skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a Mac for work but not play, I’m struck all the time not only by things like disappearing scroll bars (sometimes too quickly) but also by a general lack of attention to Fitt’s Law and high density of secret handshakes. (How do you see hidden files in Finder? As a default? How do you copy-paste file or folder paths between terminal and Finder? Anyone?) For daily usefulness, at least the Windows UI gets usefulness and discovery generally right. I know this’ll garner a lot of downvotes, but a single gesture to get to the top or bottom of a doc or page is extremely handy instead of finding the scroll bar and holding down the button as the window pages, or just mashing the down-arrow.

Apple wins the Pepsi Challenge for the same reasons, sweet and fizzy in your first taste. Some like the full drink, many don’t.
Novice users do not even know what it means to approve a notification. I look at their devices and often see a ton of web notifications that are objectively spam (eg, "tap here to meet hot singles"). The web notification spam is a huge issue.
Putting unions and anarchy as polar opposites...you have no idea how pro-union anarchist are, because they're extremely pro-union.

I gotta give the state props for that trick, made the word dirty with a flawed definition, a bit like how the CIA made the term "conspiracy theory" mean nutjob, and not "criminal conspiracy by those in power"
With a MOBA you’re relying on other players. If you lose at Starcraft, you only have yourself to blame, you can watch the replay and see exactly where you went wrong, and steadily improve.
I think I have the opposite reaction from the same data. The reason I can't get my own sugar water on a grocery store shelf is because the grocery store doesn't want to give space to something that only sells half as well. And, they are humans too, so I'm sure they are biased by the ads/perception of what they think other people want.

I think a lot of the long-term bonus of ads is to simply build a moat that other competitors find difficult to surmount.
Grey Goo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/290790/Grey_Goo/

Ashes of the Singluarity: https://www.ashesofthesingularity.com/

I haven't played them, but they are in my Steam backlog. I've heard jokingly that Ashes is mostly played by people doing benchmarks.

I have played Planetary Annihilation. It's like Total Annihilation or Supreme Commander (same people, different studio): https://planetaryannihilation.com/
Quite so, yet unchanged.
I guess I would have to use Flowdock to understand -- those gifs were confusing and unclear to me. I'm not sure what I was looking at.

Personally I find slack threads perfectly usable and helpful for keeping things organized for the most part. What's the issue with them? I found them a revolutionary step forward in chat UX to be honest, something that had been missing for 20 years or more.
Sure, that's fair, I suppose I was specifically thinking of US-flavored capitalism, which is undoubtedly its own beast.
Peach was and still is just a damsel in distress in any non-sports mario game.

Samus is covered up entirely by armor, and when she's not she's in a skin-tight suit that shows off every single curve

Mrs. Pacman... I'll give you that one.
> Fairness means equality of opportunity, not the equality of outcome. Arguing for the equality of outcome is tyrannical and pure evil.

You're right; fairness means equality of opportunity. Arguing for removal of equal opportunity is "tyrannical and pure evil".
> Brand advertising, in contrast, works on a spread-out scale of years or decades. When Coca-Cola runs a polar bear ad at Christmastime they don't do it to increase sales of Coke that week, nor should it be measured that way.

Curious... A year ago, an older lady gave our daughter a little Coca-cola polar bear stuffed animal. It seems their advertising dollars are still having an "influence".
Best PDF for work, hands down. I don’t even download new I have had the same exe for like 5 years.
Clearing a traffic jam is only valuable to the extent that people get where they're going faster than they would have via the traffic jam. It's frustrating when the freeway moves at a a light jog, but that's as fast as a city bus was ever going to make progress, anyway.
Agreed, dont see why ECS and fargate isnt used everywhere.

It takes a bit of a learning curve to understand how tasks, task definitions ,clusters, services all fir together but once you do, it's pretty straight forward.

I've ran ECS in production for over 5 years, can count on one hand where we had any issue related to docker or availability, all were based on code updates we didn't test properly.
By this logic, any medicine is ableist.
Are we dehumanizing people with flesh wounds by sewing them up and stopping the bleeding?
1. You may already have a brand, but many don't - so they want people to switch.

2. People who don't drink soda need to get hooked somehow!

3. Increasing consumption. Think about the "Got Milk?" campaigns of the 90s - they weren't saying "drink XYZ brand milk", they were looking to increase milk consumption.

I think #3 is probably the biggest factor, tbh. That's why you see ads for cotton, milk, beef, avocado, etc.
This agrees with the finding that genetics is the mechanism through which income is transmited.[1]

[1]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10888-019-09413-x
We're almost guaranteed to see a shift to mobile games. HotS on mobile, Warcraft4 as a freemium mobile "strategy game" - ditto with SC3. They may occasionally sink cash into large PC primary titles but I think mobile is going to be the way they milk that cow from here on out.
It's interesting that they haven't released who it was sold to, or how much they paid. Shkreli bought it for a reported $2 million at auction in 2015.
In my experience prestige has been a lot more about which company I worked at than the role. If anything my being a programmer detracted somewhat from prestige outside the company, while adding to it only within.
Except a guy cracking his knuckles got fired, in the real world, so when you say that it doesn't happen, I know that is wrong. We both know it is wrong. I shall now post the link so you can stop saying "that doesn't happen."

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...

There. It happened. In the real world. So cracking your knuckles is there under "inviting controversy."
You Don't Want to Know What You Want
MOBAs are almost impossible to get into if you're not starting with friend(s). Half the skill is in communication and coordination, and if you're playing solo with random people you'll almost never experience good teamplay. Toxicity is over the roof compared to 1v1 games like starcraft.

I stopped playing Starcraft 2 (or any Blizzard games) because of the Hong Kong controversy but I do miss some good multiplayer RTS. Preferably a little less APM-intensive than starcraft.
I’d gladly share that info with my gaming friends, but on not on professional/work servers
Gamer gate was Zoe Quinn cheating on her boyfriend with game "journalists" in order to get marketing for her Depression Quest game. That is the core of it and NOBODY contests those facts. The rest of the misandrist narrative is just Quinn and said journalists grabbing on to the social justice zietgiest in an attempt to do damage control.
> In November 2020, Apple’s use of online OCSP checks came under fire, driving it to take immediate steps to protect privacy, and to state that certificate revocation checks will change in the following year to feature:

> “a new encrypted protocol”;

> “strong protections against” [OCSP] “server failure”;

> “a new preference for users to opt out of these security protections”, which presumably means both hash lookup and certificate revocation checks.

> As far as I’m aware, none of those three changes has yet been implemented, although there are only four months left before that year elapses.

I'm the reason they "came under fire", and they had been transmitting the app launches unencrypted back to Apple for two years already at that point. It of course continues today. It looks like it will continue in 12.x all next year, too.
Wait how?!?!? This always bothers me but I can't drag the border!! Edit: OMG YOU CAN DRAG THE BORDER I WAS JUST DOING IT WRONG SOMEHOW
Spring Framework for Noobs
They were all warned long ago about glacial melt. You cannot stop the ocean. Am I really supposed to be concerned about the bilionaire property owners, NPR?
Here's the winning strategy: stop building on the coastline so then in 50-200 years when this is an actual issue, we have already moved on. If you waste any resources trying to "fight back" against the ocean, they better be YOUR OWN funds, not the peoples.

Ok IF you are really going to try and battle the ocean then the way to do it is to go all-in and move your high rises into the water. Then you can take your yachts to work.
It has always been this way since frontier days.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/male-to-fem...
I get that python is under 30% of your profiled time, but just wondering if you tried PyPy?
I didn't get that vibe, but can definitely understand that. I actually disliked it at first until I realized I was being lumped in with people who had an agenda I didn't have ("Women didn't fight in wars! Women avatars should only be allowed to play Medic!")

I mean, Battlefield has never really been about super serious war simulator, it has always had a goofy undertone.

Battlefield has always been a little wacky. They had an offshoot game that was TF2 meets BF, everything cartoon-y. Then their _main line_ games for a few years involved a rogue group of US soldiers who blew stuff up, drove around in golf carts and had humorous lines. After that, they had a game that was cops-and-robbers meets BF.

People who mix up ARMA and BF, and I don't say this to be mean, probably aren't real Battlfield fans. Battlefield has never _necessarily_ been about realism or pure historical accuracy.

There has always been wacky tactics that aren't just purposefully put in but explicitly promoted by their trailers (see Zooking, Rendzooking and my favorite, loopzooking.)

Like, yeah, I too was thrown off by the triple amputee woman in the trailer. It was a little weird, I thought / hoped they were going for a cyberpunk / time-traveling motif but nope. I am more than happy to discuss how DICE & EA has ruined Battlefield though, that much I do agree with and likely ties into poor marketing and PR.
Nice visualizations! Next how about response amplitude operators and statistical response in a random wavy sea? Spectra of Motion, force, etc are really compact tools for design analysis. The linear theory is quite beautiful in my opinion. Not Maxwell’s equations beautiful, but up there.

Speaking (indirectly) of the equations of motion, I didn’t see added-mass as I scanned through. Could be fun to talk about as well as diffraction radiation.

Somehow the above are more fun sounding to me than Navier Stokes. I dunno. My burnout shifts with time.
What's the definition of "measured annual energy consumption"?
Google "Chesa Boudin," the current DA, who is ensuring that criminals run rampant throughout the city, if not inviting them to do so, if you listen to certain opinions.

Find a news story about the current crime rate in SF that isn't framed by comments from carceral interests: the police, the police union, former police officers, former hardline prosecutors, and aspiring hardline prosecutors. Many if not most stories only talk to those people.

You may be surprised at the difficulty in finding an even-handed appraisal.
Most people I know took issue with the bait and switch, as anyone watching the promotional material would have expected something quite different than Abby... playing golf. It reminds me of a similar tactic film journalists used with The Last Jedi, deflecting to complaining about fans' alleged bad behavior rather than taking a hard look at whether the criticism is merited. It's a lot easier to find a handful of the dumbest criticisms on Twitter and dunk on that strawman though I suppose.
157,299 Illegal Ballots Cast in Wisconsin Presidential Election [pdf]
This is about eight times the 20,000 vote margin of victory in the presidential election.
I think its fair to say that the reasons a rocket company does not need to advertise dont apply to companies that people buy weekly/monthly on a grocery store shelf.

Besides, the advertising budget of other government contractors/satellite companies is also close to zero.

The better question is "If I ran Pepsi today - would I drastically lower the advertising budget". I'm not sure what my move would be but I don't think looking at short term ROI of TV ads would be informative.
I don't know if it's for a lack of bidders, or if the ads are that way by design. Some of what you're paying for is brand identification and repetitive commercials are one way to get that. Despite however annoying it might seem. The pool being advertised to will consider the advertised brand when 'Good/Service Need X' arises, whereas they likely would not without the ads.
This is like saying WWI was about the life of an Austrian royal. Yes, you might be technically right, but it grew so big and so many people were fighting for so many different reasons that the specific spark isn't that relevant.
You know... Brian Bulatao [0] stood out to me, as well, when I was recently looking at the Activison Blizzard leadership page. It's certainly interesting to me that these folks specifically ended up in executive leadership at a games developer.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Bulatao
Intel will still need those x86 profits to catch up with TSMC first. And Amazon is having a head start again. Now I am slightly worried about AMD. May be they will buy Ampere Computing?
I think you're overlooking a couple of grocery-specific issues.

Many major retailers will require that new brands invest a certain amount of money in advertising product to their region/market before stocking the product. It's also common to 'lease' shelf space to manufacturers.
I like the Eugen games, especially the wargame series
Kennywood used to have a ride where you were launched forward through a loop and then up an incline till gravity counteracted momentum. You'd then fall backwards down the incline, back through the loop, through the station, and backwards up an incline, then roll down and forward back into the station.

It was a fun ride.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Loop
Gamergate was a harassment campaign organized against women in gaming. It was organized by men who were assmad that a female game developer released a game with a mental health theme rather than the usual focus on skill and violence favored by men, to critical acclaim. Her dating and sexual history were brought into it because that is a common tactic used by men to undermine women and discredit their achievements.

Once again -- men got mad because a woman dared to release a game that didn't cater to their expectations or desires. That's Gamergate in a nutshell.
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Wow this plus the exodus of players moving to FFXIV is probably making for a pretty wild month at Blizzard.
And how do you measure the value delivered?

If you're not measuring value delivered, how do you know that you're actually delivering value? Remember, you're the person that you can most easily fool.

Fields as diverse as active fund management and psychic readings have been filled with practitioners who were wrong about the value that they thought that they were delivering. I have no particular reason to believe that brand management isn't another.
Even with a teacher doing it, it's extremely murky.

Don't snatch people's stuff, even temporarily, you will catch a fist, and as far as I'm concerned, justifiably so.
And Age of Empires 2 on Voobly is still active as well, with userpatch updates being released.

Then there is Age of Empires 4 that is nearing completion which might be an Age of Empires 2 DE contender or might be an AoE 3 dud.
Same with having multiple accounts, not everyone wants to use their "main" account for all servers.
It is not an issue because taxes are on profit, not revenue. Needlessly wasting revenue shrinks profit faster than it shrinks tax liability.

e.g. You don't burn a dollar to save 20 cents on income tax because you are still loosing 80 cents.
I am all for a UBI, but replacing an $60k a year trucking job with a $30k a year UBI isn't going to be the panacea that everyone wants it to be. People want dignity and meaning and a lot of people find that in their work. Just providing funding for rations isn't going to cut it.
Again: too bad. There are other professions besides law enforcement, if you can't deal with the requirements.

It's certainly one of those jobs that I could never do. I have nothing but respect for ethical, professional LEOs. They are among the people who will benefit the most from having a full AV record of their interactions with the public.
>ok, so it happened to 1 guy

No, it happens to a bunch of people, I just chose the guy who has a Wikipedia article so you can't claim I'm fabricating an anecdote.

>she does not have citizenship

That tells us nothing. Has she tried applying for citizenship and was rejected or does she just not want it? The approval rate for naturalization requests is upwards of 95%, by the way, above that of the United States even.

You have a Japanese wife? That's nice. I'm actually Japanese and live in Japan. I think I have some authority on this topic as well.
Perkeep feels more like it's solving the long-term archiving problem. Dogsheep doesn't really touch on that much - it's based on the assumption that you'll always be able to pull the data from the original source. It's more about providing ways to explore and analyze (and combine) that data once you've extracted it.
It's still not prestigious.

Joe Average envies Bill Gates.

Joe Average does not envy MS programmer #7413 who does device driver maintenance.
Anything new since this?

A history of re-submitted, previously discussed posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12872304
>How do you see hidden files in Finder?

Command-Shift-Period

>As a default?*

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles true; killall Finder

>How do you copy-paste file or folder paths between terminal and Finder?

Drag and drop the icon into a Terminal window.

And regarding gestures or shortcuts, if you put in the same effort that you did for Windows, you can find everything you need on the Mac.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
I watch both, and they definitely have different things going for them. I think something that is missed in appreciation of pro play is just how smoothly coordinated the players are. They make it look effortless, the same way high APM Starcraft2 players make things like fighting on multiple fronts while managing their macro look effortless. It can be really noticeable when a player gets swapped in the middle of a tournament run and the team doesn't quite gel back together right away.
I didn't say it wasn't a thing, and taking things to that extreme isn't really having a good-faith discussion. I said that "toxic gamer culture" has always been a thing, until these large corporations realized that sanitizing it could, in theory, lead to more people playing their AAA games, thus resulting in higher profits. what's controversial about this statement?
I think this still only covers half of it.

If neither Pepsi or Coca-Cola advertised I think its plausible their positions in the market relative to each other could be the same proportion they are now. However, it would make it easier for restaurants, grocery stores, etc. to go with non-brand sodas (that also don't advertise).
I'm surprised that they didn't find long lasting plastics in the soils
People have all kinds of things going on in their lives that effect these decisions. And I wouldnt look at "success" just on sign up numbers. Its more about what values the org is broadcasting and prioritizing.
Why, socialism was fine with most Russians, that is, the peasants. Check out the obschina thing [1] which was the traditional structure of non-noble country living; it's full of communal and rather socialist institutions.

The revolutionaries like the young Dostoevsky and a number of other Russian left intellectuals were quite westernized, and had the French revolution as an example, with its franternité, egalité et liberté. (Interestingly, not the American revolution which was hugely more successful but not leftist.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obshchina
If you cannot measure then you are just bluffing that it works! You cannot know yourself for god's sake!

"Been on the leading edge of marketing and advertising for over 12 years "

Aaaaaah, I see! It is your personal interest to be payed very well for unsubstantiated claims! Fishing in troubled waters. We will consider your !!opinion!! accordingly....
TF/IDF is listed as a TODO on that repo, and I don't see a PR which promises to provide it.
Sadly the rescheduled care is getting cancelled due to lack of ITU beds for post-surgery. I don't know what's going, but there seems to be a backlog of complaints that people are only now getting investigated, and with increased social mixing I guess infectious diseases are going up. Still, it's a bit strange to be this overwhelmed at this time if year.
Yep, that does happen.

Sometimes Sharks attack the cables too!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissacristinamarquez/2020/07/...
It's not broken. Maybe your code is broken, I dunno, as I don't have it in front of me. But Web Audio most certainly works "in the latest Safari".
How hard is it to not make inappropriate comments about someone or their body? It's -exceedingly- easy to not be a creepy dick to one's coworkers and fellow human beings.

One only has to act like a robot if they have zero social awareness or tact.
Yeah, that seems sub-optimal from how I read it, but I guess I missed that part.
I moved from ElasticSearch to PG FTS in production, and here are the things I had to give up:

1. PostgreSQL has a cap on column length, and the search index has to be stored in a column. The length of the column is indeterminate - it is storing every word in the document and where it's located, so a short document with very many unique words (numbers are treated as words too) can easily burst the cap. This means you have to truncate each document before indexing it, and pray that your cap is set low enough. You can use multiple columns but that slows down search and makes ranking a lot more complicated. I truncate documents at 4MB.

2. PostgreSQL supports custom dictionaries for specific languages, stemmers, and other nice tricks, but none of those are supported by AWS because the dictionary gets stored as a file on the filesystem (it's not a config setting). You can still have custom rules like whether or not numbers count as words.
depends on the Store. WalMart doesn't sell shelf space the way most others do. Though WalMart is doing their own something that I don't understand.
> Nowadays I think most of educated Chinese believe democracy is not suitable for China.

Isn't that exactly 1) what the Communist Party wants them to think, and 2) an idea that they can manipulate the information environment to promote?
4 years is an acceptable timeline. We are not taking about software product roadmaps here. If you consider the amount of time and time and effort it took apple, amazon to come out just with chip designs, this is reasonable. While its true that tsmc “3, 4 nm” are ok track for 2022.. its debatable if that naming means what it actually implies. Also tsmc had priority access to euv solutions this time around.. lets wait and see if Intel can deliver before passing judgement outright.
There's also the LOUD mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/loud-ai-supreme-commander-forged-...