skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The game tries so hard to be cool — to come off as crass and edgy, to talk tough and play like some kind of anti-capitalist anarchy generator. But you lean too hard into that act and it will always come off more like a desperate pose than anything honest

It's so true honestly. The game has the intellectual depth of a Che-shirt or that Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial.

What the game reminds me of is Mark Fisher's point about how we've lost the ability to imagine new futures, because Cyberpunk is the opposite of a futuristic game. Cyberpunk's notion of sexuality in the future is basically bolting a penis or vagina onto the opposite sex, everyone's driving around in retro-looking cars or motorcycles, nothing about it is actually novel other than the surface level aesthetic they've put on it, which has been virtually unchanged for four decades. The author is right that the most actual cyberpunk aspect of the game is in fact the development and sale of the game itself, like some sort of unwitting piece of performance art.
Is this what passes for "gaming press" these days? Cyberpunk is not supposed to be some watershed philosophical masterwork. It's a game, bro. And from everyone I've talked to it sounds like it's really fun if you have the hardware to run it, bugs and all.
iMac is due for a refresh soon, and I'm hoping that this means an M1 iMac that can serve as a Thunderbolt Display
> There is likely no such thing as a "bad faith" termination

Sorry but this is simply not true regarding vesting specifically. There are laws that prevent someone from being fired 1 day before vesting for the purpose of clawback.

EX:
This source is about retirement vesting. Not exactly the same, but close.

https://jimgarrityonline.com/2014/10/08/fired-just-before-ve....

This source says the following "assuming this termination is made for good-faith reasons, such as business downsizing or poor work performance.", implying that if it is not for good faith reasons, and just for getting back the shares, that this is illegal.

Also from this source: " In general, to avoid costly lawsuits, companies consider future vesting dates when terminating employees. They may delay the termination date, extend it by using "paid time off" days, or accelerate the upcoming vesting to avoid appearing to terminate an employee merely to forfeit soon-to-be vested shares."

So companies specifically try to avoid this situation, because they know it is illegal.

https://www.mystockoptions.com/content/can-company-fire-me-o...

Here is a source that says the following:

"These cases provide very powerful ammunition to employees who are either negotiating for additional severance or engaged in litigation with their employer.

First, Kelly and Newberger provide an employee who was wrongfully terminated with a legal basis to become fully vested in any options that were previously granted."

https://sebastianmillerlaw.com/fired-employee-entitled-accel...

And here are a bunch of lawyers agreeing with me that this is illegal:

"AT will is one thing, this is quite another. This is an obvious scam by the employer to avoid having your stock vest, which is not only not fair, its illegal in my view"

"In Mass., if an employer terminates an employee for the purpose of preventing a right to compensation to vest, the employee has a claim for the compensation. "

"There are certain kinds of showings that you need to make in order to be able to collect in this circumstance. The short answer is that you may very well be entitled to the stock."

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/i-was-terminated-one-day-...

Thats why I am saying that this threat needs to be documented. It is quite clear, that there are many cases where terminating someone, for the purpose of getting back shares or retirement or bonuses, is very illegal.
Blame intel. they could've landed 10gige in their consumer choosers any time in the last decade.
I actually came to post this. After noticing some weird terminology in the Twitter thread (I've never heard the term "Cucamonga Valley" used to refer to the neighborhood by Ontario International Airport) I found that hustle.co article which has very similar wording. I think the Twitter thread is just a paraphrasing with some jazzed up details
As others have noted, seems reasonably similar to LiveView, Livewire and Blazor. I’m somewhat bullish on these approaches - server side rendered monoliths (Rails, Django, etc.) are SO productive, at least for the first few years of development, but lack of interactivity is a big issue, and this solves it well.

However, another big issue is the dominance of mobile. More and more, you’ve got 2-3 frontends (web and cross-platform mobile, or explicitly
web, iOS and Android), and you want to power them all with the same backend. RESTful APIs serving up JSON works for all 3, as does GraphQL (not a fan, but many are). This however is totally web-specific - you’ll end up building REST APIs and mobile apps anyways, so the productivity gains end up way smaller, possibly even net negative. Mobile is a big part of why SPAs have dominated - you use the same backend and overall approach/architecture for web and mobile.

I’d strongly consider this for a web-only product, but that’s becoming more and more rare.
"Stuff Made Here" is amazing. I can't believe how talented that guy is. And he seems much less edited/fake than Rober (who I also enjoy). I watch both of their videos whenever they upload a new one, but "Stuff Made Here" appeals much more to my engineering side, and I appreciate the lack of "showmanship" that is so prevalent in Rober videos.
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Virtual machines are not a recent invention. They were already being used on IBM mainframes starting in the early 1970s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)

Notably, the VM operating system could run an instance of itself in one of its own virtual machines.
I've been farting around with Friendly's devices. Several of them have 2x PCIe, which I'm using/will be using for persistant storage, but I don't think you could compare anything they have to the compute module, especially with respect to PCIe.
US Treasury Department ban on ransomware payments puts victims in tough position
$18/hr adjusted for inflation. Almost a living wage back then. And unlikely to be paid today.
1. Roland fp30 digital piano - coming from a guitar background, learning the piano has made my music theory knowledge grow exponentially
2. Ubiquiti unifi home wifi - fun project to learn some more in depth networking
3. Synology nas - runs my pihole, Plex, and time machine backup
4. Charlottes web cbd / melatonin sleep gummies - way better than melatonin alone, feel great in the am
Pretty cool! If you are drawing and go off the edge of the screen, when you come back it doesn't let you draw again unless you lift up on the mouse button and press it back down again. Using the shift key was much less reliable than the mouse button.
I agree it is very impressive, but I wish he'd do something new for the holiday season. I feel like v3 is basically v2, but you can't put the lid back on. I wish he'd shake things up a bit.
> Small addendum since you are confused as to what capitalism is. Your 14 year old nephew does own capital: their labor

Their labour is a factor of production but it is _not_ capital. Here is an introduction to the factors of production: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Factors_of_production . (Notice that both in classical/liberal economics and marxist economics labour is distinct from capital)

> Their ability, depending on labor laws in their state, allow them to offer that labor in whichever market or not.

That is a commodity and _not_ capital and is normally discussed as the commodification of labour: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Commodity (Addendum: there are many examples of regulated commodities like those containing tabacco and alcoholic beverages)

> An option that would be deprived of them in a system that follows the prescriptions of "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."

How so? They would still be able to labour (according to their ability) and would receive what they need (food, housing, medical treatment, education, entretainment, etc.) according to their need.

Even in a capitalist mode of production you cannot "choose" to labour in a particular employment. The employer would gauge ability and the most effective number of employees; Lets assume that hypothetical nephew doesn't know how to cook and wants to work as a chef in a gourmet restaurant or isn't a nuclear engineer/scientist and wants to work as a nuclear plant operator like a fellow named Simpson.
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Do Windows on ARM devices tend to have hardware support for x86-style Total Store Order (as does M1), or is it all done through software tricks? If the latter, it's hard to see how it can be both performant and reliable.
That's not a mesh, that's just multiple access points broadcasting the same SSID.
The game is a little more nuanced than this write up would have you believe. You can tell the Silverhand character that he's a whiny narcissist with over-simplified views that blames everyone for his own problems. I'd argue Silverhand and Yorinobu are not the heroes, but it ultimately depends on how you play and what decisions you make.

You can also make fairly pragmatic decisions to do what makes the most sense in context. I wouldn't call it 'optimistic' sci-fi since the world is pretty gritty, but the techno-futurism, ability for people to upgrade themselves is pretty interesting, and achieving immortality for everyone is pretty optimistic even in that gritty backdrop.

It's worth playing to check it out, I'd ignore most of this over-intellectualized writing about it and just play it for yourself if you want to.
>there will be probably 2.5Gbe ethernet soon

NBase-T is the magic, will train 2.5, 5 or 10g over cat5e, depending on the cabling
> But given the deadline and the process, a big bill with some junk in it is not a bad outcome.

It's a terrible outcome, you just may have not had a better one available to you. But let's not mince words, a 5500 page bill that no one has read in its entirety and that Congresspeople are blindly voting on because they literally do not have any other choice except to shut down the government during a pandemic -- that is a bad outcome.

> There were months to do what was pushed against a deadline. In that, I find institutional failing.

I strongly agree. I think where we differ is that I'm looking at the end result of that process as the fruits of that institutional failing, not as some kind of heroic last-minute turnaround that saved the day.

I don't mean to disparage the work you or others put in here, but you can have a multi-month project that gets ignored until the last week and you can accurately say at that point that there's no other choice but to throw something together in a few days to satisfy the requirements, and you might even do something incredible to get any finished project at all. But that doesn't mean the result isn't terrible.

I'm not giving anybody kudos over this, people should be looking at this result and saying, "something is seriously wrong with our political system that a bill like this is what we ended up with." That should be the main takeaway. A political system that only works during crisis, and that can only get the legislation passed when there's no other choice except to shut down the government -- that's a broken political system. It's not something anyone at any point in the process should be proud of.
My assumption is that the co-founder would need the investors to vote to fire you? As in, he can't do so himself? So is his threat that he will leave if you don't leave?

If he leaves, can you run it yourself and do you want to do that? My guess is that you would have to bring in someone to do whatever the co-founder was doing.

Your equity ownership is worth something if you have 60k users. You have a subset of them paying something already it sounds like. This is a great thing, if you enjoy it and believe in it. If that is correct, then if your partner has a problem, and you think he is replaceable, then you don't seem to have to do anything related to his demands.

I think this is also a good lesson in needing to have a really good relationship with the investors as well. If it is correct that they are the swing vote on decisions, you want them to appreciate you, know you well and understand the value you add.
Two years from now, a heavily patched and modded version of this game will be everything and more than 2077 ever promised to be. That's been the origin of all of my greatest action RPG experiences (Skyrim, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Dragon Age origins).
Especially if those things were specifically chosen because they don't require 10s of thousands of dollars worth of tools.
Is there a "real" Windows on ARM yet, or is it still Windows RT? Can I build a proper native MFC app targeting ARM? Does it produce PE executables?
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> I don't understand how Nintendo has maintained its fun and harmless image while being worse than Disney when it comes to protecting its assets.

People are capable of recognizing a difference between the portion of the company creating quality entertainment and the portion doing a very aggressive job defending their IP.
...also what is when response/request "items" are not handled chronologically due to load. I once wrote a real-time application with that pattern (HTML over AJAX). It worked but it was not enjoyable at all. Also literally every larger feature change would break the code because you had all these weird corner-cases.
Hey Jeff -- Just wanted to say I really appreciate you taking the time to write stuff like this up. I know that may be 'the point' of what you're doing, but I also know from personal experience that writing up a comprehensive review/guide/benchmark (whatever you want to call this style of writing) can easily double to quadruple the time investment for a project.

Thank you for sharing the troubles and pitfalls for the rest of us to learn from, or even just reference.
> You have the benefit of hindsight at this time.

People have been pointing out it's a shit show with no end in sight for the entire duration of the phase. Pointing out the performance impact and cost to end users, how diabolical it is for those on lower latency or poorer network connectivity (i.e. most of the world), and so on.

Same thing as always happens with these pendulum swings, newer engineers come in convinced everyone before them is an idiot, are capable of building their new thing and hyping it up such that other newer engineers are sold on it while the "old guard" effectively says "please listen to me, there's good reasons why we don't do it this way" and get ignored. Worse, they'll get told they're wrong, only to be proven right all along.

I'm not denying there are obstructionist greybeard types that just refuse to acknowledge merits in new approaches, but any and all critique is written off as being cut from the same cloth.

It's perfectly possible to iterate on new ideas and approaches while not throwing away what we've spent decades learning ('Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it'), but tech just seems especially determined not to grow up.
If the company has already taken investor money, say x dollars, for 10%, doesn't thst mean the company is worth 10x dollars?
"This is a complex technical issue, and I'm still investigating to find the right solution"
It is still insignificant compared to the original terminology, which is heavily used in hardware/embedded to distinguish between the use of an OS (embedded RTOS, Linux, etc.) vs. direct programming.
pcie switching is a thing, but it's wasted on IP.
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Hold up just a sec here.

I’m not sure I that “Indian” is a “race” for any common definition of the word. It’s a nationality, but my my relatively uninformed perspective it appears that there are many ethnic and cultural groups that comprise it.

More importantly, you seem to be attributing malice to the GP. They are noticing a cultural difference and asking for context. While their choice of phrasing may seem to some of us to be “problematic”, it looks to me that they are asking a reasonable and valid question.

I’ve noticed that these sorts of “feel good”/“just so” stories are very common in Asian cultures. I’ve seen many short movies from Thailand where the downtrodden underdog ends up doing a hugely positive thing and ultimately being appreciated for it. If memory serves, some of them are produced by the state itself.

I have no idea what role they serve in their culture, but it’s different enough from my own to be an interesting phenomenon.

I certainly don’t think asking about it is a bad thing.
Bugs aside, I’m not sure it’s right to consider any plot in video games too thin. If you played a Doom game you know that even the silliest pretense for shooting and blowing things up is good enough. It’s not a movie script. Yes, you might hold an RPG to a slightly higher standard than an action game in this regard, but I still think the premise of CP2077 (Or GTA) is more than enough to fill an interesting game. I don’t need to “buy” the story if the mechanics are good enough and gameplay is enjoyable. If they could spend another 1000 hours on improving the writing or expanding the game with the poor writing, I’d take the latter every day.
I use a USB HDMI capture device and my iPhone over the Apple lightning/hdmi adaptor(the knockoff I tried first didn't work well). This along with Filmic Pro and the quality is amazing.
Exactly. Targeting specific sections of the page is pretty helpful when dealing with dialog content for example. If a dialog is open and you're managing something like the state of a form within that dialog, you don't want anything else outside of that dialog content being touched during a page update.
Yeah, between uBlock origin and other privacy stuff I get almost no notices nor other anoying things while browsing.

That should be the default for everyone. :/
I think if investors value the third party stamp of approval there are many ways to charge for it. Just because you don't have to pay an ibank doesn't mean you can't pay an ibank.
Shares are not connected to the work done. Why would they? It's an investment. That friend got rewarded for making right choices and meeting right people
Yeah. Probably neither the 3% nor the 10% is worth anything--especially if this turns into some nasty litigation. And, as you say, in the eventuality that this company actually has a successful exit, 3% is less than 10% but it could still be a decent sum of money.
Yes, I mentioned elsewhere that this has been used to refer to dedicated servers, but it's a marketing misnomer.
Sure, and I don't think that with this plan, there's anything stopping investment banks from agreeing to purchase direct listed shares at IPO in an arms-length transaction. Given the need to file audited financials, among other components of the regulatory burden to go public, is the investment bank charging a fee to act as a fiduciary really adding much protection?
> It's amazing how quickly ARM has become adopted by so many mainstream companies

ARM is 35 years old and first appeared in mobiles in 1997.
It’s amazing that corporate America thinks it can’t hire a at all levels from the custodian to the CEO, but almost every school system and government can figure it out.
As always, Matt Levine has a great explainer on this subject, from Nov 2019:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-27/soon-d...
:-) you joke but i often wonder what the next stage is for places like YouTube and Instagram.

On YouTube we’re up to 2 pre-rolls these days along with an interstitial per 10 minutes, the in-stream advertising by the programme itself, the youtube page furniture ads and the obligatory roll of affiliate links in the description box.

I see none of it because i know how to avoid it but i’ve seen family members change how they use youtube as a result. E.g. opening an episode of a show on their phone, putting the phone down to go do something else then come back and rewind to the start and begin watching. I totally see how they got there but its absurd.
> I don’t need to “buy” the story if the mechanics are good enough and gameplay is enjoyable. If they could spend another 1000 hours on improving the writing or expanding the game with the poor writing, I’d take the latter every day.

That said, you should understand that what you've shared here is your opinion and isn't a ground truth for videogames. Humans play games for many, many reasons and for some they'd much rather have a smaller experience with excellent writing.
Ergo Proxy is somewhat that. The success of the utopia is questionable (kinda the starting point of the story), but the plot is more akin to existential-crisis drama.

I'd bet you know about Psycho Pass, it also shakily satisfies your description.

[0] https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo_Proxy
> until recently video calls sucked.

As far as I can tell your answer is the only one that makes sense of all the comments.

Most grandparents would pay $ to be able to remote well with grandkids. Most employees would pay $$ to look professional.

But buying a good webcam wouldn't solve their broadband issues.
No, I'm not. The comment about pensioners was a throwaway note at the end of my comment about having been on welfare and knowing that your sweeping claims are simply wrong.
Building a system that puts readers and writers in charge
First I’ve heard of this - do you have a source handy?
AWS used to rely on JWT for their consoles (haven't for a few years now, most folks migrated away some 5 years ago)

It's why they used to be horrendously bloated with large javascript bundles that took so long to process on the client side.

Roughly speaking the idea was "We don't have any Javascript developers, but we do have Java developers. JWT allows us to bridge that divide". Neat in theory, and an understandable decision, but diabolical in practice!
This is the mid-range webcam you might be looking for: https://www.amazon.com/AVerMedia-Streamer-Wide-Angle-Webcam-...

Following some independent YouTube review this seems currently the best webcam for streaming you can get.

Through it's focused on the streaming use-case and has some design decisions which are quite good for that use-case but make it sub-par (for the price) if used for some other use-cases.

EDIT: And like other people mentioned sub-optimal lighting is often a major problem, so investing in any more expensive webcame doesn't make that much sense if you don't also invest in improving the light situation.
I think you'll find that hardware/embedded development is not a niche industry.
At least a picker at Amazon works for the same company as the CEO. Most jobs at that level would be contracted out.
I think what has made dystopian sci-fi compelling in the past, is that it points out the flaws of our ideals, and resonates with many of us in an acknowledgement that perfection is impossible, even if we shift society to give more of an appearance of perfection, there's always a significant cost.

Yes, these ideas are played out, and there's tons of bad examples of media that just replays these ideas without bringing anything novel to the table. But I still find the idea of a 'realistic' dystopian sci-fi more potentially compelling than a sugarcoated 'impossible' utopia because I fundamentally believe it can't exist. I cannot conceive of a real utopia in practice, and what someone else may call a utopia I would surely call some sort of nightmare.

Refer to Brave New World as a good example of exactly this dynamic.