skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a lesson you don't often see, but has worked every time I've used it:

"I was able to incrementally convert program form using Poppler API to using Poppler via engine abstraction to using mupdf via Engine abstraction."

Make major changes incrementally.
I think you're missing the biggest reason for product advertising, which is to notify/remind potential users/consumers that the product exists.

Many people are unaware that a given product exists at all, and others are unaware of all its potential uses; even occasional users can sometimes forget that they liked a product or found it useful.
To be honest though - geek and nerd have become prestigious monikers. I think that management and sales still reign supreme in terms of prestige but skilled individual contributors are being more recognized as cogs that make a company run smoothly... and after the 00's worth of culture we've seen a shift where technical aptitude has become more praiseworthy.
So is that Kowalczyk's Law of Software Design? "Small or fast, pick both."
I'm not sure any of your examples actually support your stance.

- Mrs. Pac-Man is not a human. That said, the marketing shows her in full make-up, laying in a seductive pose. Now, compare that to marketing and images of Pac-Man. https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tw-mspacm...

- Samus was shown at the end of the original Metroid as a slim woman in her underwear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samus_Aran#/media/File:Samus_a...

Other images show her as a young, curvy, attractive, blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samus_Aran#/media/File:Zero_Su...

- Princess Peach is exactly the type of "conventionally attractive" character the poster was mentioning. A young, white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, damsel-in-distress - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Peach
Apart from that, it's also fast, rock solid, has UI on the bottom, which is much easier to use, syncs with desktop (if you want that) etc...In general, it's excellent and I don't understand why it isn't hugely more used - unless I concede to the argument that people just don't care about privacy and Google's monopoly...
Google Cloud offers a model for fixing Google’s product-killing reputation
Yes, I think other (non-covid) infectious diseases are partly to blame. They also have a knock on effect for other conditions like coronary heart disease, COPD and dementia, etc.
That was where they got "PlayStation."
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Lower rewards!
Thank you for these posts, I learned a lot!
Survey: US Consumers Prefer AR/VR Hardware from Apple and Google over Facebook
> considering women playing video games only became socially acceptable a few years ago.

... In Saudi Arabia?

> It's still common for men to talk down to women on video games, to the point where the overwhelming majority of women do not use voice comms or make their gender known.

It's common for men to talk down to men on video games too ("talk down to" is a very mild phrasing). Turns out there are a lot of jerks who play video games, and for $reasons they tend to skew male (but we're still talking about a tiny minority of men; this isn't an indictment of men; the predictable "10% of m&ms are poisoned" rebuttal is inherently sexist, racist, etc).

> Think about all those men complaining that a video game _dared_ have a female character

I'm not sure which game you're talking about, but I suspect you misunderstand the criticism. There have been thousands of female video game characters going back to the dawn of the industry. Many titles which prominently feature female characters have done very well (e.g.., Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, etc). I'm guessing there has never been significant controversy because a video game featured a female character, though no doubt there has been controversy about specific characters (e.g., Battlefield 1's and Battlefield V's wildly disproportionate emphasis on female WWI and WWII combatants) or about the cringe deployment of token diversity characters.

> biased in favor of white men

There's not even good evidence that CS is biased in favor of white men. The only "evidence" is that the demographics skew toward white men, but that's almost certainly minimally related to bias in the field because

1. There are tons of Asians (male and female) in the field as well

2. Demographics remain relatively constant despite a much more welcoming environment and a decade-long push at all levels of the pipeline to incorporate more women and non-whites

3. Women achieved near gender parity in law and medicine without any similar concerted effort during a time when the fields were overtly hostile to them

4. The countries with the most gender equality have more stereotypical occupational demographics, including women in tech
agree. all trackpads pale in comparison. all of them.
Aw geez, stick to the plan!
That's what 30 years and extreme growth does to a company, can't expect them to remain the same when entire new waves of people join over the course of decades.
I don't know if it's just me, but the increased height of these large cars greatly increases their headlight glare and causes me to feel less safe around them at night. If one is
directly behind me, it's usually blinding.
So like Google Lens but not cross-platform
I didn't really bring up rich vs not rich, because it's more about empathetic vs narcissistic or societal vs anti-social. The event of a catastrophic climate collapse that you describe is probably not going to happen in our lifetimes, so if you're of the anti-social mindset, what do you care what happens to the Earth or society at large, especially after you're gone? Some people aren't going to change their behavior for the benefit of people they'll never even meet (separated by space or time), let alone never care about.
I think there is a much going on as ever, but because RTS games tend to be on the more heavier side to get in to and get good enough at to really enjoy it, it isn't featured as much as any of the generic FPS/BR/DOTA style games.

While there might be less of an SC2 eSports bonanza going on right now, there is Age of Empires that is pretty active (as was posted here as well).

I think one of the major impacts to the 'visibility' is the fact that 'generic' or 'casual' games have social buy-in that is orders of magnitude bigger than what we used to think of when talking about 'big games' or 'big communities' or 'active genres'. 10000 players or even 100000 players used to be top-tier. Now that's less than 1% of any of the 'big' games out there right now.
It seems my vision is skewed. Opening it in paint, that is correct. Still, 85 is within the bottom tenth percentile for programmers/technicians and material scientists, and the median for farmers and say engineers is only around a standard deviation.
We spawn thousands of pods per day for jobs and never get those stuck and it was not the case in 2018 either. Not sure what is it you are doing causes this.
But it's hard to refute the case that it's not true. I haven't watched TV in years nor have I seen Coca Cola bear in a time longer than that but I'm still acutely aware of Coca Cola's brand.

Another example where this is more clearly felt is consumer goods. I always buy Tide - I couldn't tell you why until someone pointed it out to me. When I went to college and had to buy detergent there was easily 10 brands of detergent and Tide felt the safest. I've been watching Tide ads for the better part of 18 years and I feel that had to have some decision into why I paid a 10% premium for the brand.
Last I heard, Blizzard was hemorrhaging WoW users as well. Not a great run for them over the past couple years, with the terrible Warcraft III remaster as well.
> What crop and acreage are you working with?

Corn, soys, wheat, edible beans. Understandably, different types of farms will be different.

> Labor and management was year round with no off season.

In this northern climate there isn't much you can do in the winter under the blanket of snow, save animal husbandry. And even then I know quite a few farmers with animals who only keep animals through a portion of year exactly so that they can have time to themselves.

> don't understand excluding the capital input costs and claiming it is lucrative.

Funny things can happen, but as a rule your major capital is retained. Farmland, if anything, tends to increase in value. I don't find machinery depreciates much either (the new stuff becomes way more expensive instead). On the day you retire, you expect that you will get back everything you put in and then some. That is why most farmers are willing to work a second job to build up that wealth.

Input costs are, of course, already factored in to the income potential of the business.

It is a low margin business when you're trying to pay for land (mortgage or lease), but one that is covered, there is significant income potential (with all the caveats of farming being unpredictable). And yes, that income comes as a product of investing. That's what farming is all about.
This is fascinating. I'll have to look into this more. From my brief understanding, there are multiple narratives of what "true" Gamergate is.

I could very likely be wrong and have been misled about the core issue of Gamergate. Thanks for the kind correction!
I was in the top20 worldwide ranking of the original Supreme Commander when I was a teenager, never got over the changes they did to the economy and gameplay on FA. The performance of the original was even worse, you had to apply a patch to get multithreading.

Found an SQL Injection too, reported it and got a license for Supreme Commander 2 as a bounty. That game was way worse than the original, too simplified but I guess it was the logical path as people complained about SupCom's difficulty/complexity.
Seems absurd that the gaming press has picked up on this as a "gaming PC ban." Completely dishonest presentation.
My wife is a wheelchair user and it makes me sad to hear that some think her chair has low value, when it's very valuable to us. She can chase after our 15 month toddler without ever getting tired, she can cruise at 6 mph with no problems, and she's quite happy with her life. An exoskeleton wouldn't let her do any of those things and would significantly reduce her quality of life.
Because it makes no difference if the hole is small or large. To an attacker its the same size.
In heavily saturated markets (notably cigarettes as the main well known case study), advertising can be more zero sum than not. No model is perfect, but the prisoners dilemma model for advertising is at least useful in a couple well known cases.
> It's also worth noting that the military is a toxic cesspit for sexual abuse. Comparing any sane workplace to the military is a joke. Nobody should want to be like the military, including the military.

Can confirm true from experience. To be fair, the military (USMC experience only) is structured to intentionally harass all members below certain ranks continuously, with the idea being that it keeps them sharp and willing to follow orders that put them or others directly in harm's way. Sexual harassment was punished severely, but at the lowest levels possible, and wasn't often reported.
Which is 10 minutes longer than it takes me to refuel my IC vehicles from 5% to 100%, and 14 minutes longer than it should take.

It's funny how HN'ers will fight to the death arguing for swappable batteries in cell phones, where they offer vanishingly few benefits, and against swappable batteries in motor vehicles, where they could potentially make all the difference in the world.
I’m also a big fan of right-click + option, which gives you the ability to copy the path name of the highlighted file/folder in Finder.
Apple wins patent for in-screen Touch ID and Face ID
Home Depot deploys Bluetooth to prevent stolen items from working
> That would be quite stupid. Because if the risk of the disease is low, vaccines does not make sense when you do risk/benefit calculation.

The risk of symptomatic illness is low if you are vaccinated. The risk of symptomatic illness is high if you are unvaccinated. The risk of death is high if you are unvaccinated and have pre-existing conditions and are under the age of 65. The risk of death is very high if you are unvaccinated and over the age of 65.
That wasn't what Gamergate was about at all. What started it was first Doritogate, and later the Zoey Quinn and Anna Anthropy Business (both cases of women getting lackluster or bad games reviewed just because they had some kind of relationship with the journalist, Zoey her boyfriend accused her of seducing the journalist, and Anna Anthropy was roomate of journalist that covered her games).

The misoginy accusations came later, and only then the whole thing morphed into a culture war thing.

Yes, threats happened, nasty stuff happened, but part of it was false flag too, for example Brazillian police arrested a Brazillian that was making death threats in the name of Gamergate, but also was making such threats in name of a ton of other random organizations, the guy just liked to see the world burn and was self-professed progressive.
MOBAs ate them because they have a lower skill floor.

If I understand 50% of how to play a MOBA, I can play the game and have fun. I am gorilla. I have 4 moves: punch, slam, eat banana, and my ultimate ability, get mad. They have cooldowns, but it doesn't matter, I just spam all my moves when I see a bad guy. If I don't see a bad guy, I can kill the enemy turrets and little cpu creatures. If I'm having trouble, I can follow one of my allies and often get into 2v1s which are easier to win. And oh look, he is playing Sword Guy, he's doing pretty well, maybe I should try Sword Guy next time.

If I only understand 50% of how to play an RTS, I'm screwed because I didn't realize that I needed to build a t2 bot factory with my t1 bots, which can then build tier 2 constructor bots which are required to build flak cannons which are the only viable defense against this specific type of gunship-based commander sniping.

I like RTS games better too, but I can see how it can be hard to get into an RTS without a really expensive-to-create campaign tutorial (e.g. Starcraft) and/or a huge time commitment. I bet I could download a MOBA I've never played before and have fun in my first match knowing nothing about how to play it (even the controls).
I don't think so, and I think that's sort of a different thing.

I believe the original ideas around this go back to when a child is born with ambiguous sex organs. Parents and doctors would then choose to "correct" the issue to ensure the baby is either a boy or a girl, when in actuality it may have chromosome's that are not XX or XY. So then this (which is actually a really interesting debate) has cascaded into the greater world of disabilities. So there are currently critical theorists in the universities "theorizing" that looking at disabilities as something that needs to be corrected and not something that is normal puts people with them on the margins of society.

So there is well regarded (by some) literature that fixing deafness is wrong and that society shouldn't see it as a disability - that society should adapt to be seamlessly inclusive for deaf people. And this goes on and on.

In essence, science is racist and it has been white men who have classified what is normal and what is not and who is to say that everyone is normal and "correcting" these things is actually, well, "ableist".

It can get pretty crazy (whoops, that's a naughty word) out there.
As you pointed out CS was once secretarial work. But what constituted CS also underwent a transformation during that time period. No one was muscled out so much as barriers to entry broke down thanks to market forces.

Here's a comment I wrote in response to a similar point addressing the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26767280
> Most commercial aircraft can fly themselves except for take off and the last few hundred feet of landing (thanks to instrument landing systems).

Not a pilot, just wondering -- does this include communicating with ATC towers? Such as moving to specific altitude, requesting landing instructions, etc.
It's very impressive, especially considering the SQLite version you're already using probably has it enabled already. I use it for a small site I run and it works fantastic. Little finicky with deletes and updates due to virtual tables in SQLite, but definitely impressive and has its uses.
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While you personally are not buying a car, every day there are hundreds of people in any small city who buy a car, so it is important to advertise to them. You personally might never buy a car, but they don't know how to target people who are not buying a car "soon".
But they said 2018 which implies there is a specific game in mind. Forbidden West was announced in 2020. Based on other answers it sounds like Battlefield V.

I understand this is a common theme but I was actually curious which specific game they were talking about.
I do think there's a big moral difference between species. I care about protecting a human from suffering much more than a dog, a dog more than a mouse, a mouse more than a cricket...

But I see no reason for some cutoff, where I arbitrarily decide to care for everything above a certain level of complexity, and decide not to care about anything below. "Vertebrates and octopuses" does not seem like a group that share any exclusive traits, i.e. any moral reason I have to care about an octopus seems like it would lead me to care about an insect, just maybe to a lesser extent.

Even if you value insect lives extremely lowly - if there's any moral value to them at all, mass farming them in the trillions or, possibly someday, quadrillions would be a moral travesty, even of their moral value is extremely small per individual, right?

I feel like "there seems to be a reasonable possibility that insects suffer" implies that we should have some level of interest in preventing their excess suffering, where practical.
Isn't that the problem though? How do you know you're getting a genuine opinion when there's a public, broad, and well funded astroturf campaign? What even is a genuine opinion or free thought when the government employs such ruthless censorship?
==One of the ways that advertisers and marketing people stay employed is they say that the output of their effort and money spent is not quantifiable.==

It gets quantified as "Goodwill" any time a company is valued (acquisition, IPO, investment, etc.) or releases financial statement (it's on the balance sheet).

Coca-Cola is coming up a lot in this discussion. They have Goodwill of $17.7 billion, along with additional intangible assets of $11.2 billion. That $29 billion of Goodwill makes up about 32% of Coke's total assets of $90 billion.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KO/balance-sheet?p=KO
Well if you’re paying it off you don’t really own it do you :)
>Brand advertising, in contrast, works on a spread-out scale of years or decades...The actual effect that a brand advertisement has, is to add PENNIES (not dollars) to their sales every day, for the next 100 YEARS. It's a long-term investment. And for these reasons hard if not impossible to measure or control for confounders - but that doesn't mean it doesn't work!!

Car brands are the obvious example of brand advertising. They are among the most common TV advertisers but they don't expect people to immediately go out and spend $50k on a new Mercedes-Benz after watching a 30 second commercial. They just want to establish Mercedes-Benz as a brand of luxury, performance, technology, etc. That way the next time you are in the market to buy a car you already have an ingrained positive perception of Mercedes-Benz that might help sway your decision.
Give them virtual whiteboards and computers and let’s see if they can code up[0] an AI or make Facebook open source.

[0] thinking of Github Copilot
I think we largely agree. I know people who have launched food items (bug snacks) that were piloted in a dozen or so Whole Foods. They didn't sell enough in the trial period that they weren't given offer/lease to return.

It was a super niche product they were making but were up against a couple products that I've at least seen ads for online. I think, theoretically, if those other companies didn't have a brand presence then perhaps my friends snacks would have had a slightly better shot at staying on the shelfs. However, from the other products data they may have seen no short-term gain from their ads.
It's not easy, of course, but new cooperative models will most probably emerge within the next few decades, and the ones that exist already will grow and more people will use them. There's nothing as disruptive as cooperation. Which is also related of course to the "killer app" to be on crypto, imo :) What do you think about all this?
> If I want to contribute to a prior discussion that happened a few minutes ago but another one is taking place now, then we have two separate conversations in the same linear chat stream.

This is also a feature that discourages a bunch of side conversations. If I've participated in conversations on 5 different topics that have moved on, it can sometimes be tiring to have those old threads reopened with more discussions. It's like having 3 text conversations while also being out to dinner with friends.
Would you ask that question of literally anything else? There are twitter accounts for all sorts of things. Agree with it or not, the AZ audit is a real thing that is happening in Arizona. It having a twitter account is in no way unusual.

It's hard for me to believe that this account was suspended for any real "violation". I guess they will say that the people running the audit are spreading misinformation, but the whole point of the audit is to figure out what's true, so isn't twitter taking a side here? Is that ok? I don't think so. If the audit has no basis in reality, as many claim, then it will fail. Why is it so dangerous to allow people to watch that happen?
> From the thousands of open issues (5000+ Web, 1000+ iOS and Android each!) you can clearly see they have an organization problem.

As I said before down thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27974054), there’s nothing bad about thousands of issues, quite the reverse in fact. Many are feature requests that may or may not be implemented.

A large number of open issues means the project is growing and many people are have ideas for new ways it can improve.
Really nice explanations and visualizations. The discussion about ship stability and the moment arm between center of gravity and center of buoyancy gave me flashbacks of my undergrad aircraft stability and control classes (where the moment arms between CG and center of lift on the wings determines static stability).

The discussion about propeller design is also very similar to aircraft as well - not just aircraft propellers but also compressors in turbofan engines.

The fact that there's a ton of similarity between the disciplines isn't too surprising, but the great visuals in this blog post made that connection seem particularly satisfying.
Snow is opaque to light, but not radar, which means it’s actually fairly easy to work around this in car sensor suites.

The same also applies to many types of foliage and grasses.

The metal content of the line paint and the material of the roadway surface and guard rails are pretty easy to differentiate with other sensors.