skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about Activision side, but Blizzard has long had an Austin office: https://careers.blizzard.com/global/en/austin

It started out mainly to hire more GMs for World Of Warcraft (had a few people in my larger social circle that worked there). But it looks to have expanded to include some non-game engineering roles.
San Francisco approves $20k designer trash cans
It's a soft lock for sure, given it requires a software update to use you could likely consider this a soft brick too.

It's not a hard brick to your point.
This does not work anymore.

https://www.pcgamer.com/permanently-disabling-windows-10s-bu...
In my case I remember choosing x = x + 1 in my examples for this reason, as well as writing print as a function for consistency.
Not the Blizzard workplace of today, but according to the DFEH, it IS the Blizzard workplace of a time within the statute of limitations.
While I agree with this perspective, I also feel like there's a lot of cultural baggage around this that makes a transition it a hard sell for the time being.
Paycheck transparency, paycheck+stock option transparency, or transparency of all benefits? Didn't Steve Jobs have a salary of $1?
Do you have some example sites using this? I don't see any demos.

How does this compare to SnipCart?
>GamerGate started as an expose on how dishonest and corrupt video game journalism

Not one word of this is true. Gamergate started by and has always been about harassing women.
AutoDraw - Google AI Experiment
I always ran Linux as well.
Would what someone claims online make any difference to you?
Maybe this picture helps? https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/s...

The radius at a northern latitude is smaller than at the equator, so the satellites are more tightly clustered.

I think coder543's answer is wrong, or at least has the causality backwards. Those geosync orbits are very, very far away from the LEO orbits of Starlink.
Tex Gyre Termes could be. For an example, please look at https://www.texmacs.org/joris/zcomp/zcomp-abs.html (you can download both a pdf and the TeXmacs source---note that TeXmacs is not based on TeX, you need to use the TeXmacs program to edit it comfortably and to obtain a pdf).
There's no company behind, the work was done purely on enthusiasm. The main purpose was education and, because RISC-V boards are not widely available, software porting - including RVVM itself - I ran it on N900, but it was not so fast as I expected. Hopefully this will be resolved when JIT will be finished. As for other projects - Xash3D server was ported to RISC-V thanks to RVVM.

And saying that you've written a virtual machine sounds cool too :)
Yes - my understanding is she was the wife of a spoon and didn't have diplomatic immunity? I agree perhaps there is more to it, but still it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
If people live forever except for those in power, and power is opt-in rather than, e.g., sortition, power can only go to people who prefer it over eternal life.

That group will be composed of the insane/irrational, those who value power at extremes, those who value improving the world over their own lives, and those who have lived long enough that they're ready to move on. The last two categories are great candidates for empowerment, but one is rare and grows rarer, and the other doesn't show up for upwards of centuries. Until then you mostly get the first two, which suck. Eventually, I think, we burn through everyone willing to make the trade-off and we're left with no power centralization.

Unless you mean they only face death for the duration that they are in power, as an enforcement of term limits. I don't think that is materially different from other enforcement of term limits- if a dictator is able to compromise the military, they can probably also compromise whoever has the power to stop their impending death.
Privacy would be one downside. I'm not sure I want my friends, acquaintances, home contractors, ect knowing how much I make.
Please don't just uncritically adopt their framing.
Federal mandates are non-starters politically in America, for better or for worse, especially in regards to speech and privacy. There is a massive cohort of Americans who vehemently oppose the government mandating what they must publicly share about themselves. This doesn't seem feasible.
> humanity is innately selfish and short-sighted. If this can't be fixed, we are completely fucked.

The communists tried pretty hard to do that, and just made things much worse.
If we are talking about such abstractions as Datatype99, this model is less convenient than native macros [1]. You have to write code in separate files, IDE support is lacking, sophisticating a build procedure, etc etc.

[1]: https://github.com/Hirrolot/metalang99#q-why-not-third-party...
Hacker News is in Verdana, which was designed for Microsoft.
Even if they sent idiots to do the DD, if they find out later that there was fraud... it's still fraud. You can't just yell "No taksey backsies!".

Given the list of sophisticated financial fraud mechanisms charged, even if it WAS mismanaged, it was still fraud.
This is, uh, not the way to reply to such accusations.
I had a girlfriend with a brother he was schizophrenic. He had a classic break with Ronald Reagan directly addressing him through the television and all that. Like most patients, he did not like the side effects of anti-psychotics. He tended to drink light beer all day. At some point he started smoking cannabis and said it was the only thing that had made the voices go away for him. However, this effect seem to go away with tolerance, which isn’t surprising. He also ended up hanging out with a different crowd and starting to smoke crack about six months later, which probably is related to how one was forced to access illegal markets that also sell other drugs to obtain cannabis at that time. Not surprisingly, crack was not good for his schizophrenia. Cannabis, however, seems promising. The way he described it is similar to my experience with pain relief from cannabinoids, which is the unpleasant sensation is still there but you don’t pay any attention to it.
I was specifically commenting on cpp-style macros. Apologies if this was unclear.
The downside is that it's a tyrannical intrusion into private business.
The internet works on a "best effort" basis.

Compare that to old voice telecom networks that reserved bandwidth end-to-end for the whole call.

If you send a packet to somebody you are talking to it is likely the packet will make it the whole way, but if a wireless connection experiences a burst of noise, a buffer is full somewhere, or there was some kind of glitch, or if the routing got changed, a packet gets lost.

Recovery is not supposed to be "at the the hop that got lost" (sometimes it is and that's mostly a bad thing!) but rather "end-to-end". That is, if a packet is lost it is up to the two sides communicating to decide what to do about it. In the case of a file transfer (say a web site) the far end might ask for missing content to be re transmitted. In the case of a phone call "the show most go on" and the dropped content can be discarded, the important thing is that subsequent packets get through.
Can I use this to send information from my app to an App like Quickbooks?
Do you have an example storefront we could look at? I think that would be a great link from the homepage to help people understand what this thing is.

On the biz front, it seems like you guys are taking on gumroad? How are you thinking about getting users? I'm not super familiar with how gumroad does distribution.
Subscriptions are indeed planned.

Our roadmap currently looks something like this: API -> subscriptions -> product embeds -> basket system (so a customer can purchase multiple digital items from the same store)
Ive not looked at it in a long time - but one of the reasons for learning smalltalk was that everything is an object which made it a great language to learn OO
We do use SFBA but the median salary, which isn't super competitive in those locales. Most top tech firms pay 75th %-ile+, so yea it makes SFBA recruiting challenging. This is def a downside because a lot of the scaling experience is still localized in those places, but that will trend down over time. We've had enough success picking up people as they leave the Bay Area.
> For everyone else, apologize.

The sharks are circling, maybe if I give them some blood they'll leave me alone.
Air-Purifying Plants Are a Myth
This is epic! Just subscribed to a few of my faves!
Worse, the "classic" studies that claim to show the connection between use and schizoid disorders claim to adjust for this, but use a method that is completely wrong, and would be expected to show the same effect for any disease where diagnosis reliability at the start is less than 100%

I don't remember the exact details anymore, but more or less they claim to address causation by 1) starting with a non-schizophrenic population, 2) segmenting by marijuana use, and 3) evaluating schizophrenic status N years later. The theory is that by limiting 1) to non-schizophrenics, they've factored out the possibility that schizophrenia drives drug use rather than the other way around.

Of course, most schizophrenics are not actually diagnosed until waaaay past the point where they are showing symptoms, and if you've ever known a schizophrenic who was diagnosed in college, for instance, you know that that diagnosis usually comes at the end of a long chain of subtle and not so subtle mental issues, shrink appointments, and life problems that start much earlier but don't present as full blown schizophrenia. So the whole supposed filter in 1) is complete trash, and they're probably including a lot of people who are already symptomatic, just not to a clinically diagnosable degree.
Yup! Several of our users send things like journal entries and invoices directly to Quickbooks/Xero/Intacct, and more.
Yes, custom B2B support contracts that deviate from the terms of support that everyone else gets is not unusual.

For example: a large organization might get a "Microsoft Custom Support Agreement" if they want to get security updates after the date that MS stops providing security updates.

As with any negotiation, if you have leverage (i.e. dollars), you can negotiate.
> 2. I can use a simpler/more memorable password because entry attempts have to go through the TPM, rather than being able to be bruteforced with a GPU cluster.

this is already the case with every single open source encryption model out there. You have a simple password which then encodes the true key.

Nothing will save you from GPU cluster brute forcing it, if the adversary have your harddrive.
At one point Miles asked Apotheker why he hadn't read Autonomy's most recent financial results around the time of the deal, asking incredulously: "You didn't have 30 minutes?" Apotheker responded: "I was running a $125 billion company, sir, and minutes are pretty precious."[1]
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/leo-apotheker-abandon-11-bil...
According to Wikipedia (so YMMV) GamerGate started when a woman wrote a text-based game about depression and got rape and death threats over it, recorded said death threats and publicized them, got even more death threats, and an ex-boyfriend jumped in to contribute by straight up lying and claiming journalistic corruption... [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy#History
Pay transparency doesn't necessarily mean you're personally identifiable. That aside, what are the downsides?
Sweet product!
Definitely understand, parsing and converting dates/time is tricky.
Looks amazing, great job!
What does society think of successful entrepreneurs?
Do you think Docker will disappear and everybody will some kind of "single binary kubernetes" on their machine + A tool to build the images.
I agree it should be done, but the main downside is that a single pay number lacks a lot of nuance. At companies with open pay policies, a lot of times you will see one person complaining that another person is making more than them, and then a long meeting has to take place where all the special skills of that other person are explained. Having to do that repeatedly would get onerous.

Also, it's bad for small business owners, because then the large businesses could see what they are paying and much more easily poach employees.

Edit: To clarify, I'm absolutely in favor of pay transparency laws. But any time you make a government policy, there are always winners and losers. It's always a balance between how much you're harming the losers and who they are. In this case, the losers would be the businesses and their owners, which is all that I'm pointing out. But I'd say that the employees should be the winners here, and I say this as a business owner myself.
good lord.
They are planning to increase the number of satellites by an order of magnitude. They’re launching extremely fast with Falcon 9, and prepping Starship for launch as well, which has 5-10 times the payload. May see Starlink launches on Starship join Falcon9 within a year or so.

So the opposite is true. They’re likely to massively increase the number of satellites.

If you want to argue the per user bandwidth might be different than for early users, that’s somewhat more plausible. But the number of satellites will increase. They can’t actually significantly change the inclination of the satellites once launched as it takes an insane amount of propellant, and even for solar electric thrusters, so your concern about them moving the satellites to other orbits is very unlikely.
My Starlink experience has gotten a lot better recently. In the past few months.

I'm in rural Arkansas, near the southern edge of the rollout still I believe. I have maintained 3 ISPs this whole time. I have an EM160R LTE modem that will do 5x carrier aggregation and pulls around 240-250 mbit from my local AT&T tower. I also have T-Mobile's 4g home internet (5g works here on my phone, but they won't give me the home internet for whatever reason) which pulls 100-115 mbit. Starlink itself is somewhere between 180 and 240 down, but only 15 up. On the ATT line I can get 40-60 mbit upload, and that's one of the main reasons I keep things set up this way.

I'm about to try disabling the wan port for T-Mobile to see what it's like without that ISP. I don't do any connection bonding - straight up round robin load balancing with no stickyness, and with the amount of servers and services that use multiple TCP streams I can see 300+mbit downloads often. Pings range from 30 (when using Starlink) to 90. (when using one of the LTE connections)

I no longer game enough to comment on it. My kids play Roblox and PS4 online games and don't whine about it, so I think it's sufficient.

I don't really do Zoom meetings. MS Teams is what we use. I don't use the camera very often, but the calls will pause and drop and the people I work with have coined this as, "being Starlinked". Usually a few seconds and rarely does it take an actual redial to reconnect anymore. Just a dead period.
Yeah the theory seems to only explain interiority of our consciousness. But if I recall the author does seem to cover critiques like this in the first chapter where he explains what he sees as erroneous ideas about what consciousness is.

He give the example of automatized actions and the lack of conscious recognition of what would normally be experiences with conscious perceptions. For example driving, you often do not consciously feel the petals, or see a lot of the road you are obviously responding too.

I definitely do not buy the theory totally explains consciousness but the book makes a convincing enough case to not dismiss.
Also Peter Watts' Echopraxia has bicamerals - members of order which act together as some sort of hive mind
This is not an appropriate comment for HN.
I often wonder how does nobody say anything?

Then I remember when a recruiter told a friend on speakerphone that they thought he wasn't a culture fit and he asked what they meant and the recruiter said "Everyone here is young and they were worried you're too old."

I didn't say anything, he didn't ... at that time we needed a job / to break into the industry, not to get our names out there in a fight about a place that didn't want to hire guys like us. (We're both doing fine now.)
> The time that Microsoft failed to acquire Skype's IP comes to mind.

Huh, TIL! I had no idea about that: https://www.iam-media.com/article/648B260AFA518A71125F0E77C3...

That said, I don't believe that was why Skype lost relevance after Microsoft bought them: Microsoft was seemingly intent on compromising the Skype UX to promote the then-named Windows Live service - and they didn't combat the problems with spam on the service - and the ill-advised and ultimately reversed decision to force-convert Skype accounts into Windows Live accounts in a hamfisted way that left me personally with 3 duplicated accounts and no easy way of managing them - especially after they decreed that Skype will only support 1 account per Windows account in their flagship Windows 8-exclusive client and remove secondary instances from the legacy client, and the list goes on...

...I'd summarise it as them alienating their own fanbase and the tech-thought-leader community, which led to them (us?) seeking different platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger and Skype quickly becoming irrelevant.

When they relaunched Skype's new desktop client as an Electron app I knew they had stopped caring about it - because they immediately lost all of the advantages of having platform-specific clients, which is especially useful for video-conferencing due to the limitations imposed by Chromium (which are far better now than they were, but still...)
I responded to a now flagged comment. The gist of that comment is that it's worth knowing Haiti's history.

> There is LOTS of context missing before we get to the 1804 massacre of the remaining whites in Haiti.

Thirteen years of conflict and war took place before this happened. Why? Enslaved people wanted what the French Declaration of the Rights of Man guaranteed, that "all men free and equal."

In struggling for this Haitians were bounced around like a football, between the great powers of France, Spain, and Britain.

Every attempt at autonomy or freedom was met with outright force or duplicity aimed at returning Haiti to the status quo of one of the most brutal forms of slavery in history.

What's the saying? Fool me once...

Dessalines, who ordered the 1804 massacre, had seen all of this, topped off by the French just a few years before taking out Toussaint Louverture, who was forgiving of whites.

He had also seen brutality the likes of which we cannot imagine:

"the French staged mass executions via firing squads, hanging, and drowning Haitians in bags:

"Rochambeau invented a new means of mass execution, which he called "fumigational-sulphurous baths": killing hundreds of Haitians in the holds of ships by burning sulphur to make sulphur dioxide to gas them."

Should you still think the Haitians more brutal than others, do read up on the British and French exploits in continental Europe during the Peninsular Wars. God help you should you find yourself a non-combatant in a place just taken by siege.

Haiti was born in brutal slavery. It has been meddled with incessantly throughout its history by greater powers. If we want to trace a line back, those are the dots to look at connecting.
You are dumber than a rock.
Its interesting to see how the quality of the games Blizzard produces and the company culture both seemed to decline sharply in lockstep after being acquired by Activision in 2008.
Are you serious? Microk8s reset takes ages. It's faster to uninstall the whole thing. You also can just delete whole workspaces, that should normally be enough.
Of course it doesn't exist, because if it did any CEO could say "let's hire women instead of men and save 25%"
While it's not a precedent in the legal sense of the term, there's been a case in France against Ubisoft that has striking similarities [1]:

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/ubisoft-ceo-a...
It seems that modern type designers don't like Modern fonts. Font design, like all design, is a style-based endeavor, where things come into and go out of fashion. Modern fonts are out, currently.

Personally, Computer Modern is a little spindly for my taste (and eyesight). Computer Concrete, on the other hand....
That's patently false. Discourse still continues to this day on certain subreddits.

We talk about ethics in gaming journalism, and oppose censorship and the woke mob.

It's sad that some people decided to be harassers in the name of GG, but that is practically ancient history. If you think that's still true, you're part of the problem, because you believe everything the media and Twitter tells you.
I don't think you'll ever convince someone who doesn't believe in privacy of the value in privacy until they're hurt. Privacy touches all kinds of subjects from centralization, to corporate power, advertising revenue, government control, etc... and therefore becomes frivolous to discuss.

To me the problem is that most people think they're living a "normal" well-to-do life until a group gets power that thinks you don't or didn't and wants to arrange a circus for attention.

Some popular responses I've seen to pro-privacy concern:

- caring about privacy is "narcissistic" because nobody would possibly care about Tom or John's internet search history.

- privacy is just an excuse for people to avoid "consequences".

- privacy people are just criminals disguised as advocates.

There's commonality in these responses, but I'm not sure what it is.
Only thing is I would need my end users to log into quickbooks for my app to work is that is what going on here: End user logs in?

I will be using this if this is the case and we can make
sales, and refund receipts and add links to invoices.

How much data can we update or pull. Quickbooks has a lot of quarks.
It's unfortunate research was barred for so long (at least in the US), because we could have had a good idea by now what risk factors there are and their warning signs at onset
I might not have the heart to but a rational agent acting in the interest of the entire population would. In fact this is basically what natural selection did to us. If much longer lifespans would have benefited our species we would already have them.

It turns out that the way out brains crystallize as we age and make us better at teaching but worse at changing our minds means our ideal lifespan is not very different than the ones we have. I know individuals can work very hard to avoid this outcome but most people don't.
Many bay area tech companies decided to push Diversity representation as a top issue. Many achieved results by lowering the bar for diverse candidates to get entry level positions.

3 years later, those same diversity candidates start to notice that on AVERAGE their diversity-segment gets paid less on average that white/asian males.

BUT what the statistics show is that the bar for white/asian males happened to be higher, because the diversity initiatives prevented them from being accepted for lower-tier jobs...the same jobs the company skewed towards diverse candidates. As such, they also were paid more on average, not due to discrimination but because their group was discriminated in getting the lower-paying jobs in the company.
> Also, it's bad for small business owners, because then the large businesses could see what they are paying and much more easily poach employees.

I don't follow - to rephrase what you're saying, it's bad for small business owners because their (underpaid) employees will be paid more by (larger) other businesses?

Sounds like the employees of said businesses will overwhelming benefit if what you're saying is true.
I bet the post-mortem for this is going to be fun. How this wasn't covered by multiple unit tests, a code review and a roll out strategy is.... impressive.
"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous."