skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You certainly can have a career that's lucrative, but not prestigious. I've been coding for over 25 years and in that time, have been referred to as a "nerd", "geek", etc... pretty much the entire time. Not prestigious monikers. Most people that I encounter do not act as though my career is a "money-printing machine", but rather that I do some, strange, arcane, thing that they could never approach (or would want to), that is very difficult, but yes, finally, makes money. They see my title as prestigious, but not programming. The people I see with different attitudes about programming/prestige/gender are much younger (<30). I don't fully understand their attitudes yet.
I think we need to scrap the concept of a channel, and everything should be a thread instead.

You can categorize/tag threads (why not automatically based on groups of users) and they can show up as a feed similar on HN/SO/Reddit, but in a sidebar so you can easily swap between them.

If you're imagining how that would look, no need to look further than an email client. The advantage of it being threads with tags/categories is that it makes it easy to move one thread from one category/tag to another (for example moving the conversation from DEV to SRE) without loosing context/history.

Then there's no aside conversation, because everything is an aside.
I have a 3.5 year-old and just had twins. A story like this makes me feel very warm inside. Being a relatively new father, I'm beginning to understand the unconditional love and sacrifice that grows when you have kids. I commend this father for doing this. He is a modern day hero.
The Django ORM includes support for PostgreSQL search and I've found it a really productive way to add search to a project: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/contrib/postgres/s...
Nassar is not a good example to compare to - I can't speak to the Weinstein case as I haven't followed it well, but with Larry Nassar athletes were bringing up his actions and their discomfort pretty regularly. One athlete was kicked off the team, if I remember correctly.

The FBI was also extremely negligent - the special agent working the case was inquiring about job opportunities at the place he was investigating.

As for victims "choosing" to remain silent, you have to understand two things:

1. The victims are most often children, and often do not understand that his actions were not okay, especially when the team says they are, and calls them hysterical for feeling disgusted with him.

2. The older victims don't want to have their careers ended by speaking up to power.

Between the way the team and the FBI handled this it's really hard to argue that this is the victim's fault. The people they trusted let them down for decades. You can (and should) educate children about what is right and wrong, but you also need to be willing to investigate claims and ensure people feel comfortable to raise them.
Indeed.

When I walk into the store there are a very limited number of colas on offer: a can of pepsi, a can of coke, etc.

What exactly is the advert for? My choice has largely been made.
https://archive.is/sYyMf
There's a difference here between Elasticsearch and Signal, namely that that network effect is a very important factor with messaging apps.
At least it's not like the early 70s where 50% of mothers stayed home. Ugh! Thank goodness mom can work now, up the family income and help drive the price of housing through the roof!

And kids need a boat, right? Liam's parents have boat.
based on trends of Western companies bending over backwards to fulfil China's whims, I'd say the odds are more likely this gets exported around the world
"From my perspective, we look to be out of the age of invention."

One of the possible reasons is that we haven't found a cheaper source of energy for a long time.

A lot of things are possible if energy gets cheaper.
The article definitely did elaborate, but not as much as I would have liked.

The feature is the -e option, which is used (among other things) for reverse shells.
Hm… Which companies still use Solaris (or Illumos)? I don’t hear about it very often these days.
Modern Parenting sucks. My Great Grandparents worked 7 days a week on their farm and had 13 children. You really think they'd be watching each one do ballet? The kids had a great time playing on the streets with their siblings and friends. They are mostly still close - sounds like a great childhood. Modern children are way over scheduled I feel sorry for them.
This is true, and I wouldn't worry about the author or artist sacrificing aspects of their soul in the same way that I would a porn star. Hell, they produced art. Good for them I guess.

Even with erotica though, the insidious thing about chronic masturbation is that you just can't see the effect that it has on you. It's happening under the surface. It's happening to your heart. Your inescapable subconscious conscience is going to find a way to give you feedback, and it's going to be hard for you to see it.

People have written about sexual sublimation (in its various forms) for thousands of years because eventually some people have enough experience under their belt to look back and make the connection. You can't really expect a 15-year-old with an infinite porn machine to think to themselves, "Hmm, maybe it would be better for my heart not to mash my junk today." They're hungry, man. They're starving. And in 2021 we're doing everything we can to ensure that teenagers don't make the mistakes that they need to make in order to break free from that tap.

(Not to mention absent fathers, social changes, etc.)
Would you have preferred no ribbing? I think most people, including men, would.
Lots of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27954946
20 years ago i had to show people in a cs course how to turn on their computer. they were only there because of the dotcom bubble.

Brogrammers were a thing back then, and were problematic even then.
For me the channel/room list is too messy with different parts which have their own scrolling zones. And each entry takes too much space leading to having to scroll all the time.

On Quassel I can have 30 channels open without having to scroll. On element only 10 or so. That's way too few considering the number of bridges available.

They have a high density xchat mode but it only affects the chat view, not the room list
> Fascinating how the Chinese authorities seem to be regulating the these companies with complete disregard on how the stock market might react.

I mean, that's fairly normal, surely? _Any_ aggressive regulatory action is going to upset the stock market; it regulatory bodies had to take the stock market's delicate feelings into account they might as well shut their doors.
>The game industry is overflowing with college educated, computer science degree wielding, software developers eager to work on a big game project. Few will ever touch Engine code - the rest are easily replaceable.

I was under the impression that junior devs aren't that hard to come by in any development category (a specific type of junior will be more likely to join a AAA team for sure). I suspect senior staff is harder to get just like any other industry - but I have no insight into this industry.
I haven't heard anything about Returnal but maybe it's because Samus Aran already dominates that genre.

In fact, the only time I ever hear complaints about Samus Aran is when they make her more submissive and less of a badass.
A very interesting example of a similar but seriously different process was the Meiji revolution in Japan. It restored the emperor and pushed westernization into high gear — Western science, technology, and culture was studied very intensively.

Along with that, the traditional Japanese culture was jealously preserved in other areas, so as to combine the best and most important Japanese traits and traditions with the most powerful and useful European knowledge.

This is very unlike the effort of Peter the Great, who tried hard to make Russia more genuinely Western and replace as much traditional structure everywhere as he could. The success was mixed, of course.
Off topic but here's another feature that really shouldn't take 2 years to implement - only showing "In game" status on some servers, vs the current all-or-nothing approach.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600483...
Or someone who has to spend too much time around navy people who obsess about these definitions, people for whom small errors can lead to poorly loaded holds or vessels hitting rocks because they didn't know their draft from their hull depth.
If it's so had to train in new people it sounds like you already have a spaghetti code problem.

You might want to get an outsider to take a look at your custom frameworks, infrastructure, and other technologies to see what can be done to straighten that out.
Having been a gamer for over 30 years now I can assure you that "toxic gamer culture" is very much a thing. You think swatting people is something a healthy culture of good-natured ribbing does?
The catch is that they only show up in the channel list if you've "joined" the thread. They're otherwise just hidden behind the button up top (or you need to hit the backscroll).
It's still highly used in the EDA industry - almost every EDA tool is scriptable with Tcl. There are even IEEE formats that are actually Tcl dialects, e.g. UPF (Unified Power Format) for describing power related features of circuits.
This has no relation with the number on the headline.
People in the QA department that are enduring the terrible conditions just for a shot at a game designer/programmer role.

The video game industry has a real problem retaining talent because so many people glorify how "fun" working on video games must be. There are always replacements, but they aren't always good.
I offer that if they were "completely required" then Discord would not have grown to the size it has until now, not having them.
It's not even attributable to "capitalism," per se, because the US and New Zealand are the only places on Earth where they are legal. I may be blinkered as to global laws, so maybe I'll just say the Western Earth.
> Are you saying they don't have the right to have a twitter account?

Twitter probably now believes that @arizonaaudit has 'lost' this right. (You don't own your Twitter account anyway) But I'm sure even @arizonaaudit saw this coming in the first place.

This is unsurprising since Twitter themselves have already admitted that they have a left-bias. From the CEO [0]: 'I fully admit our bias is more left-leaning'.

They are obviously not the last but because this Twitter account leans from 'the other side', its fine to get rid of them from Twitter. /s

Their platform, their guidelines, their rules.

[0] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/402495-twitter-ceo-jac...
What a load of bs. Yes private insurance will give you preferred treatment in non emergency / non critical cases but that’s about it. Private insurance is luxury for people who do not want to wait for non critical doctors appointments.

Source: me, capable of going private insurance but it’s a complete waste of money.
Traffic is an issue with automobile oriented infrastructure because automobiles are such a space inefficient way of transporting people.

In the context of a conversation of how trucks are getting bigger and bigger, it's worth noting that the size gains are having implications on traffic too!

The point being though that electric cars will be just as space inefficient as ICE cars. If we want to move more people, more efficiently and avoid traffic jams and new highway construction, we'll have to opt for different solutions.
why is it counter intuitive for you? It is not to me at all. Gravity pulls down. There is essentially no lateral component to gravity. Height is measured in the verticle dimension, the same as gravity. Now imagine water column as a stack of pennies. The more pennies are added to the stack the more pressure is on the lower pennies. It does not matter how many stacks are in front of or behind or to side of the stack you are looking at.
Snapchat is growing faster than it has in years
Absolutely not. It’s hard for me to tell how much of an effect exercising will have on my lifespan. Will it add 4.5 years? 10 years?

But I know that exercising daily will most likely have a positive effect.
People are walking out? Based on the former Blizzard employees, mostly white males, who have commented in previous threads, it didn't seem like a big deal.

Wonder why they're walking out on a nothingburger.
Isn’t game dev overflowing with people? I’ve heard salaries for places like EA and people seem to make a lot less there than in comparable non game jobs.
You need to say more about why you don't find the driving parallel the author provides appropriate.

Your say:

> A more apt comparison ... doesn't appear to create any sort of moral imperative to change our willingness to drive.

How convenient. You choose something that we can't live in our modern world without (driving a car) and say "see, no need to change our behavior".

Meanwhile, farming bugs for food is not at all essential in the current world - we can easily feed everyone without subjecting ourselves to the possibility of doing something morally horrible.

Here's another parallel, you decide to start building sheds and burning them down. You now realize there is a 1% chance that the current shed has a child who decided to hide in it; do you burn it down because "1% is a low chance"? Of course not. And that's the point the author is making - when there is even a low percent chance of something very bad happening, and you're not doing anything that is essential or necessary, you ought not do it.
This is something I’m interested in, but I can’t tell if I need a physical keyboard for this. It’s a coding app so it makes me think there’s going to be a lot of typing involved, but it’s also an iPad app and I imagine you wouldn’t want a keyboard to be a barrier of entry to use the app? <a href="https://aremajans.com/">cast ajans</a>
> "female gamer == Candy Crush"

It is mostly true though. Of course all genres has some women but they skew very heavily in that direction. Strategy games etc barely has any women at all, especially the more complicated ones. Instead they mostly play puzzle games, and more social games like mmorpgs or story based games like rpg's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Genre_pr...
> I’ve been around long enough to know what happens to Apple when they aren’t selling what people want.

This doesn't mean much. Other companies go through tough periods too, Windows Me, AMD *dozer, etc..
if someone is mostly feeling secure about their appearance, it doesn't really matter. but weight can be a very sensitive subject, and you can't really know whether it is or isn't for someone you don't know well. in the worst case, comments about weight can be a trigger for people with eating disorders. it's just not worth it when there are plenty of other things you can compliment someone on. and btw, I'm not just talking about personal risk (eg, what if they report me to HR!?); it's also about being considerate of the other person. just because you intend something as an innocent compliment does not necessarily mean it is pleasant to receive.
That's not how taxes work. It's also kind of damming of the entire industry if that's the fallback excuse for existing.
You nailed it! Paying attention means they're waving at you and shouting rather than listening to the instructor or following the cues. And you want to be a "teammate" in their activities to max out the "quality" in quality time but then they end up depending on you more often than not.
At various points IBM tried to consolidate their product lines around a single architecture and software platform. Some of the noteworthy examples of this are the Future Systems project in the 70s, the Fort Knox project in the 80s, and the Workplace OS project in the 90s.

All of these proved to be complete disasters. Ultimately, the value add they provide to the people that use them is that the backwards compatibility. Trying to consolidate them all created compromises and complexity which sank the projects in question.
Because they generally get their money, and because that's kinda how insurance works. It also may not have been obvious which situation would arise when they did the admission. Additionally, many places charge $5-10k directly and then bill insurance to the max they can - even if they can't always collect the check sent to the patient, it's still profitable. (IIRC, cost to admit a patient was $7-11k/month at the facilities we saw.)
Samus isn't exactly a good example. The reward for winning Metroid is literally seeing her in a 8bit bikini
A lot of marketing money is "paid" (simplifying here, but I can expand if desired) to get that shelf space from the store, as well, in ways that you probably didn't know/haven't thought about.
Why, so I can visit the Lamborghini factory and pizza restaurant?

If you think my statement sounds like a shallow cliche then I would remind you that a group of people connected loosely by the idea of a state have cultural norms and traditions that make their little corner of the world unique...and Id say this surpasses the idea of materialism/unbounded consumption that undertones every conversation about "Europe Vs ...." measuring progress by how many cappucino cafes per square kilometer is a rather dull way to view the world at the very least.
You can remove the "euro" part from it, and pick any other successful civilization which produced a rich culture. E.g. Chinese culture influenced its neighbors to a very significant extent, and certain traits of it were consciously emulated, say, in Japan and Korea at certain times.
I wish the iOS Avernum HD was still available.
Yes. Of course that was the first thing I installed. It's buggy and abandoned.
Academics divide awareness into status (perceived quality) effects and reputation (actual quality) effects. Paid marketing influences both, but there are other ways of getting your name out there, and some companies are better at it than others.

> I'd buy Sennheiser over Beats

Sennheiser has a higher reputational quality than Beats, but most people know of Beats because of Beats' affiliations (status) and their large marketing budget.
This doesn't match tho, atleast in my various experiences in MMOs. The stuff female friends had to deal with for being female is pretty big.

Unwanted dick pics and other unwated advances, stalking, people masturbating in voicechat. Comments like "do you really want to listen to females"/"she's sleeping with xyz to get a raidspot".

I never had to deal with that. I get a generic idiot/retard/kys comment every now and then and that's it. No stalking, no dick pics.
I don't understand - moving somewhere else would only accelerate the aforementioned destruction. For the mover in particular, it would be immediate.

Regardless, I suspect that Iran, at least, will toppled relatively soon. North Korea will probably be around a little longer.
except the Database, don't re-image the database.
1 day doesn't seem enough to do anything. At least 3 days if not a week would be much more effective.

They have leverage because activision can't hire scabs, and news employees will have to ramp up for months before they're useful on current projects. They have contractual deadlines to meet, I'm sure.
I think its cool seeing what factors are considered in RTS balancing. I guess an equivalent for fighting games would be invincible vs non-invincible DPs or weird things like movement options.

In RTS games balancing seems a bit more quantifiable. In fighting games there is a lot of guessing at what actually counters what unless its extremely obvious. Its hard to tell if a matchup or strat is good/bad due to the character/move properties or if its because one player is way better.
> If you’re fairly well off though you’re just working to buy a bigger house

I'd settle for just paying off the house I currently own, thanks.
There are two sides to this.

The first side to this is that kids want their parents to show an interest in their activities. The ballerina activities in this article are about practice. Not a performance. Practice. Expecting grown adults to sit there and be transfixed every minute by a clumsy child doing clumsy child things is a venture into virtue-signaling. If the parents were doing that in the audience in front of their kids while their kids were performing, THEN it's an issue. This is NOT an issue.

Kids also need space. They need space to express themselves as individuals, and they also need space to learn to enjoy activities because THEY like them. Omni-present parents don't allow them the freedom to do this.

If you exposed little girls to what we consider to be "normal dancing," and also exposed them to ballet... but told them they could dress up like ballerinas for either, the vast majority of them are NOT choosing ballet.

Ballet is a form of dance that parents choose to show to other parents that THEY made it.
You shouldn't be posting mean and snarky one-liners to HN, let alone shallow dismissals of someone's work. All that is against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Even so I have some sympathy with the point behind your point and it makes me want to write something.

It's true that our society has commodified and mechanized a lot of what used to be, and arguably should still be, human relations. But we shouldn't let the good be the enemy of the better. Your comment reminds me of a Launch HN from last week of a startup that provides advances to blue-collar workers on their wages (in a better way than payday loans). They had a story of some guy who ran out of gas, signed up for their app from the side of a highway, and got enough money to get gas and keep going. My first thought was: people shouldn't be paid so little that that can happen to them in the first place. On the other hand, those economics aren't going away soon, and it was much better for that man that the app existed, instead of staying stranded on the side of the road.

In that case the active ingredient (the drug, one might say) was money and in this case it's sex, but either way, the startup is (presumably) doing some good, even if the broader context isn't changing much. I'm sure a lot of us feel queasy about the mixture of for-profit companies and helping people—but this is the nature of the web of economic and social relations in which we're all embedded. Non-profits have their own problems and it's certainly not the case that they are somehow immune from that web or pure of it. Quite the opposite.

One other thing: to say we're all embedded means we're all embedded. That includes you; I mean, you're expressing your desire for supportive relations to be free of profit motives on a forum operated by a company with profit motives—not only that, the very company that funded just the startup you're dissing, and why? Profit motive. I think it's important for people who care about human relations not to take the stone-casting attitude of pretending to be pure and denouncing others, as if they/we weren't also implicated in the system that has these properties. To pretend otherwise is self-deceptive and for my money that can only add problem, not solution.

If we can't allow profit motives to be mixed with nobler motives and call that a relatively good thing, the endgame of that stance is to leave nothing but profit motives. Of the available options, I think we should take the impure mixed bag.