skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The video game industry as a whole has been a notoriously bad place to work for techs for a long time. It is extremely deadline driven, technical decisions are often made by product managers (or worse, other business people), and on top of that the pay is often mediocre compared to other industries.

In the past, they've gotten away with it by enticing young people in (often because they loved video games growing up and want to make them) and burning them out. That seems to be a strategy that no longer works now that recruiters for all sorts of companies/industries have become so aggressive that you'll very quickly learn you're being taken advantage of if your linkedin profile is even moderately up to date and checked.

These labour shortages (in all sorts of industries) are really going to be fascinating to watch. It's been 40 years since workers have had this kind of power/positioning and it'll be interesting to see if and how companies will adapt and change.
Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf

https://www.amazon.com/Harvey-Penicks-Little-Red-Book/dp/145...
In Germany the machines just print out a slip of paper with a barcode that can be used to get cash back at the register, or as store credit. The machines compact the plastic, and are fairly quick. On your way in, you just pop them in and go shopping. If more states had the bottle deposit, it would be easier to handle.
EU adopted it's flag from and existing institution of which virtually all European nations as part of.

It seems like a case of appropriation until you realize that most European supranational organizations share similar origins, goals and members.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Europe
> nothing less than a failed coup d'état.

No it was not. Go watch that famous YouTube video about the keys to power.

They had nothing, no source of power at all. At the bare minimum they would have needed the military on their side. Or 20 million people. They had neither. (Yah - even with all the people voting for Trump, only a fraction of a fraction were willing to use violence. The overwhelming majority were unhappy, even very vocal, but they accepted the results.)

It was basically a riot. A bunch of idiots making a mess and destroying things. Even if they had "succeeded" they still would not have had any power.
> I'd love to see us build a British Google for example.

There is one, and with users globally: https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
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The market is large enough that I don't see why its important in any way. If one company you like has a major failure or even gets bought out by a larger firm, there are a lot of alternatives who can compete for your time and attention. What constitutes a 'rough couple years' for the market?

The guard changed and like hollywood, the accountants and inbred corporate boards are in charge forevermore.

Massive gamer expectations don't exist in a vacuum, they exist because the AAA game space is heavily marketing for the purpose of building hype and expectation. It's on purpose. once in a while there's an anthem or cyberpunk level implosion but why do they care when they're raking in billions in microtransactions? That's just the cost of doing business.

The companies release incomplete low content games because people keep buying them and the profit is massive. There's too much money to be made in microtransactions and repeat fees like season passes. There have been a few large notable failures but their net loss is much smaller than the massive income through microtransactions.

We will never return to a 'sustainable market' because the market is all about companies trying both the existing things and new things to maximize profit and minimize cost, and others copying. The market is thus always in tumult and is never sustainable, with some firms failing and some firms succeeding at different times based on the ebb and flow of whatever the current events are at the time.
Since TFA didn't really explain what a "flow" battery is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery
It's hard to beat Rails for "need to make a CRUD app in front of a DB". Phoenix is pretty close, though.

Where it really shines is anything beyond CRUD. I want to make my CRUD apps more dynamic, and build collaboration features into otherwise boring apps. LiveView makes it wickedly simple to do things like typeahead find: https://twitter.com/mrkurt/status/1434969788275691522

And Elixir + BEAM gives me reasonable plumbing for collaboration features. Even something as simple as presence makes CRUD apps more powerful.

So the broader set of Phoenix strengths aren't ActiveRecord vs Ecto. Phoenix helps me build a more powerful app because it has a broader set of strengths. And it's almost as good at Rails for just CRUD, so I don't give up much to get those features.
https://archive.md/oEcrz
Salary ranges don't define a generic position for experienced people. When we're trying to hire we think of the position we're trying to fill and write up an ad for that. But you get varying quality and experience and sometimes great candidates might be worth fighting HR for. It's not the first time I've applied for a more junior position but when my experience becomes apparent then the hiring manager will fight for extra budget allocation to bring in the extra experience. It's a two way street so salary can't really pigeon hole candidates ahead of time as those must hire candidates would slip away. Generally be the time you're talking salary then the rapport is there and honesty is key. We'll ask you what you're looking for and try to make it happen. There are various tools companies have such as stock, sign on bonuses, etc, to allow compensation flexibility. You have to be willing to work with the hiring companies.
My left-leaning family is terrified that Trump is building a literal army to blitzkrieg through the country,

Which is perfectly understandable, given that he did, in fact, incite a literal army to blitzkrieg through the Capitol.
(Semi) honest question to the commenters below parent, do you all use styluses, or do you just have small fingers, or is there some predictive touch system in the default browser for your devices that isn't present in Firefox? How big are your screens, are you running phablets?

Trying to understand how so many people are reaching the conclusion that HN works well on mobile. Maybe 25% of the time I try to upvote or downvote a comment on mobile, I fat-finger the wrong arrow. That shouldn't happen in a mobile interface.

I feel like just for the sheer number of comments I'm seeing saying that they don't know what the problem is, there must be something I'm missing. To me it's pretty straightforward, you have to zoom the screen in 20-40% to press any of the buttons or accurately target on any of the links, and when you do that you have to interrupt reading flow because the text doesn't wrap during that zoom.

When I turn off the mobile site and request the desktop version it's even worse, so I don't think it's a browser setting. I don't think I have particularly large hands, but the links on the top of the site are still only about 1/3 to 1/4 the size of my pointer finger.

What are you all seeing that I'm not? Is there a font-size setting you have checked? This is a pain to use without a precise pointer.
I presume the writers meant "most frequently violated."
That was the goal (if a taxpayer funded healthcare model was not possible), but even just getting rid of employers and dumping everyone on healthcare.gov was not politically possible.

Big and well funded employers love the competitive advantage of having lower per employee administrative costs over smaller employers.

This was sort of fixed at the end of 2016 by allowing all employers to reimburse employees for employee purchased health insurance with pre tax income.

Employers also love obfuscating labor prices so it makes it more difficult for employees to compare wages from employer to employer (although paystubs and box 12 code dd of w-2 does show you the price of the health insurance you are getting, but you usually do not have access to this information when deciding on a job offer).
I see accounting as the money version of a historical account of a company. In that vein, it's the complete data flow of money movements within said company - data from which you could determine strategic priorities, fraud, and power structure, among other things with the right analysis.

I wonder if there's a good flick that shows how powerful a forensic accountant can be.
It's probably easier to list the invertebrates that aren't commonly called bugs than those that are. Squid, octopus and jellyfish get a pass. The immobile ones like corals and sponges as well, but I think that's about it.
How common is planned obsolescence actually?
I'm interested in better understanding the history of this phenomena. A lot of conversations I have about this topic frankly take on a conspiratorial tone, and I would love to get discussion on this topic.
Oh, I've got a few!

Interviewer was late 45 minutes. When he came he was angry that I was in the wrong place. It was a closed office, invitations only, I was guided by a front desk lady who knew what I came for. They rejected me, as they forgot to mention they need some fiber channel storage admin. I didn't even heard names of those things before, as stated earlier by phone. They called again few months later, said it was a mistake and that person left company. Proposed another meeting. I politely denied.

Went through quite long process (also used 2 days off for that) that was actually a lot of fun, to inform me at the end they have budget for 60% of what I asked for earlier. That was lower then my first job ever in IT. Few months later called again saying they raised the budget and can afford me now. Wasted another day off to be informed that new budget was around 65% of my asking...

Interviewer forced me to arrange a day off at old company to inform me they don't have the job (their client had budget cuts they were surprised with), in person. Then pretended it's not him while I waited in the hallway.

Details: My interviewer arranged a welcome day on my future-company on Monday, more than a week ahead. I was supposed to meet the team, do some internal trainings, get remote logins maybe. I took a full day off just for that and he knew about it. Came as arranged, office was empty, doors closed. Interviewer walked past me a few times without saying hi while I waited for almost an hour on an empty hallway. Then suddenly invited in, said they don't have that position due to lost client and we'll figure out what to do later on. It took 3 minutes. I already quit my old job. We tore our signed contract after a few weeks and pretended it never happened, but it took me several months to clean that mess up.
It's not a lie, though it obviously is controversial.

The languages we call "general purpose" are nothing of the sort. They are Domain Specific Languages for the domain of algorithms.

We press them into service for all sorts of things they aren't actually very good at, hence the problems. We do so because we don't have any alternatives.

Took me a long time to figure this out. And an much longer time to communicate it concisely. So yes, I can deal with it not being immediately obvious.
I was under the impression that this feature wasn't stable, but it's been years since I've thought about it.
The outcomes are definitely not objectively worse, to the point that the U.S. is a huge medical tourism destination.

The US population not taking care of themselves is a public health problem not a medical care quality issue.
I've been using this myself and really enjoying it.

I haven't been focusing too much on building a full app via this, but it is fantastic for building a mock up of what something would look like in Flutter.

It's easier to use and looks more like an app than anything you would build in Balsamic or Figma, since it is basically a drag n' drop Flutter UX. At the end, you get the code used for building it which is awesome for moving from mockup -> the actual app.
> Walgreens is closing stores in SF.

Having seen a bunch of HN articles about Walgreens closing stores in SF, is this a SF phenomenon? Or even a SF Walgreens phenomenon? It feels a little weird to see lots of people drawing national conclusions from a situation which doesn't feel national.
How have you been iterating on your ideas? Generally, this is what I tell other entrepreneurs. It's startling how few actually take a framework like this to heart (doesn't have to be exactly this):

1. Build a hypothesis about how the world works

2. Build things to test the hypothesis

3. Figure out the world doesn't work that way

4. Alter hypothesis

5. Show progress as you repeat 1-4

I also want to call out that spending 18 months to build a landing page and your web app is an extremely long iteration cycle. I don't have all the context about your life, but that seems to be an area where you can get much tighter based off this post at least.
Ask HN: ELI5 – Crypto, Blockchain and Web3.0
I know what is Bitcoin and Ethereum. I even know, more or less, how they work.

But I feel like big things are happening in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world, such as Web3.0, and I'm not sure I understand them.

Can someone ELI5 what the fuss around cryptocurrency and blockchain?

Specifically, I'm looking for answering to the following questions:

1. Is blockchain a revolutionary technology and what's it's real applications (other than cryptocurrency)?

2. Is cryptocurrency the future of money? And why its hated on HN?

3. What the hell is Web3.0 and how its related to the above 2?

Thanks!
Mostly SV bros still hell bent on VCs and that whole culture.
I completely disagree with this take. The worst offenders recently have been games where the developers were determined to continue supporting outdated old XBox and Playstation hardware as well as trying to offer a next generation experience to PC and next-gen consoles.
>The triple-A gaming industry in general seems to be in a bit of a crisis

Aren't they making more money than ever before? Why is that a crisis? Imagine you're the most profitable you've ever been even with the quality issues - why is that a crisis at all?

The purpose of the companies is to make money and they are. The games are just the widget they're selling. If people keep buying widgets, whether they're subscription widgets or microtransaction widgets, the business is working.
I dislike bad faith questions or tests.

I took part in a Facebook recruitment competition (this was many years ago when it was less obvious how evil they were going to be).

They gave us some data and some notional analytics task and your goal was to maximise a certain prediction metric. The catch was that they had errors/repetitions in the data such that you could exploit it to maximise the prediction score by methods largely unconnected to the notional analytics. This allowed some to get scores miles above accuracy reported in the literature, to the point where it wasn't physically possible to do that well. I'm still not convinced it wasn't an error on their part or that it wasn't an inside job.

I discovered this and basically made the claim that some of the other scores others were getting weren't possible, and in the process of chasing down what the "cheaters" were doing, they came clean with the "oh, it's part of the job to assume/find such problems in the data and exploit it". So then everyone changed their models to include this little hack and the competition continued on the remainder of the data after wasting most of our time.

but it left a really bad taste in my mouth. first of all, the metric is now meaningless in this case, so no, it's not an analysts job to exploit errors to maximise a meaningless metric. secondly, just do things in good faith: if you give me a data set and tell me it's a certain thing, I'm going to believe you. if it's dodgy or you're interested in OTHER things, then tell me so we can stop fucking around, because this isn't real life and I've got no idea what contrived thing it is you're looking for in this finite and time restricted exercise. if you want me to find some contrived thing, then at least tell me that's part of it.

gotchas where they're fucking with you or dishonest about what they're actually doing in the process are the worst. especially if they're actually incompetent, made a mistake and they're too proud to admit that fact.
VLC has built-in support for Blackmagic SDI output cards:

https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/modules/video_ou...

Though a quick search through online forums suggest that module isn't compiled into Ubuntu's version of VLC by default, so you may need to compile your own version:

https://gist.github.com/afriza/cd9ce01a7b47b9bd3f192e95af1a0...
Plane: 39.02177585879624, -93.59455907552
Shadow: 39.024670893611805, -93.60232594974401

I wonder what this can tell us about it's speed, altitude, etc.
> I’ve often argued that AAA games are just too big, and gamer expectations too unreasonable to be sustainable.

The most recent AAA game that I have attempted is Battlefield 2042.

I managed to force about 7 hours of that game in, and probably won't be able to convince myself to go back for more. I had maybe ~15 minutes of fun across that interval. You could probably flip a coin to determine if my experience was adverse because of rushed buggy garbage, or if it was a bad gameplay concept to begin with (i.e. ridiculous scope).

I still find myself playing older games like Overwatch, League of Legends and Minecraft with far more frequency than anything else out there. Maybe I've become jaded or burned out on gaming, but something in my head keeps saying that these studios just aren't trying anymore.

What is it about one of these "older" titles that can keep me playing for 5-6 hours per day that we cannot seem to capture and move into newer titles? Maybe this is just me and everything is fine...
I had savings for rent, but not enough for food.
Except Nintendo games I only play indie games.

They are like the games in the 90s or 00s.

So yeah we have this market its just not were these AAA companies play.

Some cool indies:
- Shovel Knight
- Hades
- Deep Rock Galactic
- papers please!
- unnamed goose game
- Probably more which I forgot
Vaccines change the reproduction rate. Do you know how much? No? I thought so!
How do we avert currency collapse without removing the safety net? All I can think of is rapidly reducing the military budget, but the consequences of that aren't as lovely as some people believe.
As I say above, if there's a fit between company and candidate then things can be done to make sure that everybody is happy. You can't do that with inflexible salary ranges ahead of time.
Already exists. I managed a project for a well-known company in the sneaker industry that sends gait & foot pressure data from the shoe to an app and they have been working on this for probably close to a decade at this point. I can only assume that they've decided that commercialization outside the niche of Olympic athletes isn't worthwhile.

And they are definitely not the only player since I recall writing some similar code for another organization in that field.
> But perhaps it's okay for this one distro to have an obsession with visual design?

The linux desktop is a house on fire, and elementaryos is standing in the living room holding up paint to a smoldering wall.
Because it's interesting. Evidently, others agree otherwise it would not have been upvoted to the front page.

Perhaps, it's because a large portion of the HN audience is in America, where autonomous regions are more or less alien to our understanding?

Edit: Puerto Rico, the Native American reservations and a bunch of islands. I'm ready for vacation, folks. Thanks for the corrections. This article is still neat, though.
Disagree, I think we are in an extremely dangerous situation. One party tried to stage a coup, and is still claiming the election was stolen. Just because the coupe failed doesn't mean we're safe. Polls show widespread distrust about American elections, and a significant portion of the Republican party believes Trump should be president.

The coup was pathetic, but what would have happened if the riot had delayed the presidential election being certified?

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry helped cause the American civil war two years later. He and most of his raiders were quickly caught and executed. But the trial turned Brown into a martyr in the north and motivated the South to form the Confederacy.

I think Brown's raid was a moral action, and the Jan 6th coup was an attack on American democracy. I'm not very confident that the justice system will hold the planners accountable, or that it just did short term damage to our democracy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/09/15/poll-...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/24/republicans-...

https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-poll-republicans-lose-trus...
I think, perhaps, we are not sharing the same definition of economic austerity, and that is causing confusion here? Regardless, I will clear myself up: people should be able to steal and shoplift as much as they want, there is no doubt in my mind that any shoplifter is the victim of far more injustice than anything they could ever accomplish themselves. Most people have it hard, and it's not their fault. It's a hard a world. People who are shocked and feel like it's a "problem" that people shoplift, seem to not really have this idea, and think society "just ten years ago" is better, which I guess we can respectfully disagree about. What can I really say? Are you really just that angry at every individual shoplifter, and nothing more?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the biggest threat to domestic military facilities are foreign state actors but rather domestic terrorists, and those usually don't have access to any military-grade satellites.
Same for agriculture, transportation, &c. Who's going to create the game you play ? Maintain the servers ? Build the guitar you want to learn to play ? Manufacture your pencils and paint for your new hobby ? Who's building the hardware to mine your cryptos ?

These people are living in a bubble inside of a niche and are addicted to wishful thinking. They don't understand that their crypto dream is fuelled by by-products of capitalism, aka people too rich for their own good spending their money on virtual casinos in the hope of amassing more. They're so disconnected from reality and the real life of most of earth inhabitants, I'm speechless...
because the internet got big in the U.S first and thus there were more companies being started over there and some of the companies started over there ended up the big ones?

in short, because time exists and effects all else in our reality.
The problem with "likely to have negative externalities" is that if you ask whether something has negative externalities, the answer is always yes.

If you carry on breathing, you're emitting CO2 and remain in competition for scarce resources with anyone else who is still alive. If you take your own life you're wasting the resources society invested in your education and causing work for emergency services. Both doing and not doing anything has negative externalities.

One of the things that has negative externalities is accounting for negative externalities. It has transaction costs and compliance costs and enforcement costs.

This implies that there is a level of negative externalities where the cost of preventing them is more than the cost of incurring them. The key is to catch the breakeven point and not go too far in either direction.
10 years of failure here, finally reached $1.3 mil ARR
The US government provides extensive retirement benefits similar to the EU in both type and dollar value. These are some of the biggest spending line items in the US budget: Social Security, Medicare, etc.

My US government provided pension will be something like $3500/month when I reach retirement age. This is in addition to any personal retirement savings.