skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Project oriented companies have the luxury of trying out new cultures one team at a time - if they get management buy-in.

The real danger comes when the project fails, for any reason at all. People who like the new direction self-select into the experiment, and if the experiment fails they are more likely to find themselves laid off, give notice, or be disillusioned and stick around anyway.

I am very suspicious, for instance, if this is what happened at GM with the EV1. Effectively the rabblerousers got put onto a project, which they cancelled it quite abruptly and then backed away from the green vehicle space for a very long time.
I think another thing is that MOBA's have downtime. You need to walk to places, you need to back, buy items, etc, etc. It's been a while since I played Starcraft, but my memories of it were basically that if you weren't doing things at literally every moment, you were probably going to get beat. You could try and use better macro, and tactical understanding but you'd eventually run up against someone who was equivalent and had better micro/apm and just lose. Which meant that every match basically felt like a sprint from start to finish, which was exhausting. Eventually it got to a point where it was hard to jump into a match because I just wanted to game and not go all out. I had pre-emptive anxiety/exhaustion about the intensity of a match. A moba can still feed that competitive desire and has moments of intensity, but it feels much more balanced than RTS' ever did to me.
Which is more of a reason that they probably won't stop giving Blizzard money over this.
I agree. Long term it is advantageous for everyone if our society is more fair, because if you keep pushing the lower class down a little further each generation eventually they will indeed have enough of it.
That was satirical, lmao.
I don't think you can make that or any URL into valid syntactic Perl code.

But maybe you're thinking of this - https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::URL

use Acme::URL;

print https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/label;
Absolutely, that is exactly what I was saying.

However, When the leadership is not aligned with this goal of approachability or maintainability of the software then it is not possible for new engineers or people to bring change. The old guard needs to be influenced or removed, which is a challenge when they are the ones who created (and continue to promote) the crap that causes this.
Rainout
It was your mention of the word "protest" which is usually used to mean an adversarially stated objection, rather than an attempt at working out a common problem together.
Maybe the main thing is that hiring needs to be done in a way that is more about assessing fitness for the task than culture fit.

Professionals should be able to cope with culture clashes. Fundamentally, if someone isn't professional enough to get along with people who aren't from the same monoculture, they're not fit to work in a modern office.
Haha, if websites like that that are where you're getting your news from, I can see why you're terrified all the time! I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. I'll choose to take the risk and keep blogging about grapes :)
You ignored itemization and counterpicking in MOBAs, which is like ignoring build orders, army composition and macro efficiency in starcraft and just focusing on microing your army :)

I was in the same camp when I only played RTS games, but after my friend got me into dota I have to admit there's a lot of depth there that I wasn't aware of.

Also the win conditions are much more obvious in RTS games, just after I switched I had no idea that pulling, stacking, wave cutting, denying was important. Also the vision battle is more involved in MOBAs.
Tl;dr: actually $3-4k each to replace public garbage cans that homeless et alia dump to look for resources creating a public nuisance. $20k is that cost for the entire program including 3 prototypes spread out per unit.

Stupid sensationalistic headline.
I was thinking about that after walking away for a bit.

I don't _hate_ sexualization of characters. Like, totally. Let's make sexy characters that we all adore, but let's not make it a default where female characters _have_ to be sexy.

I am all for the ridiculous boob sliders or boob physics or whatever, I think it is just that there is an expectation in video games that a female character has to either be sexy or not exist.

If there was a widely accepted place for female characters that are just another character, just a human being existing, just like male characters are, then we could have a space where you have those like hyper-attractive female characters just like games currently have the Adonis-attractive male characters.
YES! I was so speechless at first and embarrassed. He was so nice and warm, everything I imagined he would be as a kid watching Reading Rainbow.
And this is where all of us need to actively cultivate a company culture where we maximize everyone's ability to feel safe especially when things go seriously wrong.

Apparently, this does not happen at enough places.
> Also I’d rather not grab my mouse to see things.

I have not tried threads yet but I have been assured they are fully accessible via the keyboard only.
Funny thing about Stalin's "socialism": he actually reverted high school to being a paid extra, not free and universal.
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> a switch gets flipped and people start being weird, overtly sexual, or just flat out insanely critical of every little thing the female players do

I have no doubt that this occurs and I've even intervened in that type of behavior before; I think I hold more toward the "Greater Internet F---wad Theory" [1]. People will act like jerks and attack you for whatever traits you have. Adults trash talk 12 year olds; 12 year olds trash talk adults.

I'm not saying people should grow thicker skin, but rather that we haven't really figured out a way to NOT have trash talking. Maybe collaborative style games over competitive, but even then, those require interactions and communication, which leads us back to Penny-Arcade.

[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
It's better than 16:9 for most document editing tasks.
She didn't cheat the game review system.
And the Darwin award of the week goes to...
the way i read it, the starting point is that the culture is bad enough that this kind of sexual assault is considered perfectly protected and acceptable at the highest levels, which implicitly does not bode well for anything else.
Ah, I didn’t realize it was iPad only. I searched on my phone and didn’t see any results (though I played it on an iPad years ago).
Same here, if you don't hide the thread then what's the point? Some technical discussions in our team board last for hundred of messages, without threads it would be really hard to follow the channel, especially with multiple discussions going at the same time.
They're welcome to try, of course.

Examples of permissively licensed code being used in proprietary systems abound.

Has anyone ever successfully copyleft-jacked such a project? I grant that it's possible but I'm not aware of it actually happening.
the lawsuit : https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/activisonsuit.p...
Airbnb CEO policy leaves guests vulnerable to scammers
The filing: https://aboutblaw.com/YJw
That's interesting because it seems perfectly intuitive to me.

Both in terms of understanding the physics (weight of water above the column divided by the area of that column, and then any water around the column just has to have the same pressure to contain that column) and just plain practical experience from e.g. dipping underwater in the ocean and not getting crushed like a bug.
There is absolutely zero evidence offered to suggest that the majority of these cases are people with broken legs who test positive.

SARS-CoV-2 causes heart attacks and strokes due to thrombogensis, particularly in the younger adults.

If someone strokes, they can be admitted for that and then later test positive, and the cause was most likely COVID and counting them is essentially accurate.

Since most old people have been vacccinated we are mostly now seeing the younger unvaccinated crowd coming down with COVID and it isn't very surprising that there's a lot more thrombogensis now than ARDS.
I guess we all have different edge cases to our worldviews!
Ah yeah it was the security hole description that threw me off. I was expecting something more along the lines of a buffer overflow.
"Faceted search"[1] (aka aggregates in Elasticsearch) tends to be a popular one, to provide user-facing content navigation.

That said, simonw has been on the case[2] demonstrating an implementation of that using Django and PostgreSQL.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search

[2] - https://simonwillison.net/2017/Oct/5/django-postgresql-facet...
The citations section of the Wikipedia article has literally hundreds from various reputable sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy#Referenc...
This seems like a great way to get your NFL-loving ORM-crazy colleagues into the world of SQL
It'd be great if the government more regularly caught, prosecuted, and convicted people at this level of criminality. Otherwise the entire society collapses under the weight of abject corruption, because prosecution is a selective enforcement tool used at the whim of corrupt politicians, rather than an automatic mechanism that operates independently.
another effective means of increasing sales is to threaten people with violence if they dont purchase your products. of course these days thats not really tolerated. im not sure when, but i hope some day we stop tolerating the pollution of modern advertising
Yeah, I’ll just play from the original discs.
30 something percent of the people in the united states' are convinced that the pharma companies are trying to kill them.

Which is obviously wrong, the only thing pharma companies want is for you to be sick with an incurable, but treatable illness.
Wow, tosh, that's an incredible amount of text; I doubt any other encyclopaedia that has a "rainout" entry at all is this comprehensive.

Looking at this I realize: I had no idea just how much I don't know about the concept of an outdoor event being put off due to rain! I'm completely blindsided by the sudden revelation of this gaping hole in my general educational background.

Imagine how cool and interesting someone could be at a party if he or she memorizes all the info in this article. You just need a cooperating friend to casually drop "rainout" into the conversation, and the spotlight is in you!

I'm going to be scraping this and turning it into an Anki deck, for sure.
Water Board (Netherlands)
On those oddly shaped reservoirs, the walls compensate for the lack of a water column above the places where it widens. The actual force on the water is the same as would be in a cylinder.
It's stalking and harassment incidents like these that I'm reminded of any time someone tells me they've got nothing to hide.
Under the CCP, the "rights" pendulum swings wildly for society and the economy. Some policies and edicts seem well thought out, others seem impulsive and extreme with little regard to long-term consequences or the impact on China's people.

100 flowers/Great Leap Forward. Cultural Revolution/Deng reforms. Tiananmen/hypernationalism.

Tech has enjoyed a relatively open hand for two decades. Now the fist is closed and comes smashing down. Justification for clampdowns, crackdowns and purges are really about CCP leaders using all tools at their disposal to maintain a hold on power.
Impressive how they managed to nail seven underlings for doing it (five plead guilty; two went to trial[0]) but not CEO Devin Wenig for ordering[1] it, instead giving him a $57 million golden parachute straight into GM's Cruise. I wonder if Wenig being CEO of Thomson Reuters Markets from 2008 to 2011 has any effect on the way Reuters reports on this eBay scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_Wenig

[0]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/two-former-ebay-executive...

[1]: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-and-criminal-law/...
This is the ultimate story line for this album. I, for one, am happy with this outcome.
Both absolutely true. However, regarding overly jacked dudes, there is no history of women in gaming culture harassing developers for putting a beer gut on the male protagonist of a video game, nor any talk about "bulge physics" or whatever the equivalent of "jiggle physics" would be.
So the executives who ordered this are getting away with this?
Pretty much anything now seen as paranormal activity.

Though I've been trying to come up with counterexamples --- thins previuosly thought fantastical or unlikely now known to be real.

I'd illustrated a bloggish version of my comment above with Albrecht Durer's Rinocerous --- he'd drawn that from second-hand reports (and a poor-quality sketch). It's clearly not right, but it's also not entirely wrong, and the mix of "details captured well" with "where did that come from" is fascinating.

Lightning sprites are another that comes to mind, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)
> I want to make a point about "culture fit"

"culture fit" is one of the biggest causes of workplace discrimination and I still see it pushed in 'hiring training' as perfectly valid criteria.

Things I've seen teams consider "culture"

- will the candidate go to our weekly study session at the micro-brewery?

- will the candidate stay after work to play multi-player games with us?

- is the candidate entertained by all the Star Wars lingo we use?

If you don't find these discriminatory, think about how well a recent poster from Gaza would have done with them. Not well, I suspect

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25849054
I didn't speculate shit, I read those threads as they were happening. You know what they've boiled down to? She was a woman (with a couple of feminist takes), this dude made allegations against her, therefore let's doxx her.

> instead of attacking her for cheating the game review system.

Again, he never reviewed any of her games, so unless your argument is that no game journalist should ever date any game developer under any circumstances, what system was she cheating exactly?
I don't think any dev would have a hard time finding fresh out of school devs who are willing to be abused at the chance for a job at a big name in an over saturated industry. That's the sad truth about it. Too many people want to develop games for game developers to have much if any bargaining power. Dispelling notions of how cool or glamorous working in the industry is may help with that.

Last year, or was it the year before? COVID messes with my perception of time, they had another big walkout over the events in Hong Kong and a big name gamer in one of Blizzard's tournaments refusing to tow the party line in regards to the CCP. I'm curious how many of the employees who walked out then are still around today and how many that are will also be walking out now.

I think it would be very telling about a good many things. Did Blizzard sack them all for contributing to bad PR? Did they retain them but threaten them if they stepped out of line again? Or do they feel empowered and walk out both times?
Can the page title contain markup? On my browser, I see `<i>g</i>` in the title on the tab.
> 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.

That's not really true. A typical player can watch the replay of their losing match and see the proximate cause of the failure ("my army got blown up"), but looking at the game analytically to find the ultimate cause is/was much more difficult. The art of doing so was a regular feature of the Day[9] daily videos.

That complexity is part of what makes strategy games (real time or otherwise) compelling: seemingly simple choices or optimizations compound into a much larger advantage later on. However, those small-scale advantages are rarely highlighted by the game itself as important, and optimization usually asks a lot of the players.
I like how Slack hides threads. But I do have a few complaints.

I don't like that you can't come back later, select a bunch of messages or threads and say "Group into a thread" to clean up people not using threads.

Also I kind of hate when it's a week later and someone responds to a thread and you get pinged, but can't find where you got pinged from without clicking the dynamic group to see all thread activity.

Also, it really annoys me that threads open on the right with the text entry on the lower right when toast notifications on Windows pop up on the lower right, too. Great, now whenever someone replies I get a toast popup blocking me from seeing what I'm typing. Thanks, guys. Sure, that only happens on one monitor, but that's also the same monitor that I want my toast notifications and my Slack to be on because it's where I'm often looking.
I didn't say she did. Hate mobs can attack people for things that aren't true, happens all the time. There is a reason why we don't use hate mobs in the justice system.

For example, lets say a twitter mob attacks a man for something he didn't do. Is that misandry? No, they did it thinking he actually did it.
How is the new OCaml multicore support going? Any benchmarks yet which compare it to e.g. GoLang/Java/...?
As a veteran of this class, I do believe it helped make me a better programmer. There's a noticeable divide in terms of programming confidence/flexibility/efficiency among the Cornell CS students who do well in this class and enjoy it, and those who fear it or runaway from it. That said, a lot of the benefit came from this course gathering the brightest CS students as TAs. Without having access to those TAs and the challenges they posed in section or office hours, I'm not sure it has nearly as much value.
Yes, the "share message" feature accomplishes roughly the same in a less seamless way.
the point is my wife is half, born in japan with citizenship, and as a result gets exposed to all kinds of edge cases that you yourself wouldnt experience or be aware of. the xenophobic tendencies of japan are well known, its disingenuous to downplay them. stuff like Atsugiri Jason is basically a minstrel show. a white guy with japanese citizenship will never get the same treatment as someone "actually japanese" like you. personally that doesnt bother me at all, im aware that im not japanese, but it sucks seeing my wife treated differently because she doesnt look full japanese.
Maybe I'm very lucky then, but I have:

- 400k salary

- 4 weeks of vacation + 12 holidays (low by EU standards but not by much)

- Free top tier health insurance for family

I agree 6 weeks is nice, but usually employers will let you take an extra week or two unpaid if you want the extra time.
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But thise people won't come here to find answers to there questions. Whould they? They will learn it in there professional or academic life.
Women can and do participate in “ribbing” and understand things like jokes and context but sexual harassment is not the product of women misunderstanding or misinterpreting men ribbing them. The difference between ribbing and sexual harassment is pretty clear: the things that are said aren’t said in good fun. They’re said to intimidate, embarrass, and demean.
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There were still some substantial differences between Russian take on monarchy, and what was common in Western Europe at the time. While European monarchs claimed divine right to rule, the concept of subjects' rights was already developed by then, and not just in England; rulers required some legitimate justification for the more drastic actions. In Russia, in contrast, literally every person in the country was deemed a slave to the ruler, to be disposed of at will - a legacy it inherited from the Byzantines via the adoption of Eastern Orthodoxy, and later reinforced by Mongol customs during the occupation.
I have some issues with Slack threads but use them a lot, appreciate them, and so far haven't seen a better solution (even in this thread).

HN always presents a lot of reactionary positions to anything.
That's the anti-privacy propaganda working.
> once the field became seen as something more than a secretarial position.

It's not just perception; "Computers" used to refer to employees performing calculations manually for numerical methods. Then "Computer Operators" were secretaries translating assembly instructions written on paper into the correct octal code to punch on cards to feed the machine. They got the instructions from engineers. The teletype made their work obsolete, but you can still see the demographic shift in "Computer Related Occupations" as aggregated on government data.
That's exactly what I meant. You were forced to do extra work to support mobile Safari or else exclude Apple customers. That decision is made over and over again by teams everywhere and Desktop Safari reaps that benefits.

The technologies I want never actually "win". I always have to choose the one that I either hate the least or has some other compelling benefit. The latter is the reason why I'm using Safari.

I'd rather Safari come around (or be abandoned), but pressuring Apple this way is not very effective. How long did they hang on to those stupid butterfly keyboards?
I’m not sure it’s a misconception. That’s how they’re intended to be used. Cattle not pets. If you don’t get used to not treating them as throw away you can end up accidentally relying on some state. As you say, the top layer is read/write but that doesn’t mean you should be relying on what you write there. Quite the opposite - that state should be somewhere else unless you can afford to lose it.

I usually start mine with —-rm so they’re removed on shutdown.

I’ve seen people apply security updates via ‘apt update; apt upgrade’ within a running container. Guess what happens when that container is eventually destroyed?
You can see how they're going all-in on the 'wacky' part with the trailers for BF2042. Driving away from a tornado in a tuk-tuk, a knives vs defibrillators battle, etc.
That's a reasonable point I suppose, although a private Matrix server is just a fat peer from this perspective. Unless its database lasts 50 years, those messages are just as gone, and Matrix (I think?) uses TLS in addition to E2E.

Score a point for urbit I guess: any channel is limited to those peers participating in it, so Mallory would have to get her hands on one of the planets which received the messages. There is no central point of failure because there is no privileged server.
Or for added convenience, what if you had something like a roomba that followed you around the house and plugged in to a socket in the room on one end and to the exoskeleton frame on the other end without any manual intervention on your part?