. I’ve run sites where I happily paid
the hosting bill because I correctly suspected it would lead to me getting the job I wanted down the road. You could say that sounds like
advertising, but it was not run as a business, much less an advertising business. There was no self promotion whatsoever other than bragging rights.

Many people have agendas, including sometimes very positive agendas, that lead them to support online services of various types in order to further those agendas.

None of this is to say there’s no place for advertising or for paid subscriptions. I’m just saying there are often more options.
Also the “I don’t trust a vaccine approved by the Trump administration” crowd. It was hugely irresponsible to politicise the vaccine.
The entire "life of the author" thing is ridiculous. So you get a longer copyright for something you write when you're 20 than something you write when you're 70? Why? Are we trying to reduce the relative incentive for more experienced authors to continue writing?

Just make it 50 years.
funny how cyberpunk's woes are basically the inverse of NMS lol... no man's sky's tech was mostly there, but there was no content.

there's a good amount of story and voice acting in cyberpunk... but the tech to support it is extremely broken or not there.
I understand tour point but keep in mind that developerstht can work a bit remotely will makemih more than minimal wage of their country and more importantly minimal wage is a decision, you can have a rich country with no (or very minimal) minimal salary. Could be interesting to find 1st decile salary or median by example.
> then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

Do you publish your digested knowledge anywhere? Do you have a blog?
Tibetans might beg to differ on the CCP being less oppressive to foreign populations.
The books are the same. Every time the focus switches to Daenerys the quality plummets.

If I were to re read them I’d be strongly tempted to skip all the non-Westeros chapters
D has a similar feel to Nim, and excellent C integration. The GC is optional and it has good meta programming capabilities.
What if it's just a printer for making smaller planets? c'mon, riff on the idea a little.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Relevant.
While it may have been anautomated mistake, making his oculus account and paid games inaccessible at the same time seems inexcusable.
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may we call that the monsterz factory?
I guess this is why folks can't catch up to zoom, which somehow has TOTALLY gotten what people want. They even support admin deployed virtual backdrops.

Our intern (who I'm sure is in a shared / crappy space) has a zoom background from their college they drop in - looks clean / professional and they can participate.

I snapped a shut from my zoom camera at the office, and use it as the background if I'm at home (with bed behind me not always made up, boxes from our move still stacked up). It's practically indistinguishable - I got rid of my green screen because the auto replace is that good on zoom.

I bill at $100/hr+. Maybe low by silicon valley standards, but people have expectations in my non tech field.
DRY is just a another way of saying the best practice of don't reinvent the wheel. The difference being reinventing the wheel is applied to third party packages and DRY to you own code. The friction from blindly applying both is the same, dependency. This is especially apparent in JavaScript where literally thousands of dependent libraries can be pulled in and any two version incompatiblies can break the build. Pulling in any dependency usually means pulling in orders of magnitude more lines of code then will be used. The inert code relative to one's use can be subject to version incompatiblies and security patches no different than any other code. It can also be subject to build differences such as numpy and pandas being non-native Python and native Python libraries exist for many limited use cases. Of course none of this is an endorsement of cut/copy/paste development. However, it is an indictment of cut/copy/paste enforcement of DRY and the more general don't reinvent the wheel.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25443212
That puts you just below the top 10% of earners in the UK, which is not exactly cheap to live in so I would define that as very good salary. You have to remember that a) FAANGS have insane salaries not seen anywhere else but the price you pay as an employee is living in the Bay Area, which is hugely expensive and also, politely, not to everyone's taste. And b) the additional costs paid by an employer for things like pension, employer contributions to health care etc. are generally higher in Europe than in the USA so the total cost of an employee to the the employer and the concomitant benefits the employee gets (paid holiday, paid sick leave, protection from being fired for no reason, a decent pension) are much higher than in the USA. It's a trade off but I'd rather get paid 55,000 Euro and live in most of Europe than 100,000 Euro and live in most of the USA.
Software Architecture: visual lecture notes
I would posit that they're stimulating synaptogenesis and promoting functional connections to help counteract the loss of neurons as a result of the thalamic atrophy. In other words, stimulating the existing neurons to make more connections with the neurons available to compensate for there being less neurons.

However, I'm not a neuroscientist or neurologist.
The birthday problem involves random people with unrelated birthdays. This is like two not-random siblings both calling in sick in the same week. The case of two large Google outrages where the whole service gets conked has much more potential to have a shared or related cause than two birthdays happening at once. You're right that it's not astronomically small, but the odds of them being related seem healthier than the odds of them being unrelated.
haha nice, how far did you get on making the game?
That highest salary is pretty sad, are you sure that’s correct? Most bachelors students make that right out of school
No, the exchange already matches a buy at market order to the best limit sell. A market maker is who is filling up the order books with offers to buy and sell at different prices under the hope that a regular trader will come in later with a trade the other direction at a better price.
Current (last?) gen consoles were the original release target though. They started development before the new generation was even announced.
> How true is this? I hear this claim a lot but haven't seen any real benchmarks ...

I think you're trying to read into the statement something other than Arthur meant; The last part of the quote is just as important as the first. Allow me to try and explain.

It's pretty easy for an experienced C programmer to beat K at some things, for example:

int i,n;for(i=n=0;i<1000000;++i)n+=i;

is faster (with gcc -O2) than the "equivalent":

+/!1000000

which is more literally:

int N=1000000;*a=malloc(N*sizeof(int)),i;
for(i=0;i<N;++i)a[i]=i;
int n=a[0];for(i=1;i<N;++i)n+=a[i];
free(a);

but even an experienced C programmer will experience some fatigue trying to convert a K program to C in this way, and the K implementation is certainly faster than a literal translation (largely because it doesn't use malloc, but yes also because of careful vectorisation and parallelising of many of the operators).

It's my experience this difference adds up faster than anything else, and that's why a 20kloc C++ implementation of a HIBP checker was beat 10x by a 5-line k/q solution:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22467866

But make no mistake, I don't use k because it's fast, but because it makes me fast: five lines of code ain't squat to get right over 20k lines, so I'd prefer the k solution even if it were "only" just as fast as someone's C++ solution.

It does help tremendously though, that it's usually much much faster.
Article makes the right thesis, with the wrong points. Just because the biggest financier is Saudi owned doesn't mean Sand Hill road is going down. But in a way, the biggest SV VCs such as Sequoia, Accel, a16z, have all begun focusing outside of SV and looking at more regional companies - and a number of former classmates who are partners at these firms tell me that's not going to change any time soon.

Tbh, I feel remote work and big corporations moving out will further accelerate the decline. It's far easier for a tech firm to be a regional monopoly, than to come to SV and fight it out with an SV tech firm, eg: Lyft vs Ola or Didi or Grab.

The biggest appeal of SV is the startup environment, which admittedly does feel a bit suffocating at times.
Is it there any support for a premade UI like firebase does? that's a great time saver for prototypes
glad you got it!
My naming ticks are "tasks, process, items"
but what if I generate my binaries on a CI-CD server?
A Detroit like scenario means effectively an exodus of jobs, which technically is happening in smaller companies due to remote working and stuff - although FAANG are trying their best to force their employees to come back.

I don't think we'll get a Detroit, but we surely might get an OnlyFAANGs situation in California, as startups soon realize that value can be unlocked in places other than SV.
Passive aggression much.

Sigh, why would you think that a corporation that has shareholders, and no that's not inherently evil, should be charitable in any way it's not their money to just give as they please.

This is all perfectly reasonably, blender is a fantastic tool, and a poster child the successful open source development. They have really stepped up their game in terms of presentation and accessibility over the last decade.
hey thank you. how's your project going? definitely down, email me at guac@sqwok.im, thanks for checking out sqwok!
Platform Security Assurance Programs
"Let the code go through a few evolutions and waves of change. Then one of two things are likely to happen...".

That sounds great in theory, but how long is your evolution time and do you keep track of the changes in practice? I would assume a good evolution time is 3 to 6 month. I would say half the time I work on a story i face that decision. If you close 1 to 3 tickets a week you have to track a lot these decisions [1]. Now add that you work on a team of 5 and you have 5 engineering teams overall.. it seems to me that this approach does not scale.

[1] granted not all tickets will be new decisions in new places of the coffee base and you do come across some of your old changes and do the actual evolution.
Have you ever smelt (sic) maple syrup when it heats up while chipping away at it? Maybe it was a combination of steel and the coolant.
And how do i get back to a hypertext reader?
Thanks for taking the time to write something like this up. Your love of the subject comes across clearly, and it's a nice explanation!

My background is in algebra; these things excite me as well, but it's quite challenging to share the drama, beauty, and excitement with non-mathematicians.

Regarding the cyclic groups, they don't need to be constructed from a "trick" any more than the other finite groups. Think about the rotational symmetries of an n-sided polygon!

A lot of these finite simple groups have similar visualizations as symmetries of some geometric object. One of the tantalizing things about the monster group is that we haven't found anything like that for it. We don't know of what the monster group is a symmetry group.
It's hilarious to me, since those same users blamed Stadia for the late release. Oops.
I don’t know, is using micro services and a message bus “keeping it simple, stupid”?

So far I’ve yet to see a micro services architecture that I don’t think is massively over-engineered.

Also you can write your over engineered micro services perfectly fine in Java. There are even very nice tools for that specially designed for Java.
Does it have USB-C? Dark mode?

Jupiter is older than Rust and React, I think, so it probably runs some horrible legacy code like COBOL or PHP.
No Man's Sky actually aged like fine wine with the updates they pushed over time.
We still have to see what happens with CP2077.
Cambodia too. We had our first known case of community transmission three weeks ago. It topped at 41 cases and we’ve had no new ones for three days.

We have mandatory two week quarantine for all arivals, stores lose their business licenses if they let anyone in without a mask. Schools, cinemas, gyms, clubs are all closed.

We’re hoping things will open up again in two weeks.
On decentralized exchanges, a single ERC-20 coin transaction can sometimes be as expensive as $50+ in gas fees and take 15-30 minutes to confirm. Sending a test transaction of $1 is not always feasible.
I wonder what your expectations are. Why would commercial IDEs not use the same methods of lexing and parsing as research products?
Assuming they have a limited edition Xbox One X, that would’ve been a problem.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/xbox-one-x-1tb-console-cyb...
Maybe we are all living inside a simulation Planet Jupiter is running...and when it runs out of power, poof! We are gone!
While I agree that they should have cancelled some of the console releases there seem to be major issues in other parts of the game that are only partially related to performance:

* Physics simulation: Cars flying through the air upon hitting pedestrians; driving through walls/lamp posts
* AI: Police cars fail to pursue the player; NPCs and police "pop up" as your turn around

At this point I've enjoyed watching YouTube videos about the various bugs more than actually just playing the game.

Other games like GTA V, Skyrim or Deus Ex: Human Revolution have shown that believable world-building is possible with far fewer resources.

For 60€ players shouldn't be alpha testers for a half-baked game. It should have been obvious to CD Projekt Red that the game just isn't in a state where releasing it would be a good idea.
That was certainly a very conscious and no brainer decision for them as a business. The install base for next gen consoles is nil compared to the ~114mm PS4 and ~48mm Xbox one units sold. Given that they clearly wanted to sell to this customer base they damn well should have been optimizing for at least the pro models. I’d be choked if I was Microsoft or Sony because up until very recently (until the current base/pro split) the implicit contract with consoles was that games would run well on them. (With a few noteworthy exceptions in the past.) This release breaks that contract and this hurts confidence in consoles.

Unfortunately targeting next gen for a holiday 2020 launch isn’t realistic when you can’t actually get the hardware.
I'm a stereotypical Java dev even though I've used many other languages in the past. I think the author missed the point on what Java is designed for. It's supposed to be a friendlier, safer, more general purpose C++ for when you need good but not the absolute best performance. And in this I think its the best thing out there.

The cruft in Java, and hacks like Lombok to reduce it exist in every statically typed language I've used. And if you've worked on a big enough project you'll start to see why dynamic languages like JS and Python are bad choices for enterprise apps.

It's telling that every major dynamic language now has optional typings. Once you get to a certain size the ceremony around access modifier and statically typed objects makes sense.

And the author falls into the common idiom of "the JVM is huge it uses too much ram". Then advocates for dynamically typed languages with even bigger run times that use multiple times more ram. Dynamic languages like Python and JS, as a generality, use 3-10X as much ram as VM languages like Java and C#. They're also equally slower. And the runtime argument makes zero sense. V8 is massive. CPython is massive. Any popular language over time develops a huge runtime.

The author also complains about Spring. Spring isn't Java. There's a ton of Java web frameworks that aren't Spring. No matter how much you like Java you can always find common ground hating on Spring.

Overall the article is a common set of complaints from developers that never used Java or only did a few Spring tutorials, got frustrated at the complexity of the language, and moved on to something else.

Java is one of the fastest popular languages and uses way less ram than many alternatives. And the JVM is a great runtime, not a bloated one. Look at how massive V8 is and the JS standard library is still complete trash compared to Java's. The JVM is possibly the best runtime out there, and a big part of why Java is so popular.

The JVM has great and fast FFI, profiling, metrics, multiple world class GC's, it's rock stable, it optimizes code to within spitting distance of C, it handled projects with hundreds of megs of code with no problem.
Urdu/Hindi. So your basically excluding about 2 billion right off the bat. And as for your other point, it's not like the word just happened to be offensive, he deliberately sought out something he knew would be controversial.
If you actually take the word "contribute" to a better degree, if a work can be done by anyone even though the society needs it, it's not much of a contribution.
2020: Why a Bad Year Was Good for Security
I can't agree with the "they may hesitate" claim enough. We already see it in practice. Welfare and Medicaid are a political football, but Social Security and Medicare are untouchable because you risk angering the ENTIRE over-65 demographic, regardless of state, income level, or political affiliation.

We seem to throw out all our carefully honed consumer math understanding when the word "tax" appears. The same people that can intuitively understand that $1.49 Miracle Whip is cheaper than $2.99 mayo seem incapable of grasping that paying $1,500 in taxes to bankroll a NHS is cheaper than sending Blue Cross $3,000 per year.
Faith is a powerful thing.

No problems have been 'fixed the day they stopped flying'
> The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception... COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination. According to a senate report, the FBI's motivation was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order"

The court of public opinion is far more important than real courts. You only have to look at enlightened HN comments on Ross Ulbright to see it in action, nearly all are convinced he's guilty of a charge that never went to trial and was dismissed with prejudice, which is rare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

https://legaldictionary.net/dismissed-with-prejudice/
Agree with everything he said about Spring especially, but was surprised he advocated Python as the alternative, not Go.

Still getting up to speed on Go, but it seems a more straightforward replacement for Java in a microservice context. More performant than Python, trivial to deploy, and provides a good amount of static type checking.
Well, google is the new IBM, even Microsoft is more elegant and succesful in long term relationships. And this is huge from execution point of view IoT is a permanent blooming market with a brilliant immediate future, CEO and CTOs, or their respective product owners, are the solely responsables for this failure.

Waiting for a disruptor who will hit google on their main business within the next 10 years.
Iterating works well with software but not so well with airplanes.

And, you must admit that Boeing has shown utter disregard for rules through this process.
For a game to launch unfinished and to turn out disappointing is pretty common. Batman Arkham Asylum, Assassin's Creed Unity and No Man's Sky come to mind. Some even required full reboots, such as Final Fantasy XIV and the current work on Artifact and Anthem.

What's different here is that this is the first that that a major release is getting delisted or refunded by all the major retailers. CD Project Red did not have a track record of thrashing, or shipping something half-baked. The Witcher 3's main game and DLC are among the most polished AAA releases ever, and great value for their price. This drove lots of people to be excited by Cyberpunk, since 2013.

It's not just a story about crunch and unmet hype. It's a studio that simply let a lot of people down.
One of "VR" less discussed topics is that it leads to complete situational blindness and people get into various accidents trying to play something virtual on top of actual reality. Just like PokemonGo leads players to trespass and fall when they're absorbed in some fantasy game in their head.
I feel like Pandora was very good for this, at least up to the point that I left the States and could no longer subscribe.
A lot of that stuff isn’t necessary anymore in Modern C++ either.
> What are the chances...

A what point does the effort necessary to compute these odds become an exercise in apology and where does the need to exonerate CCP leaders come from? We do not hesitate to attribute the fall of every sparrow to Trump's incitement of his racist supporters, yet somehow we mustn't permit the attribution of the crimes of CCP's many minions rise to any meaningful height in the party.
It's nothing like Anthem. CP is a good game that was rushed out, Anthem was just bad.
Back when I was printing medieval manuscripts for personal use, I just made a jig with a hole every 1.5 inches, then used it to drill holes in the edge of a stack of pages. Zip tie each hole, clip the end off, and put a strip of packing tape over the spine and you're golden.
The unified memory actually means more RAM usage as textures that would only exist in the GPU RAM now have to live in the unified RAM. Unified memory is a great performance improvement but I don't think it translates into lower RAM usage.
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