skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Releasing a game on a console is an involved process with many steps and hoops to jump through. It is much easier to release a game on PC. I haven't looked into the statistics but it is my understanding that the large majority indie games release first on PC before being ported to consoles due to the barrier to entry.

Emulators might hurt developers who treat being console exclusive as a form of DRM or have exclusivity agreements with console manufacturers if their work becomes wildly pirated. I don't track what is pirated or how frequently, nor do I track game developers closely, are there examples of this happening to developers who have shut down?
This gets more complex in the realm of, let's call it politics, where the quest for knowledge may be adversarial, and is played over long periods. With fraud and crimes of intent, you often have very clear evidence where the person was unguarded (they said a slur as they committed the crime, making it a hate crime, for example).

I'm not saying reliably discovering intentions is always impossible. I'm saying that it is not always possible.
Interesting, recently I wanted to wear a pair of new shoes (at the time) that had been stored in my closet for years. As soon as I put them on, the sole started to fall apart. Up to that time I thought they would last forever since I didn't expect to ware them very often. Now I know why they fell apart.
GCC Front-End for Rust
I've rented late model trucks and the visibility is terrible compared to the cargo vans I habitually drive.
Are you certain you've considered all the negatives of a 60 mile commute? I'd encourage you to read this: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-...
My impression from reading the paper is most of the other optimizations (custom kernels, contiguous memory, checkpointing, etc) are orthogonal to the partitioning stuff. That seems to imply that ZeRO is model+pipeline parallel plus a bunch of miscellaneous bits. But they seem to emphasize that this isn't what their partitioning is, and that's the part that perplexes me the most. To be specific, I'd like someone to explain how their magical zero-redundancy data parallel (termed ZeRO-DP in the paper) works and how it's different from from model+pipeline parallel, and their paper is awfully sparse on that.
Uniswap is cool until you have to pay those tx fees.
It looks like draw.io - or at least this would be easy to do with that.
Mona Lisa in AR
Server component seems proprietary but you can easily run it via docker.

https://github.com/seatable/seatable#license
Yeah, sorry for the bad formatting. I probably should've taken the time to make it not markdownify the asterisks. Without them, it is mirroring the middle eight.
But you can fit randomly-generated labels!
For game dev (and emulators!), the non-deterministic behavior of GCs can cause a lot of trouble, mainly because you have a fixed frame budget. That’s why it’s usually easier to just use a language where you can finely control when and where allocations take place.

I’m sure there are techniques to work around this, but you’d then usually have to leave behind the “idiomatic” area of the language you’re using.
I'm not fighting anything. Just don't use it. Easy as that. I don't fudge with configs, carefully read manpages like systemd.exec, or put any effort into how I keep services running on my personal devices.
To my Grandmother, owning "gold/silver etf" is as silly/stupid as owning NFT to me. If I can't understand why would anyone buy NFT, how would she understand non-physical gold/silver etf. Maybe my kids would understand the value of NFT. At the end we are gonna own something we feel valuable to us or others.

I don't own any crypto, but do own gold/silver etf. Almost everyone around me own bitcoin (probably other crypto too). I hope few(or most) would successfully exit with good profit.

Maybe gold/silver was just useless piece of rock before enough people realized/accepted that this shiny rock can be used as medium of exchange or jewelry. Just like now people are slowly accepting bitcoin as digital gold.

At the end I'll never understand value/price of bitcoin or NFT, my Grandmother would never understand "gold/silver etf", and my kids would value bitcoin and NFT.
what are these repost invites you keep mentioning? :D
You might be surprised at how many machines work that way, though.

There's the classic aphorism about tools like lathes: "This machine has no brain, please use your own." But that's usually in an industrial setting with OSHA, mandated safety trainings, inspections, a culture of reporting unsafe practices without judgement, etc.

As CNC machines get cheaper and smaller, we are starting to see things like laser cutters sold to consumers with a pair of glasses and a manual rather than an enclosure. Hope you remember to lock the door if you have kids or pets...

It is a worrying trend which seems to be accelerating in the US due to crumbling and senescent regulatory institutions.
I feel we've talked past each other about what is/is not Python a few times. There is Cython and Pythran and Pypy and ShedSkin and Numba and others that are targeting, for lack of a more precise term, "extreme compatibility with" CPython, but also trying to provide an escape hatch for performance which includes in-language low levelness including allocation tricks that are not "mainstream CPython" (well, Pypy may not have those...).

My first reply was questioning "what counts" as "Python". Cython is its own language, not just "C", nor just "Python", but can do "low level things" such as using C's alloca. Maybe the only prior update here is on the diversity of "Python" impls. There are a lot. This is another reason why language levelness is hard to pin down which was always my main point, upon which we do not disagree. Maybe this is what you meant by "exceptionally general", but I kinda feel like "there isn't just one 'Python'" got lost. { There used to be a joke.."Linux isn't" related to the variety of distros/default configs/etc. :-) }

Advice-wise, I would say that your claim can be closer to easily true if you adjust it to say "ripgrep needs 'low level tricks' to be fast and a language that allows them, such as Rust". That phrasing side-steps worrying about levelnesses in the large of programming languages, re-assigns it to techniques which is more concrete and begs the question of technique enumeration. That is the right question to beg, though, if not in this conversation then in others. You might learn how each and every technique has representation in various other programming languages. It's late for me, though. So, good night!
The simple answer is to charge for support like every enterprise company does
I don't have a medium account. Is the article about high quality of Soviet kettles?
There are also more games than ever right now -- it's extremely competitive, even relative to just 5 years ago. Source: Am founder of a small indie 'studio', recently released our second title.
I heard about a guy who was collecting investments for "innovative" windmills. They (actually) had a small prototype that could handle wind upto 150 mph. And, if scaled up to full size could produce "lots" of electricity. They just needed money to build and test a full size version.

The scam is that windmills don't actually scale very well. If you have 100 MW blowing at the blades, you need a tower that can handle 100 MW of force - or something like that.

Of course, what do I know? I am but a humble computer nerd.
"The Newby–McMahon Building has survived tornadoes, a fire, and decades of neglect.[29] The building is currently part of the Depot Square Historic District of Wichita Falls"

For something built as a scam it's held up reasonably well. McMahon may have cheated his investors, but he seems to have built a real building.
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Or you just pay certain distinguished people well outside the typical band (or, equivalently, create a “track of one”, both of which are a version of CP).

Bands are not the problem. Mindless, extremely rigid adherence to bands is the problem.
Good luck with your product!
Just one suggestion about the website colours: the contrast between background and text is very poor in some places - you have a deep green background with a brown text.

If I were you I would pay a professional designer to work on that.
https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-pira...

"In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU. However, it never ended up showing it to the public except for one cherry-picked section. That's possibly because the study concluded that there was no evidence that piracy affects copyrighted sales, and in the case of video games, might actually help them."
Seems like it avoids many of the downsides of domehomes: just make it so large you can build a regular home inside, and then you have non-leaky interior roofs, normal rectangular rooms, normal construction methods for the interior house & since the dome is just weatherproofing you can use large military/commercial dome designs presumably, etc. (That you're now quasi-indoors in a greenhouse is then a feature rather than a bug in the Arctic Circle.)
These articles are missing an important aspect of the vaccine: the immunity gained is non-sterilizing. [1] The vaccine stops the infection from becoming severe and spreading throughout the body, but it doesn't actually stop infection (and transmission) in the upper respiratory tract.

So we don't have any evidence showing we can achieve herd immunity even with a 100% vaccination rate (this article is wrong). The only thing we know for sure is we can dramatically reduce the severity of infection.

Beause vaccine efficacy is never 100%, some experts predict that we will see more deaths this year as we attempt to resume normal societal activities while SARS-COV-2 continues to circulate. [2] Although I think if we develop very good antibody tests and vaccines against the latest variants there should be a path towards minimizing deaths and severe complications and effectively turning this virus into a cold and effectively ending the pandemic.

[1] https://drhyman.com/blog/2021/01/27/podcast-ep155/

[2] https://dalewharrison.substack.com/p/covid-year-1
> Languages like Idris and Agda are different because sometimes code isn’t executed at all. A proof may depend on knowing that some code will terminate without running it.

Yes. They are rather different in other respects as well. Though you can produce executable code from Idris and Agda, of course.

> With respect to deadlocks, there’s little practical difference between an infinite loop and a loop that holds the lock for a very long time.

Yes, that's true. Though as a practical matter, I have heard that it's much harder to produce the latter by accident, even though only the former is forbidden.

For perhaps a more practical example, have a look at https://dhall-lang.org/ which also terminates, but doesn't have nearly as much involved proving.
I genuinely can’t understand why so many people are willing to make a large purchase from a company so willing to lie to and exploit its customers.
Honey, look what I bought! It was 75% off!
I think you need focused preparation. I have found that intense prep of a few weeks generally gets you comfortable with the basics. Then you have the momentum you need to start building up your skills on the harder questions.

Bitwise operations are not representative of interview questions, neither is formally solving Recurrence Relations (that is more of an academic algorithm class thing, where the focus is on formal proofs of asymptotic complexity). DP questions are rarely asked during screening, but will likely get asked in advanced rounds of interviews.

You do not need to go to a bootcamp for interviews, but you need a focused plan and you need to stick to it for several weeks at the very least. Also make sure to interview promiscuously at your non-target companies before you take a stab at the FAANG-level companies. Interviewing is a skill and gets better with practice.

For System Design interviews, I do not have much to say except that they are used as a gauge of your seniority, particularly if the person doing the interviewing is more experienced than you. It's useful to know some things in this area but it's much more important to be very comfortable in the coding department.

For coding, I suggest this:
- Know your Data Structures and be able to implement them:
- Linked Lists
- Stacks
- Queues
- Hash Tables
- Binary Trees, Binary Search Trees, and Heaps
- Tries
- Graphs (Adjacency List and Matrix representations)
- Libraries for the above in your language (Collections in Java, Containers/STL in C++, for example).

- Do simple problems in these categories and become expert in them:
- Linked Lists
- Array problems
- Binary Trees/Binary Search Trees (These are great for learning recursion)
- Backtracking (These are also great for learning recursion)
- Sorting
- Graphs Problems (search, connected components etc.)
- Dynamic Programming

- Focus on techniques, not specific problems (save for the basics above. You should know how to do simple problems in the above categories cold).

This level will prepare you for a good coding interview at any company thats below the FAANG-level. For the FAANGs, you must do harder problems, but should also know how to do them cold. That part is hard and somewhat open-ended. The basics I have mentioned above can be done with around 4-6 weeks of intense prep.
EGA definitely has a charm to it. The main limitation is that the viable color ramps are pretty awkward and only slightly improved with dithering:

* Grey values
* Grey-blue
* Grey-yellow
* Grey-green
* Yellow-red
* Yellow-brown
* Yellow-grey
* Blue-brown
* Blue-green
* Blue-purple

With this setup, you often have to live with a harsh transition between extreme color saturation and no saturation. You can see the result in the way Ferrari's backgrounds are formed - usually only one or two color ramps plus dither, ignoring a lot of the palette, heavy shadows and rim lighting to indicate the color without a hue shift.

It's actually really great if you are going for a warm-cool contrast because you can run lengthy ramps of reds and blues.
There is a great video I watched recently on this: https://youtu.be/fcD420hP3YM
Is there an expert on dark matter here that could tell me how credible this is? For instance, I can't believe that this is (supposedly) the first time anyone's thinking of taking into account GR effects like frame dragging. Also, what about gravitational lensing due to dark matter? How do we explain these away?
I don't want to encourage any conspiracy theories, but on the topic of incentives, there are a few at a higher level than the government employees you're thinking of.

One is that a number of governments, including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, issue bonds linked to inflation. That is, as I understand it, they return a fixed amount over the measured inflation from some index. In other words, understating inflation would reduce the borrower's (the government's) payments.

Another is that Social Security in the US (and maybe similar things elsewhere) is periodically adjusted for inflation, so that the recipients don't lose purchasing power. Again, if inflation were understated, then the government would save money.

There might be other incentives to overstate inflation; the above is just what came to mind, so I am not implying that there is an overall pressure to understate inflation like people tend to claim without evidence. I wouldn't think there are that many inflation linked bonds compared to regular ones.

Ideally the people at or near the top who may have incentives to distort things cannot do it because the low-level bureaucrats keep on doing their jobs. But it hardly seems guaranteed at all times in all places.
My point is exactly about the emulation/homebrew community, though. They only continue to have the moral high road against Nintendo as long as they don't condone piracy. If they get in bed with those who want to do genuine piracy, Nintendo is no longer the bad guy for taking legal action.

Not that a Switch emulator completely falls into the latter category, but it lies in a grey area that legacy emulators have mostly steered clear of.
> Everyone has incidents like this in their life where they got mad at someone, said things they shouldn’t have, etc.

It wasn't an isolated incident. Musk called the man a pedophile several times over the course of weeks and months. Millions of people's only exposure to the person who helped save kids' lives was seeing Musk call them a pedophile, over and over again, reinforcing the accusation.

Also, I have never smeared someone like that, and would never consider doing so at all, let alone just because they hurt my ego.
Congratulations on the lunch. Upvote!
I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries
> It is much easier to release a game on PC.

That's true. By giving a console example I was just trying to talk about piracy in a way relevant to the emulator topic. You could make exactly the same point about piracy of PC games, though. Many indie PC games don't have DRM.
I don't know what you are talking about because in my stream it is written there in a yellow text next to Play button that 'this games does not support Catalina'.
I could be wrong, but isn't Intel's management engine running Minix?
Yeah! That has been my idea for a long time! When thought about it, I began looking into devices that can output DC and charge a backup battery but with a variety of input power sources, Solar as main source and line AC as backup. Didn't get that many practical search results.

But it seems what I was looking for are boat chargers. They're meant to provide energy through solar/battery and charge at the same time while parked on a deck. Didn't followed it up though.
I guess the distinction is that, as I said above, they don't see the content (unless, again, the clients leak the key). And it is an important distinction, because everyone will emphasize the importance of an encrypted connection (read: https). Which is not e2e.

As far as I could decode, the point here really is just to add this service to help their users who came for the password manager. But I also had to watch their video to confirm that the key was in the url.
It’s the Back to Sleep campaign that started in the 90s.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaav5188/tab-art...

Basically, sleeping is important to brain development in new borns and infants and forced back sleeping is hugely disruptive. Hence the increase in autism rates for kids born in 90s and later.
The comment about drug prices isn't some theoretical supply-and-demand problem. Go to chemistwarehouse.com.au (popular Australian chemist) and just type in the name of your favourite prescription drug.

The "private prescription price" is the un-subsidised cost that people not covered by Medicare (e.g. foreign residents) pay. The discounted PBS price is what regular residents pay, the concession price is for people on low incomes or pensions.

Even un-subsidised, you're typically looking at a price 80% lower than what people in the US pay. With subsidies, it's closer to 90-95% less.
This has nothing to do with manufacturing costs - manufacturing in Australia is more expensive.
It's entirely because our government doesn't allow pharmaceutical companies to profiteer from their IP to the obscene extent that the US government does, and we've had a right-leaning government for 19 out of the last 25 years.
Meanwhile MS and Google have thousands of satisfied customers with millions of users paying the $10/mo/user.
Ha, immediately on reading the parent comment I was pretty sure somebody would have exactly this response.

So yes you have a point in that especially in the US the dollar amounts attached to treatments aren't necessarily indicative of the effort involved. Treating their argument charitably though, as a species we have finite capacity, and "spend millions per patient" is a linguistic shorthand for "we don't have enough resources to evenly distribute this level of care to everyone."

That argument isn't infallible (e.g., it's pretty easy to get a majority to agree on upper and lower bounds for such an idea, so picking a number in between might still be reasonable), but it's much more interesting to pick apart the thing they're trying to say rather than the exact words they used.
I REALLY REALLY want a hybrid F-150. The concept of a truck that can generate enough electricity to run a welder, worklights, and a stereo!

I known I'll never need it. But golly do I want one.
"worst bits of software ever made"? That's harsh. But didn't they lose people's data recently? My memory is blurry.
Seems like I'm getting a torrent (hah) of comments saying that "piracy isn't that bad actually", when I explicitly said in the comment that I wasn't interested in advocating for or against piracy, and do in fact pirate things myself.
From what I understand Remdesivir doesn't show results in mortality, but has positive results in recovery speed of patients who otherwise would not have died. I believe it shaves about 5 days off the supplemental O2/ICU phase, which decreases the window in which you can develop other complications and also gets your butt out to free up hospital resources quicker.

Mexico just issued an emergency use authorization yesterday. Japan, Canada, and the EU have also authorized the drug for COVID patients.

You can read the NIH final report here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764
That's been my impression as well, but it feels like a terribly inefficient setup.

It's almost like trying to write software with every member of the team spending 9/10 of their time jockeying for power, with the product being an afterthought no one gives much credence to.

That's what living has felt like thus far - people are completely engulfed in making sure they get theirs (work at FAANG on these forums), followed by making sure their kids get theirs. At some point, there's got to be someone who says hey, you know this rat race is human made and we can totally try something else right?
Sort of but not really. On thinking about it some more for the average user, you'd really want to sell a ready-to-go unit so they don't even have to deal with the initial computer setup and platform download/install because I know that's still way more than a lot of people would want to do or feel comfortable doing. They want something that they own, with good privacy, that just works, and is maintenance free.

I imagine this company selling a visually appealing unit similar to how xbox and playstation aim to be more of an elegant accent piece than a clunky electronic box. This way when the user gets the product they just open, plug it in, create an account and password, wait for it to initialize, and then you're good to go and can start immediately downloading apps. Then just download an accompanying app on your phone/desktop/computer and connect to your own personal cloud where you own all your software and data. Could even sell upgradeable units for a premium that have an easy access panel to just swap or plug in additional RAM or SSD modules.
> The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.

I mean, they are not completely wrong. Although not perfect. FSD Beta is still pretty impressive. There's no denying that:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9nwpjgtt4

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pfabe-gxgQ
The cynic in me summarizes "Google engineer says page cache is shrinking as Google has all your data instead".
You are asked these things no matter you level in FAANG interviews. You need high enough intelligence to understand how to solve these problems if you are shown a solution, but I do not think you need much more intelligence than that to do well in a FAANG interview. It's more about how fluent you are given that you have already done some prep.
Bit of a nitpick.

Relations are another name for the tables, relations are not the joins between them.