skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I wrote:

> higher variability but better expected value.

If you put all your money into shorting GME then yes, you will have a bad time when WSB gets excited again. If you have a widely spread portfolio of shorts in overhyped companies with weak fundamentals and longs in underhyped companies with strong fundamentals, having a few trades go against you is not the end of the world.
Shouldn't influential people push for better working conditions with all their influence?
Wish my company would. Too bad my stupid state won't agree.
This is why there are a multitude of different open source software licences. Because some people care more than others about the terms in which their code is used by others.
> However the more common issue is that they're simply entirely ignored or dismissed, often with quips similar to the one you've used here.

Members of each group do this to each other, although perhaps not identically.
There are plenty of high quality games from small studios. Everything Supergiant Games makes is gold, with excellent art direction and sountrack. Klei Entertainment also has a solid track record. If you're looking for the AAA cinematic aesthetic from a small team, let me introduce you to Senua's Sacrifice (back before the team that made it got bought out by Microsoft). And lest we forget, Stardew Valley was unbelievably successful and the passion project of one guy (who's even self-publishing now).

Additionally, between UE, Unity, and Godot, I don't feel like it's a lack of tools holding studios back. If you wanted even more games (but why - we're already drowning in a flood of them), one of the big steps might be to provide a stable funding solution for new developers so they didn't need to play financial Russian Roulette to create their art.
Wouldn't want a cost calculator when I go the washroom the clock
Mediawiki's search sucks.
OSSv3 was a kernel API supported by a bunch of Unixoids including Linux. It had some limitations, and while OSSv4 addressed them OSSv4 was proprietary, and so on Linux it was replaced by a new thing: ALSA. (OSSv4 was eventually released under the GPL, 5 years later, but by then the ship had sailed.)

ALSA is low-level enough that it's necessary for a layer on top of it. Well, maybe… enough people think so. So that's where Pulse and Jack come in.

Pulse and Jack do the "same" thing, but target different use-cases and so have different design constraints; Pulse serving consumer audio and Jack serving pro audio. The creator of Pulse wrote a good article about this, about why Pulse and Jack aren't competing with eachother[1].

So for a long time that was the choice: Pulse or Jack (and whichever you choose, it's using ALSA on the backend).

The same article goes on to write "One question asks itself though: can we marry the two approaches? Yes, we probably can, MacOS has a unified approach for both uses. … let's not forget that we lack the manpower to even create such an audio chimera." Well, that's what PipeWire is. It's a system that fills both use-cases. Additionally, it implements both the PulseAudio and Jack APIs, and so users don't need to care which API a given application was implemented with, and can just use PipeWire as a drop-in replacement for both.

[1]: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/when-pa-and-when-not.html

More reading: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html
It is sad that one of the countries where the union movement was born out of the abuse from companies during the industrial age revolution, a subject that Charlie Chaplin even joked about, has turned into an union hate country.
I imagine that once these "businesses" get a hold of GTP2 or GPT3 they will crank them out.
You mean because they publish opinion pieces written by random people?
I can't even access this site at my University due to it being a newly registered domain.
From WHOIS: `Creation Date: 2021-06-29T18:05:15`
... and Illumos stole Bhyve and Bootloader from FreeBSD? :)

IMHO implemented or ported is better word here.
I'm mostly thinking about construction or the introduction of vacant homes to the rental market. Maybe "new supply" makes more sense here. Obviously if you had a choice between two jurisdictions to build apartments, all other things being equal you would choose the one that will let you start eviction proceedings after six weeks of non-payment instead of six months. I agree it's not the biggest factor, but there is probably also some interaction between zoning restrictions and tenant-friendly laws: tenant-friendly laws might reduce the political power of multi-family developers by lowering their income and leaving them at the mercy of local courts, making them less able to influence zoning and development hurdles in their favor.
Unconcernedly letting this platform come and go. Listening to real-time audio has never been a favored info ingestion mode for me. Sounds like a porn site anyway.
The might be banking on the “crush the SJWs” crowd. Who knows what their market research showed, but I think we will see soon enough.
Influential people book the Cosby suite.

https://kotaku.com/inside-blizzard-developers-infamous-bill-...
Also, what is this news source? Who are its writers?

I am by no means taking Activision's side here, but this website is sketchy.
Orange site bad.
We funded the military to the tune of $800B but can't be bothered to keep people from falling into poverty due to inability to work (tenants) or bankruptcy (landlords).

Most other nations had much stronger safety nets than a few one-time payments of a few hundred dollars.

Quite a set of priorities are on display here.
> Can humans recognize spam pages though?

Probably not, but they can recognize valuable non-spam. It's called by many names, but "reputation" is as good a term as any.

Yes, I'm saying that "Facebook groups, Whatsapp group chats, TikTok, Twitter, Medium, Linkedin" are all low reputation.
> The ignorance in this comment section is already giving me an aneurysm.

For the past ten years we've been spoon fed that it's okay for Open Source / Free Software to be co-opted by giants and subsequently kept private.

You'll be harassed for telling people it's wrong for Apple to lock down the iPhone. Or that Google shouldn't be in charge of web standards.

Web infrastructure is mostly a bunch of black boxes. How far we've fallen! We need a new cloud provider that is 100% on an open stack. Billing system and all.

Richard Stallman is no longer a hero. Yes, he did wrong and gross things, but in the same breath he's brushed under the rug, so are his ideas.

We've all been collectively gaslighted. Wake up.

Downvoters: Tell me how I'm wrong.
This is a good move (except for location-based pay), and follows Facebook's reversal where they expanded full time remote work options to most employees (https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/what-remote-and-flexib...). If Google, Amazon, and Microsoft (beyond LinkedIn) don't smarten up, they will experience a drain of their best talent to other companies. Just as a reminder, the common trope that physical co-working allows innovation through chance meeting has no evidence (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/upshot/remote-work-innova...).
I don’t sell software so this is just theoretical. But I wouldn’t want to know my customers’ revenue. That’s too much work and not my business.

I also wouldn’t buy software that had a cost contingent because I wouldn’t want that kind of relationship with my software vendor. Of course, this happens now with enterprise software where a big company will get a quote for $5 and a little company will get a quote for $1. But having something explicit is illogical since software is a near zero marginal cost product.

But even for real world stuff, I’d never hire a gardener who charged differently based on customers income.
> Simply count the number of ads in the text.

What is an ad?
They absolutely should, I should have clarified that my "them" is Activision/Blizzard the company, not the employees.
This is my favourite bug story I have ever heard. And told so well.
Uh, you are right, I am an idiot. I just assumed that mistake was limited to one language... why did I have to be wrong about that.
300wh/kg is not where we will ever see any conventional lithium battery chemistry get.

Best mainstream cells cars are made with today are all around 200wh/kg.

240wh/kg NCM cells are there, more or less widely available, but they are almost the same stuff with higher rating, and lower cycle life. Manufacturers basically nudging digits.

If they reach same 200wh/kg, along with equal cycle life to LFP, it can be big.
> I'm not understanding how housing that is in use can be considered supply available for others.

Have you been to the US?

From the amount of homeless and people living in tents and cars, AFAICT the expectation from this society is that people that can't afford rent for whatever reason should just live on the street.

The poor do not deserve a roof.

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Kind of sarcasm, but kind of true.
> I agree with the premise - SQL gets it right, but perhaps only in PostgreSQL?

I don't agree with the premise. Both MySQL[1] and MS SQL Server [2] do an implicit cast and then compare them as numbers. I don't know whether this is ANSI standard behavior though.

[1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/type-conversion.html

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/data-t...
I'm not sure a "A process with cgroups and namespaces" makes things much clearer though somebody with understanding of those might infer certain properties.

"a kind of lightweight VM" seems a much more intuitive answer, with limitations.

The link is useful tho, she's a good writer.
>When has the scientific community really been crying wolf on environmental matters, on a large scale?

Obviously I meant the scientific community in general. What is special about the "environmental matters", that make the community around it resistant to various politicisation or frauds?
Around 15% are aged 65+, and it's possible that the hospitalisation rate for younger people is high enough that it'll still crash the system. I don't know. It starts ramping up at around 40.
> And also, for some reason the “zero-click results” stuff really bothers me.

It's often inaccurate too. I've had a lot of issues with menus, hours, and phone numbers being completely incorrect when searching for businesses.

The one that really bothered me was when I needed to change flights and the reported number for an airline was just some fake support line scam.
Damn you sound exactly like me...when I work for my own projects they usually die off quickly once I figure out how to do it (without actually implementing it but I'm pretty sure it can be implemented in this or that way).

But if it comes from a friend, or a colleague then I'm super focused on it until it's done.

It's almost as if I do projects to show off to other people or I like to serve other people.
Mind not using the term "blacklist"? It's racist and othering, ties negativity to Blacks and other PoCs.

"Blocklist" and "denylist" are better terms that are neutral and more descriptive.
I hear you. The documentary The Social Dilemma pointed this out so well. There needs to be centralized management and many big companies are trying to build large teams to manage all the craziness. I think having detailed user preferences and using machine learning to understand if the notification even needs to be sent are a few things that stick out that I've seen some engineering programs focus on. Here is a description of what LinekdIn started doing a few years ago.

https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2018/03/air-traffic-co...
I don't see how. It might kill specific ideological licensing of software code, but the idea it'd kill software as a whole is pretty unbelievable. Software is too valuable to society.

As we're seeing, there's VERY little software where the specific algorithms or ideas in the software are what's valuable. The value comes from the ability to sell a service based on the software and operate it at scale. Like you said, how much SaaS is mostly open source stuff packaged up? Android is (sort of) open source, companies pay lots of people a lot of money to contribute to the Linux kernel where they give away the code they developed with that money, etc etc.
Check out Path of Exile 2 -- it's the spiritual successor to Diablo 2. And it's freemium
I wouldn't want my kids playing with a CNC machine like that at their age. At least not without adult supervision.
Preventing the spread of a deadly disease (basically the job of the CDC) required people to stay home. Evictions stand in direct opposition to that goal; moreover, the economic shock of social distancing requirements would have greatly increased the number of evictions, and thus the moratorium was instated.

This is not rocket science. The question is not, "Did the CDC do the right thing?" or "Did the CDC have the right to do this thing?" but rather, "How long should the CDC be able to impose an emergency mandate like this before we insist on a more democratic approach?"
Lichess is Thibault's source of income, passion project, AND it is open-source.
'A first hour with OCaml' says, at the beginning:

> You may follow along with this tutorial with just a basic OCaml installation, as described in Up and Running.

So, you can't really skip 'Up and Running'. And, the Graphics module usage is in the section 'A module from OPAM', which explicitly talks about installing the package and then loading it in the REPL ('top level').
I guess I'm just an idiot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I guess let's define what "low-level" is because I see a lot of abstractions in low level stuff. A couple years ago I had a sudden interest in the x86 platform. That entire architecture just seems like a piling of new abstractions on top of legacy stuff. And the hardware platform it typically runs on seems impossible to understand without being an insider. I remember trying to fully understand the entire UEFI boot process, and all the stuff below it and other modern components. The docs we're horrendous, and at times seemed non-existent for a lot of stuff and it was just too much information to try to take in.

I don't think I'll ever come around on the tooling. C is just a bit too barebones for me and I'm not fond of the "portable assembler" aspect of a lot of behavior being offloaded tot eh platform, which I now have to know in depth. I can read it, and write a little bit, but I don' think I could ever become good at it or enjoy it. C++ seems immeasurably complicated and i recall reading the phrase "I've been learning C++ for 10 years" the other day. There are some languages I don't mind as much. I like Ada, but no one uses it anymore. I'm working on what I suppose you could consider some systems software at the moment, and have resorted to using higher level languages that provide features or abstractions that provide exactly what I need (notably Erlang bitstrings) and only dropping to C when I need it.

I've tried other things too: driver development on both Windows, Linux, and BSDs (when the docs are decent, this is the thing I've tried that makes the most sense), FPGA stuff (For some reason, I can never wrap my head around digital logic, It makes sense at a very abstract level, but combing components into useful designs is just so foreign to me)
> Want affordable housing? Make residential developers pay for it!

Simply letting developers build housing would do wonders for affordability.
This book was in development while I was working on the core interpreter for the Facebook Horizon visual scripting language. While many things in it are not directly applicable to a VPL, it helped with more robust implementation in at least one area (branching) and overall was a joy to read. I prefer to read print so I'll pick this up
Live running js code editing in Chromium DevTools is a bliss, will be sweet to get same capability on the desktop.
Because the alternative (the government fulfills the actual healthcare or housing) would be considered Socialism, which apparently is a really bad thing (according to all the corporate owned opinion).
Hickey nails this one in his talks. When you make something a class, that's NOT an abstraction, that's a concretion. You make a Tool class, you haven't abstracted what a tool is, you've made a fixed decision about what it is. For games that want this level of complex interaction between components, entity component systems are the way to go.
Chrome breaks many WebRTC applications, backtracks
But don't you get it? The purpose of FOSS is to provide free labor for billion dollar companies.
The federal government has broad emergency powers to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, and for other kinds of emergencies like civil defense etc. The powers are extremely broad with language like "such actions as may be appropriate". You should note that the federal eviction orders side-step some legal issues because they don't absolve tenants of their rents, they just delayed their evictions if they don't pay them. So, technically the order hasn't impaired the rents owed to the landlords.
>The poor do not deserve a roof.

Is exactly the implication of market-based housing.

I was hoping that my explanation would help to illustrate how facilitating eviction won't help with rising homelessness. How it alone can actually foster the growth of homelessness. "Supply" created by evicting tenants is only supply for the people that can afford the new price.
As earlier commenters here pointed out, the supreme court disagrees, and suggests the CDC won't be allowed to do this again.

Others as well, including the sixth circuit. From https://reason.com/2021/07/26/federal-appeals-court-sneaks-i...:

> "The Sixth Circuit's ruling represents the sixth time a lower court has struck down the CDC's moratorium, with most decisions similarly criticizing the near-limitless powers the agency was trying to claim for itself."
Not trying to be smart by using your words: I legitimately have never understood why this comment is so common, considering how apparently obvious the fallacy of it is. You didn't imply "the company must do X", you implied "people shouldn't be upset that the company did X". The former is a totally reasonable argument to be made. The latter makes absolutely no sense (without extenuating context). You're not really confused as to why people are upset about something a company does that negatively affects people, either in actuality or only in perception, simply because it is in the company's best interests, are you? It's pretty normal for a human not to care about the hazy future consequences of a company hurting itself by embracing some external morality over its own interests as a company, and, depending on the specifics of the case, it can even be pretty reasonable not to care.
I started doing game dev in DOS after reading Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus by Andre LaMothe in the 90s, so keep that in mind for the following advice.

Depends on what you want to do. If you want to code games because you find the programming aspect interesting, start small by writing your own versions of some simple games. I personally wouldn't recommend any frameworks or libraries other than (maybe) SDL. Implement everything in the simplest way you can think of that will actually work and only go back and refactor if you need to, that's the time to look up how other people have solved that problem [0]. Resist the urge to over engineer. I might be biased but I say target PC first. Windows specifically, but Linux isn't much worse as long as you never plan to deploy the thing. This is because these platforms are incredibly open and there is a lot of information and tooling available. After you get a feel for it, and have a good idea of what you want to make next, start incrementally branching out in directions that interest you.

If you have a good idea of the kind of game you want to make and want to start making it with as little friction as possible, then your best bet is to find an engine that is already well suited to that kind of game and learn just the things you need to in order to make it happen. Again, you'll want to start small regardless of what it is you actually want to make, just ensure that you're always moving toward that goal. That is very much not my path, so I have little other advice.

[0] If you look it up first without trying it yourself, you won't have a good understanding of the problem space. You'll end up believing in the commonly accepted answer as dogma and severely limit yourself.
Feels like when Microsoft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass to become Internet Explorer, and a chunk of the compensation was tied to a fraction of revenue from Internet Explorer. Of course Microsoft gave IE away as part of Windows so IE never had any revenue associated directly with it.

Eventually MS did settle a lawsuit brought by Spyglass for $8 million to make the issue go away.
The website ‘Wikipedia’ is sketchy? Or who is?

edit
I guess you mean the news site this article is on, that is pretty sketchy indeed.
I am usually against unions in tech because the free market tends to allow a proper balance of supply and demand. However, gaming might just be the perfect sub-domain of tech to benefit from unionization.

The supply is massively saturated, with dreamy eyed programmers ready to give their lives to work in gaming. On the other hand, a very small group actually gets to make any of the creative decisions that every gamer has dreamt of making. The wages are below what the market pays, hours are exploitative and the companies are making massive profits. It is really difficult to compete with the AAA studios, because Indie games take years to make and working without a wage for a decade isn't possible for many. On the other hand, medium sized and successful indie studios get acquired before they can grow to a decent enough size to serve as any real competition. There is also a lot of shady practices with monetization, where the employees do not get a say if the company should or shouldn't indulge in said practices.

We've already seen soft-unionization of this type in a similar industry : media production. It works.

AAA game development in the US has been quite stale for the last decade. The big EA-Blizzard-Activision-Ubisoft have not come up with a single quality game in this time. Even Bethesda, Bioware seems to be on a decline. Rockstar,Valve and Id software seem to be doing fine, but no where close to the hit-after-hit that certain japanese studios are producing. Naughty Dog and Super giant would be the only 2 American studios creating 10/10s consistently, but both have an order of magnitude fewer employees than standard AAA studios.

The industry is in dire need of shake up. I hope this goes the employee's way this time around. It's about time.
Things improved slightly, then the program got reduced and then cut due to less demand.

Somewhere in there, they got creative and had folks who passed Farsi take a 3-month Dari course to bridge the gap between Farsi and Dari, and those folks had a lot of success.
But the OCaml documentation for 'Unix.fork' says that it's not implemented on Windows. It doesn't mention any other OS.
California decided to pay peoples' back rent recently. I'd guess the people that made sacrifices to keep paying rent instead of YOLOing it on call options are a bit miffed that they kept paying, but at least the California government is using some of its Fed pandemic money to pay the landlords that were forced to provide free housing.
Disney+ with 100M active subs is completely different than minor streaming services before that.
I just went under contract for my first turboprop.. the numbers there are nutty.

The engine can sustain 840C, it can go to 870 for less than 20 seconds and it can even sustain 1000C for up to 5 seconds without triggering any kind of exceedance.
I agree these types of features really embiggen the game