skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. it's a multidisplinary effort that involves interfacing not just with engineers, managers, and maybe clients, but with artist, writers, sound designers, and sometimes voice actors. Very, very few people will have the full scope of a large game in their mind makling a game. It also means one of these pieces can vastly slow down the entire pipeline if they get slowed down/behind schedule.

2. many traditional games operate on movie schedules; i.e. timing is everything. missing a launch at November vs. January can cost millions, and most sales are recuped in the first few months. So the pressure to hit deadlines is heavier than some continual service brining in a steady revenue stream. Granted, the rise of Games as a Service through the free-to-play model is starting to change this, for better or worse.

3. even within programming, there are so many topics that games delve into. Graphics programming, netcode, UI/UX design, (basic) AI, etc. you need some very specialized people to make these games, up there with a FAANG despite most studios making nowhere near that much.

4. you can't schedule "fun". Game design is almost a black box. If you flesh out this system and it just doesn't feel good, what do you do? delay the game and overspend on the budget? release it anyway and take the critical panning (spoilers, most games do this option)? this mixed with #1 means it's harder than usual to schedule, even with the widsom of "double the time needed".

5. more of a personal take here, but based on #4: games are much more "in tune" with the consumer audience than other media. core gamers watch games like hawks and it seems like everything being worked on is covered in NDA's. some onlooker would think these studios are hiding governemt secrets with how tight lipped industry keeps devs.

This leads to many psychological factors, but as a TL;DR it means a) devs may have internal pressure to impress the audience compared to other sectors and b) consumers, being blacked boxed out of the process, underestimate how much work it is to make a game. A consumer base more internet saavy than any other medium before it, since gaming basically grew up with the internet side by side.

It's many factors and I'm sure I haven't even covered half of them in that wall above.

>I'm just in awe of Roblox, Minecraft, Fall Guy and all these other successes.

I'm sure minecraft and roblox are impressed too. they took years to get to where they are, so they are some of the counterexamples to the traditional model I listed.

Fall guys truly proves point #2. it came out at the perfect time (a time no one could predict far out enough to take advantadge of) and blew up for it.
The attacks they want to carry out are inherently loud. They're attacking visits to well-known websites at scale in ways that require changing the response returned when visiting those websites in a way that's trivial to detect (the websites should immediately redirect to the SSL version but the attack has to remove that redirect in order to modify the contents in malicious ways, regardless of the exact details of the modification or how sneaky they make it). There's no real way around that. It's easy to just scan the entire exit node list for nodes launching this attack if you know what sites they're targetting.
Well, it’s clearly what the Google docs team wants. And it would yield higher performance for other similarly complex web apps (eg Figma). And allow native UI development in more languages (Blazor). It also looks to be the sort of thing the Flutter team want for web builds. And it could work well for the base system of chromeOS too.

For whatever reason, Google invests hundreds of millions each year into chrome, and trusts their engineers’ leadership on how to make it succeed. The question in my mind is if browser engineers themselves decide to push in this direction.
And if you aren't using 3.9, the anyio package has a run_async() function in its to_thread module[1] that works the same way as asyncio's to_thread() coroutine function, and the anyio solution is compatible with both asyncio and trio.

[1] https://anyio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/threads.html
That is dark.
I have just started to use a Mac M1 Mini, and am disappointed. It's incredibly slow to download or install anything. Hangs all the time, takes like 5 hours to install Xcode (it's done but the UI hangs leaving you to believe it has more to do). Hangs when cloning a git repo. Gets stuck anywhere and everywhere. Have to force kill everything and restart to knock some sense into it. I was always respectful of Mac users because Windows has had its problems in the past, but after using a Mac for the first time, I hate it more than ever.
Try Bitcoin Cash. The devs have full control over the BTC protocol.
Consider that some people pick up critical race theory because of what they see in their literal back yard.
I've had some success with NOT AT THIS ADDRESS in red on the front. I also occasionally pay for a month's use of the Paper Karma app.

https://www.paperkarma.com/

Notable bad actors who refuse to acknowledge either:

• A previous tenant in this apartment received catalogs from MCX (Marine Corps Exchange, not MXC, the crypto exchange). Lots of complaints online about these guys sending unstoppable spam.

• A local self-storage facility sends monthly notices to a previous tenant, and despite returned mail, phone calls, and even an in-person visit, insists that they cannot stop sending those letters because they are obligated by law to "make every attempt" to contact that person.
Heh, a wild Tabs mixed with Spaces appears in the second example.
And how are emails any different from web articles? Both contain structured thoughts represented as structured text, both often contain code and quotations, lists and so on. Why special treatment?
Indeed! It is like entering a pincode on a keypad for the office door every single day.
Then the new guy calls and asks you about the pin, and you have NO idea. This happened to me and I had to put my hand on something flat and see myself typing.

I suspect this is some part due to the arrangement of the numbers.
Numbers on keypads in these kind of devices often has "1 2 3" on the top row. Whereas on the keybaords and calculators it is reverse. The top row there goes "7 8 9".
The Guardian has recently written a series of articles about social media manipulation but it seems to go under the radar because it doesn't affect rich countries. This issue is very pernicious and deadly, that's why "glitches" is not enough of an explanation. I think it's worth investingating for inside operations.

> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/13/facebook-...

Social media will continue to be important for societies, but the commercial ones failed to the point of being dangerous. We need to decentralize that
Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin
> Isn't that exactly what leftist activist have been calling for though? "Shut down toxic, 'hatespeech'/'difficultspeech' infested subreddits/forums, it makes the problems go away!"

This is, I think, the mother of all false equivalencies. I don’t think it’s right or proper to equate discussions in a diversity channel with the monstrously hateful discourse that often occurs on nastier subreddits or 4chan and the like.

> Conservatives are one of the largest marginalized people in SV/West coast.

For a very stretched definition of “marginalized,” perhaps. Shopify is a Canadian company based (I believe) in Ottawa, so I don’t think this is really a useful thing to discuss. Shutting down these conversations is happening far outside the place where you allege conservatives to be marginalized.

> I'd say the sooner workers understand this, the better it is for everyone.

> You're replaceable, and if the company could save a dollar a quarter by laying you off, they would.

I think it’s dystopian to simply accept mistreatment. You deserve better; what incentive do you really have to settle? Unless you’re a CEO shitposting under a throwaway … you aren’t going to get what they have. Like you admit, they don’t care. Why roll over and accept a raw deal? The company is nothing without your labor.

> Negotiate that in your contract at your next job. Else, you're only going to get what you and your employer agreed to.

No employer would ever agree to that in a contract. In fact, most employers would never let you put anything in a contract, actually. That’s risky from their view. So this whole line of thinking is self-defeating: you and I both know it’s not a viable option. Why bother debating it? I mean, hell, Coinbase just said they won’t even negotiate salary anymore, the one thing you could actually negotiate for. It’s not an option, practically speaking; it’s just a way to shut down discussion.
I find these types of things to be a lot more interesting as well. With respect the behavioral modifiers I feel like they really help explain how societies actually function, once you start paying attention you see just how effective and pervasive they really are.

This study[0] discusses adversarial images which fool both ML classifiers and time limited humans, a rather interesting development in the field.

It's a good space to keep an eye on in general, at some point someone's probably going to discover a snowcrash-level informational hazard and it would be nice to have some warning.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.08195.pdf
Wrong, they are opposed to changes that will stop them from profiteering off higher layer solutions they provide.
SV techie came to town

Escaping covid lockdowns

Bought up all the real estate

And thinks it’s Churchill Downs
Ever wonder how much it costs to deliver unaddressed junk mail?

https://eddm.usps.com/eddm/customer/routeSearch.action
I think that's where people swing back to DAMP, or at least the rule of 3.

I'm not trying to fractally compress my code. I'm trying to make it succinct. Those two things are very different. Now if I could only convince a particular coworker of that...
OK, I looked it up.

The Fedex fleet is a little over 1% electric...and that includes forklifts and airport equipment.

Like I keep saying, they'll be all over this tech when it really pencils out.
> lack the innate qualities needed to succeed in tech

James Damore never said anything of the sort. He was concerned that women might feel excluded in an engineering-focused environment and be less likely to seek such a role because of the different aggregation of preferences and inclinations among women as opposed to men. He said zilch about quality or potential for success, or for that matter about any individual woman (as opposed to aggregate trends and their influence on 'big picture' stats).
How so? People can have all the opinions they want but saying things such as "women are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit." isn't okay. Please convince me how that is employable behavior?
I always wonder if these kinds of stories are real, and this one does seem to be. It was reported in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=117... (PDF link)
Is Hamas rocket attack considered as "government violence"?
Or with thorium breeding, fuel input is not a big deal, since thorium is pretty much not dangerous.
Not necessarily. See for example Jewish Voice For Peace:

https://twitter.com/jvplive
https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
The plan in motion is, in the name of "making reattaching a button simpler", prevent anyone able to reattach a button on their own from doing it, so the shirt manufacturer makes more bank.

Me being able to freely manipulate my own data according to my capacity has NOTHING to do with providing uninterested/incapable people with tools that hide complexity.
I don't think there can theoretically be a run on the exchange because in theory all the deposits are there, in the exchange, in theory, unlike a bank which only had a fraction of the deposited money in reserve. A run on a crypto exchange would be great for them considering they usually charge a withdrawal fee.
You're probably thinking of the car company.
A large number of people were making comments about the environmental concerns of crypto the instant Tesla announced they were buying into Bitcoin. What changed?

It's really hard to argue Tesla's surprise here. (Elon Musk actually replied to Jack Dorsey saying "True" in response to his argument that Bitcoin is good for renewable energy: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1385107878055317509 )
Raspberry 5 Pi: What to Expect and When
That's an interesting idea. I wonder if there is any data on that sort of thing.

Anecdotally, though much less dramatically: When my Mom switched from glasses to contact lenses (and received an improved prescription), her sense of happiness and wonder at being able to see the details of tree leaves, etc, is something that I still remember a few decades later.
A turbine does nothing by itself again an absurd statement. A heat recovery turbine has a host of support systems to actually recover heat including a generator which is essentially an electric motor to capture electrical energy.

I don't see a lot of gas turbines in various use around me, and the ones that are are quite expensive to fix. I do however see electric motors everywhere and they are extremely reliable and cheap.
Falx: Visualization by Example
Falx is a visualization by example tool. It can help data scientists bypass (some) data transformation challenge to make visualization easier.

Visit our blog post and online demo using links below:

* Blog post: https://chenglong-wang.medium.com/falx-visualization-by-exam...

* Online demo: http://falx.cs.washington.edu
Is there anywhere we can view examples or demo sites?
After the update I definitely had at least one day of terrible idle battery life.

It's not uncommon with updates though, nothing alarming.
I'm a little skeptical of this, this is the same as saying Tesla is going to have self-driving because they can record all the decisions current Teslas make. The truth is that it's very path dependent. For Tesla this means you can't optmize getting into the scenario in the first place and for Apple it means you can't actually know which code path will actually be regularly used.
> Why is nuclear the silver bullet that will save us?

I'm not sure many people make this argument. Although the people that do are very vocal. But they are wrong. The general consensus around nuclear is that it adds to the number of solutions we can use. Considering the inhomogeneous nature of climate and regions nuclear may have advantages in certain areas, whereas other areas it may be unnecessary. Anyone claiming "one size fits all" is just selling snake oil. Essentially the argument comes down to "why time one hand behind your back when trying to solve an extremely important and challenging problem?"

As for waste, it isn't as big of a deal as you might think. Though this is more difficult to understand without an expertise in the subject matter. Mostly this is due to the complexity of understanding the different types of waste, amounts, and the vastly different levels of radiation in those waste products. Most of these conversations are akin to people talking about rocket science without knowing Newtonian mechanics. Just listen to the experts and see what they are saying. You're on HN, so I trust you can understand the nuance that scientists use, though I know that sometimes this can get confusing to the public. Like how "disagreement" isn't much of a disagreement but more quibbling over minor details.
It seems like a disastrously bad idea for Twitter to make moderation decisions based on how many dead people they think are on some particular tweet's side. "Sorry, we've only assigned you 5 bodies - only movements with 20 or more bodies are allowed to send this tweet."
Because layer 2 is nebulous.

You’ll have to look up the transactions for each ERC20 token with volume. Volume is much higher than the base chain, but we are still waiting on rollups and sharding to supercharge TPS.
Maybe don't rely on the opinions of random people? Why not take a look at what the IDF has to say, and then compare with what Hamas has to say, and see if you can figure out which side is inciting violence? It is not all that difficult to figure this one out.

(For the lazy people who would rather listen to a random stranger on the Internet: Hamas is the political party that current controls the Gaza Strip and is widely recognized to be a terrorist organization. Among other things, the first actions Hamas took after seizing power in the Gaza Strip included killing leaders from other Palestinian political parties. The Egyptian government has repeatedly closed the border with the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas using that border to import rockets and for trying to use Egyptian territory to fire rockets into Israel. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has sanctioned Hamas by refusing to pay for various things in the Gaza Strip. Obviously the Israelis have no patience for Hamas, but let's not pretend that this is the typical Zionists-vs-Palestinians dispute.)
It’s common. I’ve always asked employers to amend this and they happily oblige.
This thread is about fully featured browsers though. I think without WebRTC you can not call the browser fully featured.
He did not write a fiction novel. He wrote a book about his time working on ads at Facebook. He has now been hired to work on ads at Apple. Pointing this out is not "throwing away all literature".
You aren't mentioning the other part (notably more influent part) that systematically prevents people from voting. One removes names from voting rolls using brain-dead software that is 95% inaccurate.
Is this sarcasm? As the gmail part is completely false.

Relaying used to be a thing, before spammers and unwillingness to deal with it at the source (boot infected devices, originating AS / IX, .. ) resulted in a choice between a game of whack-a-mole or only accepting gmail¹.

These days, relaying has to be setup on the specific relay server, the originating address needs to permit it (DNS SPF/DKIM/DMARC/whatever), and the relay server will still have a reputational problem with deliverability to unrelated servers, which is problematic even for direct mail, unless you are gmail¹.

¹ usually gmail + varying number of big players
After the liveleak shutdown, I was worriedly looking for alternatives. In the HN thread there was mention of theync.com which features many graphic videos. Viewing some of these videos reminded me that in the US we (white collared workers) live in a very safe and comfy bubble. I imagine these are the videos that are being filtered out by the low paid content moderators of Youtube/Facebook/Instagram, etc. I feel that this filter partially allows us ignore the severity of the issues occurring in the world. It is one thing to read about atrocities, but something completely different to witness them occur on video. Though traumatic, it is probably a good idea to expose ourselves to some of these videos to remind ourselves that we do in fact play a role, albeit small, in these events. When human rights violations occur in the world, we collectively need to respond. As technologists, I suppose one way to help would be to arouse public responses by supporting efforts to help distribute this content via federated platforms like PeerTube, Matrix, Mastodon. But then again, maybe this is completely naive as time and time again the US has turned a blind eye to many atrocities. Anyhow, I digress...
A lot of fashion is about bravery, as mentioned in the article.

People look on those who can wear what they want as free, because they know they are not, and that they are afraid of being judged.

I saw a guy wearing a kimono and a belt yesterday. Was quite a sight.

Typical judgmental thoughts of "look at that odd dude“ went through my head. But I realized that I couldn’t wear that and the reason would be other people judging me for it, or assigning questionable gender identity upon me.

When looking back to 18th century fashion it is extreme compared to the extremes that people are chasing today.

Everyone is trying to be different. Maybe wigs will come back.

Imagine a world without fashion judgement. What would you wear?
I created my own ERC-20 – Trader Joes Token
I created my own erc-20 token on the matic network for fun, it's useless, but if you want some, i'd be happy to share the Trader Joes love! You have to be on the Matic network to receive it, but if u know how to do that, send me ur public address and i'll shoot you over a few thousand TJ Tokens hehe (:

https://traderjoestoken.com
I can type far more words than i can spell
I mean YouTube was caught modifying uploaded videos and Reddit CEO was caught editing comments, it all has been obvious for years.
Which tools do people stumble across?

I never used any tools like Replit when I was learning to code.
> With canvas and WebGL taking more and more, it will turn back into an X terminal, with more advanced network capabilities.

For some specialized apps this will be great, but for apps in general this is not a good idea at all. If it was, we'd be using Java applets today. HTML+CSS based apps are highly constrained. But that's a positive, not a negative, because it is the constraints that makes HTML based apps predictable, consistent and usable.
Digital estate planning: How to safely transfer your digital accounts
Some places have no prerequisites for changing legal gender. Some places don't allow it at all. Trans people can look androgynous just like cis people. And non binary people can look male or female.
I feel like there could be some valuable information here, but not knowing Haskell is a huge barrier for me. Anybody know what an analogous example would be in something like TypeScript or Java?
Ultimately, the only legitimate claim any nation has over its territory is occupancy of it and ability to defend it.
It is easier to me to imagine the waste involved; I live in a high rise. There's a large trash bin in the middle of the mail room that's empty at the beginning of the day and full at the end.

90% of the USPS' job is to transmit dead trees to our waste facilities.
llvm-mca is highly unreliable when it comes to AVX-512. It thinks 3 512-bit vpaddd, vpsubd can be run per cycle. Adjusting for that you get 622 cycles instead of 528.
Devs are not profiting from 2nd layers, people who commit capital to these payment channels do! And even then it's tiny amounts.
You would want to offer a specific something else for the user's executive function to latch onto immediately, even if you continue to interpret anything other than the narrow confirmation pattern as "cancel", just so there isn't only one immediate, recent attractor for "think of something".
An Exhaustive Guide to Pearls: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know
I don't have a reference to hand, i'm afraid - i read it somewhere in the last year, but i can't remember where. It could very well be nonsense.
For anyone who joined late: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/61mxuj/block_size_limi...
There are refinances but there is also good ol' foreclosure. How many rich financiers have actually "lost everything"?

Coperate limited liability + allowed to leverage more + your friendly competitors bail you out is a suspicious combo, even if each of those in isolation is totally fine.
My 2 key lessons (out of many) from charging way too early with my previous SaaS
Something bad is happening to companies, they become full of shit because of nothing. Isn't there a difference between expressing unpopular opinions and actually abusing or attacking people? Or thoughtcrime is becoming punishable? Someone is working hard on adding fuel to misogyny
If the goal was seamlessness; I would think you’d want to pipe the output into terminal directly via STDIN/STDOUT.

Impressive work, regardless