skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend claimed that she was dating a gaming journalist to get good reviews. She was dating that gaming journalist, but the only things he'd written about her work were from before they'd met. Despite that, an endless parade of assholes on the internet immediately used that to justify harassment, doxxing, rape and death threats, hacking of accounts, etc.
Schwab's website has been consistently buggy for me. Would not recommend.
You are the first person I've seen mentioning Ashes of the Singularity who wasn't doing a hardware review.
Please don't conflate "white men" with these assholes.

I'm so tired of being blamed for the behavior of folks with the same genitalia/skin color as me.
> it has always been the case for me that a close friend or acquaintance typically only "ribs" you when they know you know they're not being serious.

As long as everyone is in on the joke, it's fine. I've never heard of a situation where all parties agreed something was a good natured joke and it was still labelled sexual harassment. In virtually every case the "I was just ribbing" is conveyed after the fact in the same tone of voice as "It's just a prank bro" - even if it was genuinely innocent on the harasser's part, it obviously wasn't apparent to others, and that "if" is often questionable.

A really simple rule to follow is "if you don't know how someone will react otherwise, treat them politely with kindness and respect." This rule works in 100% of situations and costs nothing to follow. No one has ever or will ever say "man I wish the first time I talked to that guy he teased me about my physical appearance, what a jerk for denying me that taste of his quick witted humor."
Time-weighted average has always seemed like such an odd name to me. I assume that taking a simple average of irregularly spaced points is a very common mistake and so that is likely where this name comes from. But, as another commenter pointed out, it really is just the mean value of a function.
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The assumption being made here is that the market will remain saturated even if all advertising is pulled.
FCC wants SpaceX Starlink to give up gov’t funding that it shouldn’t have won
I had corruption problems until I bought a high quality SD card for my raspberry pi. Then, I switched to an Intel NUC with an SSD and have never had any corruption in the 2 years I have used it heavily.
Sony Accidentally Announces New PS Plus Games
Just wanted to say, as a male, I had this exact experience. I was playing Pavlov VR using my wife's account. Steam profile avatars float next to people in that game, so people assumed I was female. I didn't have a mic, so I couldn't correct them. A group of people started repeatedly asking whether I was female, not for any purpose other than "hurr durr female," and then ultimately hunted me down. I forget exactly what the game was (there are custom games, so it changes from map to map) but it was exactly the feeling you describe here, of "this is totally unrelated to anything in the game."

It was eye-opening, and I'm sorry you have to deal with it.
Toqueville considered America fundamentally structured to prevent the emergence of aristocratic families, not because of anything to do with taxes, but because fortunes are distributed among all the children and thus naturally dissipate. As opposed to old world system of giving all to the first-born son.
Some people - like myself - prefer to see all the messages go past and mentally thread them. It’s a skill I learnt from many years of irc use. Others prefer to click through and not think about thread content until they choose to.

Also I’d rather not grab my mouse to see things.
Peter the Great built St. Petersburg and one of the most spectacular palaces in the world called Peterhof (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterhof_Palace), a must to visit when you are there.

Peter himself didn't much care for grandeur and so had a very modest building for himself that is part of the tour of the palace, with lots of baths in it. There is a list of "Peter's Rules" hanging on the wall in that "small palace" that were enforced, very short, including:

- You can have one manservant only, no matter your position [the space was really small]

- You bunk where you are assigned to, no trading, and no complaining about it

- No boots on the bed

I love the reasonableness of these!
At least I have chicken!
> 'm not sure which game you're talking about, but I suspect you misunderstand the criticism. There have been thousands of female video game characters going back to the dawn of the industry. Many titles which prominently feature female characters have done very well (e.g.., Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, etc). I'm guessing there has never been significant controversy because a video game featured a female character, though no doubt there has been controversy about specific characters (e.g., Battlefield 1's and Battlefield V's wildly disproportionate emphasis on female WWI and WWII combatants) or about the cringe deployment of token diversity characters.

My point is that there is any controversy when there is a game where the female main character is not explicitly sexualized. You are absolutely right that there are beloved female main characters, but they are almost always shown and viewed in a sexualized manner rather than as a human being.

And yes, there are definitely 'sexualized' men (God of War) but they never seem to be explicitly in there as sexual objects rather than as part of the story. Like, if you took Lara Croft out and replaced her with a red square, would that game be regarded as the same? Probably not.

People legit get mad about Aloy (Horizon Zero Dawn) being unattractive and "looking manly". Maybe not a massive controversy, but enough that I, someone who passively follows video game news, know about it.

I agree thought that my original post was poorly worded and not specific enough about my perceived reception of female characters in video games. I was trying to incorporate "female main character" and "unattractive female characters" into one point and failed.
A while after that it got itchy again, and I ended up having to use special shampoo and "beard butter" and such to stop it from itching. It ended up not worth the time, effort and money.
> On the other hand, if encrypted data is shared publicly on DHT, a replicated database, a blockchain or similar, in year 2050 your nephews will see grandpa's entire message history.

No, Matrix isn’t a public database or a blockchain. The conversations only are only replicated between the servers whose users participate in that given conversation.

You might as well be panicking about PGP archives getting compromised, or backups of devices with Signal history on them, etc.
Absolutely loathed this feature in Teams. It made discussions impossible to follow for me and I just stopped using Teams altogether. Discord and Teams ostensibly cater to different crowds, but I just do not see the value prop at all in threaded chat.

Threaded discussions boards feel like the opposite to me, where flat threads are nearly incomprehensible (i.e. classic internet forums where quoting is the only message hierarchy).
This is exactly the problem: it is impossible to measure how much advertising helps. And maybe there are some measurements but they are not known.

You might be right or you might be wrong.
For example, I do not see Tesla commercials on TV so I wonder if they will sell more cars in next decade if they advertise as other car companies? Is Tesla making a mistake?
And yet https://cometcleaner.com/ is an enduring consumer brand that has been around for decades and does basically no advertising.

A story that I remember from the 80s is that the brought in a consultant to improve sales. Rather than advertising, they opted to add one more hole to their cans. Sales went up 20%.
Doesn't the new electric Ford truck do this?
Nothing about UBI prevents people from working, but there will simply not be enough work to go around, nor much work that can provide a sustainable living.

People who find meaning and dignity in work can still try to do so within what market remains for human labor, which will probably be meager and miserable - far closer to Amazon warehouse work or Uber than last century's factory line - or they can adjust and redefine their self-worth to be something other than the value that can be extracted from them by a corporation. UBI is just there to keep them from starving in the meanwhile, because they can't eat dignity.
I don't know what mmorpgs you've been playing but they hardly count as social games anymore. I used to play MUDs and those tended to be pretty evenly gender divided and all about that social aspect (at least the ones I played). MMORPGs today are closer to either the MOBA or an RTS with twitch based responses and tactical understanding being key to play at the top levels.

I don't have a full knowledge of everything, but I can say with certainty that there are several women who can clean up in AoE2 - even with its top echelons being male dominated (and a relatively non-toxic community from what I've seen). I think that women tend to go unseen intentionally in a lot of video games, avoiding mic use if possible and masquerading as men to avoid sexual attention and abuse.
It reminds me of a NYT article about how many women at work have baby monitors, just watching their baby, wishing they could be with it, while working. Pretty heartbreaking.

I wouldn't say I'm against capitalism necessarily, but it does seem to have resulted in a situation where a lot of us are kept apart from the things and people we really want to be with.
Wasn't that in Yes, Minister? Or was it a shorter version... it's been awhile since I saw that show but that's almost the only joke a remember distinctly. Oh, that and the line, "If you want to stab someone in the back you first need to get behind them," which I reference not infrequently.
This does not explain the rise of SUVs though, and generally cars just getting bigger and bigger.
Imagine how low it would be if all internet users actually employed ad-blocking of some sort. Honestly remarkable how many people, faced with the prospect of sitting through extremely annoying video ads, or having their search results and webpages cluttered with useless ads, do nothing instead of spending one minute to install the appropriate blocker. Obviously not everyone is aware these exist, but you would think their curiosity would lead them to find out once they get fed up with having their time wasted by having their activities interrupted constantly and having manure shoved down their throat.
The post you're responding to is just repeating the same 'just asking questions' crap that led to the harassment campaign in the first place.

What actually happened is pretty well-documented: a woman developer made a short game about dealing with depression to which various people then responded with rape and death threats; her ex-boyfriend lied about her sleeping with a gaming journalist in exchange for good reviews (the only things said journalist ever wrote about her work was before they met); and thousands of people then jumped on that as a justification for further harassment, doxxing, and wild conspiracy theories that persist to this day.
It looks a bit more niche than that; they prominently warn that they will not index sites that “use much css”.
Appeal to public opinion is generally a great idea but there is a risk. Activision gets no sympathy from me, but I also don't think the answer will come from the masses.
I'm not sure that most gamers really care about sexism in the gaming industry. Video games are synthetic, we don't really see the people behind them. At least in movies we see the actors. If push comes to shove, I think most gamers will still be lining up for the latest AAA title no matter what they hear about the company that created it. Imho change therefore has to come from something other than public opinion. This lawsuit is exactly that: the government enforcing a code of behavior because the market clearly cannot do it on its own. The system is working.
Makes sense, and underscores why the loss of permafrost is catastrophic. Cold conditions impede the activity of microbes that metabolize soil.
Hi again. Deplatforming is censorship. Your example is censorship. I’ll leave the definition here for others and maybe you too if you want to learn what it actually means.

https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/896/censorship

I think the need to redefine words like censorship is to make one seem good and necessary and one seem bad and deplorable. So “deplatforming” is now the good censorship and censorship remains the bad. Again see the link to clarify what exactly constitutes censorship. It doesn’t matter if you get it or not.

>Have a miracle cure for COVID?

Nope, just a suppressed treatment which could save lives. If the medical establishment actually cared about health it would be bending over backwards to study it instead of actively suppressing it. All I can do is post the science, here are 60 studies with more than half peer reviewed:

https://ivmmeta.com/

Calling medical doctors and researchers who risk their careers to publish studies backing up potential treatments are not charlatans, they’re heroes.
The way you start by questioning weather or not making things less toxic is a good idea and put quotes around "toxic gaming culture" sure makes your post read like you were brushing off the whole thing as some kind of overly-woke-brigade cancel-fest or something.
I've witnessed ongoing sexual harassment in the game industry, and there is nothing good natured about it. Often it was ribbing, but it was also overtly sexual, demeaning, and clearly a game to see how badly they could affect the victim before she went to HR. Which never actually happened, at least not that became public knowledge.

I was ribbed a lot too, but obviously not sexually. And I still really could have done without it.
One thing that I don’t like is that I have to click a checkbox every time I want to submit a reply to a thread to the channel that the thread is in. Not everyone in the channel is notified in the same way when additional replies are made within a thread within the channel.
I'm for balancing aquifers for long term sustainability, but the way to do it is to buy the groundwater rights from farmers who own them.

If the state wants your house for public benefit, they have to pay you for it at market rate. They can't just size it and throw you on the street. The current implementation of the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (GWMA) is largely ignores prior ownership and is in conflict with CA property law.

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The 2014 GWMA did not dissolve groundwater rights, but rather enabled the levying of arbitrarily high fines for exercising those rights. They don't have to use eminent domain to purchase the groundwater rights, but farmers cant use them. In this way, it hopes to let the sate have its cake and eat it too.

I suspect the implementation will eventually be overturned and revised by the courts, but not before most of the farmers harmed have lost everything.
"it's common for men to talk down to men on video games too"

This is very tone deaf.

I have spent probably thousands of hours playing games (with a mic) and the % of times I've been "talked down to" is very small, and it was never because of a natural property about me (that I'm male, etc).

Literally every woman that I've played with who has used a mic or otherwise presented themselves as female has faced vitriolic harassment (and/or sexual harassment) for no reason other than that they were female. I've been in lobbies with them and suddenly see men becoming -far- more judgemental and critical about the female player's ability/skill than usual. This is why a lot of women don't use mics at all or otherwise identify themselves as female in online games.

The "talking down" (or just general random toxicity) that men sometimes face from other male players is not even remotely comparable.
Oops, yeah. Looks like there are not really any docs for the existing (better) system: https://docs.mattermost.com/messaging/sending-receiving-mess...
You just not working hard enough, otherwise your dad would have left you an inheritance, or at the very minimum given you access to his professional network of other hard working dad's who's dad's left them inheritances.
It's acceptable racism for this person to say something so abhorrent.
Another new string play started with these. It will impact the market huge time.
Which is exactly my point, chess is just another game but it has this social status where it's a sign of intelligence or whatnot. The whole thread is in response to OP making such claims.
Walking as a Productivity System
> It's still common for men to talk down to women on video game

I only play games where you can't tell anyone's sex (Starcraft 2 for instance) and you get insulted all the time. You get insulted when you're playing badly, you get insulted when you're playing too well, you get insulted whether you're a man, a woman or a dog.
In what industry do you work where spaghetti code is not the norm?
One interesting different is that in most of the US you're usually in the clear if whatever you work on isn't related to your employer's business (although that can be a bit nebulous). However my understanding is that in Germany, even if your side project isn't related to your employer's business you're still required to give them first dibs at licensing any IP you create.
Thank you for saying this. I wouldn't have said it myself, but as someone who has been both a native and web developer, you are spot on.
RSS is still popular[ly-supported]. It's not too late.

I felt exactly the way you did for a long time.
Eventually, I decided to invest in setting up a more healthy and symmetric relationship with information, like you describe.

I realized RSS was the right tool for this goal. I'd definitely recommend trying this, even if you don't have the gall to self-host. It feels like I get three square meals a day, instead of injecting corn syrup every 15 minutes for 16 hours.

I chose to self-host my reader + data store, so that all of the data can live on my machine, and so I'm not dependent on some VC, advertising, or goodwill-backed project that will kick the can in a few years. There are plenty of good options. I decided to try out miniflux [1] as a first pass because I liked it's dependency graph, and haven't felt the need to try anything else.

Most blogging platforms (blogger, squarespace, wordpress, substack) produce RSS feeds by default. News aggregators like HN and Reddit have robust APIs for generating RSS feeds.

There are products like you describe, that convert a web page into an RSS feed with various hacks. IMO, this creates too big of a dependency on a flaky third-party. It might (literally!) be easier to build+maintain it yourself for the few sites that don't have an RSS feed, with `curl` `echo` and `sed`.

[1]: https://github.com/miniflux/v2
You're right; "must" is the wrong word. How about "seems possible?"
It won't.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Yeah like I said, I'm having a hard time drawing an analogy from that to maintaining a personal blog about a hobby you like or whatever.
Another anecdote: the MacPorts package definition files [1] are actually TCL programs. MacPorts itself is built on TCL [2]

[1] Example portfile: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/shell...

[2] Macports source: https://github.com/macports/macports-base/tree/release-2.7/s...
A buddy system for curbing porn watching inevitably leads to the unfortunate and desperate scenario where you and your buddy close your eyes and swap hands.
VS Code is neither fast nor efficient. I'm not hating on it as I like it more than most Electron apps, but I use it on a laptop with a Core 2 Duo P8600 CPU (among other things) and it's pretty sluggish.
> Talk about impactful work. I wonder how many lives you've changed.

$1000/mo for a rental. People without insurance need not apply.
Furthering the pedantry, even assuming monotonically decreasing ROI as ad spending increases, as long as ROI of the first dollar was positive, there would be some optimum between zero and current levels. But my original statement still holds, zero would be preferable to current levels of spending for those brands.
You just take the interval (0, inf). So you analyze it as limit spend -> 0+ in that region.

My personal opinion however is that ad industry is a big scam.
They actually make their products more expensive than necessary by making the client pay for something they have no use for: advertisement - making it less competitive by this extra price. I avoid heavily advertised product when I have a choice (and when not, then it has just no benefit for the company to pay for advertisement: I'd buy it without adverts for the same price.)
I have been playing WoW since the first year, and the developers have my full support.

I know several current and former Team 2 (WoW) developers, from QA up to leads, and they are all unified in their rejection of their executives.

And I live nearby, so I'll be joining them on the pavement tomorrow.
Senior Sensors (2020)
When was it ever not "socially acceptable" for women to play video games, what society is that referring to?

edit: I'll assume this is about the US then. At any rate, my earliest memories of playing video games with female friends go back to the 1980s, and I don't recall a single moment where that wasn't "socially acceptable".
across all industries, workers keep getting shafted n abused. reason, why worker protections are weak. it could be warehouse work at PepsiCo where they just 'won' to work 72 hours a week instead of '84'. it could be the game industry where females are driven to commit suicide.

because the corporation comes first. however, no actionable changes will come anytime soon, since corporations have politicians in their pockets. and the plebs are told behave and you'll join the owning class.

working at a fAAng doesn't mean you know have power over the senator like Zuckerburg does.
This is a sci fi thing (literally black mirror) but one day when we have AR contacts, I would like to see what life would be like if I replaced women to look plain to me, like how I would be disinterested in men personally. Then I can live my life not being distracted, like in a work place, they'd just be another person I work with, no urges. I know I'm a creep for thinking that way.

The other part of me that thinks this it's like giving up. I think to truly not care you need true abundance (action).

Also extremes like pre-scanning incoming images on social media for semi-mature content and then blocking it, I do see that aspect.

It is a thing though "simping" i.e. OF or Hololive on YT(this is less sexual more on the social replacement aspect), etc... getting sucked into that... thankfully I have not personally done that. But I am still a lonely man that is true. Couple minutes of the pixel release and I'm on my way.