skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really depends on who you are selling to. If you look at things as a startup you are selling to both investors and your customers.

From a games perspective the customer is actually much more picky than investors and the market is hard to get discovered in. Your MVP is a finished game.

For industry investors (publishers) it depends on your pedigree and connections to a large extent. No name, first time indies will find it hard to get a bad publishing deal without a nearly complete game. Well connected industry veterans will have a deal worth millions based on a pitch alone even prior to starting a studio.

For more traditional startup investors you need pedigree, an idea of how you'll scale, some evidence that you can actually build the thing and to be in a segment hitting the zeitgeist. For example over the last few years doing something with mobile GaaS, VR/AR, blockchain, cloud streaming/native and so on.
My understanding is that this shorten the time in some cases, but most Artist being perfectionist meant they will continue to use their time refining other things or more work being assigned. Basically quality may go up in this case, but cost isn't going down at all.

I have been wondering for a long time if there are tools or massive innovation that bring the cost of building games down by a significant amount.
I don't understand why the CDC now says vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks indoors...weren't we wearing masks for the sake of others? The idea that fully vaccinated people can't spread COVID hasn't exactly been proven yet.
In the U.S. the vast majority of places have only only provider, there is no shopping around. $135/month sounds about right for the complete package. If you're lucky that includes a "special" on including HBO.

Virtually all places have "specials" on the first year of service, wherein the price will increase 50% or even 100% after the first year, which will almost always put you well into the $100+ range.
> Is this because the US is so insanely litigious?

Part of it is the weird setup of jury trials for civil cases, especially impactful in cases revolving around fairly technical, detail-oriented stuff like malpractice.

Twelve randomly selected lay people may not be the best determiners of scientific evidence and in-depth statistical analysis.
Scientists discover brain connection responsible for misophonia
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Extinguishing Bitbucket performance fires and rebuilding for the future
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212787

The same valid comment was made when nuklear was discussed a few months back.

Many would love to unshackle themselves from the limitations of working with UI toolkits and it’s increasingly difficult/impossible to fulfill all the requirements we place on software, especially for solo developers. I don’t know how many one off tools I’ve written where the only interface is the command line over the years. It would be nice to have a simple step up from that as offered by Imgui tools.
>The US links sited state no evidence for causing cancer.

It's benzine. It's a known carcinogen, no need for empiricism here.
Using an emotion wheel [0] can also help clarify a sentence using fewer words. I could never imagine someone suggesting reducing the use of words in the inner circles as promoting Newspeak.

[0]: https://flowingdata.com/2020/03/20/wheel-of-emotional-words/
Imagine that someone takes over your domain name, puts up their own website that says it's now the support venue for YourThing, but locks you out of it.

Now you've moved to another place but have no way to leave a signpost or redirect. And anyone who doesn't get that memo through some other means, will land in a confusingly-named place that looks official but is precisely the opposite.
I'm quite surprised that some mineral sunscreens contain benzene too... I thought the only use of benzene would be as a reactant in the synthesis of some of the chemical sunscreens only.
If Shell refuses to meet market needs, there's plenty of capital out there for others to do it.

There's nothing that Shell offers that is unique, and we have all sorts of other options. (I say "we" even though I'm not in the Netherlands, but we in the US are just as independent as NL is.)
Threading used to be better in email clients. Then everyone went with Google's flat "conversation" presentation. Not that it was easy, or 100% reliable, but it was present in more email clients than it is today.
The first nuclear powered container ship was built in 1959, and we could have had zero emissions ships all this time.

We can replace all jet fuel with biofuel, all diesel with electric or hydrogen.
My basic research suggests benzene exposure is not associated with skin cancer:
“ Benzene works by causing cells not to work correctly. For example, it can cause bone marrow not to produce enough red blood cells, which can lead to anemia. Also, it can damage the immune system by changing blood levels of antibodies and causing the loss of white blood cells.” https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp

Anecdotally, my mother died of multiple myeloma, a cancer related to bone marrow and blood, which is often misheard as “melanoma” (but that’s a different cancer). Her oncologist told me her cancer was associated with benzene exposure, but until now I could not imagine how she might have been exposed.
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I would recommend that blog as well; it is among my favorite places on the internet. Aron's writings have had a huge and very positive impact in my life.
At the same time, I have no idea if the cable I have is a thunderbolt or usb-c cable. There is no standard marking.
Fooling developers with fake software metrics
Excellent point. It is like I said for Facebook is great for me in sense all folks who I have no interest in contacting are gathered at one place. So now I can avoid all in one simple way.

> I cannot tell you how many meetings I've sat through where engineers have wasted time...

We have similar REST experts who are making everyone else's life hell.
I've never heard a convincing (or even plausible) argument for why having identical connectors and cables with different capabilities is an advantage.
Ironically, Shell is often mentioned in business studies and books as having a famous 'Futures group' that tries to predict what the future might be so they can base their strategy on it. Looks like they screwed up either the prediction or what to do about climate change.

Looks like they are now called the scenarios group:

https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/the-energy-futur...

Also ironically, one of the members of that group joined Shell in 1980 and is "a board member of the International Emissions Trading Association and was its Chairman from 2011-13. He is a board member of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions in Washington, USA, and the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute in Melbourne, Australia."
I don't think you can prove that piracy is an effective means to incentivize good behavior on the part of the media industries. Also, it seems irresponsible to openly promote theft as a 'good idea'. I understand there are arguments against calling or treating piracy as theft but at the end of the day you are taking something that isn't yours without paying for it. Encouraging people to take part in illegal activity on the internet has real consequences. I'm guilty of wanting to fight fire with fire as well — and in the past I've pirated plenty. Looking back, it wasn't a good idea then and it still isn't today.
Already doing this with my 16" MacBook Pro using a 24" LG 4k display. Got a second (much cheaper) 24" 4K display, a couple of dongles, and an externally powered USB 3 plugged into the back of it.

Paying $700 for a monitor was a bit painful but I have no regrets.
It’s presumably not the talc but the asbestos found in the talc deposits that makes its way into the baby powder
This is Unreal/C++ we're talking about. If the size of some field somewhere changes, your 300GB will need to be re-cooked...
> Can NOT this tool say to my employer - How many times I compile my code in a day ?

That would be a completely useless metric.

Also, don't you have a daily build pipeline anyways?
I can assure you there are.

Comcast hides their real rates as well as they can but in some places they are required to publish them. In my rural area (where they are the only real option):

$139.99 gets you "Select+ Includes Limited Basic, Expanded Basic, Digital Preferred Tier and HD
programming for primary outlet, 20 Hour DVR Service, and Blast! Internet"

You can't buy ALL the channels as s bundle but the top tier bundle is $189.99/mo (plus fees)

The prices don't sum reasonably at all and it's not really feasible to calculate a price for TV without internet (and its very difficult to order such a thing)

Source: https://comcaststore.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/wk/urc/585bc33c5b...
In theory, sure.

In real business culture, there is an imputis (especially for tech companies) to "maKe money work." If their best investment is other companies' bonds, they should (again, in theory) just return cash to investors who can buy the bonds themselves.

More importantly, The ability to reinvest profitably is a sign of horizon, at least traditionally.

I stress "in theory," because theory is a long way from practice when it comes to modern tech giants. The theory is financial theory... how companies are financed. In theory, equity investment is a way of financing companies. Google and Facebook did not need to be financed by the time they became publicly traded. They never had debt. Software companies don't require capital investment to expand, like a theoretical "firm" does. In practice, public markets have no role in financing companies per se, they're only there to provide liquidity.
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Honestly, I loved Atlantis and Universe. Atlantis was purely character driven imo. The plot was more or less a rehash of SG-1 missions to the point they directly start referencing the SG-1 mission report lol. But McKay, Sheppard, Weir, Ronan, Teyla, Carson, and Todd were all very fun characters. SG-1 was carried by the strong performances from O'Neil, Carter, Jackson, Teal'c and Hammond + interesting plots. So I was able to forgive the lazy plots in Atlantis since they focused more on the characters.

Universe was really cool. They made some critical mistakes early that made it hard to see where the show could go, but the last season was so good and setup some cool stuff just to never get the opportunity to explain it. Rush getting control of Destiny so early really messed up the pacing of the show imo, but I would have loved to see the show continue.
What's more amazing to me is Google had Chat and Docs/Sheets all ready to go and integrate and take on Office and instead they closed down chat and brought out Hangouts which I've still never understood.
It's an image from one of the examples showing the situation. Specifically, this is how Firefox renders the different videos.

> There is a lot to unpack here. Since 709.mp4 and 709vui.mp4 look the same, we can deduce Firefox assumes BT.709 when the VUI is not present. 601vui.mp4 rendering correctly means the VUI is honored for BT.601 content. However, when a BT.601 file without a VUI is rendered as 709 it becomes very dark. Obviously, it's impossible to render things correctly without the necessary information, but the choice Firefox made distorts the color more drastically than the method Safari and Chrome use.
You believe the house will burn down, but virtue signallers are the problem?
It's important to keep in mind the exposure frequency, with sunscreen some people use it daily or more.
It's not predominately black. Blacks are the biggest class of perpetrators, but between white/black/Asian, they are all relatively close. Typically each between 23-30%. You can say blacks are the plurality.
The philosophy of vim is to be able to do a lot without the need for complex plugins, as opposed to emacs' world view. That's why vim script is good only for simple scripting tasks.

I think emacs having more plugins is a consequence of its design and philosophy, not the extension language itself. After all, emacs lisp is not the best language in the world and only a small group really knows it beyond the basics.
It's not reinkarnation. It's rebirth. Buddhism explicitly rejects the idea of a soul so reinkarnation would be very strange. Rebirth is something else that can be difficult to explain...
From my experience, plugins add 'nice to haves', while the main benefit of vim is the core (modal editing, fast navigation, etc.).

If I get on a linux machine other than my workstation, I'll generally not install any plugins and still be able to get the job done without getting frustrated.
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We know that asbestos causes mesothelioma and that J&J baby powders contained asbestos since talc/asbestos are often found together in mines.

J&J knew for decades that they were shipping asbestos to consumers in a powder form that's regularly inhaled -- they ghost-wrote and sponsored studies to deny that asbestos existed in their products and lied to the FDA in their disclosures..

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...

It seems that most talc doesn't cause cancer -- but some talc has "rather high" amounts of asbestos in it -- which we know causes cancer.
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It's always interesting to hear where people draw lines in their complaints about overloading things. I remember for about 4 years after Go came out, people complained that it overloaded the name of the board game. No one cared that they both overloaded the verb though. Similarly, no one was upset that Python overloaded a kind of snake (yes, I know Python comes from "Monte Python") or that Rust overloads iron-oxide or Ruby overloads the gemstone or etc.
Yikes. Had a bit of a scare: living in Puerto Rico, I regularly use Walgreens SPF50, Neutrogena sunblock and After Sun gel.

The closest UPC was the After Sun, but mine was a couple of digits off.

Makes you think what stuff you're putting on that you don't know about!
why is this a problem? serious question.. i dont get it
Maybe you should’ve checked that assumption first?

Just a thought.
While Kalmyk Buddhism is geographically in Europe, it is in a very peripheral part of the continent with virtually no impact on European culture in general. So, it is still reasonable to claim that Buddhism is something foreign to Europe. After all, Buddhism only began to have a real impact culturally in the 19th century with translated literature coming from India and East Asia, not Kalmykia.

With regard to Islam in geographical Europe, yes there is Tatarstan (and bits of adjacent regions), but Muscovy conquered that Muslim power in the mid 16th century and subsequently made it very clear that while Islam exists there, it is only at the mercy of Christian rulers. Historically, during the tsarist era Muslims were forbidden from trying to convert the Christian population.

Perhaps a better example of "Muslims have been in Europe for a long time" (excepting Ottoman converts, as they are seen as forced conversions/uninvited guests/traitors by nationalist demagogues) would be those Tatars (same name as the Kazan Tatars but not closely related) who settled in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but again their impact on the surrounding culture was minuscule, and ultimately they assimilated into the Slavic-speaking Christian population.
Try the plugin easy motion. It changed my life.
>How do you tell that the calculations were done correctly? Presumably you have some way of doing that.

Isn't that what we are discussing, how to tell if a piece of code works? You could do a formal proof that the code works (which is long and tedious) or you can test it (less long and tedious but less rigorous).

>You don't need tests if you only need to do it once.

It doesn't matter how many times you plan on running it. What counts is how much we value the output. I wouldn't bet $20 that untested code works correctly.
Who decides where the line is drawn for scale?
> Except those web pages are broken into pages at arbitrary locations, rather than by chapter or topic like most web sites

Websites are not books. No one will read Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban like a website or a news article.

Books are also not files, going strictly by first principles.

> Another way to think of it is that a web page is one document, and so is a book.

One page is document. Multiple pages clipped together is a document. Website is a document. Video is document. Audio is document. Book is document. Manuscript is document. You are a living breathing document of your own life!

Everything is a document!

But history api on the web exposes useful methods and properties that let you navigate back and forth through the user's session history, and manipulate the contents of the history stack. It does not talk about the unit of transition within a session being a document. It stacks only webpages on the history api in the positive direction of time just like reading through a book. And that's what is implemented.
Most of the high concentrations are in sprays, which makes some intuitive sense, as they sunscreen has to be suspended and propelled, which I imagine takes some fancy chemicals to do. Most neutrogena lotions are fine for example.
There are benzene-free sunscreen products on the market and J&J could sell such products, but instead they decide not to in order to make more profit.
That was my hope as well. I thought Apple's manufacturing scale would make the displays common. I still have one of the early 27" 5K iMacs and I'm sad that I can't just use it as an external monitor. I've heard nothing but bad things about the LG 5K display, and it's pretty nutty that it costs like 75% what a new 27" iMac costs.
Good. Now do Jira.
How much compared to the amount you inhale or get on your skin at a gas station?
Stripe adds six new companies to its carbon removal portfolio
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In this analogy, one might think that Shell is Marlo and society is the security guard, but the reality is that the roles are reversed. If Shell does not change their game, they will die.

Global capital is coming to terms with this, though there are still a few executives in power at banks that don't realize it.

Fossil fuel companies skate by because they have access to cheap loans right now. But as that dries up, so will their extraction of fossil fuels. This is happening far more quickly than most people realize, since most people aren't following that side of financial markets. Everything is shifting day by day.
> Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

How so? I wasn't able to play past the intro when they literally letterboxed me in a cutscene.
A non-strawman version would be, basically let individual communities and their leaders decide for themselves what their future free-as-in-freedom comms platform is, without unsolicited technical interference from their current comms platform.

Imagine if your e-mail provider learned you were considering switching to another provider, and without warning, locked you out of your e-mail account, and then used it to advertise a new e-mail account, created by them, in your name, that you have no control over, to all your acquaintances, saying that you aren't actually switching providers, and the new e-mail account is the real one.

These are the actions of a sociopath.
The big bang is a scientific hypothesis. You don't have to believe in it. You can accept it because it was proven, reject because it was disproven or suspend your judgement in between.
Nowadays, I'm more tempted to use something more mouse focused for my geek itches. Like Acme, for example. Neovim looks cool, but I've long realized that I spend a lot more time reading than writing code. The automations and flexibility of the multi modal mode do not matter much for my use case.
REST is largely over-hyped as an API design. REST fundamentally represents data transfers. No business can be modeled purely as data transfers.

CRUD API would be a good name.
They have a lot of work to do before anything competes with Mac OSX terminal out of the box especially paired with Brew.

WSL1 and 2 aren't super approachable even now, and the terminal (the new and old) are pretty limiting.
The overall issue with Slack is that a channel that gets busy, you lose all context, and the decision becomes do I want to scroll back to figure it out, or just ignore it. I'd much rather prefer email. As people tend be more succinct and focus more on writing and summarizing, than just be a trail of thoughts.
You can get throat cancer from simply drinking hot water daily for extended periods of time. In which case, water itself is the carcinogen with applied heat. Same with drinking way too hot of coffee for extended years. The dose makes the poison, and nearly everything (including water, a solvent itself) can become a carcinogen.
On the other hand, I would love to use an M1 chip that makes use of 240 watts. Could you imagine the power? Give me the option to trade efficiency for horsepower. When I hear things like "My M1 mac never turns on the fans" I wonder why the system isn't clocking higher if the cooling system is running so comfortably.
A simple google search can return these results:

https://www.vox.com/2021/1/26/22241053/antitrust-google-face...

https://www.investors.com/news/technology/ibd-tipp-poll-majo...

https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/virus-outbreak-...
Not sure Biden should be a relief to US citizens either, he’s the author of the crime bill after all.

The only significant difference between him and Trump is aesthetic.
He travels around the world to sleep with women. What exactly is wrong with that?
Thanks. As amazing as the internet is for being such a wealth of information, at the same time simple questions like "which damn sunscreen should I buy" can end in hours of scrolling and wheel-spinning. Sites like this help a lot (as long as there's not a billion of them).
> Personally, I have a hard time guessing which of "extend the life of the human organism to, let's say, 500 years" or "read out the living brain state of a human being and simulate it in a computer" is going to be easier.

The latter is probably closer. We can already induce extended periods of apoxyia in animals by replacing blood with cold saline without brain damage so a similar procedure should be possible to keep healthy brain tissue intact while scanning it. The necessary fidelity of the simulation is what we don't know yet.

Keeping a human being alive for 500 years means knowing how to do roughly the same thing to bodies in order to accomplish the major periodic surgeries necessary to replace failing/injured parts including healing the brain itself, so probably represents a harder technical threshold.
The problem lies with the fact that the average person isn't smart enough to understand that some of these companies are destructive. Outside of tech, no one is concerned with privacy -> TikTok. Outside of tech, no one is thinking amazon is a monopoly. outside of tech, no one cares.

With that mentality in mind, coordinating effective boycots of services is impossible. Governments need to step up and enforce a certain balance between capitalism and socialism. On one end of the spectrum you get monopolies and on the otherside you mob-rule and staterun monopolies.
>There is something wrong when mankind is buying SUVs and these glorified hamster wheels.

Bro, pick a side...
lol , well from the downvotes, you can see its an unpopular conspiracy
The Big Bang has physical evidence for its existence that you can personally verify.
What are the risks that the biggest Matrix servers get acquired by hostile entities like happened to freenode?
This is "dark humor", and probably involves a healthy amount of poetic license. I found it funny. But I also butchered, cooked, and ate a rooster last weekend.