skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well that sure sounds a lot like building a strawman out of some random debris but ok.

I do question whether making gaming communities less toxic is a "good" thing. of course, anyone is welcome to do anything they want to their communities, and if they think making them less toxic is some combination of altruistically good, potentially profitable, and plain ol' good PR, then good for them. however, not everyone who plays games wants to play their games in a sanitized environment, and not everyone takes everything said in anger to pseudononomous handles on the Internet personally. when Call of Duty 4 Remastered was made free on PS+, I wholly unironically had a lot of fun having the CoD4 online experience for the first time in years, complete with epithets and bong rip sounds in my headset. I kind of miss the days of 360-era Xbox Live vocal toxicity; I always found it amusing. of course I understand that it's not everyone's cup of tea, but personally I find experiencing raw competitive energy in online games to be kind of weirdly exhilarating. Dota 2 wouldn't be the same without the Russians and Latin Americans cursing at each other as well as me, in incomprehensible abbreviations of their native tongue.

so again I have no issue with companies sanitizing their online communities, except that I take issue with the idea that said sanitization is somehow morally, altruistically good, as though preventing someone from calling someone else—whose sexual orientation they're more than likely entirely unfamiliar with—a "faggot," will cause them to somehow reevaluate their life and linguistic choices going forward, thus making the world an objectively better place in the process. this seems absurd on its face, yet it seems like people actually believe it implicitly. sure, it might make your game more friendly to more people (again, increasing your company's profits), but, like, c'mon. not only is the idea that the actions of a corporation that coincidentally theoretically increases their profits could be a form of altruistic moral do-goodism hilarious on its face, but also, it raises the question of whether or not the "toxic" core audience that fell in love with your franchise in the first place will continue to buy future installments. (again, it's up to the corporations to make this value judgement—maybe they'll get enough new, toxicity-adverse people to play (and keep playing) their games, enough to more than cancel out the toxic boys leaving!) but pretending it's an act of justice or something is just silly.
I think there are two separate issues, though:

* properly qualifying a bug bounty submission

* actually fixing the thing

From what I understood from your original comment, was that sometimes things get qualified as “wontfix” because of internal struggles. I understand that these struggles exist, as with any large org with conflicting priorities, especially when the issues are not 0day severity.

I think, however, from an outsider’s perspective, acknowledging it’s a valid bug, but also saying “this will not get fixed any time soon” is infinitely better than just marking it as wontfix.

As such, I’d argue that the minimum effort the product teams would have to put into the bug bounty program is properly qualifying the submissions. If that, for some reason, is too much to ask, I submit it’s a higher level, leadership problem that they want to have a bug bounty program without the necessary resources to qualify the bugs.
It's sexualized, or not, depending on why the choice was made. If the bikini cut was chosen because the media wanted them to wear it because it was causing more men to watch, that's sexualized. If the team chose it because it gave them higher scores, then it's not (unless the judges are judging on sexiness rather than technique, which, while possible, would be highly unprofessional).
> I, for one, am happy that China is tripping over itself and will give us a bit more room to breathe and figure out our own mess, so that when the inevitable takeover of Taiwan and all the other shit storms happen in the future, we'll be at least a tiny bit more prepared.

A China with a stable regulatory regime is probably preferable over a China that is prepared to do short-term self-harm in return for its long-term strategy objectives. This just reinforces that there is no transparency in policy-making, and there is no room for capital to act as a tempering voice. Moreover, Taiwan's economy is heavily linked to China - China is Taiwan's biggest trading partner. If China has no regard for domestic or foreign capital and industry, it almost certainly doesn't care about disrupting Taiwan economically and forcing it to submission without firing a bullet.

OT: I see a lot of Chinese experts rationalize recent moves by saying it's all foreshadowed in CCP's public policy goals and so on. If that was the case, I would expect at least domestic investors to have priced-in the impact of the recent changes well ahead of time.
>It's about totally rewriting history to appease the modern woke sensibility that people were complaining about.

Nobody ever complains about gold-plated rifles, hipfiring LMGs, or frankly the entire existence of portable automatic weapons in a WWI game.

If you don't like it, it is what it is, but don't hide behind excuses like "historical realism" and "rewriting history".

Battlefield is not ARMA, if you took out everything that wasn't historically accurate there would be basically no game left, at all.

I'm not aware of many historical instances of pilots jumping out of planes in mid-air to snipe other pilots and jump into their planes.
The biggest Blizzard fans I know personally are pretty fed up.

From a fan perspective many are disappointed and/or concerned with the direction of WoW, Overwatch, and other Blizzard franchises from a gameplay perspective.

And from what I understand, the WoW community is talking about the recent news with many seeing this as the same leadership that is making poor decisions about the games they like as the same leadership behaving badly in the workplace.
>sells everything they can produce.

That is the important part. Their production capability is limited to a level that is below current demand. It therefore doesn't make any sense for them to invest in increasing future demand until their production capability consistently exceeds the level of current demand.
> [And Shkreli's trial lawyer Benjamin] Brafman also wrote, "I can also confirm that the sale price was substantially more than what Mr. Shkreli paid for it."
> Indeed, radioactive dating measurements suggest that some amount of carbon can stay in the soil for centuries.

This is the only quote that matters. We literally know it works.

Yet the world is so so broken the facts don't matter.

We have the observable working model, but the environmental industrial complex needs to keep its minions in a constant state of panic which allows it to keep its control.

A healthy human being would see this article as how amazing our understanding of soil science is getting.

Just last week there was an article on increasing plant root length and increasing productivity that's working in field tests. Increasing soil depth just a little in farmland is a huge change. Nothing is upended. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-00982-9

This is interesting around invasive species https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15769
>>considering women playing video games only became socially acceptable a few years ago.

Ohh Please, I remember vividly playing my Grandmother in Sonic the Hedgehog on the original Sega Genesis many decades ago. That trope is just plain incorrect and a complete revisionist history
Forgive me but that sounds... outdated? With the proliferation of e-sports and people making a living on twitch and all, it just seems a little unbelievable.
Too true. I don't care for all revivified old shows but I've been seeing a lot of this show recently (MeTV in some cities) and of course, Columbo doesn't wear a stylish turtle neck, but I think some would find the callback hilarious.
Discord blatantly copying HN now. What's next, upvotes?
Is there any documentation why people harassed her that isn't just speculation? The gamer culture works just like twitter mobs, they attack things for almost no reason and do it hard, harassment and death threats etc. There is no big plan or conspiracy behind it, just thinking that maybe she slept with some reviewer to increase her score is enough to trigger the hate mob.

With that said, I'm not saying it was justified. Gamers are biased against women, yes. Gamers overreact and harass people who don't deserve it, yes. But they don't just harass any woman who publishes games, there are thousands of women who do that and nobody cares. It requires a spark, just like a twitter mob, and they become relentless attacking the target. And of course, if you accuse them of misogyny here they start attacking you, since they didn't attack her due to misogyny, similarly how when a twitter mob attacks a man with little evidence they don't do it due to misandry, they just attack someone they think did something wrong.
Its a bit more recent than 25 years, probably 2003-2005 maybe.

When I was a young "computer nerd" who went off to college we had a pretty decent CS program but it was awfully dusty to those not into it. I think there were maybe 5-10 "great" CS programs in the US, now major cities have 2-5 real "learn to code" programs outside of colleges.

In 96, a "programmer" could make decent money but it was defo not a money printing machine.
I'm curious why it is so expensive though. Its works out to $36k paid over 3 years to own it.
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Sources for this, please?
HR works for the company, not for you.
Ok... I read that. I have to say it's very not intuitive. I like Julia overall, but this is an area where I scratch my head and say "Hmmm... why would they do that?" (performance, I'd guess, but it's not very user friendly). Is there a set of guidelines for translating Python/numpy code to Julia because indexing in Python/numpy works a lot differently (and seems more intuitive).
It's not clear whether HR was actually empowered to stop things here. The lawsuit alleges that in at least one case, a harasser's behavior was escalated multiple times to the Blizzard president, and multiple times he declined to fire the guy.
I think the big problem here was with Starcraft 2's lack of UMS and chat room focus compared to Brood War. I played competitive 1v1 in both, and anecdotally I spent alot more time in Brood War, and much of that time was socializing, playing casual games, and UMS--largely with friends who didn't play competitively.

This community was completely destroyed by SC2, multiplayer really only appealed to serious competitive players. It sucked unless you only wanted to grind ladder. That community kept the game as a whole alive and acted as a gateway.
But their supply is constantly expanding and demand is following right up. They have 0 ads and yet everyone knows about Tesla.
I think the poster's "talk down to" was more referring to the general "shit talking" people do in games. Even if you have a generic username and never speak, people will talk crap, be a jerk, or whatever. Even games that provide built in messages can get converted into trash talk (Rocket League, Overwatch, etc.). Having something "identifiable" just lets trash talkers switch from "you're terrible" to something else.
I am actually one of those nihilists, in that I have no stake in the next generation and only a faint interest in "the good of humanity", but what I care about is the fact that climate change denialism is part of a constellation of anti-intellectualism that makes my life worse today, right now.

Climate change denialism has enormous overlap with the people who promote COVID denialism. Even before that crisis, they were responsible for creationism and anti-same-sex-marriage (which has since become legal without the world collapsing).

These aren't matters of opinion, values, or world-view. They're Just Plain Wrong. Nor am I talking about fringe opinions; these are political party platforms and talking points that candidates rely on to attract voters.

There are tons of other areas where I am quite certain they're wrong, but more importantly, they argue about them using the same poor forms that they use for climate change. They cherry-pick, they are manipulated by deliberate disinformation, and they place their own ignorance over knowledge.

That creates a hostile, toxic atmosphere in which there is no way for me to convince them, even on the things that are as conclusively scientific as it's possible for a thing to be. That makes it beyond impossible in areas where there might actually be room for legitimate disagreement.

So yeah, I care a lot about climate change, but not because I'll be alive, nor my direct descendants. The way we talk about climate change makes my life a lot worse, today. I believe that we've seen a deliberate inculcation of an anti-intellectual bent in the US that has become weaponized.
>There's at least one group that likes drug ads: the advertising industry.

There's another group that likes drug ads: media corporations! Part of the reason big pham spends $billions on ads is to buy the support of the media giants.
I would not call Elon Musks Twitter and other public performances ‘no advertising whatsoever’. They don’t pay for it cash to adv companies, but they got in hot waters with SEC because of it, for example.
Ever heard of Path of Exile 2? It's the spiritual descendent of Diablo
They downvote you for speaking the truth
Zulip approximately does this too, right?
If you're interested, the age of empires 2 community has been growing over the past year with the release of the definitive edition
Yeah, this is a fantastic blog post but is a little inaccurate in some edge cases.

In solo around the world races like Vendee Globe, the boats are required to be fully buoyant and self righting no matter how they end up. The most common approach to achieving this is to rig a canting keel with a device that when the boat capsizes, lets the keel swing to one side, creating a weight imbalance that rights the boat. They're quite serious about it too: you don't get to race the boat unless you demonstrate it works that way at the pier.
I believe those stats for most games, but not for WoW, which is still Blizzards cash cow. Those players are invested in the community. Same largely goes for Overwatch. Blizzard has cultivated a community over the years and has their own convention.
This architecture; CPs, ZAAPs, IFLs, IOs etc are compelling to me along with the minimal OS, DB layers with a development setup that feels only just capable, albeit at a cost to the development effort. It feels efficient from a compute perspective? Today in distributed land we have libraries built on libraries built on OS services and API layers with other stuff we don’t need all to do some basic date math for example, how many cycles did we use to do that, maybe it was easier during the one off development process, was it worth it.
Very cool to see. Going to have to play around with this. Would love to see additional quick take youtube videos about the value prop. Thanks!
From FPGA design point of view SystemVerilog is OK. I think it gives high enough level of abstraction to create even complex systems. It can also be readable after some years if care is taken to keep the code clean.

But I believe we need LISPy syntax - mainly for simplicity, also for easier parsing and static analysis. I think LISP is a natural way to describe data flow.
Unfortunately none of the attempts to write functional synthesizable code that I found so far make the code simpler.

BTW I'm preparing a talk on simplifying RTL code. Can I cite some of your posts in this thread?
Why You Should Start Your Wargames Journey?
OpenShift is about 10x more complex than basic Docker / containers, and probably 2-4x more complex than plain old Kubernetes.

I've seen more success from organizations running smaller K3s or K8s clusters (if they need the orchestration) or just running small apps via Docker/Docker Compose separately, using a CI system (even as simple as GitHub Actions) to manage deployments.
Hellooo, False Dichotomy.
Comirnaty
What is your point? No one is claiming that advertising is the only way to increase demand. It is simply one option to increase demand, an option that Tesla has no use for at the moment.
> rocket company does not need to advertise dont apply to companies that people buy weekly/monthly on a grocery store shelf.

Starlink? That's consumer-facing.
You've missed the point. The point is, cultural (and time differences, language differences, etc) differences slow down collaboration. it has nothing to do with specifically american (or german, or polish) culture.

How many roles do you think to be outsourced by the polish or japanese? not a lot, which keeps them efficient.

especially in creative endeavours, its best to keep things colocated.
Bobby Kotick is worth $600 million according to a brief Google search. That's enough fuck you money I'm surprised he hasn't just retired yet. Of course, when you can convince the board to pay you $155 million more, that's a good incentive to keep working I guess. Especially since work at that level is probably just a handful of meetings in a boardroom and a few more on the golf course per year (I don't mean CEOs in general, but CEOs of large corporations like his, where the decisions boil down to pretty much "How many absurd microtransactions can we get away with in Call of Duty this year?").

Anyway I highly doubt his head can really roll from this.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-06-22-activision-bli...
Wait what, Deepfake is better? To me, not at all, deepfake seems blurry. It looks like, well, a deepfake, there is something distinct about deepfakes which just stands out, I think it's the soft blur around individual parts. It's taking the easy route by blurring and darkening a lot of things, look at the eyelids for example in modeled example, there is incredible detail there.

Deepfake definitely has a place in this space, in that it can do things with 1/100th the effort in a scalable way, but it has a lot more to catch up on with traditional modeling than what some folks appear to be thinking. rendering with goodies likes SSS, AO, etc. gives magical results which are hard to achieve any other way. And as soon as you get a little bit complicated in what you're trying to create, at least the currently existing neural network models fall apart are are just not applicable. Take this video for example, which was very manually modeled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC2dRkm8ATU Deepfake is a long, long way to taking a stab at things like this.
Feral no longer porting Total War Saga to Linux, citing less demand since Proton
Isn't it compliant the same way VMS was, simply because POSIX considers fundamental Unix mechanisms, like fork(2), optional?
> My dollars and euros lost value

How'd you fuck that up the market has been shooting up every week?
Oh, man, the good old days of Trillian. Yeah, you could be signed into multiple AIM accounts, MSN, ICQ, maybe others later on. It was a total game changer.
How much lower can Blizzard go? Fans have been disappointed in Blizzard for awhile but now not only are fans pissed off but employees are pissed off.
Former eBay employee gets 18 months in prison for cyberstalking campaign
Everyone in the US has access to health insurance under Obamacare. Whether or not health insures will pay $1000/mo is a different issue.
Nope. Gamergate was about an abusive former boyfriend of a female indie developer stepping waaaaaay out of line, exposing details of their relationship in a blog post, while also claiming she slept with a game journalist (and then later saying he had no evidence of that).

That journalist briefly mentioned her work once (before she started dating that abusive boyfriend), so conflict of interest argument never made any sense, because... you know, he never actually wrote a review of any of her games.

It then spiralled even more out of control, targetting even more female developers for even more bullshit reasons. Brianna Wu was the target because she mocked Gamergate. Felicia Day was doxxed just for saying she was scared to even mock Gamergate (knowing what happened to Wu). Anita Sarkeesian for daring to kickstart a YouTube series about how women are represented in video games.

In other words, Gamergate was about absolutely nothing but misogyny.
Someone here was arguing that advertising can't be measured only through impact on present sales but "good will and long term value". Tesla seemingly has good will beyond any competitors.

Also Tesla is buying battery cells, sells cars and expects to have third parties supply batteries long term - how can they be a battery company ?
Okay, I'll break the analogy down for you, since you are having a hard time:

Part one: You, me, the writer (any human being)

Part two: Existing in a public space (to be found via Google or or noticed in Twitter or making stuff on Etsy or showing things on Instagram or just being photographed in person)

Part three: Self-expression of any form (writing something that will be found "colonial," or a blog, or making a hand gesture, cracking one's knuckles, or standing there with an uncomfortable smile, or even knitting (https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a...) in that public space

Part four: Negative consequence for that self-expression ("cancelled," getting fired, the usual death threats, "screaming, hats first into the wood chipper") from ... people who have never even met you, who found that self-expression in the public space.

Cardinal Richelieu: "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."

It's the revolutionary spirit of the times. These incidents occur. You may not be aware of them, but others are aware of them, and they have what is known as a chilling effect.
this seems to contain the latest status and build instructions: https://github.com/biktorgj/pinephone_modem_sdk

there are also some interesting reverse engineering details here: https://xnux.eu/devices/feature/modem-pp-reveng.html
I wonder what the ZomboDB developers are up to now? What great text-search-in-postgres things could they be secretly working on?
But I don't think the Blizzard of 2005 would make that shift just because there's a sensible business case for it. It'd be like Paradox shifting to mobile.
> If every competitor in a certain space puts in $100 in advertising, they can all expect $0 in returns. However if a single company put in nothing they would be in a worse place because their competitors' returns would automatically become higher.

Assume competitors A, B and C and all put $100 each into advertising. That's $300 spent on advertising. Each competitor only has to earn $101 in sales to get > $0 returns. There is no theoretical limit on how much each competitor can earn in sales. Let's randomly say each company makes $500 in sales. That's a return of $400 per company. If a single company puts in nothing, they may likely earn less in sales, so let's say company A spends nothing on advertising but still earns $450 in sales, meanwhile B and C spend $150 on advertising and make $475 in sales. Company A gets a return of $450, and companies B and C get a return of $325 each.

Anyway, all this math is irrelevant. OP said each company should expect $0 in returns. Where does that $0 come from? There is no rule that says they will earn $0 in returns.

> This is actually a specific example of a prisoners dilemma taught in some intro to game theory classes

You are correct that prisoner's dilemma is taught in intro to game theory, but you are not correct that this is an example of it.
I didn't say they do no advertising, I said they spend 0 on ads.
Same thing in Subnautica: Below Zero

...which it should be noted is actually a lackluster sequel with an incoherent plot regardless, so not all of the negative reviews are by racist misogynists.